Government and Law

“Gimme Some Truth: Obama and Torture, the National Epidemic of Police Brutality and Blowing the Whistle on Stop and Frisk”

Marjorie Cohn, author and Professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, examines the record of the Obama administration on Torture and concludes that the Obama regime has not only continued the Bush program, but taken it to whole new levels of barbarity. War crimes are being committed.

Dave Lindorff, journalist, talks about the national epidemic of police brutality and what's behind it.

“A Story of Pain, Treachery and Deceit: Rape, More Rape and Pillaging the Future”

Andrea Strong of End Pornography and Patriarchy: the Enslavement & Degradation of Women, talks about her article "Rape is NEVER the Victim's Fault, and digs into the culture of rape in the U.S. and the fight against it and to change the world.

Dr. Christian Head is an award winning and highly respected surgeon Department of Head and Neck Surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Head helped found the Johnson Cancer Center Tumor Lab and was a highly regarded surgeon. Dr. Head stood out at UCLA for another reason - he is Black and because of that he has lived under a relentless barrage of racist insults including a slide show developed for a Residents' Roast which featured Dr. Head' s head photoshopped on to the body of a gorilla and being sodomized by his white boss. When Dr.

Dr. Leroy Carhart, Director of the Abortion & Contraception Clinic of Nebraska. While so many accept the Hyde Amendment as the "common ground" compromise, Dr. Carhart reveals the devastating impact of this amendment on the lives of women - especially poor women of color.

David Heilbroner, co-director of the film Stonewall Uprising, discusses the historic significance of the Stonewall Uprising - the first "in the street" rebellion of gay people - and its continuing impact today

"A World to Change: Bringing Revolution to the Deep South, the
Oppression of Black People and a Musical Score for a Different
World."

"A Story of the War on Drugs and the Devastation of Black People"

This weeks guests are Amy Berg (filmmaker/director); Debra Sweet (National Director World Can't Wait); Karim El Hakim (filmmaker/director).

Berg talks about her new film "West of Memphis", the story of how the West Memphis 3 were framed, convicted and carted to prison for a crime the system knew they didn't commit. Sweet talks about the growing threat of war against Iran and a call to stand up against it before it starts. Hakim talks about his new film "1/2 Revolution", the story of the 2011 uprising in Egypt and how it was hijacked by the military and other pro-US forces.

This week's show is drawn from an interview with Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, on many of the questions of the revolution, questions that are now being asked and debated: What's the nature of society? Who's responsible for all the horrors in the world? How do we change it? And what are we going to do in the new world?