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0:08 – Monday’s with Mitch We discuss the US escalation on Iran and Iraq with airstrikes and Trump threatening retaliation, including on Iranian cultural sites, which is a war crime. And, in the context of the impeachment – Congress is scrambling to check executive war powers; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given no indication on … Continued
0:08 – On December 12 2019, Indian lawmakers passed a Citizenship Amendment Bill that would give citizens of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh the opportunity to apply for Indian citizenship but they must be Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Jain, Parsi or Buddhist; Muslims are not included. Anti-Citizenship Law protests have erupted across India and continue to escalate. … Continued
0:08 – Jason Stanley is a professor of Philosophy at Yale University. His latest book is How Fascism Works. 0:34 – William Bennett Turner has argued cases before the US Supreme Court, covered legal issues for public television, published widely on free speech, and taught courses on the First Amendment at UC Berkeley for more than three decades. … Continued
0:08 – Hello 2020. This holiday we’re bringing back some of our favorite interviews of the past year. Jen Schradie is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of the Observatoire sociologique du changement at Sciences Po in Paris. Her latest book is The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives. 1:08 – Tim Wu is a policy advocate, … Continued
We take a look back at 2019, a contentious and challenging year, where we brought a mix of local, national and international news plus discussions from the thinkers and leaders at the frontlines of social movements. From climate change, to impeachment, to white nationalist violence, we took risks with big, ambitious broadcasts and reporting projects … Continued
0:08 – Kelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American writer and mental health advocate.L.D. Green is an artivist: a genderqueer writer, performer, college educator, and mental health advocate. Together they are editors of a new book, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices of Radical Mental Health – Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model. 1:08 – Bhaskar Sunkara is the founder and editor … Continued
0:08 – Greg Jaczko is a former Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and author of Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator. 0:34 – Billie Winner Davis is the mother of Reality Winner, a 28 year old former intelligence specialist who was charged and convicted for leaking intelligence reports showing Russian interference in the 2016 elections. She’s … Continued
0:08 – For this holiday week, we re-air two interviews from the vault first, speaking with Deirdre Cooper-Owens, associate professor of history at Queens College, CUNY, about how American gynecology experimented on enslaved women in her recent book Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the origins of American Gynecology. 0:34 – Tony McAleer, former Skinhead and … Continued
0:08 – Ady Barkan is a social justice activist who has built three programs at The Center for Popular Democracy: the Be A Hero and Fed Up campaigns and the Local Progress network. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin in the Southern District of New York and prior to that he was a Liman … Continued
0:08 – Behind the restoration work of the San Joaquin River, and the return of the Chinook salmon Scientists are celebrating the return of Chinook Salmon to the San Joaquin River for the first time in seventy years. It’s the result of the restoration program mandated by a landmark legal settlement between environmental groups and … Continued
