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Labor Day Special Featuring Howard Zinn & Voices of a People’s History of the United States; Legendary Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey: One of Her Last Interviews on Strategies for Workers to Win; “Donald Trump Is a Scab”: UAW President Shawn Fain Hails Kamala Harris & Attacks Corporate Greed

The prolific historian Gerald Horne joins us to discuss his new book that explores some of the themes of what is known as Black August.

Headlines for August 30, 2024; From Decriminalization to Border Crackdown, Harris Defends Hard-Line Shift in 1st Interview as Nominee; No Policy Change: In CNN Interview, Harris Refuses to Condition U.S. Military Support for Israel; “Opportunity Economy”: Kamala Harris Promotes Expanded Child Tax Credit, Regulating Price Gouging; No Ban on Fracking: Kamala Harris Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels in Shift from 2019; “Master Plan”: New Lever Podcast Series Traces How Oligarchs “Legalized Corruption” in U.S.

Headlines for August 29, 2024; Report from Gaza: Israel Kills Dozens More, Increases Forced Evacuations, Attacks Aid Truck; “They Want Palestine Empty”: Artist in Jenin Blasts U.S. Support for Israel Amid West Bank Assault; “Gender Apartheid”: Taliban Approves Law in Afghanistan Requiring Women Remain Silent in Public; Warnings of Nuclear Catastrophe as Power Plants in Russia and Ukraine at Risk Amid Escalating War

Headlines for August 28, 2024; “Trying to Repeat the Nakba”: Israel Launches Largest Military Raids in West Bank in Two Decades; “Five-Alarm Fire for Democracy”: New GOP Rules Could Block Election Results in Georgia and Beyond; Latino Rights Groups Urge DOJ to Investigate TX Attorney General for Raiding Homes of LULAC Leaders

Headlines for August 27, 2024; Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Sexually Abused: New HRW Report on Israeli Prisons; What Is RealPage? DOJ Sues Software Firm Using Algorithm Enabling Landlords to Fix High Rents

Headlines for August 26, 2024; “Colonial Process”: How U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Latest Erasure of Roots of Arab-Israeli Conflict; “How Many More?” Attorney Ben Crump on Latest in Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols & Roger Fortson Cases; Trump Wanted Them Dead: Exonerated Central Park 5 Speak at DNC & Fight to Defeat Trump

Headlines for August 23, 2024; “Historic Moment”: Barbara Ransby on the Symbolism & Shortcomings of Kamala Harris’s Nomination; Watch: Palestinian American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn’t Allow on Stage; Thousands March Against U.S. Arming of Israel as Harris Accepts Presidential Nomination; How Shirley Chisholm & Fannie Lou Hamer Paved the Way for Kamala Harris; “Two Faces of American Capitalism”: Juan González on What the RNC & DNC Reveal About U.S. Politics; “A Generational Fight”: Political Organizers on Kamala Harris, Defeating Authoritarianism & More; “A Testament to Our Power”: Chicago’s Little Palestine Resists Racism, Disenfranchisement & War; “We Have to Push”: Congressmember Greg Casar on Bringing Progressivism Back to Immigration Policy

Headlines for August 22, 2024; Uncommitted Delegates Launch Sit-In After DNC Rejects Request for a Palestinian Speaker at Convention; Tim Walz Accepts VP Nomination; A Look at His Record on George Floyd Murder, IVF, Guns and Gaza; “Stop Sending Bombs”: Rep. Ilhan Omar Visits Uncommitted Sit-In & Demands Israeli Arms Embargo; Uncommitted Delegates Speak Out After Sleeping Outside DNC to Protest Silencing of Palestinian Voices; “So Horrific”: Doctor Recounts Treating Patients in Gaza Injured in Massacres Enabled by U.S. Bombs; Climate Crisis & Election Roundtable: From Tim Walz’s Record to Project 2025 to Israel

Headlines for August 21, 2024; As Gaza War Is Largely Ignored on DNC Stage, Doubts Grow over Blinken’s Claims on Ceasefire Talks; Trump & Harris Each Vow Border Crackdowns as Immigrant Communities Demand Positive Change; At DNC, Michelle & Barack Obama Champion Kamala Harris While Skewering Trump’s “Same Old Con”; The Fight over Abortion Rights Is a “Tipping Point for Our Democracy”: Michele Goodwin; What I Saw Was “Unfathomable”: Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel; Andy Levin, Pushed Out of Congress by AIPAC, Calls for Change in U.S.-Israel Policy

Headlines for August 20, 2024; Thousands March on DNC in Chicago to Demand End to War on Gaza; First-Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights: We Need to “Restore the Soul of the Democratic Party”; Remembering TV Icon Phil Donahue: He Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves Until MSNBC Fired Him; “Donald Trump Is a Scab”: UAW President Shawn Fain Hails Kamala Harris & Attacks Corporate Greed; Chicago Is a Labor Town: Teachers Union President and In These Times Editor on Organizing for Change; Muslim, Immigrant & Jewish Delegates Unfurl “Stop Arming Israel” Banner During Biden DNC Speech

Headlines for August 19, 2024; “It’s the Democratic Party’s War”: Gaza Protests Planned Throughout Week as DNC Begins in Chicago; Vietnam Then, Gaza Now: Bill Ayers & Juan González on 1968 and 2024 Antiwar Protests at Chicago DNC; Rev. Al Sharpton: Jesse Jackson Helped Reshape Democratic Party & Paved Way for Kamala Harris; Voices from the Streets of Chicago: DNC Protesters Call for Gaza Ceasefire & Economic Justice; Kamala Harris Is Reaching Out to Arab American Leaders, But Will There Be Any Change in Gaza Policy?; The Exonerated: Meet Two Chicago Men Wrongly Imprisoned for Decades, on Police Torture, Death Row & More; Phil Donahue, Legendary Talk Show Host Fired by MSNBC for Airing Antiwar Views, Dies at 88

Headlines for August 16, 2024; Watch Undercover Video: Project 2025 Co-Author Lays Out “Radical Agenda” for Next Trump Term; “Decolonize Global Health”: WHO Declares Mpox Public Health Emergency as Africa Awaits Vaccines; Has the Mystery of the Nord Stream Pipeline Bombing Been Solved? Ukrainian Suspect Flees Arrest

Headlines for August 15, 2024; “Incomprehensible”: U.S. Approves $20 Billion in New Arms for Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 40,000; Colombia Faces “One of the Largest Humanitarian Crises on Earth” as Armed Groups Grow Stronger; “End the Impunity”: Rohingya Muslims Under Attack by Both Burmese Army and Rebel Group

Headlines for August 14, 2024; How Elon Musk Broke with the Democrats to Spend Millions on Donald Trump’s Reelection Campaign; How Amazon “Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top”: WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli; Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac to Faith Leaders in U.S.: If You Are Silent, You Approve of Genocide

Headlines for August 13, 2024; Middle East Braces as Iran & Hezbollah Vow Retaliation for Israeli Assassinations; Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy: U.S. Is Part of “Axis of Zionist Extremism”; Who Are the Venezuelan Opposition? Leonardo Flores & Alejandro Velasco Debate Election Aftermath