In this episode of Moment of Truth, host Meilin Obinata interviews James Weller about his journey into activism and community service. In the Santa Cruz area, people have heard his name in connection with a variety of causes, from public transportation to affordable housing development. But you might be surprised to learn about his involvement […]

UPDATES ON IRAN AND MINNESOTA: This show includes a conversation with an ordinary, working mom in Minnesota, Janine Sieja, about her experience with ICE chaos, abductions and even murders in her city … becoming an activist, her fears as a mother … and what is happening on the ground there now. Our conversation with Janine […]

Ami Chen Mills continues an ongoing conversation about resiliency, wisdom and right action with the Reverend Elisha Christopher of the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa Cruz, with a focus on “the Power of Presence.” What happens when we become fully present in the midst of the chaos, fear, outrage, courage and amazing protests all […]

Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a founding core member of the Ahimsa Collective, a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse. His work weaves together […]

Ami Chen Mills hosts an in-depth conversation with two, beloved, local spiritual leaders, the Reverend Deborah Johnson, of Inner Light Ministries, and the Reverend Elisha Christopher, of the Center for Spiritual Living–both of whom lead congregations here in Santa Cruz County and beyond. How do we respond to outer chaos, violence and attacks on human […]

What do Silicon Valley Tech oligarchs want from the rest of us? San Francisco and the East Bay have become a learning laboratory for studying the designs of billionaire tech executives on the nation and even the rest of the world. In this Part III show on San Francisco and Bay Area politics, seasoned journalists, […]

The Tech Bro Takeover of San Franciso, and the whole world, continues! … On our our last show, we circled back to the podcasters and journalists covering the Tech Broligarchy taking over San Francisco politics, and attempting to also take over the Bay Area and the entire nation, if not the world (and in fact, […]

Intrepid citizen journalists and campaign finance researchers have been tracking the rise of the tech-billionaire version of everyone’s favorite city by the Bay. With the election of new Mayor Daniel Lurie (heir to the Levi Strauss fortune) and the narrow defeat of progressive Supervisor Dean Preston, what do San Francisco politics portend for other Bay […]

This podcast was originally broadcast on Monday, Oct. 20, at 6pm for a Moment of Truth show featuring guests who share a critical, “neo-Luddite” perspective on our changing culture and technology. Moment of Truth and Hard Left News collaborated on this episode, which is Part 2 of a conversation between hosts Todd Zimmerman and Meilin […]

This podcast was originally broadcast on Monday, Oct. 6, at 6pm for a Moment of Truth show featuring guests who share a critical, “neo-Luddite” perspective on our changing culture and technology. Moment of Truth and Hard Left News collaborated on this episode, which is Part 1 of a conversation between hosts Todd Zimmerman and Meilin […]