The Utopian Dinner Table: How to Feed the World in 100 Years
…should give us pause, right? I mean, if we’re just trying to, uh, exercise basic agency, basic freedom to be able to eat just fresh fruits and vegetables, and a 20% of us can’t afford to do it. That doesn’t seem like freedom to me. Uh, and if you are trying to just feed your family well here in North America, uh, and you want to be able to afford to again to do it properly in ways that respect the workers, the respect to the soil that respect,…
The End of Student Debt: Free College and Debt Strikes
…er you’re on forbearance or a deferment or if you’re on one of the various income driven repayment plans where because of your income and your family size and some other factors, your monthly payment has already been lowered to zero dollars a month. Those are all completely safe ways to join the strike. At the current moment, most federal student loans have been suspended through October 1st, and they might extend that suspension even further, w…
Beyond Gay Marriage
…this whole gay marriage thing. He was pressured by the gay marriage folks basically to do something. He didn’t respond to them. So the way I understand it, his people, basically– the people surrounding him, who were a reasonable number of white, gay men, A-gays, obviously said to him, Gavin, you lost the Castro because your opponent won the Castro. Now, it would be interesting if you did something to win back the Castro and win back the gay vote…
But Next Time Part 3: The Fight for Fair Housing in the Face of Climate Change (Encore)
…orida, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. — all connected to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Chrishelle Palay: Several organizations came together after the storm waters went down, (we) came together saying, okay, how can we work together this time? Why don’t we really make an effort to work more comprehensively and more strategically as opposed to us all working in our little areas. Ericka Bowman: Hello everyone. My name is Ericka Bowman….
Beyond Gay Marriage (Encore)
…this whole gay marriage thing. He was pressured by the gay marriage folks basically to do something. He didn’t respond to them. So the way I understand it, his people, basically– the people surrounding him, who were a reasonable number of white, gay men, A-gays, obviously said to him, Gavin, you lost the Castro because your opponent won the Castro. Now, it would be interesting if you did something to win back the Castro and win back the gay vote…
Best of Making Contact 2021
…ies. So, we see a clearly unfair distribution of the vaccines according to income level. Uh, high income countries, they have secured enough vaccine doses to vaccinate about 350% of their population while low-income countries they have only enough doses to vaccinate 3% of their population. SALIMA: So for me, both of these pieces – COVID in prisons, the vaccine piece – you know there’s ways to stop the pandemic, and I think we’ve lost sight of th…
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow
…y, what has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race explicitly as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color criminals and then engage in all the practice…
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow
…y, what has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race explicitly as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color criminals and then engage in all the practice…
The Response: Restoring Power in Puerto Rico
…y a grassroots social movement. What began with community kitchens for low income students at the University of Puerto Rico quickly gained momentum with the historic strikes that took place in the spring of 2017, where thousands of university students gathered to resist massive budget cuts to the school system. When Maria hit the island, that network of activists and organizers didn’t waste any time. They knew they had to do something to help, and…
Broadcast Files Archive
…Controls in Greece 01/24/18 Show Promo 04-18 Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income 01/17/18 Show Promo 03-18 Reclaiming Gotham: The Battle for U.S. Cities 01/10/18 Show Promo 02-18 We Got Next: Youth Poets Changing the World 01/03/18 Show Promo 01-18 Fallen Heroes of 2017 12/27/17 Show Promo 52-17 Parenting From Prison, Inside Out 12/20/17 Show Promo 51-17 The Far Right and Antifa 12/13/17 Show Promo 50-17 Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD…
Labor Desk
…s of dedication to far reaching social movements.[…] The Color of Wealth Income generation is one indicator of power differences between racial groups in the United States. But accumulated wealth, not income alone, may be the most revealing index of inequality.[…] Border Stories: On the Frontlines of the Immigration Debate On this edition, people who’ve risked their lives to enter the U.S. undocumented share their personal stories of why they…
COVID-19 Pandemic Capitalism and Bonds
…d, you know, in 2008, there was a massive economic crisis caused by people basically, you know, playing with these mortgages…. And in the years since and whatever it’s been twelve years, they basically just been rewarded for their bad behavior. And they have, you know, pushed money out the door to their shareholders and enriched themselves. and working people have become even less powerful. And so what you know, this this problem of debt, y…
Tax the Rich, Help Save America?
