Womens Magazine – April 1, 2024
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Featured Episode
The pandemic highlighted the vital importance of care work—whether childcare, nursing home care, medical care or schooling – and the struggles many people face to get sufficient care. Would more public investment solve the crisis? Historian Premilla Nadasen argues that the problem lies with contemporary capitalism itself, as care has become an enormous arena for … Continued
Live Taping with the Father of Bad Faith Insurance Law
On this week’s episode, Ralph welcomes trailblazing attorney William Shernoff to discuss predatory insurance practices and how consumers can protect themselves. This special episode was co-presented by The American Museum of Tort Law and was recorded in front of a live virtual audience. William Shernoff is the founding partner of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, a law … Continued
Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – April 1, 2024
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Appropriating Rock n Roll from Legendary Artist Willie ‘Big Mama’ Mae Thornton; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Adi Oasis
We spend today’s show in a deep exploration of the blues. We’ll explore the racialized, gendered, sexualized, and overarchingly monetized, tension of that music, and its relationship to normative socials and economics of whiteness – and we’ll do that through the lens of one of the legendary creators and original influencers of music that became … Continued
Labor, Capital, and the fields of California
Two repeats on this Cesar Chavez day: 00:08 Bruce Neuburger, longtime radical activist who spent most of the 1970s working in California’s vegetable fields during the heyday of the United Farm Workers. His book is called Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California [interview originally aired in 2014] 00:33 Kathryn … Continued
Democracy Now 6am – April 1, 2024
On today’s show: “Genocidal Machine”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza’s Hospitals “Dying Slowly While the World Is Watching”: Bethlehem Reverend on Israel’s War on Palestinian Christians Israeli Protesters Accuse Netanyahu of Delaying Hostage Deal for His Own Political Survival
Background Briefing (Monday, 5am) – April 1, 2024
The State Department Officer With Feds United for Peace Who Resigned to Protest U.S. Complicity in Israel’s War on Gaza We begin with the resignation of a State Department officer and a member of Feds United for Peace who just resigned to protest U.S. complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza. Joining us is Annelle Sheline, an … Continued
Setting the Standard 2 – April 1, 2024
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A mix of la raza, reggae, jazz and politically conscious music.