Government/Politics

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Positively Revolting discusses ICE and Destabilization of Immigrant Communities

Airs at: Fri, 02/17/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Four weeks into the new regime there is no doubt that immigrant communities are under attack. It was just a week after coming to power that they implemented the unconstitutional, inhumane, and poorly planned "travel ban".   This administration is promoting fear and bigotry... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 13, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge hosts this short, membership-drive edition of the Old Mole, and we hear... • Larry Bowlden reviews Nella Larsen’s 1928 novel from the Harlem Renaissance, Quicksand; • Bill Resnick and historian Bill Smaldone look for lessons about Trump in the rise ... Read more

Capital Strike

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge shows how the power of capital to go on strike is the most important leverage the wealthy elite have over government. He draws on "When Capital Goes on Strike" from the Jacobin Magazine website, and this 1935 piece by Bertholt Brecht.   Read more

Fascism and History

Airs at: Mon, 02/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick talks with Bill Smaldone about the history of Fascism in Germany and the degree to which curent events may be similar.  They discuss the Nazis' use of parliamentary power to enable authoritarian rule, the exploitation of the Reichstag fire to enact emergency... Read more

DIRECT ACTION: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism

Airs at: Thu, 02/23/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  As Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and how they can be most ef... Read more

Left of Center Podcast

Airs at: Thu, 02/16/2017 at 11:00am - Thu, 02/15/2018 at 11:00am
Produced for:  Left of Center
We are not two months into the Trump administration and the lies have started. Retired General Michael Flynn resigned as National Security advisor after it was discovered he's had a conversation with the Russian Ambassador to the United States about the sanctions laid down ... Read more

Anti-War Soldier

Airs at: Fri, 02/17/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Jonathan W. Hutto, Sr. is the Coordinator of the Prince Georges County, Maryland People's Coalition, a group of organizations, activists and laypeople concerned with working for the eradication of racism and all forms of oppression within our society. Jonathan co-founded... Read more

Trump: "You think our country is so innocent?"

Airs at: Thu, 02/16/2017 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
  "There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers," Trump said. "Well, you think our country is so innocent?"   From the Guardian: Forty years after the murder of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, evidence has emerged in Washington that President ... Read more

Angela Davis.....Beginnings: Movements of Possibility

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  In times of crisis one can simultaneously see danger and opportunity. Today there is nostalgia for an imagined past and a desire to recreate it. It’s a seductive tale. Things were better then. The country was unchallenged in the world. Jobs were plentiful. Minorities, wo... Read more

Resurrecting the WPA, Universal Basic Income and Fighting Gentrification

Airs at: Thu, 02/16/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  Arlene Goldbard heads up U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, a collective of artists and activists working to advance an agenda on the state and local level that includes Cultural Impact Studies (similar to Environmental Impact Studies) to help mitigate gentrification i... Read more