Immigrants Prepare to Fight Back Against Trump’s Deportation Drive; Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on Democrats’ Defeat; Marxist Economist Michael Roberts on Inflation and Trade War
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest deportation drive in US history, promising to deport as many as 10 million people and seriously threaten the rights...
Western Leaders, Media Defend Israeli Soccer Hooligans; Uganda is Involved in Congo Genocide; East Palestine Residents and Gulf War Veterans Suffer Similar Health Impacts; Roland Martin Responds to Bernie Sanders
After Israeli soccer fans instigated violent clashes in Amsterdam on November 7, Western leaders and media swiftly defended the hooligans as innocent victims of anti-semitism. Pacifica’s Polina Vasiliev has...
Black Panther Party Awareness Month Special
“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it” - James Baldwin
October is Black Panther Party Awareness Month. It’s a time to reflect...
Argentinian President Milei and the Zionist Project; Palestinian American Psychiatrist Speaks Out on Genocide; Legendary Amde of the Watt Prophets Talks Poetry and Politics
Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina in 2023. A self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist libertarian, Milei quickly hit the working class with extreme austerity. With inflation spiraling out of control, more...
Amazon Workers Join the Teamsters; Police Terrorism Continues Across the US; Trump Would Be Assassin and the Ukraine Petri Dish
Amazon workers throughout the country are signing union representation cards and joining the Teamsters Union. In San Francisco 100 workers signed cards for union recognition and demanded immediate...
David Hundeyin on African Stream and US Information Warfare; Obi Egbuna on Sahel Alliance, Cuba, Venezuela; Federal Judge Does Damage Control For Norfolk Southern & EPA in East Palestine Settlement
On September 13, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference in which he accused the Russian media outlet RT of covertly disseminating Kremlin-produced content and messaging, not...
Healthcare Workers Report Back from Gaza; US Undermined Food Sovereignty in Haiti; Social Media Moguls Clamp Down on Freedom of the Press; Namibian Miners Fight for Health and Safety
The US-Israeli attack on healthcare workers and the people of Gaza according to Dr. Jess Ghannam is unlike any other in history. Ghannam, a University of California San Francisco...
Abandon Harris Works to Defeat Kamala Harris in Battleground States; Uhuru 3 Trial Concludes with Split Verdict; Information Age Fuels Genocide in Congo; Teamsters Denounce Heat-Induced Deaths
The Abandon Biden Movement was founded last October by Muslim Americans who had resolved not to vote for incumbent President Joe Biden because of his complicity in the Gaza...
Uhuru 3 Trial Begins; Bhopal Survivors Struggle for Justice; Haitians Oppose Kenyan Troops in Country
On Tuesday, September 3, the Uhuru 3 trial began at the Federal Courthouse in Tampa, Florida.
In April 2023, the US Department of Justice indicted three leaders of the Uhuru...
Labor Day Special: Black Workers Poised to Sue Tesla over Racism; Labor Historian Robert Ovetz on Nonprofits and the US Class Struggle; Did the National Transportation Safety Board Cover Up Norfolk Southern’s Criminal Liability in E. Palestine Derailment?
Ten thousand Black workers at Elon Musk’s Fremont Tesla auto factory have won the right to sue Musk and Tesla for systemic racism and harassment on the job. Host...
Palestinian Healthcare Worker Calls on San Francisco DA to Drop Charges Against Pro-Palestine Protestors; Attorney Adante Pointer Breaks Down Controversial Supreme Court Rulings; Profiteering and Imperialist Campaigns Mar the Olympics
On April 15, there was an international day of action to stop the genocide in Gaza. In San Francisco, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has filed criminal charges including felonies...
Kamala Harris’s Environmental Record; Cynthia McKinney on Bangladesh Student-Led Protests; UAW Democracy Under Attack
When serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris created the first DA’s environmental justice unit, but it prosecuted only the most trivial offenses in a neighborhood besieged by...
Poor People’s Army Refuses to Reroute its March on the DNC; Venezuela Rejects US Destabilization; AI Endangers Education & Labor; Is Israel Provoking a Regional War?
In July, the Philadelphia-based Poor People’s Army marched on the Republican National Convention, where longtime poor and homeless activist Cheri Honkala was arrested. They are now planning to march...
Kenyans Fight Privatization & Repression; Western Media Meddles in Venezuelan Elections; Puerto Rican Independista Dylcia Pagan Dies at 77
Young Kenyans have taken to the streets to protest privatization and austerity measures imposed by the IMF and World Bank and implemented by the Kenyan government. Two weeks ago...
Houston Residents Face Catastrophic Heat Without Power or Water; Wall Street Vultures Prey on Puerto Rico’s Energy Crisis; Burkina’s Ibrahim Traore Addresses the Alliance of Sahel States
The catastrophic hurricane Beryl has created death and destruction in Houston and this is only the first hurricane of the year. After a week over 500,000 Houston residents are...
Africa Resists US and French Colonialism; Military Coup Attempt Fails in Bolivia; Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July
JR Valrey of Block Report Radio spoke to Ahjamu Umi of the All African People's Revolutionary Party about the upcoming US military draft, the PetroDollar, French colonialism on the...
ILWU Votes Down Labor Boycott of Military Cargo to Israel; Obi Egbuna Jr. on Cuba; Garland Nixon on Lawfare; 90th Anniversary of Minneapolis Teamster Strike
The ILWU longshore workers on the West Coast have a long tradition of international solidarity from boycotting military cargo to Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship to boycotting cargo from South Africa...
The Real History of Juneteenth: Facts vs Fiction
“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a Black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.” -James Baldwin
CRD’s special Juneteenth program features Former Texas Congress...
Anya Parampil on the Corporate Coup in Venezuela; Maurice Carney on the Democratic Republic of the Congo; US Protest against the Visit of Argentinian President Javier Milei
In 2019, the US declared the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro illegitimate and named Juan Guiado, a minor opposition politician its rightful president. Ann Garrison spoke to Anya Parampil,...
Marching on the Democrats’ Chicago Convention; Amazon Workers Organize Against Slave Labor Conditions; Garland Nixon on Class Politics; Remembering Malcolm X on the 99th Anniversary of His Birth
Students have been protesting Biden and Netanyahu’s war on Gaza all over the City of Chicago while city, state, and Democratic Party officials worry about what it portends for...
Activists Denounce Prosecution of Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby; UPS Threatens Mass Layoffs; UN General Assembly Votes to Accept Palestine as a Member State
Activists around the country have rallied to stop the persecution of Black women prosecutors. Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is facing 40 years in prison on trumped up charges...
