Letters and Politics – April 6, 2012
Sylvia Allegretto, labor economist, on new labor report. Activists arrested at Lawrence Livermore Lab. Dava Sobel on Copernicus.
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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Sylvia Allegretto, labor economist, on new labor report. Activists arrested at Lawrence Livermore Lab. Dava Sobel on Copernicus.
Conversation with Dorothy Roberts, professor of law and bioethics and of the book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-create Race in the 21st Century.
-Rachel Maddow -Further coverage of DEA raid on Oaksterdam University.
-Alley Bohm of the ACLU on new report of police surveillance of phone cell records. -Live report from Oaksterdam University raid. -Live conversation with Scott Crow, anarchist organizer and co-founder of Common Ground Collective. -Live report from inside 888 Turk St that Occupy SF has occupied.
For 60 years Selma James has been a powerful Marxist and Feminist writer and activists. She wrote the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community. She founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, she is the first spokesperson of the English Collective of Prostitutes and the coordinator for the Global Women’s … Continued
In conversation with renown social movement historian George Katsiaficas. We talk about global uprisings of today and the past… including the birth of the Black Bloc.
The History of the Commerce Clause with Erwin Chemerinsky Dean of the School of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Leroy Moore of Krip Hop Nation.
Today the US Supreme Court begins 3 days of oral arguments over the health care reform law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We explore the major issues that the Court will look at and what it will mean for you with Ken Jacobs of UC Berkeley. We talk to Silicon Valley Marketer Jason … Continued