“Sexual violence is not just an issue within the disability community — it’s a defining issue.” Margaux Sorenson “Historically the intersectionality of disability and race was overlooked by [both] the civil rights and disability movements.” Nancy Williams-Nettles What brings them to this understanding and what can we do in response? Hear presentations … Continued
Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for program alerts and sneak peeks from Making Contact at: http://ow.ly/1FkV30aq1z2
The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.
John Feffer (Foreign Policy in Focus) on international authoritarianism, Trump in Iran. grift. Khury Peterson-Smith (Institute for Policy Studies) on Gaza/Lebanon/Iran, Israeli hegemonic efforts. Bill Fletcher Jr. (stand4democracy.org) on race, capitalism, the missing anti-war movement. Devorah Major and Opal Palmer Adisa (Daughters of Yam) on up-coming performance (Thursday 30 July, 7 p.m BAM House, 1540 … Continued
More than a decade ago, residents of Oakland, California, first got wind of a plan to export coal from their city through a proposed bulk commodity export terminal. Initially, developers reassured residents that the facility wouldn’t export coal. But it soon became clear that wasn’t the case. Community members and environmental groups have been organizing … Continued
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff presents an analysis of how markets work, which parts of society they favor and serve, and which they discriminate against. He also unpacks why markets are NOT the same as capitalism, and where markets are NOT allowed to exist in the world today, including in the U.S. He … Continued
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
On today’s show, we bring you three urgent climate and environmental justice stories. Talia Nimmer of the Center for Biological Diversity shares the latest on Sable Offshore Drilling’s push to acquire public and private land in Santa Barbara, California. Woody Hastings of The Climate Center previews a free public webinar on the need for clear … Continued
00:08 — Sasha Schell, an investigative reporter who worked on a new report from UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center entitled Charting The Crackdown: the misuse of crowd-control weapons in immigration enforcement protests across the United States 00:33 — Annie Waldman, a reporter at ProPublica covering health care, recently out with deep dive into one of … Continued
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues.
