President Trump’s imposition of a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports has created havoc and a crisis for working people, particularly for auto workers in Canada, the US, and Mexico. Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer talked with Michigan UAW 160 GM auto worker Jessie Kelley, Canadian GM Unifor Local 222 member Tony Leah, and Detroit GM UAW 909 former president Frank Hammer about the trade war tariffs and its impact on working people. Find more from Steve at Laborvideo on Youtube.
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Former attorney for political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, Rachel Wolkenstein, sat down with Block Report Radio’s JR Valrey to discuss Jamal’s innocence and his unjust 44-year imprisonment in the U.S.
“Mumia Week 2025” is coming up from April 21 to 25th. More information on the tour is available on Instagram @MumiaFreedomTour.
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Last week high profile podcaster and Elon Musk protegé Mario Nawfal posted an interview with Rwandan President Paul Kagame to his X social media platform. He greatly flattered Kagame and excused his ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ann Garrison commented on X, and his production team then invited her to record this response.
Read it at Black Agenda Report.
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In honor of Women’s History Month, Pacifica’s WPFW producer-host of What’s At Stake and CRD contributor Fahima Seck remembers the extraordinary contributions of scholar-activist Dr. Andree Nicola McLaughlin with Dr. McLaughlin’s sister, Jo Ann McLaughlin, and Professor – Director emeritus Safiyah Bandele of the Center for Women Studies, Medgar Evers College, NYC.
Dr. Andree Nicola McLaughlin held the Dr. Betty Shabazz distinguished chair for social Justice @Medgar Evers college. She was the founder and coordinator of the International Black Women’s Cross Cultural Institute. Dr. McLaughlin was also among those students who took over Cornell University’s Willard Straight Hall in 1969, demanding Black studies for subsequent generations — which ushered in Dr. James Turner’s Africana Resource Center.
Dr. McLaughlin joined the realm of the ancestors on December 4, 2024. May she rest in power for a job well done.
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We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates who contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from JR Valrey, Steve Zeltzer, Ann Garrison, Fahima Seck and the host, Akua Holt. Polina Vasiliev edits the show.
You can find this and all previous episodes at our website “capitalism race and democracy dot ORG”. Make sure you click the subscribe button. Follow us on X, formerly Twitter, @PacificaCRD.
Thanks for listening!
Music:
Sweet Honey in the Rock “I be your Water”
Moss Henry, “Crazy man at the wheel”
2Pac, Changes
