Immigration Reforms:
How a Broken System Breaks Communities
…d that when the immigrants were sent away, communities were dismantled. —– Obama’s New Immigration Policy Forces Massive Layoff at American Apparel by Patrick Burke https://www.radioproject.org/sound/2010/MakingCon_100127_amapparel.mp3 In September 2009, we began to see what President Obama’s immigration policy would look like. It played out in Los Angles after American Apparel, a US based clothing company, laid off more than sixteen hundred worke…
Bay Area Non-Profits Help Create Jobs by Supporting Micro-Enterprise
…inable as her clients think. Fountain: “Clients come in and they say, ‘The Obama administration is giving thousands of dollars to business owners,’ and it’s like, not really (laugh)…the SBA decided these things are so special that we have these ridiculous requirements that nobody can meet, so nobody has access to those ARC loans, unfortunately.” LOVETT: While the ARC loans are modest, microenterprises don’t usually meet the criteria. Small busines…
Reclaiming Public Schools: Education in the Trump Era
…it’s actually building on decades and even the most recent years under the Obama administration to move us towards marketizing and privatizing public education, to move us towards more school choice, to in some ways over-regulate, to in some ways under-regulate. So I think this is our challenge, is when we try to name the landscape, we need to actually recognize that there’s a history that brought us here and that the picture is incredibly complex…
Taxes are for Suckers
…t in. We’ll find out how a grassroots movement is trying to hold President Obama to his word. We ask that you limit your oral testimony to no more than five minutes. You may proceed, Commissioner. Thank you for inviting me to discuss offshore abuses. That’s Mark Everson– then the Internal Revenue Service Commissioner– testifying at a Senate subcommittee hearing on tax haven abuse in 2006. As always, I appreciate the opportunity to testify before t…
Election 2020 Special: More Than a Vote
…warming of relations with Cuba. President Trump reversed former President Barack Obama’s policy of engagement with Cuba. And so that has done very well. I heard a lot in advertisements, the terms you know, socialista and communista, that when when opponents of Joe Biden were portraying him as maybe someone who could resemble the leaders of countries that they left and that that they are very much opposed to. Venezuelan Americans also shifted towa…
Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin
…on, Colleague of Rustin Louis John, Nephew Devi Prasad, Pacifist President Barack Obama Credits: Episode Producer/Host: Anita Johnson Episode Editor: Sonya Green Technical Assistance: Monica Lopez Making Contact Staff: Staff Producers: Monica Lopez, Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani Executive Director: Sonya Green Music Credits: Cory Gray – Medieval Tension 30 Ketsa – This Way Joyous Ketsa Blue Dot Sessions – Rally Rayling Dee Yan-Key – “Hold On”- Go…
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD (Encore)
…efense systems around the world. Asia became a focal point after President Barack Obama’s election when then-Secretary-of-State Hillary Clinton began focusing U.S. military and economic resources on controlling the trillions of dollars in trade that flows through China, Japan, and Southeast Asia each year. HILLARY CLINTON: In the 21st century, the world’s strategic and economic center of gravity will be the Asia-Pacific. HOST: She call…
Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin (ENCORE)
…on, Colleague of Rustin Louis John, Nephew Devi Prasad, Pacifist President Barack Obama Credits: Episode Producer/Host: Anita Johnson Episode Editor: Sonya Green Technical Assistance: Monica Lopez Making Contact Staff: Episode Producer/Host: Anita Johnson Episode Editor: Sonya Green Technical Assistance: Monica Lopez Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Monica Lopez Executive Director: Jessica Partnow Music Credits: Cory Gray – Medieva…
Beyond Stonewall: The Push for LGBT Civil Rights
…#147;It’s Not Over: Winning True Equality.” Featuring: President Barack Obama Geane Harwood, Bruce Merrow, Sylvia Rivera, Seymor Pine, Red Mahoney, Joan Nestle, Randy Wicker, Jim Fouratt, Howard Smith, Martin Boyce aka Miss Martin, Rudy, Mama Jean, Participants in Remembering Stonewall oral history project Michelangelo Signorile, Host of the Michelangelo Signorile Sirius XM June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate’s…
Conversation on Kashmir with Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian
…rations in Kashmir BBC Q&A on Kashmir Dispute Time magazine interview with Barack Obama on Kashmir and other foreign policy issues United Nations Security Council Resolution 47 on Kashmir (1948) “Kashmir and Elections,” by Ather Zia From International Museum of Women (part of online election exhibit) Note: The link to the this article offers a detailed history of the elections in the disputed region of Kashmir in India; it explains the complicated…
Black History Month – Say it LOUD!
