The Signal

The Signal | The Radical History of International Women’s Day and the Feminist Movement with Liza Featherstone

On this episode, I welcome Liza Featherstone to the show. Liza Featherstone (@lfeatherz) is an author, journalist, essayist and critic. She is a columnist at Jacobin and The New Republic, as well as a contributing writer at The Nation. I'll be talking with Liza about the radical history of International Women’s Day and feminism.
Featherstone is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation, published by O/R Books in 2018, as well as Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books, 2004). She co-authored Students Against Sweatshops (Verso, 2002) and is editor of False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Verso, 2016). She’s currently editing a collection of Alexandra Kollontai’s work for OR Books and International Publishers, and writing the introduction to that volume.
Featherstone’s work has been published in Lux, TV Guide, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms., The American Prospect, Columbia Journalism Review, Glamour, Teen Vogue, Dissent, The Guardian, In These Times and many other publications. 
Featherstone teaches in NYU’s Literary Reportage program as well as at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs. She is proud to be an active member of New York City Democratic Socialists of America and of UAW Local 7902.  
The Signal is a podcast by The Bucks County Beacon, I’m your host and the Beacon’s editor in chief Cyril Mychalejko. Twice a month we will use this space to shine a light on the right-wing extremist currents streaming though Bucks County and beyond. We will talk to guests who will help listeners navigate these perilous political waters by providing insight, analysis, and organizing solutions so that we can steer the community toward calmer, saner progressive routes.
Host Cyril Mychalejko’s 5 Book Recommendations to Further Shine a Light on the Issue
The Rising of the Women Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880–1917, by Meredith Tax
Feminist Solutions for Ending War, Edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, by bell hooks
Feminist International: How to Change Everything, by Verónica Gago, translated by Liz Mason-Deese
False Choices The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Liza Featherstone
The Signal is produced by Kevin Mahoney, Raging Chicken Media.
Music by Maf é Tulà and Cartas a Felice, "La Loca." Panela Music. 
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The Signal | Merchants of Deception: The dark money and front groups behind school privatization with Maurice Cunningham

On this episode, Cyril welcomes Maurice Cunningham to the show. Maurice is the author of the book Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization. He retired in 2021 as associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. His work has been distributed through the Independent Media Institute and has appeared in publications that include the Boston Globe, Alternet, Tampa Bay Times, The Detroit Free Press, and The Portland Press-Herald (ME), as well as The Bucks County Beacon. Today we talk about a report Maurice just published this month for The Network for Public Education entitled Merchants of Deception: Parent Props and Their Funders, which pulls back the veil on the right-wing figures, their tactics, and the funding behind today’s attack on public education in Bucks County and beyond. 
The Signal is a podcast by The Bucks County Beacon, I’m your host and the Beacon’s editor in chief Cyril Mychalejko. Twice a month we will use this space to shine a light on the right-wing extremist currents streaming though Bucks County and beyond. We will talk to guests who will help listeners navigate these perilous political waters by providing insight, analysis, and organizing solutions so that we can steer the community toward calmer, saner progressive routes.
Host Cyril Mychalejko’s 5 Book Recommendations to Further Shine a Light on the Issue
Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization, by Maurice Cunningham.
A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School, by Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider
Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools, by Diane Ravitch
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, by bell hooks
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer
Additional Resources: 
The Disinformation Playbook Targeting Our Public Schools and Elections
MassPoliticsProfs
The Network for Public Education
Public Schooling Battle Map
Bucks County Beacon Education Coverage
The Signal is produced by Kevin Mahoney, Raging Chicken Media.
Music by Maf é Tulà and Cartas a Felice, "La Loca." Panela Music. 
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The Signal | Immigrant Solidarity: From Bucks County to the Border with Sue-Ann DiVito

Sue-Ann DiVito is a Bucks County mother, grandmother, and political activist. Her “witnessing” has included three trips to the border to see first hand the humanitarian crises exacerbated by policy failures, of Republican and Democratic Administrations alike. She most recently returned from a solidarity delegation sponsored by Witness at the Border called the “Journey for Justice: A Border Pilgrimage.” 
The Signal is a podcast by The Bucks County Beacon, I’m your host and the Beacon’s editor in chief Cyril Mychalejko. Twice a month we will use this space to shine a light on the right-wing extremist currents streaming though Bucks County and beyond. We will talk to guests who will help listeners navigate these perilous political waters by providing insight, analysis, and organizing solutions so that we can steer the community toward calmer, saner progressive routes.
Host Cyril Mychalejko’s 5 Book Recommendations to Further Shine a Light on the Issue
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration, by Aviva Chomsky
All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It, By Daniel Denvir
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, by Valeria Luiselli
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America, By Óscar Martínez
Presente! Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces de Inmigrantes Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia, Edited by Cristina Tzintzún, Carlos Pérez de Alejo, and Arnulfo Manríquez
Additional Resources:
Immigrant Rights Action
www.immigrantrightsactions.org
Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition
https://paimmigrant.org 
Witness at the Border
https://witnessattheborder.org 
To learn more about the Bucks County immigrant and women-led nonprofit that was founded in 2017 following an ICE raid in Doylestown, read the Bucks County Beacon’s article: “How Immigrant Rights Action Is Serving Bucks County’s Immigrant Community.”
The Signal is produced by Kevin Mahoney, Raging Chicken Media.
Music by Maf é Tulà and Cartas a Felice, "La Loca." Panela Music. 
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