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One Minute U.S.One Minute U.S. - July 22, 2025 - 01:53 PM PST: How Schumer is preparing for the fall funding showdown, Bryan Kohberger has another chance to explain why he killed 4 Idaho college students. But experts say he’s unlikely to speakToday's Top Headlines:
- How Schumer is preparing for the fall funding showdown (Politico): https://tinyurl.com/2ys2vfz8
- Bryan Kohberger has another chance to explain why he killed 4 Idaho college students. But experts say he’s unlikely to speak (Yahoo Home): https://tinyurl.com/2yw5bz8s
- Minnesota lawmaker to resign after being convicted of felony burglary (NBC News): https://tinyurl.com/25kxbe9c
- Fox News Contributor Savages Tulsi Gabbard in Scathing Op-Ed (The Daily Beast): https://tinyurl.com/26s5f3gu
- Dad hailed as hero after mountain lion bites 4-year-old in Olympic National Park in...2025-07-2201 minOne Minute U.S.One Minute U.S. - July 22, 2025 - 12:52 PM PST: Minnesota lawmaker to resign after being convicted of felony burglary, Fox News Contributor Savages Tulsi Gabbard in Scathing Op-EdToday's Top Headlines:
- Minnesota lawmaker to resign after being convicted of felony burglary (NBC News): https://tinyurl.com/25kxbe9c
- Fox News Contributor Savages Tulsi Gabbard in Scathing Op-Ed (The Daily Beast): https://tinyurl.com/26s5f3gu
- Dad hailed as hero after mountain lion bites 4-year-old in Olympic National Park in Washington state (CBS News): https://tinyurl.com/29fn7g5s
- Minneapolis Jews sound an early alarm on Democratic Party endorsement of DSA lawmaker (Jewish Insider): https://tinyurl.com/2yd3npt9
- Smartwatch led rescuers to fatal plane crash in Montana woods (CNN): https://tinyurl...2025-07-2201 min
Ranch It Up Radio Show & PodcastBrucellosis Found In Wyoming Cattle
It’s the Ranch It Up Radio Show Herd It Here Weekly Report! A 3-minute look at cattle markets, reports, news info, or anything that has to do with those of us who live at the end of dirt roads. Join Jeff 'Tigger' Erhardt, the Boss Lady Rebecca Wanner aka 'BEC' by subscribing on your favorite podcasting app or on the Ranch It Up Radio Show YouTube Channel.
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Brucellosis Found In Wyoming Cattle
Cowherds Quarantined Because Of Wyoming Brucellosis
Routine surveillance testing has identified brucellosis affected cattle herds in Wyoming. One herd is in Par...2025-02-2803 min
Voice of the People: Radio By and For the 99%Empire - 1/21/2025Our word of the week is “Empire” and in the last half of the show we will hear University of Montana history professor Richard Drake share his views on the current state of the US Empire. Before that, we will look at organized workers taking strike action at Starbucks, Amazon, and the healthcare workers at the Providence hospitals in Oregon. Plus, we look at the actions of the Swedish Dockworkers Union voting to block
Israeli military shipments at their docks. And we hear from Western Montana DSA organizer Robbie Liben and his opinion piece on the healthcare insurance system in t...2025-01-212h 00
Alternative RadioAlternative Radio - Episode August 28, 2024A Tribute to Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich was a renowned social critic, journalist, feminist and author. She was born in Butte, Montana and studied chemistry at Reed College in Oregon and later received a Ph.D. in cellular immunology at Rockefeller University in New York. But she left a possible career in science and teaching to become a seasoned muckraker in the tradition of Ida B. Wells and Lincoln Steffens. She wrote many books. Her articles appeared in Ms., Mother Jones, and The Progressive. She wrote incisively and with compassion about working people and...2024-08-2400 minVoice of the People: Radio By and For the 99%Rojava Social Revolution, Pt 1 - 8/6/2024Soundman Jim, Sue Kirchmyer and Mark learn about our word of the week which is another one of our latest series: the Rojava Social Revolution. This is the first part of our look at what Noam Chomsky said is a revolution that offers “a
compelling alternative vision for reviving politics as a collective force for worthy and necessary social transformation.” We then take a careful look at the
Israeli assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, including the chief spokesman of the Hamas peace negotiators, hearing from Michael Hudson and Jill
Stein on the issue. And finally we hear from West...2024-08-061h 59
Socialism ConferenceBuilding a United Front for Bodily Autonomy: DSA in the Struggle for Abortion and Trans RightsMelinda Lavon, Sean Estelle, Sarah Callahan, and JP Lyninger speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by DSA.