May Day 2024: Workers Rally in Solidarity with Palestine; Zionists, Police attack UCLA Encampment; Longshore Workers Vote to Stop Cargo to Israel
On May 1, violent Zionist mobs and other Fascist forces, including the Proud Boys, attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California-Los Angeles. The organized attack went unchallenged...
Mumia Abu-Jamal Supporters Rally on His 70th Birthday; Calls to free Leonard Peltier, Imam Jamil Al-Amin, & Julian Assange; Free All Political Prisoners!
“There are no borders to consciousness.” - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Activists and supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, award-winning journalist, humanitarian & political prisoner, converged in Philadelphia, April 24th on his 70th birthday....
East Palestine Chemical Exposure Endangers Health; Workers Poisoned at Piketon Nuclear Plant; French Railway Workers Fight Privatization
February 3 was the one-year anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment and the subsequent toxic explosion and fire in East Palestine, Ohio. Pacifica’s Thomas O’Rourke spoke to Dr....
Nightmare in East Palestine Continues; Chicago Bus Drivers Fight for Union Democracy; Nicaragua Takes Germany to the ICJ
Last week there were major storms on the East Coast. In East Palestine, Ohio there was massive flooding and the toxins released in the Norfolk Southern train derailment,...
Rwandan Genocide 30 Years Later; Questioning Texas Immigration Enforcement; Teamster President Shuts Down Rank & File Website; Turks Reject Erdogan in Local Elections
The Rwandan Genocide occurred between April 7 and July 15, 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this 100-day period, an estimated 500,000 to a million Rwandans were killed,...
Claudia de la Cruz on Challenging the Duopoly; Healthcare and Justice for East Palestine; Honoring Wilma Mankiller
Party for Socialism and
Block Report host JR Valrey spoke to third party presidential candidate Claudia De La Cruz of the Party For Socialism and Liberation about this election year.
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African Stream Media; Russians Vote for President; NYC Retirees Fight Privatization of Medicare
African Stream is an anti-war, anti-imperialist news and public affairs outlet based in Nairobi, Kenya. I spoke to its founder and editor-in-chief, Ahmed Kaballo.
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Russia held its presidential election from...
Texas Executes Ivan Cantu Despite Protests of Innocence; Hedge Funds Destroy Journalism; Turkish Levi’s Workers Fight Union Busting
On February 28, the State of Texas executed Ivan Cantu despite repeated legal efforts to save his life. Last year, Republican State District Judge Benjamin Smith withdrew his court...
Rwanda’s M23 Militia advances in Congo; Palestinian Women Journalists Call for Women’s Day Action; US Continues Hybrid War Against the Syrian People
Internally Displaced Persons are crowding around the Congolese city of Goma as Rwanda’s M23 militia advances on the city.
M23 is the most recent incarnation of a Rwandan militia that...
Black Art & Activism – Ms. Cicely Tyson Tribute – a Black History Month Special
“Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better”
― Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The...
Biden Leaves East Palestine Without Healthcare; Migrants Struggle at the Texas-Mexico Border; Rashida Tlaib Revives Discredited Allegations against Syria’s Assad
On February 16th, President Biden visited the East Palestine, Ohio site of the Norfolk Southern railroad wreck that took place a year ago. After the wreck, Norfolk Southern ignited...
A UK Verdict Raises Hope for Pro-Palestine Voices; Dr Gerald Horne on South Africa and Palestine; Amazon Labor Leaders Denounce Union-busting
In October 2021, the UK’s Bristol University fired professor David Miller, accusing him of anti-semitism. Last week a government labor tribunal ruled that he was fired for his work...
East Palestine, Ohio Residents & Workers Suffer Illnesses; Doctors Testify on mRNA Vax Consequences; Zionism & AFL-CIO in South Africa
One year ago, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, a town of fewer than 5000 people on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. The train was carrying vinyl...
Fed Judge Denies Uhuru 3 Motion to Dismiss; International Court of Justice Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide in Gaza; Teamster President Invites Trump to HQ
On Friday, January 26, 2024, in the federal district court of Tampa, U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony Porcelli filed an order recommending that District Judge William Jung deny the Uhuru...
Decolonizing African Development; Public Workers Rally for Ceasefire in Gaza; Dr. Peter McCullough on COVID Vaccine Consequences
The AfroAsia Institute is a think tank founded in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2023. It held its first conference on January 14. Eritrean researcher and scholar Milena Bereket spoke...
San Francisco Residents Suffer Plutonium Poisoning at Naval Superfund Site; University of California Destroys Berkeley’s Historic People’s Park; Electronic Intifada Debunks Hamas Rape Allegations
For many decades residents and workers have been getting cancer and other diseases at San Francisco’s radioactive former Hunters Point and Treasure Island Naval Shipyard. Hunters Point is a...
RFK Jr Defends Gaza Genocide with Anti-Mexican Tropes; Activists Protest US Weapons Shipments to Israel; Israel Bribes Governments to Relocate Palestinians; Milei & Fascism in Argentina
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. continues to ramp up his hard-line propaganda supporting the Israeli state’s genocide against the Palestinian people. In December 2023—well into Israel’s indiscriminate...
Kwanzaa – Freedom, Justice and Peace: Principles and Practices for a New World
"A dream deferred is a dream denied"
-Langston Hughes
According to Dr. Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa was conceived and born in the womb, work and transformative struggles of the Black Freedom Movement....
Google Workers Say No AI for Genocide; Labor Rallies for Palestine; Climate Profiteers Exploit Somalia; Venezuela and Guyana Hold Talks on Essequibo
Google workers are speaking up and rallying against the use of Google technology and AI to target Palestinians in Gaza. Thousands of people rallied outside Google San Francisco on...
The Two-State Solution is Dead; Class Struggle under Milei in Argentina; Fearless Fund Foundation’s Legal Battle to Secure Grants for Black Women Business Owners
More and more people are questioning the viability of the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. Pacifica's Ann Garrison has more.
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Tens of thousands of trade unionists are demanding their...
Dr. Jill Stein on Green Party Foreign Policy; Justice for Deacon Johnny Hollman; Zionists Attack Union Democracy
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Dr. Jill Stein stepped up to run for president as a Green Party candidate after Dr. Cornel...
RFK Jr. Defends US Empire; Indigenous Day of Mourning; Osaka Workers Strike for Wages & Palestine; African Diaspora Calls for Reparations
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As both Republicans and Democrats double down on their support for Israel, Pacifica’s Polina Vasiliev and Freddy...
