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Hitting Left

Mike gets together each week, often with special guests in studio and from around the country, to discuss current topics involving politics, education and social justice "from the Left side of the plate." The topics covered may be local, national or international but always with a Chicago sensibility and perspective.
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Oct 7, 2022

Joining Mike and Susan is veteran Chicago educator, policy advocate and community organizer, Jose Rico.

Oct 1, 2022

This week's Hitting Left podcast has Lumpen Radio's Ed and John for a discussion of alternative media and it's role in Chicago.

Sep 24, 2022

Joing Mike and Susan Klonsky this week is a hell-raiser in her own right, their old friend, historian, activist, and author, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Sep 17, 2022

Joing Mike and Susan is Floyd Webb, a film maker with knowledge of all kinds of media and social movements

Sep 10, 2022

Jerry Harris, national secretary of the Global Studies Association, author and educator join Mike and Susan to discuss the international situation, war in Ukraine, China, Russia and issues of war and peace.

Sep 3, 2022

This edition of Hitting Left has Mike and Susan Klonsky talking to Dr. Timothy Tyson. Dr. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book is The Blood of Emmett Till.

Aug 20, 2022

Retired teacher, activist, art maker returns as a guest and joins Mike and Susan Klonsky to discuss the week's events and how we're going to spend the $4.80 ComEd must pay its customers as a penalty for corruption.

Aug 12, 2022

Susan cohosts with Michael and discuss the past weeks news much of it involving Donald Trump. They are then joined by former San Francisco DA, Chesa Boudin who was recently the succesful target of a right-wing recall effort costing a record 7 million dollars. 

Aug 5, 2022

Susan and Mike talk about the right to abortion. Harish Patel joins them to discuss Chicago's latest progressive pilot: a guaranteed annual income.

Jul 29, 2022

Mike Klonsky is joined once again by co-host Susan Klonsky to discuss the week's news along with John Daley producing. Helen Shiller, former Chicago alder and social justice active joins them during the second half of the show.

Jul 23, 2022

Mike is back in the Lumpen Radio studio in Bridgepoort's Prosperity Sphere with co-host Susan Klonsky reviewing the week's news. In the second half hour they are joined by Amanda Klonsky to discuss Covid in prisons.

Jun 13, 2020

The brothers Cory and Craig join us for an conversation of protest, police and politics.

Jun 5, 2020

The Beachwood Reporter Steve Rhodes joins the Klonsky Brothers to talk about the protests, the cops, the politics in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

May 29, 2020

CPS teacher and author is joined by Jones College Prep senior Yadani Martinez on this week's show. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, the pandemic and 20 years of corporate driven school reform, we talk about a vision for education in a post virus world.

May 22, 2020

Former alderman and advocate for a basic universal income, Ameya Pawar joins us along with Roberto Clack, organizer with Warehouse Workers for Justice.

May 15, 2020

Dr. Dunbar-Ortiz, an educator, historian and activist. We talk about her life, the conditions of indigenous people.

May 15, 2020

Dr. Dunbar-Ortiz, an educator, historian and activist. We talk about her life, the conditions of indigenous people.

May 8, 2020

Dr. Pedro Noguera, newly appointed Dean of the University of Southern California school of education and long-time advocate for equity and social justice in education, joins us from California.

May 1, 2020

Carl Davidson grew up in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, a steel town outside of Pittsburgh. In college he joined the student movement, organized against the Vietnam War, a traveling campus organizer, was national secretary of SDS for two years and continues as an organizer to this day.

Apr 23, 2020

The first half the brothers discuss the week's politics and the presidential race. The second half we are joined by poet and artist Krista Franklin.

Apr 22, 2020

Micky and Dick Flacks, long-time activists and authors of Making History, Making Blintzes.

Apr 22, 2020

Micky and Dick Flacks, long-time activists and authors of Making History, Making Blintzes.

Apr 17, 2020

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin joins us in a discussion of criminal justice reform in the era of COVID19.

Apr 10, 2020

Two leading Chicago Latinx journalists, Jackie Serrato and Fernando Diaz join us for a discussion of COVID19 and its impact on Black and Brown communities.

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