The Peace & Justice Report covers local, state, national and international social justice issues. We bring a wide variety of guests whose views are underrepresented in the mainstream media, activists who are devoting their lives to creating a world free from injustice of all kinds. Hosted by Bob Connors and Tom Walker.
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Welcome to WTF is Going on in Latin America & The Caribbean, a PopularResistance broadcast featuring hot news out of the region with host Teri Mattson. Each weekly episode features a country and/or issue related to the affects of U.S. foreign, economic and/or military influence and intervention in the hemisphere of The Americas. Our guests include academics, policy-makers, journalists as well as activists recognized for their groundwork within local communities and movements. WTF is Going on ...
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AUGUST 8TH 2024: SARASOTA COUNTY HOSPITAL BOARD ELECTION COMMENTARY BY JOHN KOPEL/MASSACHUSETTS PEACE ACTION BOARD DIRECTOR PAUL SHANNON
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Today we’ll talk to John Kopel on the upcoming August 20th Sarasota County Hospital Board elections. Then we will be speaking with Massachusetts Peace Action board member Paul Shannon on his work with Quakers and his role with MAPA.
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AUGUST 14TH 2024: AUTHOR OF THE BOOK - THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE: THE CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT THAT IS THREATENING OUR DEMOCRACY, MATTHEW D.TAYLOR
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Today Tom will talk to Matthew D. Taylor, author of The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy. Which will be out October 1st 2024. Matthew D. Taylor is a religious studies scholar and expert in independent charismatic Christianity and Christian nationalism. Taylor holds a PhD in religious studies and Mus…
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Today we’ll talk to Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, author of The Chosen We – Black Women’s Empowerment in Higher Education. The book draws on oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.
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On today's show we’ll talk to Chuck Collins of Inequality.org. Among other things, we’ll talk about the ways billionaires are disrupting our housing markets, democracy, and health, all the while shifting taxes onto you!
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JULY 3RD 2024: SARASOTA COUNTY SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS RON TURNER/JEFF SIEGEL OF OXFORD HOUSE OF FLORIDA
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On this weeks show we’ll talk to Ron Turner, Sarasota County’s Supervisor of Elections. Then Bob will interview Jeff Siegel of Oxford House of Florida.
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JUNE 26TH 2024: FORMER MAYOR OF AUGUSTA, GA DEKE COPENHAVER/FOOD NOT BOMBS CO-FOUNDER KIETH MCHENRY 2011 INTERVIEW REBROADCAST
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We will be talking with Deke Copenhaver, Mayor of Augusta, Ga from 2005 through 2014. Deke is a Changemaker, helping others realize the potential they have to be leaders in their community and their lives. Also, Bob will be replaying an interview he had with Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry from 2011.…
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JUNE 19TH 2024: SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AT THE GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION JON THAXTON
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This week we’ll spend the hour with co-hosts WSLR News Director Johannes Werner & Linda Harradine & Larry Eger of the Justice Matters program discussing affordable housing with their guest Jon Thaxton, Senior Vice President for Community Leadership at the Gulf Coast Community Foundation.
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This week we’ll talk to Martin Johnson, author of The Atheist’s Survival Guide – 35 Ways to Combat Religious Intolerance. Then we’ll talk to Joe Simonetta, author of the new book Be Healthy. Be Kind. Respect the Environment.
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JUNE 5TH 2024: "THE JAZZMEN" AUTHOR LARRY TYE/THEN NEW SARASOTA COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CHIEF SANDRA TAPFUMANEYI
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This week we’ll talk to Larry Tye, author of “The Jazzmen – How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America”. Then we’ll hear from Sandra Tapfumaneyi, Sarasota County’s emergency management chief, about hurricane preparedness. ***Due to technical difficulties the Larry Tye interview is presented in the second half***…
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This week we’ll talk to David Swanson, author of the new book with Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin - Nato: What You Need to Know. It’s “an indispensable primer on an organization that not only confronts expanding military conflict but, the authors contend, plays an active part in its escalation.”
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MAY 22 2024: AUTHOR, PROFESSOR AND DEAN EMERITUS AT STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY RUTH BRANDWEIN/THEN, WSLR CO-FOUNDER DAVE BEATON TALKS ABOUT FUTURE PLANS IN MICHIGAN
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This week we’ll talk to local author Ruth Brandwein and then WSLR co-founder Dave Beaton about his plans for Michigan! Local author, Professor and Dean Emeritus at Stony Brook University Ruth Brandwein. She has received the National Achievement Award from the National Association of Social Workers, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sarasota Nat…
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MAY 15TH 2024: EDITOR OF "A MINISTRY OF RISK: WRITINGS ON PEACE & NONVIOLENCE BY PHILIP BERRIGAN" BRAD WOLF/DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY INVESTMENT AT GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, JON THAXTON, DISCUSSES BILL ...