https://www.dsausa.org
Bodily autonomy is under attack. DSA has made strides in protecting abortion through ballot measures in Kentucky, Kansas, and Montana, but where do we go next? What lessons from these campaigns can we apply to the fight for trans rights? This panel explores intersections between these struggles and strategies for protecting the right to abortion, gender-affirming healthcare, and beyond.
Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
Buy books from Haymarket: www...2023-12-281h 00
Socialism ConferenceBuilding a United Front for Bodily Autonomy: DSA in the Struggle for Abortion and Trans RightsMelinda Lavon, Sean Estelle, Sarah Callahan, and JP Lyninger speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by DSA.
https://www.dsausa.org
Bodily autonomy is under attack. DSA has made strides in protecting abortion through ballot measures in Kentucky, Kansas, and Montana, but where do we go next? What lessons from these campaigns can we apply to the fight for trans rights? This panel explores intersections between these struggles and strategies for protecting the right to abortion, gender-affirming healthcare, and beyond.
Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
Buy books from Haymarket: www...2023-12-281h 00
The Montana DSA PodcastStop The US Efforts to Extradite Incarcerated Journalist Julian Assange: A Dialogue with Marjorie Cohn About the Urgency of Defending Assange, Exposer of US War Crimes and Co-Founder of WikiLeaksMontana DSA Podcast Episode 31 (Sept 1, 2023), features eminent legal scholar and analyst/activist Marjorie Cohn (articles and commentaries and bio at https://marjoriecohn.com/) discussing the U.S, government's efforts to force the United Kingdom to extradite imprisoned WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange to the United States.Cohn describes these U.S. actions as ones that illegally threaten the First Amendment and Press Freedom. Cohn, a member of the Assange Defense advisory board (https://assangedefense.org/),
explains the importance of the Julian Assange case by saying: "This is the first time a publisher has been charged under the...2023-09-0244 min
The Montana DSA PodcastAnne Hedges of the Montana Environmental Information Center: The Held v State of Montana Youth Climate Trial and A Planet on Fire That We Can SaveAnne Hedges, Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs for the Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC, https://meic.org, https://www.facebook.com/MTEIC) is the featured guest in Montana DSA’s 30th podcast July 26, 2023. MEIC, founded in 1973, is Montana's premier environmental organization and is celebrating 50 years of work protecting Montana's environment). Hedges directs MEIC’s program work, including its legislative, policy, and legal activities. Anne received her B.S. in environmental policy analysis and planning from the University of California at Davis and a Masters of Environmental Law from Vermont Law School and began work at MEIC in 1993, where she has wor...2023-07-261h 07
The Montana DSA PodcastA conversation with Darrell Ehrlick editor-in-chief of The Daily Montanan, a non-profit news source that strives to go beyond superficial news coverage.This 29th episode of the Montana DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) Podcast series features a conversation with Darrell Ehrlick of Billings, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Montanan (TDM), https://dailymontanan.com/, founded in January 2021 as a nonprofit, independent, nonpartisan source for news, commentary and insight into statewide policy and politics beneath the Big Sky. TDM's guiding motto/maxim is "Truth. Transparency. Trust."
