The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Guest: Robert E. ScottS is senior Economist and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute

Plus Unique Derique with his “Fool La La: Home for the Holidaze” show on Sunday December 27 2:00pm online at the Marshstream.org

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Guest:  Jeremy Brecher is Research and Policy Director at the Labor Network for Sustainability. He wrote the article The Biden Climate Plan.

Plus The Town Crier, poet Raymond Nat Turner.

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Guest: Sasha Abramsky is an author and a journalist. He is a regular contributor to the  Nation Magazine. His latest piece in the Nation is We’re Now Facing Both a Public Health and a Poverty Catastrophe.

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Georgia vote suppression with guests Greg Palast.  He is a journalist and an author. His latest book is How Trump Stole 2020 – The Hunt for America’s Vanished Voters.

Plus California Schools Opening with Ricardo Cano. He covers California education for CalMatters.

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Guest: Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She co-authored with Susan R. Holmberg the piece in the Nation magazine, Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business: It will strengthen labor and help fight the increasing concentration of corporate power.

Plus, The Bioneers Conference Online.

And The Town Crier

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Guest: Nancy MacLean is the award-winning author of Democracy in Chains. Today we discuss her essay about how the far right controls the political narrative.

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Guest: Margaret Randall, plus a short reading from a new comic/whodunit novel about a retirement village in England.

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