It takes the average Latina, 12 extra months to earn what the average White, non-Hispanic man earns. That is because Latinas are only paid .55 cents to the dollar of […]

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On today’s show, host Esty Dinur is in conversation with Kathy Kelly about her experience advocating peace in the Middle East. Kelly worked with Voices in the Wilderness in Iraq after the US’s “Shock and Awe” assault on the country. She says the main victims of violence and economic sanctions against Iraq were children, the elderly, and the poor. Kelly was disappointed by mainstream media for not covering the civilian losses, and she wants to see better reporting on the reality of war crimes.

Kelly sees a similar pattern with the more recent US attacks on Iran of warfare against civilians. There have been systematic attacks on journalists and healthcare workers in Gaza and elsewhere, two groups of people who are first-hand witnesses to the horrors of war and genocide.

They also discuss student groups organizing around BDS and taking other nonviolent actions. Kelly also describes the schools in Afghanistan that she supported and how important it is to talk about Israel’s nuclear weapons. She finds hope in grassroots organizing around the world.

Kathy Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War. Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she has coordinated an international network to assist young Afghans forced to flee their country after the Taliban takeover. With Voices in the Wilderness companions, from 1996 – 2003, she traveled 27 times to Iraq, defying the economic sanctions and remaining in Iraq throughout the Shock and Awe bombing.

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Earlier this week, the Atlanta City Council approved an addition $31 million dollars for the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. This was after more than 16 hours […]

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The food system in the US is broken. And though the MAHA movement claims to be fixing it, the latest US dietary guidelines prioritize red meat and high-fat dairy products over real food. On today’s show, host Patty Peltekos speaks with Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters. It’s a revision of her 2006 book, What to Eat that Nestle sought to update during the pandemic. She “rescued” the historical parts and replaced products that were no longer available.

Nestle unpacks the latest US dietary guidelines and the new food pyramid put out by the Trump administration. She says that the recommendation to double your protein intake is strange because Americans already eat too much meat. For this administration, protein is synonymous with red meat. This is reflected in the revised (and inverted) food pyramid that puts meats and dairy products at the top. It’s about marketing, not science, says Nestle.

If the US government wanted to support people in making healthy food choices, it would make real food cheaper and more available, teach people how to cook real food, pay people more so they can afford real food, offer universal basic income, provide free school meals, and support agriculture that produces food for people instead of for animals or cars, says Nestle.

They also talk about the rise of “ultra-processed foods,” foods that studies show induce people to eat more of them. Unlike other foods, these don’t look anything like the foods they came from and can only be created in an industrial setting. Nestle also describes how the rise of GLP-1 drugs is affecting people’s food consumption and how the food industry is responding to what they perceive as a threat to their profits.

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She holds honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky and the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York.

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“The Philippines is under a new administration, but still the government’s case against de Lima hobbles along, a symbol of the country’s degradation from the Duterte years of violent populism […]

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On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow is in conversation with historian Forest Isaac Jones about the strong connections between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the US and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland. His new book, Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972 traces the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march of 1965 on the Belfast to Derry march of 1969.

Folks in the US might be surprised to learn how profoundly the Civil Rights Movement shaped the fight for liberation in Northern Ireland. Both movements were focused on voting rights and both groups faced state-sanctioned violence, says Jones. The mainstream media in both countries also struggled to frame the narrative about Civil Rights and often painted these movements as extremist, despite their commitment to nonviolence.

They also talk about the role of religion in both movements, from the Black Baptist Church and Nation of Islam in the US and the Catholic church in Northern Ireland. Figures like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis are well known in the US, and Jones shares stories of their counterparts–Eamonn McCann and Bernadette Devlin–in Northern Ireland.

There’s a deep irony in that while the marchers in Northern Ireland took inspiration and tactics from the US Civil Rights Movement, the police did as well. Jones shares examples of the Duke Street Demonstration in Northern Ireland in 1968 where police used water cannons. Meanwhile, marchers were singing “We Shall Overcome.”

Forest Isaac Jones is an award-winning author of non-fiction and essays, specializing in the study of Irish History, the US Civil Rights Movement and Northern Ireland. His first nonfiction book, Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972 was released last year and is required reading for a course on Ireland at Macalester College in Minnesota.

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Sold in headshops and on the grey market, “spice” or K2 is a way to get high while avoiding showing up on a drug test. Whether or not they’re legal […]

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A century ago, 14% of agricultural land was owned by Black farmers, but now that’s down to less than 2%. On today’s show, host Dana Pellebon is in conversation with Ruthanna Hutton-Okpalaeke and Alex Lindenmeyer of Urban Triage about how their agriculture program is repairing people’s relationship with the land and supporting food security in Madison.

They talk about how their organization is responding to cuts to the EPA and USDA and how their workshops on growing food and food businesses are taking off. Hutton-Okpalaeke says that working in agriculture doesn’t have to be based on exploitation; through Urban Triage’s programs, people can learn to grow culturally relevant foods for themselves and their neighbors and learn how to have sustainable careers in the field. She’s helped participants grow foods that they can’t find in grocery stores, like peanuts, different varieties of okra, Lagos spinach, and more. The produce they grow at their farm in Verona is shared by participants and at a free produce stand at the Urban Triage office. “We’re an agricultural state, we should have food security here,” says Hutton-Okpalaeke.

Urban Triage’s specialty crop program launched its new hemp product yesterday. Called Less Noise Wellness, it offers CBD and THCA gummies, balms, and flower, all organically grown and processed in Wisconsin. Lindenmeyer says they’ve worked for years to get to a point where they can generate revenue from their hemp crop, and it’s taken that long to build relationships with folks in the industry. Hutton-Okpalaeke says that their Hemp Specialty Crop Workgroup hopes to reverse how cannabis has often been a path to incarceration in the Black community. Lindenmeyer adds that Urban Triage is trying to address inequalities in the hemp industry and make sure that dollars feed back into local infrastructure and local farmers.

Ruthanna Hutton-Okpalaeke is the dedicated Agriculture Program Manager at Urban Triage, where she expertly handles all facets of agricultural programming.

Alex Lindenmeyer is the Development Manager and a Board Member at Urban Triage.

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