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Cracking the Codes: Dr. Shakti Butler on the System of Racial Inequity

post thumbnail Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

How do we talk about race and racism in this country? Not as deeply as we should, according to filmmaker and educator Dr. Shakti Butler. On this edition, we hear excerpts from Dr. Butler’s film “Cracking the Codes”, and speak with her about using the medium of film to start conversations around the thorny issues [...]


Arundhati Roy: Jungles of Resistance

post thumbnail Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy takes us deep into the revolutionary-filled jungles of India, as she reads excerpts from her new book ‘Walking with the Comrades’.


Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists

post thumbnail Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

With nuclear power back on the agenda, three prominent female activists tell their stories: Kaori Izumi was part of the grassroots campaign to shutdown Japan’s nuclear power plants, after the Fukushima disaster. Winona LaDuke, has spent much of her life working to oppose uranium mining on indigenous land. And Alice Slater is part of a global initiative to ban nuclear weapons. On this edition, is the anti-nuclear movement on the rise? This is a special collaboration with Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.


Beats, Rhymes and Laughs: Culture As a Tool for Racial Justice

post thumbnail Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

Artists and creative people have always used culture as a tool for social change. On this edition, excerpts from a panel on racial justice, culture and politics featuring some of today’s most insightful and outspoken artists.


Life or Death: Ending the Death Penalty

post thumbnail Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Reporter Nancy Mullane speaks to some of those on California’s death row and we hear from two opponents of the death penalty about where the movement to end executions goes next.


Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow

post thumbnail Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal justice system policies can be traced directly back to slavery. The target then, and now, are African Americans.


The Electoral College’s Dirty History

post thumbnail Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

Yale University Law & Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar says the Electoral College discourages voting, lessens the power of the states, and could work to the disadvantage of either major political party. Professor Amar speaks with Angela McKenzie of Initiative Radio about how the US constitution can be changed to create a more fair and just society


Microfinance: How it Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor

post thumbnail Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

Hugh Sinclair, the author of Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic, in conversation with KALW radio host Rose Aguilar. Sinclair tells the story of how he learned the dirty truths behind the banking sector that’s creeping across the “developing” world.


COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2) ENCORE

post thumbnail Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

This week, we broadcast the second half of the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted many movements for self-determination by people of color in the U.S.. Today, we hear the second half of the film, produced by the Freedom Archives.


COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1) ENCORE

post thumbnail Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted many movements for self-determination by people of color in the U.S.. Today, we hear the first half of the film, produced by the Freedom Archives.



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