Voices From the Frontlines Radio

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Eric Mann — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:54:33 -0800

Katrina vanden Heuval, editor and founder of The Nation magazine, discusses the role that progressive social movements can play in the 2012 elections.

CJ Minster on Bring the War Dollars Home campaign

Eric Mann — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:46:09 -0700

CJ Minster, CODEPINK’s national organizer for the Bring Our War Dollars Home campaign.

Bill Gallegos on Climate Change Cap and Trade

Eric Mann — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:57:53 -0700

Bill Gallegos, Executive Director of Communities for A Better Environment, updates us on CBE's recent Climate Change Victory against Cap and Trade.

Tom Goldtooth on Canada’s Tar Sands strip mining

Eric Mann — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:34:12 -0700

Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network on Canada’s Tar Sands strip mining

Ash-Lee Henderson on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Eric Mann — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:14:59 -0700

Ash-Lee Henderson on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Hajo Meyer: An Auschwitz survivor says "Never Again for Anyone"

Eric Mann — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:57:26 -0800

An 86-year Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz discusses why his own experience has led him to become a defender of the Palestinian people and carry the message of "Never Again for Anyone."

Saru Jayaraman & Mariana Huerta: Exposing conditions in LA's restaurant industry

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:56:04 -0800

Leaders from the Restaurant Opportunities Center disuss a watershed new report exposing the working conditions inside LA's restaurant industry, the largest in the country.

Vijay Prashad: Can Egypt go from revolt to revolution?

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:10:27 -0800

An expert on Middle Eastern and Third World social movements breaks down the contending forces in the Egyptian uprising, with a variety of opposition forces and potential defectors inside Mubarak’s ruling clique jockeying for position. Will the mass movement in the streets succeed in achieving a political revolution?

Christina Heatherton: Downtown Blues -- A Skid Row Reader

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:43:07 -0800

The editor of a new book, Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader, discusses the battles in Skid Row over criminalization of poverty and gentrification that sparked this unique collaboration between Skid Row activists, artists, and well-known scholars like Robin DG Kelley.

John Malpede and Ronnie Walker: Los Angeles Poverty Department's new play exposes the costs of California's prisons

Eric Mann — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:08:58 -0800

The founding director and one of the leading players in a Skid Row-based group Los Angeles Poverty Department discuss their new play State of Incareration.

Eva Golinger: Dispatches from the Bolivarian Revolution

Eric Mann — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:50:40 -0800

The first of a new series "Dispatches from the Bolivarian Revolution" with award-winning journalist Eva Golinger

Eric Gardiner: Resisting grand juries and FBI repression of activists

Eric Mann — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:05:44 -0800

An organizer with UCLA Students for Democratic Society discusses the latest round of federal grand jury subpoenas attempting to criminalize the work of international solidarity activists -- and the organized movement response.

Christina Livingston: Foreclosed homeowners take on the big banks

Eric Mann — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:57:59 -0800

An organizer with the Home Defenders' League and the Association of Californians for Community Empowerment discusses a growing campaign led by foreclosed and evicted homeowners in California to demand accountability from mega-banks like Chase who have profitted handsomely from the housing crisis.

Kat Rodriguez: Challenging the "Birth-Right Citizenship" bill and the latest attacks on immigrants in Arizona

Eric Mann — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:23:57 -0800

An organizer with the Coalición de Derechos Humanos in Tucson discusses the latest round of attacks on immigrants in Arizona, including a proposal to deny birthright citizenship to US-born children from undocumented immigrant families and another proposal to exempt Arizona from compliance with any international laws.

Dahr Jamail: Uncovering epidemic of sexual violence in the US military

Eric Mann — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:59:49 -0800

The investigative war journalist discusses an explosive expose recently published by Al-Jazeera uncovering widespread sexual abuse of both male and female soldiers inside the US military.

Sarita Gupta: The latest war on organized labor and the fightback

Eric Mann — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:31:15 -0800

The National Director of Jobs with Justice discusses state-level Right-wing attacks on public sector unions and the political power of organized labor in the wake of Tea Party-driven state-level Republican victories in the November elections.

Christine Ahn: Understanding the latest saber-rattling in Korea

Eric Mann — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:14:37 -0800

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.

Nancy Yousseff & Judith LeBlanc: The Wikileaks diplomatic cables and opportunities for the Progressive movement

Eric Mann — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:42:03 -0800

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

Vincent Warren: Racial profiling by NYPD, repression of political dissent

Eric Mann — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:48:18 -0800

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.

Marissa Nuncio: Criminalizing nonviolent protest in LA -- An Update

Eric Mann — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:27:51 -0800

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

Tom Burke: FBI raids & grand jury escalate repression of anti-war organizers

Eric Mann — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:28:45 -0800

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.

Chip Berlet: Discussing Left responses to the rise of the Right and the Tea Party

Eric Mann — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:38:10 -0800

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

Esperanza Martinez: Mayor Villaraigosa, 30/10, and Stopping the Subway to the Sea

Eric Mann — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:30:01 -0800

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

Mark Weisbrot: A different kind of national election in Brazil

Eric Mann — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:39:07 -0800

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.

Vijay Prashad: Obama in Asia

Eric Mann — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:45:19 -0800

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

Fernando Guerra: Prop 19, Prop 23, and the California elections

Eric Mann — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:17:58 -0800

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

Rinku Sen: Race, Obama, and the coming Republic electoral victory -- an Election Day Special Edition

Eric Mann — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:07:05 -0800

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.

Stephen Gutwillig: Prop 19 & the case for marijuana legalization

Tammy Bang Luu — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:39:30 -0800

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.

Devin Burghart & Lee Fang: White Nationalism, Citizens United, and the Tea Party

Tammy Bang Luu — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:51:00 -0800

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

Gamelyn Oduardo: Student strikes against tuitition hikes and privitazation at the University of Puerto Rico

Tammy Bang Luu — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:58:40 -0800

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.

Raul Añorve: Seeking justice in the murder of Manuel Jamínez

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:08:00 -0700

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.

Evelyn Rangel-Medina & Jennifer Ganata: Defeating Prop 23, Big Oil's Dirty Energy Initiative

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:28:39 -0700

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.

Marty Hittelman: From the LA Times assault on teahcers to school choice, fighting back against attacks on teachers' unions and p

Eric Mann — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:14:04 -0700

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.

