Political Perspectives

The growing movement to limit the "rights" of corporations and rein in their destructive practices at the local level through ordinances and ballot initiatives is explored with Thomas Linzey of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and Paul Cienfuegos of Community ... Read more

Per Fagerng hosts an interview and call-in with Rania Masri, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Balamand in Lebanon and currently visiting the U.S. The topics are the situation in Syria, a response to President Obama's speec... Read more

Today's program has three segments:First Don Merrill speaks with Tom Carpenter, the Executive Director of Hanford Challenge, a non profit dedicated to the clean up of the Hanford Nuclear site in Washington state, and Paul Gunter, an International Specialist at Beyond Nuclea... Read more

Miko Peled, an Israeli writer and activist speaks on his book, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, a look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a national and personal perspective.This is a talk he gave at Portland State University earlier this year.On... Read more

Paul Roland and Mic Crenshaw talk with Jared Ball from Baltimore, Md. and Rosa Clemente from Amherst, Massachusetts. The program offers a critical perspective on the commemorations of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a ... Read more

Paul Roland and Mic Crenshaw talk with Jared Ball from Baltimore, Md. and Rosa Clemente from Amherst, Massachusetts. The program offers a critical perspective on the commemorations of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a ... Read more

Paul Roland interviews Claire Conner, author of "Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right." Follow-up to August 14 live in-studio interview. Today Conner talks about the importance of community radio in challenging the right-wing dominance of media... Read more

The guest is Claire Conner, author of "Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right," Claire Conner is the daughter of one of the John Birch Society's first members and a national spokesman for the Society. Her parents forced her to join the Society, a... Read more

Host Gene Bradley interviews Alan Wieder about his new book "Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid." Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising milit... Read more

Angela Davis is distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She speaks about feminism, racial inequality, social change, identity and the violence of US culture necessary to pe... Read more