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Making Data Shift Power: Bex Hong Hurwitz and Rashida Richardson
Episode 175
It seems like the only tech headlines we have are about disasters. But what about the original promise of tech to innovate and empower? Bex Hong Hurw…
8 years, 1 month ago
Minicast: Indigenous Women Speak Out At UNPFII
Episode 174
In this minicast, we speak to indigenous women leaders at the 17th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) at the…
8 years, 1 month ago
Communities Over Commodities: How to Get There?
Episode 173
Housing affordability and power by design? This week on the show, Monique George of Picture the Homeless and Gianpaolo Baiocchi from NYU's Urban Demo…
8 years, 1 month ago
Hujar, Wojnarowicz: Art, AIDS & Challenge of Retrospection
Episode 172
1980’s art both personal and political arose out of the AIDS epidemic. Two major NYC art exhibits – Peter Hujar: Speed of Life (Morgan, thru May 20) …
8 years, 1 month ago
F-Word: What if Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook?
Episode 171
"Would Well’s Free Speech have made it into my news feed on Facebook? I doubt it, because Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a meeting with me…
8 years, 1 month ago
Taking Down the Confederacy - One Monument At A Time
Episode 170
Many are protesting Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant's proclaiming April as Confederate Heritage Month, the last state banner to feature confederate icon…
8 years, 1 month ago
F-Word: Water, Profit and Public Trust in Michigan
Episode 169
Two hundred dollars a year, to make private profits off public water is little for Nestle Water Company in the state of Michigan. When it’s what resi…
8 years, 1 month ago
Bringing the Public to Public Art
Episode 168
When it comes to the heart of the matter of art in New York City, what does a more equitable landscape for art and culture look like? Laura speaks wi…
8 years, 1 month ago
F-Word: U.S. Led Strike on Syria More of a Show of Weakness
Episode 167
“Politicians and pundits tend to get excited about war, but the US-led strike on Syria of April 14th, was more of a show of weakness than of strength…
8 years, 2 months ago
Workers, Wildcats & New Models for Labor Organizing
Episode 166
Laura talks to SEIU International President, Mary Kay Henry (of the Service Employees) and labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about worker wins, challenges…
8 years, 2 months ago