Making Contact

Art from the Inside: Why We Need More Art By And About Incarcerated Women (encore)

On today’s show, we look at how art can highlight the struggles of incarcerated women, build solidarity with them across prison walls, and fight against the erasure and censorship inherent to incarceration. First, we’ll hear about a dance performance called “If I Give You My Sorrows” that’s built around the complex ways incarcerated women relate … Continued


Project Censored

Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press (encore)

Project Censored’s new yearbook, “State of the Free Press 2025” is fresh off the presses. In the first segment, Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl talk with Mickey about the extensive process that culminates in the selection of the annual “Top 25” censored stories. They also speak about the need to extend media analysis beyond … Continued


Economic Update

How U.S. Capitalism Uses Nationalism (encore)

From 1945 to 1990, we were told a great struggle pitted capitalism against socialism/communism (chiefly the USSR and China). Yet still today, U.S. leaders demonize Russia and China, despite the end of communism in the USSR and a huge growth of capitalist enterprises in China. The explanation lies in U.S. capitalism’s long history of using … Continued


On today’s show, U. S. Right To Know’s Stacy Malkan and Timothy A. Wise discuss the exporting of genetically-modified, glyphosate-laced corn from the United States to Mexico and that soveriegn fight against it.  We’ll have the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) panel decision as well.       Statement from Tim Wise: U.S. Wins Controversial Ruling … Continued


Democracy Now!

Democracy Now 6am – December 27, 2024

On today’s show: Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Workers, Reporters “We’re Not for Sale”: Greenlandic Member of Danish Parliament Responds to Trump’s Vow to Buy Island Imperialist Fantasy: Historian Greg Grandin on Trump Threat to Retake Panama Canal, Invade Mexico Tech Investor Roger McNamee: Big Tech Backs Trump … Continued