Kent Patterson: Massacre of migrants in San Fernando and Mexico's Arizona moment

Eric Mann — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:18:36 -0700

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.

Ai-jen Poo: Domestic workers score major victory in New York, build a national movement

Eric Mann — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:34:57 -0700

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.

Dahr Jamail: BP's propaganda and punishment and the new realities of the post-spill Gulf

Eric Mann — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:00:40 -0800

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.

Marissa Nuncio: LA's City Attorney cracks down on nonviolent protests for immigrant and civil rights

Eric Mann — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:24:03 -0800

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.

Neidi Dominguez: A youth-led movement for the DREAM Act takes center stage

Eric Mann — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:29:29 -0800

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. .

Aarti Shahani: 287g and Secure Communities agreements -- How cops and ICE are working together

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:57:43 -0700

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

Lisa Magana: Behind SB1070 -- Arizona's disastrous adventure in radical conservatism

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:16:47 -0700

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.

Monique Harden, Jordan Flaherty, Damekia Morgan: From the storm to the spill, the Gulf Coast 5 years since Katrina

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:32:09 -0700

Three New Orleans organizers who have weathered the storm in the five years since Katrina reflect on the ongoing struggle for a just reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, stories of hope and resistance, and the battles ahead -- from educational justice and housing rights to the impacts of the BP oil disaster.

Eric Ward: Anti-immigrant forces infiltrate the environmental movement

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:42:43 -0700

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

Robert Weil: The free market and grassroots resistance in contemporary India and China

Eric Mann — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:48:31 -0700

An expert on modern China and India talks about the transition to market socialism in China, the growing Maoist movement in India, and the historically divergent and increasingly convergent paths of two global economic superpowers emerging in Asia.

Fahad Ahmed: The Islamic Center near Ground Zero and the Right-wing attack on US Muslims

Eric Mann — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:25:16 -0700

An organizer in the fight to challenge Islamophobia talks about the controversy of the Islamic Center planned for lower Manhattan -- how the campaign led by Sara Palin, Rick Lazio, and the Anti-Defamation League is the leading edge of a much larger Right-wing offensive against Islam in the US . Where has the Left gotten in wrong on the question of Islam and where is the fightback?

Gary Grant: Shirley Sherrod, racial hypocrisy, & Black farmers

Eric Mann — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:42:47 -0700

The President of the Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association, himself the son and grandson of Black farmers, talks about the hypocrisies of the Shirley Sherrod controversy -- how the US Department of Agriculture caved to a fallacious right-wing attack by firing a veteran of the Black civil rights movement while white USDA officials continue denying justice to Black farmers by flouting the federal court decision in the civil rights case Pickford vs Glickman.

Rick Wolff: Austerity & Class War in Europe & the US

Eric Mann — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:31:20 -0700

The well-known radical economist breaks down the economic and political crisis in Greece and the grassroots response from the Greek Left, drawing paraelles between the so-called austerity crisis sweeping Europe and the deep crisis here in the US, and what long-term and short-term demands should be advanced by the a US movement in waiting.

Phyllis Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks war logs

Eric Mann — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:19:21 -0700

Authoritative writer-activist from the Institute for Policy Studies reflects on Congress's approval of a $33 billion war spending bill just two days after Wikileaks released 90,000 classified documents from the Afghan war. How will this leak, the largest of its kind in US history, impact the image of the war and the strength of anti-war forces?

Marisa Franco & Hamid Khan: Resisting SB1070 from Arizona to Los Angeles

Eric Mann — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:31:24 -0700

A report from the frontlines of the battle against SB1070, Franco talks about the mood in Arizona 's immigrant and Latino communities and the state's emerging movement with the implementation day for the draconinian anti-immigrant two days from now. Khan of the LA-based South Asian Network talks about opposition in LA from City Hall to the streets.

Immanuel Wallerstein: From nuclear saber-rattling in the Middle East to global economic depression, understanding contemporary

Eric Mann — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:59:37 -0700

One of the great social scientists of the 20th century offers incisive analysis on the Iran/Israel/US tensions, the global economic crisis, and grassroots resistance bubbling in Europe and the US

Mark Weisbrot: Behind's Stone's South of the Border

Eric Mann — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:03:29 -0700

Co-author of Oliver Stone's new film South of the Border reflects on the film's profiles of charismatic leaders of the new Latin America Bolivarian block and how the US media response to the film reflects what's wrong with US understandings of the Latin American Left.

Ana Rosa Rizo & Felipe Aguirre: Maywood's Progressives in the Spotlight

Eric Mann — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:24:30 -0700

Maywood's progressive Mayor and City Councilor reflect on the achievements a progressive City Council majority and a well-organized community can achieve in the face of a corrupt police department and attacks from conservatives locally and nationally.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga: Breaking down the Oscar Grant murder trial

Eric Mann — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:27:21 -0700

Covering the trial from its opening day, Thandi reports on the key arguments and counter-arguments as well as the racial dynamics inside the Court Room in the case against former Oakland Police Officer Johannes Mehserle for the murder of 22-year old Oscar Grant on January 1, 2009.

US Social Forum Special Edition: Maureen Taylor & Oya Amakisi on culture & resistance in Motown at the US Social Forum

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:53:32 -0700

Two Detroit-based organizers on culture and performance at the US Social Forum and the signifiance of Detroit as a host city.

JR Valrey: The Oscar Grant murder trial opens in LA

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:49:15 -0700

An organizer from the Prisoners of Conscience Committee discusses the Los Angeles trial for the murder of Oscar Grant, a 23-year old Black man shot and killed by police in Oakland on New Year's Eve 2009.

US Social Forum Special Edition: Stephanie Guilloud on crafting a new people's agenda at USSF's People's Movement Assemblies

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:50:28 -0700

An organizer with the Atlanta-based Project South talks about how 50 distinct People's Movement Assemblies will build unity and collective strategy among and between social movements at this month's US Social Forum.

US Social Forum Special Edition: Ai-jen Poo on NY's historic domestic worker rights victory & the USSF Excluded Workers Congress

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:52:12 -0700

The Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance discusses the historic passage of a domestic worker bill of rights through the New York state legislature last week, and the Exlcuded Workers Congress of domestic workers, day laborers, farm workers and others in Detroit.

