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to ClassWars, the home of Activist Radio, a weekly program for
all Americans who are not in the wealthiest one percent of the
US population.
Class wars have been going on since the beginning of recorded
history. As societies become more powerful and wealthy, they
often become more corrupt. Towards the end of each cycle, a
few rich families Class wars is a dirty term in our media, which always implies that America is above such crudeness. But the very rich are not above that at all. They have been waging an especially intense attack on working people since the 1970's, and have accumulated immense wealth and power at the expense of the rest of us. Of course, America's class wars are not fought with tanks and bombs, but with crooked politicians, right wing think tanks and corporate owned media. For the very rich to maintain and increase their share of the national wealth, they have to fool you. How else could one percent of our population call the shots for the other ninety-nine percent? Well, there is another way. The very rich can bankroll a fascist demagogue who then uses racial fears and hatreds to overcome any form of worker resistance. Mussolini and Hitler are examples of how this was done in the 1930s. Trump is, of course, the most dangerous demagogue of the 21st century. To understand how he has gotten this far, check out: "The Unspoken Spread of Fascism." Activist Radio will attempt to show you how the few So sit back, relax, and listen to Activist Radio streamed live: Thursdays from 5 - 6 pm ET
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Nagel is a Vietnam Era veteran and political
activist whose articles have appeared in CounterPunch,
Global Exchange, LA Progressive, Mondoweiss, Peace
& Planet News, Popular Resistance, and
Z Magazine. He also hosts a show on Vassar
College Radio, WVKR (classwars.org).
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that is available.November 23GUESTS: Two Palestinian women ask their House Representative Pat Ryan to call for an immediate ceasefire, and to oppose the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.Democratic Socialists of America key player. President Biden, call a ceasefire now Middle East Crisis Response SONG: Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger, Let Freedom Sing ... Playboys and Playgirls SONG: Country Joe McDonald ... Vietnam Never Again November 16GUESTS: Alexandria Shaner, from Extinction Rebellion and Matic Primca, Slovenian activist and journalist, talk about what the Z Network is and how it relates to the Influential radical publication, Z Magazine, that featured the writings of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.Extinction Rebellion Z Network Z Magazine Long Term Assault on Civil Liberties SONG: Joan Baez and Jackson Browne ... El Salvador SONG: The Marsh Family ... If That Day Comes Round November 9GUEST: Talal Jabari, Palestinian journalist, award winning documentary filmmaker and managing director of Radio Alam, an Arabic-language talk radio station, talks about the current uprising against Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.Award winning filmmaker Victors of the Gaza war also the losers Hundreds rally in Kingston, NY SONG: Bob Franke ... Kristallnacht Is Coming SONG: Given Wongkar ... We Will Not Go Down November 2GUEST: Mark Hammel, PhD, psychologist, Israeli citizen and veteran of the IDF during the Yom Kippur War, talks about his ideological journey to being a post Zionist, and a therapist for disabled veterans.Explaining the Yom Kippur War I Fought for the I.D.F. in Gaza I know force alone won’t bring peace SONG: Cisco Houston, The Very Best of Cisco Houston ... Passing Through SONG: Tom Neilson ... Everything's a Target in Gaza October 26GUEST: John Pottinger, long time peace activist and investigative reporter for the Socialist Action Newsletter, talks about Niger and Northern Africa being caught in the crosshairs of US and French imperialism.Niger in imperialist crosshairs Full-scale war threatens Niger and West Africa Socialist Action Newsletter SONG: Pete Seeger and Steve Earle, A More Perfect Union ... This Old Man SONG: Pete Seeger, A More Perfect Union ... Fields of Harmony October 19GUEST: Ray Acheson, Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and steering committee member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) talks about Cop City and ending state violence.Racketeering of state violence Reaching Critical Will Fight to Stop Cop City Won’t Stop SONG: Garth Hewitt, Easter Revolution ... In the City of Jerusalem October 12GUEST: Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center, writer for the "Workers World" newspaper, and organizer of mass rallies against imperialism, talks about the US "Pivot to Asia" and the threat of endless wars.Camp David alliance against China Stop U.S. global aggression! International Action Center SONG: Todd Snider, Peace Queer ... Fortunate Son SONG: Jim Page, Getting Squeezed ... This Land October 5GUEST: Neil Seldman, professor of political science at George Washington University and co-founder of five notable organizations promoting zero waste and economic justice, talks about helping communities transition from incineration to promoting locally owned businesses.The Second Recycling Revolution The case for a moratorium on incineration Facebook event link for Monday forum SONG: Gil Scott Heron ... We almost Lost Detroit SONG: Otis Gibbs, Mount Renraw ... Bison September 28GUEST: Chelsea Villalba, community organizer, interpreter, and licensed