Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
Featured Episode
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
Should Texas Residents Know the Chemicals They’re Breathing After the Arkema Plant Explosion? Texas Republicans Pushed to Kill Safety Regulations for Arkema Chemical Plant Before Explosion; Greenpeace & Indigenous Water Protectors Respond to Lawsuit Accusing DAPL Activists of Eco-Terrorism.
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/].
In these times of so much violence and grief one choice we can make is to seek connection. Join Sarah Holmes for a discussion of connection as a path to health, personally and globally.
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
Hurricane Harvey threatens the safety of two nuclear reactors in South Texas. On today’s show we’ll speak with Paul Gunter of the group Beyond Nuclear about what the dangers are and why there has been no response from authorities. Then, Hamid Khan of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition will join us to put into context … Continued
On today’s show, we talk to two activists about the impact of Hurricane Harvey on undocumented immigrants. Pancho Arguelles is the Executive Director of Living Hope Wheelchair Association and a founder and board member of Fe y Justicia Worker Center. In the wake of the Houston Floods, he has been working with undocumented workers who are wheelchair … Continued
Surrounded by Oil Refineries, Port Arthur, TX Faces New Environmental Crisis Following Harvey Floods
Surrounded by Oil Refineries, Port Arthur, TX Faces New Environmental Crisis Following Harvey Floods; George Monbiot: We Can’t Be Silent on Climate Change or the Unsustainability of Capitalist System; Deandre Harris Was Savagely Beaten by White Supremacists in Virginia. Why Only Two Arrests So Far?