Today on the Show: Calling out congress for its complicity with and support for the Israeli lobby: Roots Action took action in New Orleans taking on the powerful Israel lobby and AIPAC’s role in primary elections. The DNC also BLOCKED resolutions calling for limits on weapons shipments to Israel. Also April 15th is A tax day of action: … Continued
Oaklands Housing Crisis Deepens as Advocates Push Back on Criminalization of the Unhoused Oaklands ongoing housing crisis took center stage on Hard Knock Radio as host Davey D sat down with Needa B of The Village and Delilah Aviles, a youth organizer from East Oakland and member of the National Council to End Youth Homelessness. … Continued
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Small farmers around the world are building an agro-ecological revolution based on self-sufficiency, food security, and freedom from fossil fuels and corporate control. We hear from two visionary agroecology innovators. Miguel Altieri is an agroecologist and entomologist at UC Berkeley who’s showing how farmers who embrace agroecology are building a movement based on self-sufficiency, food … Continued
Nuclear energy is the most expensive form of energy ever developed, and the customers of Georgia Power can prove it! This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about proposed new federal standards for microplastics in drinking water, and a new law in Louisiana that makes it illegal to use economical air monitors to … Continued
This Monday on Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer looks at how spiritual activism can help us deal with being surrounded by so much violence, war, militarism and machismo. I wanted to know how as activists we can practice a spiritual activism in these very hard times and I wanted to learn why practicing spiritual activism … Continued
Ralph welcomes Haley Hinkle, policy counsel at Fairplay to tell us about how a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for harming children’s mental health and safety, violating state law. Then when present highlights from last week’s symposium on impeachment, featuring Dennis Kucinich, CIA whistleblower, Jeffrey Sterling, Public Citizen co-president, Rob Weissman, … Continued
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On today’s show: Headlines Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Iran After Failed Talks, Iran Threatens Retaliation in Gulf Viktor Orbán’s Era Is Over: Hungarians Celebrate as Longtime Far-Right Leader Suffers Landslide Loss Trump Fires Judges Who Blocked Deportations of Student Activists Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi Automatic Draft Registration Would Expand U.S. Surveillance State: Anti-War … Continued
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
