Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – February 16, 2012
Congress strikes deal on unemployment benefits and payroll tax holiday. Guest: Arthur Delaney of the Huffington Post. And Lawrence Lessig on how money influences politics. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – February 15, 2012
As the state of Arizona removes books used in ethnic studies classes, we’ll be in conversation with Rick Ayers, professor of Education, about one of those books, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and the life and ideas of its author Paulo Freire. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – February 14, 2012
We talk about conservative blogger Andrew Bretbart, who helped bring down ACORN, teaming up with Citizens United to make a film claiming Barack Obama is behind the Guy Fawkes mask of the the Occupy Movement. Then, who the hell is Saul Alinsky? We talk to Alinsky’s biographer. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – February 13, 2012
Obama’s 2013 budget proposal and Greece’s austerity crisis with economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – February 10, 2012
On Letters & Politics we continue the discussion on tactics used in today’s protest movement with one man who has a long history of putting absurdity in the face of authority: Wavy Gravy.
Letters and Politics – February 9, 2012
A conversation about the life of Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky, his exile in Mexico, his influence on American communists and neo-conservatives, factionalism and his influence on the left today with Bertrand Patenuade, author of Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich
Letters and Politics – February 8, 2012
Chris Hedges and Kristof Lopaur of Occupy Oakland debate black bloc, militancy and tactics.
Letters and Politics – February 7, 2012
9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that CA ban on same gender marriage is unconstitutional. Live report from outside the court house. Alex Callinicos, author of The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx.