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| Rafael Bernabe
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| Puerto Rico rising
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| Rafael Bernabe, professor, activist and author joins us from San Juan Puerto Rico, where nearly two weeks of massive protests brought down the corrupt government of Ricardo Rosselló. Rosselló fell, after the Center for Investigative Journalism released nearly 900 pages of chat messages between him and his inner circle, revealing the contempt they held for the population. They lined their own pockets, while imposing extreme austerity on Puerto Rico’s population, even after Hurricane Maria devastated the island’s infrastructure and left thousands dead. But it wasn’t just the most recent events that brought the people’s anger to the boiling point: the economic meltdown of 2008-2009 hit a Puerto Rico already ensnared in a never-ending debt crisis engineered by vulture funds, and when natural disaster hit following economic disaster, conditions went from bad to worse. Rafael Bernabe helps us understand this trajectory, and we’ll get his take on what direction he sees for Puerto Rico after the magnificent success of the mass movement.
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Sunday, July 28, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:25 |
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| Myrna Santiago, Alicia Rusoja, Daniel Finn
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| abuse at the border; Brexit crisis and Corbyn
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Myrna Santiago and Alicia Rusoja report on their week at the border, where they talked to men, women and children migrants, sat in immigration court, talked to support groups – as well as deported veterans, and deported mothers of Dreamers in Tijuana. We get their reflections and revelations that include the way abuse and corruption are adding to the horrors these migrants face.
Daniel Finn analyzes British politics: while the Tories are deciding whether Boris Johnson will be their next leader, the Labour Party has its own dilemmas —over its attitude to Brexit for sure, but also how to deal with the surprisingly effective smear campaign against Labour’s left wing leadership, in particular leader Jeremy Corbyn. Daniel looks at the underlying controversy, and says that despite Corbyn’s unprecedented efforts to expel anti-Semites from party ranks (no such similar move in the Conservative Party), Corbyn’s critics will never be satisfied since their issue is Corbyn’s politics itself. This has great relevance for our own politics, and Daniel Finn explains.
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Sunday, July 21, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:25 |
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| Victor Narro, Asli Bâli
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| ICE Raids & policy; US-Iran conflict
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Victor Narro, immigrant workers rights expert and UCLA Labor Center Professor, joins us with historical perspective and analysis of immigrant policy and deportations, just as President Trump’s cruel, unnecessary raids begin in cities across the US, including Los Angeles. People have mobilized across the country in demonstrations and vigils against the administration’s inhumanity. We get Victor Narro’s perspective about what is new and different under Trump, how it is being fought, and what should be done.
Asli Bâli, UCLA Law Professor and Middle East expert on public international law, international security and nuclear non-proliferation, joins us with a big picture look at the US-Iran conflict and its defunct nuclear agreement. Trump continues to threaten Iran, aided by the mainstream media (MSM) who are freaking out over Iran’s supposed breach of the 2015 Nuclear Accord, seemingly forgetting that it was Trump who unilaterally tore up that agreement, arbitrarily imposing a new, brutal sanctions regime. Asli Bâli digs beneath the surface to look at the deeper context of the chronic but escalating US-Iran conflict, and to explore its trajectory now that Trump has essentially abandoned the deal.
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Sunday, July 14, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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| Katie Halper; ME O'Brien; Chloe Watlington
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| NYT's Bernie problem; Junkie Communism; Who Owns Tomorrow
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Katie Halper investigates the NY Times' problem with Bernie Sanders, evident in its coverage. Their correspondent Sydney Ember has a long record of unfairly attacking Sanders — while neglecting to mention that the sources she quotes are from corporate lobbyists and austerity ideologues that Ember calls objective authorities. We get Katie's views.
ME O'Brien joins us on her provocative, creative article in Commune, “Junkie Communism” -- that questions how the socialist project emphasizes the dignity of work as its basis, but leaves out those who are unable to maintain stable employment. She posits a politics that includes those whose lives have been broken by the cruel conditions imposed on us all.
Chloe Watlington talks about her (powerful) article in the summer 2019 issue of Commune called “Who Owns Tomorrow.” It’s a devastating and revealing look at the human toll of capitalism in decline: deaths of despair from opioids, alcohol and unemployment in crumbling neoliberal America, an all too familiar story that has hit Chloe personally.
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Sunday, July 7, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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Sunday, June 30, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:25 |
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| Pouya Alimagham, Arun Gupta, Enrique Chiu
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| US-Iran tensions; concentration camps; border wall art
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Pouya Alimagham, historian at MIT on the intensifying crisis with Iran that saw us about ten minutes away from military strikes Thursday night before Trump pulled back. We get his analysis of the crisis, the history of US-Iranian relations, the implications and goals of the increasing bluster, ever more draconian sanctions and the US withdrawal from the nuclear accord with Iran. Pouya writes about domestic Iranian dissent and the Green uprisings and we’ll also get his take on what the increased tensions mean for domestic dissent in Iran.
Arun Gupta, writer and activist, on the intensifying crisis on the southern border as the Trump administration prepares predawn raids to round up and deport undocumented immigrants. Arun Gupta is initiating a national call to organize a massive, non-violent march on the border, to witness and record the concentration camps – where many immigrants and asylum seekers are being held in cruel, inhumane, and sometimes deadly conditions -- give aid to migrants, and peacefully disrupt the machinery of ethnic cleansing. We’ll hear his plans.
Enrique Chiu is plastic artist who began a wall project in December 2016 on the Mexican side in Tijuana. His goal is to turn the wall of fear and division into a beacon of hope and humanity. Some 3800 artists have joined him on weekends to paint the Wall of Brotherhood, to turn it into a canvas, a miles long mural that inspires hearts and minds, painted collectively and spontaneously. His documentary, “A World Without Walls” was just screened in Tijuana, and he joins us to share his vision.
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Sunday, June 23, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:25 |
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