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Leid Stories episodes

August 09, 2018 Leid Stories—Free Your Mind of the System’s Designs on It!–08.09.18
We've been walking around with the system's calamities cluttering our already overtaxed brains. Time to defrag and reclaim some brainspace for what really matters.
54 min
August 08, 2018 Leid Stories—Chicago Carnage A Dire Warning to Us All (Part 2)—08.08.18
We return to yesterday's discussion about the City of Chicago's unprecedentedly violent weekend., which saw 44 people shot, five of them fatally, in the span of 14 hours as the weekend began, and 44 others shot before the weekend was over. Even for Chicago, where 318 people have been killed so far this year, the weekend carnage was unprecedented.
We seek to understand this self-annihilation and how to get it to stop.
58 min
August 07, 2018 Leid Stories—Chicago Carnage A Dire Warning to Us All—08.07.18
By any measure the numbers are staggering and beyond comprehension: 44 people shot in the span of 14 hours, as the weekend began, five of them dying of their wounds. But it got worse. An additional 22 people were shot by the time the weekend was over. Even for Chicago, where 318 people have been killed so far this year, the weekend carnage was unprecedented.
What accounts for this murderlust? Will it stop? Leid Stories discusses the implications of self- annihilation.
58 min
August 06, 2018 Leid Stories: Detroit’s Homeowners Lose Big in ‘Settlement’ with State; Notes on Michigan’s Aug. 7 Gubernatorial Primary; Bernie Sanders Shills Again for the Dems in Michigan—08.06.2018
Abayomi Azikiwe, editor in chief of Pan-African News Wire, a Detroit organizer for the Workers World Party, co-founder of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs, and a regular commentator on Leid Stories, guides us through major political developments that would affect tomorrow’s primary elections in the State of Michigan.
55 min
August 03, 2018 Leid Stories—Free Your Mind! Let’s Hear What You’re Thinking!—08.03.18
It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, and you’re in the driver’s seat, taking the conversation wherever you want it to go.
Add your perspective on the issues of the day to the information, opinions and ideas shared in this open forum. It’s the best in peer-to-peer education!
Call in (888-874-4888) and let’s hear what you’re thinking.
56 min
August 02, 2018 Leid Stories—The Bloviator-in-Chief’s Big Bluff; Obama ‘Eager’ to Lead from Behind; What’s Your Meter Reading On the 2018 Midterm Elections?—08.02.18
That loud, incessant, screeching noise we’re hearing? It’s America’s bloviator-in-chief and his dimwitted legal adviser squealing that the sky is falling. And it very well may be, because President Trump is being asked to respond, in person and in writing, to specific questions from Special Counsel Robert Muller’s ongoing probe. No hype, no misstatements, no bluffs. Just hard, cold facts. Trump’s not ready to submit to scrutiny.
This being a critical election year for the Democratic Party, former President Barack Obama yesterday threw his support behind 81 candidates from 14 states running in the midterms. He’ll announce a second set of endorsements prior to the election, his office said. Obama said he’s “eager to make the case for why Democratic candidates deserve our votes this fall.” Obama has laid low since leaving office while President Donald Trump has been on the campaign trail for other candidates and the Republican Party since winning office.
Leid Stories “polls” listeners on their attitudes about the midterm elections this November.
59 min
August 01, 2018 Leid Stories—A Lawman and Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law—08.01.18
On July 19, security cameras outside a Clearwater, Fla., convenience store captured a violent altercation between two men—one white, one black. It appeared they had a brief but heated verbal exchange, and the black man shoved the white man, who fell to the ground. The footage showed the white man, identified as Michael Drejka, pulling out a handgun and shooting the black man, identified as Markeis McGlocton. Mortally wounded, McGlocton staggered back into the store.
McGlocton died, but his killer has not been arrested or even charged.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri quickly became the target of public outrage. But he says that Florida law prohibits him from either arresting or charging Drejka, who has invoked Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law to defend his deadly action.
Gualtieri yesterday called a news conference to explain how the “Stand Your Ground” law applies in the case and what it allows him to do and not do, notwithstanding public opinion.
Leid Stories will be covering different aspects of this case. We begin with Sheriff Gualtieri’s perspective on the “Stand Your Ground” law.
59 min
July 31, 2018 Leid Stories: Dems Fear the ‘S’ Word More Than Losing--07.31.18
With midterm elections looming, you’d think the Democratic Party would heed the most important lesson from its last big battle in 2016, when it lost not only the House, the Senate and the White House, but 69 of 99 state legislatures as well. The lesson? Act like defeating this hateful administration really, really matters.
By now, the Democratic Party’s voter base should be electrified by a (much deeper) working relationship with Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Our Revolution movement that grew out of his first run for president. By now, the party should have extolled several of the platform positions that gave Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, a stunning victory over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in the primary election for New York’s 14thCongressional District.
Why aren’t such things happening? Because, says Leid Stories, both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are self-described democratic socialists, and Democratic Party leaders are more afraid of the S-word that losing elections.
59 min
July 31, 2018 Leid Stories: Dems Fear the ‘S’ Word More Than Losing–07.31.18
With midterm elections looming, you’d think the Democratic Party would heed the most important lesson from its last big battle in 2016, when it lost not only the House, the Senate and the White House, but 69 of 99 state legislatures as well. The lesson? Act like defeating this hateful administration really, really matters.

By now, the Democratic Party’s voter base should be electrified by a (much deeper) working relationship with Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Our Revolution movement that grew out of his first run for president. By now, the party should have extolled several of the platform positions that gave Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, a stunning victory over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in the primary election for New York’s 14thCongressional District.

Why aren’t such things happening? Because, says Leid Stories, both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are self-described democratic socialists, and Democratic Party leaders are more afraid of the S-word that losing elections.
59 min
July 30, 2018 Leid Stories: Are We Witnessing America’s Demise? Can We Do Anything to Change Course or Direction?--07.30.18
Many would contend it is both false and unpatriotic to suggest that the United States of America is in a state of crisis. Has martial law been declared? No. Is there a run on the banks? No. Is food being rationed? No. The United States, like any developed country, they say, isn’t immune to setbacks and downturns and similar effects in the global economy. And, comparatively speaking, Americans enjoy a better way of life than most people in the world.
Yet polls are showing deep divisions among Americans about the direction of the country, racial polarization, class consciousness, economic opportunity and hot-button issues such as immigration and access to strategic resources such as education, housing and health care.
President Donald Trump and his administration—and the social, political and economic tenor of our times, generally—have come to symbolize the deep divisions America is experiencing that are pushing the nation toward implosion. Leid Stories asks: Are we in fact witnessing America’s demise? Can we do anything to change course or direction?
59 min