Esperanza Martinez: Bus Riders Union Showdown at MTA

Eric Mann — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:32:24 -0700

The Bus Riders Union lead organizer recounts the culmination of the Fast for Justice, as 150 BRU members and allies packed the MTA and shut down the Board meeting on May 27 to protest the fare increase.

Isabel Garcia: Arizonz'a mass mobilization against SB1070

Eric Mann — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:45:59 -0700

The co-chair of the Tucson-based Coalicion de Derechos Humanos talks about the 100,000-strong march in Phoenix against SB1070 and the next steps in defeating Arizona's draconian new law.

Thomas Kim: Behind the saber-rattling on the Korean Peninsula

Eric Mann — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:48:09 -0700

The Director of the Korea Policy Institute discusses the Cheonan warship incident, South Korean hawks' drive to provoke a broader conflict, and the backdrop of long-simmer North Korean/South Korean relations.

Becky Dennison: LA's Rent Freeze Campaign & Police Violance at City Hall

Eric Mann — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:50:19 -0700

LA Community Action Network (LACAN) Co-director on their campaign for a 3-month rent freeze, defeated by landlords at City Council meeting last week, followed by police violence and arrests

Holly Mitchell: Candidate for Karen Bass's South LA Assembly Seat

Eric Mann — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:11:16 -0700

A longtime advocate for public health and the welfare of children vies to fill big shoes being vacated by Assemblywoman Karen Bass in Sacramento

Esperanza Martinez & Ronald Collins: Bus Riders Union Fast for Justice to Stop the Fare Increase

Eric Mann — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:45:58 -0700

Bus Riders Union Hunger Fasters for Justice on their 6th day of fasting in their struggle to stop MTA's racist fare hike and the upcoming Thursday vote at MTA's Board Meeting.

Charles Sherrod, Judith Richardson, Clayborne Carson & Fay Bellamy: The Civil Rights Revolution Remembered: SNCC 50 Years Later

Eric Mann — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:43:24 -0700

Eric Mann in conversation with three veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- Judith Richardson, Fay Bellamy Powell and Charles Sherrod -- and Clayborne Carson, civil rights historian and author of In Struggle, the formative history of SNCC.

Eveline Shen & Marisol Franco: Health care reform, women, and the future of reproductive justice

Eric Mann — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:16:14 -0700

Two leading advocates for reproductive justice unpack health care reform and its implications for women of color, immigrant women, and working class women. What setps forward and steps back does the bill take for women's reproductive justice? What interventions and organizing breakthroughs did advocates make as the bill took shape?

Peter Schurman: A progressive gubernatorial challenge to Jerry Brown

Eric Mann — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:33:39 -0700

The co-founder of Moveon.org talks about why he is throwing in his hat, on a platform of economic fairness, climate change, and public education, to the 2010 gubernatorial race.

Craig Miller: Rock for Equalty's campaign for the rights of LGBT seniors

Eric Mann — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:00:21 -0700

The CEO of Rock for Equality breaks down the discrimination faced by same-sex couples in social security and other benefits, and what the Rock For Equality campaign is doing to win justice for elderly same sex couples -- including a launch event this weekend in Hollywood.

Reese Erlich & Muhammed Sahimi: Demystifying US policy In Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan & beyond

Eric Mann — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:41:41 -0700

Reese Erlich, award-winning journalist and author of The Iran Agenda, and Muhammed Sahimi, correspondent with the The Tehran Bureau, break down internal politics and US imperial interventions from Iran to Afghanistan to Iraq and Pakistan.

Nathan Henderson-James: Succumbing to Right-wing attacks, ACORN closes its doors

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:40:16 -0700

A senior organizer at ACORN reflects on how blistering, underhanded attacks from the Right combined with internal problems, forcing the largest community organizing network in the US to close its doors.

Rachel Rosen Degolia: A universal health care advocate's scorecard on Obama's health reform

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:40:16 -0700

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Michelle Alexander: Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:35:37 -0700

A leading civil rights attorney and scholar argues in her new book The New Jim Crow that the mass imprisonment of Blacks and Latinos in the US - and its impact on former prisoners, their families and communities -- has created a new racial caste system in the US.

Glen Ford: Obama's Betrayals & the Black Community

Eric Mann — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:12:41 -0700

Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford was one of the earliest and most outspoken critics of Barack Obama from the Left and inside the Black Community. A year into Obama's turn, how does Ford assess the Black community's relationship to the President?

Bob Fertik: Health Care Reform at the 11th Hour

Eric Mann — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:13:45 -0700

Democrats.com blogger and progressive Democratic Party activist assesses the 11th hour negotiations over health care reform, the prospects for reviving the public option and how progressive Democrats can challenge their party's Centrist leadership.

Marty Hittelman: Saving Public Education in California & Unlocking the State Budget Juggernaut

Eric Mann — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:57:55 -0800

The President of the California Federation of Teachers speaks about the statewide March 4 mobilization for public education, the ongoing attack on funding for public education in the state government, and how to unlock California's budget juggernaut to win real reform.

Maxine Waters: Self-Determination and Debt-Canceling in post-earthquake Haiti

Eric Mann — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:06:54 -0800

Recently returned from a devastated Port-au-Prince, the South LA Congresswoman talks about the challenges to democratic self-determination, from Haitian business elite and foreign powers blocking the returned of exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide to renewed demands, promoted by Waters in Congress, to cancel Haiti's international debt.

Willie Pelote Sr: California's Next Budget Battle and Schwarzenegger's War on Unions

Eric Mann — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:00:29 -0800

Political Director for one of California's largest public sector unions, AFSCME, raps with Eric Mann about Schwarzenegger's latest proposal to slash the social welfare state and undermine unions and to challenge bloated prison and highway spending.

Cynthia McKinney: Haitian Crisis, US Occupation, Progressive Response

Eric Mann — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:03:58 -0800

The former Georgia Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate breaks down the militarized US response to the disaster in Haiti, the parallels to Katrina, and interventions progresives can make to support recovery and self-determination fot the Haitian people.

Elizabeth Méndez Berry & Demond Drummer: Where is the Obama Generation now?

Eric Mann — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:23:09 -0800

A former field organizer with Obama for America and a journalist who recently profiled 30 young veterans of the Obama campaign discuss where is Obama's army now and what do they think of Obama the President after one year?

Bill Fletcher, Jr: Taking stock of Obama after one year

Eric Mann — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:52:53 -0800

The veteran social movement organizer and editor of The Black Commentator discusses with host Eric Mann President Obama's record after one year office and how social movements should engage moving forward.

