Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan raise their fists as they play all the great songs of Resistance through US history from "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around" from the civil rights movement to Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" and many more!

Listen live at 11pm Friday, February 21 and 28 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
and
Monday at 2pm streaming February 24 and March 3 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM

Archived on Mixcloud here

Donald Trump and his allies are ramping up their war on public media. They’re threatening to cut funding for PBS and NPR, launching politically motivated investigations, and even forcing PBS to shut down its diversity and inclusion office.

Why? Because independent, fact-based journalism doesn’t serve Trump’s agenda.

The FCC, now stacked with Trump loyalists, is targeting NPR and PBS, looking for excuses to justify gutting their funding. And Trump’s allies in Congress are eager to go along, calling public media “biased” as they push to silence it.

PBS and NPR provide trusted news, educational programming, and cultural content to millions of Americans. If Trump succeeds, we lose one of the last remaining sources of independent public media.

Congress must act. Sign the petition now to demand they protect PBS and NPR from Trump’s attacks.

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Our right to protest is under attack—and we’re fighting back. Greenpeace USA is facing a $300 million SLAPP lawsuit from the oil giant behind the Dakota Access Pipeline – an attack to silence us and potentially destroy the organization. But this isn’t just about us. This is part of a much bigger effort by billionaires and corporations to crush dissent and rewrite the rules to serve their own greed. We’re not backing down—we’re getting louder.

That’s why we’re launching Protest on Trial: A Series for Democracy – a weekly webinar series every Thursday from February 20 to March 27 as this trial unfolds. These sessions will bring you inside updates from the courtroom and conversations with frontline activists, legal experts, and movement leaders on the broader threats and strategies to fight back—for protest, for free speech, and for democracy itself.

SESSION LINEUP

Feb 20 – Protest on Trial

“. . . I write today from a position rare for a former prosecutor: to beseech you to commute the sentence of a man I helped put behind bars.”

Thus begins one of the most stunning letters I have ever read, written almost four years ago by former U.S. Attorney James H. Reynolds to President Joe Biden, pleading with him to exonerate former American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier, who had been convicted of murdering two FBI agents at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975.