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Guest: Blase Bonpane, Harold MeyersonRemembering Blase Bonpane whose '''World Focus''' broadcast for fifty years on KPFK, much of it in this Sunday morning time slot. It is fitting that we remember him today on this program, in his time, for h
Guest: Micah Uetricht, Yoav PeledMicah Uetricht on the election of 5-6 socialists to the Chicago City Council -- a Very Big Deal -- because they will have outsize influence in determining the political issues, as we have seen nationally with d
Guest: Sarah Mason, Barry EidlinSarah Mason returns -- because Lyft went public this week, just as both Lyft and Uber drivers, the people who power this app-based service, went on strike in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego. The strike
Guest: Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos, Randy ShawPolitical economist Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos on the Trump-Bolsonaro love fest in DC last week, the new Brazilian-US relationship, (will Brazil lead the invasion of Venezuela for the US?) -- and Br
Guest: Jeremy Gong, Magally Miranda AlcazarDSAers Jeremy Gong and Magally Miranda on the challenges they face in a more favorable national context for Democratic Socialists, thanks to Bernie, AOC, #Red4Ed striking teachers, and the retrograde
Guest: Robert BrennerRobert Brenner on politics and the state of the economy ''' matters of great confusion if you read the Business pages and hear the politicians, all touting how robust the economy is with record low unemployment, rising wa
Guest: Alex Caputo-Pearl; Jeffery WebberAlex Caputo Pearl, President of UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles) on what was won in the strike, what funding and charter school expansion challenges they face, and what is the next chapter in this s
Guest: Joel Jordan, Mike ParkerJoel Jordan on the LA Teachers strike victory: how they carried out the strike, making the fight for public education one that the larger community overwhelmingly supported, how they wielded the strike weapon, w
Guest: Jackie Goldberg, Eric BlancJackie Goldberg, former teacher, member of the School Board, City Council and State Assembly is now running in the March 5th special election to the LAUSD School Board. If elected, Jackie will be an experience
Guest: Arlene Inouye, Simon PiraniArlene Inouye, Secretary of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) and Co-Chair of the Negotiations Team on how important the LAUSD strike, beginning January 14, is for public education, indeed, for the pu
Guest: Mike Davis, Meleiza Figueroa, Steve BreedloveAt year'''s end we look at the fires that ravaged California, and the aftermath ''' which as urban theorist Mike Davis reminds us, reinforces the socioeconomic inequalities that already chara
Guest: Richard Walker, Alex Caputo-PearlRichard Walker on his new book "Pictures of a Gone City," an urban geography of the San Francisco Bay Area, America'''s richest and fastest changing metropolis. Walker explains both the miracle of Silico
Guest: Sebastian BudgenSebastian Budgen is an editor for Verso Books, a contributing editor for Jacobin magazine, and serves on the editorial board of Historical Materialism. He joins us with a report and analysis of the Gilet Jaunes (Yellow V
Guest: Daniel Hernandez, Mike Parker, Ed BroadbentDaniel Hernandez, just back from Tijuana, reports on the harrowing conditions inside the migrant refugee camp for migrants from Central America, where thousands are sheltering with hopes of ent
Guest: Matt Karp, Sarah MasonMatt Karp on what the boost in Democratic Party fortunes portend: they will control the house, but he says their professional-class politics are a cul de sac -- when what we desperately need is a political revoluti
Guest: Mike Davis, Alex Caputo-PearlMike Davis, urban theorist and prolific writer, joins us for a "Tale of Two Fires," contrasting the Paradise and Malibu conflagrations, which he says is like comparing two Californias. We get his take. Ale
Guest: Michael Hiltzik, Pedro Paulo Zahluth BastosPulitzer prize winning columnist Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times on Props 8 and 10 appearing on the ballot Nov 6. Props 8 and 10 seek to regulate huge for profit kidney dialysis clinics and the
Guest: Gustavo Arrellano, Matthew Aaron Richmond, Barbara ArtsonGustavo Arrellano on why winning blue in Bakersfield and Fresno is even more important than in Republican Orange County, because it could be a template for winning back small town
Guest: Meagan DayMeagan Day on the banality and toxicity of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation to the Supreme Court. Her latest article in "Jacobin" looks at just how ordinary Brett Kavanaugh is: "juvenile, arrogant, sexist ... an unremarkable g
Guest: Harry Litman, Natalie Shure, Alissa QuartWe spend the hour on the testimony of Blasey-Ford and Kavanaugh in the contentious, emotional hearings that exposed the fault lines between gender, privilege, class and politics. Harry Litman, Co
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