Voices That Changed the World, from the Pacifica Radio Archives.
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Immigrant Rights Leader Released After Hundreds Rally Outside His Check-in with Deportation Officer; Activists Defiant on Israel’s Travel Ban Targeting BDS Supporters: “It’s a Sign We’re Winning”; Palestinian Hip-Hop Star Tamer Nafar Fights Racist Israeli Policies in New Film, “Junction 48”; EFF Director: WikiLeaks Move to Share CIA Hacking Tools with Tech Giants Could “Make … Continued
In this episode we hear a recent speech by Chris Hedges, Pulitzer prize winning journalist and political activist, given at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church in Vancouver, CA on March 3rd.
Lucid economics with economist Richard Wolff.
Exclusive: Facing Possible Deportation, Immigrant Activist Ravi Ragbir Speaks Out Before ICE Check-in; A Day Without a Woman: Voices of Resistance from New York City’s Women’s Strike Rally; “We Want to Stand Up & Be Counted”: New Yorkers Speak Out at NYC’s Day Without a Woman Rally.
Gloria Steinem (left) and Lateefah Simon at the Brava Theater for Women in the Arts on March 6. Photo by Laura Waxmann
Lynne Stewart died yesterday March the 7th 2017, she was an attorney known for defending those who challenged the system and she herself spent years in jail for representing Omar Abdel-Rhaman. Then, we talk to Edwin Park about the Republican Healthcare proposal. Edwin Park is Vice President for Health Policy at the Center on Budget and … Continued
Women in More Than 50 Countries Set to Strike Today on International Women’s Day; Eve Ensler & Christine Schuler Deschryver on the Predatory Mindset of President Trump; Hurray for the Riff Raff on Feminism, Gentrification, Gender Violence & Art in Era of Trump.
How does the GOP’s vision of healthcare reform differ from the Affordable Care Act? On today’s show we’ll turn to our healthcare correspondent Paul Song for an in-depth analysis of the Republican Party’s attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare. And, Jonathan Perez of the Immigrant Youth Coalition joins us to discuss the widespread fear that … Continued
Today Mitch Jeserich discusses Trump’s new “wonderful” Healthcare Bill to replace Obamacare, with Edwin Park, Vice President for Health Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Then, three clips from three women’s speeches that changed the world: Angela Davis, speech at the Frontline Feminisms Conference in 1997, using the prison system as an … Continued