Data Boom! Rana Foroohar on Surveillance Capitalism
…ook was to try and create a single narrative arc to take folks through this 20 year evolution of this industry from the mid 1990s, which is really when the consumer Internet was born, till now. And at the time I was writing and and still probably today you could argue that Facebook was the company that was getting the most negative attention for a lot of the economic and political ramifications of it’s business model. But if you go back to the v…
Re:Work Radio: Stranded
…ing to the fire of the cremations. And I’m referring to the second wave of COVID earlier in 2021. But of course, there were widespread hardships due to COVID well before in 2020, India’s national lockdown led to millions of jobs disappearing pretty much overnight. There were issues with hunger and food deprivation, a lack of access to health care and a lack of government support. Saba [00:02:46] We were reached out by an organizer named Inayat Sad…
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
…ond Fund Let People Out of Jail, by Conor Friedersdorf for The Atlantic May 19, 2020 LA To Join Host Of CA Counties Sending Text Reminders To Improve Court Appearance Rates TRANSCRIPT MC Host, Lisa Rudman: This week on Making Contact: People in prisons, jails, and immigrant detention centers are at an exceptionally high risk for Coronavirus. Kevin Rashid Johnson is in a Virginia State prison: Kevin Rashid Johnson …prison officials are…
Survival for All: Securing Vaccines for the Global South
…ic Salima Hamirani: A few years ago, we produced a piece about the lack of covid 19 vaccine access around the world. And back then in 2021, the situation was pretty dismal. Rich countries were first in line for a lifesaving vaccines. poor countries were last. And today we’re doing an update. And well, as we just heard, things haven’t gotten any better. But as time wears on, and as we face the prospect of more pandemics in the future, people in the…
Capitalism Makes us Crazy: Dr Gabor Maté on Illness & Addiction
…33;. I grew up in communist Hungary, where the joke of course was: What is capitalism? Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and what is communism? It’s opposite *laughs*. I grew up in a system that spoke the language of socialism, that spoke the language of struggle, of anti-imperialism, of equality and justice, but in it’s actual functioning was just the very opposite. And then I came to North America, after the Hungarian Revol…
On the Brink: Homelessness before and during COVID-19 (Encore)
…l- Architect – Music for Video – 2019 Blue Dot Sessions – Li Fonte- Architect – Music for Video – 2019 Blue Dot Sessions – Curiously and Curiously – Calumet – Music for Video – 2019 Soft and Furious – Superconnected Sleep – The Merfolk I Should Turn to Be – 2017 More Information: Truthout Coronavirus San Francisco Bay Area Community Services Project Oakland Sheds National Homeless Homelessness NCBI United Nations on Cali Homeless Crisis The Villag…
Call for pitches on prisoners during COVID-19
…can be a new audio piece or material previously aired non-exclusively from features, documentaries and/or sound-rich podcasts. Take your local story national with us. We encourage stories from anywhere in the U.S. We are especially interested in CA and Louisiana, a COVID-19 hotspot with the highest pretrial incarceration rates in the world. Please see our submission guidelines for more info on our style guidelines and pay rates. Your work will ai…
Women Rising Radio: Women Challenge Capitalism
…ructures, and creating alternatives to the profit-driven economic model of capitalism. Women Rising Radio features Jinwar, a women-led village in Northern Syria. And we meet worker-owners of Up & Go, a cleaning cooperative in New York city. To place this global movement in historical perspective, we speak with feminist scholar Silvia Federici. Her books chronicle centuries of persecution and violence against women, including witch hunts carried ou…
Pandemic and Profit (Encore)
…for each other. So to set the stage, cast your mind back to early spring of 2020. News is coming out about a novel coronavirus spreading around the world. There was a window in those early days when the U.S. government could have acted before the virus hit us hard. Things like protecting the country’s supply of masks and medical equipment. But… it didn’t. And that meant the government had to turn to the free market. And that set the stage for ramp…
The Fallen of 2020
…ganizers and activists who died because of COVID. Image : People we lost in 2020 to COVID-19 and police shootings. Pictures at the top from left to right: Walter Wallace Jr., Lorena Borjas, and Andres Guarddo. Pictures at the bottom from left to right: Valente Acosta-Bustillos, Pamela Rush, and Garry Bowie. Special thanks: Special thanks to Queens Public Television and our guest reporter, Andrew Stelzer. Like this program? Please click here and su…
