#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad (Repost)
Original Air Date: 10–5-2022
Today, we take a look at the life and legacy of President Ronald Reagan, the last transformational U.S. president who's regime we are still living in. Between his neoliberal economics, anti-government ideology, and white supremacist appeal to authoritarians, he did more to shape the last 40 years of the politics of the country and conservative movement than anyone else.
Read more#1593 Beyond Neoliberalism: Dreaming a new economic system into being
Air Date: 11-14-2023
The Supreme Court turned the table on average, working people back in the 70s when they empowered wealthy individuals and corporations to have an outsized role in our politics. Now we're trapped in the reality that shift in power created and are dreaming of a better way to manage our economic and political systems for the benefit of all people.
Read more#1587 What Conservatives Think of When They Think of the Children
Air Date: 10-7-2023
Spanning the gamut of terrible policy choices and their impacts on children, we look today at the perverse reality at odds with conservatives' claim to be standing up for "family values" and saving children from the abuse of Democrats.
Read more#1585 Workers Rights Ascendent Amid Writers and Actors Strikes in Hollywood and the UAW Strikes Against the Big 3 US Automakers
Air Date: 9–26-2023
Rays of hope for the worker's struggle against unfettered, exploitative capitalism are coming from multiple angles as strikes from creatives in Hollywood and autoworkers in Detroit are striking to demand wages, benefits, and protections while executives make arguments for why workers should be made to feel the threat of poverty to keep them in line.
Read more#TBT #1190 Island Recovery: Hurricane Maria laid bare the colonialism and disaster capitalism in Puerto Rico (Throwback)
#TBT #1152 Rise of the Oligarchs like the Ones Taking Clarence Thomas on Trips (Money in Politics) (Throwback)
#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment (Repost)
Original Air Date: 8–10-2022
Origins of the European colonial land-grab, the need for the #Landback movement, and the benefits to society and the environment in the context of the climate crisis to return stewardship of the land to native peoples.
Read more#1323 Maui Fire and Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control
Original Air Date: 12–07-19
Today we take a look at the reaction to decades of the fetishization of privatization in the form of a reinvigorated movement for public ownership of institutions meant to serve the public such as utilities, banks, train systems, and so on. But this isn't your grandfather's top-down public ownership, the new movement has bottom-up, accountable, democratic control of institutions at the very core of its mission.
Read more#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy
Original Air Date: 6–17-2022
Today we take a look at many intertwining realizations that are beginning to permeate society which includes but are not limited to the dead-end mentality of infinite growth, the uselessness of growth past a certain point for well-being, and the deepening alienation being felt in response to consumerism in place of community.
Read more#TBT #1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement (Throwback)
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