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  • July 11, 2011

    Radio response to the “New Jim Crow”

    America is being dragged back to Jim Crow era as right-wing efforts to disenfranchise voters emerge across the states, a prelude to the coming election.

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  • April 12, 2010

    Victor Guijarro, detained in OH

    Immigration rights activist Victor Guijarro detained in Ohio.
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  • July 27, 2011

    We Can’t Pay the Bill

    Popular education skit on the cost of prisons.

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  • July 27, 2010

    Calls from Home

     

    Holler to the Hood has a new name: Calls from Home.  The weekly show is now hosted on our new site.  Check it out.

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  • July 27, 2011

    We Can’t Pay the Bill

    Popular education exercise about the cost of prisons.

     

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