"Be Bold America!"

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 “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 5:00pm (PDT)

This interview will take you on a journey into the recesses of your soul and will explore the ontological question:

What is our underlying essence?

Internationally acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize nominated, and local author and filmmaker, Michael A. Allen, uses the metaphor of the sea, and its ebb and flow, to describe the Tao of life’s cycle.

And, he discovers within this unique reflection a new way to comfort and heal the Self from the trauma of death. Michael was inspired to write his book Tao of Surfing: Finding Depth at Low Tide after his lifelong best friend and surfing partner suddenly came out as gay and died from AIDS in 1989.   

The book subsequently became the basis for the soon-to-be-released feature film, A Long Road to Tao, which Michael co-wrote and produced.

Michael Allen will be joined in this interview by A Long Road to Tao cast member and fellow surfer, Mike Clancy, to discuss the book, the making of the film, the politics surrounding the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and how the film relates to political issues facing the LGBTQ community today.

Interview Guest (picture attached):

Michael A Allen: Internationally acclaimed, and Pulitzer Prize nominated author Michael A Allen, hold a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Certificate and Asian Studies from California State University at Long Beach, and is a member of the Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society. While serving as President of the Student Philosophy Association, he chaired a Medical Ethics session for a seminar on Applied Ethics. He also presented “The Application of Taoist Principles in Everyday Living” at University of Hawaii’s International Society for Chinese Philosophy Conference. Michael, his wife, and their children live along the Central Coast of California. He has been surfing for over 30 years.

Interview Guest (picture attached):

Mike Clancy holds degrees in oceanography and meteorology and is a former Technical and Scientific Director of the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center in Monterey.  He has authored over 100 publications in meteorology, oceanography and information technology, and received over 50 professional awards, including the Navy’s highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, signed by the Secretary of the Navy.  Mike serves on the “Question Review Team” for the Annual Leon Panetta Lecture Series and is a frequent public speaker on climate change.   He currently Chairs the Monterey County Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 5:00pm (PDT)

As climate change and atmospheric rivers bring flooding, wind storms, and power outages to the Central Coast, Monterey County must prepare for an ongoing shift in its communities. This includes being faced with significant social and economic impacts including disadvantaged populations.

“Be Bold America!” has the honor of interviewing, not one, but two Monterey County Board of Supervisors, Mary Adams and Glenn Church, who are intimately aware of Monterey County’s challenges and potential solutions from the Pajaro flooding to the erosion of its beautiful coastline. So, please join “Be Bold America!” on January 28 at 5:00pm to hear, The Climate Crisis Hits Monterey County.

INTERVIEW GUESTS:

Monterey County Supervisor Mary Adams has led a 30-year career of public service solving problems for local families. She advocates on issues ranging from disaster and economic recovery to land use to creative solutions to our county’s housing and homelessness crisis.

Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church, a fourth-generation North Monterey County resident, was born in Salinas in 1959 and grew up in the Elkhorn/Royal Oaks area. The son of a County Supervisor (Warren Church, 1965-1977,) Glenn learned the vital significance of public service, and that government should make life easier for people rather than being an obstacle. 

GUEST COHOST:

Mike Clancy serves on the “Question Review Team” for the Annual Leon Panetta Lecture Series. Michael has authored over 100 publications in meteorology, oceanography and information technology. Mike is also a frequent lecturer on climate change and currently serves as Chair of the Monterey County Chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 5:00pm (PT)

From praising the health benefits of cigarettes to moralizing on the character-building qualities of child labor, rich corporate overlords have gone to astonishing, often morally indefensible lengths to defend their profits.

Since the dawn of capitalism, they’ve told the same lies over and over to explain why their bottom line is always more important than the greater good.

You say you want to raise the federal minimum wage? Why, you’ll only make things worse for the very people you want to help! Should we hold polluters accountable for the toxins they’re dumping in our air and water? No, the free market will save us!

It’s always the same tired, threats and finger-pointing, and a concentrated campaign to keep wealth and power in the hands of the wealthy and powerful.

Interview Guest: 

Donald Cohen is the founder and executive director of the research and policy center “In the Public Interest” and the co-author (with Allen Mikaelian) of The Privatization of Everything and (with Nick Hanauer and Joan Walsh) of Corporate Bullsh*t (both from The New Press). He lives in Los Angeles.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 5:00pm (PT)

Noam Chomsky states: “Dying for Capitalism is carefully reasoned and informed, spelling out what we can and must do, without delay.”

We are dying—literally—from capitalism, and if our species is to survive we need a new abolitionist movement whose goal is to overturn capitalism and replace it with policies and politics that are designed to meet the needs of the many, instead of the bottom lines of the few.

A triangle of extinction … capitalism, environmental destruction, and war, are creating an emergency that humanity-as-a-whole has never faced before.

Interview guest, Dr. Charles Derber, will tell us how runaway capitalism has brought us to the brink of extinction, trace the history of how the U.S. became the leading capitalist power, and chart a way to a more hopeful future.

Interview Guest: 

Dr. Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College and has written 26 books- on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, culture and conversation, and social change. 

He writes for and has been reviewed in the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Truthout, and other leading media. His books are translated into 14 languages and his most recent books include Dying for Capitalism, Welcome to the Revolution, Moving Beyond Fear, Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States; Capitalism: Should You Buy It?

Guest Cohost:

Richard Nolthenius, Ph.D. is a member of the Earth Futures Institute with specialty in economics, at UC Santa Cruz, and is also Chair of the Astronomy Department at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, CA. Since 2009 Richard has shifted his focused to climate science and the human poly-crisis, and teaches a comprehensive course on climate change and its civilization context. By following the crisis’ threads, he finds no solution is possible which neglects the deep causes for human behavior, in virtually all areas. It’s not just a techno problem.

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(See below post-show note from Congressman Farr)

“Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

America is at an inflection point! We never thought authoritarian forces could take hold here, right? Wouldn’t our democracy live forever? The US has the longest standing democracy in the world …nearly 250 years old. Yet, losing the oldest democracy in the world is possible and, believe it or not, the loss is happening right now. 

