Month: September 2024

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Bad Faith - Episode 405 – More than Labor (w/ Christian Smalls)

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The labor organizer who led workers at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse to the first labor victory in the US against Amazon Christian Smalls returns to Bad Faith to discuss 2024 and labor's role in manufacturing consent for corporate candidates. The Amazon Labor Union co-founder weighs in on the claim that Biden-Harris has been the most "pro-union" administration of our lifetimes and whether Biden's relatively worker-friendly NLRB is sufficient reason to vote blue despite the Democrats' ongoing support for Israel's genocide in Gaza.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

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Focus on Africa - Kenya airports: Who is Adani group?

Why are workers at Kenya's main airports objecting to a planned deal to lease the facility to India's Adani Group for 30 years?   How Cameroon's simmering secessionist rebellion is affecting schooling for children    And why African women need to be involved in developing Artificial Intelligence.   Presenter : Audrey Brown Producers: Charles Gitonga and Susan Gachuhi in Nairobi, Todah Opeyemi in Lagos with Bella Hassan and Paul Bakibinga in London Technical Producer: Nick Randell Editors: Alice Muthengi and Andre Lombard

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Where Trump And Harris Stand On The U.S. Economy

Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have very different plans for the economy. From taxes to tariffs and tax credits to immigration, Reset breaks down the two presidential candidates’ stances on the economy with the professor for the department of economics and director of undergraduate studies at Northwestern University Mark Witte. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - New Book ‘Tías and Primas’ Busts Stereotypes About Latinas

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born into a large family from Nicaragua and grew up surrounded by all kinds of women: Her matriarchal abuela, her prima perfecta, her tía called la loca by people around her and more. In her latest book Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us, Mojica Rodríguez explores 20 different female archetypes with the hopes of reclaiming these women from stereotypical depictions. Reset sits down with the author. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Gripes of Rothman

Noah Rothman makes another surprise guest appearance on the podcast he founded back in 2015! It's Day Two of a conversation about the fallout from the presidential debate, which garnered a colossal audience and therefore demands a discussion about whether Donald Trump can afford not to debate a second or even third time after his loss on Tuesday. Give a listen.

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Native America Calling - Thursday, September 12, 2024 – Shining solar success stories

Native American-run organizations are jumping into the clean energy economy with both feet. The group Indigenized Energy is administering some $135.6 million in federal grants for both solar installations and manufacturing. The Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund has a continuous string of funding opportunities to get tribes in on solar projects. We’ll get updates on some promising trends that help provide both clean energy and tribal economic development.
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Up First from NPR - Inside War-torn Sudan, Corporate Grocery Profits, Memphis Officers On Trial

NPR gets a rare look inside Sudan where fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces has left millions displaced and struggling for survival. As grocery prices remain high, new data examines whether profits are outpacing rising costs. And the trial of three Memphis police officers begins with disturbing footage of the fatal traffic stop of 29 year-old Tyre Nichols.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Chip wreck: Intel is on the rocks

One of America’s stalwart tech giants is on the ropes, having first missed the move to mobile and then the one to AI. We ask what fate awaits it. Our correspondent meets with Vadym Sukharevsky, head of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces—the world’s first drone commander (9:05). And what is behind Donald Trump’s outlandish claim of immigrants eating pets in Ohio (16:40).


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