No new show tonight due to the Thanksgiving break. WVUD will re-air last week’s episode on education and housing.
Don’t miss our December 2nd episode, however. I don’t want to give away what we’ll be talking about, but if you’re a fan of the show, you’ll want to tune in for some important news.
Have a good holiday in the meantime.
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Topics: Big Ideas for Reforming American Governance — A Better Education Reform Movement and Right to Housing. People: Bill, Kelley, Nate. Produced: November 15th, 2015.
NOTE: No show next Wednesday due to the Thanksgiving break. Don’t miss our December 2nd episode.
Episode 151 (52 min):
AFD 151
– What might a better, less top-down version of an education reform movement look like?
– How can we fund public schools more effectively and fairly?
– Should there be a constitutional right to housing?
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Topics: Big Ideas for Reforming American and Global Governance — Health Care Reform and Economic Orthodoxy. People: Bill, Kelley, Nate, Greg. Produced: November 8th, 2015.
Episode 150 (56 min):
AFD 150
– What’s next in U.S. health reform?
– Are the orthodoxies of mid-century economics trapping us on 21st century problems?
– Last week’s episode on state single-payer campaigns
– AFD, July 2014: Wall Street wants to make money off “urgent care”
– Compare Your Country Health Care Spending
– “Kaiser Report finds state budget savings in some Medicaid expansion states”
– Washington Post: “US once again has most expensive, least effective health care system in survey”
– Naked Capitalism: “Wait: Maybe Europeans are as Rich as Americans”
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Topics: The Spring Valley High School video and multiple intersections of rights violations (race, gender, age); Colorado’s proposed single-payer health care system; Guatemala update. People: Bill, Kelley, Maria. Produced: November 1st, 2015.
Episode 149 (49 min):
AFD 149
– How can we better protect young Black girls – along with all young people – from institutional violence and abuse?
– Could Colorado kick off a cascade of state action on single-payer health system experiments?
– A quick update on Guatemala’s recent election
– Vibe: “Everything You Should Know About The Spring Valley High School Assault”
– AFD: “Protecting children and students by empowering them”
– Previously, De Ana’s essay on the McKinney TX incident and misogynoir
– AFD: “Could single-payer be coming to Colorado?”
– Other links Kelley cited: Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York
– AFD: “The total vacuousness of Guatemala’s election”
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Guest: Heather R. Andrews. Topics: RushCard malfunctions harm vulnerable, low-income consumers; why the post office should offer some banking services; what we can learn from a 1945 speech by President Truman. People: Bill, Kelley. Produced: October 25th, 2015.
Episode 148 (48 min):
AFD 148
– Broken promises as a prepaid debit card pitched, with hip-hop cred, to poor consumers breaks down.
– Should the post office offer limited banking services for low-income people in the U.S.?
– In a Sept 1945 address to Congress, Pres. Truman outlined what the country must do after the war. What can we learn from that today?
– Guest essay by Heather R. Andrews: “Russell Simmons’ RushCard leaves vulnerable flat broke”
– AFD: “Should USPS be empowered again to offer banking services?”
– AFD: “13 of Truman’s 21 policy points from 1945 are relevant today”
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Topics: American unions for the Millennial generation; Fortune 500 tax avoidance. People: Bill, Persephone, Nate. Produced: October 18th, 2015.
Episode 147 (49 min):
AFD 147
– What is the future of American unions as Millennials come to the fore?
– Fortune 500 firms may have avoided $620B in recent taxes
– The Atlantic: “Can Millennials Save Unions?”
– AFD: “Fortune 500 firms may have avoided $620B in recent taxes”
– CTJ/PIRG report: “Offshore Shell Games 2015: The Use of Offshore Tax Havens by Fortune 500 Companies”
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Topics: How the Reagan Revolution influenced the American Left; the US airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz Afghanistan; Perkins Loans end. People: Bill, Kelley, Nate. Produced: October 11th, 2015.
Episode 146 (54 min):
AFD 146
– Generational Politics: How the Reagan Revolution influenced the American Left
– The US blew up a hospital in Afghanistan. What now?
– Why was the Perkins Loan program allowed to expire?
– AFD: “Getting trapped in Reagan’s ideological framing”
– France24: “Aid workers killed in US air strike on Afghan hospital”
– AFD by Kelley: “Perkins Loan program expires after 57 year run”
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