Ehrlick is an award-winning journalist, author, historian and teacher whose career has taken him to North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Utah, and Wyoming. Ehrlick is also a frequent writer of hard-hitting op-eds criticizing injustices he sees. For example...2023-06-171h 12
The Montana DSA PodcastNick Engelfried: How Young Climate Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change and Built a Mass Movement To Be Reckoned With...Montana DSA Democratic Socialists of America) Podcast Episode 28 features Nick Engelfried (https://nickengelfried.com/about-nick/) -- environmental educator and climate activist since the early 2000s and author of Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change (https://nickengelfried.com/movementmakers/), the first major book to comprehensively examine more than two decades of youth-led climate activism and organizing. In this podcast, Nick Engelfried and Helena DSA's Frank Kromkowski have a conversation about the two decade history of youth-led climate activism in the United States and about needed next steps of a youth-led movement strengthened by two decades of...2023-06-1458 min
The Montana DSA PodcastTootie Welker: Montana Feminist Socialist Grassroots Empowerment Leader in Montana DSA Activism for Fundamental Social Justice Transformation and HealingVeteran feminist social justice activist Tootie Welker of Hot Springs, Montana is featured in this June 7th conversation with DSA's Frank Kromkowski of Helena in Episode 27 of the 2023 Montana DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) Podcast Series. Welker describes herself as a "Radical socialist fighting for justice for all, dog, cat mom. Small business owner @mayarisingshop" -- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twelker). Welker describes what she has learned in her more than 40 years of working in Montana as a feminist socialist grassroots activist and community organizer working for citizen empowerment aimed at fundamental social justice transformation and h...2023-06-081h 07
The Montana DSA PodcastPaul Edwards: Let Your Life Now Be a Friction to Stop the Machine of Predatory Capitalist Injustice and ViolenceThis Montana DSA Podcast (episode 26) features a conversation with screenwriter, filmmaker, essayist and long-time social and environmental justice and anti-capitalism, anti-war and anti-US imperialism activist Paul Edwards of Helena. A prolific essayist, writing in critical, alternative on-line journals such as CounterPunch and Information Clearing House, Edwards (with his long-time collaborator Lanny Cotler) has also created ClassWar Films. Edwards’ powerful, provocative 2012 film "Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine -- A brief and crucial history of the United States" has had more than 330,000 views. (See http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30620.htm and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...2023-06-061h 03
The Montana DSA PodcastPaul Lachapelle and Climate Smart Montana: Get engaged to end the Climate Crisis! Work together to organize and coordinate community-based climate crisis solutions and resiliency efforts in Montana Montana DSA Podcast episode 25 (May 30) features a conversation with Paul Lachapelle of MSU in Bozeman, founder of Climate Smart Montana (https://www.montana.edu/communitydevelopment/csm/). Lachapelle is a renowned, award-winning scholar and climate activist, working for the last 16 years as a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Montana State University-Bozeman (https://www.montana.edu/plachapelle/). His teaching and research spans many disciplines and practices including community climate change resiliency, diversity and inclusion, and social justice topics. He served as President (2016-2019) of the International Association for Community Development (https://www.iacdglobal.org/).In the podcast Lac...2023-05-311h 02
The Montana DSA PodcastHow the 2023 Montana Legislature Deepened the Injustices of Montana’s Tax System: Dialogue with Rose Bender, Director of Research at the Montana Budget & Policy CenterIn Episode 24 of Montana DSA's 2023 Podcast Series on May 25, Rose Bender, Director of Research at the Montana Budget & Policy Center (MBPC, https://montanabudget.org/), analyzes the 2023 Legislature's actions in the areas of social and economic justice in tax policy/structure, the Montana affordable housing crisis, policies affecting Montana's Native American children and families and State-Tribal policies, health care provider rates, and childcare programs for low income families.
