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30:11

Monthly Labor Report: How To Win 5 Strikes In Two...

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2026/01/27

The Monthly Labor Report interviews Faye Guenther, president of United Food and Commercial Workers (Local 3000), who leads over 50,000 members across Washington state, northeast Oregon and northern Idaho. Faye discusses her progressive union's strategies that led to victories in five strikes in the past two years.Special guest: Michael ZweigHost: Richard Hill

29:27

FCC Commissioner Decries Government Assault on Free...

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2026/01/22

Interview with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat serving on the Federal Communications Commission, conducted by Scott Harris.Commissioner Gomez talks about her concerns regarding the concentration of media ownership, FCC censorship and interference in the exercise of First Amendment right to free speech, the future of public media and the expansion of broadband access.

15:49

‘Walkout’ Protest Actions Respond to Rising State...

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2026/01/22

Interview with Tamika Middleton, chief political and strategy officer with Women's March, and Saniyah Yolanda, student leader, conducted by Scott Harris.Tamika talks about the Jan. 20th Free America Walkout protest and other important work Women’s March is prioritizing. Student leader Saniyah Yolanda of the group Get Free, a youth-led progressive activist movement, talks about the work they’re doing organizing students for the Friday, Jan. 23 school walkout protest.

19:02

Religious Leaders Step Up to Resist ICE Violence

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2026/01/22

Interview with Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, conducted by Scott Harris.Rabbi Jacobs talks about her group T’ruah’s condemnation of the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, as she and religious leaders call for accountability, justice and an end to ICE brutality nationwide.

25:24

Trump Escalating Attack on Democracy Triggers Broader...

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2026/01/22

Interview with Yint Hmu coordinator of Public Citizen's democracy campaign, conducted by Scott Harris.Yint Hmu discusses the work her group is doing to challenge and resist the Trump authoritarian agenda both at home and abroad, including their many lawsuits and national protest organizing. She talks about the explosive situation in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the ICE shooting death of Renee Good, as Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law.

60:00

The Organic Farm Stand: Nutrient-Rich Soil =...

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2026/01/19

The Organic Farm Stand presents: Hot Topics with Diane Lauricella Small Farms Report with Steve Munno Nutrient-rich soil and how it produces nutrient-dense food with Monique Bosch Hosts: Richard Hill and Diane Lauricella

45:07

Resistance Roundtable -- Trump Targets Cuba; and CT...

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2026/01/19

Resistance Roundtable interviews: 1. Sandra Levinson, executive director of the Center For Cuban Studies, about Trump's recent threat to crush Cuba in the wake of the invasion of Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro (www.centerforcubanstudies.org); 2. Costanza Segovia, director of CT For All (www.connecticutforall.org), an immigrant rights group, discusses the increased threats to Connecticut immigrants with the massive surge in new minimally trained ICE

15:08

U.S. Venezuela Attack Rouses Bipartisan Group of U.S....

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2026/01/16

Interview with Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, conducted by Scott Harris.Marjorie Cohn discusses her recent commentary, “Trump Will Try to Defend Aggression Toward Venezuela. It’s Still Illegal,” and a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators that advanced a war powers resolution that ultimately failed. She also comments on the legal and accountability issues related to the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good in

18:02

Trump-Aligned Oligarchs’ Media Mergers Transforming...

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2026/01/16

Interview with Victor Pickard, the C. Edwin Baker professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change Center. Victor Pickard talks about recent mega-media mergers, spinoffs and the effort by Trump-supporting oligarchs to buy up media properties that could dramatically impact news coverage and cultural content. He touches on his recent co-written piece, “The Political

19:02

Minneapolis and U.S. Explode in Protest After ICE...

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2026/01/16

Interview with Pastor Doug Pagitt, executive director of the Minneapolis-based national organization Vote Common Good, conducted by Scott Harris.Pastor Doug Pagitt talks about this moment of crisis in the aftermath of the ICE shooting death of ICE observer Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of 3. Vote Common Good organizes religious activists to take action against the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda.

29:29

Trump Takeover of Venezuela and its Oil Follows...

