Joining Mike in the Lumpen Radio studio is Colin Kramer, an environmental scientist with the EPA’s Region 5 office in Chicago, where he monitors pollution, enforces cleanups, and responds to hazardous waste emergencies across the industrial Midwest. He’s also an active member of AFGE Local 704, which has been disbanded by Trump.

Mike's  guests on this edition of Hitting Left show are two militant voices from Chicago’s grassroots resistance. Kathy Tholin and Laura Tanner of Indivisible.

Kathy is the Board Chair of Indivisible Chicago. She helped lead the massive “No Kings” protest that brought tens of thousands to Daley Plaza to challenge authoritarian drift and defend immigrant rights. Laura is the co-founder and co-leader of Indivisible Evanston and has been instrumental in mobilizing neighborhood chapters and amplifying progressive coalitions across the city.

Joining Mike in the Lumpen Radio studio today is Flint Taylor. Flint is a founding partner of the People’s Law Office in Chicago. His career has spanned more than five decades of legal resistance to state violence and police misconduct. Flint was part of the original legal team that investigated the assassination of Fred Hampton in 1969, and he’s been at the forefront of exposing the Chicago Police Department’s long history of torture, cover-ups, and racist abuse.