Bender says MBPC will publish new reports on these issues very soon (see https://montanabudget.org/all-reports). Bender focused much of her commentary on the many majority party 2023 legislative actions tha...2023-05-2653 min
The Montana DSA PodcastUnited in Sustained Planning and Action to End the Affordable Housing CrisisThe 23rd Montana DSA Podcast is a conversation with community development activist Jeff Buscher of Helena, Community Impact Coordinator for the United Way of the Lewis and Clark County Area (UWLCA). Buscher described the work of the new Helena affordable housing coalition and working teams he has created to address the affordable housing crisis (“Move the Dial on Housing” – United to Solve the Helena Housing Affordability Crisis) — and he invited all of to contact him at United Way Lewis and Clark County (406.442.4360; jeff@unitedwaylca.org, www.unitedwaylca.org to get active in this project. Buscher noted that while the pain of...2023-05-201h 08
The Montana DSA PodcastWorking for Gun Violence Prevention and Safety in MontanaOur dialogue partner in episode 22 of the Montana DSA 2023 Podcast Series is Shani Henry of Helena, a statewide leader of two Montana groups working to prevent gun violence -- Montana Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense and the Montana Chapter of Giffords Gun Owners for Safety (MT-GOS), founded by former member of Congress Gabby Giffords of Arizona, a gun violence attack victim now committed to ending the gun violence epidemic. Convinced that gun deaths are preventable, these two Montana groups are committed to tackling the gun violence epidemic through advocacy, public education, and policy change – and they invite us to...2023-05-171h 13
The Montana DSA PodcastRep. Zooey Zephyr: Building a Movement for Social and Economic Justice, Democracy and Human Rights for All in Montana
The
Montana DSA Podcast’s 21st episode is a dialogue with Rep. Zooey
Zephyr of Missoula -- a
progressive, bisexual trans woman who fought for social and economic and
environmental justice in the 2023 Montana Legislature, working tirelessly to defend our health
care, our housing, our human rights, the rights of trans people and democracy
itself. The GOP supermajority’s undemocratic censure
of Rep. Zephyr kept her from her seat in the House for the last week of the
session, unconstitutionally barred her from speaking in the House. Her response: “Despite all the
cruelties, I believe people saw a glimpse...2023-05-0435 min
The Montana DSA PodcastTransgender Persons and Attacks on Democracy and Women's Reproductive Rights with Keegan MedranoIn this May 2, 2023 Montana DSA Podcast interview with Keegan Medrano, a queer Indigenous (Mvskoke) mixed race person who joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana as Policy and Advocacy Director in June 2021, Medrano describes the important struggles of the ACLU of Montana during the 2023 Legislature -- combating the ideologically far right Supermajority GOP's multi-faceted activities suppressing basic democratic legislative processes and promoting horrendous violations and injustices for vulnerable minority groups and individuals. As the 2023 Legislature adjourns, Medrano says the ACLU will be leading legal challenges against these unjust new laws, and he calls for renewed, sustained solidarity with...2023-05-0357 min
The Montana DSA PodcastMontana Coalition to Solve Homelessness"Join Us in the Urgent Work of the Montana Coalition to Solve Homelessness": Montana DSA and Helena Progressive Action Network interview April 13th with Sam Fortsag of the Montana Coalition to Solve Homelessness, founded in fall 2022 to advocate for policies and resources to effectively and compassionately support people living without shelter in Montana. Forstag describes Montana's affordable housing crisis and efforts to address it in the 2023 Montana Legislature. Forstag : "With Montana’s ever-growing housing crisis, the number of people living on the streets, in their cars, or on someone’s couch is growing. This isn’t the Montana we want...2023-05-0258 min