Former Congressmember Sam Farr served in the House of Representatives for 24 years. What were those years like and what changes has he seen since his retirement in 2017?What are his observations of the Democratic Party, Republican Party, the Supreme Court? Is money in politics the death knell for democracy? How would our lives change if an authoritarian leader uses democratic processes to kill our republic … as happened in Hungary? 

Interview Guest: 

Congressmember Sam Farr was born in San Francisco. He grew up in Carmel where he still lives with his wife, Shary.  Sam was educated at Willamette University, Santa Clara University, and the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Congressmember Farr's public service career began in the California Assembly, where he worked as a staffer on budget issues for a decade. 

In 1975, he ran for and won a seat on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors.  In 1980 he was elected to the California State Assembly, where he became a champion for the organics industry and wrote one of the country's strictest oil spill liability laws. He served in the Assembly until his election to Congress in 1993. 

Congressmember Farr was elected to the House of Representatives in 1993 through a special election when former Congressman Leon Panetta resigned to become President Clinton's budget director, defeating Republican Bill McCampbell. 

Post show note from Congressman Sam Farr:

I am sure that those who needed to hear what we were saying don’t listen. Suggest you encourage your listeners to seek out those who support Trump. Ask them to speak to them gently and politely inquiring where they are getting their information. The discussion ought to be around listening to opposites and suggest good listening, watching and reading responsible reporting. Angry conversations never result in change. Think of interventions where friends and family politely suggest alternatives with a plan the patient voluntarily accepts. In our case listens to or watches. Hardest part is remaining calm while listening to so much BS. The professional calming listens and suggests positive alternatives. If you don’t enjoy being a teacher, don’t get mad, get even!Get your side to vote. Voting the the bad guys out is the only solution and winning that contest is very satisfying. Best wishes. Thanks for asking me to participate. Sam Farr

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“We don’t need to rely just on climate scientists anymore to warn us that we are in a Code Red emergency.” - John J. Berger

The news is undeniably grim. Raging wildfires, record-breaking temperatures, monster storms, and any number of other climate-related disasters … warn us regularly that we are barreling toward environmental ruin.

Yet, Dr. Berger also insists that rescue is possible. In his new book, “Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth” he introduces us to the bold, practical, proven solutions that are ready to scale right now, and he profiles the scientists, ranchers, business leaders, community organizers, activists, engineers, farmers, and (yes) politicians who are implementing them.

Interview Guest: 

JOHN J. BERGER Ph.D. is an environmental science and policy specialist, prize-winning author, and journalist. A graduate of Stanford and the University of California, he has written and edited 11 books, including three previous books on climate change, and written over 100 articles on climate change and transitioning to clean energy. His journalism has appeared in Scientific American, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and others. 

He has been a consultant to the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, corporations, utilities, and the U.S. Congress, as well as a newspaperman, editor, and a professor at the University of Maryland. John co-founded the Nuclear Information and Resource Service to assist citizen safe-energy groups and founded Restoring the Earth, to bring environmental restoration to national attention. He lives in El Cerrito, CA.

Guest Cohost:

Mike Clancy is the current Chair of the Monterey County Chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby and serves on the Question Review Team for the Annual Leon Panetta Lecture Series.  He has authored over 100 publications and is the recipient of the Navy’s highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

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(Note: If you have not yet heard about Project 2025 , a $22M scheme to destroy democracy once and for all, it is discussed in this interview.)

“Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“Holocaust education must sound the alarm—clearly, insistently, repeatedly: The Holocaust is a warning.” write the philosophers John K. Roth and Leonard Grob, two of the most respected Holocaust scholars in the world

As extreme right-wing political movements, anti-liberal fury, disrespect for truth and the rule of law, rampant “othering” and "whataboutism" gain traction in the U.S. and throughout the world—stoked by demagogic figures like Trump and Putin— we must heed that warning.

A dangerous contempt for democracy lies at the heart of recent and alarming developments, including the January 6 insurrection, the persistence of Trump and his MAGA rightwing, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. These events warn Americans that democracy must not be taken for granted. It is in the crosshairs of authoritarian forces that will undermine our democracy unless renewed commitment—ethical as well as political—resists them.

Interview Guests:

Leonard Grob, Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, NJ, where he taught full-time for thirty-nine years and part-time for another fifteen. Dr. Grob was the Chairperson of Philosophy Studies and Director of the University’s Humanities Core Curriculum. Dr. Grob’s Holocaust Studies have also provided the necessary background for him to begin exploring ideas related to resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: memory of the genocide of the Jews has most certainly informed Israeli political thought. Dr. Grob centers his scholarship on lessons of the Holocaust for those alive today.

John Roth, is the Edward J. Sexton professor emeritus of philosophy at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Dr. Roth was named the 1988 U. S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Roth's expertise in Holocaust and genocide studies, as well as in philosophy, ethics, American studies, and religious studies, has been advanced by postdoctoral appointments as a Graves Fellow in the Humanities, a Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute, Yale University.

(Along with being colleagues, Roth and Grob, a Christian and a Jew, have enjoyed an interfaith, philosophical friendship for decades. It has been rich in the kind of respectful and vigorous dialogue and debate that promotes and nurtures democracy.)

Guest Cohost:

Mike Clancy is the current Chair of the Monterey County Chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby and serves on the Question Review Team for the Annual Leon Panetta Lecture Series. He has authored over 100 publications and is the recipient of the Navy’s highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 27, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“You are not alone … and there is a solution. The stark polarization in American politics is woven into the fabric of our culture – but it doesn’t have to be.” – Ruth Backstrom

Are you tired of broken politics and the deteriorating quality of life in America and aware that we need a dramatic shift for democracy to survive? Igniting A Bold New Democracy is an inspiring guide for creating a powerful pro-democracy movement using powerful approaches American citizens have used in the past to create reforms. Igniting A Bold New Democracy shares how proven facilitation methods, such as Dynamic Facilitation, could draw on our collective wisdom to design a vision for the new modern democracy that we deserve and need.

