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  • Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, July 11 at 2:30 pm, with filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer, director of "Nobu"

    Host Donna Walker welcomes filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer ("Studio 54," "Valentino: The Last Emperor," "The Reagans") on his latest documentary "Nobu," about the culinary legend Nobuyuki Matsuhisa (aka Nobu) who changed the way we eat. With unprecedented access, Tyrnauer traces Nobu's poignant life story and perseverance, witnessing his extraordinary food artistry and creativity in the course of building a global hospitality empire with business partner Robert DeNiro.

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  • Philadelphia Strike Ends: Race & Inequality at Center of Municipal Workers' Fight for a Fair Wage

    The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District Council 33, who are primarily sanitation workers, walked off the job a week ago. Growing piles of trash on the streets of Philadelphia brought the strike into clear view for city residents. Labor historian Francis Ryan says the workers won “the hearts of a lot of Philadelphians” with a popular social media campaign. “What I saw on the picket lines last week was a spark of social justice unionism,” says Ryan. The average sanitation worker salary in Philadelphia is currently $46,000 a year, which the union has argued is not a living wage for workers required to live within the city limits.

  • "Ideological Deportation": AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students

    The first trial in a case challenging the Trump administration’s policy of detaining and deporting international students and professors who participate in pro-Palestinian activism is underway in Boston. The American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association brought the lawsuit. Government lawyers tried to get it dismissed, but U.S. District Judge William Young, an 84-year-old Ronald Reagan nominee, ordered a trial, saying it was the “best way to get at truth.” “Students and faculty all over the country are quite literally terrified about the possibility that their advocacy and expression will lead to detention,” says Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and one of the lawyers challenging the Trump administration. “They are terrified that ICE agents will show up at their door any day and take them away.”

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  • Trump's New Law Supersizes ICE, Mass Detention, Militarization of America: 'BradCast' 7/8/2025

    Today on The BradCast: Trump's authoritarianism receives yet another greenlight from his corrupted SCOTUS just days after he signed a budget bill that makes ICE larger than the entire militaries of many countries. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Sorry in advance for the less than cheery news on much of today's program. We [...]

  • 'Green News Report' - July 8, 2025

    Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Historic storm and flooding results in tragedy in Texas; Tropical Storm Chantal slams into North Carolina, triggering record-breaking floods; PLUS: Trump and Republicans narrowly pass massive budget bill gutting climate and clean energy investments... All that and more in today's Green News [...]

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