2020
Progressive Voices
Saturdays at 6 pm and Sundays at 10 am
Commentary by progressive activists at public events and in the media

Broadcast
Date
Program
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Length Creation
Date
Source
Note
1/4/20, 1/5/20Parker Schorr: Catholic Church Limits Reproductive Healthcare - hosted by Brian Standing15:1312/30/19a
1/11/20, 1/12/20Viki Berenson, Ed Blume: F-35 Opposition Continues... - hosted by Jan Miyasaki11:131/8/20a
1/18/20, 1/19/20Sarah Anderson: Military Contractor CEOs Make Millions After Assassination - hosted by Jan Miyasaki21:081/8/20a
1/25/20, 1/26/20Lindsay Koshgarian: Wars On Iraq and "Terror" Cost $6.9 Trillion - hosted by Jan Miyasaki12:541/15/20a
2/1/20, 2/2/20Ahmed Abu Artema, Jennifer Loewenstein, Arun Gupta: Split Show: Trump's Middle East Peace Plan
and Asylum-Seekers at the Border
- hosted by Esty Dinur
53:441/31/20b
2/8/20, 2/9/20Mike Browne: Student Debt Crippling Wisconsin's Economy - hosted by Brian Standing13:572/3/20a
2/15/20, 2/16/20Mary Jo Walter, David Williams: Efforts Continue for Anti-F-35 group - hosted by Jan Miyasaki13:542/12/20a
2/22/20, 2/23/20Dr. Laurel Mark: How Single Payer Healthcare Can Work...and Should - hosted by Jan Miyasaki14:012/19/20a
2/29/20, 3/1/20Mitch Jones: Climate Change Fight Begins with Fracking - hosted by Jan Miyasaki15:012/26/20a
3/7/20, 3/8/20Branko Marcetic: Joe Biden's History of Selling the Iraq Invasion, Expanding Prisons & Pulling Democrats to the Right - hosted by Amy Goodman33:593/5/20c
3/14/20, 3/15/20Lance Green: Update on the Air National Guard PFAS Issues - hosted by Jan Miyasaki15:073/11/20a
3/21/20, 3/22/20Hallie Templeton: Friends of the Earth fights floating factory fish farms - hosted by Jan Miyasaki20:233/18/20a
3/28/20, 3/29/20Tarek Abuata, Cassandra Dixon: Human Rights In Palestine During The Pandemic - hosted by Esty Dinur43:013/27/20b
4/4/20, 4/5/20Chad Dunn: Why Absentee Ballots Should Be the Norm - hosted by Jan Miyasaki11:314/1/20a
4/11/20, 4/12/20David Bacon: Undocumented But "Essential" Workers Excluded from CARES Act - hosted by Jan Miyasaki17:274/8/20a
4/18/20, 4/19/20Vicki Berenson: Air Force siting squadron of F-35 fighter jets in Madison - hosted by Esty Dinur10:524/17/20b
4/25/20, 4/26/20Marc Armstrong: Banking for the People! - hosted by Jan Miyasaki18:394/22/20a
5/2/20, 5/3/20Chomsky: Defeat Trump and Build a Popular Movement42:204/16/20d
5/9/20, 5/10/20Amanda Starbuck: COVID Shows Our Weak Food Supply - hosted by Jan Miyasaki18:215/6/20a
5/16/20, 5/17/20Sarah Anderson: Anderson: The U.S. Postal Service is in a Manufactured Crisis - hosted by Jan Miyasaki22:365/13/20a
5/23/20, 5/24/20Katie Beilfuss: New Programs at Wisconsin Wetlands Association - hosted by Jan Miyasaki16:185/20/20a
5/30/20, 5/31/20David Neiwert: The Dangers of the Radical Right in America - hosted by Esty Dinur53:195/22/20b
6/6/20, 6/7/20Jordan T. Camp, Christina Heatherton: The Crisis of Policing in America - hosted by Allen Ruff54:066/4/20b
6/13/20, 6/14/20Murder of George Floyd Rooted in American Slave System - Gerald Horne39:536/3/20d
6/20/20, 6/21/20Kevin Alexander Gray: Oppression and Militarism in the U.S. - hosted by Jan Miyasaki26:306/17/20a
6/27/20, 6/28/20Stephanie Spehar, Justin Novotny: The Government Needs to Tell the Truth Untold
- hosted by Damita Brown
39:536/24/20a
7/4/20, 7/5/20"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech; Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election - hosted by Amy Goodman (repeated from 7/3/20)32:297/3/20e
