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On the first half of today’s show, we discuss this week’s Senate vote on budget amendments, which is the first of many steps on the road to dismantling the Affordable Care Act, with Anthony Wright (executive director of Health Access). Source: Commons.wikimedia.org Then, we talk to two organizers, Leigh Davenport from the Anti Police-Terror Project … Continued
On today’s show, we talk to Clayborne Carson (professor of history at Stanford University and director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute) about King’s lesser known radical legacy. We also hear clips from several of his later speeches. Source: Wikimedia Commons
On today’s show, we listen to the Rex Tillerson hearing and discuss it with Antonia Juhasz (American oil and energy analyst, author, journalist and activist). She gives an in-depth analysis of Tillerson’s track record in her most recent article for In These Times magazine, “Rex Tillerson Could Be America’s Most Dangerous Secretary of State”. Source: Official Website of … Continued
Nominee Jeff Sessions confirmation hearings for Attorney General with Mitch Jeserich, Cat Brooks, and Ames Grawert (Counsel in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, and the John L. Neu Justice Counsel at New York University School of Law).
Nominee Jeff Sessions confirmation hearings for Attorney General with Mitch Jeserich and Cat Brooks with Attorney John Burris. Source: Wikimedia Commons
In the first half episode, resident physicians in the primary care internal medicine residency program at Highland Hospital (Alameda County’s safety net hospital and trauma center), Jessica Herrera and Ingrid Bauer discuss the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Then, independent journalist Pendarvis Harshaw joins us to talk about the recent appointment of Anne Kirkpatrick as the new Oakland … Continued
In the first half of the episode, Abed Ayoub (Legal and Policy Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee) and Deepa Iyer (Senior Fellow at the Center For Social Inclusion and author of We Too Sing America) discuss what Obama’s dismantlement of NSEERS will mean for Muslims in the US during the next presidency. Then, Robert Pollin (Distinguished … Continued
In this episode, we hear footage from today’s Senate hearing on Russian hacking and US cybersecurity. Then, Norman Solomon, journalist, media critic, activist, founder of Rootsaction.org, and author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. And Arun Gupta (journalist and co-founder of The Indypendent and the Occupied Wall Street Journal) discus their perspectives on the … Continued
In the first half of the episode, we talk to John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation about the 115th US Congressional Session. Then we examine lead contamination in Oakland with Noel Gallo, District 5 Oakland City Council Representative, Caroline Cox, Research Director at the Center For Environmental Health, and Larry Brooks, Director of Operations for Alameda County’s … Continued
In this episode, we hear an interview with Corey D. Fields, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. About Black Elephants: The book considers how race structures the political behavior of African American Republicans and discusses the dynamic relationship between race … Continued