The Montana DSA PodcastThe State of the State's Environment Near the End of the 2023 Legislative SessionThe Montana Environmental Information Center (meic.org) has been one of the leading organizations lobbying the Montana Legislature to uphold our state's constitutional guarantee to a clean and healthful environment for current and future generations. Cari Kimball, MEIC's Executive Director, provides an overview of the bills the organization is focused on, while also advocating for the public in Northwestern Energy's rate cases currently before the Public Service Commission. Finally, Cari invites our listeners to join them for the 50th-anniversary celebration of MEIC's founding, to be held in the Bitterroot Valley on September 16, 2023 (see their website for more details).2023-04-2555 min
The Montana DSA PodcastC. B. Pearson on the Chamber of Commerce Campaign to End Direct Democracy in MontanaHB 651, "Generally revise ballot initiative laws" passed by the Montana Legislature in the 2021 session, was just the beginning of the Montana Chamber of Commerce's campaign to end direct democracy in Montana. SB 93, "Generally revising ballot issues," again backed by the chamber and other business lobbies in the 2023 session, is designed to kill the ability of citizens to sidestep the legislature to pass laws that legislators cannot or will not. C. B. Pearson, perhaps the Montana citizen most responsible for passing progressive legislation using the initiative process since our 1972 constitution was adopted, is our guest today on the Montana DSA...2023-04-0638 min
The Montana DSA PodcastMark Anderlik on the immediate and long-term opportunities for class struggle union organizing in MontanaMark Anderlik, co-chair of Western Montana DSA's Labor Committee, most recently was a union organizer and central labor council officer for a couple of decades in Missoula. In this episode of the Montana DSA Podcast, Mark talks about the support work that socialists and progressives can provide for a possible Teamsters Union strike against United Parcel Service this summer. Mark also briefly outlines the history of labor organizing in America--especially the class struggle organizing exemplified by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)--and how organized labor needs to return to democratic, worker-centered unions. 2023-04-061h 01Voice of the People: Radio By and For the 99%Montana Legislature - 4/8/2023This show is dedicated to two excellent interviews by Helena DSA member Frank Kromkowski on the topic of the Montana Legislature. The first is with former Montana Representative Danny Tenenbaum from Missoula. The second is with retired Montana Supreme Court Justice Jim Nelson, who sounds the alarm on attacks on Montana's Constitution and judiciary.2023-04-012h 00
Time To Say GoodbyeTen long years of socialist politicking, with Kshama SawantHello from Tammy’s COVID bunker! This week, after a short tribute to Montana’s “dean of journalism,” Chuck Johnson, R.I.P., Tammy speaks with Kshama Sawant, the three-term socialist Seattle City Councilmember who recently announced that she will not seek reelection after this year. Instead, she has launched Workers Strike Back, “an independent, rank-and-file campaign” to support organizing nationwide. We discuss [9:42] the Amazonification of Seattle, [31:05] a historic municipal bill banning caste discrimination, and [38:28] critiques of Sawant’s approach to politics and organizing. Plus: Tammy and Kshama debate union strategy.In this episode, we ask: Doe...2023-03-221h 03
The Montana DSA PodcastJustice Jim Nelson on the Majority Party/Freedom Caucus Threat to Democracy in MontanaJim Nelson was an Associate Justice on the Montana Supreme Court from 1993 to 2012. Justice Nelson has perhaps most affected the State's privacy jurisprudence in the area of personal autonomy. As a result of cases like Armstrong v. State (on abortion rights) and Gryczan v. State (on marriage rights)—both Nelson-authored opinions—Montana's right to privacy now more fully encompasses personal autonomy and decision-making. Nelson most recently set the white Christian nationalist's hair on fire with his speech defending the Montana Constitution and our co-equal judicial branch, delivered on March 15, 2023, before several hundred people in the state capitol rotunda. The Freedom Caucus Repu...2023-03-2255 min