Interview Guest: 

Dr. Ruth Backstrom, holds a BA in history and a PhD in education. Ruth spent 10 years working as a community advocate for more sustainability, and a champion for creating a food policy council. As she discovered that people are yearning to have conversations about how to solve the problems in our country, Ruth envisioned ways that citizens could come together to have authentic problem-solving conversations again, discover how to respond to these tumultuous times, and then enact reforms as all want.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday July 30, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT

In 2007, Dr. Robin Stern coined the phrase “gaslight effect” to explain the long-term effects of repeated gaslighting: an insidious, and sometimes covert form of emotional abuse in which a gaslighter undermines and controls another person by deflecting, twisting and denying the reality. 

Gaslighting can happen in a romantic relationship between family members, or at work – but in every case it leaves, you constantly second-guessing yourself, unable to make simple decisions, and destabilize from the constant reality shift.

Also, have we been politically gaslighted on a national level?

Interview Guest: 

Robin, Stern, PhD, is the cofounder and associate director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and co-developer of RULER, an evidence-based approach adopted by over 4000 schools worldwide. 

Dr. Stern is a license psychoanalyst with 30 years of experience and the author of Project Rebirth, The Gaslight Effect, The Gaslight Effect Recovery Guide, and the host of "The Gaslight Effect Podcast," 

Dr. Stern offers invaluable insights into the dynamics of gaslighting and its impact on emotional well-being. She regularly contributes to esteemed publications and media outlets on topics related to psychology and emotional intelligence. 

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

What do red deer, birds, and gnats have in common with democracy?

Democracy is the default state of virtually every animal species on earth, and humanity is no exception. Only with the power of great wealth, control of media, or the force of arms and technology is it overcome by dictators, popes, and kings.

In Thom Hartmann’s powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy,he shows how democracy is the one form of government most likely to produce peace and happiness among people.

Now, our democracy is under targeted threat. So how do we save our democracy?

Interview Guest: Thom Hartmann is a progressive nationally and internationally syndicated talk show host. Talkers Magazine named him America’s #1 most important progressive host and the host of one of the top ten talk radio shows in the country every year for more than a decade. 

A four-time recipient of the Project Censored Award, Hartmann is also a New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty books, translated into multiple languages. He was born in Michigan and retains strong ties to the Midwest, although he has lived in many regions. He now lives on the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon.

Co-Interview Guest: Andrew Goldenkranz has been a public educator for 35 years and since 2020 has been Chair of the Santa Cruz County Democratic Party, representing 112,000 local Democrats. 

As part of his career in Education, he conducted research at the American Museum of Natural History and developed public health curriculum at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Andrew's political organizing comes from his career experience and personal background and is driven to fight for a seat at the table for those who historically have not had one. 

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a pay-to-play operation in which legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind closed doors to write model legislation that advances a radical right-wing, pro-corporate, and pro-Republican agenda on everything from suppressing voter access and denying the climate breakdown to crushing unions and undermining public education.

ALEC embraced the Christian Right extremists who pushed for the nationwide abortion ban and, at last summer’s annual meeting, they celebrated the Supreme Court’s recent ruling, removing the right to an abortion in the United States, over a “late night, dessert and coffee.”
ALEC members are urgently strategizing their efforts to radically rewrite the US Constitution and are blacklisting “woke” companies that embrace climate protection goals.

Common Cause is shining a light and fighting them!

Interview Guest: 

Viki Harrison is currently Common Cause’s “Director of Constitutional Convention and Protecting Dissent Programs.” She leads the non-profit’s work on stopping a dangerous constitutional convention that would rewrite the entire United States Constitution.

Viki previously served as Director of State Operations for Common Cause and was the Executive Director in Common Cause New Mexico. Viki Harrison graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico with a degree in Women’s Studies and African American Studies.

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KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

In this interview the New York Times bestselling author, John Perkins, blows the whistle on China’s economic hitman strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much needed solutions for curing the global Death Economy. In his shocking expose, former Economic Hit Man, John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. 

In John Perkin’s third edition, he reveals the wave infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China with its modified version of the US Economic Hit Man strategy. This new model has proven even more dangerous and successful at enticing lower-income nations into its claws. However, all is not lost. Perkins provides a source of hope for transforming the Death Economy into a Life Economy and inspires readers to participate in a new era of global cooperation

Interview Guest:

John Perkins is a former chief economist who advised the World Bank, the United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and governments around the world. Now as a sought-after speaker and author of 11 books that have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 70 weeks, sold over 2 million copies, and are translated into more than 35 languages, he exposes the world of international intrigue and corruption bred by the empire building EHM strategy. His latest book,Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition - China's EHM Strategy: Ways to Stop the Global Takeover, continues his revelations and describes China’s highly effective and dangerous modifications to the EHM strategy. Learn more at johnperkins.org/economichitmanbook.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“Your power is already in you. Now that you know, it’s up to you to believe and wield it on behalf of the powerless.” – Bill Wong

Bill Wong, a renowned strategist to a bevy of iconic California politicians, offers readers in his new book “Better to Win” a unique and proven perspective on the craft and power of politics. 

It examines the mindset and machinery involved in the use of power, and the sacrifices, necessary to affect meaningful change for those who don’t (yet) have a voice in the halls of power. 

“Better to Win,” shares impactful skills and strategies for change agents and powerful stories of Asian Americans who played and continue to play an important role at the table where decisions are made. 

Interview Guest:

Bill Wong is an award-winning political strategist who has been included in Capitol Weekly’s Top 100 power list from 2018 to 2021. 

A consummate insider whose formidable political knowledge and influence helped shepherd a historic number of Asian Americans into the halls of power. Bill is also an expert in mobilizing the emergent power of AAPI communities.

Bill served as senior political advisor to Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, chief of staff to California State Assemblymember Judy Chu, chief of staff to California State Senator Hilda Solis, and legislative director to California State Assemblymember Mike Honda. Bill has advised non-profits, labor organizations, and Fortune 100 companies.

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Warren Hern develops a deep and unsettling comparison between metastatic cancer and the expanding footprint of humanity, as we consume and degrade the environment that sustains us. - John W. Terborgh, Duke University

What is Homo Ecophagus? It is a new term meaning, “The man who devours the ecosystem.”

