Best Radio111 Podcasts (2024)

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Outspoken | Guest: Savannah Worley | Topic: Want To Know How Extremism Grows? 14:00

1y ago14:00

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, guest Savannah Worley talks about the KKK’s history in the state of Indiana. Savannah is a writer on Medium, an ex-journalist, and was born in Indiana. She writes mainly about racism and mental health, and how the extremists want to obliterate learning the true history of the United States.…

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Outspoken | Guest: Steve Schwartz | Topic: Parents Gone Wild; The Politicization of Education 25:00

1+ y ago25:00

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Steve Schwartz has over fifty years of membership in the American Federation of Teachers and has served as a union rep for over twenty years. His broad scope of experience has given him a comprehensive understanding of the challenges teachers, administrators, and parents face. He moved to Temecula in 2004, and on this episode shares his first-hand …

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Outspoken | Guest: Chuck Parker & Feliz Nunez | Topic: Saving The Salton Sea 32:00

1+ y ago32:00

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, one of the biggest environmental threats in the United States takes center stage. Chuck Parker and Feliz Nunez represent the Salton Sea Coalition and discuss the ongoing threat to human life throughout Southern California and particularly the Coachella Valley and Imperial Valley if there are continued d…

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Outspoken | Guest: Jessica Pishko | Topic: Sheriffs Gone Wild 26:00

1+ y ago26:00

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Since 2018, journalist and lawyer Jessica Pishko has focused extensively on the growing threat to democracy by Sheriffs around the United States who've become increasingly aligned with white supremacy ideology and organizations and supporting authoritarianism in government. She returns to discuss the topic at greater length with Joy Silver on this …

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Outspoken | Guest: Joy Silver | Topic: 2022 Mid-Term Election Post-Mortem 42:00

1+ y ago42:00

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The tables are turned on this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver. Radio111's voice of democracy turns from interviewer to interviewee with John McMullen in the host seat. Together, they talk about the victories and the lessons that led to a largely non-traditional Mid-Term Election. While Democrats lost control of the U.S. House of Representative…

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Outspoken | Guest: Steven Skeels | Topic: Creating Fight Songs – Music of the Resistance 18:00

1+ y ago18:00

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The 1960s and 1970s are often thought of as the era of activist 'fight songs' that became the anthems of resistance and change in the United States. As rights begin to erode before our very eyes and the roar of intolerance becomes more pervasive in the so-called land of the free, on this episode of Outspoken, Joy Silver welcomes songwriter Steven S…

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Outspoken | Guest: Christel Reyna | Topic: Women’s Wave 2022 – Our Feminist Future 23:00

1+ y ago23:00

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Christel Reyna is the founder of Dare 2 Empower, an organization that empowers teens, young adults and women to identify their strengths, use their voice and take action to bring change to issues that affect the world around them. As the mother of a gay son who was himself a target of bullies in school, Christel shares the story this week of the po…

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Outspoken | Guest: Emiliana Guereca | Topic: What’s At Stake From a Feminist Viewpoint 24:00

1+ y ago24:00

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, just a few weeks ahead of the 2022 Midterm Elections, Emiliana Guereca returns to discuss the priorities, concerns and impact that women of all ages have at this critical juncture fighting for the preservation of rights and democracy itself in the USA. Guereca is President of the Women’s March Foundatio…

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Outspoken | Guests: Mina Hartong & Lin Phillippi | Is Voting A Laughing Matter? 26:00

1+ y ago26:00

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With reproductive freedom, privacy rights, and democracy itself hanging in the balance, we are rapidly approaching the critical 2022 mid-term elections. While it seems like it's no laughing matter, humor may be one way to strike at the nerve of voters who need a little extra inspiration for the November 8th referendum on the American Way. This week…

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Outspoken | Guest: Will Rollins, Candidate, U.S. Congress - California 41st District 25:00

1+ y ago25:00

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Will Rollins is the Democratic nominee for the 41st California Congressional District, a newly-drawn district covering Riverside County including part of the Coachella Valley. The former United States Attorney specializing in counter-terrorism is seeking the support of voters who want their Constitutional Rights and freedoms protected including rep…

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Outspoken | Guests: Joyce Callo & Stephanie Trudeau | Topic: Chavela Vargas 28:00

