The X Factor in the Midterms
…any expressed a sense of apathy after the 2016 presidential election where Donald Trump won despite the fact that Hillary Clinton secured the popular vote. And this week, the Public Research Institute projected that only one in three young Americans, between the ages of 18-29 in the U.S. will vote in the November midterm elections. That number is in sharp contrast to the expected turnout for other age groups; 81 percent of seniors age 65 and up. A…
Election 2020 Special: More Than a Vote
…in, Texas. And people will say, oh, you know, they were just giving them a Trump Trump welcome. You know, the vehicles surrounded the bus and quote unquote, escorted them down the highway. But it definitely was meant to terrorize, is definitely meant to intimidate. And the Biden Harris event that was supposed to occur in Austin, Texas, that evening was canceled. All right. So if it was just a friendly welcome, right (Which we already know was not…
America’s Black Capital
…is sending, you know, rapists and drug dealers, and they’re worse. Clip of Donald Trump saying Mexicans are rapists. So there’s a threat of them, you know, and then you have him referring to immigrants from these other countries. And, uh, he had a speech where he talked about they’re, um, polluting our blood, right? And that these people, and he named, uh, people from Africa. From Asia, from Latin America, right? He didn’t, he named these continen…
The Great Divide: Racism, Wealth Inequality, and Elections
…o with a class conversation? Isn’t class what’s really driving support for Donald Trump today? It’s the white working class we hear over and over and over again and again and again. It’s white working class. This is a class issue. These union leaders, they know class analysis. They their members know class, they understand bosses, they understand corporations, they understand when the rules are rigged, they know class. They also know, though they…
Reclaiming Public Schools: Education in the Trump Era
…nder of Education Deans for Justice and Equity. Within a week of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, members of Congress introduced HB 610, the Choices in Education Act, The bill would take federal money that goes to the schools and communities that need it the most and require states to implement voucher programs that allow parents to use it for private schools, religious schools, or homeschooling. Kevin Kumashiro is former dean of education a…
A Journalist Reckons with Truth and Objectivity
…and kind of drilled down on this claim that there had been more people at Donald Trump’s inauguration than any presidential inauguration, you know ever. And it was just like quite evidently not true, you know from the photographs and a number of other ways that people have to measure crowds. And that was when she coined This this term and brought this idea into the Lexicon of alternative facts. And said, you know, we were we’re presenting [00:11:…
Pandemic and Profit (Encore)
…e early weeks of the pandemic, January, February, and into March 2020, the Trump administration’s strategy was really to pretend it wasn’t a big deal. It was a very politically inconvenient pandemic for the Trump administration. And because they lagged in their response, other countries had better prepared in terms of getting things like personal protective equipment, masks, hand sanitizer and all of that. And when the administration finally decid…
Pandemic and Profit
…e early weeks of the pandemic, January, February, and into March 2020, the Trump administration’s strategy was really to pretend it wasn’t a big deal. It was a very politically inconvenient pandemic for the Trump administration. And because they lagged in their response, other countries had better prepared in terms of getting things like personal protective equipment, masks, hand sanitizer and all of that. And when the administration finally decid…
The Arrival: Trump’s Travel and Refugee Ban
…MUSLIM BAN 3.0: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Executive Order 13780—Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S. V. INT L REFUGEE ASSISTANCE TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S. V. HAWAII TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL.v. HAWAII ET AL. Stanford Storytelling Project MuslimARC VOX Article …
The Arrival: Trump’s Travel and Refugee Ban
…Francisco Bay Area Chapter #NoMuslimBanEver Campaign Executive Order 13780 TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S. V. INT L REFUGEE ASSISTANCE TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S. V. HAWAII Stanford Storytelling Project This story comes to us from the Stanford Storytelling Project, an arts program at Stanford University which seeks to help students identify and share the stories that surround them. The managing editor of their podcast series “State of the Human” i…
