Social Action Briefing

Social Action Briefing

By Jessica Mitchell and Craig MilchNewsPolitics
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Social Action Briefing episodes

  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 38

    This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss SCOTUS developments, Republicans' plans if they win the House, a particularly disgusting example of GOP hypocrisy, DeSantis' racist fascism, fake stuff (vandalism, defund the police arguments, and internal police investigations), an attempted ban on drag in Idaho, and more horrific Dobbs fallout.

    1 hr 7 min
  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 37

    This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss the slate of election deniers running in the November midterm elections, the rally against/Hochul investigation of anti-LGBTQ discrimination at a Long Island school district, racism from Alabama's Senator Tuberville and the Los Angeles city council, and President Biden's steps toward cannabis legalization.

    1 hr 30 min
  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 36

    This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss the AL voting rights case before SCOTUS, Republican hypocrisy, employment discrimination, NY school reclassification, creepy menstruation monitoring in FL, and more Dobbs collateral damage.

    1 hr 25 min
  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 35

    This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch discuss fascism at home and abroad, an important climate treaty, the medical system's treatment of people who do and/or potentially can give birth, and a case of extreme neglect in the prison system.

    1 hr 7 min
  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 34

    This week Professor Jessica Mitchell, Martina Stephenson, and Craig Milch provide an update on water crises and discuss 14th amendment disqualifications, election chicanery in GA and FL, Alvin Bragg's hypocrisy, and Suicide Prevention Month.

    55 min
  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 33

    This week Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch welcome the newest edition to the podcast, Martina Stephenson. They discuss the student debt loan forgiveness program, the water crises in Jackson, MS and Pakistan, Women's Equality Day, suffrage, and the fallout of Dobbs, the recent racist incident at a Duke v BYU volleyball match, and the larger context of racism in higher education.

    51 min
  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 32

    We're back from summer vacation! This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch talk about Biden's newly announced student debt relief, the recently (finally) enacted climate, healthcare, and tax fairness reconciliation bill, this week's election results, and a NY state wrongful convictions bill that passed the Assembly.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 31

    This week, Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch talk about SCOTUS continuing its effort to turn the United States into a white Christian nationalist hellscape, Cassidy Hutchinson's 1/6 testimony, this week's elections, gun and school meal legislation, and student debt.

    1 hr 16 min
  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 30

    Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch discuss the January 6th committee, potential federal gun safety legislation, how a few different states are approaching homelessness, Texas abortions, and the NYC budget.

    1 hr 7 min
  • Social Action Briefing - Episode 29

    Professor Jessica Mitchell and Craig Milch are back to discuss the upcoming Jan 6 hearings, Biden's executive actions on solar energy, the fallout of CTC expiration, NY's gun control legislation, SF's DA recall, and how the Biden admin can eliminate the scourge of for-profit diploma mills.

    1 hr 18 min

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