Episodes
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Monday Jul 17, 2023
This week I welcome Alyssa Bowen back to the show. Alyssa is a Senior Researcher and Managing Editor for the progressive watchdog group, True North Research.
Tonight we'll be talking about her recent article in TruthOut, "A Jan. 6 “Moms” Group Funded by Big Lie Donors Is Stoking Voter Suppression." And, we'll give you the spoiler right up front: It's NOT Moms for Liberty we'll be talking about. The right-wing extremist group “Moms for America” has been flying under the radar as it works to undermine our rights.
Alyssa received her PhD in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2021 with an interest in fascism and antifascism, solidarity and social movements, immigration/exile and transnational history. She has bylines in the Nation and in Truthout, where she is a regular contributor. More of her public writing can be found on True North Research’s website and Substack.
LINKS:
- Alyssa Bowen: "A Jan. 6 “Moms” Group Funded by Big Lie Donors Is Stoking Voter Suppression," TruthOut | https://bit.ly/3rqMn3v
- Follow Alyssa on Twitter @AlyssaAnnBowen | https://twitter.com/AlyssaAnnBowen
- True North Research: https://truenorthresearch.org/
RESOURCES:
- Documented: https://documented.net/
- Center for Media and Democracy: https://www.prwatch.org/
- Racial Justice Training Series with H.E.A.L. Together: https://bit.ly/3f3vBRG
- All H.E.A.L. Together trainings: https://www.raceforward.org/trainings
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Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, we're back from vacation! And wholly crap did a lot happy while were were gone! Would love to hear from you!
You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress.
Don’t let Paul Martino, Moms for Liberty, & their oligarch friends buy our schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, support local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmask the toxic organizations injecting our communities with right-wing extremism. We’re putting small-dollar donations to work to beat back the power of Big Money. You can get more information and drop your donation at https://ragingchicken.levelfield.net/.
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, I welcome Chris Ullery to the show. Chris covers extremism and social justice for the USA Today network of PA and Bucks County Courier Times. We'll be talking about his new investigative piece, "Emails show how religious liberties law firm has influenced Bucks and York schools." This article is part of an on-going investigation by Chris and investigative journalist Bethany Rodgers from the USA Today Network's PA capitol bureau. Their investigations have helped expose how a deep-pocketed, religious law firm is working with right-wing school boards across Pennsylvania to change policies and sow division.
Chris Ullery has been a reporter with the Bucks County Courier Times since 2015, covering municipal government, infrastructure and the Central Bucks School District. His mostly self-taught skills in the Python computer programming language have helped him flesh out and analyze years of voter registration data, track COVID-19 cases at the start of the pandemic in 2020, and build a 10-year database of 911 call logs in Bucks County. In addition to using his programming experience to track extremist movements, he will work with local newsrooms in the USA Today Network to help tell stories by the numbers. Chris Graduated Frostburg State University in 2014 with a B.S. in English (major in Literature, minor in Journalism) near his hometown of Cumberland, Maryland.
LINKS:
- "Emails show how religious liberties law firm has influenced Bucks and York schools," Chris Ullery & Bethany Rodgers, Bucks County Courier Times | https://bit.ly/442QWiH
- "Libraries to locker rooms: How a religious law firm is changing PA school policies," Chris Ullery & Bethany Rodgers, Bucks County Courier Times | https://bit.ly/3ojlrki
- Follow Chris on Twitter | https://twitter.com/ulleryatintell You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress.
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, Aly is a Pittsburgh-based research analyst working on the state power mapping program at the grassroots watchdog group, LittleSis (you know, the opposite of Big Brother?). We'll be talking about her new report, "The American Petroleum Institute Love Pennsylvania, As Its Lobbying Shows." In 2022, the API spent at least $1.8 million on lobbying Pennsylvania politicians - that's more than any other state. Why is Big Oil going all in on PA? We'll get into the details.
