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Progressive Victories and America’s War on the Poor
On today’s program, Thandisiwe Chimurenga hosts a conversation with Dylan Rodríguez, scholar, teacher, and longtime organizer. Rodríguez has been a professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001, where he teaches in the Department of Black Study. His work interrogates state violence, policing, and the carceral system while amplifying collective strategies of resistance and liberation. Together, Chimurenga and Rodríguez reflect on navigating U.S. politics in the age of Trump, unpack the failures of both the Republican and Democratic parties, examine the dangers of clinging to a two-party system, and explore pathways for organizing, resistance, and building power beyond establishment politics.
We begin with news from New York, where State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani recently secured a key victory in the New York City elections—signaling the growing influence of progressive politics at both local and national levels.
Later in the program, we turn to Poor News Network (PNN), a grassroots, poor-people-led media, education, and art project based in Oakland. Through storytelling, reporting, and cultural work, PNN lifts up the voices of unhoused and low-income communities while exposing what they call “Amerikkka’s war on the poor.” Their work challenges corporate media narratives and highlights survival, resistance, and resilience from the ground up.
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
The post Progressive Victories and America’s War on the Poor appeared first on KPFA.
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On today’s program, Thandisiwe Chimurenga hosts a conversation with Dylan Rodríguez, scholar, teacher, and longtime organizer. Rodríguez has been a professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001, where he teaches in the Department of Black Study. His work interrogates state violence, policing, and the carceral system while amplifying collective strategies of resistance and liberation. Together, Chimurenga and Rodríguez reflect on navigating U.S. politics in the age of Trump, unpack the failures of both the Republican and Democratic parties, examine the dangers of clinging to a two-party system, and explore pathways for organizing, resistance, and building power beyond establishment politics.
We begin with news from New York, where State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani recently secured a key victory in the New York City elections—signaling the growing influence of progressive politics at both local and national levels.
Later in the program, we turn to Poor News Network (PNN), a grassroots, poor-people-led media, education, and art project based in Oakland. Through storytelling, reporting, and cultural work, PNN lifts up the voices of unhoused and low-income communities while exposing what they call “Amerikkka’s war on the poor.” Their work challenges corporate media narratives and highlights survival, resistance, and resilience from the ground up.
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
The post Progressive Victories and America’s War on the Poor appeared first on KPFA.