In this episode, originally broadcast on Sunday, April 27, 2014, I am joined by my good friend Greg Brown who was visiting from Madison, WI. Much of our conversation centered on Union Cab Cooperative, a fully worker-owned and democratically-operated taxi company that I owned for over five years (from 2001 to 2006) and that Greg…
In this episode, originally broadcast on Sunday, April 20, 2014, I am joined by student, musician, and filmmaker Ángel Isaac Rivera, and we discuss a film he is currently making called Boricua en el Medio. This film focuses on the question of what it means to be Puerto Rican in the Midwest. We are also…
In this episode, originally broadcast on Sunday, April 13, I play several different pieces of audio pertaining to American Indian activist and longtime political prisoner Leonard Peltier, who has been wrongfully imprisoned for over 38 years. In addition to links to the video and audio of the episode, I have included links below to the…
Flying solo again in these episodes, both of which feature audio from a CD I obtained more than a decade ago entitled “Defining Black Power.” In the first episode, originally broadcast on Sunday, March 23, 2014, I discuss the life an work of famed Marxist, Black Power activist, and philosophy professor Angela Davis. In addition…
I am joined in this episode by Jenny Picard, originally broadcast on Sunday, March 16, 2014. In honor of upcoming St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, we discuss certain events and individuals associated with the early 20th century movement for Irish independence. In addition to providing some basic information about the 1916 Easter Rising, socialist and nationalist…
In these two episodes my guests and I discuss our recent experiences spending three weeks traveling throughout Southeast Asia. We were part of a study-abroad winter term course that included visits to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. We discuss our experiences and our reflections upon returning home to Milwaukee. The first episode, originally broadcast on March…
In this episode, originally aired on Sunday, March 2, 2014, I share information about my ongoing research on the Young Lords movement. In addition to reading from and expanding upon a research paper I recently wrote (entitled Asserting a Right to the City: The Young Lords, the People’s Church, and the Poor People’s Movement), I…
In this episode, originally broadcast on February 23, I talk about the role of women in the Shining Path (Partido Comunista del Perú-Sendero Luminoso), a crazy Maoist group from Peru that engaged in a bloody civil war beginning in 1980 and lasting through the mid-1990s. I share from an essay I wrote about the role…
This episode (originally broadcast Feb. 16, 2014) features audio from renowned historians and activists Heather Ann Thompson and Paul Street, who were the keynote speakers at a graduate student history conference that I helped to organize that took place last weekend (February 14-15, 2014) on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. Both Thompson and Street talked…
In these two episodes I discuss the relationship between social movements and the periodic spectacle known as the Olympics. In the first episode I mostly talk about the massacre of unarmed student protesters by the Mexican police and military ten days before the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. In addition to sharing my thoughts and…
I am flying solo again! This episode follows on the heels of MLK Day 2014, and features audio from MLK Jr. and Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report. The MLK Jr. audio comes from a 1967 speech in which he denounces the US war in Vietnam. The Glen Ford audio comes from his reflections…
This episode, guest hosted by longtime contributor Jacob Glicklich, focuses on the recent Modern Language Association conference held in Chicago, and a sub-conference (entitled Resisting Vulnerable Times) held in tandem by participants who want to challenge the MLA’s failure to deal with issues of concern to new academics (such as the increased use of adjunct…
In this episode, the last from 2013, I am joined by my good friend Jenny Picard, and we discuss the 20th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising of January 1, 1994, in Chiapas, Mexico. We read from Zapatista publications, listen to Zapatista music, and I discuss my experiences visiting Zapatista land in 2007. Click here for…
In this episode, originally broadcast on December 22, 2013, I am joined by my good friend Jacob Glicklich, and we discuss the use of education and radical pedagogy as a form of activism. In addition to discussing various pedagogical theories, Jacob discusses some of his thoughts on an upcoming class he will be teaching. Click…
In this episode, originally broadcast shortly after the death of South African icon Nelson Mandela, I play music from the South African resistance to apartheid, including songs from the legendary Mama Afrika: Miriam Makeba, as well as music from the soundtrack to the documentary Amandla. Click here for link to video of the show—–> http://bambuser.com/v/4167682…
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