Activism
Year: 2024
Activism
Mom’s Rising: Paid Family Medical Leave Gains Momentum
On the radio show this week we cover the importance of reporting from terrific outlets like The 19th News ” and why and how paid family medical leave is finally gaining momentum; we hear about […]
Activism
The Global Gag Rule is making a comeback?
Republicans in Congress are refusing to re-authorize AIDS funding abroad unless the global gag rule is incorporated into the legislation. Program goes into the origin and effects of this rule, which was at its highest […]
Activism
Decolonizing African Development, Rallies, Ceasefires
Decolonizing African Development; Public Workers Rally for Ceasefire in Gaza; Dr. Peter McCullough on COVID Vaccine consequences.
Public Health
Is Wireless tech making you sick?
Green Street News: Is Wireless Tech Making You Sick? with Ruth Moss and Dr. Kent Chamberlin This week on Green Street News, Patti and Doug talk about sensitivity to wireless radiation with Ruth Moss and Dr. […]
Activism
Ecojustice: Restoring Landscape
Restoring the Landscape: Indigenized Futures & the Land Back Movement First we share a report from Yurok country, in the Pacific Northwest. The largest dam removal in U.S. history has entered a critical phase, with […]
Science
Scientists taking responsibility for good and bad applications
When does a scientist become a “Good German” and work for the Nazis?
Activism
Mining: Documenting the Undocumented
A warming world is pushing us off the snow cliff. Snow drought is increasing. Dry fire-filled summers with low rivers and crop loss surely follow. We talk with Lead Author Alexander Gottlieb from Dartmouth. Satellites […]
Activism
Nader: Unconditional Arms Trades, How American’s minds become compromised
Ralph welcomes Josh Paul, the State Department official who resigned in protest over the Biden Administrations policy of unconditional arms transfers to Israel in the response to the attacks of October 7th. Then, investigative reporter, […]
Economics
How the corporation blocks real democracy
Corporations vs Democracy Prof. Wolff analyzes the corporation. It stands as a basic institution blocking real democracy in our society. The corporation’s structure and operations empower and enrich a tiny social minority at the expense […]
Activism
Nuclear Energy and Climate Change Connection
Nobel Peace Prize-winning ICAN’s New Exec. Director Melissa Parke – Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change and the Nuclear Energy Connection Nuclear News… from a Different Perspective Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International […]
Activism
Why fertilizer from sewage is a bad idea
New York Sierra Club’s Tracy Frisch talks about the “forever” chemicals known as PFAS, and why spreading sewage sludge on farmland, as recently recommended by NY Governor Hochul, is a really, really bad idea that […]
Activism
Superheroines and Superheroes
Fictional Heroes: Do they mess with our minds? Hilda Fernandez talks with Frieda Werden about our relationships with superheroines and superheroes, and how those can play a role in psychoanalysis. They discuss the special qualities […]
SCIENCE
Michiu Kaku: Is Time travel possible?
Is time travel possible? What lies inside a black hole?
Planetary Health
Ecojustice: How to Embrace our Wild Predatory Relatives
In this industrialized country, we have had a war on wild what we call “predators,” helicopter gunners shooting wolves to protect caribou herds in Alaska, or taking them out in Idaho to benefit elk — […]
Planetary Health
UNREPORTED: Amazon Emergency & Destabilized Atmosphere why don’t they tell you?
Lost in the media circus: the Amazon – lungs of the world – is in last-stage crisis. It is boiling in record smashing heat, drought, and fire. We visit the last stand with Rhett Butler, […]
Arts
Martin Brest and The Genius of Charlie Chaplin Part 2
No single individual did more to shape modern cinema than the actor, director and producer Charlie Chaplin. Part One Part Two One of the greatest of all comic mimes he also pioneered cinematic techniques […]
Uncategorized
Rest in Peace, Bertie Bowman
A civil liberties minute from the ACLU. Herbert Bowman (April 12, 1931 – October 25, 2023) was an American congressional staffer who served as the hearing coordinator of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations […]
Activism
Students Reported; the World Listened
A civil liberties minute from the ACLU
Activism
Civility in the legislative process is a value worth preserving
A civil liberties minute from the ACLU.
Activism
The 1965 Voting Rights Act is under attack again.
A civil liberty minute from the ACLU.
Activism
Nader: Time to Criminalize Internet Gambling
Ralph welcomes Professor John Kindt to discuss his recent article in the Capitol Hill Citizen, “Time to Criminalize Internet Gambling.” Then, our resident international law expert Bruce Fein takes us to the International Court of […]
Activism
Afrosonic Music: March towards Justice
In The Afrosonic Taxi, we’re riding with artists who carry on the spirit of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Connecting cultures with music. Host DJK takes listeners on a journey through music with African roots […]
Economics
Myth of US-China Decoupling
The so-called “decoupling” of the US and Chinese economies is NOT happening. Their economies are too deeply intertwined. The reality hidden by “decoupling” is just capitalism’s usual uneven development. Capitalism relocated investment away from its […]
Arts
The Power of Poetry
If you think poetry isn’t your thing, spend some time with David Keplinger. David is the author of eight books of poetry and is a professor at American University, in Washington, DC. We got to […]