Episodes
Wednesday Apr 02, 2014
Leid Stories - FYI - 04/02/14
Wednesday Apr 02, 2014
Wednesday Apr 02, 2014
Leid Stories Debuts “FYI” – Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Learning
Making Callaloo In Detroit: Author Tells How Culture Sustains Her Spirit
Leid Stories proudly presents the first edition of “FYI,” a mini-lecture series designed to encourage further independent research and inquiry into various subjects and issues. “Essentially, it’s peer-to-peer teaching and learning,” says Utrice Leid, host of Leid Stories.
“Harvey from Berkeley,” as he identifies himself on call-ins to the show, does an FYI titled: “Fracking: A Vector for Disease.”
The collapse of the auto industry in Detroit caused Lolita Hernandez, a 33-year worker at General Motors, to fully immerse herself into the craft of writing. Her newest book, Making Callaloo in Detroit, is a tribute both to her Caribbean lineage and the city where she was born and raised and still lives.
Against the backdrop of hard times that Detroiters have been experiencing, Hernandez discusses the ways in which her hybrid culture sustains her spirit.
Tuesday Apr 01, 2014
Leid Stories - Attorney Stanley L. Cohen: 'Always Against the State' - 04/01/14
Tuesday Apr 01, 2014
Tuesday Apr 01, 2014
It was a victory for prosecutors March 26 when, after a three-week trial, a federal jury in Manhattan convicted Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, on three counts of terrorism. For Ghaith’s attorney, Stanley L. Cohen, it was a not-surprising outcome of a rigged trial that he’ll now appeal.
Cohen’s legal career, spanning more than 30 years, has been fraught with controversy but based, he says, on a simple maxim: “I defend the individual against the state.” His practice is global; his clients, an assortment of major players in high-stakes social, political and environmental and justice struggles; and his reputation—well, let’s just say his website has a page for “haters.”
In a wide-ranging interview with Leid Stories, Cohen discusses his life, the law, the “war on terror,” and the universality of struggle.
Monday Mar 31, 2014
Monday Mar 31, 2014
The stakes are high for the Democratic and Republican parties in this year’s midterm elections in which all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 33 U.S. Senate seats are up for grabs, and seismic shifts also may occur in 46 state and four territorial legislatures, 36 governorships and 28 mayoral races in key cities.
This level of political activity would have captured the attention and interest of voters years ago, but not so much now, with polls showing increasing voter distrust, anger and disillusionment with politics and government.
Among progressives, how are political attitudes changing, and how would these changes affect their political choices in upcoming midterm elections and in the general elections in 2016? Leid Stories poses these and related questions to listeners, asking particularly for their own assessment of where in the political spectrum they now place themselves.