Over the course of its evolution, humans have evolved cultures and adaptations that have now become malignant and that the human species, at the global level, has all the major characteristics of a malignant neoplasm – converting all plant, animal, organic, and inorganic material into human biomass or its adaptive, adjuncts and support systems. 

This process is incompatible with continued survival of the human species and most other species on the planet.

Interview Guest:

Warren M. Hern, MD, MPH, PHD, is a practicing physician in Boulder, Colorado, where he is also on the anthropology faculty at the University of Colorado. He holds a Master of Public Health degree and a PhD in epidemiology. His clinical and epidemiologic research has been published widely in scientific and medical journals, including BioScience and Population Studies. His public advocacy of reproductive rights has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, CBS’ 60 Minutes, and other prominent venues. He has conducted decades of research in fertility and population trends based in the Peruvian Amazon. Dr. Hern created the new term “Homo Ecophagus” to describe human-kind’s devastation to the planet.

Guest Cohost:

Mike Clancy holds degrees in Oceanography and Meteorology and has worked at the Science Applications International Corporation, the Naval Research Lab, and the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) in Monterey. Michael has authored over 100 publications in meteorology, oceanography and information technology, and received over 50 professional awards, including the Navy’s highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, signed by the Secretary of the Navy.  Mr. Clancy is a frequent lecturer on climate change and currently serves as Chair of the Monterey County Chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

The UN report released last month stated that “climate change is speeding toward catastrophe.” And … that, “the pace and scale of what has been done so far and … current plans are insufficient to tackle climate change. We are walking when we should be sprinting.”  Recently, a climate scientist stated, “that every 10th of a degree is worth fighting for.”

INTERVIEW GUEST

Dr. Richard Nolthenious is the Astronomy Program Chair at Cabrillo College and in the past 10 years, you have added climate science to your expertise, and created and began teaching a comprehensive course in Climate Science and its civilization context.  By examining the climate science problem and searching for solutions, you have found it is connected fundamentally to, well, everything. You are also a member of University of California Santa Cruz Earth Futures Institute. In addition, Dr. Nolthenious was a contributing multi-chapter author in Climate Abandoned: We’re on the Endangered Species List.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)

Media shape our sense of who we are, what we value, and our place in the world.

Against the backdrop of pundits and politicians promoting fearful understandings of “fake news,” and the negative impacts of social media. The book, “The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy” empowers readers to become savvy media users, who can analyze claims, see through manipulation, and recognize when political or economic interests drive the media we use.

For this program, we will be interviewing one of ten authors of this timely and imperative book.

Interview Guest:

Dr. Allison Butler is Director of the Media Literacy Certificate Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Communication. Dr. Butler also co-directs the grassroots organization, Mass Media Literacy, where she develops and runs teacher trainings for the inclusion of critical media literacy in K-12 schools. She is the author of numerous articles and books on media literacy, including Educating Media Literacy and Key Scholarship in Media Literacy.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 5:00pm (PST)

In July 2022 the hashtag #ClimateScam suddenly spiked on Twitter, and by December had accrued over 362k mentions (including retweets) from 91k unique users. ~ “Deny, Deceive, Delay, Exposing New Trends in Climate Mis-and Disinformation” at COP27

The climate crisis’ resulting harm to our global biodiversity is one of the world’s most pressing challenges. The complexity of the climate crisis requires global, national, and local actions informed by multidisciplinary research.

The goal of Creative Commons’ multi-year Open Climate Campaign is to promote open access to research that will accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity.

If we are going to solve our global challenges, the global knowledge … meaning the research, data, educational resources, and software … must be open and available to all.

Interview Guest:

Dr. Monica Granados has a PhD in ecology from McGill University. While working on her PhD, Monica discovered incentives in academia which promote practices that make knowledge less accessible. Since then, Monica has devoted her career to working in the open science space in pursuit of making knowledge more equitable and accessible. Monica is presently Assistant Director, Open Climate at Creative Commonsworking on the Open Climate Campaign promoting open access of climate and biodiversity research.  Dr. Monica Granados lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Guest CoHost:

Richard Nolthenius, Ph.D. is Astronomy Program Chair at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, CA. In the past 10 years, Richard added climate science to his expertise, teaching a comprehensive course in Climate Science and its civilization context. By examining the climate science problem and searching for solutions, he has found its connected fundamentally to, well, everything. In addition, Richard is a contributing chapter author in Climate Abandoned: We’re on the Endangered Species List, a #1 Amazon bestseller.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 5:00pm (PST)

“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to, or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.” – Ram Dass

You Are the Universe: Ram Dass Maps the Journey, is a beautifully illustrated guidebook that is an accessible perspective on our world through Ram Dass’ eyes. It explores timeless answers for today’s most urgent questions.

Sourced from five decades of recordings, Ram Dass shares his life story and transformative teachings in his own words, with honesty and humor. He offers teens and adults of all ages, life-altering inspiration for understanding universal truths, navigating their unique paths with compassion and awareness, and living a meaningful life.

Interview Guest:

Julie Weinstein’s professional career is devoted to advancing environmental and social justice. She also serves as both a Jewish and Buddhist chaplain in the jails, within the justice movement and for people experiencing loss, grief and trauma. She is a death educator, burial society leader, and artist, and is pursuing ordination as a Rabbinic Pastor. She’s been practicing Ram Dass’ teachings for over two decades, and co-leads community initiatives for the Love Serve Remember Foundation.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 5:00pm (PST)

Kuni can be created anywhere through the determination of one person. ~ Tsuyoshi Sekihara

As we despair about shrinking rural areas and are intimidated by cities growing to a monstrous scale, where are we supposed to go? We are dazzled by image, enslaved by fads, and compelled to buy, buy, buy.

Can we stop buying and start making? Stop viewing and start finding? Stop speaking and start listening? When did these things become so difficult?

Kuni offers a unique model for the revitalization of rural and de-industrialized lands and communities—and shares lessons in citizen-led regeneration for all of us, regardless of where we live.

Interview Guest:

Richard McCarthy is the coauthor, with Tsuyoshi Sekihara, of Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection and is the Founder and former Executive Director of Market Umbrella in New Orleans, and the former Executive Director of Slow Food USA. After studyingpolitical science at the London School of Economics, he returned to put ideas into action. In all his work, two important themes prevail: To facilitate trusting relations between urban and rural communities, and to instigate lasting social change by creating opportunities for behavior change to come first. Ideas follow.