Aly previously spent 8 years as an environmental justice organizer at Pittsburgh UNITED and labor organizer at UFCW Local 1776. Over the years she has led campaigns to prevent the privatization of Pittsburgh’s water system, to make drinking water safer and more affordable, and organized grocery store workers to win higher wages and safer working conditions during the COVID 19 pandemic. She received her BA in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and her Master’s in Public Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
LINKS:
- Aly Shaw, "The American Petroleum Institute Love Pennsylvania, As Its Lobbying Shows," LittleSis, Eyes on the Ties | https://bit.ly/3MI4qsM
- LittleSis.org | https://littlesis.org/
- Eyes on the Ties - News and analysis from LittleSis | https://news.littlesis.org/
- Follow Aly on Twitter @AlyMS77 | https://twitter.com/AlyMS77
You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress.
Don’t let Paul Martino, Moms for Liberty, & their oligarch friends buy our schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, supporting local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmasking the toxic organizations injecting our communities with right-wing extremism. We’re putting small-dollar donations to work to beat back the power of Big Money. You can get more information and drop your donation at https://ragingchicken.levelfield.net/.
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, I welcome Eleanor Goldfield to the show. We'll be talking about her latest article in TruthOut, "If the Police Can Decide Who Qualifies as a Journalist, There is No Free Press." In that piece she spotlights the arrests of two journalists arrested while covering the eviction of unhoused people from a public park in Asheville, NC. The case has received limited national coverage, but it marks another moment in the withering away of Constitutional protections for the press.
Eleanor Goldfield is a creative radical, journalist, and filmmaker. Mutual aid and community organizing are cornerstones of her work and personal life, informing both her journalistic and artistic projects.
Her written and photo journalism has appeared in independent publications across the U.S. and internationally. She is one of the 2020 recipients of the “Women and Media Award” presented by The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press. She is currently a board member of the Media Freedom Foundation.
Recently, she released her first solo EP, titled “No Solo,” after more than a decade fronting the political hard rock band Rooftop Revolutionaries.
Her recent documentary film, “Hard Road of Hope,” which covers the radical history and present struggles in West Virginia has been widely acclaimed.
Currently, Eleanor is the co-host of the podcast Common Censored along with Lee Camp as well as the Project Censored radio show with Mickey Huff.
LINKS:
- Eleanor Goldfield, "If the Police Can Decide Who Qualifies as a Journalist, There is No Free Press," in TruthOut | https://bit.ly/45OCLiK
- Eleanor Goldfield on Twitter: @RadicalEleanor | https://twitter.com/RadicalEleanor
- Common Censored podcast | https://commoncensored.libsyn.com/
- Project Censored radio show on Pacifica | https://www.projectcensored.org/radio/
- Eleanor's new documentary, "Hard Road of Hope" | https://hardroadofhope.com/
- Eleanor's new solo album, "No Solo" | https://bit.ly/3OUUKh5
- ArtKillingApathy | https://artkillingapathy.com/
You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress/.
Don’t Let Paul Martino, Moms for Liberty & Their Oligarch Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community rooted PAC to invest in organizing, supporting local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmasking the toxic organizations injecting our communities with right-wing extremism. We’re putting small-dollar donations to work to beat back the power of Big Money. You can get more information and drop your donation at https://ragingchicken.levelfield.net/.
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, we'll be talking a bit about the last Pennridge School Board meeting, last week's PA primary, and what's at stake in this year's election. The Bucks County GOP is offering up more extremism, but the community is organizing to kick out the clowns and send the circus packing.
Don’t Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, support local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmask the toxic organizations injecting our communities with right-wing extremism. We’re putting small-dollar donations to work to beat back the power of Big Money. You can get more information and drop your donation at https://ragingchicken.levelfield.net/.
