The Republicans are drunk on victory from their passage of a deeply unpopular tax bill as the year comes to a close. On our show today we’ll first bring you an analysis by Chuck Collins director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good about how the bill will impact ordinary Americans. Then RJ … Continued
Considered as the largest legislative achievement of 2017 for Republicans, this Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives gave final approval to its tax bill and sends it to the President Trump’s desk for his signature. Thus, on today’s show, we are in conversation with Isaac William Martin, Professor of Sociology at the University of California-San Diego, about … Continued
As debate and discussion about Net Neutrality and the political implications of its dismantling continue, Timothy Karr, the Senior Director of Strategy at Free Press joins UpFront this morning. The Free Press is preparing a lawsuit to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s dismantling of net neutrality and launching a campaign to demand that Congress overturn the … Continued
Broadcast Exclusive: Jill Stein Says Senate Request for Docs on Russia Probe is “New McCarthyism”; “The Rape of Recy Taylor”: How Rosa Parks Helped a Sharecropper Report Her Assault & Seek Justice.
Hondurans are protesting fiercely against the official results of a November 26th election saying it was stolen. On our show today we’ll follow up with Suyapa Portillo who had been an election observer – she will explain why the US-backed incumbent Juan Hernandez remains in power and how Hondurans are refusing to accept him. Then … Continued
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Entrevista con el productor, compositor y arreglista Cheche Alara. Arturo Massol, de Radio Casa Pueblo, sobre la crísis humanitaria en Puerto Rico. Angelina Llongueras reporta sobre las elecciones en Cataluña. Kápsulas Insumisas, de La Kolektiva Libertaria. Producido y conducido por Miguel Guerrero.
How to organize for social justice under situations of great duress? That’s both a question for our times and for much of the last half century. Trainer and longtime organizer Mike Miller discusses empowering people to change their world, drawing from the Civil Rights movement and other historic struggles. He also talks about the contested … Continued
The GOP says it has the votes to pass the biggest pro-corporate tax give-away ever. PLUS the Trump FCC has just given away net neutrality. there’s a lot to discuss! With host Kris Welch.
On today’s show, host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Jacqueline Jones, expert in American social history, about her book Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical. She relates the extraordinary life of Lucy Parsons, militant, writer, orator, and agitator. From a daughter of an enslave woman growing up in Texas to a … Continued
Ziad Abbas is a journalist, educator and Program Manager for Cross-Cultural Programs at the Middle East Children’s Alliance. He is a Palestinian refugee from the West Bank and he joins UpFront to discuss what is shifting politically in Palestine. Afterwards, Michelle de Vera and Terrance Lee, sister-in-law and brother of Paul Wilber Lee, join us on the air … Continued
