The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
…Ryan Berg, U.S. Marine Starlyn Lara, U.S. Army Jordan Towers, U.S. Marine Barack Obama, former U.S. President Aaron Glantz, journalist Credits: Host: Anita Johnson and Kyung Jin Lee Producers: Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada, Andrew Stelzer, Esther Manilla Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Audience Engagement Director/Web Editor: Sabine Blaizin Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker More Information: KALW News Aaron Glantz Ans…
Beyond Stonewall: The Push for LGBT Civil Rights
…and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! Featuring: Former President Barack Obama, Geane Harwood, Bruce Merrow, Sylvia Rivera, Deputy Inspector Seymor Pine, Red Mahoney Joan Nestle, Founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archive Randy Wicker Jim Fouratt, Founder of the Gay Liberation Front Howard Smith, Reporter for the Village Voice Martin Boyce aka Miss Martin, Rudy Mama Jean Michelangelo Signorile, Host of the Michelangelo Signorile Sirius XM,…
The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez
…se Antonio Orozco, Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence Author Barack Obama, Former President of the United States Credits: Host: Andrew Stelzer Contributing Producers: Paul Ingles, Carol Boss Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Monica Lopez, Andrew Stelzer Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Audience Engagement Director/Web Editor: Sabine Blaizin More Information: Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History UFW C…
Behind the Kitchen Door: Restaurant Workers’ Fight for Justice
…ther to make ends meet. These are people who are working. And as President Obama said in the State of the Union, in the United States of America, we should not be working full time or more than full time and living in poverty and relying on food stamps. What happened to the idea of, you get a job, and you can survive? Not in the restaurant industry. And that’s the industry that’s growing. Another story in my book– a Korean immigrant, a young man n…
The End of Policing, Alex Vitale
…SWAT team’s at the wrong address. And rather than challenging this, the Obama administration dramatically expanded it. The 1033 program allows for the direct transfer of military hardware from the Department of Defense to local police departments with almost no checks and balances. The Marshall Project recently created fake police departments, and got millions of dollars of hardware sent to basically a P.O. box with no oversight, no monitorin…
The End of Policing, Alex Vitale
…SWAT team’s at the wrong address. And rather than challenging this, the Obama administration dramatically expanded it. The 1033 program allows for the direct transfer of military hardware from the Department of Defense to local police departments with almost no checks and balances. The Marshall Project recently created fake police departments, and got millions of dollars of hardware sent to basically a P.O. box with no oversight, no monitorin…
How We Survive: The ‘Crisis’ in Public Education
…l scenarios do you see for the future? In the short term, I think that the Obama administration is going to pour the lion’s share of money into bank rescues and wars in the Middle East. So I’m not really that optimistic in the short run. The higher education leadership in California has asked for direct operating funds to come from the federal government in partnership with the states. That’s not going to happen, I don’t think, because the federal…
The Greening of America: A New Deal for Everyone?
