Civil Rights/Human Rights

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"$#!THOLE!"

Airs at: Wed, 01/17/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Trump admits to using "tough" language in a meeting with bipartisan senators on immigration. He reportedly referred to Haiti and Africa as "s***hole" countries. We discuss Trump's racist remark with Kumi Naidoo, launch director of Africans Rising. Our roundtable panel... Read more

Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income

Airs at: Tue, 01/16/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United states, the wealth gap between rich and poor was already very wide. The top 10% of families -- those who had at least $942,000 -- held 76% of total wealth. The average amount of wealth in this group wa... Read more

Propaganda, Facts & Fake News: Julian Assange

Airs at: Tue, 01/16/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Jonathan Haewood, John Pilger & Julian Assange - Propaganda, Facts & Fake News, Part I & II We live in an era of fake news. Fabricated reports go viral on social media. Totally false stories are concocted then tweeted and retweeted. Fantastical theories and wild clai... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 15, 2018

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick will host this Martin Luther King day and we will hear: California fires, floods, mudslides, loss of life. But California will recover.  Probably not Puerto Rico and many undeveloped countries  Ballot Measure 101: What are the issues? S -- t-hole countries:... Read more

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Path To Nonviolence

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Two women with very close ties to Martin Luther King Jr. reflect on how King developed into one of the great moral and political philosophers of the 20th century and how his philosophies might still guide the world through troubled times today. Dr. Dorothy Cotton was ... Read more

Press**Watch: Nixon time again

Airs at: Thu, 01/11/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
The Republicans had demagoguery, gerrymandering, poll closures, vote switching, the Electoral College, and the Democrat's sleazy primary-stealing strategy to help them win the Presidency; they didn't need the Russians' help.  But the Mueller probe and the Congressional i... Read more

Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions

Airs at: Wed, 01/10/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  The Black Panther Party was formed by community college students in Oakland California in 1966, the year after Malcolm-X was murdered in New York City. Its original name was the Black Panther Party For Self Defense. The Black Panther Party set an example by its communi... Read more

PSJ 2018 Legislative Agenda

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Karen James speaks with Shannon Wight, Deputy Director of Partnership for Safety & Justice, about PSJ’s legislative agenda for 2018.  This year will be a short legislative session and PSJ hopes to reinforce the reform work that was accomplished in 2017 and prior years.  ... Read more

Voting Rights Beyond the Liberal Agenda

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Clayton Morgareidge reads from Meagan Day's article in Jacobin on "Moving Beyond the Liberal Voting Rights Agenda," arguing that when it comes to voting rights,  the Democratic Party is primarily interested in electoral reforms that aid its central project of consoli... Read more

Jordan, Palestine, Israel & the U.S.: Rami Barhoush

Airs at: Tue, 01/09/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  Jordan’s borders were drawn by British imperial cartographers after WW1. It was then called Trans-Jordan and sparsely populated. Today, it has a large Palestinian population, many of them refugees from the naqba, catastrophe, of 1948 and the 1967 war. In recent years ... Read more