Gaza Aid Trucks Line Up at Rafah Crossing; Students Protest Militarization of Asia; Mildred Aristide Speaks Out on Haiti
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Longtime peace and justice activist Sara Flounders speaks to Pacifica’s Ann Garrison about her trip to Egypt...
Protests against AFL-CIO Support for Palestinian Genocide; No to APEC in San Francisco; Panama on Fire; US Blockade Strangling Cuba
Despite the genocide underway in Gaza, the AFL-CIO leadership and most other unions are either silent or supporting Zionist Israel. On November 9, as part of a global day...
Massive Rally for Palestine in Washington DC; Health Care Workers Protest Israel Bombing Hospitals; Bolivia Severs Ties with Israel
On Saturday November 4, pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged worldwide protests to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Pacifica’s Thomas O’Rourke reports on the massive rally held in Washington...
Israeli Civilians as Collateral Damage; UN General Assembly Votes for Ceasefire; Black People’s March on the White House
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Mainstream media generally do not pay much attention to Palestine— unless an event presents Palestinians in a negative light. October...
Palestine Resists: Jewish Voices Against Genocide in Gaza, Labor Leaders Speak Out; Pro-Palestinian Students Face Attacks
This week on Capitalism, Race, & Democracy, we continue our coverage of the struggle for a free Palestine.
People all over the world have taken to the streets in the...
Palestine Resists US-Sponsored Israeli Occupation
We dedicate this program to the struggle for a free Palestine.
For some, Saturday Oct 7th 2023 came as a shock—an “unprovoked” attack on Israel by “terrorists” from Gaza.
For others,...
Indigenous Peoples Day: Voices for Climate Justice; Anti-Native Violence in New Mexico; Calls for Clemency for Leonard Peltier
This week on Capitalism, Race, & Democracy, we present a special Indigenous Peoples’ Day Edition:
For generations, Native peoples across the hemisphere have rejected the myth that Christopher Columbus was...
Election Observers in Russia Targeted by US/NATO; UAW Strike Wave; California: a Slave State
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Russia held its regional elections earlier in September. For the first time, residents of the Donbass, Zaporozhie and Kherson regions...
Freedom for Peltier; Newsom Vetoes Bill Against Driverless Trucks; South Africa’s Chief Buthelezi’s Anti-Worker Legacy; Australian MPs Defend Assange
This week on Capitalism, Race, & Democracy:
On Sept 12, the 79th birthday of imprisoned American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier, his advocates and supporters rallied in front of the...
Auto Workers Strike; Migrant Shelters in Tijuana; Lahaina Fires and Disaster Capitalism
This week on Capitalism, Race, & Democracy:
*Contracts have expired for 150,000 UAW auto workers at GM, Ford and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler), with several plants already on strike.
*Thousands of asylum-seekers...
50 Years after US and AFL-CIO Supported Coup in Chile; Texas Prisons Lockdown and Excessive Heat; Democratic Outcomes v. Liberal Procedures
September 11th is the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile in which the military junta killed thousands of leftist and unionists and brought in a dictatorship led by...
No Tech for Apartheid; Houston Teachers Push Back Against State Takeover; Chile 9-11 and US Labor
From Pacifica Radio, this is Capitalism, Race, & Democracy, a collective effort by producers from Pacifica stations and affiliates across the US.
Google workers and community members rallied on August...
The Legacy of Black August
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds”
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War-profiteering in Ukraine; AUKUS & Militarization of Australia; Texas Harris County Elections under Attack; Trump Indictment Distraction
Speaking at the August 17th meeting of the UN Security Council, journalist and geopolitical analyst Danny Haiphong explained the dangers that Western arms flows to Ukraine pose to international...
Why Niger’s Sovereignty Matters; Climate Change Chaos; Robotaxis Come to California
“I’m not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, ‘That one, she sings politics.’ I don’t sing politics; I merely sing the truth.” ...
Texas School Libraries under Threat; UPS Teamsters Question New Contract; Russian Socialist Academic Arrested; Dr Mutulu Shakur Presente!
Houston HAS A PROBLEM! The newly appointed superintendent of Mike Miles of the state’s largest school district - Houston ISD has authorized a number of sweeping changes without the...
Russia-Africa Summit; Pfizer Biotech Lab Dangers; Kaiser Workers Outraged; Biden’s Legal Woes
The second Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian summit took place in St. Petersburg on July 27 and 28. Forty-nine African delegations, including 17 heads of state, attended. We hear from...
Incarcerated People in Texas Suffer from Heat-related Illnesses; Justice for Shireen; Unions call out UC and Netflix; Florida to Teach that African Americans Benefited from Enslavement
The University of California has invested four billion dollars in the Blackstone Group, which has over one trillion dollars in assets. One of the properties that it bought...
Foreign Military “Intervention” in Haiti? UC-San Diego Student Workers Arrested; Atlanta’s Cop City Protesters Criminalized; Race in Hiring at Texas A&M
The US and Canada have been arguing for a multilateral military intervention in Haiti led by the army of a third country, possibly even Rwanda, to support the regime...
Dr Mutulu Shakur Transitions at 72; Labor on the Rise; Journalists Speak out for Assange and Mumia
*Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Black Liberation movement elder, transitions at 72. We hear from the host of Black Power Media Kalonji Changa.
*A "Summit for a New Global Financing Pact" was...
Grayzone Editor Testifies at UN Security Council on Ukraine War; UPS Teamsters Ready to Strike; Houston Schools under Attack
This week on Capitalism, Race, & Democracy:
The UN Security Council recently held a hearing to consider threats to international peace and security, specifically threats caused by massive weapons flows...
Assange Supporters Rally in London; ILWU Honors Danny Glover; Justice for Tampa 5; Ballot Access for Dr Cornel West
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Julian Assange’s legal team have filed a final application for appeal, the last option available in the British courts. If it’s accepted, it would come...
Juneteenth (1865 – 2023): Untold Stories
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." -...
RFK Jr and the Democratic Party; Tech Workers Rally with Writers; Ukraine War Propaganda
The 2024 presidential campaigns have already begun in the US and while the Republican candidates are getting free media publicity on CNN & MSNBC there has been little press...
Longshore Workers Shut Down Ports; Protests over Florida Anti-immigrant Bill; South Africa Resists the ICC
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On May 10, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 1718, immigration-related legislation that will require employers...
