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Mitch and Economist Robert Reich have a wide-ranging conversation — from the Cubs winning the World Series to the looming Election and the quality of this Election season. Will Hillary Clinton win North Carolina, the Rust Belt, the Union vote? Reich, for 25 years, has been talking about inequality, the people who have been left … Continued
Authorities have just destroyed the Calais refugee camp in France displacing thousands of migrants, among them many unaccompanied children. We’ll turn to Sabia Rigby of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, who has been visiting Calais and will share stories of how the refugees created a community that has now been decimated. And, journalist Marcy Wheeler joins … Continued
Standing Rock Chair: Obama Could Stop the Dakota Pipeline Today & Preserve Indigenous Sacred Sites; The Indigo Girls Launch #NoDAPL Boycott to Protest Pipeline Owner Who Runs Major Folk Music Festival; “I Do Not Play for Oil Interests”: Jackson Browne to His Biggest Fan, the Billionaire Behind #DAPL; Who is Kelcy Warren, the Texas Billionaire … Continued
Attorney Dan Siegel in-studio with Mitch Jeserich and Cat Brooks, explains his case against the City of Oakland representing Sergeant “Mike” Gantt. Full interview here: Also on the second half of the show, Jeff Chang, co-founder of CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford … Continued
Shut Down Rikers: Meet Akeem Browder, Who Is Fighting to Close Jail That Took His Brother’s Life; 9 States to Vote on Marijuana Initiatives: Will They Stop Jailing Young People of Color over Weed?; Voices from NYC’s Most Notorious Jail: Former Prisoners Speak Out About Abuse at Rikers Island.
California voters come Nov. 8 will have to sort through the longest list of statewide propositions imaginable. The confusing array of public policy choices includes, the future of the death penalty, a criminal sentence measure aimed at cutting the state prison population by giving inmates a chance for earlier parole, a collection of new tough … Continued
As police actions at the Dakota Access protests escalate, more and more activists from around the US are joining the water protectors. On today’s show we’ll go to North Dakota once more to turn to Rose Aguilar, a journalist who has been covering the developing story. And, Iceland’s election results are in. While many in … Continued
Democrats Sue Trump & GOP Under 1871 KKK Act for Threatening Voters of Color; Professor Carol Anderson on Police Killings, Trump, the Clintons & Her New Book “White Rage”; Meet Birgitta Jónsdóttir: The Ex-WikiLeaks Volunteer Who Has Helped the Pirate Party Reshape Iceland; Morocco: Massive Protests Against Neoliberalism, Privatization Follow Death of Fish Seller.
The tables are turned this week when Ralph gets to ask the questions in our interview with legendary broadcast journalist Ted Koppel about the state of the media and his book Lights Out: A Cyber Attack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath.