Hitting Left

Anton Seals Jr, Chicago community organizer talks equity, community investment, community farming, the "non-606" trail, and Illinois' newest industry: weed.

Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx joins us for a conversation about the criminal justice system, its impact on Black and Brown communities, the role of the prosecutor's office and the cannabis legalization among other topics.

Floyd Webb is a producer and director, known for The Search for Count Dante (2020), Yasuke-San (2022) and Daughters of the Dust (1991). Susan Kerns is Co-Director of the Chicago Feminist Film Festival and associate professor at Columbia College, Chicago.

Block Club's Jen Sabella and 39th ward aldermanic chief of staff for Samantha Nugent co-host The Girl Talk at the Hideout each month.

CTU President Jesse Sharkey joins us to discuss strikes, bargaining and the politics of teacher unionism.

Four of Chicago's important independent and alternative journalists join us for a conversation about the decline of legacy print journalism and more conversation about Chicago politics.

Jerry Harris joins us in a conversation about globalism, nationalism, imperialism, neoliberalism and the meaning of each in today's world. 

This week we create our weekly morning political talks, just the two of us. We talk about the just ended Chicago teachers strike and Mike looks back on seven decades of a political life.

Chicago poet, teacher and founder of Louder than a Bomb.

Journalist and film maker Assia Boundaoui joins us in a very unstructured conversation about growing up Muslim in Bridgeview, Illinois where the citizens of the town were under constant FBI surveillance for decades. Boundaoui has made a film about the story of Bridgeview called The Feeling of Being Watched.