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Biden Falls as MAGA Revels, 1000 Dead Americans a Day? Karel Cast Podcast #212 President Biden Trips and so does MAGA as screams of infirmity and ageism rear its ugly head again. Plus Pride month begins, but is it more detrimental than corporations just supporting us the other 11 months of the year? And 1000 dead Americans today and every day…when it is completely preventable. Also, after Covid, are you finding it hard to restart your life? Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember. The Karel Cast App is free and is the best way to watch and listen. Get it at reallykarel.com or any App Store

The BradCast 06-01-2023 by Progressive Voices

Background Briefing 06-01-2023 by Progressive Voices

Background Briefing 05-31-2023 by Progressive Voices

The BradCast 05-31-2023 by Progressive Voices

This week the Student Debt Crisis Center takes over the Leslie Marshall Show to dive into the pressing issues surrounding the student debt crisis. In this episode, they analyze the recently reached debt-ceiling bill agreement, which would end the federal student loan payment pause for forty million Americans. They also address other Congressional attacks aimed at clawing back relief borrowers already received and thwarting future student loan policy reforms. Plus, they will examine the impending Supreme Court decision that will determine the fate of President Biden’s ambitious student debt cancellation plan. Tune in for insightful discussions and expert analysis on the crucial matters shaping the future of student debt in America. This episode's SDCC host is Executive Director, Cody Hounanian. In this discussion, Cody is joined by Mike Pierce, Executive Director and co-founder of the Student Borrower Protection Center The Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that centers the needs and voices of borrowers, and partners with allies, to impact public policy and end the student debt crisis. The SDCC website is StudentDebtCrisis.org and their handle on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook is @DebtCrisisOrg. Cody's Twitter handle is @chounanian. The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) is a nonprofit organization focused on alleviating the burden of student debt for millions of Americans. Their website is ProtectBorrowers.org and their Twitter handle is @TheSBPC. Mike Pierce's handle is @millennial_debt.

California Beaches, And Insurance, A Thing of the Past Karel Cast Podcast #212 Over the next 60 years, up to 70% of California's beaches will be gone, to erosion, ocean rise and climate change. And now, State Farm is saying they are not going to insure any new construction in CA. Why don't we notice? Why don't we really care? Because it doesn't happen quickly. Also, when did people start losing their minds and going crazy? Truly, was it Trump, was it Bush, what made us lose our collective minds? Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember. The Karel Cast App is free and is the best way to watch and listen. Get it at reallykarel.com or any App Store

In honor of Pride month, we’re examining LGBTQ activism in health care. How did the HIV/AIDS crisis devastate the community and what pushed many members toward militant activism? What can the Medicare for All movement learn from AIDS activists? To find out, we spoke with Michael Lighty, president of the Healthy California Now Coalition, and former constituency director for Bernie 2020.

Background Briefing 05-30-2023 by Progressive Voices

The BradCast 05-30-2023 by Progressive Voices

Memorial Day Spits on Soldier's Graves Karel Cast Podcast #211 Yesterday was Memorial Day, started to honor Union soldiers who fell in the Civil War. It then became the day to celebrate and honor all soldiers fallen in wars, but if they were able to resurrect today, would they be happy with the country the USA has become? Or would look at this mess and wonder what we've become? If we're being honest we actually are spitting on the graves of those that have fallen in so many ways. Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember. The Karel Cast App is free and is the best way to watch and listen. Get it at reallykarel.com or any App Store https://youtu.be/MkS8KZ5ZSOc

The BradCast 05-29-2023 by Progressive Voices

Background Briefing 05-29-2023 by Progressive Voices

Another day in the United States of Serfs and Lords Right wing snowflakes get triggered by rainbows and Target caves to the terrorists. Perjury Traitor Greene is laughed at. DeSantis the fascist wants to be president. We discuss the madness.

Free Forum Frank 05-26-2023 by Progressive Voices

Mark Riley The Intersection S8 Ep9 -Ken Paxton. CHATGPT. Geena Davis Diversity Expose by Progressive Voices

Next time on State of Belief Radio, How We Learn to be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith - the just-published new book from the Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, DC. Being brave is not a singular occurrence; it’s a journey that we can choose to undertake every day, she writes; and often it’s not the most visible acts that can have the most lasting effects. Also, Darcy Hirsch, our brand-new Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy at Interfaith Alliance. We’ll talk about our new resource for combating antisemitism, and get a sense of what Darcy considers to be important priorities in the months ahead.

As Off-Kilter’s ongoing series continues, digging into why in the famous words of Audre Lorde, “self-care is political warfare,” we’re zooming out for this next episode to explore the goal of ending poverty in the United States—and the broader work of economic and social liberation—as self-care for the larger collective organism of which we are all part. In this spirit, as Rebecca describes in this episode, she often thinks about advocates and activists for economic and social liberation as healers—healers of a collective organism that today is very sick—with one huge glaring symptom of that illness being widespread, needless poverty in the midst of plenty. Of course healers rely on good diagnostic tools—and this kind of “social justice advocacy as collective healing” framework can then help us understand something like a measure of poverty as a diagnostic tool—a tool that’s only as good at diagnosing social illness as what it measures and how it’s designed. So to zoom in on what America’s broken official poverty measure has to do with self-care, Rebecca brought back three thought leaders who are deep experts in poverty measurement, all of whom have been working for years to bring attention to how outdated and flawed our leading diagnostic tool on this front (a.k.a. America’s Official Poverty Measure) is—and the importance of rethinking how we measure poverty in the United States. if we are serious about meaningfully eliminating it versus just putting a band-aid on a still-very-sick economy. Shawn Fremstad is the director of law and political economy as well as a senior adviser at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Shailly Barnes is the policy director for the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice. David Brady is a professor of public policy at the University of California Riverside, where he directs the Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty; he’s also a fellow with the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

The BradCast 05-25-2025 by Progressive Voices

Background Briefing 05-5-2023 by Progressive Voices