Episodes
Friday Mar 30, 2018
Friday Mar 30, 2018
It’s been quite a week. No doubt you have something to say about the issues and events that made the headlines. Or, maybe you’d like to share your thoughts about something altogether different. Either way, there’s plenty of room for your information, opinions and ideas on Leid Stories’ “Free Your Mind Friday,” the world’s best open forum.
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Friday Mar 30, 2018
Friday Mar 30, 2018
Funeral services are being held today for Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old father of two shot dead on March 18 by two Sacramento Police Department officers investigating a complaint about broken car windows. Clark was in the back yard of his grandmother’s home, where he and his family also lived, at the time of the shooting. The officers, when they came upon him, thought he had a gun and fired 10 shots each at him, killing him instantly. But the object Clark had in his hands was a cell phone.
The community erupted in protest, as did others within and outside of Sacramonte, after Clark’s death, charging a coverup and demanding an open investigation that would lay bare all the facts.
Leid Stories returns to an earlier discussion—a need for new tactics in civil-rights advocacy, especially in police killings.
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Leid Stories—Truth Is, We Are Not Ready And Are Afraid to Be—03.28.18
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Leid Stories tackles an uncomfortable but increasingly evident truth: We are not ready to face and deal with our collective reality and, worse, we are afraid to be.
Tuesday Mar 27, 2018
Tuesday Mar 27, 2018
Linda Brown’s parents, Leola and Oliver Brown, wanted to enroll their 9-year-old daughter in an elementary school just a few blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas. The school refused to admit her; instead, Brown’s parents were advised to send their daughter to an all-black school clear across town.
Thus began a protracted legal battle that confronted, and finally broke, educational apartheid in America, with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, in 1954, that outlawed the “separate-but-equal” doctrine that states routinely used to keep intact their systems of educational apartheid.
Preferring a quiet life, Brown eschewed attention, although she occasionally would give talks on the landmark case. She died on March 25; her family gave no further information.
Leid Stories honors Linda Brown in the continuum of struggle for equal education in the United States of America.
Monday Mar 26, 2018
Leid Stories—Under the Gun, A New Generation of Leadership Emerges—03.26.18
Monday Mar 26, 2018
Monday Mar 26, 2018
Saturday, March 24, 2018 was a historic day. More than 2 million people in 830 cities across the United States—and tens of thousands more in cities all over the world—staged a coordinated populist protest demanding aggressive government action in closing loopholes in gun-sales laws and more strictly regulating gun ownership.
The protest, themed “March for Our Lives,” brought together several groups that had been working on gun issues for years, but the Feb. 14 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.—in which a troubled former student killed 17 with an assault rifle before he was apprehended—was the catalyst for aggressive legislative action. The Stoneman Douglas students vowed to move legislators beyond their customary “thoughts and prayers” statements in the aftermath of disasters.
Leid Stories discusses the emergence of a new generation of leadership, born literally under the gun.
Friday Mar 23, 2018
Leid Stories—Free Your Mind! Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say!—03.23.18
Friday Mar 23, 2018
Friday Mar 23, 2018
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Thursday Mar 22, 2018
Leid Stories—Two Deaths, Two Different Stories About Perceived Power—03.22.18
Thursday Mar 22, 2018
Thursday Mar 22, 2018
In Sunday’s violent shooting death of 22-year-old father of two Stephon Clark, Sacramento, Calif., is drawn back to an era of cop killings and rampant abuse of people of color that roiled the city and became a national disgrace. Despite promises to clean up its act, the killing of Clark has brought the city’s leaders back to the place they said Sacramento would never be again.
Three days later, a 23-year-old man, Mark Conditt, who had terrorized Austin, Texas, for 17 days with package bombs that killed two people and injured four others, blew himself up in his car as federal investigators closed in on him. He left a phone video admitting he was the bomber.
Leid Stories discusses the differences in the way both cases were treated
Tuesday Mar 20, 2018
Leid Stories—Who’s In Charge Here? Governance in the Age of Trump—03.20.18
Tuesday Mar 20, 2018
Tuesday Mar 20, 2018
Leid Stories tackles one of the most vexing questions of our time: Who’s in Charge Here?
Monday Mar 19, 2018
Monday Mar 19, 2018
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has imploded under the sheer volume of evidence, gathered by domestic and foreign investigating agencies, that the purported “charity” and its principals for years have been running a global criminal enterprise and engaging in massive fraud.
Early U.S. oversight of the foundation was largely procedural. But the foundation over the years far exceeded its original, strictly defined and permitted purpose—to raise funds to build a Clinton presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. Instead, the foundation spun off several other “charities” that were raising hundreds of millions of dollars from donors for “good works.” Federal investigators, however, believe the foundation and its linked “charities” provided cover for the Clintons to receive pay-to-play money from “donors” looking to buy political favors and influence.
Several foreign governments also have ratcheted up their probes of the Clintons and their foundation, having gotten little or no accounting for hundreds of millions of dollars donated to various foundation causes. They have been sharpening their prosecutorial axes.
Charles Ortel, a retired Wall Street banker and sworn enemy of charity fraud, has been reporting on Leid Stories the findings of his self-initiated forensic investigation of the Clinton Foundation for more than two years. Today he discusses the details of and likely fallout from the implosion of the Clinton Foundation.
Friday Mar 16, 2018
Friday Mar 16, 2018
Yet another week of propaganda overdrive. Yet another week you gave it no victory.
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