2021
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
1/2/21, 1/3/21Rebecca Kemble: New Year's Day Show: Looking Back, Looking Forward - hosted by Esty Dinur53:361/1/21a
1/9/21Sunsara Taylor: An Anti-Fascist Responds to Yesterday's Riot at the U.S. Capitol - hosted by Allen Ruff52:551/7/21a
1/10/21Alex Kotch: Investigating GOP, Christian Right, and Hate Groups - hosted by Jan Miyasaki14:061/6/21b
1/16/21, 1/17/21Clarence Lusane: Lusane: Two-pronged white nationalist attack on the U.S. - hosted by Jan Miyasaki23:221/13/21b
1/23/21, 1/24/21Rashida Tlaib - Remove Members of Congress Who Incited Riot and Demand Real Change From Biden
- hosted by Paul Jay
35:581/17/21c
1/30/21, 1/31/21Matthew Sutton: How White Evangelicals Came to Lead the Insurrection - hosted by Esty Dinur53:171/29/21a
2/6/21, 2/7/21Norman Stockwell, Bill Lueders: A Blueprint for Biden, compliments of The Progressive magazine - hosted by Jan Miyasaki27:372/3/21b
2/13/21, 2/14/21Aliya Hussain: 100 groups urge Biden to close Guantanamo Bay detention center - hosted by Jan Miyasaki12:122/10/21b
2/20/21, 2/21/21The Threat of Nuclear Weapons with Noam Chomsky - hosted by Bianca Mugyenyi52:192/3/21c
2/27/21, 2/28/21Robin D. G. Kelley: Histories of Racial Capitalism and Resistance - hosted by Allen Ruff52:442/25/21a
3/6/21, 3/7/21Lindsay Koshgarian: The Real Costs of the National Security State - hosted by Allen Ruff50:163/4/21a
3/13/21, 3/14/21Alfred McCoy: The Decline of U.S. Global Power - hosted by Allen Ruff53:193/11/21a
3/20/21, 3/21/21Megin McDonell: LGBT+ Legislation and the Fight for Trans Equity in Wisconsin - hosted by Ali Muldrow53:043/17/21a
3/27/21, 3/28/2110 Things Wrong With Biden's Foreign Policy - Medea Benjamin - hosted by Paul Jay56:173/22/21c
4/3/21, 4/4/21Are Progressives Ignoring Foreign Policy? - Medea Benjamin - hosted by Paul Jay31:343/29/21c
4/10/21, 4/11/21Iman Saleh: Saleh: Biden must end support of the Saudi blockade of Yemen - hosted by Jan Miyasaki13:414/7/21b
4/17/21, 4/18/21Daniel Ellsberg at 90 - "It's Still Possible to Save Humanity" - hosted by Paul Jay31:004/7/21c
4/24/21, 4/25/21Michael T. Klare: Is There a "New Cold War" Between the U.S. and China? - hosted by Allen Ruff52:274/22/21a
5/1/21, 5/2/21Aakar Patel on India's Governmental Repression - hosted by Jonathan Zarov and Ankur Malhotra13:444/30/21b
5/8/21, 5/9/21Arthur Holland Michel: Growth of government surveillance - hosted by Esty Dinur52:125/7/21a
5/15/21, 5/16/21Lindsay Koshgarian: Biden follows previous administrations to increase military spending
- hosted by Jan Miyasaki
19:405/5/21b
5/22/21, 5/23/21Samer Alatout: Sociologist of Enviromental Politics, Samer Alatout, on Israel and Palestine
- hosted by Jonathan Zarov
20:015/21/21b
5/29/21, 5/30/21Aviva Chomsky, Jack Laun: Biden's Flawed Immigration Plan and Mass Protests in Colombia
- hosted by Esty Dinur
53:575/21/21a
6/5/21, 6/6/21Bill Lueders: Over 110 years of progressive ideas from The Progressive Magazine - hosted by Jan Miyasaki16:576/2/21b
6/12/21, 6/13/21Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings: Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory? - hosted by Karma Chávez53:236/10/21a
6/19/21, 6/20/21Ioan Grillo, Gabriel and John Shipton: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels + #FreeAssange
- hosted by Esty Dinur
53:546/18/21a
6/26/21, 6/27/21Christopher Wimer, Melissa Agard: Expanded Child Tax Credit and $15 dollar minimum wage: how policy impacts poverty - hosted by Carousel Bayrd52:436/22/21a
7/3/21, 7/4/21Clifford D. Conner: The Tragedy of American Science - hosted by Allen Ruff52:297/1/21a
7/10/21, 7/11/21Dawn Martin-Hill: Uncovering Indigenous History in Canada - hosted by Esty Dinur53:197/2/21a
