Beginning
on Thursday April 14th, Split This Rock, a national nonprofit
organization of poets, artists, and activists that was born in March 2008, on
the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and in the midst of an historic
election year will host its annual Poetry Festival called “Poems of Provocation
& Witness” in Washington, DC. The
Festival will last four days and features readings, workshops, panel
discussions, youth programming, activism and opportunities to speak out for
justice, build connection and community, and celebrate the many ways poetry can
act as an agent for social change. Joining me today to talk all about the
festive and the intersection of art and social change is Sarah Browning the co-founder and Executive Director of Split This
Rock and award winning poet Regie Cabico
who is also the Director of Split This Rock’s “World & Me” youth poetry contest.
Next Monday, the state of Texas will make its
arguments to the Supreme Court of the United States. The case, United States v. Texas concerns the legality of two of President Obama’s closely
related immigration policies, the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and
Lawful Permanent Residents program (“DAPA”) and an expansion of the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program (“DACA”).
Joining me today top talk all about the case and the effect that Justice
Scalia’s absence might have is Ian Millhiser, who is a Senior Fellow at
the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Editor of ThinkProgress Justice and the author of Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted.
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Monday, April 11, 2016
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Over the
past few years we have seen more and more instances of the problems associated
with hyper-masculinity in our culture, whether it is the increase in reports of
sexual assault on college campuses or the controversy that erupted over sexism
in the video game world known as “Gamergate” and even mass murders like those
at a community college in Oregon and a movie theater in Colorado. However according to some expert’s the
outburst of violence and sexism s a trait that men learn from childhood on and
there is more and more research that is showing young men suffer beneath the
gravity of conventional masculinity.
Joining me today to talk all about the importance of teaching men to be
emotionally honest is Andrew Reiner who teaches writing, literature and
cultural studies at Towson University who wrote all about the subject in piece for The New York Times.
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