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The New Morality: A Conversation with Eden Collinsworth

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

What is moral? How has morality changed and how does that effect how we make decisions and evaluate the decisions of others in politics, business, and sex? In Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex and Business. Eden Collinsworth embarks on a personal jour... Read more

Jeannie Alexander: No Exceptions Prison Abolition Collective

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Jeannie Alexander is a former prison chaplain turned prison abolition activist and organizer with No Exceptions Prison Abolition Collective and Harriet Tubman House, a collective living community for prison abolition activists and people transitioning out of the mass incarc... Read more

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Radiozine

In 2008 the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only twenty-two percent of white people in the United States believe that racism is a major societal problem. On the surface, it may seem to be in decline. However, the evidence of di... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 18

Airs at: Wed, 08/01/2018 at 9:00am - 9:30am

Produced for: The Politics of Living

August 1, 2018 The Politics of Living – August 1, 2018 - 30 minute show Content Contributors: Rachelle Schmid (Conversations With Elders) Dennise Kowalcyzk (Portland 2003 protests audio) Kristin Thiel (The She Ra Solution) M L lauri (Let's Stop For A Minute) Vicky... Read more

Clinging to Collusion: Joe Lauria

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2018 at 9:30am - 10:00am

Produced for: Fight the Empire

Per welcomes journalist Joe Lauria from ConsortiumNews.com where he wrote: "Charges against 12 Russian intelligence agents for allegedly hacking emails from the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential election were announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Friday... Read more

Democracy: Michael Parenti

Airs at: Tue, 07/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Discussions about democracy probably start in Athens about 2500 years ago. A truism is society is democratic to the extent that its citizens play a meaningful role in managing public affairs. Democracy is located within the capitalist economic system infamous for produci... Read more

The War on Reproductive Rights

Airs at: Sun, 07/29/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am

Produced for: Century Of Lies

This week on Century of Lies we hear from Lynn Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and Dorothy E. Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and th... Read more

Criminalization of Pregnancy

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Prison Pipeline

Discussion about the Supreme Court, reproductive rights, and the efforts by some to use the criminal justice system to control people's lives and health featuring Lynn Paltrow with National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law Pro... Read more

Makani Themba on Russia-Phobia, Police Brutality & the Kidnapping of Immigrant Children

Airs at: Mon, 07/30/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital Makani Themba on Russia-phobia, police brutality, the kidnapping of immigrant children and the movie 'Sorry to Bother You'...Gerald Horne on the BRICS Summit..Headlines on the Youth Climate March, #RedforFeds federal workers... Read more

Press**Watch for 7/26/18

Airs at: Thu, 07/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Presswatch

ICE: the struggle is just beginning Read more