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LA Progressive
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The LA Progressive team believes the media not only informs the public, but it can also spur public debate, shape public opinion, and shift the Overton Window. The LA Progressive embraces the idea of civic journalism and rejects the notion that objective reporting is even possible.We Cover: california politics, california progressive politics, campaigns, city council, death penalty, elected officials, election season, elections, independent news, judges, la progressive, left leaning politics, liberal politics, los angeles, politics, progressive, progressive era politics, progressive politics laprogressive.substack.com
Episodes
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Why Fighting Racism Is Not the Same as Building a Multiracial Movement
When I sat down recently with longtime organizer Eric Mann, I expected us to talk about movement strategy. We did. But before we got very far, Mann raised something more basic: friendship. “What’s the point of trying to change the whole country if we don’t like each other?” he asked. It was…
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Recalling the Torments of a Radical Truthteller - James Baldwin
In this conversation, Peter Laarman tells Dick and Sharon how he resisted reading the sprawling new biography of James Baldwin—Nicholas Bogg’s James Baldwin: A Love Story—out of deep respect for this great writer. The reviews were all telling Peter that Boggs digs into the details of his…
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Angelmarie Taylor Is Fighting Back Against Campus Repression
lder activists talk a lot about “passing the torch” to the next generation. After spending time with AngelMarie Taylor, I’m beginning to think we may have the metaphor wrong. Young people like Taylor aren’t standing around waiting for somebody to hand them a torch. They have already picked it up....
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How Federal Budget Cuts Fuel Local Austerity—and Divide Working Americans
Mario is a longtime LA Progressive contributor, political strategist, broadcaster, policy commentator, and now Substack writer. He is also very funny—although he insists he is not a comedian. “I hear that a lot,” he told me when we recently sat down to talk. “Sometimes the only way to deliver...
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Liberal vs. Progressive on Race
Every February, the same poster goes up in the break room. Martin Luther King Jr., mid-speech, arm raised, quote stripped of context and shrunk to fit a frame. Every May 5th, someone brings tacos to the office potluck. Every June, a rainbow logo. Every November, a land acknowledgement read aloud...
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Breaking the Cycle: Why White People Must Help Dismantle Racism to Save American Democracy
Frank Joyce and Elizabeth Woodson joined Dick and Sharon of the LA Progressive to talk about the role that white people MUST play in creating democracy for all. They are both dedicated to dismantling racism. When speaking of herself and Frank, Elizabeth said, “We are not of the same gender or...
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From PBS to KBLA: Tavis Smiley’s Mission
From his early days as a commentator on BET to his groundbreaking role as the first African American to host signature talk programs on both NPR (The Tavis Smiley Show) and PBS (Tavis Smiley), he has consistently used his platform to uplift stories that are too often ignored—those rooted in the...
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Teaching Real History: Why Complexity, Not Myth, Builds Informed Citizens
Across the country, classrooms are under pressure—politically, ideologically, and pedagogically. One quiet but powerful force distorting how young people understand the world is reductionist reasoning and erasure of marginalized perspectives in the teaching of history. Dick Price and Sharon Kyle...
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Authoritarianism, Historical Amnesia, and the War on Education
Culture is the primary battlefield authoritarians use to establish a foothold in the public imagination, where fear is normalized, dissent is demonized, and history is rewritten to serve the interests of power. In our conversation with Henry Giroux, a regular writer for the LA Progressive, Dick…
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Can California Dems Win Back Latino Voters
After the disastrous November election, we have not seen the emergence of a Democratic Party agenda or any effort that clearly goes to the heart of the Latino community. During the fall’s Presidential elections, Latino voters across the country expressed their concerns with the status quo by...
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America’s Addiction to War: A Lieutenant Colonel Reflects 40 Years Later
Forty years ago. Bill Astor was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. In this conversation with Dick Price, himself a Vietnam Veteran, the two military veterans reflect on two decades of military service and their participation in a system deeply embedded in America’s...
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Is Donald Trump Bullying America's Judicial Branch
Is Donald Trump Bullying Judges and Law Firms? Has he taken a page from Hitler’s playbook? It appears that Trump is bullying America's legal system. Nine of America’s largest and most powerful law firms have surrendered to President Donald Trump’s illegal threats. They demeaned themselves by...
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FBI Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan Sparks National Uproar
On April 25th, the FBI arrested Hannah Dugan, a circuit court judge who serves on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court in Wisconsin. She was taken away in handcuffs, a highly unusual maneuver–specifically, Judge Dugan was handcuffed and arrested by FBI agents at the courthouse where she presides,...
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John Kiriakou Speaks
Former CIA counterterrorism officer and a former senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kiriakou, engaged in a great conversation with Dick and Sharon a while back. We are republishing it here. John became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration...
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A Conversation About USAID
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) played a vital role in U.S. foreign relations for over six decades. What began as a Cold War instrument to allegedly "curb communism" through economic development grew into a global agency addressing some of the world's most pressing...