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2026/01/16

Interview with Alexander Main, director of international policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, conducted by Scott Harris.Alexander Main talks about President Trump’s regime’s illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, imposition of a naval blockade, seizure of oil tankers and the president’s declaration that the U.S. will run Venezuela and take control of that nation’s oil for many years ahead. He also addresses Trump’s threat to attack other nations

39:50

Monthly Labor Report, Dec. 2025: The Starbucks Strike...

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2026/01/16

The Monthly Labor Report interviews Olivia "Liv" Ryan, a Starbucks shift supervisor and a lead organizer with Starbucks Workers United (SBWU). which has mounted a national strike against the Starbucks corporation. Economist Michael Zweig talks about his trip to Vietnam and Australia where he met with labor organizations and discussed working class agendas and strategies.Host: Richard Hill

6:19

‘Simplify Solar’ National Campaign Aims to Make...

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2026/01/08

Interview with Lynn Stoddard, a volunteer with Third Act, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Third Act is a national organization of American activists over the age of 60, focusing on the issues of climate and democracy. The group was founded by author and climate activist Bill McKibben, whose 2025 book titled, “Here Comes the Sun,” extols the value of solar energy for providing affordable, carbon-free power, and the importance of making this renewable energy source accessible to everyone in the

17:56

As America’s Support for Trump Plummets, Resistance...

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2026/01/08

Interview with Kevin B. Anderson, distinguished professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, conducted by Scott Harris.Professor Anderson talks about his recent article, “The Worm Turns: Trumpist Fascism,” as well as issues related to effective resistance, the need to organize a popular front, “big tent” opposition to Trump’s authoritarian rule, while ensuring progressives don’t sacrifice minority constituencies or controversial positions on the climate crisis, the

16:35

Trump and RFK Jr. Continue Their Sabotage of U.S....

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2026/01/08

Interview with Kayla Hancock, director of Public Health Watch at Protect Our Care, conducted by Scott Harris.Kayla Hancock talks about her group’s opposition to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to cut seven grants worth millions of dollars to The American Academy of Pediatrics—jeopardizing initiatives on reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome and identifying autism early.

7:18

Trump’s Lawless Venezuela Offensive Was Never About...

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2026/01/08

Interview with Steve Ellner, an associate managing editor of Latin American Perspective, and journalist Andreína Chávez, conducted by Scott Harris.Steve Ellner, a retired professor at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, where he lived for over 40 years and Andreína Chávez, based in Caracas, who wrote the recent DropSite News article, “War of the entire people: Venezuela’s Grassroots Rise to Resist Trump’s Naval Blockade,” examine the consequences of Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela

23:56

After Venezuela Attack, Trump Threatens to Strike...

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2026/01/08

Interview with Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and author of Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy, conducted by Scott Harris.Trita Parsi talks about his recent article, “As Expected, Netanyahu Back Demanding More War with Iran,” recent Trump threats to intervene in Iran if the government kills anti-government protesters and the message to Iran’s leaders after the U.S. kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Nicolás

24:53

US Imperialism Roars Back To Life -- an interview...

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2026/01/05

Stephen Zunes, a foreign policy scholar and professor in Middle Eastern studies at the University of San Francisco, analyzes and contextualizes the Jan. 3 US military strike on Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Adela Flores.Interview by Richard Hill

14:35

Trump’s Deadly and Chaotic Year Back in the White House

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2026/01/02

Interview with Paul Street, independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian and author, conducted by Scott Harris.Paul Street talks about his recent commentary, “Four Pieces in the Fascist & Exterminist Jigsaw Puzzle,” and his hopes for effective anti-fascist organizing in 2026. Street is the author of more than 10 books. His latest is titled, "This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America."

18:05

CBS Political Censorship of ’60 Minutes’: Another...

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2026/01/02

Interview with Craig Aaron, co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action, conducted by Scott Harris.Craig Aaron talks about CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss’ decision to kill the 60 Minutes’ story on the Trump regime’s deportation of immigrants to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT Prison, and recent corporate mergers that are enabling political censorship.

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