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Love & Justice: Cornel West

Airs at: Fri, 05/19/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
  From Tamir Rice to Akai Gurley the names of African American men and boys killed by police keep piling up. The lack of a grand jury indictment in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson sparked a protest movement with signs and shouts of “Hands Up. Don’t Shoot” and “Black Li... Read more

Bread and Roses

Airs at: Fri, 05/05/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
As healthcare benefits get closer and closer to being taken away, let's always remember that pre-existing conditions happen, life happens, and disability happens. We at Bread and Roses believe that healthcare access is a basic right that everyone should have. In addition to... Read more

Answering the Call of the Soul in Times of Trouble and Disorder

Airs at: Fri, 05/05/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
        We are so very pleased to once again have author, mythologist and storyteller Micheal Meade as our guest on Positively Revolting. To say the times we live in are topsy turvy nightmare is an understatement, they are troubling and sometimes energizing, staying grounde... Read more

Tackling issues faced by fixed-income seniors in hot rental market

Airs at: Wed, 04/26/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
  Sky-rocketing rents are especially hard on the elderly many of whom rely on Section 8 housing vouchers and Social Security. Meanwhile, Trump's budget proposals are creating uncertainty for federal and local agencies. What strategies to keep the elderly housed are being e... Read more

The Women Who Made New York

Airs at: Fri, 03/24/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
  We are happy to talk with Julie Scelfo, author of The Women Who Made New York.  Women have long been left out of US history, from the local to the national.  Given our cultural biases, we are still apt to think of city-builders as men. The Women Who Made New York seeks ... Read more

An Indigenous Economic Model: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Airs at: Tue, 03/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  The existing economic system in most countries is a kind of state capitalism. It produces enormous inequalities. Its extraction practices are environmentally destructive. Perhaps indigenous models provide a viable alternative. Chief Seattle was a Susquamish chief in what... Read more

Honoring The Life And Work Of Kwame Ture...

Airs at: Thu, 02/23/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Kwame Ture has been committed to the struggle for African liberation for a majority of his life, and yet his work is overshadowed by so many others in the movement. That is just as well, since those who do the bulk of the work on the ground are rarely, if ever, recognized. ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 20th 2017

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes    Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone continue their interview on fascism and Trumpism. In the second part today they discuss how Trump and our warrior politicians and forces can manufacture a threat to thi... Read more

Embedded & Arrested at Standing Rock

Airs at: Fri, 02/17/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Jenni Monet took to Medium.com and wrote: "The morning after I was bonded out of the Morton County jail, I took to Twitter and posted a detail that I only could have known from actually being on the inside. “#MniWiconi is inscribed everywhere,” I tweeted. And it’s true.... Read more

Susan Quinn author of Elanor and Hick

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Deeply researched and told with great warmth, Eleanor and Hick is a vivid portrait of love and a revealing look at how an unlikely romance influenced some of the most consequential years in American history. In 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roose... Read more