Media Cyphers Kalamazoo

It was a busy week in Michigan politics- we talk about how Dana Nessel's targeting of anti-genocide protestors in Ann Arbor with the FBI is both a fascist turn on her part and an echo of some of America's dark past when the government put a target on the backs of social justice organizers (e.g., COINTELPRO).

Elissa Slotkin persists in attempting to turn the clock back to the 1990s- in a recent POLITICO article she decried the usa...

We look at the effect DEI roll backs are having on students at the University of Michigan, how Washtenaw residents are standing up for their immigrant neighbors, and an article from LeftVoice analyzing the Detroit city budget.

RFK Jr. is calling autism a "disease" and we discuss the implications of the nation's most powerful snake oil- salesman looking for the "cause" of autism and creating a registry.

Lawrence joins us while d...

We start with some updates about the WMU chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. We then look at a positive story about how Oshtemo Township and the Michigan Department of Education are calling out the BS on the Trump administration's lies about DEI programs.

Lawrence joins us to talk about how some big figures in liberal politics are capitulating and "building bridges" with an overtly fascist regime, then talk about how th...

We begin our show talking about an important event on campus hosted by Student for Justice in Palestine. We break down the tariffs coming down from the Trump administration and why the working class should not trust a fox to create jobs in the hen house.

We interview Indivisible organizers Ken and Denise about the "Hands Off" day of action over the weekend, the key differences between now and the #Resistance of 2017, and how we c...

The Residents and Fellows Union at WMed is threatening strike action after being stonewalled by the WMU administration on wage increases.

Kzoo County Democrats vote unanimously for an arms embargo resolution towards Israel in response to the genocide in Gaza and journalists at NowKalamazoo expose AI driven fake news in Kalamazoo.

At the state level we look at a BridgeMI article examining how recent Trump administration cuts wil...

We start our show with an article from WWMT about an act of violent arson committed against a houseless resident of Kalamazoo, the media response, and what it says about where our city is lacking in responding to the housing crisis.

We spend much of the hour talking about the kidnapping of student organizer Mahmoud Khalil by ICE and how people around the country are responding.

While some Republicans in red states are changing ...

Local organizer Bill Farmer joins us for a sprawling interview on Medicare For All, neoliberalism, organizing in SW Michigan, and more.

Lawrence joins us to talk about the State of the Union and we close with some good news out of Montana- 26 Republicans backed out on an anti-trans bill after listening to their trans colleagues speak out on the floor.

CAPITOL DAY 2025 Communities Over Corporations Wednesday, April 23rd @ Lansin...

WMU SJP and AAUP respond the university administration's neutrality policy.

Me and Lawrence talk about geopolitics as reduced to crude gangsterism- what is different and what remains the same when US empire is administered by dull-witted goons via the Zelenskyy meeting.

The leopards are eating everyone's faces- and we talk about how DOGE cuts are immiserating Trump's electoral base along with everyone else and how the hysteria ...

We open by discussing how a local resident is attempting to organize a Metro Transit bus riders union and how Kalamazoo County is responding to the Trump administration's federal funding freezes.

We talk a bit more specifically about DOGE, the normalization from some sectors of the media, the power and history behind the Trump admin's adversarial posture towards South Africa, and examine the meaning around Kendrick's Super Bowl h...

On today's show we begin with how the Trump administration is targeting anti-genocide protestors in the U.S. on a student visa and how local groups are responding.

We look at the wild, back-and-forth story of Trump's proposed tariffs with Canada and Mexico, how Trump was placated at the 11th hour, and the type of impact tariffs on Canada could have on Michigan whenever the President has his next tantrum at them.

We look at a st...

Kalamazoo Township is responding to Trump with some actions from city officials (maybe, at some point.)

Lawrence joins us to talk about the first week of Trump II: The Revenge- the blizzard of reactionary executive orders, the administration's overt class warfare- in particular Trump freezing federal funding earlier this morning and how resistance liberals seemed to have stayed at brunch while the grassroots resistance moves forw...

We look at an article from TruthOut that examines the auspicious timing of Trump being inaugurated on MLK Day- and what lessons we can take from the later King, the democratic socialist spiritual leader engaged in class struggle, in the dark days ahead.

We look at an article from LeftVoice laying out the internal contradictions of the incoming administration and the potential for organizers to take those weaknesses to their advan...

We begin our show looking at how climate change is shortening Michigan winters and creating problems for farmers in the mitten.

A bi-partisan bill is going through congress that would make it easier for the federal government to kidnap immigrants.

We spend a good chunk of the show looking at Zuckerberg's turn towards the Trump administration in its content guidelines and moderation. When the chips are down capitalists will purs...

Me and Lawrence open with some quick hits about legislation grassroots organizers are pushing Democrats in Lansing to pass during the lame duck session and Kendrick.

We spend most of the hour discussing the vigilante incident in New York- what the near universal celebration says about the state of the working class and class consciousness in the U.S., the media reaction, individual revenge killings vs. the "social murder" of the ...

We talk with Vine Neighborhood Association Executive Director Steve Walsh about Kalamazoo Public Schools' recently published intentions to relocate El Sol Elementary School and put up a parking lot. The sudden move has been met with backlash from neighborhood residents and brings up critical issues around local democracy, neighborhood planning, and the relationship between local residents and school administrators.

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On today's episode we begin with WMU's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine renewing their calls for ceasefire resolution regarding the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Lawrence joins us to discuss an alarming piece of legislation that just passed the house that would allow the Treasury Secretary to strip non-profit organizations of their status if they have ties to "terrorism" (i.e., condemning the genocide in Gaza).

We look ...

We start our show by highlighting some critical analysis from WMU students about the state of the Democratic Party and how the university is responding to the genocide in Gaza.

We then spend the next half hour looking at several pieces of legislation that grassroots organizers are pushing the Democrats in Lansing to pass before they lose their "trifecta" in 2025- including housing rights, criminal justice reform, and defending li...

Andy begins the show by breaking down local elections and what it says about the state of Kalamazoo's working class.

We talk about the implications of Republicans taking the house in Lansing and how the extremists in Ottawa County had less Impact this election.

We are then joined by co-hosts Lawrence and Norah with an in-depth post-mortem of the 2024 election- the death of neoliberalism, media nonsense laying the blame on progr...