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with Anthony D’Agostino, Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is the author of many books, among others: The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of World Wars, and The Russian Revolution: 1917 – 1945. and with Noura Erakat, a Palestinian American legal scholar, human rights attorney, and assistant professor at George … Continued
with Ellen Kreitzberg, Professor at Santa Clara Law School. She is the founder and now director of the Death Penalty College. then with the slate of Black Women that challenged Oakland City Government, Carroll Fife, founder of the Oakland Alliance, and organizer of the slate. Noni Sessions, a Founding Organizer for State of Black Oakland. and … Continued
with Zachary Roth, author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash and the Conservative Assault on Democracy. and Gabriela Lopez and Arundhati Dewari, immigration attorneys, who explain the current legal framework for immigration in the US, and what is at risk in the upcoming years.
with David Cay Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has covered Trump off and on for 27 years, reflects on the disaster of electing Donald Trump. Johnson says Donald Trump has life long deep connections to drug kingpins, felons and the mafia and Donald Trump has the psyche of a 13-year-old boy who creates his own reality. … Continued
In the first hour of this two hour special, Mitch Jeserich speaks with economist, James Galbraith about the effect of Trumps win on the economy of the US and the world and talks results with Hatem Bazian, co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Rising Up, Tim Redman, editor of … Continued
Mitch Perry began his reporting career at KPFA and had since lived in Tampa for 15 years. He has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he was the assistant news director with WMNF in Tampa and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. Molly Stentz has been News … Continued
with Mitch Perry, longtime political reporter, currently writing out of FloridaPolitics.com. and Molly Stentz, the News Director at WORC Radio in Madison Wisconsin. then, we speak with Ellen FitzPatrick, Professor and Historian, about Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President, in 1872. Professor FitzPatrick’s latest book is The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest … Continued
Here’s the complete interview with Cat Brooks and Alicia Garza about the 2016 election and it’s impact on the work of Black Lives Matter.
with Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and former Secretary of Labor under the Clinton administration. and Alicia Garza, an activist and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Movement. She currently directs Special Projects at the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
with Elizabeth Calvin, Senior Advocate for Children’s Rights at Human Rights Watch in support of the Proposition, and Mark Zahner, CEO of the California District Attorney’s Association in opposition to the Proposition. and then with Andrej Grubachic, a US-based anarchist theorist, Balkan federalist, and Anthropology Professor with the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has written on … Continued
