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Nignorance from across the diaspora. We discuss politics and pop culture from a left perspective. Enjoy and tell a friend.
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Jan 28, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
1 hr 7 min
From Ethiopia to Haiti, international minefields have shown up extensively during the first year of the Biden administration. What does it mean to be a journalist with revolutionary politics trying to get the facts straight, while trying to keep your political integrity covering these stories? Is it possible to focus so much on the role of America that various regional power struggles can become obscured? How does a revolutionary journalist balance these things out? Jason and Pascal speak with journalist and revolutionary Eugene Puryear.
Eugene Puryear
Eugene Puryear is a longtime journalist and community organizer currently based in New York City. As a high school student in Charlottesville, Va, Eugene organized a walkout when the war in Iraq began in 2003, and helped to organize a number of the large-scale demonstrations that took place against the continuing U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a key leader In the struggle to free the Jena Six in 2007, was a founder of the anti-gentrification group Justice First as well as the Jobs Not Jails coalition, DC Ferguson Movement and Stop Police Terror Project-D.C. Puryear is the author of the book Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America, and worked for four years as the lead host of “By Any Means Necessary” a public affairs radio program in Washington D.C. Currently he is the lead host of the News on BreakThrough, a social justice media project based in New York.
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 26, 2022
1 hr 51 min
Jan 24, 2022
Jan 24, 2022
1 hr 12 min
Jason, Pascal, and Kuba tackle some of the important news stories of the week.
Jan 23, 2022
Jan 23, 2022
1 hr 4 min
Jan 21, 2022
Jan 21, 2022
1 hr 15 min
While the nation falls deeper into a state of COVID apathy, yet another variant rears it’s highly infectious head to spread the virus for what could be another wave of lockdowns. With trust in institutions at an all time low and vaccines and mask wearing becoming even more partisan, will we ever see our way out of this pandemic? With both major political parties captured by big Pharma and the healthcare industry, how can we forge a pathway to Medicare for All? Could the proposed measure for single payer in California be a catalyst for the rest of the Nation? We’ll ask these questions and more.
Victoria Dooley, MD
Dr. Victoria Dooley, MD is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who trained at Wayne State University School of Medicine. She is tenacious in her pursuit of helping families of all ages, from toddlers through geriatrics, attain health in all areas of life-mind, body and spirit. As a practicing Family Medicine physician, she has expertise in numerous areas of medicine and performs several procedures, including skin procedures, stitches, splints, etc. in her office. Dr. Dooley's dynamic personality and commanding stage presence make her sought after as an on-air health expert on numerous live radio and TV broadcasts. For over two years, she was a weekly contributing medical expert on ABC WXYZ-TV news. She also displays her passion for health education in print. She has published op-eds in The New York Times, Huffington Post, and many other publications.
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www.DrDooleyMD. com
Jan 19, 2022
Jan 19, 2022
2 hr 11 min
Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022
1 hr 22 min
Jason, Pascal, Kuba, and Djene discuss some of the top news stories of the week: the death of Sidney Poitier, the protests in Kazakhstan, and the new push for Medicare in California.
Jan 16, 2022
Jan 16, 2022
1 hr 40 min
Jan 14, 2022
Jan 14, 2022
1 hr 11 min
With a culture war heating up in an election year, the ideological battle over hot button topics like Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, and reparations intensifies, there remains one historical fact that is constantly glossed over or just outright ignored on both sides of the battle. The complicated history of Native American enslavement. A complex narrative that spans beyond the American South, where the plantation economy had a stronghold on the institution of enslavement, Native Americans were bought and sold throughout the Americas, Spain and even parts of Africa. In this upcoming episode we’ll take a deep dive into the forgotten history of Native American enslavement.
Jan 12, 2022
Jan 12, 2022
2 hr 13 min