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With Pratap Chaterjee, investigative jourmalist and author. He is Executive Director of CorpWatch, an Oakland-based corporate accountability organisation. Author of The Earth Brokers, Iraq inc.: A Profitable Occupation and Halliburton’s Army. And The Trump Effect on Kids with guest: Lita Blanc, President of the United Educators of San Francisco. And Simone Delucci, Director After School Programs … Continued
Trump’s official platform says he wants to cut funding to Sanctuary Cities. To find out if that’s even possible, and what a sanctuary city is in the first place, we speak Laura Polstein, an immigration lawyer with Centro Legal de la Raza and Leah Price, a staff attorney with Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach. Plus, we’re still collecting … Continued
Cat and Mitch talk to the National Lawyers guild observers about the Oakland police handling of post-presidential election street-protests. and Thomas Frank, columnist for Harper’s Magazine and author of “Listen Liberal,” speaks with Mitch about the U.S. under Trump.
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
