In an era of growing corporate control over “the news” (from TV to social media platforms), the role played by independent, alternative, and left media is more precious than ever. Yet the corporate-dominated media landscape, compounded by the Covid19 crisis, creates new barriers and challenges for left and independent media alike. How are independent and alternative media adapting and struggling in the current environment? What remains so valuable about these publications? How are independent media able to speak to issues where the “mainstream” media has proven an utter failure? What threats to independent media are now on the horizon? And what can be done to help extend the reach and amplify the impact of these important progressive sources for news and analysis?
Our featured guests are experienced editors and leading contributors from a range of progressive, socialist, and labor publications, including:
Sustaining Ourselves & Each Other Through Crisis Times with Victor Narro & Michal Osterweil, August 27, 2020
John Lawrence on Organizing the Democratic Capacity for Transformative Change, August 20, 2020
Imagining Apocalypse Now: Dystopian & End-Time Narratives Today, with Gerry Canavan and Mark Soderstrom, 7/23/2020
Back to School Blues? The Fight for a Just & Safe School Year, August 13, 2020
75 Years After Hiroshima with Avi Chomsky, Marie Cruz Soto, Joseph Gerson & Gar Alperovitz, August 6, 2020
Elections, Democracy, & the Left with Victor Wallis & Medea Benjamin, July 30, 2020
In a Time of Pandemics, What Are We Watching? And Why? July 16, 2020
What Must Fall, What Must Be Built – Demita Frazier, Ross Caputi, & Suren Moodliar, July 9, 2020
Condition Critical: Reports from the Hospital and Nursing Home Front Lines, April 23, 2020
Police, Race, Labor & the Left with Cedric Johnson and Clare Hammonds, July 2, 2020
The Battle for the Future of Higher Education; Organizing for May Day, April 30, 2020
The Anti-Racist University? Race, Class, and Contingency in Higher Education, June 25, 2020
Immigrant Struggles for Justice During the COVID-19 Crisis, May 7, 2020
What Are We Reading? What Are We Learning? May 14, 2020
Love and Struggle Know No Bars: Prisoners and Families Speak Out, June 18, 2020
Public Institutions under Attack: Threats to the Common Good, May 21, 2020
Poets of the Rebellion, June 10, 2020
The Rebellion in Our Time with Bill Fletcher and August Nimtz, June 4, 2020
Contingent Faculty Struggles and Strategy on Campus and Beyond, May 28, 2020
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