Richard’s work became increasingly global through partnerships with the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, Project for Public Spaces, and Slow Food. Today, he works with Meatless Monday, Slow Food International, FAO, the World Farmers Markets Coalition, and others to cultivate community through food. He addresses audiences all over the planet, has published chapters in two books, and has produced short films and radio programs. Visit Richard at: ThinkLikePirates.com.

Guest Host:

Christine Barrington has lived on numerous continents and is an avid student of the stories human beings tell to create meaningful lives. She practices as a transformational coach and is dedicated to being of service in uplifting individual brilliance and capacity. She is a talk show host for Talk of the Bay on KSQD 90.7 FM bringing stories of creativity and commitment from local and national personalities as humanity strives to meet this moment of dire transformation on planet earth.

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Note: What does inequality look like today in America? It is 50 trillion dollars moved from the middle class to the 1% since Reagan took office in 1981. It looks like only three billionaires owning as much wealth as the bottom half of America. It looks like one Millennial owning more money than all the other millennials in the country! Inequality is killing us ... literally!

“Inequality Kills Us All”

“Be Bold America!” Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 5:00pm (PST)

The aim is to have a society that treats everyone well – and health will follow.

The complex answer to why the United States does so poorly in health measures has at its base, one pervasive issue: the United States has by far the highest levels of inequality of all the rich countries.  The antidote must start with a broader awareness of the nature of the problem.

Inequality Kills Us All details how living in a society with entrenched hierarchies increases the negative effects of illnesses for everyone. Dr. Bezruchka states that health in the United States is not what should be expected for such a rich country, one that spends a fortune on medical care.

He now looks at the country as the patient in need of treatment.

Interview Guest:

Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H. is the author of Inequality Kills Us All and he is an Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Health Systems & Population Health and of Global Health at the School of Public Health, University of Washington.

Due to decades as an emergency physician and his years of community health experience in Nepal, Dr. Bezruchka discovered that health in the United States is not what should be expected for such a rich country, one that spends a fortune on medical care. To understand why that was true, he obtained a Master of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins University, where he was exposed to the social and political factors that matter most to advance health.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 4 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“Natural Consequences” is a collection of 42 environmental essays. These essays variously encourage readers to get out in nature and restore our relationship to the land in order to better recognize the challenges of climate change. Collected into six sections, these personal narratives, explore the threats of fire, drought, development, and fracking.

These essays are thoughtful vignettes and are fascinating historical interpretations that clearly lay out our challenges and they offer local, regional, and global solutions to reduce the natural consequences of our actions.

Interview Guest:

Char Miller is the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College. Professor Miller is a publicly, engaged, historian, widely active in efforts to address, environmental issues, and provide historical context to climate change. His is the author of over 15 books.

In addition to his academic work, Miller is active in the leadership programs for the US forest service, as well as building, public awareness of environmental and climate change issues. This has led to his contributions to museum exhibitions, such as California continued at the archery museum in Los Angeles, and numerous op-eds, and commentaries in theWashington Post, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle.

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KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

So...

that's why I tell you

to keep your eyes wide.

To keep them wide open...

at least on one side.

~ Dr. Seuss

Keep at least one eye open and focused on the climate crisis these next two years!

The House of Representatives most likely will be Republican controlled.

It is sad to say, the Grand Old Party has no interest in writing active policies to address the climate emergency.

How will the midterm election results affect the long-term climate crisis? How will "deny-o-saurs" continue to block progress? Big stakes are involved!

Learn about Green TV - that picks up where the mainstream media leaves off, offering the public compelling science and solutions-based programming in support of environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual wisdom - and the actions needed to further these goals.

Interview Guest:

Betsy Rosenberg is an award-winning national broadcast journalist who spent the first half of her career as a reporter and anchor with the CBS Radio News network. On Earth Day, 1997, Betsy launched TrashTalk minutes on KCBS Radio in San Francisco. Betsy has interviewed leading eco-innovators of our time from science, politics, business, tech, activism, and the arts and she is a keen observer, writer, and speaker on how mainstream news outlets cover climate change and other environmental issues. She has also written many articles and contributed to an anthology, edited by Jill Cody, titled Climate Abandoned — We’re on the Endangered List. Betsy is cofounder and Chief Content Creator with GreenTV. Visit: greentv.com to learn more.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

Will we still have a Democratic Republic on Wednesday, November 9?

This coming election will be a real moment of truth. It has come to this …  you are either for democracy or you are not. One political party embraces democracy and one party has abandoned it. Each offers two very different futures for America.

How did we get to this pivotal moment in history?

What might be the results of the Tuesday, November 8 election?

Join KSQD “Be Bold America!” when we ask John Rothmann, formerly with KGO Radio and long-time political expert, to look into his crystal ball and tell us what he foresees happening on November 8.

Interview Guest:

John F. Rothmann is a long-time radio talk show host and was with KGO 810 since 1996. John also has been involved in many political campaigns on the national, state and local levels. A frequent lecturer on American politics and the presidency, John has spoken at over 150 university campuses throughout the United States, Canada and Israel. Since 2004, John has been a Fromm Institute professor at the University of San Francisco. John has published a wide range of articles on American political history and the Middle East and has coauthored and authored several books. John's passion is his 15,000-volume library, one of the finest private libraries in the country, specializing in American political history and political biography.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“It is time for all women to come out of the closet and roar with all their spiritual power … because that is our true sound.” – Acharya Shunya

In light of women in the United States losing rights … and women in Iran fighting for theirs, … we’ll be speaking with Acharya Shunya, author of

“Roar Like a Goddess.”

In “Roar Like a Goddess”, trailblazing Vedic spiritual teacher Acharya Shunya honors her progressive Vedic roots while breaking the shackles of tradition to bring modern-day women an inclusive, feminist spirituality.

Through a revolutionary revision of ancient India’s primary goddess archetypes, Shunya invites us to step into our divine immensity and lead lives of power, abundance, and freedom.

