Featuring new music from animator/producer/multi-instrumentalist Chad VanGaalen with a track off his 6th studio album Light Information. Listen to a track from the free-jazz motorik krautrock outfit Crown Larks with a song off their new album Population. Back from hiatus is Brooklyn’s LCD Soundsystem featuring a track off their newly given album American Dream. Familiarize … Continued


Trump has something special in mind for poor people and the disability community as he moves into the Federal budget season with a tax reform agenda. Cuts! We’re not talking about the paring knife slices you usually notice over time.  It’s bayonets, weed wackers, bulldozers and tanks — that kind of cuts. What cuts Trump … Continued


Rising Up With Sonali 5am

Texas Anti-Immigrant Law Halted While Harvey Continues Assault

Senate Bill 4 the Texas anti-immigrant law, has been blocked by a federal judge offering temporary relief to undocumented communities in the hurricane-impacted state. On today’s show we’ll turn to Julieta Garibay of United We Dream to explore how immigrant communities struggled through Harvey and what political challenges they face from anti-immigrant forces. Then environment … Continued


Upcoming Federal Budget: Lindsay Baran

Trump has something special in mind for poor people and the disability community as he moves into the Federal budget season with a tax reform agenda. Cuts! We’re not talking about the paring knife slices you usually notice over time.  It’s bayonets, weed wackers, bulldozers and tanks — that kind of cuts. What cuts Trump … Continued


Guiding political*scientific strategy for a Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity – Caroline hosts Nick Brana, chief catalyst for the Draft Bernie movement & conference (D.C. Sept 8-10) [https://draftbernie.org/] and welcomes back Rob Fanney (aka Robert Scribbler) among our most trust-worthy climate crisis guides as we consider our effective response to catastrophe [https://robertscribbler.com/].


As long as there has been fascism there has been anti-fascists, argues our guest Mark Bray.  He joins us for a conversation on ANTIFA: from Mussolini’s Italy to Germany’s Weimar Republic to Berkeley, California today. Guest: Mark Bray, historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in modern Europe.  He lectures at Dartmouth College and … Continued