social worker, talks about her life's mission to serve the needs of marginalized and systematically oppressed communities, including LGBTQ citizens. Lavender Graduation Ceremony at SUNY StonybrookLegislative Report Examines Food Insecurity I have never, in my adult life, felt less safe SONG: Hal Ketchum ... Trail Of Tears SONG: Diana Ross ... I'm Coming Out September 21Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, previous faculty member at Duke and Yale Universities, now teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities. He is the founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and Institute for Biodiversity Research in occupied Palestine. [This interview lasts the whole hour.]Amid Environmental Destruction, Qumsiyeh Sees Hope Global Earth Repair Foundation Hope in the Midst of Calamity: A View from Palestine Take a minute to rate Activist Radio Click Icon: ![]() Once
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Abraham Lincoln
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And above all Fascism denies that
class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation
of society.
Benito Mussolini
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The first truth is that the liberty of a
democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of
private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their
democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -
ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by
any other controlling private power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A revolution is a class struggle. It was
one class - the oppressed, and that other class - the
oppressor.
Fred Hampton
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Surely, in the history of lies told to
the population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of
secrets, withheld from the American people, this is the
biggest secret: that there are classes with different
interests in this country. To ignore that--not to know that
the history of our country is a history of slaveowner against
slave, landlord against tenant, corporation against worker,
rich against poor--is to render us helpless before all the
lesser lies told to us by people in power.
Howard Zinn
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The clinical definition of "fascism' is
when private concentrated economic power takes government away
from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a
subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
Ralph Nader
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There's class warfare, all right, but
it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're
winning.
Warren Buffet
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This [$700 billion bailout] was the
largest single act of class warfare in the modern history of
this country.
Dennis Kucinich
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I think this has been a class war waged
by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I
think the poor are fighting back.
Naomi Klein
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The solution is revolution, first in the
spirit of the gospel; Jesus could not accept people going
hungry. It is a conflict between classes, rich and poor. My
role is to preach and organize.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The effect of the [European Central
Bank] policies is to weaken the welfare state measures and to
reduce the power of labor. That's class war. It's fine for the
banks, for financial institutions, but terrible for the
population.
Noam Chomsky
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The
US has a highly class-conscious business class. If you read
the business literature, it's like reading Mao's "Red Book."
The values may be inverted, but the terminology is the same.
They're fighting a bitter class war constantly. They never
relax for a minute. Noam Chomsky
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The breakdown [of American society] is
not caused by economic laws. They are policies, a kind of
class war initiated by the rich and powerful against the
working population and the poor. This is what defines the
neoliberalism period, not only in the United States but in
Europe and elsewhere. Noam
Chomsky
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For
45 years there has been a war in this country waged by the
corporate elite against the working class of America. Bernie
Sanders
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If
there is going to be class warfare in this country, it's about
time the working class won that war. Bernie Sanders
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The
theft of public resources for the military and militarism
domestically and abroad represent a one-sided class war waged
on the working class in the U.S. The 6 trillion dollars spent
on U.S. wars since 2003 are resources that could have been
directed to address the increasing desperate plight of workers
and poor people in the U.S. Ajamu
Baraka
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You
look at the reality, neoliberalism translates as bitter class
war. That?s the meaning of it, everywhere you look, every
component of it. Noam Chomsky
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Now
I'm finding out there's just one kind of war. It's the one going on 'tween the rich and the poor. I guess that I don't know a lot about class, But the upper and middle can all kiss my ass. Utah Phillips
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