The LMC wraps up 2023 with freelance writer Arturo Dominguez to discuss a tumultuous year that included xenophobia, mass shootings, Islamophobia, and anti-LGBTQ legislation.  We'll also discuss how numerous, successful labor strikes gives us hope for a better 2024.

2023 LMC Year in Review

With the deployment of the National Guard occupying Washington DC, the LMC spends the hour with James Early and Alberto Medina to break down the parallels between the battle for DC statehood and Puerto Rican independence against the rise of authoritariansm.

James Early is a former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service.  Alberto C. Medina is the president of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora (BUDPR), a national organization of Puerto Ricans in the United States who educate and organize for decolonization.

August 22nd, 2025: Occupied Washington DC & Puerto Rico

Freelance writer Francisco Lozano joins the LMC for the first time to discuss his recent travels to Cuba and how life function, or doesn't function, under US economic sanctions.

September 5th, 2025: Cuba Under the Embargo

How do we approach the issues of freedom of speech without whitewashing the racism and xenophobia that defined the political life and career of Charlie Kirk following his shocking murder?  The LMC is searching for answers with freelance writer Arturo Dominguez by discussing hateful rhetoric and legacy of the far-right activist.

September 19th, 2025: Death of a White Nationalist

As the Trump administration expands its anti-immigrant crusade to Chicago, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Hector Cervantes on how the threat of ICE and the National Guard affects the Windy City and how local residents fight back.

September 26th, 2025: ICE vs Chicago

On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with Venezuelan sociologist Maria Paez Victor and freelance writer Joe Emersberger to discuss the role of right-wing Venezuelan corporate media in the 2002 coup against Hugo Chavez and what lessons can be learned as US corporate consolidation of media continues to grow.

October 3rd, 2025: Venezuela's Corporate Media

On a special joint project with the Colombia Human Rights Network, the LMC spends the hour with human rights activist Alberto Yepes on the ongoing challenges of both maintaining Colombia's peace process and how to dismantle the military's stranglehold on one of the most unequal countries in Latin America.

October 12th, 2025: Assessing Colombian Human Rights

Following the shocking decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to right-wing Venezuelan activist Maria Corina Machado, the LMC speaks with freelance writers Maria Paez Victor and Joe Emersberger to discuss what the Nobel Foundation missed regarding Machado's dark history of supporting right-wing political violence.

October 17th, 2025: Maria Corina Machado & the Nobel Prize

Are there parallels between Puerto Rico's colonial status and occupied Palestine?  The colonizers seem to think so.  So the LMC spends the hour with Alberto Medina and James Early to discuss the colonial structure that marginalizes both people's toward solidarity.

Alberto C. Medina is a Puerto Rico–born, US-based writer, editor, and advocate for Puerto Rican independence. He is the president of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora (BUDPR).  His Substack is Free Puerto Rico.  

James Early is the former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service.

October 24th, 2025: Puerto Rico & Zionism

Following the impeachment and ouster of Dina Boluarte as Peru's president, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Lucero Chavez on how Generation Z led the protest to remove her from office.

October 31st, 2025: Boluarte Out

With the US attacking boats in the Caribbean as a means to provoke a military strike against Venezuela, the LMC spends the hour with Erica Caines, the Field Operations and Membership coordinator of The Black Alliance For Peace, to discuss Trinidad & Tobago's role in enabling US military hegemony in the region.

November 7th, 2025: US Imperialism in Trinidad & Tobago

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2023 LMC Year in Review

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