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Lilada’s Guide to Self-Care

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Lilada Gee is joined by Alexandra, Cassie, Jill, Shauna as they look into self-care. They are joined by Johanna Heineman-Pieper, a bar manager at Fuego’s, who gives us some tasty cocktail recipes to try out. They are also joined by Zacoia Green, a massage therapist in Madison, and Tanisha Pyon, an actress and spoken word poet.  

Protecting Credit And Trust in Financial Institutions

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Monday host Patty Peltekos talks about money, credit, and trust in financial institutions. In the wake of the Equifax data breach, she asks: what do credit reporting agencies actually do, how can we teach people to be financially healthy, and how can listeners trust that their personal data is secure? Her guests are Adam Lee, […]

What We Can Learn from Salvadoran Community Organizing

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Pedro Cabezas is a community organizer working to ban mining in El Salvador. Leigh Hardy is a Boston-based social worker and former president of the board of US-El Salvador Sister Cities. Today, they discuss the victory of the popular movement in El Salvador in winning a national ban on metallic mining on multi-national corporations, and […]

Thomas Bass’ Critique of New Burns and Novick Documentary

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Host Allen Ruff interviews Thomas Bass, Professor of English and Journalism at the State University of New York, in a caller-filled hour of A Public Affair. Bass discusses his recent article in the Mekong Review, “America’s Amnesia,” which raises several objections to the Burns & Novick PBS documentary on the Vietnam War.