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F-Word: An End to Amazon’s Two-Bit Romance. No Low-Rent Rendez-Vous
Like a macho man in the pre-feminist era, Amazon wanted things their way or no way. That’s how monopolies roll. Don’t ask questions, don’t consider o…
7 years, 4 months ago
The Pregnancy to Prison Pipeline: Media Matters
Episode 233
As the President sounds off about holy babies born and unborn, we talk about the ongoing criminalization of women who happen to get pregnant. What ha…
7 years, 4 months ago
F-Word: In Prison, the Power’s On But There’s No Accountability
"It shouldn’t take a week without heat during a polar vortex and hour after hour of hands hammering on windows for hours to sound an alarm about cond…
7 years, 4 months ago
By Every Means Necessary: Southern Progressives Are Shaking Up Politics
Episode 232
When you live in the rural South, your story rarely makes the news, but Southern activists are shaking things up, with their votes, and their broadba…
7 years, 4 months ago
Green New Deal, Yellow Vests
Episode 231
Is the climate movement heating up? This week on the show, activists at all levels of the climate justice movement discuss how inter-generational, cr…
7 years, 4 months ago
Minicast Exclusive: Who’s Afraid of Public Ownership?
The following minicast features Laura in conversation with Thomas Hanna, research director at The Democracy Collaborative and author of “Our Common W…
7 years, 4 months ago
Revolution at the Federal Reserve and Public Banking: Nomi Prins & Thomas Hanna
Episode 230
As the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland, we talk about the way central banks steer world development and for whom. Former Goldm…
7 years, 5 months ago
American Decline: A Case for Optimism
Episode 229
Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman talks with Chris Hedges, author of America: The Farewell Tour, about environmental threats, societal breakdown, and ho…
7 years, 5 months ago
Transgender Narratives Are Expansive: Imara Jones
Episode 228
Despite efforts over the last two years to curtail progress for trans people by the current administration, trans activism has gained momentum and be…
7 years, 5 months ago
Economic Alternatives to Extractive Capitalism: Nathan Schneider and Virginia Eubanks
Episode 227
Holiday Rewind: Since the 2008 financial crash, one thing we've learned is that there exist in the US not just one economy, but many, as well as man…
7 years, 5 months ago