Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer – VT Foreign Policy: Recent Episodes
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Jim Hightower is Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio, and it’s always a great honor — and a lot of fun — to have Jim on the show! Our primary topic is the midterm elections and about the political path ahead. “Populist road warrior” Hightower is a progressive political activist who is on the national […]
Legendary activists and educators Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, leaders of the ’60s Weather Underground, are interviewed by Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer and co-host Alice Embree. Among topics discussed: Police murder and the verdict in the LaQuan McDonald case in Chicago. War and Peace. Women and girls. Resistance. Mass incarceration and youth. Schools and educational policy. […]
Thorne Dreyer‘s guests on Rag Radio are two authors — Christopher Brown and Roddey Reid — who, in very different ways, anticipated some of the insanity of our current political climate, and offer fresh ideas on how to engage with it and find our way to the other side. We call it “Politics in an […]
Thorne Dreyer‘s guest, Carl Davidson, is a leading leftist thinker and political organizer and longtime friend and colleague — and every year or two we ask him to meld minds with us, hoping he might have a better handle than we do on what’s going on in this crazy world. What did Carl want to […]
Abortion Talk! Guests Alice Embree, Kim Varela-Broxson and Lindsay Rodriguez join host Thorne Dreyer
Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio in a wild ‘n wooly interview is Bill Minutaglio who, with Steven L. Davis, wrote the acclaimed new book, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD. “Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, The […]
Guest host Alice Embree — who is sitting in for Rag Radio producer and host Thorne Dreyer — interviews two Austin-based health justice advocates, James Cole and Nicole Stasek. James, a union member working in television production, is secretary of Austin’s 800-member chapter of Democratic Socialists of America. Nicole is a union electrician, and member […]
Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio is author and political scientist Harry Targ. Taking from MLK’s “Three Evils: Poverty, Racism, and Militarism,” Harry talks about new social movements and the need to organize around social and economic justice at home and against war overseas. Targ discusses the convergence of Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Rev. […]
Engineer, environmental researcher, and activist Bruce Melton is Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio and he provides a fascinating if sobering overview of global warming today. In an article published at Truthout and The Rag Blog titled “Climate Change 2017: What happened and what it means,” Melton asks: How many more billions of dollars in […]