Join our Discord to continue the conversation all week long: https://discord.gg/BnjRNz3u
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
On tonight’s episode, I welcome Kathryn Joyce to the program. We'll be talking about her recent article in Church and State, "Mad Moms: A New Christian Nationalist Front Group Claims to Champion Parental Involvement in Public Education. Critics Say There's a More Nefarious Agenda Afoot." "Mad Moms" takes a deep dive into Moms for Liberty, their deep pockets, and their growing extremism.
Kathryn Joyce is an investigative editor at In These Times, a freelance investigative reporter and the author of two books: The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption and Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.
Formerly a reporter with Type Investigations and Salon, a contributing editor at The New Republic and a contributing writer at Highline. Her work has also appeared in numerous publications including Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Marshall Project, Longreads, The New York Times Magazine, Vox, The American Prospect, The Intercept, The Nation, Cosmopolitan, Adirondack Life, The Atlantic, Ms., The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and many others.
She is formerly the editor of Political Research Associates’ quarterly magazine The Public Eye, and teaches as an adjunct lecturer in Brooklyn College’s political science department.
LINKS:
- "Mad Moms: A New Christian Nationalist Front Group Claims To Champion Parental Involvement In Public Education. Critics Say There’s A More Nefarious Agenda Afoot," Kathryn Joyce, Church & State | https://bit.ly/3nQnhJJ
- Kathryn Joyce on the web | http://kathrynjoyce.com/
- Follow Katrhyn Joyce on Twitter | https://twitter.com/kathrynajoyce
Don’t Let Paul Martino, Moms for Liberty, and their oligarch friends buy our schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, support local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmask the toxic organizations injecting our communities with right-wing extremism. We’re putting small-dollar donations to work to beat back the power of Big Money. You can get more information and drop your donation at https://ragingchicken.levelfield.net/.
Join our Discord to continue the conversation all week long: https://discord.gg/BnjRNz3u
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, I welcome Kristina Marusic back to the show. We'll be talking about her new book, "A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention." While we've been waging a "war" on cancer for more than fifty years, but it's not a war we're winning. Yes, treatments are better than ever, but cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and one in six women in the US. The astonishing news is that up to two-thirds of all cancer cases are linked to preventable environmental causes. If we can stop cancer before it begins, why don’t we?
In "A New War on Cancer," Kristina Marusic does a deep dive into the remarkable doctors, scientists, and advocates who are upending our understanding of cancer and how to fight it. They recognize that we will never reduce cancer rates without ridding our lives of the chemicals that increasingly trigger this deadly disease.
Kristina Marusic is an award-winning journalist who covers environmental health and justice for Environmental Health News. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of San Francisco, and her personal essays and reporting on topics ranging from the environment, LGBTQ+ equality, and politics to feminism, food, and travel have been published by outlets including CNN, Slate, Vice, Women's Health, the Washington Post, MTV News, The Advocate, and Bustle, among others. She lives in Pittsburgh with her partner of ten years, Michael, and the cutest dog in the world, Mochi. You can visit her online at KristinaMarusic.com
LINKS:
- Kristina Marusic, "A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention" | https://bit.ly/3NphIwa
- Kristina Marusic webpage | https://www.kristinamarusic.com/
- Environmental Health News | https://www.ehn.org/
Don’t Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, support local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmask the toxic organizations injecting our communities with right-wing extremism. We’re putting small-dollar donations to work to beat back the power of Big Money. You can get more information and drop your donation at https://ragingchicken.levelfield.net/.
Join our Discord to continue the conversation all week long: https://discord.gg/BnjRNz3u
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
On this episode of Out d'Coup LIVE, we'll be digging into the Pennridge School Board's decision last week to hire the far-right Vermillion Education to rewrite the district's social studies curriculum. The contract to hire Vermillion was posted to the agenda 24 hours before the meeting and at least four members of the board had no idea it was coming. Tonight, we'll get into the school board meeting, Vermilion's background, and increasing moves by Pennridge to turn the school district into a Christian Nationalist haven.
