California legislators had both arms twisted by the soda industry, and agreed to a 12-year moratorium on soda taxes. WHA-A-A-A-A???? PLUS: GOP immigration ‘reform’ proposals appear doomed, but They are quietly creating a massive ‘guest worker’ program to exploit and cheat immigrant workers and circumvent organized labor. With host Kris Welch.


L.A. Kauffman, author of the book DIRECT ACTION and the forthcoming HOW TO READ A PROTEST, and a tactical coordinator at Thursday’s women’s mass civil disobedience at the Senate Office Building, takes us inside the largest women’s direct action in history. How did it come about, what happened, and what comes next? Valerie Lapin, director of the film, THE … Continued


As Shutdown Looms over Immigration, Trump’s Rejection of Refugees Could Have Global Domino Effect; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Democratic Party Faces Reckoning for Purging Sanders Supporters; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective”; Norman Finkelstein on the Big Lie About Gaza: The Palestinians Have Not Been the Aggressors.


As Shutdown Looms over Immigration, Trump’s Rejection of Refugees Could Have Global Domino Effect; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Democratic Party Faces Reckoning for Purging Sanders Supporters; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective”; Norman Finkelstein on the Big Lie About Gaza: The Palestinians Have Not Been the Aggressors.