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Recent Episodes

Meet Assembly District 76 Candidates Heather Driscoll and Marsha Rumme...

Posted July 14, 2020 • 00:54:05

Wisconsin State Rep. Chris Taylor announced earlier this year that she would not be seeking reelection to the legislature. There are eight candidates...

Meet Assembly District 80 Candidates Sondy Pope and Kimberly Smith

Posted July 13, 2020 • 00:54:16

Wisconsin’s 80th Assembly District covers the area southwest of Madison, including Mt. Horeb, New Glarus, and Monticello (see the full map here). Today...

Meet the Youth Activists of Madison’s “No Cops in Schools&...

Posted July 10, 2020 • 00:52:06

The “No Cops in Schools” movement in Madison experienced a major victory last week when the school board voted unanimously to end the school district’s...

The Intertwined Histories of Policing, Private Property, and Capitalis...

Posted July 9, 2020 • 00:53:44

Abolishing the police requires abolishing capitalism, argues historian Peter Linebaugh. Today, he joins Allen on the program to discuss the origins...

Rebroadcasts: Black Lives Matter / Doing Antiracism Work On Social Med...

Posted July 7, 2020 • 00:50:57

For the first part of today’s show, we re-air a broadcast from 2018, when former host Lilada Gee spoke with Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the...