https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/suzi-weissman/ webmaster@kpfk.org (Archive Manager) webmaster@kpfk.org (KPFK Admin) en-us Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0700 60 Pacifica Archive archiver_9.0.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Public Affairs - Local KPFK Public Radio - Online Archives webmaster@kpfk.org Suzi Weissman no https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260426_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260426_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0700 Featured speakers include:
Ashley Smith who traces the strategic logic of Trump's imperial war — rooted in US relative decline and the drive to dominate China's energy supply chains.
Frieda Afary speaks to the progressive forces inside Iran — feminist activists facing execution, imprisoned labor organizers, Kurdish national minority movements — and explains why solidarity with the Iranian people, not the regime, is the only principled position.
Aleksandra Zapolskaya reports from the ruins of Russian civil society on what it means to resist a regime that strangled the independent press and the trade unions before it ever launched its tanks.
Denys Pilash — editor of Commons journal and currently serving in the Ukrainian armed forces — speaks from the front lines on why impunity for one aggressor always opens the door for the next.
The discussion also explores anti-war labor solidarity, the global implications of Orban's electoral defeat, and the debate between genuine internationalism and "campist" logic.
This edited version airs Sunday on KPFK, and the full unedited panel will be available Tuesday on Jacobin Radio.]]> 3603 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260419_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260419_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0700 Three lead organizers of United Faculty-UAW at USC join us: Kate Levin , Janis Yue, and Sanjay Madhav describe two years of faculty-driven organizing, built one conversation at a time — and USC's extraordinary response: borrowing the SpaceX/Amazon legal argument that the NLRB itself is unconstitutional. No other university has gone this far.
They cover the 40-year transformation of academic work that made 75% of USC's faculty non-tenured and precarious; the concrete costs of that precarity — frozen wages, gutted healthcare, arbitrary layoffs, zero transparency about a $250 million deficit; the inspiration of the NYU contract; and why winning this election in this political moment could change academic labor nationwide.
The conversation touches on the healthcare cuts that disrupted Janis's ability to care for her own mental health while working with adolescent trauma patients; Sanjay's experience watching gaming industry workers finally win the unions he once only dreamed about; and Kate's insistence that the choice before USC after the election is stark: respect your faculty's democratic decision, or side with Trump and Elon Musk.]]> 3603 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260412_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260412_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0700
Her core claim is that austerity is not a policy error, not irrational, not a deviation from capitalism that could work better. It is structurally necessary — the mechanism through which the exploitation of workers is reproduced, the reserve army of labor is maintained, and any serious challenge to the system is foreclosed before it can organize.
"Unemployment is not a bug. It's a feature. It's produced by this economic system and it's functional to it."
"Austerity is not optional. It's how the system operates
"An anti-austerity cause is already a revolutionary cause." — Clara Mattei

This conversation comes at a moment when the headlines are doing Mattei's work for her: Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" strips $400 billion from Medicaid and $200 billion from food stamps while Trump requests $1.5 trillion more for his war. As Mattei says in the conversation: it's not about spending less. It's about where the state is spending — and for whom.]]> 3603 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260405_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260405_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0700 3603 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260329_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260329_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0700 3604 no Public Affairs - Local