One housing activist's assessment of where we are now with the ever-worsening housing crisis in the USA, and some lessons from 2020 on how we might begin to reverse course, with well-organized eviction defense campaigns as a primary tactic.

Today is the first anniversary of the killing of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police. The jury for the trial of the cop who killed George Floyd is being assembled now. This is the third track from my new album. 

We spend the hour with musician and organizer, Ben Grosscup, talking about the People's Music Network, doing popular education, and other subjects.

We spend the hour with one of the curators of the multi-platform Working Class History project.

I wrote this song about the past year of pandemonium, and within a couple days I received this amazing punk rock karaoke track from a musical entity I met on Reddit named Virtual Bird. I then added vocals, here in my living room, for the version we have here.

A really wonderful, first-person collection of stories from friends of Anne Feeney, broadcast last night on the radio show, Heartland Labor Forum, on KKFI in Kansas City. (Lots of yours truly at the beginning of the hour.)

I'm excited to share with you the trailer for Tayo Aluko's powerful and extremely timely new radio play, based on real events that took place in and around Peekskill, New York in 1949, called Paul Robeson's Love Song. The launch date: April 9th (Paul's birthday).

We spend the hour with boat mechanic and red diaper baby, Kevin Neish, speaking to us from his home in Victoria, in Canada, on a wide range of subjects from updates on the Fairy Creek Blockade against clearcutting operations near Port Renfrew, BC, to very poignant as well as entertaining stories from Greece, Gaza, Guatemala and elsewhere.

Fascinating conversation today with Jess Flarity about sex dolls, video games, and how to write good science fiction.

I awoke to the news yesterday that it had been one year to the day since the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the state of Oregon. Over the course of the next 24 hours, I wrote this song.