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This week we’ll talk to Brad Wolf, editor of the new book A Ministry of Risk: Writings on Peace and Nonviolence by Philip Berrigan, peace activist and Catholic priest. From the battlefields of World War II to the front lines of peace activism, Philip Berrigan evolved from soldier to scholar, priest to political prisoner. Confronting the fundamental…
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MAY 8TH 2024: ARTISTS AND ORAGNIZERS CREATING A BETTER WORLD W/ORGANIZER KEN GROSSINGER & ARTIST ROBERT SHETTERLY
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In this episode we’ll talk to Ken Grossinger, author of Art Works – How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together. Grossinger chronicles these efforts for the first time, distilling lessons and insights from grassroots leaders and luminaries such as Ai Weiwei, Courtland Cox, Jackson Browne, Shepard Fairey, Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Al…
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MAY 1ST 2024: CANDIDATE FOR THE SARASOTA SCHOOL BOARD, DISTRICT 2, LIZ BARKER/NEW ORLEANS RESIDENT AND TAROT READER AUDREY
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In this episode we’ll talk to Liz Barker, candidate for the Sarasota School Board, District Two. The election is August 20. Then Bob will talk to a person he met in New Orleans at the French Quarter Festival, Tarot Reader Audrey
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APRIL 24th 2024: FLORIDA NATURE POTOGRAPHY W/E. SCOTT OSBORNE & POTOGRAPHER & AUTHOR FRAN PALMERI, THEN, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE NORTHEAST W/EDUCATOR & EDITOR ADRIENNE SCOTT
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In this episode E. Scott Osborne, writer, advocate, and President of Through Women’s Eyes Organization, will interview Florida nature photographer and author Fran Palmeri. Then we’ll talk to Adrienne Scott about the repatriation campaigns of the Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust in the Northeast United States.…
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EPISODE: Ecuador’s Presidential Election heads to a Second Round in October GUEST: Pilar Troya Pilar is an Ecuadorian feminist anthropologist. Her main areas of interest are social public policies, especially concerning gender equality and the feminist movement. She has served as an advisor to the Ministry of National Planning and as an advisor and…
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EPISODE: Nicaragua, A History of US Intervention & Resistance GUEST: Author, Activist and Labor Attorney, Daniel Kovalik BACKGROUND: The latest book by labor and human rights attorney, Daniel Kovalik, Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention & Resistance (2023, Clarity Press, 292 pages), is a worthy addition to the author’s collection of works on co…
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EPISODE: Sandinistas Speak. Nicaraguans Defend their Revolution This episode is bi-lingual with subtitles. PRODUCER and HOST: Ramiro Sebastian Funez Friday, June 30, WTF returned to Managua, Nicaragua to do follow-up study of Caribbean Coast government funded infrastructure projects and to celebrate the 44th Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution…
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EPISODE: Nicaragua against Empire - Part II Managua Against Empire, an inside look at Managua, Nicaragua, from a revolutionary socialist perspective. PRODUCER and HOST: Ramiro Sebastian Funez Friday, June 30, WTF returned to Managua, Nicaragua to do follow-up study of Caribbean Coast government funded infrastructure projects and to celebrate the 44…
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EPISODE: Mexico: Expanding Democracy and Defending Sovereignty GUEST: José Luis Granados Ceja, journalist with Venezuelanalysis and The Mexico Solidarity Project BACKGROUND: The international press is again bludgeoning Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this time accusing him of attacking the country’s democratic institutions. It’s a ba…
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EPISODE: Alex Saab, Three Years as a Kidnapped Diplomat GUEST: Fiorella Isabel of The Convo Couch BACKGROUND: The case is a terrifying example of the US’s continuing commitment to illegal, unilateral intervention and ‘regime change,’ where no country is truly safe, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ (link to full article below) From his article: “June 12, …
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EPISODE: Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Resigns to Run for President GUEST: Independent journalist Alina Duarte who joins us from Mexico City BACKGROUND: Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, one of the leading contenders to be the country's next leader, said on Tuesday he will resign to focus on winning the presidential no…
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EPISODE: Isolationism Ends: Maduro Visits Brazil GUEST: Ricardo Vaz, political analyst and editor at Venezuelanalysis.com BACKGROUND: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro traveled to Brazil as part of an official visit to meet with his counterpart Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva where the pair discussed regional and international cooperation, including …
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EPISODE: Ecuador’s President Dissolves National Assembly Triggering Early Elections GUEST: Author and Journalist Joe Emersgerger. You can find his work published at CounterPunch, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), MintPressNews and more. Also, be sure to read his book Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media and Twenty Years of Coup A…
