In the first hour “Hail to the Chief” with Bill Fletcher Jr., executive editor of globalafricanworker.com. In the second hour, “Peace in Our Time” with Juan Cole, author of “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires” and Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
0:08 – Andrea Bernstein (@AndreaWNYC) is the Peabody Award-winning cohost of the acclaimed WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc., which investigates how President Trump’s business works and who might be profiting from his administration. She joins us to talk about her new book, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power. 1:08 … Continued
0:08 – John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation joins us to talk about the scope of the impeachment investigation as the Democrats make their final arguments in the Senate today. His latest book is The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism. 0:21 – The Arab Resource Organizing Center (@AROCBayArea) is planning a mass march on … Continued
0:08 – The Trump administration has moved hundreds of immigration cases out of San Francisco courts. It’s a move that alarms immigrants’ rights advocates, who say it will deny needed legal representation to Bay Area residents facing deportation. Raha Jorjani, founder and director of the Alameda County Public Defender’s Immigration Representation Unit, talks about what … Continued
0:08 – For the first 81 minutes of Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, no candidate discussed how race and racism affects policy. We recap the first all-white Democratic presidential debate with Steve Phillips (@StevePtweets), founder of Democracy in Color and host of the podcast “Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips.” 0:36 – The government of Spain … Continued
Stephanie Hofeller will be my radio guest today! That we may all engage in Liberating Cultural High Jinx! Waxing Lunar Eclipse, as Uranus – Trickster revelatory keeper of democracy, and Eris- goddess of disrupting the up-to-no-good, be stationing to bound onto stage. Anything can happen & it must! Stephanie Hofeller @SHofeller Link to my drive … Continued
0:08 – What would a Green New Deal for California look like? Assemblymember Rob Bonta (@RobBontaCA) is the state representative for District 9 encompassing Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro, and has authored a new bill – Assembly Bill 1839 – which is a skeleton of a plan, to be negotiated and defined with goals, standards, metrics, … Continued
Today, Host Mitch Jeserich talks to Middle East expert Juan Cole, about how the assassination of Soleimani will affect the US dynamic in the region. Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, … Continued
Changes to the Pacifica Foundation bylaws have been proposed and may now be found on the Foundation’s website at www.pacifica.org for review. These amendments have been voted on by the Pacifica National Board and are to be voted on by individual station Delegates followed by a membership vote.
Corporate Coup D’Etat This investigative documentary shows how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process, and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin to vast swaths of the country. It combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the experiences of citizens from the Rust Belt, where factory closures … Continued