Journalists Stand Up for Mumia and Assange; Mass LA Labor Rally; Malcolm X and the Black Radical Tradition
On World Press Freedom Day, the National Writers Union and International Federation of Journalists participated in an international meeting on the freedom of journalists at the United Nations. US...
G7 Protest Against US-led War; Banko Brown’s Murder; Turkey’s Critical Elections
Last week the US-led Group of Seven leaders met in Hiroshima to stiffen sanctions on Russia, provide further support for the Ukraine proxy war, and discuss growing tensions with...
Writers Guild Members on Capitalism; Artists v. AI; Ethiopia and the IMF; Uhuru 3 Speak Out
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The striking Writers Guild of America West workers are fighting some of the biggest tech companies in the world. We air voices from the picket...
Hollywood Writers, Oakland Teachers on Strike; CIA & AFL-CIO in Mexico; Solidarity with Cuba against the Blockade; US in Ethiopia
This week on Capitalism, Race, & Democracy:
On May 2, 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike. Since talks with Hollywood studios began on March 20,...
May Day 2023: Global Workers Struggle from Philly to Namibia and Chile; Harry Belafonte Presente!
From Pacifica Radio, this is Capitalism, Race, & Democracy, (formerly Covid, Race, and Democracy), a collective effort by producers from Pacifica stations and affiliates across the US.
We will continue...
Afar in Crisis in Postwar Ethiopia; Apple Colludes with Regulators to Silence Whistleblower; Australians Protest Nuclear Subs
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The Ethiopian civil war came to an uneasy end in November 2022, with hundreds of thousands of people dead...
Uhuru Protest at Regions Bank; Mumia Denied New Trial; US Troops in Somalia; Israeli Trade Unionists Denounce Apartheid
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On Friday, March 31st, black community leaders and supporters held a demonstration in front of the headquarters of Regions Bank...
Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories
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“Women’s history is a women’s right—an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage,...
Anti-war Rallies in DC and SF; Immigrant Farmworkers Flooded in CA; UN War Crimes Investigation in Ethiopia; Elections in Turkey
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On March 18, people from over 200 organizations rallied in Washington DC to protest the US proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, and...
Biolab Dangers; US Troops Stay in Syria; Ohio Nuclear Nightmare; Florida Teachers Fight Back
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy:
The US government now says that laboratory leaks may have led to the COVID pandemic. It has not addressed the lack of regulation...
Facebook Food Service Workers Fight for Justice; Ukraine Farmland Theft; SuburbanDC Bus Drivers Strike; Florida Public Library Debate
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook has terminated thousands of workers. Facebook food service workers who are members of UNITE HERE however have...
East Palestine: EPA Cover-up & Profiting From Disaster; Turkey Corruption & Earthquake Aftermath; Obi Egbuna Jr on Marxism and Black Power
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Cleaning up the toxins released in Norfolk Southern Rail Company’s catastrophic train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, will cost tens...
Rage Against the War Machine; ILWU for Mumia and Tyre; US behind Somaliland Secessionists; Death Penalty Abolition
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On Sunday, February 19, in Washington DC, antiwar journalists and activists, including four former Congresspersons, rallied at...
Earthquake Response in Turkey; Sam Husseini on Pandemic Origins and US Biowarfare; Union Fights for Freedom for Mumia; Death Penalty Abolitionists in Texas Speak Out
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The major earthquake catastrophe in Turkey may turn out to be the most destructive in decades. Pacifica’s...
Ajamu Baraka on Ilhan Omar; Apple Whistleblower on OSHA/EPA Corporate Capture; Anniversary of GM Flint Sit-Down Strike; Suburban DC Bus Drivers Strike
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made a Democratic Party martyr of Ilhan Omar, Minnesota’s Somali American Congresswoman, by removing her from...
Hands Off Uhuru; Unionists Call for Freedom for Mumia; Florida New College under Attack; Somali Democracy
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On Wednesday, January 25, the Public Safety Committee of the St. Louis, MO Board of Aldermen resolved to...
Antiwar Voices on MLK week; South Africa Power Grid Crisis; US out of Peru; Free Assange!
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While war continues to rage in Ukraine and threatens to spill beyond its borders, anti-war groups in the US are doing a slow...
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King: A Prophetic Radical and Global Voice for Justice and Transformation
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism."
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33 Years Since Ford Mexico Attack; NYC Retirees Fight for Medicare; Crisis in the Congo; Cardiologist Calls for Pause of COVID mRNA Shots
January 8, 2023 is the 33rd anniversary of the brutal attack on Mexico Ford Cuautitlán Assembly plant. A gang of 150 thugs were brought into the plant to attack...
Kwanzaa, Culture and Freedom!
“Our resistance gave us an identity. Our identity gave us strength. Our strength gave us an unbreakable will.” ― Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
In...
Sanctions Kill: Part IV
In this show we present highlights from the Sanctions Kill Coalitions webinar on the new anthology Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, which was held on Dec....
US Guilty of Human Rights Abuses at Home; Rally for Rail Workers; Ukraine Escalates
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy from Pacifica Radio:
Last year, at an International Tribunal in New York on U.S. Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples, a panel...
Rail Workers Betrayed; UC UAW Strikers Speak Out; War Crimes Tribunals; LA Sheriff’s Gangs
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Congress has passed a bill that imposes a contract without sick pay on railroad workers, and President Biden has signed it into law. They...
National Day of Mourning 2022
The National Day of Mourning is held on the fourth Thursday each year in November. It is also known as the historical myth, Thanksgiving.
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*Supporters of the Indian...
Gender-Affirming Care in Florida; SEIU 2015 Strikers Assaulted by Management; People’s Tribunal on Merchants of War
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The Florida Board of Medicine, whose members include donors to Governor Ron DiSantis’ reelection campaign, has moved...
Peace in Ethiopia, Sanctions on Eritrea; Brazil under Lula’s Leadership; Adjunct Faculty in CA Colleges; Free Leonard Peltier!
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy from Pacifica Radio:The Ethiopian army has decisively defeated the insurrectionist Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF. Last week in Pretoria, South Africa,...
Sanctions Kill – Part III
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy from Pacifica Radio: Part III of our Sanctions Kill series.
"Modern-day economic sanctions and blockades are comparable with medieval sieges of towns with the...
Labor & LA Racist Tape Scandal; South African Dock Workers Strike; Back to the Streets – Say No to US Wars & Armageddon!
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In Los Angeles, Labor leader Ron Herrera and City Council President Nury Martinez have resigned after protesters demanded justice and accountability for...
