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Oct 3, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Andrej Grubacic
0:08 — Andrej Grubacic is the Editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research and the founding Chair of the Anthropology and Social Change Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco
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Oct 2, 2023 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies
0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health
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Sep 29, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Robin DG Kelley
0:08 — Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, and now co-editor, with Colin Kaepernick, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, of “Our History Has Always Been Contraband: in defense of Black Studies”
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Sep 28, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with John Nichols
0:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.
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Sep 27, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Obi Kaufmann
0:08 — Obi Kaufmann is an American naturalist, writer, and illustrator. He is the author of The California Field Atlas, a guide to the state’s ecology and geography.
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Sep 26, 2023 • 55min
UAW Strike Continues
0:08 — Mike Miller is UAW’s Region 6 Director
0:20 — Michael Wayland is a reporter for CNBC covering the global automotive industry
0:33 — Alex N. Press, is staff writer at Jacobin covering labor organizing
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Sep 25, 2023 • 49min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies
0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health
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Sep 22, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Naomi Klein: Doppelganger
0:08 — Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker. She is also a Professor of Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her latest book is “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.”
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Sep 21, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Jade Begay and john a. powell
0:08 — Jade Begay, director of policy and advocacy at NDN Collective, and Biden appointee to the first-ever White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. This talk is entitled “Strengthening Indigenous Leadership During Collapse”
0:33 — john a. powell, professor of law and of African American studies at UC Berkeley, where directs the Othering and Belonging Institute. This talk is entitled “Belonging Without Othering – The Story of Our Future”
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Sep 20, 2023 • 42min
Fund Drive Special with Rebecca Solnit
0:08 — Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. She is author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering, walking, hope, and disaster. Her latest book is “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.
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