We talk with one of the activists involved with mutual aid projects associated with the Etniko Bandido Infoshop and Community Resource Center in Pasig City, the Philippines.

There are several minutes about 2/3 in where I lose my internet connection (thank you, Comcast), but then I come back. My guest's internet connection there in Manilla remains stable.

New graphic (stickers coming) with a new song to go with it, on a concept of fundamental importance in places like the US and UK: the housing market is a Ponzi scheme, totally out of reach for most people, and the situation is literally killing us in large numbers every year.

The song is the latest collaboration between me and Jane Reynolds/Virtual Bird.

We talk with one of the greatest topical songwriters you've probably never heard of, Linda Allen, from Bellingham, Washington. She shares some amazing, brand new original songs with us live at the end of the hour.

Watching the news from Gaza with great alarm, got some gaps in your knowledge of the back story, and trying to understand what's going on? Here you go.

When the towers crumble in Gaza, they are drawn to the Earth by the same force of gravity as that which brought down the towers in New York, after the planes came.

With the headlines in so much of the world full of phrases like "inter-communal violence," the notion of the workers of the world uniting seems very distant -- but more relevant than ever.

Learning about implicit bias and microaggressions is a very good thing, but smashing capitalism is way better.  Lyrics by David Rovics, for the most part.  Everything else by Jane Reynolds/Virtual Bird.

Today we're talking with MC5 founder, guitarist, songwriter, recording artist, producer, and founder of Jail Guitar Doors USA, Wayne Kramer.

Even mainstream news outlets in the US have seen fit to admit the reality that far right mobs are regularly marching through Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem these days chanting "kill the Arabs." Like last Friday night. (But not like the song.)

We spend the hour with historian, Susan Soderberg, who is finishing up a biography of Josiah Henson, sometimes known as "the real Uncle Tom," which she's been researching for the past decade.