Interview Guest:

Acharya Shunya is a highly-rated motivational speaker, workshop facilitator and retreat leader with 20+ years of experience as a spiritual, wellness, relationship and women's empowerment coach and group facilitator. Shunya works with individuals, groups, and organizations to amplify their authenticity and empower them to become a better version of themselves, utilizing goddess archetypes from her culture as tools for unapologetic living. Shunya lectures on eastern spirituality, psychology and wellness (Ayurveda) and she has been invited to prestigious conferences at universities such as UCLA UCSF, and Stanford.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“A fascinating and compelling case that right-wing politics has subverted our democracy … This book unmasks the politics of fear – the deeper chords touched by campaigns that appeal to the dark side.” – Robert Shrum

Bryant Welch is a clinical psychologist and attorney who has been observing the American mind as it has played out in the political arena for over two decades.

Dr. Welch’s most recent book, “State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and The Assault on the American Mind,” was prescient in its prediction of the current American political climate.

He wrote “State of Confusion” due to his increasing concerns with the growing instability of the American mind, itself, as it struggles under trauma and political manipulation to bear the psychological burdens needed to maintain democracy.

Dr. Welch predicted that the assault from the right would destabilize the ability of citizens to discern right from wrong, honest from dishonest, pushing our democracy into a slide towards dictatorship.

Interview Guest:

Bryant Welch. Ph.D. J.D., is a nationally renowned clinical psychologist and attorney. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Dr. Welch received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina and later was a Research Associate Graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He has won advocacy awards from the American Psychological Association, and took a hard stand against their involvement in torture under the Bush Administration. Dr. Welch currently lives and practices clinical psychology in Sausalito, California.

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“The United States of Distraction”

 “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

"Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But bring it on, Donald. Keep going… It may not be good for America but it’s damn good for CBS." ~  Les Moonves, (at the time) the Executive Chairman and CEO, CBS Network

The United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America explains that the role of news media in a free society is to investigate, inform, and provide a crucial check on political power.

But does it?

It’s no secret that the goal of corporate-owned media is to increase the profit of the few, not to empower the many. As a result, people are increasingly immersed in an information system structured to reinforce their social biases and market to their buying preferences. Journalism's essential role has been drastically compromised, and Donald Trump’s repeated claims of “fake news” and framing of the media as an “enemy of the people” have made a bad scenario worse.

"Ever since the few began to control the many, disinformation, fabrications, and distractions having used to shape consent, impose submission, and maintain domination." – Ralph Nader

Interview Guest:

MICKEY HUFF is the director of Project Censored, founded in 1976, and president of the Media Freedom Foundation. Since 2009, he has coedited the Project Censored yearbook, including its most recent volume, State of the Free Press 2022. He is coauthor, with Nolan Higdon, of United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America  and Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy.

In 2019, Mickey was recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, for their annual James Madison Freedom of Information, Beverly Kees Educator award.

Mickey continues to co-author articles on media and propaganda for several scholarly journals and news publications. He co-directed Project Censored's latest documentary on fake news and critical media literacy, "United States of Distraction: Fighting the Fake News Invasion."

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don’t fully understand how we got here!  How and why did neoliberalism become so prevalent in the U.S. and why is it time for us to turn our backs to it?

The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness traces the history of neoliberalism—which applies to a set of capitalistic philosophiesfavoring free trade, financial austerity, and deregulation—up to the present. This book explains how neoliberalism was sold as a cure for wars and the Great Depression. It outlines the impact that it has had on America, looking at different sectors, including healthcare, unemployment, and education.

New York Times bestselling author, Thom Hartmann, highlights how America can go one of two ways: continue going down the road to neoliberal oligarchy, as supported by the GOP, or choose to return to FDR’s Keynesian economics by raising taxes on the rich, reversing free trade, and creating a more pluralistic society.

Interview Guest (picture attached): Thom Hartmann is a progressive nationally and internationally syndicated talk show host. Talkers Magazine named him America’s #1 most important progressive host and the host of one of the top ten talk radio shows in the country every year for more than a decade.

A four-time recipient of the Project Censored Award, Hartmann is also a New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty books, translated into multiple languages. He was born in Michigan and retains strong ties to the Midwest, although he has lived in many regions. He now lives on the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon.

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KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.” ~ James Madison

In states all over the country, classrooms have become culture war battlegrounds. The National Education Association stated that 55% of America's educators are considering leaving the profession (in Texas it is 70%!). Teachers experience less support from parents, must deal with political rhetoric, potential gun violence, diminishing respect and inferior pay.

Watch Florida. It is the canary in the coal mine. As one Florida teacher said of the new state curriculum: “There was this Christian Nationalism philosophy that was just baked into everything that was there.”

School teachers and school boards used to focus on educating children, drafting lesson plans, designing curriculum, working with large classroom sizes and dwindling budgets, and maintaining school classrooms and districts. In addition, they now contend with political ideology, gun violence, religion, book banning, taxpayer funded charter schools, dwindling respect, non-commensurate pay, and their peers quitting the profession and leaving those who stay with more to do.

As one high school teacher said about what is happening: “It is the biggest attack on freedom in a classroom that I have ever seen.”

Interview Guest (picture attached): Dr. Deneen Guss was elected and sworn in as the Monterey County Superintendent of Schools in January 2019 for her first term and will begin her second term of office in January 2023. Dr. Guss is a 35-year veteran educator with a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership.  She has been an administrator for over 25 years, and has received numerous awards for her service in education and her service to the community, including the 2021 Ruth Vreeland Memorial Public Official of the Year award. With a lens on community and equity, Dr. Guss is focused on strengthening community engagement and improving educational outcomes.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 14, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ‘cause you might not get there.” – Yogi Berra

For over 50 years Common Cause has served as a vehicle to strengthen public participation and ensure public officials and public institution are accountable and responsive to all citizens … like you! A vibrant democracy demands strong public participation and accountability for those with position power.

Common Cause fights for access to the ballot box and voting rights, fights manipulated gerrymandering and fights for fair district representation, fights for judicial and legislative ethics and accountability (including ALEC!), fights against the influence of money in politics, fights for freedom of the press, advocates for fixing the filibuster, and fights against the right-wing plan to rewrite the US Constitution.