Global Food & Fertilizer Crisis; Elections in Brazil; Water in Jackson; Labor & the War in Ukraine
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UN World Food Program Chief David Beasley says that the world is facing drastic food shortages for several reasons, including...
Global Food & Fertilizer Crisis; Elections in Brazil; Water in Jackson; Labor & the War in Ukraine
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UN World Food Program Chief David Beasley says that the world is facing drastic food shortages for several reasons, including...
Hurricane Ian in Florida; Journalist Fired for Calling Out Israeli Apartheid; United Airlines Workers Protest at SFO
This week Florida suffered an environmental and social catastrophe when Hurricane Ian hit the state, causing massive floods, displacement, and death. Jack Wallace, host of WSLR Radio-St. Petersburg’s “The...
Defense of Public Schools in CA; Apple’s Superfund Site & Whistleblower, COVID and South African Working Class; Free Julian Assange!
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In Downey, California on September 21 parents, children and school workers rallied and spoke out about the closure of...
Rail Workers Fed Up, Japan PM Abe & Comfort Women & No War In Ukraine Rally
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Nearly 125,000 railway workers came close to going out on strike last Friday. They have dangerous and...
No Tech for Apartheid; 9-11 Coup in Chile; M23 Militia in DRC; Water Crisis in Mississippi
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This week Google workers and other tech workers and activists rallied in San Francisco, Seattle and Durham, North Carolina...
Living Hell for Workers in Heat Wave & Class Struggles on Labor Day
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Labor Day this year there is an explosion of organizing. Tens of thousands of young workers at Starbucks, Amazon and many other places...
Farmworkers March to Sacramento; Mental Healthcare Workers Strike; Salute to Marcus Garvey
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy:
On Friday, August 26, 2022, thousands of farmworkers and their supporters rallied in Sacramento for a bill to benefit farm workers.
The rally came...
Black August: Freedom Fighters in the US
Black August first originated in the 1970s in the California prisons to honor fallen revolutionary Freedom Fighters, George Jackson and his brother Jonathan Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, and...
Albert Woodfox Presente!; Security Police Attack Liberation School; Workplace Surveillance Tracks Emotions
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“I have hope for humankind. It is my hope that a new human being will evolve so that needless pain and suffering, poverty,...
Uhuru Movement Targeted by FBI; UAW Rank & File Pushback in Detroit; Haiti’s Stolen Gold
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Chairman Omali Yeshitela, of the African People’s Socialist Party, founded in 1972, and members of the Uhuru Movement held a press conference to...
Shinzo Abe’s Murder; Rise of US Fascism; Uvalde Parents Speak Out
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The recent assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by the son of a Unification Moonie church adherent has uncovered the deep...
Big Tech Censorship & Surveillance: Part 4
This show is Part 4 of our series on “Censorship and Surveillance.”
The United Nations Security Council formally joined the war on independent media last week, when UN Secretary General...
No Lies Told! The Real History of the 4th of July
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"Americans like to think of themselves as an exceptional people bound together by noble ideals. This belief is challenged, however, when history is...
Reproductive Rights, More Billions for War, Labor Imperialism, the Peoples’ Summit, and More!
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Protests have taken place across the US since the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that the Constitution guaranteed women's...
Juneteenth 2022: The Black Narrative
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"In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it...
The Mexican Movement (April 1970) and the Civil Rights Struggle in Uvalde; The Fall Out: Violence and Trauma in U.S. Schools
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy:
The history the 1970 Chicano/Mexican Movement, and Robb Elementary school where the massacre took place in Uvalde is important to the struggle, identity...
Save Our Children, General Strikes & COVID Air Chaos
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy:
In Houston, Texas the American Federation of Teachers National President Randi Weingarten, National Education Association President Becky Pringle, Ovidia Molina - President -...
Prospects for Freedom!
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy:
The Shabazz Center celebrated the 97th birthday of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Malcolm X on May 19th 2022 in NYC. We hear from...
Shireen abu Akleh, Palestinian Nakba, Remembering Malcolm X, and more!
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy:
In San Francisco, on Saturday, hundreds of Palestinian Americans and supporters of Palestinian human and labor rights rallied against the assassination of Palestinian...
Reproductive Rights, COVID in Eritrea, Workers in Cuba, South Africa and the US
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy:
Attorney Michele Goodwin is the author of “Policing the Womb, Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood,” a work that expands the reproductive...
Workers Speak Out on May Day 2022
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy, we celebrate May Day, May 1st, Workers’ Day around the world.
Thousands of Oakland teachers went on an unfair labor practice strike on...
Workers’ Memorial Day – End Corporate Privatization of Public Services & Free Leonard Peltier
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April 28 is commemorated as Workers' Memorial Day around the world to remember those workers who have died on the job. Darrell...
More Voices of Struggle and Resistance
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy:
On Monday, April 11 demonstrations were held around the world on the third year anniversary of the incarceration of journalist and publisher Julian...
Voices of Struggle and Resistance
“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” -June Jordan ...
War, Censorship, and Amazon Workers’ Victory
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy...
First, we cover the historic victory of the Amazon Staten Island workers who voted for representation by the Amazon Labor Union (ALU). Pacifica...
Wars & Oligarchs in Russia, Israel, Ukraine, & the US
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy, we look at the role of oligarchs in Russia, Israel, Ukraine and the US.
The Oxford Dictionary defines the term “Oligarch” as, (1)...
Best of the Big Tech Censorship and Surveillance Series
Journalist and politician Henry Wallace, the 1948 presidential candidate of the Progressive Party, said, “The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the...
Ukraine, Russia, and the Threat of World War
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy, we examine the Russia-Ukraine conflict from different perspectives, in the spirit of Pacifica Radio’s mission, which is to contribute to an understanding...
Celebrating Women’s History Month – Providing Healing, Promoting Hope
“As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.” - Bell Hooks
This...
Capitalism, Fascism, Labor
The rise of rightwing and fascist movements is a growing danger globally. We speak to noted scholars about the history of fascist movements and the danger of a new...
Sanctions Kill, Part II
The word “sanction” is one of many derived from the Latin “sanctionem.” In the 16th century it referred particularly to ecclesiastical decrees. Over time it accrued various meanings, often...
COVID Politics, Global Solidarity, & Democracy
From Pacifica Radio, this is COVID, Race, and Democracy, a collective effort by producers from Pacifica stations and radio affiliates across the U.S. This week's host is Akua Holt...
The U.S. in Africa, Part II
This week's edition of “COVID, Race, and Democracy” is Part II of our look into the role of the US in Africa. The continent is still in the grip...
