Monday Night

S H Program Notes 08-01-23



12 AM

Creative Frontline (Climate Change is Now)

Preston Arrow-weed intro

Dorece Sam interview on Thacker Pass struggle

Bradley Angell interview by Robert Lundahl about struggle over White Mesa, Bears Ears and other sacred spaces where an intertribal coalition fights against dumping of radioactive waste and the failure of government to uphold environmental, civil rights and climate justice laws.



1 AM

Building Bridges with Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash

Interviews and coverage of Ron De Santis attack on public employee unions and labor rights in FL, and about the struggle over Israeli settler aggression and violence against Palestinian people under occupation.





2 AM

Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer [53 min]

Tim Shorrock marks the 70th anniversary of the armistice that called a “cease-fire” in the Korean war as tensions mount across the region • Christopher Morten on how the drug industry uses patents and secrecy to fatten its profits at the expense of patients and the broader public.





3 AM



Scholars’ Circle – Author interview, On Disinformation, How to Talk to a Science Denier and Science Communication in a Crisis – July 30, 2023 https://scholarscircle.org/

Science is under attack. Who and what are behind the attacks? While we face catastrophic climate change and other pending disasters, how can we restore the public’s understandings about scientific realities? We explore disinformation and ways to communicate with non-scientists to loosen the grip the disinformants have on so many people. [ dur: 58mins. ]



Lee McIntyre is with us. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He is the author of How to Talk to a Science Denier , Post-Truth, and the forthcoming On Disinformation (MIT Press, August 2023),

Christopher Reddy is a senior scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and faculty member at MIT of the MIT/Woods Hole program in oceanography. He is the author of SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN A CRISIS: An Insider’s Guide (Routledge; May 10, 2023).

This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker, Melissa Chiprin and Sudd Dongre.



4-6 AM

Final two hours of Thom Hartmann non-commercial version from earlier Monday 7/31/23