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Research & Reading List: Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy

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Research & Reading List- Countering the Coup: From the Grassroots Up

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Research & Reading List: Unforget, Dream, Build

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Research & Reading List: The Pandemic Economy

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Research & Reading List: The Economics of Abolition

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Research & Reading List: Transportation Is a Human Right

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Research & Reading List: Farm Workers to Farm Owners

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F Word: The Times They Aint a Changing

I’ve never been a Bob Dylan fan, and the Nobel Prize winner’s sale of his archive to Universal Music changed nothing about that. In fact, sing as he might about how The Times They are a-Changing, Dylan’s deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anything.

But it could have been different.

Dylan, pre-sale, had assets worth an estimated $200 million. Post-sale, he’ll have half-a billion. If he lives to 100, he’ll have to spend $25 million a year f...

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Research & Reading List- Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

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Research & Reading List: Okwui Okpokwasili, Body Power

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Research and Reading List: Food Justice

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Reimagining Our Food System


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The food system in the US is overdue for a reimagining. Reinforced by a racist economic system, industrial farmers resort to practices that maximize profits but poison both people an...

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F Word: We Treasure What We Measure


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We Treasure What We Measure

Transparency, transparency, transparency. The word has become a battle cry in Trump times, and there was another skirmis...

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Episode Notes: Farm Workers to Farm Owners

Title: Farm Workers to Farm Owners Watch / Listen 

Description: Where do racial justice and food justice meet? Perhaps at the point where Latinx farmworkers are able to buy their own land. In the United States, 83 percent of farmworkers are Latinx but Latinx people own only 3 percent of the farms. This week on The ...

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Do Black Lives Really Matter to Businesses?


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Companies large and small are proclaiming Black Lives Matter as widespread demonstrations sweep the country to demand an end to police violence and investment in Black life. But is r...

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Farmworkers to Farm Owners


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Where do racial justice and food justice meet? Perhaps at the point where Latinx farm workers are able to buy their own land. In the United States, 83 percent of field workers are La...

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Institutional Racism in Higher Education


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The Black and Latinx Student Caucus at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health is challenging their school to address its anti-Black curriculum and institutional raci...

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F Word: The Great American Lie


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The Financial Times recently reviewed a slew of business books whose titles sp...

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Armed and Unmasked: Whiteness and Public Health


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White Supremacy and the Covid crisis aren’t separate. They’re linked. 

Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been catastrophic for publi...

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Episode Notes: Musician Raul Midón on Creative Adaptation During Covid-19

 Title: Musician Raul Midón Watch / Listen 

Description: Grammy-nominated musician Raul Midón has never fit neatly into any category. A skillful singer-songwriter and guitarist, he melds African and Latin influences, combining jazz with soul and bossa nova with salsa. As an independent music...

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Episode Notes: Environment Injustice As Usual During Pandemic

Featuring grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice  Watch / Listen 

Description: The skies over Los Angeles may be bluer thanks to the Covid 19 slow-down, but the impact of environmental racism on low income people of color persists.  According to a r...

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Episode Notes: We Need #TomateloEnSerioMX

 

theLFShow #294 episode notes, #TómateloEnSerioMX, Watch / Listen 

Description: TómateloEnSerioMX is the hashtag under which journalists in Mexico have come together not only to protect themselves, but to stop the spread of misinformation in a country that is gearing up the fight against Covid-19. More than 80 Mexican ...

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Forward Thinking on Covid-19: Public Safety in Public Hands:


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Over the last 50 years, every public service in the U.S. has been defunded, shrunk and starved, with the exception of law enforcement. Now, at a turning point in the nation’s toler...

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Putting Public Safety in Public Hands


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Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and the disproportionate impact of the ...

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Episode Notes: Covid-19 Demands a National Reckoning

Episode 293 featuring Professor Eddie Glaude Jr.  Watch / Listen 

Description: The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately black and working class. What explains our failure to build a more caring state? Princeton Pr...

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Episode Notes: Linda Sarsour, We Can't Afford to be Bystanders During Covid-19

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Environmental Racism as Usual During Covid-19


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In Los Angeles, the skies may be bluer thanks to the Covid-19 slow-down, but the impact of environmental racism on low income people of color persists. A recent study by the Harvard ...

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We Need #TómateloEnSerioMX


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TómateloEnSerioMX is the hashtag under which journalists in Mexico have come together not only to protect themselves, but to stop the spread of misinformation in a country that is g...

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Front-Line Workers and Labor Unions: Covid-19


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New York State might have “flattened the curve,” but the country’s largest metropolitan area is still grappling with the effects of the coronavirus. Neighborhoods wi...

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F Word: The Future is up for Grabs


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When it comes to cashing in on Covid-19, the race has just begun. Whether you’re talking about education or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-dem...

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