…n article by Jim McDermott, The Oregonian, April 12, 2009 ‘Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families in 2008’ A report by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ‘Reversing the Great Tax Shift: Seven Steps to Finance Our Economic Recovery Fairly’ An article by John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Alison Goldberg & Sam Pizzigati ‘Tax Fraud: Debunking the Claim that higher income-tax rates reduce GDP’ An article by Eliot Spitzer ‘Taxing the Poor’…
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (ENCORE)
…tay relatively stagnant for decades, especially for the bottom half of the income curve. As housing prices are going up as the owners of land and buildings are expecting a higher and a higher return, and they are taking on more debt to purchase their properties and they’re passing. Those debt burdens basically to their tenants in the form of rent. [00:13:38] Salima Hamirani: And I know this all sounds so depressing and impossible. How do we fight…
Reckonings: From Health Insurance Spin Doctor to Truth Teller
…d dentists set up camp for a couple days to treat people without access to basic health care for free. Those people, thousands of them for each fair, travel sometimes for hundreds of miles and wait in line, sometimes for days to get the most basic medical procedures in the likes of barns and animal stalls. Wendell Potter: I just assumed that everybody there was uninsured. And I remember one man telling me that he was in a plan with these high…
Saltwater Soundwalk: Indigenous Audio Tour of Seattle (Encore)
…on, the silver salmon, the steelhead… Lydia Sigo (Suquamish): Treaties are guaranteed by the Constitution, yet they are broken every day… [sounds of plainfin midshipman humming and growling intermixed with sounds of whales clicking and calling] Warren: … were forced to find a different home. Lydia: …broken every day by environmental degradation. Michelle: [Lushootseed word / Seattle] Randi: It was like a barren wasteland or desert. LaDean: We as a…
Bad Math: the Risks of Artificial Intelligence
…geles. Jamie Garcia: We were able to see the Office of Inspector General basically audit two of LAPD data driven policing programs are also known as predictive policing programs. They were operation laser which stands for L.A. strategic extraction and restoration and Pred pol. [00:03:45][21.4] [00:04:07] the Los Angeles Police Department actually on its own terminated the laser program [00:04:13][6.1] Narr: Ok let’s back up a little bit h…
Bad Math: the Risks of Artificial Intelligence
…eles. Jamie Garcia: We were able to see the Office of Inspector General basically audit two of LAPD data driven policing programs are also known as predictive policing programs. They were operation laser which stands for L.A. strategic extraction and restoration and Pred pol. [00:03:45][21.4] [00:04:07] the Los Angeles Police Department actually on its own terminated the laser program [00:04:13][6.1] Narr: Ok let’s back up a little bit h…
Saltwater Soundwalk: Indigenous Audio Tour of Seattle
…on, the silver salmon, the steelhead… Lydia Sigo (Suquamish): Treaties are guaranteed by the Constitution, yet they are broken every day… [sounds of plainfin midshipman humming and growling intermixed with sounds of whales clicking and calling] Warren: … were forced to find a different home. Lydia: …broken every day by environmental degradation. Michelle: [Lushootseed word / Seattle] Randi: It was like a barren wasteland or desert. LaDean: We as a…
What the SVB Failure Teaches us About Investment Banking
…to bail out the bank was made over a weekend, two days after the collapse. Basically, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Company, said that they would make sure that every depositor received every last cent, even if traditionally their money wasn’t actually insured. John Nichols: What’s incredible about this and why this is a big deal is that this is a circumstance where if it becomes a pre…