7/11/20, 7/12/20Does Public Banking Work? - Ellen Brown - interview by Paul Jay30:356/25/20d
7/18/20, 7/19/20Peter Linebaugh: The Intertwined Histories of Policing, Private Property, and Capitalism
- hosted by Allen Ruff
53:407/9/20b
7/25/20, 7/26/20This Week In The News With Matt Rothschild - hosted by Allen Ruff54:057/23/20b
8/1/20, 8/2/20Ayomi Obuseh: Demanding Change - hosted by Damita Brown44:577/29/20a
8/8/20, 8/9/20Phyllis Bennis, Stephen Zunes: If Biden Picks Rice as VP, it Strengthens His Worst Instincts
- interview by Paul Jay
35:438/7/20d
8/15/20, 8/16/20Why Did Americans Accept Barbaric Slaughter of Japanese Civilians? - Peter Kuznick
- interview by Paul Jay
1:01:257/31/20d
8/22/20, 8/23/20Larry Tye: Demagogues: From McCarthy to Trump - interview by Paul Jay46:208/22/20d
8/29/20, 8/30/20Patrick Woodall, Stan Alcorn: Lives Lost: Nursing Homes and Armed Militias - hosted by Esty Dinur53:438/28/20b
9/5/20, 9/6/20Bill Lueders, Norman Stockwell: The unofficial theme of the DNC: "He's essentially a good person" - hosted by Esty Dinur53:458/21/20b
9/12/20, 9/13/20Eric LeCompte: Jubilee USA Network works internationally for economic and COVID relief
- hosted by Jan Miyasaki
10:579/9/20a
9/19/20, 9/20/20John Nichols [video]11:099/11/20f
9/19/20, 9/20/20Ruth Conniff [video]9:029/11/20f
9/26/20, 9/27/20Tammy Baldwin [video]3:299/11/20f
9/26/20, 9/27/20Mark Pocan [video]5:229/11/20f
9/26/20, 9/27/20Mandela Barnes [video]8:529/11/20f
10/3/20, 10/4/20Laura Flanders [video]5:509/11/20f
10/3/20, 10/4/20Greg Palast [video]16:079/11/20f
10/10/20Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Daniel Ellsberg: Chomsky, Walker and Ellsberg Defend Julian Assange
- interview by Jimmy Dore
1:00:099/6/20d
10/11/20Juice Podcast with Noam Chomsky - interview by Giordano38:199/20/20d
10/17/20, 10/18/20Lisa Graves: "All But A Done Deal": Judge Amy Coney Barrett's SCOTUS Nomination
- hosted by Allen Ruff
52:3710/15/20b
10/24/20, 10/25/20Lisa Graves and True North Research Fight to Expose Threats to Democracy - hosted by Jan Miyasaki18:5910/21/20a
10/31/20, 11/1/20Matt Rothschild: Gerrymandering in Wisconsin42:3110/18/20g
11/7/20, 11/8/202020 Election Reflections with Bob McChesney and Matt Rothschild - hosted by Allen Ruff52:3911/5/20b
11/14/20, 11/15/20Was Pompeo Serious? Who will (or Should) Run Biden's Foreign Policy? - Phyllis Bennis
- interview by Paul Jay
32:4811/11/20d
11/21/20, 11/22/20Julie Hollar: Hollar: Mainstream Media Favors Centrist Ideologies - hosted by Jan Miyasaki13:1311/18/20a
11/28/20, 11/29/20The Case for a Wealth Tax Seems Irrefutable - Richard Kozul-Wright - interview by Paul Jay46:5411/3/20d
12/5/20, 12/6/20Sarah Posner, Anita Kumar: Trump's Final Days In Office - hosted by Esty Dinur53:4611/20/20b
12/12/20, 12/13/20Supporting People Through Crisis - Mankher Dahnweih and Jewel Adams - hosted by Stan Woodard17:2712/8/20a
12/19/20, 12/20/20John Nichols, David Sirota: Responding to Biden's Cabinet Picks - hosted by 52:11//20a

a From the 8 O'Clock Buzz on WORT-FM
b From A Public Affair on WORT-FM.
c Web Exclusive from Democracy Now!.
d From theAnalysis.news.
e From Democracy Now! special edition.
f Recorded at Fighting Bob Fest 2020 at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison and elsewhere by The Progressive.
g Talk at the Free Congregation of Sauk County recorded by WIDE-LP.
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