11 Million Undocumented: A Look at Sanctuary and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era
…n the U-S who are undocumented. During his first weeks in office President Donald Trump signed orders to build a border wall, ban travel from countries with largely Muslim populations, and deny federal funds to sanctuary cities and states. In this show we’ll look to previous administrations to see how they treated people who were undocumented, and how immigrant movements of the past responded. Special thanks to the Beacon journalism crowdfunding p…
Michael Eric Dyson on Trump Truth and Race
…created a perpetual sinkhole of denial. A reality that existed long before Trump’s presidency. It’s AMERICA’s Legacy. On this edition, we hear from Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, one of the nation’s most prominent public intellectuals, a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and an editor of The New Republic. Dr. Dyson recently penned, “What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished C…
Broadcast Files Archive
…lict 03/22/17 Show Promo 12-17 Reclaiming Public Schools: Education in the Trump Era 03/15/17 Show Promo 11-17 Women Rising Radio 33: With Healers At Standing Rock 03/08/17 Show Promo 10-17 Paris: Responses to Terror, and the Experiment in Mixite 03/01/17 Show Promo 09-17 Long Distance Revolutionary 02/22/17 Show Promo 08-17 Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry 02/15/17 Show Promo 07-17 11 Million Undo…
Fighting for the Ballot: Race and Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election
…it could have major repercussions for the outcome of the election. Here’s Trump talking about the post office. TRUMP – But now the Democrats, they want three point five billion dollars think of it. Of course, we would never approve an amount like that. And they also want twenty five billion dollars additional for the post office, Steve. Twenty five billion for the post office or the post office can handle this vast amount of ballots that are be…
Pollution Solutions
…e. Um yeah. I’m talking about Donald Trump. But I’m not just talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. So Jair Bolsonaro as we know wants to raze the Amazon clear it for cattle farming and soy farming. He wants to accelerate all forms of extraction So we’ve got him we’ve got Modi. So we have Duterte and on and on. Mateo Salvini in Italy. And there is a formula that we’re seeing from these strong men figures around the…
Pollution Solutions
…e. Um yeah. I’m talking about Donald Trump. But I’m not just talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. So Jair Bolsonaro as we know wants to raze the Amazon clear it for cattle farming and soy farming. He wants to accelerate all forms of extraction So we’ve got him we’ve got Modi. So we have Duterte and on and on. Mateo Salvini in Italy. And there is a formula that we’re seeing from these strong men figures around the…
Ten Years Later: Counting the Costs of War in Iraq
…f Iraq had begun., the official word from former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and a phone call from Tom Cahill, an American activist who on that day was one of a group of human shields sleeping out at a water treatment plant near Baghdad in hopes that the presence of foreigners could protect some vital resources from being bombed. But the voices missing from news coverage of those early days were those of the Iraqi people. The intern…
The Electoral College’s Dirty History
…nt? The quirks of the Electoral College system were exposed this week when Donald Trump secured the presidency with an Electoral College majority, even as Hillary Clinton took a narrow lead in the popular vote. Some claim that the founding fathers chose the Electoral College over direct election in order to balance the interests of high-population and low-population states. But the deepest political divisions in America have always run not between…
The End of Policing, Alex Vitale
…:22:14] Yes, exactly. And so this is a deeply problematic development. And Trump’s changes are actually incredibly minimal. The Obama administration after Ferguson was pressured to restrict some of the kinds of military hardware. But basically, he said you can’t have bayonets. You can’t have actual tanks with tracks on them. And you can’t have camouflage uniforms anymore. That’s it. You can still have grenade launchers. You can still have armore…
A Thin Black Line: Press Freedom, Repression, and Surveillance
…S Free Expressions programs at Pen America. Nora Benevides says that since Trump has been elected, she’s witnessed a trend. Nora Benavides: Here in the United States, there has been a rise over the last several years in threats to free expression. That includes a lot of threats to our free press and to the ability of reporters to give readers to give the public information about our government and to hold government accountable. And so much of wha…
