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| Erwin Chemerinsky, Cynthia Ganote
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| Supreme Court nominee; Breonna Taylor decision
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Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law on President Trump’s nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week at age 87. RBG’s dying wish was to be replaced by a new President. That would be consistent arge of wanton endangerment for firing recklessly when he with recent history and the way that President Obama’s pick to replace Antonin Scalia was blocked by Senator Mitch McConnell, who famously refused to hold hearings. All week we have seen Senators reverse their previous positions on whether it would be appropriate to replace Ginsburg so close to the election. Amy Coney Barrett, the Federalist society pick, is seen as another Scalia in her judicial outlook. There is much to explore with this appointment, including what will happen to the Court, and we are fortunate to have Erwin Chemerinsky to offer his insights and analysis.
Cynthia Ganote, Sociologist at the University of Louisville on the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury decision earlier this week that did not charge the three police officers, operating on a no-knock search warrant, who killed Breonna Taylor as she slept in her own home. One of the officers received a minor charge of wanton endangerment for firing recklessly when he was still outside the apartment, putting a neighboring apartment at risk. So the bullet that missed mattered more than the bullets that killed Breonna Taylor, asleep in her own bed. Protests have erupted in Louisville and across the country demanding justice —and our guest Cynthia Ganote has participated in the 122 days of non-violent protest in Louisville. She gives us a sense of what is happening on the ground.
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Sunday, September 27, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Paul Mason, Ed Broadbent, Alan Minsky
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| Roundtable perspectives on the electoral campaign
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British journalist and prolific writer Paul Mason joins us with his perceptions of the 2020 election, bringing his insights from the recent election in Britain that saw the defeat of radical Labour and the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, and the victory of Boris Johnson and Brexit politics. Paul worries that the Democratic Party strategy against Trump misreads the right in some of the same ways that Corbyn did in the UK -- and he shares his concerns with us.
Ed Broadbent, former NDP Leader and Member of Parliament from 1975-1989 is also known as the best prime minister Canada never had. Ed is an expert in the theory and practice of policy-making, and he shares his views about the US campaign from his own strategic and organizational perspective
Alan Minsky, Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) joins us with his inside perspective of organizing on the ground electoral strategy, including what impact the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will have on the campaign in these last six weeks.
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Sunday, September 20, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:11 |
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| Mike Davis, Meleiza Figueroa, Ali Meders-Knight
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| The Fires This Time
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| Mike Davis, Meleiza Figueroa, Ali Meders-Knight on the megafires engulfing much of the West Coast from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest. Our imaginations can barely encompass the speed or scale of the catastrophe we are undergoing – along with the pandemic – and the headlines spell it out. The actuality of climate change and accelerating apocalypse can be seen in the red, orange and black skies across much of California and Oregon. How do we understand this new reality, how did we get here? What alternative traditions of land management that can be utilized to radically change the way we deal with these megafires?
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Sunday, September 13, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Alan Minsky, Christian Parenti
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| Democratic electoral strategy; Radical Hamilton
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Alan Minsky, Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) joins us with a retrospective and perspective of electoral strategy, now that both the Democratic and Republican conventions are over. Alan argues that the Massachusetts primary to be held on Tuesday is critically important in determining the future strength of the Democratic Party donor class politics over that of their progressive base.
Christian Parenti talks about his new book, "Radical Hamilton" and why the left should appropriate founding father Alexander Hamilton's state-led developmentalism for our time. Christian thinks Hamilton has been misunderstood, and that his "Report on Manufactures" makes the case for an American tradition of political economy more in line with the Green New Deal than neoliberal market fundamentalism. Indeed, Parenti thinks Hamilton’s ideas should be adopted in order to rapidly transform the global economy to meet the needs of a collapsing economy and impending climate disaster.
rebroadcast from August 30, 2020
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Sunday, September 6, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Alan Minsky, Christian Parenti
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| Democratic electoral strategy; Radical Hamilton
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Alan Minsky, Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) joins us with a retrospective and perspective of electoral strategy, now that both the Democratic and Republican conventions are over. Alan argues that the Massachusetts primary to be held on Tuesday is critically important in determining the future strength of the Democratic Party donor class politics over that of their progressive base.
Christian Parenti talks about his new book, "Radical Hamilton" and why the left should appropriate founding father Alexander Hamilton's state-led developmentalism for our time. Christian thinks Hamilton has been misunderstood, and that his "Report on Manufactures" makes the case for an American tradition of political economy more in line with the Green New Deal than neoliberal market fundamentalism. Indeed, Parenti thinks Hamilton’s ideas should be adopted in order to rapidly transform the global economy to meet the needs of a collapsing economy and impending climate disaster.
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Sunday, August 30, 2020 10:00 am | 0:00:00 |
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| Lizaveta Merliak, Sarah Mason
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| Belarus protests, Uber/Lyft avoiding CA Labor Law
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Lizaveta Merliak, International Secretary of the Belarussian Independent Trade Union BNP in Belarus joins us with a look at the massive protest movement that has gone on in Belarus since August 9, when the blatantly fraudulent election results were announced. President Lukashenko claimed he won 80% of the votes in a deteriorating economic situation and escalating pandemic -- which the government ignored, while spending lavishly on WWII parades. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets, workers have downed their tools to go on strike and join the protest movement – while President Lukashenko has dug in, doubling down on repression and shocking the world with the regime’s brutality. We get Lizaveta Merliak’s take.
Sarah Mason, a former Lyft driver and DoorDasher, now a grad student studying platform mediated labor, joins us to explain the California Supreme Court decision and Assembly Bill 5, which have determined that Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Doordash and Postmates are not tech apps, but driving companies, and their workers are employees, not independent contractors. The Court has issued an injunction against the companies, and they in turn have threatened to halt services in California until November when voters will vote on their sponsored Proposition 22, which would give them a carveout, an exemption to the law to deny their drivers rights and protections like minimum wage, sick leave and safety protections.
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Sunday, August 23, 2020 10:00 am | 0:00:00 |
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| Gilbert Achcar
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| Explosion in Lebanon
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Gilbert Achcar on the August 4 horrific explosion in his native Lebanon. Nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been sitting in the port of the City for seven years ignited, leaving hundreds dead, thousands injured, and hundreds of thousands homeless. Gilbert Achcar gives us the big picture, outlining Lebanon’s decades long history of corrupt neoliberal rule. He characterizes the political class’s rule as marked by exploitation, criminal neglect, sectarian divisions, and utter disregard for the population. This catastrophic explosion comes on the heels of economic collapse -- in the midst of a pandemic that de-railed one of the largest and broadest protest movements from 2019, now in the streets again demanding an end to the regime in power. We get Gilbert Achcar’s take.
Alan Minsky then joins us and we bring you Mike Davis and Jon Wiener on their new book Set the Night on Fire: LA in the 60s, which we are offering as our thank you gift for pledging your support to this program and KPFK.
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Sunday, August 9, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Alex Vitale
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| End of Policing
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| Alex Vitale, author of "The End of Policing," joins us for a deeper look into the nature and the role of policing as a critical component of maintaining our economic system, essentially as a tool of social control. Alex does not see police violence as an aberration to be reformed, but a feature of the system. We get his take on various reform efforts, how he sees police and camouflaged federal cops quelling the broad movement that has emerged in response to police killings, the demand to defund the police – and how he envisions public safety without policing. We are also offering his book as a thank-you gift for pledging your support to this program and KPFK.
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Sunday, August 2, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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