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Whatever Happened to that Plane? U.S. Unilateral Sanctions & the Saga of Venezuela's Emtrasur Cargo 747
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EPISODE: Whatever Happened to that Plane? U.S. Unilateral Sanctions and the Saga of Venezuela’s Emtrasur Cargo 747 GUEST: Orlenys Ortiz, citizen journalist joining us from Venezuela TRANSLATION: Carmelo Valasquez, Velasquez Translations, Buenos Aires, Argentina BACKGROUND: On May 3, 2023, the Argentinian press reported a US prosecutor requested the…
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The Country is Not for Sale: Economic Development & Trade Zones (ZEDEs) vs National Sovereignty
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EPISODE: The Country is Not for Sale-Economic Development & Employment Zones (ZEDEs) versus National Sovereignty GUESTS: Beth Geglia, anthropology PhD, and Melinda St. Louis, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch BACKGROUND: On May 3, Democratic U.S. lawmakers urged the U.S. Trade Representative and State Department to eliminate investor-…
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EPISODE: Guatemalan Political Crisis-June 25 Elections Set as Critics Slam Disqualifications GUEST: Frank with The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISQUA) BACKGROUND: Campaigning began in earnest last month for Guatemala’s general elections, with political messaging filling the streets, local broadcasts and social media. But les…
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EPISODE: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Visits Brazil GUEST: Camila Escalante, Kawsachun News-Brazil BACKGROUND: Russia’s minister of foreign affairs, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Brasília on Monday for talks with his Brazilian counterpart, Mauro Vieira, in the latest of a series of bilateral encounters likely to ruffle the US. Lavrov arrived…
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EPISODE: Burying 200 Years of The Monroe Doctrine GUEST: Carlos Ron, Venezuela Vice Minister of Foreign Relations for North America BACKGROUND: The Monroe Doctrine, first articulated by U.S. President James Monroe on December 2, 1823, is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds th…
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EPISODE: Reject U.S. Imperialism! Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace GUESTS: Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team Margaret Flowers, Co-Founder and Director of Popular Resistance & Host of the podcast Clearing the Fog BACKGROUND: On Tuesday, April 4, The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), along with key partner organizations, launc…
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EPISODE: Argentina Celebrates 40 Years of Democracy and Human Rights GUEST: Franco Metaza, Director-General for Foreign Affairs of the Argentina National Senate. BACKGROUND: Last week, Argentina celebrated 40 years of democracy and human rights by hosting the Third World Forum of Human Rights (March 20-24) scheduled in tandem with its National Day …
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EPISODE: Mexico’s Fourth Transformation and Why the U.S. Wants to Stop It We thank The Mexico Solidarity Project for participating in this episode as a special broadcast partner. GUEST: Kurt Hackbarth, Writer, Journalist and Activist BACKGROUND: "Although the 4T has not fulfilled everyone’s expectations, it has, in four years, created a governing m…
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EPISODE: Colombia-Total Peace and the Fight to Free All Political Prisoners GUESTS: Anthony Dest, Colombia Freedom Collective Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace National Organizer & BAP Haiti/Americas Team BACKGROUND: In April 2021, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Colombia to demand change. They rejected decades of state viol…
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The Devastating Effects of Militarization on Puerto Rico and Her People: How One Activist is Promoting Health Justice for Vieques and Culebra
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EPISODE: The Devastating Effects of Militarization on Puerto Rico and Her People. How One Activist is Promoting Health Justice for Vieques & Culebra. GUEST: Monisha Rios, Puerto Rican psychologist, social worker and disabled US veteran. Founder and director of Centro Solidario de Puerto Rico. NOTE: Full visual presentation can be viewed here: BACKG…
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EPISODE: Peru - More than Statistics In today’s episode, WTF host Teri Mattson shares some of the key findings of the Preliminary Report of the International Mission of Solidarity and Human Rights Delegation which arrived in Peru on February 7, 2023 and deployed its work in the country until the 13th of the same month. Teri was one of 19 human righ…
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EPISODE: National Strike, Day 40: A Conversation with Human Rights Activists in Peru NOTE: This is a follow-up conversation to our February 2 Episode with Peruvian activists Anahi Durand and Eliana Carlin. I have since visited Peru on a human rights observation delegation with Mision de Solidaridad Internacional y Derechos Humanos Interpretation pr…