…amatically altered America’s infrastructure in lasting ways. Now President Obama wants a New Deal too –– only this one is green. Obama plans to create more than two-and-half million “green” jobs over the next two years. But will these jobs be as plentiful and equitable as the new administration will have us believe? On this edition, we look at the greening of America. Is it really a new deal for everyone? This program is made possible in part by s…
Behind the Kitchen Door: Restaurant Workers’ Fight for Justice
…ther to make ends meet. These are people who are working. And as President Obama said in the State of the Union, in the United States of America, we should not be working full time or more than full time and living in poverty and relying on food stamps. What happened to the idea of, you get a job, and you can survive? Not in the restaurant industry. And that’s the industry that’s growing. Another story in my book– a Korean immigrant, a young man n…
Tariq Ali on the Rise of the ‘Extreme Center’
…nalist and activist Tariq Ali, author of more than 20 books, including The Obama Syndrome, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, and Bush in Babylon: The Reconciliation of Iraq. ***WEB EXCLUSIVES*** Full speech by Tariq Ali with an introduction by Avi Lewis, a Canadian television journalist. For More Information: Tariq Ali Lannan Foundation The Guardian New Left Review Books/Articles: Tariq Ali speaks about his book, “The Obama…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Rebecca Gordon on Torture
…black sites that I know about. ACT- Rebecca – Exactly. We don’t I mean Obama ordered them closed I think President Obama also discovered very quickly just what the limits of presidential power are especially the power of a black president. For that matter matter. And yet we don’t know. I mean I’d like to think all the CIA’s black sites were close ACT – Salima – but what about the JSOC ones ? ACT – Rebecca – [01:16:49]Well in fact we know…
The Life, Death, and Rebirth of ACORN
…Articles/Blogs/Videos/Audio: The fall of ACORN: A timeline – The Week Can Obama Win Without ACORN? – Molly Ball – The Atlantic Who Needs ACORN? Anti-ACORN Messages Threaten Staff and Obama (AUDIO) Karl Rove Loses Election After Being Checkmated By Cyber Sleuths http://occupyforaccountability.org/index.php?q=node/1075 MUSIC: Gastr Del Sol, “Mouth Canyon” Gastr Del Sol, “Dry Bones in the valley” John Beltran, “Collage of Dreams” Aphex Twin, “Cliffs…
Jeff Chang on Revolutions in Seeing and Being
…or for marginalized folks for many, many years. But now in the years after Obama, it’s clear that we’ve also reached a point in history where people of color are hyper visible… right..? So Ellison was also prescient as well when he was writing these words in 1952. Right. He also wrote, ‘when they approached me, they see only my surroundings themselves are figments of their imagination. Indeed everything and anything except me.’ So the ki…
The Other 9/11: Part One
…Joan Jara, British author, former ballerina, and partner of the late Chilean singer-composer Victor Jara. For More Information: The Ingredients of a Military Coup by Michel Chossudovsky, Chile, September 11, 1973 Obama in Chile: No apology for 1973 coup The Other 9/11 The Pinochet Files The National Security Archive The Telegraph ABC News Namebase Arundhati Roy speech: Come September Nostalgia for The Light …
Looking Back, Moving Forward 2012 Year in Review
…ne Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin ACLU Testifies as Congress Takes on Domestic Drones Push to step up domestic use of drones Obama’s Second Term Foreign Policy Will Bring New Challenges Over Drone Strikes…
Deadly Divide: Moving photos show the human cost of border enforcement
…he imaginings than when they began the long journey north. Until President Obama’s speech on November 20th, I believed this to be the biggest sacrifice, for where is liberty and justice for even the strongest of men and women when they have no voice? His executive order is a significant step toward mending a failed immigration policy by giving back that voice to those willing to step out of the shadows. But there is still so much to be done. These…
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2014 Year in Review
…Food Industry Wins Round in GMO-Labeling Fight The White House: President Obama’s immigration plan National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights SF Gate: Immigrants facing deportation do better in court with a lawyer Northern California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice: Access to Justice for Immigrant Families and Communities Study of Legal Representation of Detained Immigrants in Northern California Featured Music: Roulet, Date máquina so…
Survivors of Solitary Confinement
President Obama recently declared that “we have banned torture without exception.” However, some would take exception to this claim. The practice of isolating a person in solitary confinement for extended periods of time causes severe sensory deprivation and has been denounced as torture by the United Nations. But tens of thousands are locked up in solitary confinement in American prisons. Producer Claire Schoen met nine formerly incarcerated peo…
Drones: A New Death From Above
…p of Civilian Drone Deaths Revealed by New Evidence Creech 14 Found Guilty, Sentenced to Time Served How the Drone Warfare Industry Took Over Our Congress Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will Music: Tosca, “Rosa” Aylan Mello, “Vandalz ” Bola, “Forcasa 3” Tycho, “Adrift” Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Bibo No Aozora” Renard Surle …
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry – The Personal Is Political
…Gets the Word Out HuffPo: Why the Fight for Pay Equity Is So ImportantCNN: Obama to press for paid sick days and paid family leaveThe New Yorker: Americans Family-Leave Disgrace Mother Jones: The Strict Abortion Ban That Abortion Foes Fear The Feminine Mystique. SNCC Black Women’s Liberation Committee Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy From Hell, W.I.T.C.H Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is E…