A Chronology of Capitalism
…This week, we hear from three people who’ve been sounding the alarm about capitalism’s house of cards for years, and in some cases, decades. Featuring: Steve Williams, POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights co-director and co-founder; Rick Wolff, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Economics Professor and author; Stanley Aronowitz, City University of NY Graduate Center Sociology & Urban Education Professor and author. This program wa…
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A Chronology of Capitalism [encore]
…This week, we hear from three people who’ve been sounding the alarm about capitalism’s house of cards for years, and in some cases, decades. Featuring: Steve Williams, POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights co-director and co-founder; Rick Wolff, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Economics Professor and author; Stanley Aronowitz, City University of NY Graduate Center Sociology & Urban Education Professor and author. This program wa…
Changing Everything: Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change
…change matures. Featuring: Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Producer: Andrew Stelzer Freelance Producer: Jen Chein More information Naomi Klein Full Length speech by Naomi Klein—Sept. 28th 2014 in Seattle Flood Wall Street Peoples Climate March Silfab Boulder Energy Future http://350.org/ Articles, reports, etc. Minnesota Mystery: What’s Killing the Moose? About 100,000 bats dead after heatwave in southern…
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill
…ck Sisters on Domestic Abuse Bill The Danger Assessment Domestic Abuse Bill 2020 Fact Sheets Step Up Migrant Women UK Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill Consultation – by Step Up Migrant Women UK The Domestic Abuse Bill and Migrant Women Data Sharing with the Home Office for Immigration Control A Pandemic Inside of a Pandemic – Pitt News, by A. Chaudary Violence on the Rise: The Troubled Relationship between COVID-19 and Domestic Violence Six Ways t…
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill
…ck Sisters on Domestic Abuse Bill The Danger Assessment Domestic Abuse Bill 2020 Fact Sheets Step Up Migrant Women UK Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill Consultation – by Step Up Migrant Women UK The Domestic Abuse Bill and Migrant Women Data Sharing with the Home Office for Immigration Control A Pandemic Inside of a Pandemic – Pitt News, by A. Chaudary Violence on the Rise: The Troubled Relationship between COVID-19 and Domestic Violence Six Ways t…
Pandemic and Profit
…nd how did you get involved? Mai-Linh Hong: Absolutely. So back in March of 2020, when we were starting to learn about the Covid-19 virus, there was some talk, if you can remember, about masks possibly being a helpful public health tool. I think the government was a little bit resistant to that idea at first. But there were folks in the country who were already starting to make masks. And one of these folks was Kristina Wong, who is a performance…
Capitalism Makes us Crazy: Dr Gabor Maté on Illness & Addiction
…the relationship between mind and body health – and what the rise of capitalism has done to destroy both. Special thanks to KPFA in Berkeley, CA. May 31, 2013 update from Dr. Gabor Maté via Facebook: “Contrary to what I say here, Afro-American males do not have a six-fold increase in the risk of dying of prostate cancer. What is so, is that they do have double the risk of having the disease as compared with Caucasians and, if they have prost…
COVID-19 UnVeils
COVID-19 UnVeils series Covid-19 UnVeils is a series of programs exploring the impact of the pandemic on vulnerable communities. For example, how can homeless people safely social distance and shelter in place? Additionally, workers in the gig economy face difficult decisions between financial security and their health. In this series, reporters examine the root causes of inequities and racial disparities exacerbated by the pandemic. Lastly, the…
Queens Memory Podcast: Seeing Signs
…” We also hear from Filipino care workers about their experiences battling COVID 19, and the stereotype Filipina women face of being “natural nurturers” which doesn’t translate into care for them in return. Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! Featuring Potri Ranka Manis: Nurse, Activist and Artist Joey Golja: Community Member Mary Jane de Leon: Community Member John Bahia: Community…
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
…ort a micro-aggression, bullying, hate speech, harassment, or violence incident, fill out a form at Stop AAPI Hate (multiple translations available) Asian Americans Advancing Justice’s Coronavirus/COVID-19 Resources to Stand Against Racism Bystander Intervention Trainings To Stop Anti-Asian/Xenophobic Harrassment by Hollaback!…