Vermillion Education is a four-month old company founded by former Hillsdale College teacher, Jordan Adams. Adams is a graduate of the private, conservative Christian Hillsdale College and served as the Associate Director for Instructional Resources in the Barney Charter School Initiative at Hillsdale College. The Barney Charter Initiative seeks to establish a national network of charter schools using Hillsdale's K-12 curriculum.
LINKS:
- "Pennridge School Board wants to hire company with ties to Hillsdale College to help write curriculum," Jenny Stephens, Bucks County Beacon | https://bit.ly/3NnczF0
- "Hillsdale College Comes to Pennridge School District via Vermillion Education," Peter Greene, Bucks County Beacon | https://bit.ly/3LJadil
- Pennridge school board hires consultant with ties to conservative college to review curriculum," Maddie Hanna, Philadelphia Inquirer | https://bit.ly/3oOrKN6
- "What is Vermillion Education and why Florida school boards should care," Katie LaGrone, ABC Action News, Sarasota, FL | https://bit.ly/3VnYCIN
- Florida School Board rejects consultant with ties to Christian college after backlash," Kristina Watrobski, ABC7, Sarasota | https://bit.ly/3LjaIOV
- Jordan Adams at 2020 White House Conference on American History, led by Hillsdale College President, Dr. Larry Arnn. The panel followed President Trump's executive order to create a commission to promote "patriotic education." Adams is the last speaker, but the whole panel provides useful context CSPAN/White House | https://www.c-span.org/person/?127772...
- Influence Watch | Barney Family Foundation | https://bit.ly/3NB3NTI
Don’t Let Paul Martino, Moms for Liberty, & their oligarch friends buy our schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, support local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmask the toxic organizations injecting our communities with right-wing extremism. We’re putting small-dollar donations to work to beat back the power of Big Money. You can get more information and drop your donation at https://ragingchicken.levelfield.net/.
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
This week I welcome Chris Ullery to the show. Chris covers extremism and social justice for the Bucks County Courier Times's PA State Team. We'll be talking about his new investigative piece, "Libraries to locker rooms: How a religious law firm is changing PA school policies." Co-written with Bethany Rodgers, USA TODAY Network Pennsylvania capital bureau investigative journalist, Chris exposes how a deep-pocketed, religious law firm is working with right-wing school boards across Pennsylvania to change policies and sow division.
Chris Ullery has been a reporter with the Bucks County Courier Times since 2015, covering municipal government, infrastructure and the Central Bucks School District. His mostly self-taught skills in the Python computer programming language have helped him flesh out and analyze years of voter registration data, track COVID-19 cases at the start of the pandemic in 2020, and build a 10-year database of 911 call logs in Bucks County. In addition to using his programming experience to track extremist movements, he will work with local newsrooms in the USA Today Network to help tell stories by the numbers. Chris Graduated Frostburg State University in 2014 with a B.S. in English (major in Literature, minor in Journalism) near his hometown of Cumberland, Maryland.
LINKS:
- Chris Ullery, "Libraries to locker rooms: How a religious law firm is changing PA school policies," Bucks County Courier Times | https://bit.ly/3ojlrki
- Follow Chris on Twitter | https://twitter.com/ulleryatintell
- All Chris's reporting | https://www.phillyburbs.com/staff/5573447002/chris-ullery/
You can support this show by becoming a patron for as little as $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/rcpress/.
Don’t Let Paul Martino & Friends Buy Our Schools and push extremist politics in our community. Raging Chicken has teamed up with LevelField to launch a truly community-rooted PAC to invest in organizing, supporting local and state-wide progressive candidates, and unmasking the toxic organizations injecting our communities with right-wing extremism. We’re putting small-dollar donations to work to beat back the power of Big Money. You can get more information and drop your donation at https://ragingchicken.levelfield.net/.
Join our Discord to continue the conversation all week long: https://discord.gg/BnjRNz3u