2010 Archive : Voices from the Frontlines Radio

A fellow at the Korea Policy Institute unpacks the latest tensions on the Korean peninsula following exchange of fire and US-South Korean military exercises.

The foreign affairs correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers and an anti-war movement leader with PeaceAction

Director of the Center for Constitution Rights on a shocking new report on racial profiling endemic to New York's "stop and frisk" law and efforts to hold NYPD accountable.  Warren also weighs in on broad "anti-terrorism" investigations and prosecutions. 

One of dozens of activists arrested this year in LA for nonviolent civil disobedience for immigrant and civil rights

A leading member of the newly-formed Committee to Stop FBI Repression details recent FBI raids and grand jury investigations of anti-war and international solidarity activists in Chicago.

Longtime organizer and expert on right-wing movemenets in the US in conversation with Eric Mann

Bus Riders Union Lead Organizer breaks down the flaws and false promises of Mayor Villaraigosa's 30/10 plan and his dream of building a Subway to the Sea

The Director of the Center for Economic Policy Research and international newspaper columnist discusses the election of Dilma Roussef, former guerilla fighter and political prisoner, as the first female president of Brazil and the successor to Lula da Silva.

An expert on South Asian politics and history discusses President Obama's trip to Asia and the political and economic tensions in the region.

Publisher of the online magazine Colorlines, on election day 2010, discusses the national political spectrum in the wake of Citizens United, the rise of the Tea Party, and the contradictory position of Barack Obama.

A California elections experts examines California state-wide elections, including races funded by landmark spending and ballot propositions with national implications.

Against the backdrop of the campaign for and against California's pot legalization initiaitve Proposition 19, the California Director of the Drug Policy Alliance talks about two new studies that show pot-related arrests and convictions disproportionally impact Blacks and Latinos.

The co-author of Tea Party Nationalism and a blogger from Thinkprogress.org expose the real dynamics within the Tea Party Movement.

A law student at the University of Puerto Rico discusses the successful general strikes against tuition hikes and privitization of the Puerto Rican public education system.

Organizers from Communities for a Better Environment and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights talk about the grassroots campaign to defeat Prop 23, a bill backed by Texas oil companies to roll back California's carbon emissions and air pollution regulations.

The Director of the city-wide immigrant rights group IDEPSCA talks about the murder of Guatemalan immigrant day laborer Manuel Jamínez by LAPD officer Frank Hernandez. Community outrage exploded on the streets of LA's Westlake neighborhood in the aftermath of the September 5 killing, and mobilization to demand justice through the prosecution of Hernandez continue.

On the first day of school, the President of the California Federation of Teachers talks about public education at a crossroads -- the LA Times series uses a popular yet controversial analysis to attack LA teachers and undermine the teachers' union, teacher/parent alliances take over management of 29 schools under LAUSD's school choice program, all as the specter of Meg Whitman gubernatorial victory hangs over the defenders of public education.

The editor of the New Mexico-based newspaper Frontera NorteSur talks about the massacre of 72 migrants in northern Mexico by a drug cartel, the culpability of US and Mexican state policy, and the international movement to protect migrants.

The Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance reflects on the historic grassroots campaign to pass domestic worker rights legislation in New York, the battle to come in California, and the growth of a national and international movement for domestic worker dignity and justice.

The award-winning independent journalist talks about BP's real responsibilities for the Gulf oil spill, the challenges with clean-up and the grassroots fight-back, and the future ecological, political, and human consequences of the disaster and ongoing dependence on oil.

One of 33 activists arrested in LA for nonviolent civil disobedience against Arizona's SB1070 talks about the hearings this week, where LA City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is pressing for jail time in an apparent effort to cool political dissent here in LA.

An undocumented young organizer with the Dream is Coming Coalition talks about today's setback for the DREAM Act in Congress, discusses obstacles inside the movement itself, and talks about where the militant youth-led movement to win residency for undocumented students will go from here. .

The National Field Director with the Center for New Community in Chicago uncovers the role anti-immigrant organizations are playing inside the environmental movement, attempting to use population control arguments to advance a reactionary platform

An activist-researcher with the Justice Strategies Institute discusses her report on 287g and Secure Communities Program entitled Local Democracy on ICE: Why State and Local Governments Have No Business in Federal Immigration Law Enforcement

The backdrop in Arizona to the draconian anti-immigrant law SB1070 is a 10 year record of radical conservative legilsation -- attacks on immigrants and people of color alongside deep cuts to the social welfare state and tax cuts for the rich. An expert on the Southwest and the US-Mexico border breaks down how Arizona got where it is today.