On today’s show we’re exploring how some women have been dehumanized to the point of indifference. We’ll learn how one community is undoing the silence around the violence women of color face. We’ll also hear about how serial killers were able to hunt down mostly Black women for three decades in South Los Angeles. Then we’ll take you to the Yucatan where pregnant indigenous women struggle under a health care system failing to provide proper medical care.

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Independent journalism has been the site to locate incisive analysis and perspectives typically passed over by the hegemony established by mainstream, corporate media. Speaking truth to power is a phrase often spoken, and arguably, a central tenet to independent journalism, and community produced media. A network of community media outlets gathered to assess and collaborate for The Media Consortium conference that took place in Washington DC to discuss the role independent media plays in today’s contentious media landscape.

Special thanks to the panelists, The Media Consortium, Jo Ellen Kaiser, Manolia Charlotin, Paul Stewart.

Featuring:

Ricardo Sandoval Palos, Managing Editor of 100 Reporters

Dr. Amara Enyia, 2016-2018 Global Leadership Fellow with the Global Strategists Association

Joseph Torres, Senior External Affairs Director for Free Press

Michelle Garcia, Journalist

Credits:

Producers: Lisa Rudman, R.J. Lozada, Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin

Development Associate: Vera Thykulsker

Featured Music:

Ketsa “Roll On”

John Luc Hefferman “Triumph”

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The Media Consortium

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Given Trump’s massive military budget proposal and the 14th Anniversary of the United States war in Iraq, we bring you this program from our archives with the voices of U.S. Soldiers and Iraqis reflecting on the costs of war. Special thanks to KALW News in San Francisco. Photo Credit: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA.

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George W. Bush, former U.S. President; Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense; Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State; Yara Badday, Iraqi-American; Paul Bremer, former U.S. Administrator to Iraq; Richard Becker, West Coast Coordinator for ANSWER Coalition; Paul Wolfowitz, former Deputy Secretary of Defense; Ghazwan Al-sharif, Iraqi translator; Ryan Berg, U.S. Marine; Starlyn Lara, U.S. Army; Jordan Towers, U.S. Marine; Barack Obama, U.S. President; Aaron Glantz, journalist.

Credits:

Host: Anita Johnson and Kyung Jin Lee

Special thanks to KALW News in San Francisco.

Featured Music:

Blue Dot Sessions: Lesser Gods of Metal.

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flickr user Brooke Anderson

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KALW News

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Covering the movements and organizations fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender, Laura Flynn, and Jasmín López.

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As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads.  First, the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans 75 years ago.  Then, how people fought to stop the Muslim registry after 9/11.

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