7/17/21, 7/18/21Gerald Horne: Crisis in the Caribbean - hosted by Allen Ruff52:317/15/21a
7/24/21, 7/25/21Matt Rothschild: WI Democracy Campaign expands its role in fair elections - hosted by Jan Miyasaki23:377/21/21b
7/31/21, 8/1/21Full Interview - Powerful Christian Nationalists in Military See Trump as Vehicle for Authoritarian Religious State - Mikey Weinstein - interview by Paul Jay57:327/29/21c
8/7/21, 8/8/21Rep. Mark Pocan, Dr. Jo-Marie Burt: Rep. Mark Pocan on U.S. Politics + Peru's New President
- hosted by Esty Dinur
53:198/6/21a
8/14/21, 8/15/21Hannah Mortenson: Point Beach Nuclear Unit 1 Emergency Shut-Down; Hannah Smay:Nuclear Power Bailout in the Infrastructure Bill - hosted by Jan Miyasaki9:24; 10:408/11/21b
8/21/21, 8/22/21Andrew Cockburn, Matthew Hoh: The cost of Afganistan: fiscal and human - hosted by Esty Dinur54:408/20/21a
8/28/21, 8/29/21Xuebin Zhang: Current Climate Extremes Double at 2 Degrees Warming and Quadruple at 3 - Lead IPCC Author - interview by Paul Jay42:548/25/21c
9/4/21, 9/5/21Jill Ferguson: Police Brutality Against Water Protectors - hosted by Esty Dinur53:429/3/21a
9/11/21, 9/12/21Stephen Zunes, Deepa Kumar: 9/11, Twenty Years Later - hosted by Allen Ruff51:569/9/21a
9/18/21, 9/19/21Armando Ibarra: Path to Citizenship Embedded in Federal Budget Bill - hosted by Brian Standing13:159/13/21b
9/25/21, 9/26/21Alfred McCoy: The U.S. Global Position After Afghanistan - hosted by Allen Ruff51:459/23/21a
10/2/21, 10/3/21Andrew Bacevich: America's War for the Greater Middle East - hosted by Allen Ruff52:049/30/21a
10/9/21, 10/10/21Sarah Anderson: To pay for a $3.5B budget, Close the loopholes and end private equity abuse
- hosted by Jan Miyasaki
12:0810/6/21b
10/16/21, 10/17/21Norm Stockwell: Showcasing the Stories of Movements for Change - hosted by Damita Brown21:1610/5/21b
10/23/21, 10/24/21Michael Hudson: Biden Between BlackRock and a Hard Place - interview by Paul Jay51:2010/20/21c
10/30/21, 10/31/21Angela Y. Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mike Davis: Abolition, Cultural Freedom, Liberation pt 1 42:4810/5/21d
11/6/21, 11/7/21Angela Y. Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mike Davis: Abolition, Cultural Freedom, Liberation pt 242:2810/5/21d
11/13/21, 11/14/21Norman Stockwell, Larry Orr, Si Kahn, Alfred McCoy, John McCutcheon, Kathy Kelly, Frances Wiedenhoeft: Armistice Day 2021 - A special virtual event1:06:4710/5/21e
11/20/21, 11/21/21Dennis Kucinich, Tammy Baldwin, Mark Pocan, Mandela Barnes, Sarah Godlewski22:289/9/21f
11/27/21, 11/28/21Laura Flanders, Greg Palast, Ruth Conniff, Bill Lueders, Tavia LaFollette, John Nichols32:029/9/21f
12/4/21, 12/5/21Taking Children, Taking the Land: Nick Estes with Rebecca Nagle pt 148:49 11/10/21d
12/11/21, 12/12/21Taking Children, Taking the Land: Nick Estes with Rebecca Nagle pt 237:5711/10/21d
12/18/21, 12/19/212.7 Degrees Warming is Madness - Greta Thunberg9:0811/5/21c
12/18/21, 12/19/21We need to talk about Honesty | with Greta Thunberg - interview by Giordano Nanni40:0711/14/21c
12/25/21, 12/26/21Heather Ann Thompson: History in the Age of Mass Incarceration - hosted by Karma Chávez53:0312/20/21a

a From A Public Affair on WORT-FM.
b From the 8 O'Clock Buzz on WORT-FM
c From theAnalysis.news.
d Podcast from the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
e Recorded at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison and online as presented by The Progressive and Veterans for Peace Madison.
f Recorded at Fighting Bob Fest 2021 at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison and online by The Progressive.
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