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| Jeff Wasserstrom, Alan Minsky
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| Hong Kong Protests; Bernie Sanders Speech & Candidacy
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Jeff Wasserstrom, UC Irvine professor of Chinese history is just back from Hong Kong to report on the gigantic protest movement in Hong Kong that has been met with extreme police violence. The issue is a bill that would allow the extradition of suspects to mainland China -- a further threat to Hong Kong’s partial autonomy. For the moment the bill has been shelved, thanks to the massive protests in the streets, but not the efforts to erode the city’s freedoms. We get Jeff Wasserstrom’s analysis.
Alan Minsky, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) and Senior producer of this program, joins me in conversation about Bernie Sanders’ extraordinary speech at George Washington University last week, in which he defined democratic socialism and linked it to genuine freedom, rooted in economic and political rights. We also talk about the 2020 race and the electability question.
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Sunday, June 16, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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| Gary Blasi, Paul Buhle
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| Homelessness in LA; Eugene V. Debs
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UCLA Law Professor Emeritus Gary Blasi, longtime advocate for the homeless and poverty lawyer joins us to discuss the 16% increase in homelessness in LA city and 12% in LA County. Put simply -- says Gary Blasi -- homeless people are homeless because they cannot afford housing, mostly in neighborhoods where they have grown up and lived. We get Gary’s analysis of the scope of homelessness, the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of the city, county and state measures to deal with it, and we’ll get Gary’s ideas about what more can be done.
Paul Buhle on his new graphic biography of Eugene V. Debs – one of the most important Americans of the 20th C according to Bernie Sanders, who also called Debs “the most effective and popular leader that the American working class has ever had.” We talk to Paul about Debs’ life, ideas and struggles as a fighting union leader of the Pullman railroad strike, Socialist Party five time candidate for President, jailed for opposing WWI, and ran for President from prison, winning over a million votes.
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Sunday, June 9, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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| Sebastian Budgen, Kevin Ovenden
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| European Parliamentary Elections: Whither Europe, wither UK?
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Sebastian Budgen joins us with a report on the European Parliamentary elections held May 26. Many predicted the results would strengthen the shift in Europe to the authoritarian hard right parties, but the rightward shift was not as pronounced as feared. The biggest losers across the continent were the center-right neoliberal mainstream parties. We get Sebastian’s view of the larger significance of the vote in the context of the failed policies of the center, as well as his analysis of the continuing protest and promise of the Gilet Jaune social movement in France.
Kevin Ovenden looks at the European Parliamentary elections with a focus on the vote in the UK, where the upset couldn’t have been more pronounced in the wake of the repeated failure by the Tories’ Theresa May to implement Brexit. The Conservative party had its worst result in history, but Labour also lost votes, as Jeremy Corbyn tried to bridge the divide between those in favor and those against Brexit. The newly created “Brexit” Party of Nigel Farage took first, with the center LibDems in alliance with Scottish and Welsh nationalists and Greens doing very well. We get Kevin’s analysis.
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Sunday, June 2, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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Sunday, May 12, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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| Alan Minsky, Mitch Abidor
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| Progressive Democrats, Victor Serge's Notebooks
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Alan Minsky, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats America (PDA), joins us to talk about the Democratic primary field, and what he gleaned from conversations on a recent trip to the European Parliament as part of a contingent of the American left.
Mitch Abidor, translator of "Victor Serge’s Notebooks," newly published by NYRB, joins me in conversation about Victor Serge, the Belgian-Russian anarcho-Bolshevik and lifelong Left Oppositionist, who was one of the great writer-thinker-activists of the 20th Century. Serge’s contribution is especially attractive today because he never compromised his commitment to the creation of a society that defends human freedom enhances human dignity and improves the human condition – and he insisted that democracy was at the heart of the socialist project and that if it wasn’t democratic, it wasn’t socialist. This makes him both a contemporary as well as a man for our future. Serge’s last exile was in Mexico, and a rich trove of his notebooks were recently discovered and published in France in 2012. NYRB has just published the English translation and we are fortunate today to speak to the translator, Mitch Abidor.
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Sunday, April 28, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:19 |
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Sunday, April 21, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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