1+ y ago28:00

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Chavela Vargas was a Latin Grammy-winning artist well-known for her music. The Costa Rican/Mexican singer is remembered as the Rough Voice of Tenderness and is the focus of this week's Outspoken with Joy Silver podcast. It's an enlightening herstory lesson as Joy talks about the beloved performer who passed in 2012 at the age of 93 with Emmy Award …

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Outspoken | Guest: Jeffrey Bernstein | Topic: Palm Springs City Council District 2 Candidate 26:00

2y ago26:00

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Jeffrey Bernstein is running for Palm Springs City Council in District 2 this November. He is a small business owner who has been active in local non-profit organizations, and on community boards including the Measure J Committee. On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, Mr. Bernstein discusses many of the key issues on his campaign agenda ran…

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Outspoken |Guest: Jessica Pishko | Topic: Biden’s Safer America Program – At $37Billion, Will It Work? 22:00

2y ago22:00

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This week on Outspoken the spotlight turns to President Biden’s Safer America program. Nearly $40 Billion of the American taxpayers are at stake. Joy Silver welcomes lawyer and writer Jessica Pishko back to the discussion as an expert and author writing about one of the greatest threats to democracy in America: Sheriffs. She enlightens us on the ad…

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Outspoken | Guest: Pat Leach | Topic: The Real Deal – Consequences of the US Immigration Policy on African Immigration 23:00

2y ago23:00

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Pat Leach is the founder of the African Immigration Initiative, Coachella Valley. Her dedication to African immigration is to assist people through empowerment by finding the resources they need to succeed whether in detention, as asylum seekers struggling in the USA, or deported and trying to find safety. This includes food, health, lawyers, housi…

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Outspoken | Guest: Rubén AríAztlán Pérez, Chairman, College of the Desert Board of Trustees 21:00

2y ago21:00

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There has been much controversy around the status of campuses and curriculum at College of the Desert in the Western Coachella Valley. Rubén AríAztlán Pérez currently serves as the Chairman of the C.O.D. Board of Trustees and joins Joy Silver on this episode of Outspoken. Nearly $1Billion in bond measures have been approved by voters over the past …

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Outspoken | Guest: Allison Gaines | Will Trump’s White Privilege Protect Him From Any Legal Consequences? 26:00

2y ago26:00

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As tens of millions of Americans watch the United States Congressional Select Committee Hearings on the January 6, 2021 Attack and hear more evidence of the former president’s role in planning and fanning the flames of riled up insurrectionists, many wonder if Trump’s white privilege may prevent him from facing prosecution. Journalist and civil rig…

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Outspoken. Guest: Paul Angulo. Topic: RivCo Auditor's Race Pits Transparency Vs. $Billions Abuse 15:45

2y ago15:45

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On this episode of Outspoken, host Joy Silver’s attention is on the Riverside County Auditor-Controller race to be decided on November 8. Incumbent Paul Angulo has served for 12 years managing tens of billions of dollars in assets and an annual $7 Billion budget. He is being challenged this year by relative newcomer Ben Benoit, mayor of Wildomar an…

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Outspoken. Topic: The Right to Live, Engage in Intimacy, Marry and Be Safe from Violence 8:00

2y ago8:00

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, a challenge is issued to the President of the national Log Cabin Republicans organization. Charles Moran’s recently-published Op-Ed in Gannett newspapers including The Desert Sun in Palm Springs cried foul when the GOP’s state convention in Texas excluded the gay republican group, pleading their case of…

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Outspoken. Guest: Roger Tansey. Topic: The People versus the President Who Attempted a Coup: Making the Legal Case 27:00

2y ago27:00

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, Riverside County Deputy Public Defender Roger Tansey shares his views on the Case for Prosecution of President Donald J. Trump. Mr. Tansey’s legal experience includes serving as a law clerk from 1983 to 1985 for the Honorable Volney V. Brown of the United States District Court. Tansey has also worked on…

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Outspoken. Guest: Julie Bornstein. Topic: The Legal Case for Prosecution of the January 6th Insurrectionists. 30:00

