Episodes
Monday Oct 29, 2012
Friday Oct 26, 2012
Leid Stories - Bring It On! - 10/26/12
Friday Oct 26, 2012
Friday Oct 26, 2012
It's free-form Friday on Leid Stories! Listeners give their take on major stories of the week.
Thursday Oct 25, 2012
Leid Stories - Up Against An Unholy Alliance - 10/25/12
Thursday Oct 25, 2012
Thursday Oct 25, 2012
The Catholic Church and the U.S. government have blood on their hands for continuing to support murderous right-wing regimes in Central and South America, says a former U.S. Navy officer and Purple Heart recipient who became a Maryknoll priest and peace activist 44 years ago. Father Roy Bourgeois takes on the Vatican for cooperating with repressive regimes in targeting liberation theologists in the region. And he is committed more than ever, he says, to shutting down the Fort Benning, Ga.-based U.S. Army School of the Americas (now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation-WHINSEC) that, since 1946, has been training the military of many developing countries in what he calls "the fine art of repression and terrorism."
Wednesday Oct 24, 2012
Leid Stories - Voting Rights - 10/24/12
Wednesday Oct 24, 2012
Wednesday Oct 24, 2012
Lawrence Guyot, an organizer-member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, fully immersed himself in the struggle for civil and voting rights in his home state of Mississippi. As chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, he worked with Fannie Lou Hamer and others to desegregate the Democratic Party at its national convention in 1964. On Leid Stories, Guyot discusses voter and civil rights, third-party politics, America's racial divide, and the transformative power of grassroots movements.
Tuesday Oct 23, 2012
Leid Stories - Said And Done - 10/23/12
Tuesday Oct 23, 2012
Tuesday Oct 23, 2012
The third and final round of political thrust and parry concluded last night at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. And now, an all-out effort by Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to woo newly converted voters into their respective camps. In this neck-and-neck race, every vote counts. Will the "undecideds" now commit? Will many of the "decideds" jump ship? Will third-party voters stay their course? Listener-analysts have their say.
Monday Oct 22, 2012
Leid Stories - Very Foreign Policies - 10/22/12
Monday Oct 22, 2012
Monday Oct 22, 2012
It's the third and final faceoff -- at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. --between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, for the nation's top job. U.S. foreign policy, the focus of tonight's debate, could very well give either candidate much-need yardage ahead of his competitor in what polls are calling a virtual dead heat. But do the candidates really differ on the aims and objectives of U.S. foreign policy? I call it like I see it -- as does Michael Scheuer, author and former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit.
Friday Oct 19, 2012
Leid Stories - Speaking Affirmatively - 10/19/12
Friday Oct 19, 2012
Friday Oct 19, 2012
Fisher vs University of Texas, the affirmative-action case being deliberated by the U.S. Supreme Court, brings into sharp focus the still-unresolved question: How is racial inequity in the United States to be resolved? Critical race theorist Ian Haney Lopez, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, guides us through the full dimensions of this question.
Thursday Oct 18, 2012
Leid Stories - Still Talking About It - 10/18/12
Thursday Oct 18, 2012
Thursday Oct 18, 2012
Leid Stories picks up from we left off yesterday, with listeners having they say about the presidential election and related matters.
Wednesday Oct 17, 2012
Leid Stories - The Word on Round 2 - 10/17/12
Wednesday Oct 17, 2012
Wednesday Oct 17, 2012
Listeners weigh in on what still is not being said by presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. With the second of three scheduled debates concluded, what's increasingly clear is not the presidential contenders' philosophical differences but their shared devotion to corporate-driven economic policies and practices that are at the root of much of what ails America.
Tuesday Oct 16, 2012
Leid Stories - Mercy Me - 10/16/12
Tuesday Oct 16, 2012
Tuesday Oct 16, 2012
What's going on in political life today? Your thoughts and opinions.