General Interest

Beautiful Day is a feel good, uplifting pop rock song that serves as a reminder to all of us that it is always possible to be optimistic.

Its a Beautiful Day

Its A Beautiful Day

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This is a piece created by Duncan Chapman from recordings of forced rhubarb growing at David Westwood & Son rhubarb farm, near Wakefield. You can hear the rhubarb buds popping as they burst and also some mud as we squelched around in the dark. The audio has been cleaned up as much as possible to remove the sound of both the M62 and M1 motorways which are nearby!

A mass of popping rhubarb - forced rhubarb growing at DWS Farm

Dorothy Roberts is an award-winning author and expert on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Chuck Mertz interviews Roberts about her latest book, TORN APART: How the child welfare system destroys black families—and how abolition can build a safer world. 

TORN APART available Now at Basic Books https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dorothy-roberts/torn-apart/9781541675445/

Family Policing Punishes Poor Families and Protects White Supremacy  / Dorothy Roberts

This song was inspired by gangster and florist Charles Dean O'Banion (shot dead in his flower shop on November 10, 1924) and the long defunct Chicago punk bar named after him.

Blood On The Roses (remix)

CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou discusses his experiences in the government's ongoing and escalating war on whistleblowers, and warns of America's dangerous post-9/11 path of increased government surveillance, decreased oversight of law enforcement and permanent war footing - an existential threat to the survival of democracy itself.

John wrote the recent article "The FBI Isn’t Done With Me" for Reader Supported News: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/39768-the-fbi-isnt-done-with-me

We should all be afraid: A whistleblower's report on the price of secrecy and surveillance.

Good morning on today's show, Carol Anderson, (@ProfCAnderson) the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy joins us. Carol Anderson's&nbsp;One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy&nbsp;explores the history of voting and its struggle to make democracy real through the 15th amendment. Anderson examines previous examples of voter suppression&nbsp;like the poll tax and literacy test in the 19th century as points where black voters and poor voters were kept from the polls in southern states. In modern times, voter ID laws have become the hot legislation to disenfranchise citizens from voting.&nbsp;Anderson cites Indiana's 2005 voter ID law as a particularly absurd measure which was enacted in a state that had never charged a citizen with voter fraud. Anderson argues that the 14th and 15th amendment have been stripped of their legal protections by cases brought to the Supreme Court. Anderson argues that Reagan's southern strategy and the migration of the Dixiecrats to the Republican party helped drive the GOP further to the right and are now doubling down on a white ethnic identity party funded by special corporate interest. So what's next? Anderson insists that non-partisan redistricting commissions come to the forefront, beyond that we must elect politicians whose commitment to the Voting Rights Act is unquestionable. And in the Fun Half: Climate catastrophe, Brett Stephens' bad faith climate argument, fascist regimes will fail to protect their constituents, the Teamster UPS contract dispute, Michael goes in on the idea of "anti-corruption" political campaigns citing last night's election in Brazil, Mitch McConnell's career dedication to the ultra-elite is unmatched in American history, Orin Hatch dismisses female protestors in the most unsavory way, it's Dinesh Dsouza revisionist history hours on Fox &amp; Friends, Taylor Swift is voting Democratic and Charlie Kirk is crushed, plus your calls and IMs! Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com Get 10% off fair trade coffee, tea or chocolate with coupon code "Majority" at justcoffee.coop Newsvoice: Get a personalized newsfeed featuring a mixture of mainstream, international, and independent sources with Newsvoice’s free app (iOS or Android) at https://newsvoice.com/majority Check out The Michael Brooks Show at patreon.com/tmbs,&nbsp;and the new TMBS YouTube channel for all short TMBS clips Check out Matt’s podcast, Literary Hangover, at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover or on iTunes Check out Jamie’s podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at youtube.com/theantifada Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @majorityfm @SamSeder @_michaelbrooks @MattLech @jamie_elizabeth @Bf1nn

1943 - One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy w/ Carol Anderson

Adam and Chet welcome comedian Olivia Haidar to talk about the 2013 court ruling that led to a wave of voter suppression that's still happening in America

Good Luck, America

How Voter Suppression Works

This week, we're talking Voter Suppression and how to power through it, this coming November.

Episode 179: Voter Suppression Is Real

Released on Linear Obsessional's free download label, my album The Terminal Beach was first conceived in the early 80's.  It is a personal story as much as an attempt to capture JG Ballard's short story.  

A man maroons himself upon a former nuclear test atoll in the Pacific.  The small landscape is festooned with concrete structures.  Lakes, bunkers and two thousand blocks.  Wrecked bombers and more structures than even Ballard gets time to write about.  A story written in the shadow of the cold war, it perfectly captured who and what I was in my early 20's.  Come with me here, and see the sights?

07 The dark, undersea organ

Disagreements within parties have shifted the terms of debate, forced new agendas onto the political stage, even birthed new parties altogether. So in this episode of BackStory. Peter, Ed, and Brian peer inside our political parties and explore some of the influential factions that have left a mark on the American political landscape – from the Radical Republicans after the Civil War, to the Dixiecrats after World War II. Plus, they look back to the early Republic and a time before the formation of party organizations, when “faction” was the only game in town.

We should all be afraid: A whistleblower's report on the price of secrecy and surveillance.

This Is Hell!

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