Friday - The Michael Slate Show: Bruce Cumings, North Korea and the Danger of War; Travis Morales, Hurricane Harvey, a Crisis of the System; "Nevertheless, She Persisted"

Received via email.  We Recommend:   Friday, September 8, 2017 10 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live TMSS:  Website Connect on Twitter  |   Facebook This week: Bruce Cumings on the New Danger of War with North Korea The interview with Bruce Cumings is rescheduled from last week. This week, North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile 1,700 miles into the Western Pacific Ocean. The missile passed over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, ratcheting up the threat of a war that would likely result in tens of thousands of deaths just in the first few hours. Trump declared that "all options on the table," which everyone understands includes the threat to use massive military force, including nuclear weapons. But who's threatening whom here? And what do people need to do? We'll hear from Dr. Bruce Cumings, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History, at the University of Chicago, and author of many books, including The Korean War, and Inventing the Axis of Evil, the Truth about North Korea, Iran and Syria (contributor).  Hurricane Harvey: A Natural Disaster, the Crisis of a System On August 25, Hurricane Harvey tore into the Texas Gulf Coast. This storm, and the unprecedented deluge of rain, brought a catastrophe of mammoth proportions. Thousands of homes were destroyed or severely damaged, along with crucial infrastructure. Millions of people's lives have been thrown into a desperate struggle for survival. Many of these people are poor Chicano, immigrant, and Black people who have worked on the docks and refineries of the area, or toiled in the rice, cotton, and cane fields, or been relegated to dilapidated urban slums and unincorporated rural colonias. Or, people already living on the edge in Houston, including thousands of homeless people.  Travis Morales, a writer for Revolution/revcom.us, has been in Houston since before the hurricane began. He'll talk about why this is a crime of the system, what's going on among the people, and how a socialist system would respond to natural disasters.  Nevertheless, She Persisted  at the Echo Theatre Nevertheless, She Persisted is a collection of five world-premiere short plays by five female writers that explore the treatment of women in today's political climate. It is a devastatingly deep examination of the lives and oppression of women.  We'll speak with one of the playwrights,  Jacqueline Wright. * * * * * To contact RefuseFascism-SoCal: 323.946.1742    socal@refusefascism.org  FB: RefuseFascismLA Learn more at RefuseFascism.org

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THE NEW COMMUNISM Is Now Available as an e-Book

THE NEW COMMUNISM Now Available as an eBook Insight Press announces that in addition to the print book, THE NEW COMMUNISM is now available as an eBook at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes and Noble and other retail and library websites, and at some sites as a PDF. For anyone who cares about the state of the world and the condition of humanity and agonizes over whether fundamental change is really possible, this landmark work provides a sweeping and comprehensive orientation, foundation, and guide to making the most radical of revolutions: a communist revolution aimed at emancipating humanity - getting beyond all forms of oppression and exploitation on a world scale.  The author, Bob Avakian, is the architect of a new synthesis of communism. This new synthesis is a continuation of, but also represents a qualitative leap beyond, and in some important ways a break with, communist theory as it had been previously developed. Avakian has written this book in such a way as to make even complex theory accessible to a broad audience. In this book, he draws on his decades of work advancing the science of communism and his experience as a revolutionary communist leader, including leading the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, as its Chairman since its founding in 1975.  This is a pathbreaking work, one that scientifically analyzes the system of capitalism-imperialism and its unresolvable contradictions; confronts the challenges facing the movement for revolution; and forges a way forward to making an actual revolution in this country, as part of contributing to communist revolution internationally. Insight Press www.insight-press.com

Carl Dix on Trump's Violent Reassertion of White Supremacy - September 7 UCLA

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Friday - The Michael Slate Show: Carl Dix on Charlottesville; Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe on Nat'l Climate Assessment; Persecution of J20 Defendants

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This week: Charlottesville, Virginia and the Aftermath: Confronting Racist, Murdering Nazi Thugs Carl Dix, Representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and co-initiator of Refuse Fascism, joins us to talk about the Clash in Charlottesville and the aftermath. For a night and a day, Nazis, KKK and other White Supremacist and Fascist scum were in the streets in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting Nazi slogans as well as racist and anti-LGBTQ chants, and attacking courageous anti-fascist protesters. One of them rammed his car into a crowd, murdering Heather Heyer, a life-long fighter for justice. These extreme reactionary forces have been encouraged and emboldened by the Trump/Pence Regime, and they've been increasingly active across the country. But what we saw in Charlottesville was a major leap. And it was welcomed, supported and encouraged by Trump himself. This demanded a response, and thousands have taken to the streets in city after city, condemning the White Supremacists and remembering the example of Heather Heyer. We'll talk about all this and where to now, with Carl Dix.  National Climate Assessment, a Conversation with One of the Authors, Katharine Hayhoe Katharine Hayhoe, one of the lead authors of the National Climate Assessment, has summed up its 600 pages in one sentence: It's real . . .It's us . . . It's serious . . . And the window of time to prevent dangerous impacts is closing fast. Some scientists have worried that the Trump regime might try to suppress or force changes in the report. Indeed, Scott Pruitt, a science denier who is the head of the EPA, has already attacked its conclusions. Katharine Hayhoe will talk about what the report says, what's happening with the planet, and why it's so important.    The Continuing Persecution of the Inauguration Day (J20) Protesters We'll hear from Stephanie Lacambra, Criminal Defense Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontiers, joins us to talk about what they have called the unconstitutional methods being used by the prosecution against those who protested on January 20, Inauguration Day, and are facing long years in prison. The latest government move is a search warrant demanding detailed information on everyone who visited a protest website.