COVID, Capitalism, & Survival
COVID-19 has become one of the most polarizing social phenomenons of our time. Today we bring you stories of workers struggling with the pandemic and scientific perspectives from people...
Workers’ Struggles in Southern Africa
We begin today’s show with a growing struggle of unionized South African truck assembly workers who are fighting for a standardized pay rate.
Hundreds of members of the National Union...
Celebrate Kwanzaa, Celebrate Life!
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Privatization, Inflation, and COVID Hazard Pay
This week on COVID, Race, and Democracy:
First we go to a rally in support of 1400 striking Kellogg workers nationally who are members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and...
In the Spirit of Mandela: International Tribunal on U.S. Human Rights Violations Against People of Color
Co-hosts Bob Lederer, one of the producers of Out-FM covering anti-racist LGBTQ+ issues on WBAI in New York, and Akua Holt, host of Pan African Journal on KPFT in...
Workers’ Solidarity, Mandates, and the Political Economy of COVID
This week on COVID, Race, & Democracy, we look at the struggles over COVID vaccine mandates for workers with TWU executive board member Evangeline Byars.
Dr. Nayvin Gordon examines the...
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: DECOLONIZING Indigenous Voices Arise amid COVID!
"If people ignore the spirituality that surrounds everything, which helps them correct themselves when they err towards each other, and if they use invention destructively, then nature will turn...
Sanctions Kill!
What are sanctions? Here's the Sanctions Kill Coalition's summary description:
"The EU and US pass laws to ban, block, or restrict trade to a specific country, group, or individual...
AYITI! A LUTA CONTINUA 1804 – 2021 “The Struggle Continues”
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” -James Baldwin
“They chained...
Truth and Fiction in Afghanistan
Afghanistan. We look at the lessons to be learned, as war profiteers continue to call for humanitarian interventions across the globe.
The world just witnessed the US Empire suffer its...
Censorship and Surveillance: Part III
In the 18th century, utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed what he called the Panoptican, a type of institutional building and system of constant surveillance and control. Although Bentham focussed...
THE EMPIRE REPORT, PART 3: Voices From Black, Chicano-Mexicano, and Asian Anti-Imperialist Movements in the U.S.
This is Part 3 of our series on imperialism, which chronicles how U.S. imperialism and its allies are fueling intensifying existential crises for humanity and all life on Earth,...
COVID is Bigger in the South
Texas Democrats state “Republicans are now fully enabled and empowered to enact virtually all of Abbott’s directives, including many dangerous pieces of legislation that will fundamentally hurt the...
Black August: Freedom Fighters in the US
Black August first originated in the 1970s in the California prisons to honor fallen revolutionary Freedom Fighters, George Jackson and his brother Jonathan Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, and...
Black August Special: FROS, BERETS, AND LEATHER JACKETS
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Race and the Revolutionary Solidarity of the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican Counterpart of the Black Panther Party
Genesis of the Young Lords and impact of...
Criminal Insanity and the Tokyo Olympics – July 19, 2021
This week the Tokyo Olympics will be opening amidst an ongoing world pandemic and a massive increase in COVID-19 cases in Tokyo.
Despite this dangerous and deadly situation, the Japanese...
Self-Determination in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa – July 12, 2021
In this show we consider heightening tensions and the US insistence on global hegemony, as manifest in the Horn of Africa, and, particularly Ethiopia, a nation of 117 million...
“FREE THEM ALL!” Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the U.S. – July 5, 2021
Segment 1: Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War
déqui kioni-sadiki is with the Jericho Movement, which supports US-held political prisoners and prisoners of war. She is also a teacher, an...
THE EMPIRE REPORT, PART 2: War, Militarism & Great Power Competition – June 28, 2021
This is Part 2 of a four-part series on imperialism, which chronicles how U.S. imperialism and its allies are fueling intensifying existential crises for humanity and all life on...
Absolute Equality 1865 – 2021: The Story of Juneteenth in Texas June 21, 2021
“As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this” ...
BHM – Reclaiming our Past, Re-defining our Future, A Reckoning with Reconstruction – June 14, 2021
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From Pacifica Radio, this is Covid, Race and Democracy, a collective effort by producers from the Pacifica Network and radio affiliates.
Featuring an interview with Natonne Elaine Kemp,...
“Justice for George Floyd is Freedom for All” and “Black Wall Street 100 Years Later” May 31, 2021
“The function of freedom is to free someone else” - Toni Morrison
One year ago, the world shifted instantly, after viewing the horrific video footage of Minneapolis, Officer...
Reparations! (Black History in the Making) – May 24, 2021
Host Nkechi Taifa (WPFW) brings us voices of a multitude of advocates discussing various aspects of the struggle for reparations, including personal stories about legendary icons who helped move...
Free, Free Palestine – May 17, 2021
Protest march for Palestine, Mission Street, San Francisco, May 15, 2021.
From Pacifica Radio, this is Covid, Race and Democracy, a collective effort by producers from the Pacifica Network and...
MAY DAY 2021- A COVID, RACE, & DEMOCRACY SPECIAL
May Day, May1st, is International Workers Day. In this week's show we hear from working people from across the globe. Many are facing new challenges because of the COVID-19...
THE EMPIRE REPORT, PART 1: IMPERIALISM VS. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT – April 26, 2021
U.S. imperialism and its allies are fueling intensifying existential crises for humanity and all life on Earth. These crises include the approaching collapse of global ecosystems, the escalation towards...
Covid Vaccine Profits – April 19, 2021
We start with an update on the condition of political prisoner, former Black Panther, author and radio journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. Pacifica’s Ann Garrison spoke with City University of New...
The American Legacy of Voter Suppression April 12, 2021
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In March, the Washington Post reported that at least 250 new voter restriction bills were proposed in 43 states across the country. Now in...
“Humanitarian Intervention” April 5, 2021
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So-called “humanitarian intervention,” also known as humanitarian war, is the flagship of the Biden Administration’s foreign policy and the subject of this episode of...
FREE Mumia Abu-Jamal March 29, 2021
“Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it right.” -John Africa, founder of MOVE
Award winning international journalist, activist and freedom fighter Mumia Abu-Jamal, has been imprisoned for nearly 40 years....
COVID, Amazon Billions, AND Workers’ Rights – March 22, 2021
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Journalist, political prisoner, and revolutionary, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is recovering from COVID-19 and is back in general population after completing quarantine in the prison infirmary. Mumia’s...
