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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
with Dave Levinthal, Senior Reporter for the Center for Public Integrity. His latest piece is “Hillary’s Big Money Machine Steams Toward Election Day”. and Terry Christensen, professor emeritus at San Jose State University and a specialist on local and state politics.
Attorney Dan Siegel in-studio with Mitch Jeserich and Cat Brooks, explains his case against the City of Oakland representing Sergeant “Mike” Gantt. Full interview here: Also on the second half of the show, Jeff Chang, co-founder of CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford … Continued
First, a debate over Prop 63 which would increase gun control and ammunition sales in California. with Julie Leftwich, Legal Director for the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, in support of the proposition. and Sean Brady, a counsel for the Coalition for Civil Liberties, in opposition to the proposition. then Darwin BondGraham of the … Continued
with Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several books. His latest is Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. About the book: There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income … Continued
