On Wednesday, former Brazilian president Lula da Silva was convicted of corruption and money laundering. To learn more, host Salima Hamirani talks with journalists Sam Berger and Travis Waldron. Plus: an old UN report projected that Gaza, the Israeli occupied territory, would be unlivable by 2020, but updated research says that Gaza is already … Continued
Criminalizing Critics of Israel: Congress Considers Sweeping Bills to Fine & Jail Backers of BDS; Has Jared Kushner’s Failed Deal with Qatar Fueled Trump’s Stance on Gulf Diplomatic Crisis? As Trump Touts “Made in America” Week, Indonesian Workers Toil Away Making Ivanka Trump Apparel; Sen. McConnell Plans Vote on Repealing Obamacare Despite Lacking Enough Support … Continued
Join Sarah Holmes for a discussion of the potential health impacts of stress as well as strategies for relaxing.
Guest host Vylma V celebrates what would’ve been Frantz Fanon’s 92th birthday with Dr. Frank Wilderson, UC Irvine Professor in the Department of African American studies and for the second half of the hour, Vylma discusses the latest in the struggle to end solitary confinement in California with local Bay Area attorney & activist, Anne … Continued
On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich interviews David Brown author of an intellectual biography of Richard Hofstadter. They talk anti-intellectualism and populism in the US. Then, he is in conversation with Andrew Ervin about his last book: Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed our World.
Progressives are trying hard to push the Democratic Party to the left, as part of a Summer For Progress campaign. On today’s show we’ll speak with Erika Andiola, Political Director of Our Revolution, to find out what the People’s Platform is that her group wants the supposedly liberal party to back. Then, as California extends … Continued
In Venezuela, opposition groups are forming a parallel government and calling a national strike. Those moves come in response to the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro calling for a constituent assembly to re-write the constitution. And it’s all happening against the backdrop of what looks like economic chaos: widespread shortages of basic goods, lines that … Continued
David Cay Johnston: Trump is “Appallingly Ignorant” on Healthcare & Puts Greed Above Human Lives; David Cay Johnston: GOP Budget Redistributes Money to the Rich & Helps Make U.S. a “Police State”; Rights Advocates: Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity Set Up as a Pretext for Voter Suppression; “Trump and the Russian Money Trail”: Trump’s Ties … Continued
In the second hour of The Hear and Now (around 11 p.m.), reeds player Phillip Greenlief and writer Claudia La Rocco talk with host Derk Richardson about their duo Animals & Giraffes, which is releasing its debut CD, July, and performing Wednesday, July 26, as part of the Outsound New Music Summit at the Community Music … Continued
As universities become increasingly infiltrated and transformed by capitalist logics, what do free universities add to the educational, social, and political landscape? Fern Thompsett, a Ph.D. student at McGill University, co-founded a free university in Australia; she’s also researched more than two dozen free university projects in North America. Thompsett describes both the free-of-charge and … Continued