We Don’t Need No Miseducation – PART 2 – March 15, 2021
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In this episode, we bring you Part 2 of our series on how the pandemic is impacting the struggle for a socially just and...
MARCH – Women’s History Month “Celebrating the Power of Women”
March 8: International Women’s Day - Celebrating the POWER OF WOMEN
"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” - Dr. Maya Angelou
On March 8, millions around the world celebrate...
Black History in the Making: Reclaiming Our Past, Re-defining Our Future: A CONVERSATION WITH NIKKI GIOVANNI
Poet, activist, author and icon, Nikki Giovanni offers her unique unflinching perspectives on everything from politics to poetry in these contemporary times. Her unapologetic condemnation of Donald Trump is...
Covid, Big Tech Censorship, & Surveillance – Part 2– March 1, 2021
Journalist and politician Henry Wallace, the 1948 presidential candidate of the Progressive Party, said, "The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the...
Black History in the Making: Reclaiming Our Past, Re-Defining Our Future: REPARATIONS!
Hear from a multitude of advocates discussing various aspects of the struggle for reparations, including personal stories about legendary icons who helped move the movement forward; redress for the...
Black History in the Making: Reclaiming Our Past, Re-defining Our Future: FREE THEM ALL!
Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War
déqui kioni-sadiki, an activist with the Jericho Movement, which supports US-held political prisoners and prisoners of war. She is also a teacher, an author,...
Black History in the Making: Reclaiming Our Past, Re-defining Our Future: FROS, BERETS, AND LEATHER JACKETS
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Race and the Revolutionary Solidarity of the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican Counterpart of the Black Panther Party
Genesis of the Young Lords and impact of...
Black History in the Making: Reclaiming Our Past, Re-defining Our Future: BLACK WORKERS, THEIR HISTORY, LABOR & THE FIGHT AT BESSEMER ALABAMA AMAZON
Black Workers, Their History, Labor & The Fight At Bessemer Alabama Amazon
Featuring:
Saladin Muhammed, Southern Workers Assembly
San Leandro Amazon Workers Adrienne Williams and John Wilcox
Clarence Thomas, Retired ILWU Local 10...
Black History in the Making: Reclaiming Our Past, Re-defining Our Future: A RECKONING WITH RECONSTRUCTION
Featuring an interview with Natonne Elaine Kemp, author of There's Something About Edgefield. Also, a report on the research released in June 2020 by the Equal Justice Initiative, titled...
CAGING IN COVID Part 2– February 15, 2021
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Part 1 of this series aired on December 14, 2020, focusing on the deadly impact of COVID-19 on people incarcerated in U.S. jails, prisons...
Black Art & Activism – Ms. Cicely Tyson Tribute February 8, 2021
“Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better”
― Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The...
Health, Equity, and Censorship – February 1, 2021
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Host Johanna Fernandez at WBAI, Pacifica Radio in New York, covered the recent strike of over 1400 produce delivery workers, members of Teamsters Local...
COVID, Big Tech Censorship, and Surveillance Edition – January 25, 2021
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Many Americans applauded when Twitter suspended President Donald Trump's Twitter account and the Pentagon fortified the nation's capital ahead of the Inauguration, but others...
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Edition – January 18, 2021
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©Israel McCloud "Speak Truth to Power" Instagram: @israelmccloudstudio
Today, we examine the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy and impact by highlighting organizations who have...
The Capitol Riot Edition – January 11, 2021
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In this episode, we hear voices of those who came to Washington to protest on January 6th, originally on WPFW’s On the Ground with...
WE DON’T NEED NO MISEDUCATION – JANUARY 4, 2021
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In this episode, we bring you the first of a 2-part series on how the pandemic is impacting the long struggle for a culturally...
Covid Race and Democracy 2020 Year End Edition & Kwanzaa – Celebrating 54 Years
“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.” ― Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks
In the first half of today's...
COVID, Corporate Greed, and Vaccines
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Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant represents a socialist grassroots movement that managed to pass a city tax on corporations towards COVID relief. Her...
Caging in COVID
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In this episode, we focus on the deadly impact of COVID-19 on people incarcerated in U.S. jails, prisons and immigrant detention centers, the trauma...
Workers’ Rights and COVID
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*What exactly happens to your laundry bag when it arrives at the laundry? laundry workers in Manhattan demand to be paid the city’s $15...
Best of “COVID, Race, and Democracy” – Version 2
In this episode of COVID, RACE AND DEMOCRACY, we revisit some of our best segments since Pacifica began airing the show in June of 2020:
Twenty-eight million Americans are facing...
Native American Heritage Month and National Day of Mourning
In this episode of COVID, RACE AND DEMOCRACY:
“Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.”
― John Trudell
"Since 1970, Native Americans and supporters have gathered at...
Best of COVID, Race and Democracy
COVID, RACE AND DEMOCRACY is a national weekly show from Pacifica Radio, an effort by committed volunteers from across the network. Our "Best Of. . . " show includes:
Twenty-eight...
Workers’ Edition – November 16, 2020
*Indignation is growing about the failure to protect healthcare workers who are fighting Covid.
*CNA nurses protest against exploitation and lack of protection amidst the pandemic
*A representative of the restaurant...
Election in a Country Divided
Election in a Country Divided
In the wake of the 2020 election week, activists, commentators, and community radio workers discuss the causes and meaning of division in this country and...
People’s Voice – Election Week Edition
People's Voice - Election Week Edition
This week's Covid, Race, and Democracy features investigative reporter Greg Palast warning us with a heartbreaking tale to save our votes and our democracy....
COVID RACE AND DEMOCRACY OCT 26 2020
THIS WEEK, COVID RACE AND DEMOCRACY brings you this:
*It’s official: 1,913,369 ballots were cast but never counted in the 2016 presidential race. That’s from the US Elections Assistance Commission....
October 19, 2020 – Protect The Vote Edition
*In California, App companies spend nearly $200 million dollars on an effort to defeat an initiative designed to protect drivers rights. Steve Zeltzer brings us voices of protesters against...
October 12, 2020 Indigenous Peoples Day Special Edition
Today's special IPD program features:
Leonard Peltier, Native American activist & political prisoner talks to Amy Goodman, 2012. Special thanks to Democracy Now.
Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney with the Lakota...
October 5, 2020 Weekly Edition
Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson, an emerging cooperative movement based in Jackson, Mississippi, says that grassroots organizers should systematically build on the outpouring of mutual aid in response to...