Michael Fox & Carlos Martinez: Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution from the grassroots

Eric Mann — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:35:48 -0800

Co-authors of Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots, discuss grassroots indigenous, Afro-Venezuelan, and other social movements and their role, alongside President Huga Chavez, in advancing Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution.

Catherine Tactaquin & Sarahi Uribe: Criminalizing Immigrants & the Fight Against Sheirff Joe

Eric Mann — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:12:37 -0800

Two leaders in the immigrant justice movement talk about the national mobilization to challenge Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the fight to defend immigrant rights and win real reform.

Tom Hayden: A fair trial for Alex Sanchez?

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:11:38 -0800

The journalist and former State Senator reports on the bail hearing and the prospects for a fair trial for Alex Sanchez, the gang member turned gang intervention leader now facing trumped up federal conspiracy charges.

Bill Berkowitz: Understanding the Tea Party movement and new anti-Obama Right Wing

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:35:52 -0800

An expert on Right wing movement breaks down the Tea Party and the new grassroots Right wing in the era of Obama.

Ziad Abbas: Palestinian resistance and international solidarity one year after the Gaza siege

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:23:28 -0800

A longtime grassroots Palestinian organizer reports on the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo, the arrest of West Bank grassroots leader Jamal Juma' and conditions in Gaza one year after the siege.

Jose Bravo: On the betrayals of Copenhagen and the continuing struggle for climate justice

Eric Mann — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:01:16 -0800

The Director of the San Diego-based Just Transition Alliance, just returned from a US grassroots environmental and climate justice delegation to Copenhagen, breaks down why the deal brokered by President Obama in the 11th hour is really no deal at all. What opportunities lie ahead for social movements and government fighting for climate justice?

Steffie Woolhandler & Bob Fertik: Reform for whom? The dangers of corporate-driven health care reform and how and why to stop it

Eric Mann — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:14:42 -0800

The co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program and a progressive blogger from Democrats.com break down the dangers of the current health care reform bill, from a $476 billion subsidy to private industry to a mandate that people buy private insurance, and debate strategies for getting the health care reform process back to its original goals.

Michael McPhearson & Carolyn Eisenberg: Tactics & Strategies for Stopping the Afghan War Escalation

Eric Mann — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:43:02 -0800

The Director of Veterans for Peace and a national leader in United for Peace and Justice respond to Obama's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan and discuss grassroots and inside-the-beltway strategies for stopping the US war machine.

Ruth Cusick & Michael Murray: Creating Dignity in Schools

Eric Mann — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:52:05 -0800

An attorney and youth organizer from the Dignity in Schools Coalition discusses the National Resolution to End School Pushout being launched this week, and the discipline policies and class conditions that creating crisis of drop out/pushout for low income students of color in urban high schools.

Congressman Raul Grijalva: Stopping the Afghan War Escalation and Holding the Progressive Line in the Democratic Party

Eric Mann — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:18:58 -0800

Howard Zinn: A monumental figure on the US Left reflects on his life with in the movement

Eric Mann — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:28:15 -0800

A monumental figure on the US Left reflects with his old friend, host Eric Mann, on a long life in the movement, from Fanny Lou Hamer and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, teaching a Spelman College student named Alice Walker, and the writing and publication of his ground-breaking work A People's History of the United States.

Biju Mathew: Understanding the resurgent Maoist movement, Resource Exploitation, and State Repression in India

Eric Mann — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:38:05 -0800

The Indian writer-activist breaks down the grwoing Maoist movement in India, the state of the Indian Left, repression by state security forces, and the controversial multi-national mining project in Orissa

Dahr Jamail: On GI Trauma and GI Resistance to Imperial Wars

Eric Mann — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:11:53 -0800

In the wake of the deadly shooting by a military psychiatrist at Fort Hood, Texas, the award-winning independent war reporter discusses the conditions facing GI's in the face of another escalation of the war in Aghanistan and the small but growing GI resistance movement.

Heather Booth & Jim Crotty: Reining in Big Finance

Eric Mann — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:26:11 -0800

One year after the Wall Street meltdown and the biggest corporate bailout in US history, the Director of Americans for Financial Reform and an expert on international finance discuss the causes of the financial crisis and the strategies and proposals for meaningful reform.

Eva Golinger: The end of the coup in Honduras?

Eric Mann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:46:20 -0800

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Larry Aubry & Hamid Khan: What to expect and demand from the new chief at LAPD

Eric Mann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:04:03 -0800

The Los Angeles Sentinel columnist and the director of South Asian Network reflect on the appointment of Charlie Beck to replace William Bratton as chief of LAPD. What should communities of color and civil rights activists expect and demand from the new leadership at LAPD?

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas: The Future of Transportation in Los Angeles

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:14:23 -0700

The LA County Supervisor from South Los Angeles discusses MTA's recently passed Long Range Transportation Plan, what he's done and will do to protect funding for the bus system, and what transit equity in LA looks like over the next 30 years.

Esperanza Martinez & Bob Allen: Transportation, Civil Rights, and Environmental Justice in California

Damon Azali-Rojas — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:48:40 -0800

Two organizers on the ground in the fight for civil rights in transportatinon break down the challenges and opportunities for transit-dependent low income people and people of color in LA and the Bay Area.

Dedrick Muhammad & Carl Bloice: The Economic and Housing Crises in the Black Community

Damon Azali-Rojas — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:43:06 -0700

Leading commentators from the Institute for Policy Studies and the Black Commentator discuss the specific impacts of the economic and housing crises in the Black community. As unemployment and poverty rates sore, the foreclosure crisis is being called the largest transfer wealth out of the hands of Black people in modern US history.

Tamar McFarlane & Shannan Breaze: The Fightback -- Housing Struggles in Miami, New Orleans, and beyond

Damon Azali-Rojas — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:48:22 -0700

Two Black organizers on the frontlines of housing struggles in New Orleans and Miami discuss the grassroots fight-back by communities of color hard hit by forceclosures, displacement, gentrification and economic hard times.

Henry Giroux: The Powell Memo, long and steady rise of Right-wing extremism, and what the Left can learn

Tammy Bang Luu — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:36:24 -0700

The reknowned author and columnist traces the thread of the carefully planned and executed Right-wing strategy from the 1971 Powell memo to the current Right-wing anti-Obama, anti-health care upsurge.

