Leid Stories

Leid Stories--Taking Inventory-- 06.13.19

Leid Stories  listeners are asked to take inventory of significant changes in their political attitudes; what caused those changes; and whether they believe they made the right choice.

 

Leid Stories--Have the People Gained or Lost Power in Safeguarding Democracy in the United States?

It's easy to point fingers at the government or systems of social, political and economic control and blame them for the mess we're in. But are we, the people, falling short in our duty to safeguard democracy in the United States?

 

Leid Stories--Is the U.S. Headed Toward An Uprising?; The Drug 'Kingpins' Are Dead--06.11.19

President Trump and his administration keep pushing people to the brink and even beyond it with harebrained policies and a level of pervasive irrationality not seen before in government. Yet, for all the barking at it, there is remarkable restraint. Or, is an uprising inevitable?

 

Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes, the undisputed kingpins of the drug trade in black and brown America, are both dead now, as are hundreds of communities and tens of thousands of lives obliterated by their "trade." Popular folklore accords them movie-star status, but it should never be forgotten that they and others they grandfathered into the "business" were agents of genocide.

Leid Stories--Picking Up From Where We Left Off--06.10.2019

We have some "face" time to make up for--with PRN's recent big move to new quarters--so we'll give the phones a workout today, getting current with listeners' views on current issues and events. 

 

Leid Stories--(Re)Claiming and (Re)Building Community: Getting Our Politics Straight--06.07.2019

We continue with our discussion on the urgent need to overhaul our political thinking and action.

 

Leid Stories--(Re)Claiming and (Re)Building Community: Getting Our Politics Straight--06.06.2019

No time to waste on frivolous debates or theories that take us nowhere close to solutions to our urgent problems. The masters of distraction will continue to spin their tales of a marvelous democracy  holding fast to the highest ideals even as it struggles with awesome challenges. But that's their story, not the truth.

Leid Stories is encouraging a conversation that is long overdue: Surely we know the truth of persistently neglected areas all over America where dreams and hopes die before they're born, and our great democracy assures it. What do we do?

 

 

 

Listeners take their best shot at answering a vexing question: What should/must we understand about U.S. politics?

Leid Stories--Listeners and Supporters Help PRN Make A Move; Leid Stories Urges Sustained Recommitment to Community; What Should/Must We Understand About U.S. Politics?--06.05.2019

It took some doing, but it's done. PRN this week completed its move to new quarters in Manhattan. Thanks to everyone who helped make it possible.

Leid Stories host Utrice Leid expounds on her inspiring talk at the Community Church in Manhattan on May 26.

Listeners take their best shot at answering a vexing question: What should/must we understand about U.S. politics?

Leid Stories--Speak Up! Be Heard!--05.24.19

Don't hold back, let's hear what you have to say about what we ought to know. It's "Free Your Mind Friday" on Leid Stories--the best open forum in Radioland.

Call 888-874-4888 and share information, opinions and ideas with listeners eager to hear--and, sometimes, challenge--your point of  view.

Leid Stories--Matters of Opinion--05.23.2019

Listeners are asked to put forward their best argument(s) to bolster their position on an issue recently discussed on Leid Stories.

Leid Stories--Why Nancy Pelosi Is Resisting the Call for Trump's Impeachment and Other Political Mysteries--05.22.2019

Something disturbing lurks behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's obvious reluctance to go with the Democrats' building fever to impeach Trump. What could it be?