2y ago30:00

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With 20 million people viewing the January 6th Congressional Hearings in real time and tens of millions more learning the details of how democracy almost died in the USA at the start of 2021, Joy talks with Julie Bornstein, a former California Assemblymember, Attorney and Former Adjunct Faculty at California Desert Trial Academy. A Coachella Valley…

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Outspoken: Juneteenth - The Commemoration of the End of Slavery. Guest: Jarvis Crawford 27:00

2y ago27:00

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Jarvis Crawford is the Community Center Manager for Palm Springs Department of Parks & Recreation, Deacon of the First Baptist Church, and President for the Palm Springs Black History Committee. As the nation celebrated Juneteenth this year for the first time as a national holiday, Jarvis shares with Joy Silver the important historical information;…

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Outspoken: The Art of the Lie. Guest: Manny Otiko 27:00

2y ago27:00

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On this edition of Outspoken, Joy Silver talks with freelance journalist Manny Otiko whose work appears in the Press Enterprise, Salon, LA Weekly and on Medium.com among other outlets. Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He discusses The Art of the Lie, the complicity of the media and how the January 6th Hearings are uncovering the full t…

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Outspoken. Topic: Another Texas Massacre 28:00

2y ago28:00

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Joy Silver makes the connection between the goals of CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) with its first ever convention on foreign soil, the NRA (National Rifle Association) annual convention in Houston three days after the Texas Massacre in Uvalde, and how media is used to further the aims of the far right extremists as they continue to…

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Outspoken. Guest: Philip Drucker. Topic: The Inquisition Has Begun 28:00

2y ago28:00

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This week's episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver features a discussion with Constitutional Law Professor Phil Drucker from the California Desert Trial Academy in Indio CA. He talks with Joy about The History of the Spanish Inquisition, and it's parallels to more recent times in light of the Alito Roe Ruling Leak. The conversation brings us to the t…

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Outspoken. Guest: Dr. Robin Stern. Topic: Gas Lighting - Personal, Political, Racial & Institutional 30:11

2y ago30:11

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On this episode, Joy Silver is joined by Dr. Robin Stern, author of The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life. How do you know when gaslighting is happening to you? What are the characteristics of gaslighting ? Who employs this technique and why? Where does this term come from? And, why is …

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Outspoken. Guest: Dick K. Scott. Topic: The Roe Opinion - Another Dred Scott Nightmare 30:00

2y ago30:00

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, the discussion focuses on The Roe Opinion: Another Dred Scott Nightmare. We welcome Dick K. Scott, political and social issues contributor at Medium.com, to talk about religious freedom in the United States of America, the ramifications and parallels to the Dred Scott decision, FDR's strategy for Suprem…

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Outspoken. Guest: Dr. Eric Sentell. Topic: Waking a Nation to Florida's "Stop WOKE" Law 36:00

2y ago36:00

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As Florida Governor and 2024 U.S. President Hopeful Ron DeSantis continues to attract headlines about his efforts to legislate what can be taught in schools and policies that private companies in his state can enforce with their workforce, educator and cultural commentator Eric Sentell joins Joy Silver on this episode of Outspoken to discuss Florid…

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Outspoken. Guest: Jessica Pishko. Topic: Policing Pregnancy 32:00

2y ago32:00

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Lawyer Jessica Pishko returns to Outspoken with Joy Silver. She is a writer whose current research focuses on sheriff departments nationally. Jessica pens a newsletter called Posse Comitatus. In this episode, she talks about 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera, who was charged with murder for a “self-induced abortion,” taken into custody, and had a judge s…

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Outspoken. Guest: William Spivey. Topic: The White Supremacist Agenda: The KKK Then and NOW. 26:40

2y ago26:40

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Writer William Spivey joins Joy Silver on this edition of Outspoken and provides the real history of America, from its founding through the Civil War and modern times and how the Ku Klux Klan and White Supremacy have guided its true, but untold narrative. Joy asks the question as to why people vote against their own interest and Mr. Spivey shares h…

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Outspoken. Guest: RL Miller. Topic: The American Defense Production Act 18:00

2y ago18:00

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On this edition of Outspoken, Joy Silver speaks with RL Miller, the Political Director of Climate Hawks and President of Climate Hawks Vote. RL is also the past chair of the California Democratic Party’s Environmental Caucus. Her work has included exposing the politics of climate denial, opposing fracking for oil in the Golden State, and training o…