What are they doing in bring California into the 21st Century? They are fighting to increase voting accessibility for all populations, increase voting language accessibility, to hold contractor donations accountable with City Councils and School Boards. In addition, with this upcoming midterm election being the first election after the adoption of California’s Fair Maps Act,  they will analyze the results for recommending improvements to the California State Legislature.

Interview Guest: Pedro Hernandez, J.D. is the Legal and Policy Director for California Common Cause where he helps lead the organization’s statewide policy and legislative work. He currently serves on the state’s Language Accessibility Advisory Committee and is Vice-Chair of the Berkeley City Fair Campaign Practices Commission.

Before joining California Common Cause, Pedro was Senior Policy Coordinator for FairVote, where he developed an education plan and helped implement a proportional representation system as part of the settlement in United States v. Eastpointe. Through his local advocacy work, he helped strengthen San Francisco’s public finance system, and has conducted several voter educational campaigns. He previously worked as an Associate at the Law Office of Robert Rubin where he specialized in claims under the California Voting Rights Act.

Pedro earned his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

Women! Did you just wake up and realize that the Supreme Court stole your body?

What was the Constitutional reasoning to overturn Roe v. Wade after nearly 50 years?

What was the Dobbs v. Jackson lawsuit all about? How did the majority of judges use it to allow government forced birth?  What did the concurrence and dissent opinions say?

Justice Clarence Thomas stated that other cases should be revisited. What does THAT mean and did he and other justices mislead the Senate and the public at their confirmation hearings? What is “stare decisis” anyway and how is it used to cause judicial continuity?

Interview Guest: Margaret M. Russell, JD. Professor Russell is an associate Professor of Law and has been on the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty since 1990. Professor Russell is affiliated with the University’s Center for Social Justice & Public Service, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and the Center for Multicultural Learning.

She has been honored for her contributions to student life at Santa Clara by the Asian Pacific Law Students Association and the Black Law Students Association. In 1991, she traveled to South Africa with a delegation of legal scholars to provide consultation on constitution-drafting for the post-apartheid transition.

Prior to joining the Santa Clara Law faculty, Professor Russell was a fellow at the public interest firm Public Advocates, Inc., a law firm in San Francisco. She served as the director of Public Interest Programs and as the acting assistant dean of student affairs at Stanford University, and also clerked for the Honorable James E. Doyle of the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wisconsin.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

“… that the utmost reward of daring should still be to dare.” – Robert Frost

Americans should honor and remember those who failed in pursuit a great goal; in this case, the presidency of the United States. Some handle their defeat on a world stage creatively and some never psychologically recovered after such a loss. Why?

In the Arena: A History of American Presidential Hopefuls profiles 34 American leaders who captured their party’s nomination for the presidency but never reached the Oval Office. Author Peter Shea chronicles the rise, early careers, campaigns, and later achievements of historical giants like Aaron Burr through modern candidates like Hillary Clinton.

Interview Guest: Peter Shea has been a writer, editor, and teacher for over 25 years, and a history geek for far longer. He has written about prominent Irish Americans, educational gaming, and cutting-edge technologies in higher education. Peter is a Director of Professional Development at the community college level. In the Arena marks his return to the subject of public lives in America.

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(Action Requested: Flood the White House switchboard to urge President Biden to stop DCE/REACH today! Call 202-456-1111 from 11:00am-3:00pm EST. A script may be found at www.nationalsinglepayer.com and click on the call-in script link.)

“Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

When Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he responded, “because that’s where the money is.”

During the final days of the Trump Administration, officials at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) launched a dangerous and insidious pilot program known as Medicare Direct Contracting. (This program was recently rebranded as REACH by the Biden Administration.)

Left unchecked, Direct Contracting and REACH would allow profit-hungry middlemen to “manage” the care of up to 30 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries. These middlemen, some of whom have received a huge influx of money from private equity, have every incentive to frustrate patients and deny medically necessary care!

Unless we stop REACH, this program could spell the end of Medicare as a public, nonprofit, social insurance program.

“Medicare was designed as a lifeline for America’s seniors and those with disabilities, NOT a playground for Wall Street investors.”– Dr. Susan Rogers, President, PNHP

Interview Guest:

Dr. Ana Malinow spent decades working as a pediatrician with immigrant, refugee and underserved children in Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania and California. She is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, co-founder of Health Care for All Texas, and lead organizer for the National Single Payer. She has authored opinion pieces on how national single payer will improve patient care and bring us closer to social justice. She has been a speaker on healthcare reform and featured on national and international television and radio. She recently retired as Professor of Pediatrics from the University of California in San Francisco.

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KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

Tidal alludes to water. More importantly, though, it connotes a movement caused by disruptions from below.

Tidal Equality is about expanding equity and inclusion by expanding democratic decision-making. Co CEO’s and Founders, Dr. Kristen Liesch and Anna Dewar Gully work to help organizations reduce and solve for inequities of all kinds. As mothers, they have observed how those inequities differ among mothers from a variety of identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences.

Dr. Liesch and Ms. Gully will share their landmark methodology, the Equity Sequence™, which can help invite equity-seeking individuals from a variety of backgrounds—including mothers and parents—into the design of workplace decisions that work better for all.

Interview Guests:

Dr. Kristen Liesch is co-CEO and co-founder of Tidal Equality. Named a Forbes Diversity & Inclusion Trailblazer, Kristen is a strategist and educator with 15 + years of experience designing transformative curricula, implementing equitable process changes, and capacity-building programs to support the design of more equitable organizations in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and New Zealand.

Anna Dewar Gully is co-CEO and co-founder of Tidal Equality. Anna is an organizational strategist with 15 + years of experience designing enterprise-wide strategy, advising boards and leading on governance, spearheading transformation initiatives, and building greater equality in large systems and organizations in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and the UK.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 5:00pm (PDT)

The impacts of climate change have become dire.

