Imagining Revolution Around the Corner -- Voices from the Pu

Jim Vrettos receives Jonathan Soto & Alex Vitale for a conversation about policing, its effectiveness (or lack of it) and possible ways to reduce both criminal and political violence.

Our guest today on the Radical Imagination is Bruce Adolphe. He's known to millions of Americans as the Piano Puzzler on American Public Media's Performance Today.

Jim Vrettos, Martin Stolar, Carl Dix, and Rev. Stephen Phelps reunite on the 10th anniversary of their conviction of disorderly conduct due to a protest outside a Harlem police precinct against the NYPD's controversial stop-and frisk policy.

In this two-segment episode, Jim Vrettos talks to Jonathan Soto, who is running for NYS Assembly District 82 and shares is program.  In the second segment, Manuel Gomez and Gloria Ortiz talk about an investigation about the dead of Ortiz's son while in the military.

On this episode we are profiling co-host and co-founder of this show, almost seven years ago; Stanley Aronowitz, a political activist and cultural critic, an advocate for a reinvigorated labor movement and a professor of sociology, cultural studies and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Host Jim Vrettos and co-host Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove have a conversation with guest Lisa Sharon Harper, Founder and President of Freedom Road, to analyze if organized religion is the opiate of the people that hinders us from self-emancipation, freedom and happiness, among other related topics.