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Outspoken. Guest: Michael Lujan. Topic: Meet & Greet Riverside County Sheriff Candidate. 29:00

2y ago29:00

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Joy Silver has been an outspoken proponent of change in the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Why should the residents of one of the Top 10 largest counties in the nation be represented any longer by a former member of the white supremacist group Oath Keepers, and one who is not committed to an oath he swore to keep the public safe when he has ign…

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Outspoken. Managing the Golden State's Purse Strings. Guest: Malia Cohen, Candidate for State Controller 28:52

2y ago28:52

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A lot of people talk about how States, Municipalities, Counties and the Federal Government need to work harder and be smarter when it comes to the responsibility of handling citizen's money levied through taxation of all sorts. But, who is actually qualified to perform the multitude of tasks associated with the top administrator when it comes to co…

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Outspoken: No One Is Above The Law. Guest: Will Rollins, Candidate for U.S. Congress (CA-41) 36:00

2y ago36:00

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Will Rollins was driven to pursue the Congressional seat in the newly-redrawn California District 41 this November. An accomplished federal prosecutor, Rollins was dramatically affected by seeing insurrectionists running rampant with firearms and other tools of anarchy on the steps, an in the offices and chambers of the United State House of Repres…

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Outspoken. LGBTQ Historian and Founder of Lavender Graduation: Dr. Ronni Sanlo 31:00

2+ y ago31:00

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, the spotlight turns to a pioneer in the LGBTQ Community. Director Emeritus of the UCLA LGBT Center, Author, Historian and Playwright Dr. Ronnie Sanlo talks about her accomplishments in inspiration, activism, and preservation of the community’s history, and how as a newly-christened graduate with a Docto…

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Outspoken. Hon. Burke Strunsky: No One Is Above The Law 24:35

2+ y ago24:35

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The Honorable Burke Strunsky has long been committed to fair justice in Riverside County, California. A co-founder of the Humanity of Justice Foundation in 2009, he has previously been a Senior District Attorney for Riverside County. In 2016, he was elected to the bench as a Superior Court Judge. In January 2022, he announced that he will run again…

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Outspoken. Truth In Media: Shall The Twain Ever Meet? Guest: Meredith Jordan 30:00

2+ y ago30:00

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, author and journalist Meredith Jordan is our guest. She’s written two books about the movie industry, with the second one set for release April 15, 2022. Her next project is called Press or Media, and she makes the case for nationally credentialing journalists. Our conversation focuses on the difference…

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Outspoken | Topic: Women In Jazz and Their Role In Activism & Social Change | Guest: Sweet Baby Jai 30:00

2+ y ago30:00

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Sweet Baby Jai is the co-founder of the Palm Springs Women's Jazz Festival. She visits with Joy Silver on this episode of Outspoken about the monumental part that both Billie Holliday, with her song Strange Fruit, and Nina Simone, with her Mississippi Goddam, played in bringing about awareness, activism, and social change through their music. They …

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Outspoken: The Assault on Voting Rights Is An Assault On Democracy! Guest: Allison Gaines 26:00

2+ y ago26:00

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Writer & Editor Allison Gaines, who co-founded the Writers and Editors of Color organization, pays a return visit to Outspoken with Joy Silver. She is pursuing her PhD in Psychology and she writes about race, women history and politics. The focus of this conversation is to discuss the failure of the Voting Rights Act, Martin Luther King’s message a…

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Outspoken: Antisemitism: The Convenience of Scapegoating the Jews. Guest: Dr. J. Warren Blumenfeld 30:00

2+ y ago30:00

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Dr. Walter Blumenfeld, an instructor in the Social Justice Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, joins Joy Silver on this episode of Outspoken on the heels of the hostage-taking incident at a Jewish Temple in Colleyville, Texas. The discuss the growing acts of Antisemitism, Q-Anon Jewish Conspiracy Theories, and Christian b…

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Outspoken: Saving Democracy and the World, A Woman's Work Is Never Done. Guest: Dr. Regina Lark 27:00

