7:08 – Healing Justice is the most recent film out by producer and director Shakti Butler of World Trust Educational Services and deals with the problems of our current system of criminal justice and alternatives. 8:25 – Michele E. Lee is the author of Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing This episode is part of KPFA’s … Continued
A Message to Trump: Fund Background Checks and Public Health Research on Guns—Don’t Arm Teachers; West Virginia Teachers Win Promise of Pay Raise, But Continue Strike over Soaring Healthcare Costs; “Freakishly Warm” Arctic Weather Has Scientists Reconsidering Worst-Case Scenarios on Climate Change.
The US Supreme Court just ruled on a case over the due process rights of immigrants effectively enabling undocumented detainees to remain in US custody indefinitely. On our show today we’ll speak with Grisel Ruiz of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center to understand what that means for the rights of undocumented immigrants. Then we’ll tackle … Continued
The Paris Commune, the Mexican Revolution, the Spanish Revolution — some of the most important social upheavals fomented by radicals were led or populated by anarchists. Yet most of us have very little knowledge of what the anarchist tradition is actually about, and the ideas of anarchism are often conflated with particular strategies or tactics. … Continued
Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Corey Robin, professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center about his book The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump. In his book, Professor Robin traces conservatism back to its roots, he argues that the right was inspired, and is still united, by … Continued
Cruel & Unconstitutional: ACLU Denounces SCOTUS Ruling Approving Indefinite Immigrant Detention; How the “Black Panther” Film Is “A Defining Moment for Black America”; Afrofuturism, Liberation & Representation in “Black Panther”: A Roundtable Discussion.
The Parkland massacre survivors have received wide spread support for their call for gun control. And while that development is wholly welcomed by progressive activists, some in the Black Lives Matter movement have asked the painful question of why Black youth were not shown the same level of support when they draw attention to police … Continued
Stephen Inglis stops into Dead To the World all the way from Hawaii to share some of his new CD, Cut The Dead Some Slack, which is slack key interpretations of Grateful Dead songs. He’ll also play a few songs live in the studio, and we’ll talk story, as they say in the Islands, too. Stephen will be … Continued
Will Falk and Max Wilbert from Deep Green Resistance and its goal of protecting the planet and creating a life-centered resistance movement by any means necessary. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich talks to Erica Benner, author of the book Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in his world. In her book, Benner argues that Machiavelli is probably one of the most misunderstood thinkers of all times. She sets the record straight: far from the ruthless “Machiavellian” henchman that people think he was, Machiavelli emerges here … Continued