The Montana DSA PodcastJonathan Motl on the Republican strategy to give our government to the corporations (and take it from the people)Jonathan Motl is Montana's senior public interest attorney. He's written nine ballot initiatives and was from 2013-2017 Montana's Commissioner of Political Practices. He talks with the Montana DSA Podcast host Frank Kromkowski about how Senate Bill 93, "Generally revising ballot issues," continues the corporate attack on our citizen initiative process, an attack that was passed in the 2021 session as House Bill 651 and is being waged again this Tuesday morning in the State Administration committee of the House. He concludes with what electors—we the people—can do to force the legislature to recognize the constitutional separation of powers of the thre...2023-03-1843 min
The Montana DSA PodcastKeeping Up the Good Fight: Danny Tenenbaum on Lobbying As a Former LegislatorDanny Tenenbaum was a legislator in the 2021 session, representing a House district in the Missoula area. Now he serves as an Associate Justice on the Court of Appeals for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. He talks to Montana DSA Podcast host Frank Kromkowski about the importance of defending an independent judiciary, the Montana Indian Child Welfare Act, and bipartisan efforts to right the decades-long wrongs of exclusionary zoning that have helped exacerbate the affordable housing emergency in Montana.2023-03-1555 min
The Montana DSA PodcastThe Ugly, the Bad and the Good at the Legislature's TransmittalMary Caferro, representing House District 82 and the longest-serving legislator in the Helena area, talks with Montana DSA Podcast host Frank Kromkowski about where progressive legislation stands as the Legislature breaks to transmit bills from one house to the other. While Republicans focus on lining the pockets of their wealthy donors and three-pieced-suited lobbyists, additional legislation may improve working-class Montanans' lives--but only if we keep up the pressure. The second half of the session starts tomorrow, with budget issues and constitutional amendments likely to dominate the discussion through April 7. 2023-03-0850 min
The Montana DSA PodcastThe Long Fight for Affordable Housing in Gallatin CountyThis episode features a conversation with Elizabeth Marum of Belgrade, MT. Elizabeth has been at the forefront of the affordable housing fight in Gallatin County, one of the fastest-growing areas of the state, for decades. She talks about current legislative approaches—all of which favor landlords because so many legislators are in fact landlords—as well as options that could be pursued to establish housing trusts. With a combination of higher taxes on second (and third, etc.) homes, as well as taxing Airbnbs and VRBOs as commercial businesses, enough funds could be secured to help make affordable housing more avai...2023-03-0558 min
The Montana DSA PodcastWhat the Funk? A View of Contemporary Politics from Great Falls, MontanaWhat the Funk is a blog started last summer by several long-time residents of Great Falls in reaction to the news desert in which they found themselves. They cover a broad range of topics but recently have focussed on the legislature, especially the extremism of the representatives that Great Falls voters have sent to Helena. They do this with a refined and often outraged sense of humor. (Please excuse the poor audio/video quality in parts of this episode, starting at about 10:30 and lasting just a few minutes. The internet in Montana is often unreliable.)2023-03-0248 min
The Montana DSA PodcastLocal Control and Other Legislative Actions Affecting Montana's Cities and TownsBillings City Council member Denise Joy joins podcast host Frank Kromkowski to discuss how the Montana Legislature is impacting how our communities are governed. First among them is that the current legislature continues to take away powers that her constituents think the city council should have. Denise, who is also Co-Chair of Billings DSA, also discusses how democratic socialism can be a relevant politics to address issues that working-class Montanans face every day.2023-02-2852 min
The Montana DSA PodcastOrganized Labor, the Working Class, and DSA in MontanaIn the seventh episode of The Montana DSA Podcast, host Frank Kromkowski talks with Chance Standish of Butte, America. Chance worked in Albertsons for several years, and eventually became a statewide union organizer for the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), representing grocery store workers and meat cutters. A couple of years ago, he was introduced (by a customer at work) to DSA and immediately became a member. Because there is no DSA chapter (yet) in Butte, Chance is working with the Montana DSA Legislative Action Committee to research and mobilize members on labor issues at the legislature, including...2023-02-2443 min
