Episodes

  • Talk World Radio: Keith Kelleher on Organizing Workers

    Talk World Radio: Keith Kelleher on Organizing Workers
    Apr 21 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about community and workplace organizing. Our guest Keith Kelleher was the founder of United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 880 (1983-5), then Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 (1985-2008) and then president (2008-2017) of SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas (HCIIMK). Once the smallest local union, it is now the largest local union in Chicago, Cook County, the state of Illinois, and the Midwest, as well as the 7th largest local of the 2 million member Service Employees International Union. Keith has also served as an International Vice President of SEIU. How Black and Brown Women in Chicago Helped Build Jesse Jackson’s Campaigns https://convergencemag.com/articles/how-black-and-brown-women-in-chicago-helped-build-jesse-jacksons-campaigns How Mass-Based Community Unions Could Transform the Country https://forgeorganizing.org/article/how-mass-based-community-unions-could-transform-the-country The Coming Storm In New York https://forgeorganizing.org/article/the-coming-storm-in-new-york
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Howard Yaruss on Understandable Economics

    Talk World Radio: Howard Yaruss on Understandable Economics
    Apr 15 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're joined by Howard Yaruss, an economist, professor, attorney, businessman, and activist who teaches at New York University. He has published a new edition of a book called Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Matthew Hoh on War on Iran

    Talk World Radio: Matthew Hoh on War on Iran
    Apr 6 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Iran, the world, and the problem of war. Our guest Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009, after being appointed to the Foreign Service, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network. He serves on the advisory boards of many peace organizations, including Veterans For Peace and World BEYOND War, and is an associate member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Isaac Evans-Frantz on the Defend the Guard Act

    Talk World Radio: Isaac Evans-Frantz on the Defend the Guard Act
    Mar 30 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the U.S. National Guard. Our guest Isaac Evans-Frantz is director of Action Corps. See https://actioncorps.org
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: John Reuwer on Taking Aid to Cuba

    Talk World Radio: John Reuwer on Taking Aid to Cuba
    Mar 24 2026
    John Reuwer is Treasurer and a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is a retired emergency physician whose practice convinced him of a crying need for alternatives to violence for resolving tough conflicts. This led him to the informal study and teaching of nonviolence for the last 35 years, with peace team field experience in Haiti, Colombia, Central America, Palestine/Israel, and several US inner cities. He worked in South Sudan with the Nonviolent Peaceforce, one of the few organizations practicing professional unarmed civilian peacekeeping. He also serves on the Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons with Physicians for Social Responsibility educating the public and politicians about the threat from nuclear weapons, which he sees as the ultimate expression of the insanity of modern warfare, so blatantly displayed in the current war in Ukraine. John has been a facilitator for World BEYOND War’s online courses “War Abolition 201” and “Leaving World War II Behind.”
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: War on Iran and What to Do About It

    Talk World Radio: War on Iran and What to Do About It
    Mar 16 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the war on Iran with two of my colleagues from RootsAction. Hanieh Jodat Barnes is Senior Partnerships Coordinator, an Iranian American activist, and one of the founding members of Women’s March Los Angeles. Jeffrey Sterling is Whistleblower Advocate, a former CIA case officer who was at the agency, including the Iran Task Force, for nearly a decade. He served two and a half years in prison after being convicted of violating the Espionage Act. No incriminating evidence was produced at trial. His memoir is "Unwanted Spy: The Persecution of an American Whistleblower." Websites mentioned: https://rootsaction.org https://defusenuclearwar.org
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  • Talk World Radio: Karen Malpede on Radical Lives and Bright Deaths

    Talk World Radio: Karen Malpede on Radical Lives and Bright Deaths
    Mar 10 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're speaking with the wonderful playwright Karen Malpede about her new book, Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on the War on Iran

    Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on the War on Iran
    Mar 3 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Iran. Norman Solomon is Co-Founder / National Director of RootsAction. He founded the Institute for Public Accuracy in 1997 and is its executive director. Immersed in anti-war, social justice and environmental movements since the late 1960s, he is the author of a dozen books including "War Made Invisible," "War Made Easy" and "Made Love, Got War."
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