Keeping Relevant With Ronnie Eldridge

In 1918, NYC Council's 51-member body could have fewer than 10 women elected to serve. Invited by the Museum of the City of New York to discuss this issue, Ronnie Eldridge talks with some of today's women leaders about achieving gender parity in politics.

In part 2, practitioner of union and government politics, columnist for the Civil Service Chief Leader, Vincent Montalbano outlines events and politics that led to labor unions' loss of power and strength. The Democratic Party should represent labor.

Vincent Montalbano, a long time practitioner of union and government politics and host Ronnie Eldridge, growing up in the Roosevelt era, discuss the "mess" of modern politics, each sadly acknowledging that the citizen plays a very small role in elections.

Per Bill Maher, "Ageism as the last acceptable prejudice in America." Noting that people live longer but not always well, founder of The Radical Age Movement, Alice Fisher and Hunter College professor Steve Burghardt outline challenges facing an older pop.

CUNY Citizenship Now! is celebrating 20 years of service to those on the path to citizenship. Allan Wernick, law professor, columnist, writer, and program director discusses the effect on Dreamers of President Trump's abandonment of the DACA program.

Jo Freeman, activist, scholar, attorney, Berkeley grad, discusses Free Speech-Civil Rights Movements of the 60s; the protest group, Antifa; White Supremacy; Populism, naming the south's Huey Long, Theodore Bilbo, northerners Sanders and Trump as Populists

Award winning television producer, staff member to Commissioner Betty Furness and Congressman Dick Ottinger - now retired, Rita Satz at 92, has her first book of poetry - published. Satz and Eldridge talk aging, the past and the present.

Dorothy Samuels, senior fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law describes the battle over contraception as only one aspect of the campaign over a woman's right to the control of her body and, to a greater extent, to the control of her life.

Justin Davidson, architecture & classical music critic, New York magazine-author of "Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York," summarizes New York-the real estate deal between the Dutch and the Lenape Indians- as everyone's story of who comes here.

Alyssa Katz, author "Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us" and "The Influence Machine:The US Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life" discusses her work with the NY Daily News Editorial Board and local and national leadership.