Outspoken

Walter Rhein returns to Outspoken. The social justice issues writer from Medium talks with Joy Silver about how his article detailing how his family was harassed by supporters of Donald Trump for speaking Spanish that went viral in 2016. They discuss his concern about how America in on a collision course with fascism and about how child abuse is at the roots of White Supremacy, and how this affects what is happening in our political system and its landscape.

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, it's an exploration of the Netflix series Godless. Joy is joined by HJ Grayson (A.K.A Heather) to determine if it is a ”feminist” film. They analyze the series relationship to the Western Genre, its hero archetype, and what the core resolutions are by the characters in the film as they relate to gender.  They also take that next step to discuss how the heroes and individuals vs. community continue to plague our maturation into a functioning adult society today, especially when it comes to guns, sons, and gender.

Walter Rhein, novelist/social justice writer for Medium and other publications and Philip Drucker, Constitutional lawyer/professor at the Desert Trail Academy in Indio California are Joy Silver's guests on this edition of Outspoken. It's a discussion defining fascism, the identification of the American historic trend the rise of far right extremism, English ideation of musters and militias and the constitutionality of the Second Amendment.   

Joy Silver talks about the worship of guns in our society with Jessica Pishko, lawyer and writer for Politico, The Atlantic , the Appeal and Posse Comitatus. In the second half of this episode, Dillon Melet joins the discussion. He is an American-Israeli, former Staff Sargent, Special Combat Engineering Unit with the Israel Defense Force. Having once worked in a gun shop in Long Beach, California, he is now a copywriter, content manager and content writer for several media platforms.

This edition of Outspoken has host Joy Silver and her guests looking at Legislation and The Political Horizon on Voter Suppression.

She is joined by guests Walker Beverly, Executive Director for Advancing Steps, whose mission it is to help change the lives of the formerly incarcerated, and member of Courageous Resistance of the Desert/Indivisible 36 and Allison Gaines, founder of “Justice Can’t Wait,” a civil rights organization with the sole purpose of creating social programs in Black and marginalized communities, Editor-in-Chief of Cultured Magazine and co-founder of Writers and Editors of Color.

On this episode of Outspoken, Joy Silver talks about Affordable Housing and What California Is Doing About It. She is joined by California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, and Policy Advisor to Riverside County Supervisor V. Manuel Perez, Greg Rodriguez. They discuss the State and County's efforts to solve this critical Housing Crisis, from financial, programmatic and political perspectives.

On this episode, Joy Silver talks with Lizzie Borden, bassist, and Cyndie Barone, drummer, formerly of Boston’s Lizzie Borden and the Axes, in the studio and on the phone about changing the face of Women & Equality through the Power of Music.

Joy Silver talks about Indigenous People Day, followed by interviews with two Black women currently holding local office, Desert Hot Springs City Councilwoman Jan Pye, and Banning Mayor Colleen Wallace to find out what their vision for their respective cities is, and what motivated them to get into politics. Opening the conversation this week, Joy talks with U.S. Democratic Party Senate Candidate Nicholas Mitchell, a Black, LGBT former-LDS hopeful running in the nearly all-white, red state of Utah!

We are watching a war on democracy being waged right in front of our eyes - has it already died? This week on Outspoken with Joy Silver, Joy speaks with Paula Setser-Kissick, a candidate for the Kentucky  State Senate, to find out what is happening there. Priya Vedula-Engel, second year medical student and public health policy specialist talks about voting as an issue of public health.

Carlos Garcia co-chair of a Palm Desert neighborhood organization called Drive4Five talks with Joy about what he and others are doing to gain a more democratic City Council in that mid-Valley city.

This week, Joy Silver visits with Julie Bornstein, attorney and former California State representative. She takes listeners through the legalities of the Roe v. Wade challenge in the latest Texas ruling. Julie also discusses the case before the 5th Circuit in Mississippi on October 4th.

Emiliana Guereca, President and Founder of the Los Angeles Women's March on October 2nd, talks about the event. For more information, visit: https://www.womensmarchfoundation.org.

Then, meet Lisa Schoenberg, Coordinator of the Women's Issues Committee for the Courageous Resistance of the Desert/Indivisible 36, who will be car caravanning to join the March in Los Angeles. To contact Lisa for more details, e-mail: [email protected].