– The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on both sides of the political aisle. While Republicans and right-wingers address some of these needs head on, they do so by luring people through empty rhetoric and culture war distractions. On the other side, Democrats and liberals police and enforce a cancel-culture paradigm built by elites that also distracts and divides the proletariat from ever engaging in meaningful connection and change.
– Catherine Liu, a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss her new book, “Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.”
* Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist, NY Times best selling author Chris Hedes will be in San Diego for KNSJ Commuity Radio *
Chris Hedges will be speaking at a Fundraiser for KNSJ Friday May 30. Location: St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2728 6th Avenue, San Diego, ENTRANCE on 5th Ave, The event begins with a reception at 5pm. At 7pm Chris will talk about his new book “A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.“ Order your tickets now at bit.ly/KNSJ2025.
GUEST: Alistair Running Bear Mulholland, Writer with Indian Voices
MIKE COVERS UP-TO-DATE NEWS. HE IS STARTING WITH THE SHOOTING IN FRONT OF THE EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND THEN WILL GO TO HIS GUEST ALISTAIR WITH INDIAN VOICES.
_______ About Indian Voices ________
MISSION STATEMENT
– To advance and promote a supportive system of information sharing grounded in Native Indigenous values and traditions while developing pioneering efforts to build bridges with emerging grassroots coalitions of labor and community groups in order to create a sustainable economic environment
– Indian Voices Media project is the culmination of efforts on the part of community members intent on assisting with the development of an entrepreneurial journalistic endeavor. Dedicated to bringing the voices of the marginalized and the indigenous members of our society into the national discours. To not only influence policy makers, but to enhance the pool of educational material to inform the mainstream about the important role of indigenous people, whose enduring presence in the development of our history and society assures its future.
– Particular emphasis is given to exploring and revealing the historically strong connection that exists between Black / Indian cultures.
– This loose affiliation of volunteers and change agents contribute to the production of a monthly print newspaper and a developing cutting edge website offering academics and social critics a platform for expression.
– This ongoing project has been under guidance and supervision of Rose Davis. A long time advocate of a sustainable and healthy, balanced living environment and whose work toward this end is her raison d’etre. – –
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a climate change organization that exists to create the political will for a livable world by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy climate change organization focused on national policies to address the national and global climate crisis.
Our Approach
Our consistently respectful, nonpartisan approach to climate education is designed to create a broad, sustainable foundation to drive climate action across all geographic regions and political inclinations. By building upon shared values rather than partisan divides, and empowering our supporters to work in keeping with the concerns of their local communities, we work towards the adoption of fair, effective, and sustainable climate change solutions. – We train and support volunteers to build relationships with elected officials, the media and their local community.
Our Volunteers
Our volunteers include everyone from high school students to concerned grandparents, engineers in the natural gas industry, house painters, farmers, and everyone in between. Some are PhDs who have spent careers researching the intricacies of climate change; others are concerned citizens who just want to know how to help. Whatever our backgrounds, we’re all united by a commitment to making our voices heard as we call for a healthy climate movement and future.
CCL volunteers are organized into hundreds of local chapters across the US and internationally. These chapters build political support for climate action with a variety of tools, which they use in keeping with their local culture and politics. By focusing on shared values rather than partisan divides, we build relationships with community leaders and with federal elected officials and with Congress, always starting from a place of respect, gratitude, and appreciation.
Law and Disorder provides timely legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and practices of torture exercised by the US government and private corporations.
Today’s conversations include:
A New Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement Amid Tension. Guest – Richard Becker is the Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER—Act Now to Stop War and End Racism—Coalition, and the author of Palestine, Israel the U.S. Empire and of the book The Myth of Democracy and the Rule of the Banks.
Entrenching Authoritarianism: Expanding the Terrorism Framework and the Infrastructure of Surveillance to Repress Expression and Stifle Dissent. Guest – Attorney Nadia Ben-Youssef, the Advocacy Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights is quoted saying “Our hope is that the report sounds the alarm for the international community to act with greater urgency to challenge this administration and its belligerent efforts to dismantle constitutional protections and international law.” She directs all advocacy around issues related to the promotion of civil and human rights. Together with the legal, advocacy, and communication teams, Nadia identifies opportunities for the Center for Constitutional Rights to make strategic cultural and political interventions that shift public narrative and policy on our issues.
Andy Palasciano is a poet who lives in Old Town San Diego. He formerly co-hosted Broken Anchor Poetry along with Ying Wu and Michael Klam. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from San Diego State in English Literature. He has helped run several Kids San Diego Poetry Annual Events. He has two books published by San Diego Poetry Annual publisher Bill Harding through Garden Oak Press or Lymer and Hart. One is his memoir “The Warrior: The Tales of a Substitute Teacher and Job Coach,” which covers his whole life including his rough career as a substitute teacher where he “survived” and his current job as a job coach where he mentors disabled adults at their places of employment. Lymer and Hart and Bill Harding also published his latest book “Revolutions: Night and Day,” which is a collection of allegory and art that mirrors the rotation of the Earth.
Compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform
Writer’s Voice features author interviews and readings, as well as news, commentary and tips related to writing and publishing. Francesca also talks with editors, agents, publicists and others about issues of interest to writers. Francesca Rheannon is the producer and host of Writer’s Voice. She is a writer, an independent radio producer and a broadcast journalist.
Guests Ann Wright and Pat Elder – Military Families in Hawaii Protest Polluted Water
From the archives of Friendly Fire, today is a replay of its important and still relevant program with US Army Colonel (Ret.) and former US State Department official ANN WRIGHT discussing US Navy pollution problems at US Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickman in Hawaii. Also joining the conversation is US Military Poisons Project Executive Director PAT ELDER. Both of these activists with USN resistance to cleaning up and fixing leaking fuel tanks adversely affecting thousands of US military personnel. This show is a rebroadcast from 12/21.