Vijay Prashad & Phyllis Bennis: Afghanistan Inside & Out -- Afghan politics, US war strategy, the future of the region

Tammy Bang Luu — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:25:22 -0700

Two distinguished commentators on Afghanistan break down the internal dynamics of Afghan politics, the history of US-Afghan relations pre- and post-invasion, political relations between Afghanistan and its neighbors, and the pro-war and anti-war forces in the US.

Jeffrey Perry: Hubert Harrison, the Voice of Harlem Radicalism 1883-1918

Eric Mann — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:15:22 -0700

The biographer and foremost historian on Hubert Harrison discusses Harrison's place within the rich tradition of Black radicalism. What were his intellectual and political contributions to the Black Liberation Movement? What relationship and influence did he have on some of the movement's leading figures, from W.E.B. Dubois to Marcus Garvey to A. Philip Randolph?

Dave Zirin: Sports, Politics, & Race from Muhammad Ali & Saul Alinsky to Michael Vick, Caster Semenya & Barack Obama

Eric Mann — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:17:18 -0700

One of the best sportswriters in the US raps with Eric host Mann about racism, sexism and the politics of sports--from the controversy around South African track star Caster Semenya, boxers Muhammad Ali and Jack Johnson to community organizing guru Saul Alinsky, Barack Obama to Michael Vick and Plaxico Burress.

Jitu Brown & Alex Caputo-Pearl: Privatizing public education and the false choice of "school choice"

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:24:47 -0700

A Los Angeles-based high school teacher and organizer and a Chicago-based organizer and hip hop artist break down how the failure of inner-city public schools has set the stage for privatization and take-over by corporate-driven charter management organizations, and what working class communities of color are doing to fight back.

Forrest Hylton: US military expansion in Colombia--where the War on Drugs, the War on Terror and Latin America's new progressive

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:54:08 -0700

A historian and journalist of Latin American politics analyzes the agreement to expand US military presence in Colombia. What does this mean for Colombia politics and society, for the War on Drugs, the War on Terror and for left-leaning governments in neighboring Ecuador and Venezuela.

Fernando Gapasin & Jane Slaughter: Internal Crisis in Organized Labor

Tammy Bang Luu — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:57:23 -0700

Two longtime writer-activists in the labor movement discuss internal strife inside the Change to Win Federation and the AFL-CIO, the challenges of the new organizing models and passing new federal legislation--the Employee Free Choice Act--and the future of the labor movement.

Ken Jacobs & David Welch: Universal Care, the "Public Option" and the Health Care Debate

Tammy Bang Luu — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:57:10 -0700

A leading economist in the health care policy world and a leader of the nurses' union break down the health care reform proposal in Congress, the significance of the "Public Option", and why the current health care system is broken.

Gerri Silva & Don Specter: Federal Court rules on California's prison overcrowding crisis

Tammy Bang Luu — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:56:14 -0700

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Thomas Kim & Aehwa Kim: Bill Clinton's visit and US relations with the Korean Peninsula

Tammy Bang Luu — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:27:24 -0700

Korea Policy Institute Director and a leader in South Korea's Alliance of Progressive Movements discuss the significance of Bill Clinton's recent visit to North Korea in the context of US relations with the Korean peninsula.

Cecil Corbin-Mark & Dan Lashof: Breaking down the American Clean Energy and Security Act

Tammy Bang Luu — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:41:02 -0700

Two leading environmental and climate policy advocates break down the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Passed by the House in July, the most important climate bill in a generation moves to the Senate with the backing of the President and energy industry lobbyists. A discussion about what works and what doesn't about the bill.

Francisca Porchas & Laura Barrett: Turning the Highway Bill into Pro-Public Transit, Pro-Environment Policy

Tammy Bang Luu — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:45:15 -0700

Two national public transit organizers explain why the federal surface transportation in Congress right now has huge implications for the future of public transit and the environment in the US, and how a national campaign led by environmental and transit justice groups are intervening to upset the traditional pro-highway, pro-auto script.

Isabel Garcia & Cynthia Buiza: The Border Wall, Immigration Crackdown, and Immigration Reform

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:52:02 -0700

Immigrant Justice leaders discuss state of the movement in under the Obama administration and the Senate's recent move to expand the border wall and E-Verify.

Kokayi Kwa Jitahidi & Peter Bibring: The end of the LAPD Consent Decree

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:22:11 -0700

In the wake of the police murder of Suzi Pena, Dante Story Jr. and the May 1st shootings in MacArthur Park, federal oversight of the LAPD has now ended. Two leaders in the fight against police brutality talk about the history of LAPD's history of crime and what was and was not accomplished by the ten-year consent decree.

Free Prof. Gates, Free the US 2 Million

Eric Mann — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:15:24 -0700

At this point we all know the story of racist arrest of Prof Gates. "So where do we take this story? I say we take this story to the US prison system where racial abuse from the police state is happening in genocidal proportions. We have to place the focus on protecting the rights of black people of all classes with a primary focus on the mass incarceration of the black working call and poor in genocidal proportions." Click the link to hear the rest of Eric Mann's commentary.

Eva Golinger: Update on Honduras Coup, US role, and international response

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:50:08 -0700

Journalist, lawyer and the author of "The Chavez Code" breaks down three weeks since the coup against Honduran President Mel Zelaya by the Honduran military. What forces in the US have backed the coup conspirators and what is the status of international efforts to return Zelaya to power?

S.E. Anderson & Horace Campbell: Obama's Africa Visit and the Reparations Movement

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:40:34 -0700

A leading Reparations scholar/activist and an expert on liberation movements in Africa and the African diaspora discuss President Obama's visit to and address in Ghana. What does it mean for Africans and people in the African diaspora struggling for reparations for Western colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and for US-Africa relations today?

Traci Kato-Kiriyama & Sue Jin Kim: The 10th Anniversary Party of TN KAT’s Tuesday Night Café

Tammy Bang Luu — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:59:50 -0700

Tuesday Night Café founder organizer and one of the party's regular performers discuss the even'ts 10-year contribution to LA's Asian/Pacific Islander community performing arts scene and the role of culture and performance in consciousness-raising. Includes performance by singer/songwriter Sue Jin Kim.

