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Host Jim Vrettos talks to Shailly Gupta Barnes, Policy Director at the Kairos Center at Union Theological Seminary, who coordinated and edited the Souls of Poor Folk 2018 Moral Audit report for the Poor People's Campaign. Additionally, Jim interviews David Rattray, owner, and editor of The East...

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Private Investigator Manny Gomez about his work on uncovering the corruption surrounding the criminal justice system in NYC and the country.
 

Our guests today on the Radical Imagination are Macabit Abramson and Lihi Zemel -- the director and lead female actor of a remarkable, highly acclaimed new film just out from Israel called A Woman Alive.
 

Our guest today on the Radical Imagination is Randy Credico.  Randy is what Cornel West has in mind when he refers to people who are long distance runners for peace and justice.  We first met as defendants at a Stop Stop and Frisk 2011 civil disobedience protest action.  At the subsequent trial in...

Has the sin of racism been so pervasive among white evangelicals that it requires collective repentance?  To dialogue on that question we have on the Radical Imagination today two of America's most prominent preachers, scholars and activists. Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove and Jemar Tisby.
 

Host Jim Vrettos talks to activist and researcher, Ralph Wilson, who has written a book to take on and expose one of the most significant parts of the story. Wilson is the co-author of the soon to be published Free Speech and Koch Money, a meticulously documented and highly accessible field guide to...

In this episode Jim Vrettos receives Noam Chomsky & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to have a conversation about the progressive movement in 21st century North America.
 

Today on the Radical Imagination we have two guests who are trying to build a saner, more loving, less toxic America.  Host Jim Vrettos interviews Kerwin Kaye, Associate Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University & Karina Aybar, Clinical Social Worker from the Innovative Counseling Center.

Prospects bad for Equality Act in Congress; interview with Sarah Schulman on her massive history of ACT UP/New York. ∎ Our guest is Sarah Schulman on her epic and highly praised new book, “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.” ∎ The Nashville DA won’t enforce...