Africa Today – March 25, 2024
A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Trump hush money trial to begin April 15. NY appeals court said Trump fraud trial can be paused if he raises $175 million in 10 days. UN Security Council approves Gaza ceasefire resolution, US abstains. US officials … Continued
Today on the Show: Code Pink disrupts CondI Rice on the UC Berkeley campus, at an event with Chancellor Carol Christ on “Free speech issues on college campuses”. Code pink members splattered mock blood around the crime scene, where the former Bush National Security Advisor was speaking. We’ll be joined by Code Pink co-founder, Jodie … Continued
A Conversation w/ Layidua Salazar & Zahra Billoo on Immigration, Islamaphobia & Ramadan
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In an insightful episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D, alongside activist Layidua Salazar, unraveled the complex issue of immigration, focusing on the challenges faced by undocumented immigrants in the U.S. They delved into racial profiling, discrimination, and the stark realities of potential mass deportations, along with their depiction in the media. The dialogue … Continued
Background Briefing – March 25, 2024
A Look at the Islamic State’s Global Terrorist Franchises While Putin Tries to Shift the Blame Onto Ukraine We begin with Putin shifting the blame onto Ukraine as he tries to exploit the rage from the trauma the Russian people have following the slaughter of their citizens in a terrorist attack, which is similar to … Continued
3/25/24 Helping a loved one die
Join Nurse Rona and Mark Dowie, author, journalist, former publisher, editor of Mother Jones magazine, and editor-at-large of InterNation. They will discuss his most recent book, Judith Letting Go. It’s about his friendship with poet Judith Tannenbaum during the last months of her life.
Womens Magazine – March 25, 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.
Hostility to unions, lax environmental regulations, and –- perhaps less obviously –- far flung rural communities: all of these helped give birth to our express-delivery, buy-on-credit economy. Environmental historian Bart Elmore considers the importance of the American South to the genesis, reach, and ecological damage of five outsized corporations: Walmart, Coca-Cola, FedEx, Bank of America, … Continued
Against the Grain – March 25, 2024
A radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism.
Apartheid Education / Gas Station Heroin
Legendary public school reform advocate Jonathan Kozol joins us to discuss his latest book, An End To Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America. Then, we do a deep dive into the scourge that is kratom, the dangerous so-called pain-relief supplement that our guest, attorney Matt Wetherington, calls “gas station heroin.” Jonathan Kozol, … Continued