Rising temperatures, volatile weather, and poor air quality affect our physical and mental health in dangerous new ways. From increasing the risk of infectious disease to amplifying emotional stress and anxiety—even the healthiest among us are at risk. Bonnie Schneider has tracked environmentally-linked physiological impacts throughout her career as a TV journalist, meteorologist, and the founder of Weather & Wellness©—a platform that explores the connection between weather, climate change, and health. In her new book, Taking the Heat, Schneider provides crucial advice from science experts and medical professionals to help you:

•  Cope with the mental anguish of “eco-anxiety” and other climate change fears for our planet’s future, particularly expressed by millennials and Gen-Z

•  Identify health hazards caused by extreme heat and air pollution that disproportionally affect low-income and minority communities

•  Uncover the science behind longer and stronger allergy seasons and learn new ways to reduce your risk of adverse allergic reactions

•  Detect the increased threat of dangerous pathogens lurking in unexpected places and why we may face future pandemics

•  Understand how seasonal fluctuations of sunlight, heat, and humidity can not only factor into feelings of depression and anxiety but also can trigger flare-ups for certain auto-immune diseases

•  Discover how meditation and mindfulness practices can ease the psychological stress that often occurs in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters

•  Explore how the Earth’s rising temperatures may rob you of restorative sleep and impair mental sharpness

•  Learn why increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may reduce the availability of what you choose to eat; learn sustainable solutions—from food to fitness. And more!

Interview Guest:

Bonnie Schneider is a national television meteorologist and Peabody Award-winning journalist based in New York City who appears on MSNBC/NBC News and Yahoo! Finance. She created a platform Weather and Wellness, successfully launching its original video content focusing on climate change and health for the New York Newsday’s digital site. She connects with her fans and answers their weather questions through Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Bonnie has provided on-camera insight and expertise on everything from hurricanes to snowstorms for CNN, HLN, Bloomberg TV, and the Weather Channel.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT)

“Once upon a time, there was an average American family living in an average American town. After the family moved to a new state, the father left his carpool and began a long solo commute to work. And gradually, he began to change. He looked the same. He dressed the same. But something was very different. But this isn’t a story about just one man. It’s the story of a media phenomenon that changed a father … and divided the nation.” - Jen Senko

Join KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 10 at 5:00pm (PT) to hear the award-winning documentary filmmaker and author, Jen Senko, discuss her book:  The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation … And How We Can Fight Back.

Jen Senko, in her new book, uncovers the alarming right-wing strategy to wield the media as a weapon against our very democracy. Ms. Senko’s story shows us how Fox News and other ultraconservative media outlets are reshaping the way millions of Americans view the world and encourages us to fight back. Jen pulls back the curtain on how this media served as the most powerful tool for Libertarian billionaires to get ordinary Americans to vote against their own interests and to gain one-party rule.

Interview Guest:

Jen Senko: is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in New York City. Her documentaries focus on socio-political themes with the intent of inspiring discussion and fomenting change. Senko’s 2016 documentary, narrated by Matthew Modine, The Brainwashing of My Dad, tracks the pernicious, addictive and disturbing rise of right-wing media. This widely acclaimed project has most recently won the prestigious “2021 Webby People’s Voice Award: Public Service & Activism” award. Jen’s work focuses on socio-political themes with the intent of inspiring activism and fomenting change.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT)

Authoritarianism is antithetical to democracy. The January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, the invasion of Ukraine, and the militarizing of police in many of our cities are living examples of authoritarianism in action. Are there any similarities between them?

Our two interview guests, Dr. William Benet, creator of the Polarities of Democracy theory, and Dr, Joseph McMillan, former President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, say: “Yes!” They say, residents often feel as though the police are an occupying force rather than helpful servants of the people in those communities. Join us to talk about challenging police officers to change their minds. Our two expert guests will discuss how Polarities of Democracycan be applied through the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement (NOBLE)

Interview Guest:

Dr. Joseph McMillian is a Fellow with the Institute of Polarities of Democracy, a Contributing Faculty member in the Walden University School of Criminal Justice, a Past National President for the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Police Executive Research Foundation, and the American Society of Criminology.

Dr. McMillan received a BA in Criminal Justice, from Wilmington College, a MA in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Crime in Commerce from George Washington University, a MS in Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College, and his PhD. in Criminal Justice from Walden University.  Dr. McMillan is also a graduate of the Air War College non-resident program and the Federal Executive Institute.

Dr. William Benet is an activist, educator, and researcher who developed the Polarities of Democracy theory through his doctoral and post-doctoral research at the University of Toronto. He has over 50 years’ experience in politics and social justice activism. He served in the US Army from 1965 to 1968, followed by 28 years in the Monroe County Legislature in Rochester, New York, including five years as Majority Leader.

Dr. Benet currently holds academic appointments as a Dissertation Committee Chair with Walden University’s School of Public Policy and Administration, and an Associate Researcher with the University of Toronto’s Adult Education and Community Development Program. He serves as Vice-President and Senior Fellow for the Institute for Polarities of Democracy.

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KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT)

Most Americans are worried about how companies, like Facebook, invade their privacy and harvest their data, but that many people don’t fully understand the details of how their information is being adapted and misused.

Progressive radio host and author, Thom Hartmann will tell us how Big Brother invents “whiteness” to keep power, how the surveillance industry is booming, how democracy requires trust and how authoritarianism requires fear, along with many other privacy topics. He uses extensive, vivid examples to highlight the consequences of Big Data on all aspects of our lives.

Interview Guest:

Thom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host. Talkersmagazine named him America's most important progressive host and has named his show one of the top ten talk radio shows in the country every year for over a decade. A four-time recipient of the Project Censored Award, Hartmann is also a New York Times bestselling author of nearly 30 books, translated into multiple languages.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 5:00pm (PT)

Is there a larger problem than Donald Trump’s “Big Lie?”

David Pepper’s “Laboratories of Autocracy” shows that far more than the high-profile antics of D.C. politicians like Marjorie Taylor Green or Jim Jordan that there is an even bigger challenge to American Democracy.

It is the anonymous, often corrupt politicians in statehouse across the country who pose the greatest dangers to American Democracy. But, David Pepper doesn’t stop there. He lays out a robust pro-democracy agenda outlining how everyone from elected officials to everyday citizens can fight back.