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0:08 – Fund Drive Special: History and Legacy of the Occupation of Alcatraz On November 20, 1969 a group of Native Americans landed on Alcatraz Island and claimed it as their own. They stayed for 19 months. While the media reported every move and the government fought to stop them, families moved in, thousands of … Continued
0:08 – Fox News spins its own poll on impeachment Matt Gertz (@MattGertz) is a senior fellow with Media Matters of America, which is a non-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. 0:30 – Fund Drive Special: POWER TO HEAL is a documentary … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Our Constitutional Crisis Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean of Berkeley Law. He is the author of eleven books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction, including, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century 0:30 – Hundreds of thousands of … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Trump says his Administration will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, launching a constitutional crisis John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) is the Washington correspondent with the Nation Magazine, and author of the book The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism. Get yours for a pledge of $80 to KPFA. 0:08 – An … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Lessons of the Nixon Impeachment Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) is a journalist and author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. Yours for a pledge of $125 to KPFA. 1:08 – Fund Drive Special: The Great White Hoax, featuring anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise (@timjacobwise), explores … Continued
0:08 – Monday’s with Mitch Impeachment Watch edition: Kurt Volker, Ambassador Gordon Sondland, and William Taylor and what happened on the diplomatic level around Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. 0:25 – Fund Drive Special: Blake Spalding (@blakerspalding) is a chef and co-owner of Hell’s Backbone Grill in Boulder, a Buddhist principled, farm-to-table … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: The real danger of Trump’s ‘civil war’ tweets, and the right-wing militia groups listening Adele Stan (@AddieStan) is editor of Right Wing Watch, and a columnist at The American Prospect. 0:25 – Fall Fund Drive: All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone describes how Independent journalist I. F. … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Inside the politics of Ukraine Nicolai Petro is the Silvia-Chandley Professor of Peace Studies and Nonviolence, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island. He also served as the US State Department’s special assistant for policy on the Soviet Union under President George HW Bush. 0:27 – Fund Drive: … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Bill Barr, and who’s breaking the law in Trump’s inner circle Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel) is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties at emptywheel.net 0:25 – Fall Fund Drive: Dr Michael Greger (@nutrition_facts) is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: How whistle-blowing works (and doesn’t) David Colapinto is one of the founders and General Counsel of the National Whistleblower Center, dedicated to protecting and obtaining public support and legal assistance for whistleblowers, based in Washington DC. 0:30 – Fall Fund Drive Launch: The End of ICE by Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail … Continued