About PFAFS. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large family of man-made chemicals that contain carbon, fluorine, and other elements.
These chemicals have been in use since the 1940s and are found in a variety of products including firefighting foams, household products such as non-stick cookware, food packaging, and stain and water repellants.
The two most widely studied PFAS chemicals are perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS); these chemicals were voluntarily phased out of production in the United States. However, as many as 3,000 other PFAS chemicals still are used in a wide variety of applications.
These chemicals are persistent and resist degradation, meaning they accumulate in the environment and in your body over time. – From Military Poisons Website
THE WOMEN’S HOUR with PATRICIA LAW Saturdays at Noon
Guest YUSEF MILLER — LYNCHING IN AMERICA
[In case you missed the show, during the week, we are replaying Patricia’s conversation with Yusef about these historical events,]
Patricia is in conversation with Yusef Miller, an amateur historian, on the history of lynching which continued in America into modern history and current memory, about courageous African American leaders and a concise timeline of historical events in America, information rarely, if at all, covered in text books, and more. You won’t want to miss Yusef relating events in our history that we all should know.
Yusef Miller was born into a Muslim Family in Chester, Pennsylvania; he joined the US Navy after High School and retired after 24 years of Active Duty service as a Chief Hospital Corpsman at Camp Pendleton California, spending those years as an EMT(I.V. insertion, Medication Dispenser), Laboratory Technician (Phlebotomy, Immunizations), Clinic Manager (Administration, Discipline, Education, and Medical Research). Yusef Miller is currently a member of the Board of Islamic Society North County (Escondido Musullah). Upon retirement from the Armed Service, Yusef filled his time with Social Justice activities, first through Interfaith teams, fighting disparities on all fronts: Race, Religion, Gender, Immigration Status to name a few.
Yusef’s volunteer work as a Social Justice Advocate includes:
Founder of “Pink Crescent”, a breast health awareness organization, in cooperation with the Komen Foundation and the Quarterly Regional Breast Health forum which aims to increase the survival rate of women of color and increase inclusion in clinical trials, by visiting and educating women’s groups on the seriousness of testing and prevention.
Founder of Mosques Against Trafficking (M.A,T.) in Oct 2016; Fighting human trafficking in San Diego County is a must for us all as San Diego is in the top 13 of worst cities in the US in term of human trafficking. We are increasing information and taking active steps to end human exploitation.
Environmental equity promoter – educating the community on clean air, clean water, and clean soil in a manner and does not neglect environmental injustices particular to communities of concern. Advocating from such platforms that include: Chair of the Environmental Climate Justice Committee of NSDC NAACP, Equity Advisor for Clean Earth For Kids, Clergy for the Coastline, and as Co-Chair of Interfaith for Climate and Earth Justice.
David Loy is the legal director of The First Amendment Coalition
Loy is a veteran civil liberties litigator who has defended the First Amendment rights of reporters, photographers, bloggers, students, teachers, activists, protesters, musicians, Marines, and motorcycle club members. He has fought for public disclosure and governmental transparency for over 20 years. He joins FAC from the ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties, where he served as legal director for nearly 16 years, overseeing a diverse docket of civil rights cases.
Loy directs FAC’s strategic litigation program, enforcing California and federal open-government laws and defending First Amendment protections. And he will work with other senior staff to champion legislative and policy reforms to strengthen press freedom, protest rights and access to public meetings and information. He will manage two legal fellows and contribute to FAC’s free Legal Hotline.“
David’s deep experience, keen legal mind and passion for the First Amendment make him ideally suited to oversee FAC’s growing legal work—and to expand that work to meet new threats,” said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. “We could not ask for a colleague better prepared to lead FAC’s strategic litigation program into the future. We are overjoyed to begin working with him.”
Earlier in his career, Loy worked as a staff attorney with the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York City, a public defender in Spokane, Washington, and a staff attorney with the Center for Justice in Spokane.
He studied history and Chinese language at Brown University, where he was photo editor of the Brown Daily Herald. After college, he worked for a law firm in San Francisco, taught English in China, and served as the legal assistant for a Chicago legal services office. He graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1994 and clerked for U.S. Circuit Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. David is an active member of the California and New York bars, with inactive status in Washington and Illinois.
He lives in San Diego. Follow him on Twitter.
ABOUT THE FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION
Our Mission
The First Amendment Coalition protects and promotes a free press, freedom of expression, and the people’s right to know. Nonpartisan and nonprofit, FAC believes that the broadest range of engaged and informed communities is essential to the health of our democracy — that the values expressed by the First Amendment provide a blueprint for an inclusive, equitable society and a responsive, accountable government. To that end, FAC educates, advocates, and litigates to advance government transparency and First Amendment protections for all. (Board of Directors, June 2022)
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
FAC recognizes that our mission can only be achieved by actively cultivating diversity, equity and inclusion, both inside and outside the organization. We believe that in order to realize the promise of the values underlying the First Amendment, we must reach and include as broad a range of voices as possible to inform our policies, priorities and programs. We recognize that systemic inequities rooted in, among other things, race and gender require FAC to take the initiative in seeking out and embracing a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds and life experiences. To that end, we commit to actively expanding and diversifying our networks.
We recognize it is our responsibility to allocate our resources in support of and collaboration with institutions, individuals, organizations and coalitions that reflect the diversity of California and the nation, especially those traditionally excluded from power and resources. Fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive community is both a goal in itself and an integral part of carrying out our organizational mission. Read more about this in the summary of our 2021-2026 Strategic Plan.
