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Being stuck is a familiar state that many of us feel. Sometimes we try to move forward and despite all the tools and techniques we’ve learned, we still fall back to familiar patterns. Take a journey along with Thuy and Juliana as they connect the dots to uncover deep unresolved issues that influence patterns of … Continued
Many have concluded that the climate emergency will only be addressed by mass collective action. But given the small size of the U.S. left, who would populate such a movement? Scholar and participant-activist Kai Bosworth draws lessons from the struggles against the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines in the Upper Midwest, which brought … Continued
Ralph welcomes Samuel Levine who heads the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission to give you tips on how to use this government agency to protect yourself from corporate fraud and abuse. Plus, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, Dr. Michael Carome stops by to give us the latest warnings about … Continued
Guest: Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the author of many books, his latest is A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. Photo(c): WikimediaCommons. Euskara: A Ku Klux Klan gathering in Muncie Indiana in 1922.
On Today’s Show: Sudan: Death Toll Tops 420 as Fear Grows That Fighting Between Rival Generals Could Lead to Proxy War What’s Next in Legal Fight over Mifepristone? Supreme Court Protects Access to Abortion Pill for Now Sudan Will Be “Nightmare Beyond Belief” If Conflict Grows, Warns Humanitarian Leader Jan Egeland Norwegian Refugee Council: … Continued
We start with a new official report from Nova Scotia, commissioned after a 2020 mass shooting, that suggests that police should become “secondary” in some emergency response situations, and that emergency mental healthcare needs to lead the way in the process of defunding the police. We are joined to discuss by El Jones is a … Continued
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
On Today’s Show: Sudan: Death Toll Tops 420 as Fear Grows That Fighting Between Rival Generals Could Lead to Proxy War What’s Next in Legal Fight over Mifepristone? Supreme Court Protects Access to Abortion Pill for Now Sudan Will Be “Nightmare Beyond Belief” If Conflict Grows, Warns Humanitarian Leader Jan Egeland Norwegian Refugee Council: … Continued
We begin with the Supreme Court stay on the abortion pill case keeping medication abortion legal for a while which brought a blistering dissent from Justices Alito and Thomas and will eventually go back to the conservative 5th Circuit and likely the Supreme Court. With both Alito and Thomas having the opposite of a judicial … Continued
