Interviews for Resistance

Recent Episodes

Clipping the hedge funds that own Puerto Rico's debt, with Jonathan Westin.

Posted October 10, 2017 • 00:17:09

What are hedge funds for, anyway? That's the question that the Hedge Clippers, a coalition of organizers and researchers targeting secretive financial...

Turning up for DACA recipients, with Ricardo Aca

Posted October 9, 2017 • 00:14:56

Ricardo Aca has renewed his DACA several times and in the lead-up to the deadline imposed by Trump's rescinding of the policy allowing immigrants who...

Challenging the frame around gun violence, with Patrick Blanchfield

Posted October 6, 2017 • 00:37:51

After the Las Vegas mass shooting, calls to do something once again fill the airwaves and the press. But what can be done? The answer is not so easy;...

Tax policy matters, with Marshall Steinbaum

Posted October 4, 2017 • 00:21:24

Trump's tax plan has dropped and is a huge giveaway to the owners of capital. Despite many promises on the campaign trail to put people back to work...

Puerto Rico's short-term and long-term crises, with Javier Morillo

Posted September 28, 2017 • 00:26:26

Puerto Rico was in crisis before a hurricane devastated the island; Trump, though, seems only concerned with its debt. Labor organizer Javier Morillo...