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The Presidents and the People
Stephen Rohde offers a review of Corey Brettschneider’s engaging new book The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It. Brettschneider offers lucid and revealing profiles of five presidents - John Adams, James Buchanan, Andrew...
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With Trump Waging War Against Black People, Where Are Our Muhammad Ali's?
Author and longtime journalist, Desi Cortez, joins Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive to discuss the role of Black professional athletes in the fight for civil liberties and civil rights, particularly when the Black community is under fire. Speaking of recent actions taken by the...
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Consiglieres in Black Robes
Thought leader, writer, lecturer and political activist, Stephen Rohde joins Sharon Kyle and Dick Price of the LA Progressive to discuss the perils we find ourselves facing with the current supremem court. Rohde maintains that throughout his rise to power, Trump has recruited obedient enablers to...
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Former Green Party Candidate Makes a Big Move
Dr. Butch Ware, Dr. Jill Stein's 2024 running mate on the Green Party presidential ticket, has announced his candidacy for another office. With a rich background in academia and community organizing, Dr. Ware brings a unique perspective to the campaign. Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive spent…
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Are We Witnessing the Weaponization of Government?
Georgetown Law Professor and thought leader Michele Goodwin joined Dick and Sharon of the LA Progressive to discuss the impact of Donald Trump's immunity case and its impact on his accountability as president of the United States. In a piece Ms. Goodwin penned for Ms. Magazine titled "Reflecting…
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Former Colin Powell Chief of Staff Ret. Col Lawrence Wilkerson Speaks Frankly on Pete Hegseth, Race and More
Colonel (Ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson, a seasoned military officer and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, has long been known for his candid and often critical views on U.S. foreign policy. His analysis of the Trump administration and his concerns about the leadership in the...
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Grammy 2025 Supports DEI and Takes on Trump
The Grammy Awards are more than a music event; they’re a cultural touchstone with the power to challenge the status quo, promote equity, and redefine who gets to be celebrated in the global music industry. By embracing DEI, the Grammys can help shift cultural attitudes toward greater inclusivity...
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The Spiritual Death of a Nation
To be alive spiritually means that one is concerned with more than personal survival. Unlike a beast of the wild whose daily concerns are limited only to what can be foraged or killed for consumption to survive to repeat the cycle. A type of survival of the fittest existence. But a person who has...
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Code Pink's Medea Benjamin Urges Pro-Palestinian Activists to Remain Vigilant
As President Biden greenlights another $8 billion in weapons to Israel in his last days in office and Secretary Blinken gives a parting New York Times interview in which he denies that a genocide is taking place in Gaza, many pro-Palestine activists are anxiously counting down the days until...
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A Convicted Felon Can Be President. Could a Sexual Predator Become Secretary of Defense ?
We open this podcast acknowledging the tragic wildfires in Southern California. The LA Progressive operates just a few short miles away from Pasadena, CA. Our thoughts and prayers (yes, we pray) are with all of the members of our community who have been impacted by the tragedy. On January 14 at...
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New Nuclear Weapons ?
New Nuclear Weapons? Not for the U.S. Dick Price of the LA Progressive has a conversation with Bill Astor about our nuclear arsonal. It's always the right time to stop building more weapons of mass destruction To prevent the apocalyptic consequences of yet another nuclear arms race, the US should...
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Marianne Williamson Running to Head the DNC
The main executive leadership of the Democratic Party is the Democratic National Committee (DNC). It is generally responsible for the affairs of the Democratic Party including planning how to support Democratic Party candidates running for local, state, and federal office across the nation. The...
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Vijay Prashad on the Fall of Assad
As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria Liberation Committee) seized Damascus, Syria’s capital, on December 7, 2024, the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad boarded a flight to Moscow, Russia. It was the end of the rule of the Assad family that began when Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000)...
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Will Trump Try to Stay In Office Beyond 2028
If we have learned anything about Donald Trump over the past decade, it’s that even his most outlandish threats against democracy should be taken seriously. This applies not only to his promises to exact revenge and retribution on his political opponents and critics, but also to his expressed...
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Neoliberalism’s Plague: The Erosion of Conscience in Education
Henry Giroux joins Dick and Sharon in a conversation about neoliberalism and its impact on education. Henry believes that for decades, neoliberalism—a predatory form of capitalism—has waged a relentless war on the welfare state, dismantled the public sphere, and eroded the common good. Disguised…
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Trump Reminds Us That Hate Sells
Bernie Sanders and others in the political class believe that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class and that, as a result, the working class has abandoned the party. Then, Trump duped the working class by appealing to hate, the most primal of instincts. Which resulted in many...
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Lust for White Privilege Killed the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is dead. The Republican Party is dead too. It died a while back, but nobody knew it because before anybody could check its pulse, a collection of crazies assumed its identity and rallied behind The Great Orange Father. But everybody knew the Democratic Party died because on...
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Charisse Burden-Stelly on Racial Capitalism
Charisse Burden-Stelly is a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and political and historical sociology. Her research pursues three complementary lines of inquiry. The first interrogates the transnational entanglements of U.S. capitalist...
