Episodes
Tuesday Apr 26, 2016
Tuesday Apr 26, 2016
In the throes of a media-induced frenzy about the 2016 presidential
race, it’s hard not to get caught up in the bizarreness of it. But
rather than join the madness, says Leid Stories, this election cycle
should cause us to overhaul our thinking about the political process,
our political orientation and ideology, and the nature of our
relationship with “the system.”
Monday Apr 25, 2016
Monday Apr 25, 2016
Paul DeRienzo, who has been reporting on “America’s Fukushima”—actual and looming disasters of America’s nuclear program and at several nuclear power plants—discusses a massive leak at the notorious Hanford Site, a sprawling nuclear-reactor complex on the Columbia River in south-central Washington state. Regulatory agencies, however, are saying there is no cause for alarm.
Bernie Sanders’ insists that his campaign is a “revolution.” Sounds great, and he’s got millions of votes to back up that contention, but his actions increasingly suggest that it’s something else. Leid Stories says it’s way past time to call him on it.
Friday Apr 15, 2016
Friday Apr 15, 2016
Think last night’s Clinton-Sanders faceoff was something? Well, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet! Hear the sparks fly on Leid Stories’ “Free Your Mind Friday,” the best people’s forum in Radioland. Great minds gather here at the end of the week to analyze and share information, opinions and ideas about news and issues that matter to our growing community. Callers decide what they want to talk about, and are free to take on other callers’ points of view. The battle of ideas is all done with great respect—and a generous helping of humor. Join in! Call 888-874-4888 and take your turn at the people’s podium!
Thursday Apr 14, 2016
Thursday Apr 14, 2016
Going into the high-stakes, delegate-rich April 19 New York primary, presidential hopefuls are leaving nothing to chance. They’re all over the Empire State, working their circuits and trolling for votes. A hurriedly arranged CNN “debate” between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tonight in Brooklyn is trumping (pardon the pun) all other events the Democratic candidates have scheduled. On the Republican side, Donald Trump is making the most of his hometown brand.
Leid Stories discusses the importance of the New York primary, especially to those who reject duopoly politics.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Leid Stories - On Being One Year Old - 04.13.16
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Leid
Stories goes within today, taking an introspective, philosophical look
about life and what we do with it. Host Utrice Leid, celebrating a year
of fruitful living after a devastating diagnosis, tells what pulled, and
keeps pulling, her through.
Monday Apr 11, 2016
Monday Apr 11, 2016
On the Democratic side, there’s nary a whimper from the candidate who’s been winning the popular vote but lagging in party delegate votes. Bernie Sanders is playing by party rules, hoping to win delegate and superdelegate votes from Hillary Clinton at the party’s nominating convention (in Philadelphia) in July.
But there’s an all-out war in the Republican camp, with Donald Trump, the party’s winningest candidate, railing against a “corrupt” and “crooked” system that is denying him his fair share of delegates. Trump isn’t waiting to persuade nominating delegates to switch at the GOP’s national convention in Cleveland; the party’s “rules,” he says, are patently unfair because they are being manipulated to favor the will and choice of the party elite.
Leid Stories in a commentary contends that the battle over delegates and the charges of corruption in the parties’ primary process are one of the best gifts the duopoly can give. It brings into plain view why neither party can be trusted to respect the sanctity of the people’s vote.
Friday Apr 08, 2016
Friday Apr 08, 2016
Got something to say about this week’s insanities? Well, get it said already! Call in to the world’s greatest open forum (888-874-4888) and free your mind.
Thursday Apr 07, 2016
Leid Stories - Election 2016: So, What Does It All Mean? - 04.07.16
Thursday Apr 07, 2016
Thursday Apr 07, 2016
The frenzied fight over delegates continues as the 2016 presidential primaries reaches its apex this month. But Democrats and Republicans already are fixing their focus on their June conventions (Philadelphia for the Democrats; Cleveland for the Republicans), where epic battles are expected over the delegate-driven nomination process.
As we have been doing since the political season began, Leid Stories “polls” listeners on their current attitudes about the presidential race and what choices they are likely to make in the general election.
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the duopoly’s erstwhile “frontrunners” in yesterday’s Wisconsin primaries, both got trounced—Trump, by Ted Cruz, with 48.2-35.1 percent of the Republican vote; Clinton, by Bernie Sanders’ 56.6 percent of the Democratic vote to her 43.1 percent of the vote.
Experts and the media are busily dissecting the political upsets, attributing them to a wide range of factors, from personal appeal to campaign strategy and issues they championed. But there is little, if any, discussion about what the Wisconsin primaries really proved—that, once again, the system proved the process is rigged.
Tuesday Apr 05, 2016
Tuesday Apr 05, 2016
On May 17, 1957, in the burgeoning phase of the modern civil-rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a demonstration in Washington, D.C., calling for congressional action on a slate of laws to end racial segregation and assure African Americans equal rights. The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom drew demonstrators largely from churches, religious groups and people sympathetic to the cause, and was an early indication of the pivotal role King would play in at once galvanizing support and momentum for the movement and challenging the power structure’s resistance to the movement’s demands.
On April 5, 1968, the nation and the world were coping with the full weight of the news that King was assassinated previous night, cut down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., where he had gone to organize support for African American sanitation workers open strike for equal pay and better working conditions. King was 39 years old.
A decade earlier, in the nation’s capital, King had taken up the mantle and made the clarion call for freedom, justice and equality. He also warned that the protracted struggle would entail battles with sellout leaders, treacherous liberals and the political currency of the hard-won right to vote.
Here is the full clip from today's show:
YOU TUBE CLIP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AKVzLB7uCc&feature=youtu.be
TITLE: Martin Luther King Jr. 'Give Us the Ballot' May 17, 1957
DESCRIPTION: Martin Luther King addressed a demonstration in Washington, D.C., calling for congressional action on a slate of laws to end racial segregation and assure African Americans equal rights.