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The recently passed GOP Tax reform bill was riddled with problems but among them was one that got little attention – how it increased rather than decreased incentives for wealthy corporations to hide their money offshore. Our guest Richard Phillips joins us today to discuss a new bill introduced by Democrats to remove that incentive. … Continued
Caroline hosts Dr. Joe Tafur, Colombian-American family physician originally from Phoenix, Arizona. After training at UCLA, Dr. Tafur spent two years in academic research at the UCSD Department of Psychiatry in a lab focused on mind-body medicine. After his research fellowship, over a period of six years, he lived and worked in the Peruvian Amazon at … Continued
7:08 – Healing Justice is the most recent film out by producer and director Shakti Butler of World Trust Educational Services and deals with the problems of our current system of criminal justice and alternatives. 8:25 – Michele E. Lee is the author of Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing This episode is part of KPFA’s … Continued
A Message to Trump: Fund Background Checks and Public Health Research on Guns—Don’t Arm Teachers; West Virginia Teachers Win Promise of Pay Raise, But Continue Strike over Soaring Healthcare Costs; “Freakishly Warm” Arctic Weather Has Scientists Reconsidering Worst-Case Scenarios on Climate Change.
The US Supreme Court just ruled on a case over the due process rights of immigrants effectively enabling undocumented detainees to remain in US custody indefinitely. On our show today we’ll speak with Grisel Ruiz of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center to understand what that means for the rights of undocumented immigrants. Then we’ll tackle … Continued
The Paris Commune, the Mexican Revolution, the Spanish Revolution — some of the most important social upheavals fomented by radicals were led or populated by anarchists. Yet most of us have very little knowledge of what the anarchist tradition is actually about, and the ideas of anarchism are often conflated with particular strategies or tactics. … Continued
Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Corey Robin, professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center about his book The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump. In his book, Professor Robin traces conservatism back to its roots, he argues that the right was inspired, and is still united, by … Continued
Cruel & Unconstitutional: ACLU Denounces SCOTUS Ruling Approving Indefinite Immigrant Detention; How the “Black Panther” Film Is “A Defining Moment for Black America”; Afrofuturism, Liberation & Representation in “Black Panther”: A Roundtable Discussion.
The Parkland massacre survivors have received wide spread support for their call for gun control. And while that development is wholly welcomed by progressive activists, some in the Black Lives Matter movement have asked the painful question of why Black youth were not shown the same level of support when they draw attention to police … Continued