Here’s an energizing and hopeful Talk It Out episode for POWER to regular people! We are delighted to bring you Dean Spade, author, professor, and wonderfully clear channel of the wisdom of healthy relationships and local community! Mutual Aid 101 is a talk Dean recently provided for shareable.net and the Response Podcast, who graciously shared … Continued
A vital legal protection for people with disabilities is under attack. But a coalition from 15 states is fighting back, filing a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s attempt to gut Section 504 of the federal code. This crucial regulation has been a cornerstone in the battle against discrimination in employment, housing, and more. Claudia … Continued
During his first term, Trump stacked the Supreme Court with hard right judges, creating a 6-3 split that led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a stunning ruling in which a human right which was previously granted by law was taken away from the public. This time Trump faces even less resistance and could … Continued
Eleanor Goldfield opens the program, speaking with Gaza physician Khalil Khalidy about continuing aggression by Israel, despite the supposed Gaza cease-fire. He also explains how decades of Israeli occupation and travel restrictions have split Palestinian populations from one another, not only geographically, but also culturally. Later, Eleanor and Mickey Huff discuss recent under-reported or mis-reported … Continued
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
The average adult in the United States uses somewhere around 12 personal care products a day, with women typically using more than men. Those products can expose us to more than a hundred chemicals on a daily basis, some of which come with serious health risks. These risks are not borne equally. Black women in … Continued
In this weeks episode, Professor Wolff discusses the economic causes and effects of the global demographics decline, the Trump administration’s colonial plans for Greenland, and examples of resistance and fighting back, as the Trump/Musk firing of federal workers gets underway. In the show’s second half, Professor Wolff interviews the activist, organizer, and people’s lawyer who … Continued
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More GMO Corn & GreenAction On today’s show, we’ll get an update on Mexico’s continued fight against importing GMO’d corn from the United States from Tuft’s University researcher Timothy A. Wise. We’ll switch gears just a bit and get some info from the executive director of GreenAction for Health and Environmental Justice Bradley Angel about … Continued
00:08 — Kenneth Roth is a Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs. Previously, he served as the executive director of Human Rights Watch. His latest book is “Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments.”