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EPISODE: “So They Can See Us” Peru’s National Protest Advances to Lima GUESTS: Anahi Durand is a sociologist, former Minister of Women & Vulnerable Populations for the Castillo Presidency and founder of Mujers por Una Nueva Constitución (Women for a New Constitution); and, Eliana Carlin is a Peruvian political scientist, lecturer and researcher. Sh…
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EPISODE: CELAC 2023-Latin American Integration includes the Voices of the People GUEST: Alejandro Rusconi, Secretary of International Relations for Evita Movement Spanish to English interpretation provided by Carmelo Velasquez of Velasquez Translations, Buenos Aires BACKGROUND: Founded in 2011,.CELAC, or the Community of Latin American and Caribbea…
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EPISODE: Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry GUEST: Adrienne Pine, Author and Medical Anthropologist. For the past 17 years, she has worked in US federal asylum courts as a country conditions expert for Honduran asylum seekers in more than 100 asylum cases. BACKGROUND: On the heels of last week’s North America Trilateral S…
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EPISODE: North America’s Trilateral Summit GUESTS: Marco Castillo, Co-Executive Director of Global Exchange Jim Hodgson, Canadian Journalist BACKGROUND: The North American Leaders' Summit (NALS), sometimes called the Three Amigos Summit in the popular press,[1][2][3] is the trilateral summit between the prime minister of Canada, the president of Me…
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EPISODE: 219 Years of Haitian Independence, a history of the first revolution in The Americas GUESTS: Pierre LaBossiere, Judith “Mirk” Mirkinson and Seth Donnelly of The Haiti Action Committee BACKGROUND: On January 1, 1804, Haiti became an independent republic, following the revolution which had begun 13 years earlier as a rebellion of enslaved pe…
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TODAY’S EPISODE: Saab Oral Argument Focuses on Legitimacy of Maduro Government GUEST: Author, labor attorney and human rights activist Dan Kovalik of Council on Hemispheric Affairs BACKGROUND: On December 20, in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida, Judge Robert N. Scola heard oral arguments on Alex Saab’s motion to dismiss the case against …
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EPISODE: Deconstructing the Anatomy of "Forgetting" GUEST; Journalist, activist and educator Roberto Alvarenga Lovato Roberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting (Harper Collins), a “groundbreaking” memoir the New York Times picked as an “Editor’s Choice.” Newsweek listed Lovato’s memoir as a “must read” 2020 book which the Los Angeles Times liste…
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TODAY’S EPISODE: Lawfare: Judicial & Legislative Coups in Argentina and Peru Joining me today is my friend and co-host Raul Burbano. Raul is the Program Director for Common Frontiers based in Toronto. Common Frontiers is a WTF broadcast partner GUESTS: Aníbal Ibarra and Daniela Ortiz. Anibal is the former Mayor of Buenos Aires and Federal Prosecuto…
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EPISODE: Decolonization, Multipolarity & the Demise of the Monroe Doctrine GUEST: Frederick Mills, professor of philosophy at Bowie State University and Deputy Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. He researches and writes on ethics, philosophy, U.S. --Latin America relations and has recently published a book, Enrique Dussel's Ethics of L…
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EPISODE: Save the Planet: Nicaragua & the Climate Crisis GUEST: Javier Gutierrez, Secretary of the Presidency of Nicaragua for Climate Change and Vice-Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. On the heels of COP27, we present an encore broadcast from August 2021 discussing climate change with guest Javier Gutierrez, Secretary of the Presidenc…
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EPISODE: Bolivia’s Right-Wing Orchestrates a Civil Strike GUESTS: Camila Escalante and Ollie Vargas of Kawsachun News and the podcast Latin America in Review BACKGROUND: In the last 21 days former coup leader and current governor of the Department of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, has been allowed “to carry out a coup d’état in the city of Sant…
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EPISODE: Colombia & Venezuela, Brother Nations Reunite GUEST: Daniel Kovalik Dan is an American lawyer and Human Rights advocate who currently teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. From 1993 until 2019 he served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO. While with the USW, he worked on Ali…
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EPISODE: Brazil’s Lula da Silva: A Victory of an Immense Democratic Movement GUEST: Michael Fox who is an independent journalist and the podcast host of Brazil on Fire a NACLA and Real News production BACKGROUND Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva was elected the next president of Brazil, in a stunning comeback following a tight run-off race on Sunday, Oct…
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TODAY'S EPISODE: The Impending U.S. Invasion of Haiti GUEST: Jemima Pierre of Black Alliance for Peace Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies and Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles Jemima Pierre is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research and teaching interests are located in the overlaps betw…
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