2+ y ago27:00

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Dr. Regina Lark is the co-author of Emotional Labor: Why A Woman's Work Is Never Done and What To Do About It. On this edition of Outspoken, she talks with Joy Silver about the radically overlooked gender burden that women cary, and what stands in the way of gender parity. The long, slow progress of women in all classes, cultures, and ethnicities i…

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Outspoken: White Supremacy and Its Roots In Child Abuse. Guest: Walter Rhein 24:30

2+ y ago24:30

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Walter Rhein returns to Outspoken. The social justice issues writer from Medium talks with Joy Silver about how his article detailing how his family was harassed by supporters of Donald Trump for speaking Spanish that went viral in 2016. They discuss his concern about how America in on a collision course with fascism and about how child abuse is at…

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Outspoken. H.J. Grayson & Women of the Wild West On Film: Godless the Series 35:00

2+ y ago35:00

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, it's an exploration of the Netflix series Godless. Joy is joined by HJ Grayson (A.K.A Heather) to determine if it is a ”feminist” film. They analyze the series relationship to the Western Genre, its hero archetype, and what the core resolutions are by the characters in the film as they relate to gender.…

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The Success Doctor: Achieving Optimal Performance 26:30

2+ y ago26:30

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On this episode of The Success Doctor, Dr. Stone James addresses peak versus optimal performance and the importance of taking inventory of your day and your life, and how that impacts your delivering the best YOU on the job, at home, at school and in all aspects of your life. Are you holding back your own success in your career because you aren’t f…

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The Success Doctor. Guest: Dr. Michael Falco [Installment 4] 41:44

2+ y ago41:44

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Dr. Stone James welcomes Michael Falco, Ph.D., back for a fourth installment in their conversations focused on helping job seekers scale the walls to new employment opportunities whether they are new to the workforce or looking for a career realignment. Practical advice to successfully winning the hearts and minds of prospective new employers.…

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Outspoken: The Big Lies - Fascism Unleashed in America 41:44

2+ y ago41:44

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Walter Rhein, novelist/social justice writer for Medium and other publications and Philip Drucker, Constitutional lawyer/professor at the Desert Trail Academy in Indio California are Joy Silver's guests on this edition of Outspoken. It's a discussion defining fascism, the identification of the American historic trend the rise of far right extremism…

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The Success Doctor. Guest: Dr. Michael Falco (return visit) 41:44

2+ y ago41:44

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Dr. Michael Falco continues to discuss winning strategies and must-do's for persons seeking employment in the competitive environment of today's Job Market. This is another of a multi-part series where he shares his wisdom as both an employer and an educator with Radio111's Success Doctor, Dr. Stone James.…

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God and Guns: The Danger of Organizing Around the Worship of Guns 41:44

2+ y ago41:44

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Joy Silver talks about the worship of guns in our society with Jessica Pishko, lawyer and writer for Politico, The Atlantic , the Appeal and Posse Comitatus. In the second half of this episode, Dillon Melet joins the discussion. He is an American-Israeli, former Staff Sargent, Special Combat Engineering Unit with the Israel Defense Force. Having on…

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Outspoken: Voter Suppression and How The Extremists Are Destroying Democracy 41:44

2+ y ago41:44

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This edition of Outspoken has host Joy Silver and her guests looking at Legislation and The Political Horizon on Voter Suppression. She is joined by guests Walker Beverly, Executive Director for Advancing Steps, whose mission it is to help change the lives of the formerly incarcerated, and member of Courageous Resistance of the Desert/Indivisible 3…

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Outspoken: There's No Place Like Home 37:25

2+ y ago37:25

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On this episode of Outspoken, Joy Silver talks about Affordable Housing and What California Is Doing About It. She is joined by California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, and Policy Advisor to Riverside County Supervisor V. Manuel Perez, Greg Rodriguez. They discuss the State and County's efforts to solve this critical Housing Crisis, from financial, pro…

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Outspoken: “Pretty Good for Girls” – How Women In the Music Biz Help Level the Playing Field in Our Culture by Making Social Change 41:50

2+ y ago41:50

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On this episode, Joy Silver talks with Lizzie Borden, bassist, and Cyndie Barone, drummer, formerly of Boston’s Lizzie Borden and the Axes, in the studio and on the phone about changing the face of Women & Equality through the Power of Music.By Radio111

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