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The city council of Seattle just voted through an municipal income tax for its wealthiest residents, and the vote was unanimous. Host Brian Edwards-Tiekert talks to socialist city councilmember Kshama Sawant about how that happened, then takes a look at the push to do something similar in San Francisco. Plus: Cat Brooks talks to filmmaker Jon Else about … Continued
A quick look at the state of play in the Senate, where Republicans are running out of room to delay the release of a new effort at Obamacare repeal. Then, we turn to Sacramento and ask: could California create its own single-payer healthcare system? Finally, a history of the movements, organizations, and tactics that fed … Continued
Federal Judge Thelton Henderson holds a hearing today that will determine whether the Oakland Police Department becomes the first in the nation to go into federal receivership – we talk to investigative journalists Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham about the scandal and coverup that brought things to this point. Plus: Cat Brooks discusses the lives … Continued
Did you know US Prisons isolate inmates in cells the size of bathrooms for up to 23 hours per day? Salima Hamirani talks to Keramet Reiter about the history of prisoner isolation, and the rise of the Supermax Prison. Guests: Keramet Reiter, assistant professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine; author of 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison … Continued
Today guest host Philip Maldari talks to Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now about preparations for the G20 protests in Hamburg, Germany. Then host Cat Brooks interviews Bernard Harcourt, political theorist and professor at Columbia Law School about his book “Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age.” The book explains how digital technology is breaking … Continued
On today’s show, guest host Philip Maldari interviews Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and author of the book “Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection. Benjamin speaks about the U.S. war machine and our current situation in the Middle-East. Medea’s latest piece with co-author Kate Harveston is “Sorry, Meals on Wheels, Our War Machine Is Hungry.” … Continued
On today’s show, host Cat Brooks interviews Wesley Lowery, author of the book “They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement.” Lowery was the Washington Post’s lead reporter in Ferguson in 2014, and his book tries to tackle the magnitude of police violence on black people, and what these … Continued
On today’s episode, host Cat Brooks interviews Walter Earl Fluker, professor at the Boston University School of Theology and author of the book “The Ground Has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America.” The book offers insight into the historical and cultural roles of the Black Church, the dilemmas it faces, and its … Continued
Today host Cat Brooks interviews University of Wyoming Gender & Women’s Studies Professor Susan Dewey, co-author of the book “Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution” with Tonia St. Germain. The book explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution, and the criminal justice … Continued
On today’s show Cat Brooks and Mitch Jeserich are joined by Robert Pollin to discuss ways the single payer health system can funded. Indeed, yesterday the Healthy California Act, or SB 562, has been pulled from further consideration this year by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Robert Pollin is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political … Continued
