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Rick Smith Weekend - 05-12-2018 by Progressive Voices

Free Forum 05-12-2018 by Progressive Voices

The CIA director nominee and torture. Is there even a chance it will make a comeback in our name? We’ll get a briefing from the Rev. Ron Stief, executive director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

Also, a rigorous new study on the politicization of American conservative Christianity. I’ll welcome co-author Paul A. Djupe.

And what role did Americans play in enabling the Holocaust? We’ll hear from United States Holocaust Museum curator Daniel Greene.

Off-kilter 05-12-2018 by Progressive Voices

On the #RADIO show this week we cover how people are getting information and what it means to have changing mediums; the new #KeepMarching book; what’s going on in immigration policy and how you can help; the latest on protecting kids electronic data and a report from the USOW; and why decreasing maternal mortality is an emergency in the US right now.

*Special guests include: Dream Hampton, writer, award winning filmmaker, and organizer, @dreamhampton; Angy Rivera, No Le Digas a Nadie documentary film, @AskAngy, @NYSYLC; Karen Showalter, MomsRising, @MomsRising; and Monifa Bandele, @MomRising.

Trump praises "nice" Kim Jong Un for releasing the prisoners he kidnapped, as a member of his team mocks "dying" John McCain for not supporting a torturer.

America is a heartless, rogue state controlled by with worst human beings on earth.

Does that mean the "Grand Experiment in liberal democracy" is also dead?

Another week of madness.

We discuss this and more.

Since when did the word 'sanctuary' become a bad thing? Oh yeah, after conservatives used it to demonize immigrants, documented and undocumented, with the term 'sanctuary cities.'

These conservatives are the same people, like John Kelly and Tomi Lahren for instance, whose ancestors largely arrived to America uneducated and not speaking English. Listen as I explore the topic in detail.

The Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo is a Tonka Toy dreamland of electric trucks & buses, plus ingenious tech that helps legacy diesel vehicles cut emissions too!

Today I'm joined by Lisa Hajjar, a professor of sociology at the University of California – Santa Barbara. Her work focuses mainly on issues relating to law and conflict, military courts and occupations, human rights and international law, torture and targeted killing.

We discuss Gina Haspel, her involvement in the torture program, and her CIA confirmation process.

Professor Hajjar's publications include "Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza" and "Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights." She is currently working on a book titled "The War in Court: The Legal Campaign against US Torture in the “War on Terror.”

Her Twitter handle is @LisaHajjar and you can find articles that she's written at TheNation.com.

So, what do you do when you said you aren't going to do a show, but wake up with something to say? You record your walk, of course. So get up, get moving and join Karel for a look at the issue of the day on a three mile trek around Las Vegas. ReallyKarel.com Youtube.com/ReallyKarel TogetherWith.me