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 – March 29, 2012
For 60 years Selma James has been a powerful Marxist and Feminist writer and activists. She wrote the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community. She founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, she is the first spokesperson of the English Collective of Prostitutes and the coordinator for the Global Women’s … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 28, 2012
In conversation with renown social movement historian George Katsiaficas. We talk about global uprisings of today and the past… including the birth of the Black Bloc.
Letters and Politics – March 27, 2012
The History of the Commerce Clause with Erwin Chemerinsky Dean of the School of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Leroy Moore of Krip Hop Nation.
Letters and Politics – March 26, 2012
Today the US Supreme Court begins 3 days of oral arguments over the health care reform law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We explore the major issues that the Court will look at and what it will mean for you with Ken Jacobs of UC Berkeley. We talk to Silicon Valley Marketer Jason … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 21, 2012
Debate: Fukashima One Year Later Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Jesse Jenkins, an energy analyst at the Breakthrough Institute.
Letters and Politics – March 20, 2012
Karen Ho is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota whose study of interest is Wall St. She is the author of the book Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. She joins us to talk about the fallout from former Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith’s resignation published in the New York Times last … Continued