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Friday - The Michael Slate Show with Andy Zee: November 4, This Nightmare Must End. The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

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This week: THIS NIGHTMARE MUST END ON NOVEMBER 4, 2017  Take To The Streets And Public Squares in cities and towns across the country, continuing day after day and night after night-not stopping-until our DEMAND is met: NO! This Nightmare Must End:  The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! Andy Zee, co-initiator of Refuse Fascism, joins us to talk about where do we got from here, and what's got to happen. He recently wrote, "'This Nightmare Must End' captures how millions of people feel right now. This feeling is at times inchoate and, at others, it enrages. It disturbs sleep, dominates conversation. For immigrants and Muslims it is terror that is lived-a foreboding pervading every aspect of life. Where you never know if this is the day you will be snatched from family and the life you have made-perhaps to be returned to a place you don't know where you may face persecution or even death. "What people don't know, and need to know, is that THEY ARE THE WAY OUT OF THE NIGHTMARE . . . ." Read the whole presentation here PLUS, Listener calls. Toward the end of the show, we'll be taking your calls about November 4, This Nightmare Must End. Tune in for details.

August 19: Regional Conferences to Plan for November 4 Register Today! Click here to go to refusefascism.org and register Sat, August 19, 2017 Organizing Conferences This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! Regional Conferences in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin, hosted by RefuseFascism.org Come Get Organized for nation-wide protests that begin November 4th and continue - night after night and day after day, growing from thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions - until our demand is met: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! Millions feel that the Trump/Pence Regime is truly a nightmare and ache with the question of how to stop this unrelenting horror. The stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity and the planet itself. Who will end this nightmare? We will. Only the determined struggle of millions of people acting together with courage and conviction can drive this regime from power. Who should attend this conference? Students and youth, the faith community, representatives of organizations and people who are unaffiliated, artists and professionals, long-time activists and folks who have never protested before - everyone who wants to see the nightmare of the Trump/Pence Regime end and is willing to act together to accomplish this. We will start organizing now for: NOVEMBER 4, 2017 Take To The Streets And Public Squares in cities and towns across the country continuing day after day and night after night-not stopping-until our DEMAND is met: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! To contact RefuseFascism-SoCal: 323.946.1742     socal@refusefascism.org      FB: RefuseFascismLA

Friday - The Michael Slate Show: Sunsara Taylor, Defending Courageous Students at Claremont McKenna College; Alice Childress' "Trouble in Mind"; Jeffery Robinson, ACLU, on Trump's Long Island speech

Received via email.  We Recommend:   Friday, August 4, 2017 10 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live TMSS:  Website Connect on Twitter  |   Facebook This week: Sunsara Taylor, Defending the Claremont McKenna College Students and Getting Ready for the Future Sunsara Taylor, writer for revcom.us / Revolution newspaper, and co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org, joins us to talk about the harsh punishment given to students at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, for setting an example for people everywhere by shutting down a speech by the white supremacist and fascist Heather Mac Donald. Three students have been suspended for a year and two others suspended for a semester for the non-violent protest that stopped Mac Donald from spreading fascism and white supremacy, attacking the Black Lives Matter movement and portraying killer cops as victims. Defending these students, and others who may be targeted, is a crucial part of opposing fascism. Trouble in Mind, by Alice Childress, at the Theatricum Botanicum We'll speak with actors Earnestine Phillips and Max Lawrence, from Trouble in Mind, now at the Theatricum Botanicum. The play, by Alice Childress, was first perfomed in 1955. It portrays a group of mostly African American actors who begin rehearsals of a new play written by a white playwright, under the direction of a white director. During the course of the rehearsal, it becomes clear to one member of the Black cast that following the direction they are given would mean giving up part of their humanity.  Jeffery Robinson, ACLU, on Trump's "police state" speech in Long Island  We will also be joined by Jeffery Robinson, ACLU Deputy Legal Director and Director of the Trone Center for Justice and Equality, on his recent article "Donald Trump's Talk to Police Officers Was Police-State Authoritarianism Distilled to Its Essence".