September 28, 2020 Weekly Edition
*California Central Valley workers protest the deaths of 9 meat plant workers due to COVID-19. Workers are getting sick, dying and spreading it to their families and community, they...
September 21, 2020 Weekly Edition
This week "Covid, Race, and Democracy" spoke to David Zirin, Nation Magazine sportswriter and co-host of "The Collision: Sports and Politics" about whether US team sports and US militarism...
September 14, 2020 Weekly Edition
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Today's Covid Race and Democracy features voices from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana about the impact of Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm that...
September 7 — Labor Day Edition
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On this week’s “Covid, Race, and Democracy”:
Labor Day 2020 is one of catastrophe for millions of US workers, with mass unemployment of over 30...
August 31 — Weekly Edition
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On this week’s “Covid, Race, and Democracy”:
The 57th anniversary of the March on Washington was celebrated with a new march for the same goals,...
August 24 — Weekly Edition
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On this week’s “Covid, Race, and Democracy”:
Congolese gynecological surgeon Dr. Denis Mukwege, winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, calls for an international criminal...
August 17 – Weekly Edition
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On this week's "Covid, Race, and Democracy":
Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong on China bashing, the coronavirus, and the loss of American jobs.
Michio Kaku on...
August 10, 2020 – Weekly Edition
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Today's CR&D features commentary by Dr. Dery and Dr. Griggs on the danger of massive evictions from an epidemiological perspective; Rania Masri on the...
August 3, 2020 – Weekly Edition
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Reverend James Lawson told those attending the funeral of civil rights icon John Lewis that freedom fighters will not be quiet so long as...
July 27, 2020 – Weekly Edition
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In today's edition of Covid, Race, and Democracy:
Twenty-eight million Americans are facing eviction or foreclosure as moratoriums on both expire at the federal, state,...
July 20, 2020 – Weekly edition
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In today’s edition of Covid, Race, & Democracy:
Fourteen years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations launched the Alliance for a Green...
July 10, 2020 – from KPFT
Today's Covid, Race and Democracy highlights a personal journey of a journalist who survived Covid-19 before the national shut down, and prior to CDC guidelines.
Jeffrey Boney, is the assistant...
July 9, 2020 – from WBAI
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Covid Race and Democracy is a collective effort from the Pacifica Network and our affiliates across the U.S. In this WBAI New York edition, we...
Lo que revela la visita de AMLO a Washington
En el programa radial Senderos de Oaxaca, transmitido originalmente por la Radio Pacifica 90.7fm en Los Angeles, se aborda el tema de la visita del mandatario mexicano Andrés Manuel...
July 8, 2020 – from KPFA
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In today's edition of Covid, Race, and Democracy:
CAT BROOKS TAKES A LOOK AT THE CHALLENGES FACING SAN QUENTIN PRISON, WHERE OVER A THIRD OF...
July 7, 2020 – from WPFW
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In today's edition of Covid, Race, and Democracy:
...a discussion with investigative journalist Greg Palast about Trumps scheme you remain in office if he loses...
July 6, 2020 – from KPFK
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In today's edition of Covid, Race, and Democracy:
When the current economic system seems to be failing the majority of the US population, we discuss...
July 3, 2020 – from KPFT
In today's edition of Covid, Race, and Democracy:
PART 1: An excerpt of actor James Earl Jones reading the historic speech delivered by abolitionist Frederick Douglass "What to the Slave...
July 2, 2020 – from WBAI
In today's edition of Covid, Race, and Democracy: Senator Elizabeth Warren with Dr. Anthony Fauci on the rise of Covid19; Dr. Michio Kaku on the new swine flu in China; NY...
July 1, 2020 – from KPFA
IN TODAYS EDITION OF COVID, RACE AND DEMOCRACY
KPFA'S UP FRONT COVERS THE EXPLOSION OF CORONAVIRUS CASES AT SAN QUENTIN PRISON,
LINDA TIRADO, A JOURNALIST WHO WAS MAIMED BY POLICE WHILE...
June 30, 2020 – from WPFW
In today's edition of Covid, Race and Democracy, we speak with US Representative Eleanor Holmes-Norton, Poet and Educator Nikki Giovanni, journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal, Babyface Edmonds...
June 29, 2020 – from KPFK
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In today's edition of Covid, Race and Democracy, we speak with Jean Roach and Natalie Stites-Means about the impact of the COVID19 on the Indigenous Peoples of...
June 26, 2020 – from KPFT
Today’s edition of Covid, Race and Democracy will feature a clip of renowned educator and researcher Dr. Joy DeGruy, author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. DeGruy's research focuses on the...
June 25, 2020 – from WBAI
In today's edition of COVID, Race and Democracy, Dr. Anthony Fauci, NYS Attorney General and NYPD Police Commissioner as well as NYC First Lady, Johanna Fernandez and members of a...
June 24, 2020 – from KPFA
In today's edition of COVID, Race and Democracy,
HARD KNOCK RADIO HEADS TO OAKLAND TO REPORT FROM THE PROTEST AT THE PORT OF OAKLAND AND TO DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF...
June 23, 2020 – from WPFW
In today's edition of COVID, Race, and Democracy:
Does President Trump have the authority to postpone November elections?
COVID cases in Florida reach an all-time pandemic high; and police tactics are...
June 22, 2020 – from KPFK
In today's edition of COVID, Race, & Democracy, The US Supreme Court blocks president Donald Trumps efforts to end the deferred action program for certain undocumented immigrants who came...
June 19, 2020 – from KPFT
Today’s edition of COVID, Race, & Democracy is dedicated to Juneteenth, the celebration of the resistance of the enslaved people of African descent. Host Akua holt talks to the...
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Monday, June 15, 2020 - from KPFK
In today’s edition of COVID, Race, and Democracy from...
June 18, 2020 – from WBAI
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Thursday, June 18, 2020 - from WBAI
Today’s edition is presented by Pacifica's New York Station, WBAI. We look at killings by...
June 17, 2020 – from KPFA
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - from KPFA
In today’s edition of COVID, Race, and Democracy from KPFA:
Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives...
June 16, 2020 – from WPFW
In today’s edition of COVID, Race, and Democracy from WPFW: Sebi Medina-Tayac, Piscataway Nation, I. Chris Stewart, Esq., Esther Iverem, Drs. Mark Dery and Eric Griggs, Mumia Abu Jamal,...
June 15, 2020 – from KPFK
In today’s edition of COVID, Race, and Democracy from KPFK: we hear from co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Dr. Melina Abdullah, political prisoner, journalist and Black Panther...