Lisa Fu & Tina Ling: Organizing Asian/Pacific Islander immigrant women and the Healthy Nail Salon Campaign

Tammy Bang Luu — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:26:25 -0700

The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative is using policy advocacy, research, industry outreach, worker organizing and education strategies to take on hazardous health and working conditions faced by mostly immigrant Asian/Pacific Islander women in the cosmetology industry. Discussion with Collaborative Coordinator and a legal advocate from Asian Law Caucus.

Bill Fletcher Jr. & David Swanson: Assessing Obama after 5 months--Fulfilling the promised change or a presidency in trouble?

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:14:39 -0700

Two progressive writer/activists--Black Commentator Executive Editor Bill Fletcher Jr. and Washington Director of Democrats.com David Swanson--take stock of the Obama Administration so far. Should progressives still be in "wait and see" mode or is this a presidency in trouble?

Eva Golinger: The Coup in Honduras and the Political Backdrop

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:50:51 -0700

Journalist, lawyer and the author of "The Chavez Code" breaks down the coup against Honduran President Mel Zelaya by the Honduran military, the political context that led to it, and the international response.

Vijay Prashad: Understanding Class and Power Struggle Behind Iran's Protest Movement

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:29:41 -0700

The expert on history and politics of the Third World breaks down the protest movement in Iran and the underlying class dynamics and political powers struggles behind the accusations of electoral fraud and the state crackdown on dissent.

Oscar Sanchez: The Arrest of Gang Intervention Leader Alex Sanchez

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:55:59 -0700

The brother of arrested gang intervention leader Alex Sanchez discusses Alex's path from being part of the Mara Salvatrucha to internationally recognized activist for gang reconciliation, the shocking conspiracy charges brought by the FBI, and the what people can do to support Alex's defense.

Daphne Wysham, Cecil Corbin-Mark, Tom Goldtooth: The American Clean Energy and Security Act and Climate Justice

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:03:23 -0700

Three leaders in the climate justice movement breakdown the American Clean Energy and Security Act under consideration in Congress right now. Why dangers does this bill, also known as Waxman-Markey, present? What policy alternatives exist and what can activists for climate justice do about it?

Hector Perla & Alexis Stoumbelis: Inauguration of FMLN President Mauricio Funes in El Salvador (Salvadoran Elections Part III)

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:47:39 -0700

Hector Perla & Alexis Stoumbelis: Inauguration of FMLN President Mauricio Funes in El Salvador (Salvadoran Elections Part III)

Eveline Shen & Rocio Cordoba: Reproductive justice for women of color, immigrants, and young people

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:41:12 -0700

The Directors of Asian Communities For Reproductive Justice and California Latinas for Reproductive Justice discuss the growing national reproductive justice movement and the intersections of race, gender, class and national oppression that impact the reproductive choices of women of color, working class women, and immigrants.

Kai Wright: A Fragile Union -- Race, Gay Marriage, and the LGBTQ Rights Movements

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:10:14 -0700

A veteran journalist on race and sexuality discusses Proposition 8 and the racial fault lines inside LGBTQ movements. 40 years into the movement for sexual freedom, Wright comments, the multihued cry against a universally felt oppression usually breaks down into deeply segregated, often opposing parts, along race lines.

Ajamu Baraka: The UN World Conference Against Racism, Obama, and the US boycott

Eric Mann — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:34:18 -0700

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Pat Alviso & Devon Read: Veterans and military families say no to war in Iraq and Afghanistan

Eric Mann — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:24:55 -0700

A Chicana mother of a 3-tour soldier of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and an ex-Marine who served in Iraq discuss the necessity of ending the wars and what military families and veterans are doing about it.

Michal Goldman: At Home in Utopia, a new film on the Jewish immigrant Communist Tradition

Eric Mann — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:59:21 -0700

"The veteran documentary filmmaker discusses her new film on the United Workers Cooperative Colony - aka the Coops -- in the Bronx. There, Jewish immigrant families, many of them Communists, built a utopian new home for themselves in their new country, challenged racial barriers, and engaged in the mass struggles of the day."

Rose Braz, Arnoldo Garcia, Roger White: Prisons on Overdrive in the Post 9/11 Era -- A Roundtable Discussion.

Damon Azali-Rojas — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:05:21 -0700

Three on-the-ground experts break down prison expansion, immigration enforcement, and the War on Drugs in the 21st Prison/Police State. What are key developments and key fronts of the fightback in the current period?

Reverend Lucius Walker Jr: Shifting winds in US Cuba policy

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:42:14 -0700

Pastor for Peace founder explains why, after 47 years of trade embargo, now is the moment for a overhaul of US Cuba policy. On Obama lifting travel resrictions, the Congressional Black Caucus delegation, and the upcoming Summit of the Americas.

Omar Sosa and John Santos: Afro-Caribbean music, culture, politics and spirituality

Damon Azali-Rojas — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:10:27 -0700

Two Grammy nominated Latin Jazz musicians talk with Damon Azali-Rojas about their lives and careers, the music they have made together and separately over the years, and some of the cultural and political meaning of music drawn equally from the cultural traditions of Africa and the Americas.

Mark Rudd: My life in SDS and the Weather Underground

Eric Mann — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:16:50 -0700

An icon of the New Left talks with Eric Mann, fellow veteran of Students for a Democratic Society, about his years as an activist in SDS, a fugitive in the Weather Underground, and what reflections and lessons learned from that period can teach movement activists today.

Reese Erlich: The real story of US policy and the future of Cuba

Eric Mann — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:22:01 -0700

The veteran progressive journalist talks with Eric Mann about the findings of his book, the state of the revolution in the post-Fidel era, and what Obama’s Cuba policy will look like. His probing exposé, Dateline Havana, offers a close look at U.S. Cuba policy and the future of Cuba, from politics to the island’s music and art.

Bill Fletcher: Rising to the occasion -- Reimagining socialism

Eric Mann — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:07:43 -0700

The Black Liberation and Labor Movement veteran talks with Eric Mann about his recent article co-authored with Barbara Ehrenreich in The Nation titled "Rising to the Occasion -- Reimagining Socialism." On the lessons of past socialist experiments and forging a new vision.

Hector Perla & Esther Portillo: Historic FMLN victory in El Salvador! (Salvadoran Elections Part II)

Manuel Criollo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:27:53 -0700

Solidarity organizer Esther Portillo reports live from El Salvador with scholar-activist Hector Perla on the how the FMLN made history, going from armed rebel movement to winners of the 2009 presidential election. Breaking down how journalist turned candidate Mauricio Funes and thousands of FMLN cadre beat back 20 years of rightwing ARENA rule.