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Dick and Sharon Discuss Election Results
It’s the day after election day, USA 2024, and Dick and Sharon are weary. They’re weary of the pervasive misogyny coloring the current political landscape—a hue that now stains even the nation’s highest offices. They’re sick of the unapologetic, gendered vitriol aimed at figures like Vice…
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Marianne Williamson on the Party Apparatus
Marianne Williamson ran for president of the United States in 2020 and 2024. In this interview with Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive, Marianne speaks frankly about her experiences on the campaign trail but more specifically, with the DNC. Please subscribe and share. For more...
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Is Voting for Kamala Harris Pragmatism or Cowardice?
Although I, like all rational people, would love to be spared another four years of Trump misery, I realize that spiritual warfare cannot be waged without injury, or at least inconvenience. Those are the words of attorney, writer, and guest of this podcast, Mark Fancher In writing his latest…
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Paulo Freire and the Necessity of Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Book Banning
Paulo Freire and the Necessity of Critical Pedagogy is the topic of this discussion with Henry G "Today, as education comes under attack by neoliberal and authoritarian regimes worldwide, Paulo Freire's ideas are more vital than ever," says Henry Giroux a professor who currently holds the…
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How To Talk to Someone with Different Political Views
These days, it's almost impossible to have a civil conversation with anyone of a different political view. But contrary to what you might believe, learning to talk to someone who holds deeply ingrained opinions that differ from yours without the conversation quickly devolving into an argument or...
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The U.S. Supreme Court Has Supercharged America's Gun Violence
Former judge Bill Blum chats with the LA Progressive about the ways in which the Supreme Court has supercharged the nation’s gun violence epidemic. He tells Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive that the Supreme Court has left our schools, streets and communities soaked in blood. He…
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Henry Giroux Explains How Liberal Education Strengthens Democracy
Henry Giroux is an American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. Henry…
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John Kiriakou talks about serving time after being convicted under the Espionage Act
Today, John Kiriakou is an author and a journalist but not long ago, he was a CIA counterterrorism officer and a senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was in this roll that John became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage…
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Prof Richard Wolff: Why Racism is Essential in Capitalism
Professor Richard Wolff sheds light on the role that racism has played as an essential tool for maintaining the capitalist order. Says Wolff, "U.S. capitalism solved its instability problem by making cyclical downturns afflict chiefly a minority subpart of the whole working class." He explains…
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Economist Prof Richard Wolff Explains Capitalism
Rick Wolff has a written new book, "Understanding Capitalism". Professor Richard D. Wolff has written this book in an effort to provide clear and concise answers to questions that thousands have asked him over and over as he engaged in speaking engagements across this country. Richard D. Wolff is…
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Cornel West - Building a Party, a Campaign, and a Movement
Cornel West, the public intellectual, author, and professor, announced his bid for the presidency of the United States and selected Dr. Melina Abdullah as his running mate long before Kamala Harris took on the mantel. Mainstream media tends to focus exclusively on the Democratic and Republican...
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Millions Spent on Netanyahu’s Trip to Washington, DC
Security for war criminal Netanyahu was more extensive than what was provided for 32 heads of state for the recent NATO anniversary in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Congress invited the war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress on July 24, thereby...
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White Men Clinging to Power: More Than a Biden Problem
What is it about white men, especially older white men, finding it so hard to surrender the spotlight, pass the torch, and stand down? Joe Biden did the right thing. Finally. But it took Nancy Pelosi's hammer and tongs—and the eventual capitulation of his consiglieri, Ricchetti and Donilon, to…
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American Ballet Theatre and DEI
The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) honored my uncle, Leopold Allen at two events in New York City. ABT said, "As we come to the end of Pride Month, we want to pay tribute to a member of our community who made way for a more inclusive world in ballet and beyond. A legend, a light, a...
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Want Kamala Harris to Beat Trump? Register Young Voters Now!
Now that President Biden has voluntarily chosen to drop out of the presidential race and has also endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. The game has changed. Almost immediately upon hearing the news, close to 45,000 Black women participated in a call that helped raise a record $81 million for…
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Daria Roithmayr Explains Intractable Racism
Law Professor Daria Roithmayr has spent her career trying to understand the unyielding persistence of racism in the United States. She found a clue when she discovered, by happenstance, a book that discussed how Microsoft established dominance by not playing by the rules, what followed for...
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War-induced Starvation Causes More Death than Direct Violence
The LA Progressive chats with Andrea Mazzarino, co-founder of Brown University's Costs of War Project. In a piece written by Mazzarino and published by the LA Progressive, Mazzarino makes the case that war-induced hunger and insufficient medical care indirectly kills more civilians than direct...
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The LA Progressive team believes the media not only informs the public, but it can also spur public debate, shape public opinion, and shift the Overton Window. The LA Progressive embraces the idea of civic journalism and rejects the notion that objective reporting is even possible.We Cover: california politics, california progressive politics, campaigns, city council, death penalty, elected officials, election season, elections, independent news, judges, la progressive, left leaning politics, liberal politics, los angeles, politics, progressive, progressive era politics, progressive politics
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