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Flashpoints on 11/15/16

Airs at: Tue, 11/15/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for Flashpoints
Today on Flashpoints, eye witnesses give updates on the struggle at Standing Rock, and Cheryl Angel of the Rosebud Nation explains the role women are playing in the resistance. Read more

Left Action in the Trump Era

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
What are the issues facing political activists on the Left during the Trump presidency? What can be done to hold the line on what has been done, and if possible, to keep alive the vision of a more egalitarian society? Bill Resnick talks with professor, writer, and political... Read more

Understanding the White Male Trump Voter

Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Guest contributor Jack Johnson reports on his three-hour conversation with two men who voted for Trump and finds a deep-seated sense of injured white privilege at the bottom of their thinking. Clayton Morgareidge tries to put this group of voters (white working class men) i... Read more

Alternative Radio - The Never Ending Occupation: Palestine

Airs at: Tue, 11/15/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Alternative Radio
  Gideon Levy was born and lives in Tel Aviv. He is a columnist and member of the editorial board of Ha’aretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, where he has covered the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza for more than 30 years. The author of The Punishment of Gaz... Read more

Radiozine: Building Bridges

Airs at: Mon, 11/14/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Radiozine
  Well Mourn, Then We'll Analyze and then We'll Organize: An Election Post-Mortem with Gerald Horne, Chair of the History and African-American Studies Department at the University of Houston and prolific author of more than 30 books and 100 scholarly papers on struggles ag... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 14

Airs at: Mon, 11/14/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge will host as the Moles review the election and discuss the work ahead for the Left. Contributor Jack Johnson offers a look at the reasoning of some Trump supporters. Clayton considers where Trump voters were coming from and how the Left might improve... Read more

Heroin Maintenance In New Mexico

Airs at: Sun, 10/30/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week we listen in on a hearing at the New Mexico State Legislature about opiate use and heroin maintenance treatment. Read more

The present and future of marijuana in the US

Airs at: Sun, 11/13/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week we look at the present and future of marijuana policy in the US with our special guest drug policy reform activist and marijuana policy expert Sam Chapman with New Economy Consulting. Sam is a founding member of New Economy Consulting LLC, a firm based in Portlan... Read more

Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein

Airs at: Fri, 11/11/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for Flashpoints
  Today on Flashpoints: Riding the freedom bus, as students and young people all across America continue to protest Trump's ascension to the White House. Also, a report back back and update from Standing Rock, as the Flashpoints team heads out to North Dakota for a week of... Read more

Political Perspectives: Angela Davis x Ta-Nehisi Coates

Airs at: Wed, 11/16/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Political Perspectives
  Angela Davis in a rarely heard 1972 interview at Malcolm X College, presented with permission from the Chicago Film Archives.  Davis discusses the upcoming presidential election, campaigning for 3rd party candidates Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner and her freedom after 16 mont... Read more