Entries Tagged 'Liberal Bias' ↓

Let’s keep Labor in Labor Day.

An interview with Carol Crossed, co-founder of Democrats for Life, Director of the Susan B. Anthony museum, and leading activist in pro-life feminism and numerous peace and justice causes.  The conversation centers on the contributions of Susan B. Anthony’s feminism on behalf of women’s suffrage, abolition of slavery, unionism, and her many, often radical, anti-violence stances.

Topics include:  “extraordinary rendition”; learn from the previously socially-approved violence of dueling; the public relations for militarism “Wings Of Freedom Tour” is coming to town again- protest this “educational” and “exciting” glorification of killing machinery; women’s peace group CODEPINK burys the Hummer; Emma Goldman on militarism; Bob Dylan didn’t care for party politics in “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding”; marriage equality for gay and lesbian citizens; President Obama’s dismal record on green issues; we have to work for peace and justice since our government, dominated by sham-progressives and genuine right-wingers, has different priorities.

Topics include:  What about the “just discovered” mineral wealth in Afghanistan?; Erosion of Miranda rights; Developments in the battle over same-sex marriage; Conservative attempts to rewrite US history in their own white, Christian, intolerant, imperialist image; US funding of child soldiers; Militarism glorified, but anti-war dissent punished in schools; Analysis of President Obama’s address finding some progressive remarks and some  prompted by BP’s criminal disregard for human lives and the environment.

Topics include: Israel’s murderous attacks on non-violent peace activists’ Freedom Flotilla; report on death sentences and executions in 2009 by country; Troy Davis still on death row; more killer robots for the Pentagon.

Topics include:  Thoughts by Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire aboard ship on the eve of her and her fellow peace and justice activists’ kidnapping by the Israeli military as they attempted to break the illegal and immoral Gaza blockade; Lies from the Israeli propaganda machine about terrorism connections to the Freedom Flotilla and other laughable pretexts for Israel’s act of war; Our unemployment crisis and socialist solutions to it; Even while the suffering from the earthquake persists, the exploitation of the Haitian people is being exaccerbated under the guise of humanitarian assistance; The SDS has mobilized to protest criminal aggression against the Freedom Flotilla and the people in Gaza; The tragedy of the assassination of Robert Kennedy; Racism in the US:  some high and low points in our history; AIM’s occupation of Alacatraz island 1969-1971.

Topics include:  government subsidies to deepwater oil drilling must end; the IU Little 500 bicycle race- racist elements defeated by bold students’ action in 1968; University of Chicago Medical Center nurses unionize; “no-knock” police raids result in murder- then and now; HUD wants to privatize all public housing in yet another extremely conservative move by Obama administration; who benefits from space programs; the Memorial Day Massacre of union demonstrators at Republic Steel in Chicago; more.

An interview with David Ellis, Dunelands Group Chair, and the Hoosier Chapter Secretary, of the Sierra Club.  We talk about the Green Jobs, Good Jobs National Conference in Washington, D.C. that he attended last week.

An interview with Dr. Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange, The Green Festival, and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center.  The discussion with the prolific author and progressive activist covers green careers, fair trade, opposition to corporate globalization, building the local green economy, and more.

Peaceful May Day pro-worker, pro-immigrant, anti-war demonstrators met with police brutality in Chicago; Troy Davis Global Day Of Solidarity; anti-war writing contest; immigration “reform” proposals for guest worker programs inimical to progressive reform; “green capitalism” debunked; remembering the Kent State massacre; taking our schools back from the military; campaign to create an Office of Maternal Health.