WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast

Andrea Miller, Founding President of The National Women's Political Caucus of Virginia and Founding Board Member of the Center for Common Ground, talks about the current voter re-districting taking place in Virginia, and what her organizations are doing to reach, educate, and mobilize scores of voters across the southern state ahead of the upcoming April 21st re-districting referendum and beyond.

Stanley Heller, Chief Administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace and Executive Director of Middle East Crisis Committee, examines the US-Israeli military strikes on Iran over the past 72 hours, and the mass casualty events they've created, including the more than 160 children and teachers killed when an airstrike hit an elementary school in the southern city of Minab.

The Labor Report welcomes with Gene Bruskin, veteran labor organizer, anti-war activist, and play write, known for leading one of the most significant private sector union victories of the 21st century, namely the successful effort to unionize 5,000 workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in North Carolina -- a victory which is documented in the film Union Time. Gene Bruskin shares the story of his long association and collaboration with Rev. Jackson focusing on Jesse's groundbreaking initiatives to forge alliances with the multi-racial working class and organized labor.Hosts: Richard Hill and Michael Zweig

Interview with Ben Linden, Amnesty International’s advocacy director for Europe and Central Asia, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Ben Linden, Amnesty International’s advocacy director for Europe and Central Asia, who assesses the current state of the war and prospects for a lasting peace.

Interview with Lily Mercado, a Connecticut activist with Dare to Struggle Connecticut conducted by Scott Harris.Lily Mercado talks about anti-ICE student protests that took place across the U.S. on Friday, Feb. 13 — and the organizing going on now among national student groups for the ‘Spring Surge to Melt Ice’ campaign.

Interview with Kamolika Das, local policy director with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, conducted by Scott Harris.Kamolika Das talks about a current nationwide effort to raise revenue in states to replace billions of dollars in vital local and state funding for social safety net programs that were lost in last year’s Trump-GOP budget mega-bill that dramatically cut social programs while giving away huge tax cuts for profitable corporations and the rich.

Interview with Andrea Pitzer, journalist and author of the book, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, conducted by Scott Harris.Andrea Pitzer examines Donald Trump’s current violent mass deportation campaign and the haunting similarities to Germany’s rounding up, brutalizing and imprisoning immigrants, Jews and other minority groups in concentration camps in the 1930s.

Interview with Amanda Hollowell, chief of campaigns with Color of Change, conducted by Scott Harris.Amanda Hollowell talks about her group’s 20 years of critical work advocating for racial justice. She assesses the Trump administration’s aggressive attack on America’s long struggle to achieve a multi-racial democracy and implementation of discriminatory federal policies, underscored by President Trump’s personal racism and bigotry that he regularly publicly displays in his speeches and on social media.

Interview with Josh Ruebner, policy director with the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Josh Ruebner, an adjunct lecturer in Georgetown University’s Program on Justice and Peace. Here he talks about the continuing humanitarian disaster in Gaza and implementation of the deeply flawed second phase of the ceasefire plan.

Interview with Kevin Gosztola, publisher of the Dissenter Newsletter and author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, conducted by Scott Harris.Kevin Gosztola talks about his recent Dissenter article, “FBI Spied on Washington Post Reporter Prior to Raiding Their Home,” the related Trump regime attacks on the First Amendment with the recent arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort and the mass layoff of one-third of the Washington Post staff.