Walden Bello: The past, present, and future of the World Social Forum

Tammy Bang Luu — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:04:41 -0700

Filipino scholar-activist Walden Bello has been the first World Social Forum in 2001. In conversation with Tammy Bang Luu, he takes stock of the World Social Forum project and international social movements and declares the dawn of a new era of global social democracy.

Truc Nguyen: Exposing the dangerous new criminal DNA database

Manuel Criollo — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:46:10 -0700

An expert on criminal DNA databases breaks down this frightening new aspect of the prison/police state in the US. On the significance of California Proposition 69, the current and potential future use and abuse of DNA databases by the government, and the impacts for communities of color.

Nina Moreno: Children's Defense Fund takes on the cradle-to-prison pipeline

Manuel Criollo — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:06:33 -0700

Children's Defense Fund organizer breaks down why a black boy born in 2001 has a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison in his lifetime and a Latino boy a 1 in 6 chance? What are the conditions facing children of color and poor children that put them on the pipeline to prison rather than to college and good jobs? And what is the Children's Defense Fund doing about it.

Edward Hailes: Defending voting rights

Eric Mann — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:53:47 -0800

Advancement Project civil rights attorney Edward Hailes asks if the criminal theft of the Presidential election in 2000 through the purging of thousands of Black voters could happen again in 2008?

Ali Abunimah, Huwaida Arraf & Amal Sabawi: The crisis in Gaza

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:19:30 -0800

Free Gaza Movement activist Huwaida Arraf, Electronic Intifada co-editor Ali Abunimah and reporting live from Gaza, Amal Subawi discuss how a months-long Israeli blockade has created a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. How will Obama and the rest of the world respond?

Jean Friedman-Rudovsky: Bolivia's new constitution

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:48:16 -0800

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Rose Braz and Guillermo Mayer: Budgets, stimulus, prisons and buses

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:51:48 -0800

Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) spokesperson Rose Braz and Public Advocates civil rights attorney Guillermo Mayor unmask California's budget crisis, prison juggeraut, and future of public transportation.

Esther Portillo: Salvadoran elections

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:29:27 -0800

Southern California-based Salvadoran activist, Eshter Portillo, talks about Path to Power: FMLN wins big in Legislative Elections

Stacy Perlata and Skipp Townsend: Crips & Bloods: Made in America

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:01:17 -0800

Offering unprecendented access into the world of active gangs, a new film looks at culture and context for the Bloods and Crips...

Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi & Ziad Abbas: The siege of Gaza

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:27:03 -0800

Two veterans of the Palestinian movement, Rabab Ibrahim and Ziad Abbas, discuss the Israeli Siege of Gaza and the trajectory of Palestinian Struggle.

Kali Akuno, Michael Letwin & Sara Kershnar: The Palestine solidarity movement in the US

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Black Liberation Movement organizer Kali Akuno, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network co-founder Sara Kershnar, and Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys former president Michael Letwin discuss what role the Black Liberation Movement, the Labor Movement and the Jewish Community play in building a Palestine Solidarity Movement in the US.

Victor Wallis: Capitalist and socialist responses to the ecological crisis

Eric Mann — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

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Eric Mann: Film review of Revolutionary Road

Eric Mann — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:00:18 -0800

Revolutionary Road - A Road Not Taken. Film review by Eric Man.

Cecil Corbin-Mark: The climate crisis and obama

Eric Mann — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

WE-ACT for Environmental Justice climate policy expert and environmental justice organizer Cecil Corban-Mark asks whether or not the free market solutions that created the climate crisis should be used to fix it.

Jerry Tucker & Greg Shotwell: The auto industry bailout and the UAW

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:09:55 -0800

Two longtime rank and file activists in the United Auto Workers, Jerry Tucker and Greg Shotwell, talk about the UAW and the US Auto Industry at the Crossroads.

Glen Ford: Obama's cabinet choices and the false promises of Obamania

Eric Mann — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:29:22 -0800

Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report and previously co-founder and host of America's Black Forum, Glen Ford, says when you give the War Portfolio to the Warmongers and the Treasury Portfolio to the speculative bankers, you are demonstrating your intention to have continuity between the Bush Administration and yours.

Bill Fletcher: Obama and the strategy of relying on good faith

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:33:00 -0800

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Eric Mann: Obama and the CIA

Eric Mann — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:44:55 -0800

Member of the stragety center, Eric Mann, says contrary to the popular illusions of liberals and many on the Left, Barack Obama is not in charge of the system; the system is in charge of him.

Nikolas Kozloff: Venezuelan elections and the future of the Bolivarian Revolution

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:45:45 -0800

Author of "Revoltuion: South America and the Rise of the New Left.", Nikolas Kozloff, answers the question, does Venezuela under Hugo Chavez remain on a revolutionary course?

Elmer Kabong La Bog: Political repression and resistance in the Philipines

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:52:05 -0800

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Vijay Prashad: The Mumbai attacks and political fallout in India

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:25:56 -0800

Expert on South Asian history and politics, Vijay Prashad, answers the question, if the Mumbai attacks are India's "9/11", will the Indian government respond with their own version of the Bush doctrine?

Winona Laduke: Indigenous Peoples and the necessity of clean energy

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:30:20 -0800

Nationally recognized indigenous environementalist, Winona Laduke, breaks down the impacts of dirty energy on indigenous peoples throughout the US

Robin D.G. Kelley: Obama and the Black Liberation Movement

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:33:50 -0800

Black historian, scholar, and activist Robin D.G. Kelley, answers the question, what does Obama's election mean in the long view of the Black Struggle for freedom and liberation?

Fernando Guerra: Race, polls and the California election

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:38:55 -0800

An Elections Expert, Fernando Guerra, Breaks Down Important Results and Dispels Myths

Adrian Acosta & Valerie Wagner: Race and Proposition 8

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:44:42 -0800

Latino and Black LGBT activists, Adrian Acosta and Valerie Wagner, talk about the Prop 8 Fallout: The LGBT community, race, the wedge politics played to perfection.

