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LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The battle in Wisconsin, now spreading to other states, is not about cutting budgets — it’s about the fundamental right of public employees to engage in collective bargaining. JOHN NICHOLS will report from Madison as the unions fight for their lives against Republicans. John of course [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST In Egypt, workers are having a revolutionary February. In the United States, by contrast, February is shaping up as the cruelest month workers have known in decades, as Wisconsin Republicans go after the state’s public employee unions – that’s what HAROLD MEYERSON says — he’s [...]
Ramona Ripston, who is stepping down as head of the ACLU of Southern California after almost forty years, is both a visionary who transformed the meaning of civil liberties and a dynamic and beloved figure on the LA left. Her most significant achievement was expanding the practice of civil liberties law to include litigating for [...]
100 faculty members at UCI, including five deans, have signed a letter to the Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas calling on him to drop criminal charges against 11 students who disrupted a speech on the UCI campus by the Israeli ambassador to the US last year. . . . . Continued at Huffington Post [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST MARK LEVINE reports live from Cairo on the day’s events in Tahrir Square, where Tuesday’s demonstrations were the biggest ever, perhaps 200,000 people. Mark, a historian at UC Irvine, is the author of Heavy Metal Islam: Religion, Popular Culture and Resistance in the Middle East. His [...]
On what would have been Ronald Reagan’s hundredth birthday, we find the past offers lessons for the present: does the United States have to fight a war when it is attacked by a ruthless group of militant Islamic fundamentalists? Reagan’s response to attacks on US forces in Beirut in 1983 suggests a way out of [...]
For the record: my show today on KPFK is preempted for special programming: “Building a powerful left in the U.S.”