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Jay Tomlinson
· August 05, 2020 9:49 AM
Air Date: 8–5-2020
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Today we take a look at the life and legacy of Congressman John Lewis at a moment in time when the lessons he has to teach us are as important as when he first learned them himself during the dawn of the civil rights era.
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Air Date: 7–2-2019
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Today we take a look at the ways in which Christians are being rallied to see themselves as the true victimized minority in America, a key component to stoking right-wing nationalism
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Amanda Hoffman
· June 18, 2019 10:00 PM
Air Date: 6–18-2019
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Today we take a look at the violence being inflicted upon the LGB and particularly T community as well as the history of our societies erasure of trans people who have been around for thousands of years.
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· February 26, 2019 5:00 PM
Air Date: 2–26-2019
Today we take a look at the process of systematic, government-sponsored genocide against the native peoples of North America that kicked off the wealth-accumulating, territory-expanding American empire we know and love today
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Air Date: 2–5-2019
Today we take a look at the history of FDR's "Four Freedoms" and "Economic Bill of Rights" that laid the groundwork for the fight for economic freedom for all that continues to this day.
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Amanda Hoffman
· November 27, 2018 8:00 AM
Air Date: 11–27-2018
Today we take a look at the literal and figurative bloody messes of the history of Thanksgiving and the identities of native peoples
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Amanda Hoffman
· October 05, 2018 6:00 PM
Air Date: 10–5-2018
Today we take a look at the rarely-told, real legacy of Christopher Columbus and some of the reverberations from his actions that can still be felt to this day
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Air Date: 7–27-2018
Today I do something a little different and present to you (with permission) the entire first episode of the second season of the outstanding podcast, Offshore. Offshore is produced by Honolulu Civil Beat, a nonprofit and non-partisan investigative news site in Hawaii and I especially think the BotL audience will appreciate their telling of the story of the mountain protectors of Mauna Kea, The Sacred Mountain, on the big island of Hawaii.
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Amanda Hoffman
· January 19, 2018 6:00 PM
Air Date: 1–19-2018
Today we take a look at one of the most important and least understood problems with our broken democracy, gerrymandering, including some ideas to fix it
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Amanda Hoffman
· November 11, 2017 6:00 PM
Air Date: 11–11-2017
Today we look at the many ways conservatives across the country are systematically chipping away at the rights of all people who require access to any kind of reproductive health services
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