Monica Wooters & Kristin Bricker: Felipe Calderon and Plan Merida in Mexico

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:03:51 -0800

Chiapas-based journalist Kristin Bricker and human rights activist Monica Wooters, answer the question, is US policy making Mexico into another Colombia?

Rocio Cordoba, Greg Akili & Shiu-Ming Cheer: Communities of color and state and national elections

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:50:44 -0800

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Javier Angullo: Defeating Prop 8, California's proposed gay marriage ban

Eric Mann — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:24:47 -0800

From the No on 8 Campaign, Javier Angullo, talks about another rightwing attack on civil rights in California.

Ruben Solis: Southwest Workers Union's 20th anniversary

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:08:57 -0800

Founder of SWU, Ruben Solis, talks about 20 years of organizing in the Southwest. Workers unite!

Nancy Stengel & Michael Rivera: The longterm care workers in SEIU

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:27:51 -0800

Rank and file leaders of United Health Care Workers West, Nancy Stengel and Michael Rivera, take on SIEU president.

Pete White: "Safer Cities" and the criminalization of homelessness

Manuel Criollo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:52:30 -0800

Director of Los Angeles Community Action Network, Pete White, says cleaning up downtown means a police assault on homeless people…

Pete White: Villaraigosa calls for more police

Manuel Criollo — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, Pete White, talks about Villaraigosa's call for increased police funding and cuts in social services.

Bill Quigly: Haiti hunger riots

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:31:35 -0800

Human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans, Bill Quigly, talks about his recent article.

Loyda Colon: The murder of Sean Bell

Manuel Criollo — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Member of the justice comittee, Loyda Colon, talks about police aquitted of Sean Bell's murder.

Clayton Thomas-Mueller: Extracting Canada's tar sands to the core

Tammy Bang Luu — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Member of the Indigenous Envrionmental Network, Clayton Thomas-Muelle, talks about how does Alberta's tar sandsfeeds our oil addiciton.

The Wire: Actors Wendell Pierce & Andre Royo

Eric Mann — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:16:55 -0700

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Zachary Norris: Proposition 6 and the Books Not Bars Campaign

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:37:23 -0800

Director for the Books Not Bars campaign at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California, Zachary Norris, talks about Prop 6--14 year olds tried as adults!?

Roberto Lovato: "How Immigrant Crackdowns Build the National Security State"

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:11:52 -0800

A contributing Associate Editor with New America Media, Roberto Lovato, talks about how immigrant crackdowns build the national security state.

Eric Mann: Clinton and McCain

Manuel Criollo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:56:54 -0800

Clinton and McCain: Conservative Bedfellows

The Wire: Sonja Sohn and Rafael Alvarez

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:27:19 -0700

Starring in The Wire, the HBO series, Sonja Sohn and Rafael Alvarez, talk about the show with Eric Mann.

Jorge Mariscal: Chicano anti-war activism

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:27:06 -0700

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Rachel and Richard: Censoring the truth

Manuel Criollo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:50:47 -0700

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Carlos Montes: Chicano civil rights

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:10:42 -0700

A leader of the Chicano Blowouts in the 1960s, Carlos Montes, joins us to share his story of protest and resistance.

Eva Golinger: Venezuela's consitutional referendum

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:12:18 -0700

Author of The Chavez Code and Bush vs. Chavez, Eva Golinger speaks on Venzuelan national referendum.

Sunyoung Yang: Bus only lanes and climate change

Sunyoung Yang — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:39:54 -0800

Bus Riders Union and Strategy Center Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses campaign organizer, Sunyoung Yang, talks about Bus Only Lanes VS LA's Auto Addiction.

Barbara Becnel: Remembering Stanley Tookie Williams

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:59:42 -0800

Barbara Cottman Becnel, close friend of Stanley Tookie Williams, talks about the final days of ex-gang member's life.

Barbara Lott-Holland: Impact of MTA's racist fare hike

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:11:22 -0800

Chair of the Bus Riders Union Barbara Lott-Holland reflects on life on the bus and the real impact of higher fares on Black, Latino, and Asian working class bus riders.

Francisca Porchas: BRU strategy to stop the racist fare hike

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:17:46 -0800

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Ryan Snyder: Bus vs. rail debate in LA

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:22:23 -0800

Urban planning expert Ryan Snyder speaks on why buses, not trains, are the future of mass transit.

Lisa Kung: Prop 83, sentencing laws for sex offenders

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:57:52 -0800

Southern Center for Human Rights representative Lisa Kung discusses California 2006 ballot initiative--Proposition 83 re: sex offenders and draconian sentencing law.

Penny Newman: California's transportation bond measure Prop 1B and environmental racism

Lisa Adler — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700

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Eveline Shen: Proposition 85 and the fate of reproductive rights

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:54:50 -0800

Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, Eveline Shen, takes a closer look at a new initiative requiring parental notification for minor abortion and the question of reproductive access

Beverly Wright: Struggle to rebuild post-Katrina Black New Orleans

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Long time scholar and activist in the environmental justice movement, Beverly Wright speaks on the struggle for the right of return for Katrina Survivors and the remaking of New Orleans.

Kim McGill: Fight against gang injunctions and the California gang database

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:51:17 -0800

Los Angeles's Youth Justice Coalition representative Kim McGill takes a closer look at 100+ years of racist anti-gang measures in California

Clayton Thomas-Mueller: UN climate change conference, 2005 and the future of climate policy

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800

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Tom Goldtooth: UN climate conference in Montreal, 2005

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:28:58 -0800

Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, Tom Goldthooth, challenges market-based solutions and grassroots movements at the UN Conference.

Sunita Narain: Kyoto Accords and the future of global climate policy

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:26:01 -0800

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Ed Avol: Air pollution and the health of children in Southern California

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700

USC Medical Professor, Ed Avol, exposes the impacts of air pollution on the health of children and issues a call to action

Manuel Criollo & Cynthia Rojas: 2004 Salvadoran elections

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:00:22 -0800

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Ruthie Gilmore: California prison boom and the conditions of women prison

Damon Azali-Rojas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:48:59 -0800

Radical geographer of the political economy of prisons in the neoliberalized state of California, Ruthie Gilmore, exposes the incarceration of women in California's exploding prison system.

Graham Boyd: Drug War as the new Jim Crow

Tammy Bang Luu — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:53:59 -0800

ACLU Civil Rights attorney Graham Boyd speaks on the fight against the War on Drugs as the civil rights struggle of the 21st Century.