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Imagining the World of Trillo and Suede
Trillo and Suede is a show that has garnered rave reviews and a growing cult web following in its first 2 seasons, winning 38 major awards in international web series film festivals, including best comedy and best series.
Host Jim Vrettos talks with the series creator Jonathan Geffner.
Imagining Psychiatry's Continuing Political and Moral Dilemma
Host Jim Vrettos receives returning guest Dr.Bandy X. Lee, who has stirred the wrath of American psychiatry's most powerful corporate voice by blowing the whistle on the American Psychiatric Association's misguided use of the now infamous "Goldwater rule."
Repairing Today's Ineffective Justice System Strategies
American prisons house more than 1.5 million individuals, an increase of over 390% since 1978. This growth persisted even in the face of an overarching decline in crime rates since the 1990s and the longest terms of incarceration since we began to collect accurate data. Over 600,000 men and women...
Imagining How to End America's Racial Dilemma
We know that children's life chances are overwhelmingly dependent on the income and education of their parents. Over 65 years after the Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board, black children are as segregated from white students as they were in the mid-1970s.
Host Jim...
Imagining the Unfinished Business of America's Social Democracy - The Political Activism of Jonathan Soto and AOC
With the stress of a global pandemic, lack of federal and local funding to school districts and the children of poor and working class families falling behind on their remote learning, a remarkable new and empowering plan called Homework Helper has been developed by Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio...
Pell Grant Restoration -- Its Significance For Affecting Meaningful Individual Change
On this episode, host Andre Ward talks to Dyjuan Tantro, the government affairs officer at the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), about the restoration of Pell grants for incarcerated students.
Imagining Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Host Jim Vrettos receives Professor Carl Hart & Ira Glasser as guests to have a controversial conversation about the use of drugs and why it should not be penalized by the government.
Imagining Ways to Resist and Transform a Neo-Fascist America
Host Jim Vrettos interviews Michael Isaacson, Researcher of Fascism. The two have a conversation about the influence of fascism in America and how can the people resist and transform this tendency.
Imagining The Movement Beyond Bernie
Host Jim Vrettos has a conversation with Samelys Lopez, Congressional Candidate for the 15th CD-South Bronx; and Troy Walcott, Spectrum Worker and Strike Organizer. At this time in U.S. politics, the question is: how will the movement continue?