…uhammad Ali; Paul Robeson; James Baldwin; Langston Hughes; Barbara Jordan; Barack Obama; James Brown. Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio. For more information: Pacifica Radio Archives – North Hollywood, CA The Freedom Archives – San Francisco, CA Angela Davis, Feminist Studies UC Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz, CA Highlander Research and Education Center – New Market, TN The King Center – Atlanta, GA National Civil Rights Museum – Memphis, TN Black Radical…
Redrawing Lines of Power: Redistricting 2011
…redistricting? And how can the redistricting process be fairer? Featuring: Barack Obama, U.S. president; Bernie Grofman, UC Irvine political science professor; Justin Levitt, New York University’s Brennan Center for Justicecounsel; Ed Rollins, former RNC chairman; Susan Lerner, Common Cause New York; Nancy Cordes, CBS News; Christina Hartman, Newsy.org; Alex Kellogg, NPR; EJ Dionne, NPR; Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Institute executive director; Ne…
Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 1)
…nele Soapala, Tuvalu minister for foreign affairs, environment, and labor; Barack Obama, President of the United States; Stanislaus Lumumba Di-Aping, South Sudanese diplomat; Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International executive director; Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives; Terisa Turner, University of Guelph economist, Nnimo Bassey, Friends of the Earth International chair For more information: Climate Signals – An Inventory of Climate Change I…
Climate Change Gridlock: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part 2)
…m director; Rob Willer , University of California at Berkeley Sociologist; Barack Obama, President of the United States; Florencio Quintero, Guayabal, Panama community leader; Christina Bonita, Ruben Mirana; Guayabal residents; Henry Derwent, International Emissions Trading Association CEO; David Hawkins Natural Resources Defense Council director of climate programs; Oswaldo Jordan Alliance for Conservation and Development Director; Pedro Albrego,…
Veterans of Occupation: From Iraq to Wall Street
…Nation magazine correspondent; Zollie Goodman, former naval petty officer; Barack Obama, United States president; Todd Stenhouse, National Veterans Foundation spokesperson; Terry “T.J.” Boyd, former Marine Corps sergeant; Ron Finch, National Business Group on Health; Catherine Morris, Sierra College veterans’ counselor; Paul Sullivan, Veterans for Common Sense executive director. This documentary was produced with support to Aaron G…
Cracking the Codes: Dr. Shakti Butler on the System of Racial Inequity
…uote, end-quote, “made” it in this society and of course we have Barack Obama therefore everything is fine. But in fact, that’s not the case. JC: On this edition, we hear excerpts from Dr. Butler’s work, and ask, why she uses the medium of film to start conversations around the thorny issues of racial inequity. I’m Jen Chien, and this is “Making Contact”, a program connecting people, vital ideas, and important in…
The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez
…se Antonio Orozco, Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence author Barack Obama, President of the United States Host: Andrew Stelzer Contributing Producers: Paul Ingles, Carol Boss Producers: Andrew Stelzer More Information Peacetalks Radio United Farm Workers Coalition of Immokalee Workers The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggle Cesar Chavez movie Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence Cesar Chavez Fou…
Andrew Stelzer, Producer
…he prison at Guantanamo is still in operation. As we enter the 6th year of Barack Obamas presidency, his foreign policy legacy is[…] Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 2 What are the roots of the historic mistrust between people of color, especially African Americans, and the police? And how does 911 really work? Is slow response time just perception, or reality? During the 2nd half of our 2-part special—The[…] Race to an Emergen…
Cracking the Codes: Dr. Shakti Butler on the System of Racial Inequity (Encore)
…uote, end-quote, “made” it in this society and of course we have Barack Obama therefore everything is fine. But in fact, that’s not the case. JC: On this edition, we hear excerpts from Dr. Butler’s work, and ask, why she uses the medium of film to start conversations around the thorny issues of racial inequity. I’m Jen Chien, and this is “Making Contact”, a program connecting people, vital ideas, and important in…
Beyond Stonewall: The Push for LGBT Civil Rights
…Defeating Homophobia and Winning True Equality.” Featuring President Barack Obama Geane Harwood, Bruce Merrow, Sylvia Rivera, Seymor Pine, Red Mahoney, Joan Nestle, Randy Wicker, Jim Fouratt, Howard Smith, Martin Boyce aka Miss Martin, Rudy, Mama Jean, participants in Remembering Stonewall oral history project Michelangelo Signorile, host of the Michelangelo Signorile Sirius XM June Thomas, Culture Critic and Editor of Outward, Slate’s…
