Leseliey Welch and Indra Lusero, parents and birth justice advocates, are helping to lead a movement to create community birth centers across the nation. To help address the maternal and infant mortality crisis, they’re realizing a vision where midwives are the leaders in care in a reclamation of the normal physiologic process of birth. They … Continued
Green Street with Patti and Doug Wood is a weekly environmental health show with news and expert interviews on a broad range of issues, from fracking to fluoride, plastic pollution to PFAS, and artificial turf to wireless radiation.
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about plastic in fertilizer ending up in our food supply, how the FDA allows 950 food additives that are prohibited in Europe, and how firefighters face a higher risk of brain cancer because of certain chemicals they are exposed to on the job. Then nationally-recognized hazmat … Continued
Green Street with Patti and Doug Wood is a weekly environmental health show with news and expert interviews on a broad range of issues, from fracking to fluoride, plastic pollution to PFAS, and artificial turf to wireless radiation.
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
The federal minimum wage languishes at $7.25 an hour and has not been raised since 2009. Given the disproportionate number of workers of color who receive the minimum wage or less, legal scholar Ruben Garcia argues that the fight for racial justice has to include raising the minimum wage. Resources: Ruben J. Garcia, Critical Wage … Continued
Ralph Nader welcomes New York Times journalist David Enrich, author of Murder the Truth, an in-depth exposé of the attack on freedom of the press as protected by the landmark Supreme Court decision Sullivan v. The New York Times. Also, Professor Michael Graetz, a leading authority on tax politics and policy, joins to discuss his … Continued
Guest: Lyndal Roper is Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of several books including, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet; Witch Craze, and her latest, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War.
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
On today’s episode of our weekly Monday segment, The Palestine Post, we’re joined by Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is Toronto-based professional playwright, singer-songwriter and multimedia artist, Duane Forrest. Check Duane Forrest … Continued