The Montana DSA PodcastMontana NOW at the Montana LegislatureThe Montana DSA Podcast host Frank Kromkowski has a conversation with Jan Strout, President of Montana NOW (National Organization for Women), about the broad range of issues and bills that Montana NOW members, leaders, and coalition partners are working on at the Montana legislature. 2023-02-1848 min
The Montana DSA Podcast350 Montana Actions You Can Take Now To Address Climate ChangeEpisode 5 of the Montana DSA Podcast features actions Montanans can take (especially in the county of Missoula the City of Missoula, Helena, and Bozeman, who together make up 55% of the Northwestern Energy ratepayers in Montana) to support their local government plans to be energy efficient by 2030. This demand, among others, is being pushed by 350 Montana, the state-wide affiliate of 350.org, one of the world's leading organizations addressing the climate crisis. Jeff Smith, Co-Chair, and Winona Rachel, Climate Action Coordinator, discuss these actions with Frank Kromkowski, The Montanan DSA Podcast host.2023-01-3148 min
The Montana DSA PodcastNPRC is Organizing a Rally at the Capitol to Protect Our ConstitutionFor the fourth episode of The Montana DSA Podcast, host Frank Kromkowski has a conversation with Joanie Kresich, Board Chair of the Northern Plains Resource Council. Founded in 1972 originally to fight expanded coal mining on ranch land, NPRC is one of Montana's oldest and largest citizen action groups. It's also quite active at the Montana Legislature, fighting for priorities that its members identify (you should check out their impressive citizen lobbying tools at northernplains.org). Joanie also discusses plans for the rally to protect Montana's Constitution on Wednesday, February 1 at noon at the state capitol rotunda. Montana DSA is o...2023-01-2842 min
The Montana DSA PodcastTenants as Brothers and Sisters: There's Solidarity in a Tenants UnionEpisode 3 of the Montana DSA Podcast focuses on the acute housing affordability crisis in Montana, and how a tenants union is a solution supported by democratic socialists in Montana. Our guest is Ken Grinde, a renter since age 12 and currently the Press Officer for the Missoula Tenants Union, the first tenant union in Montana. As Ken says, tenants are working to pay the mortgages of landlords (especially out-of-state and corporate landlords). And that's not right in a society as rich as America that should guarantee housing as a human right. He also discusses how the MTU is working with...2023-01-2447 min
The Montana DSA PodcastState Senator Mary Ann Dunwell on Your Right To Know What Your Legislature Is DoingIn the second episode of The Montana DSA Podcast, State Senator Mary Ann Dunwell (SD 42, Helena and East Helena) explains how the majority (as Republicans call themselves in the legislature) often thwart the will of Democratic Representatives and Senators simply because they have the power. Despite wielding that power anti-democratically, Senator Dunwell and others are moving legislation. Frank Kromkowski of Helena DSA is your Montana DSA Podcast host. For more information, please get in touch with us at helenamtdsa@gmail.com.2023-01-1741 minVoice of the People: Radio By and For the 99%2022 Year in Review - 1/14/2023Soundman Jim, Sue Kirchmyer and Mark choose some of the most important stories of 2022 and take another look at them. Also there is an interview of Sandy Burch about reproductive justice and the 2023 Montana Legislature, produced by Montana Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).2023-01-152h 00
The Montana DSA PodcastAbortion Rights and the Montana LegislatureIn the inaugural episode of The Montana DSA Podcast, Sandy Burch, Co-Chair of Western Montana DSA, tells us how Montana DSA's coordinated campaign to help defeat LR-131 on the November ballot evolved into a legislative campaign to protect abortion rights as well as address housing and labor issues in the legislative session which convened in Helena today. Frank Kromkowski of Helena DSA is your Montana DSA Podcast host. For more information, please get in touch with us at helenamtdsa@gmail.com. (And please disregard the time stamp in the lower right of this recording; we are learning...)2023-01-0334 min
ClassSocialists in Defense of Abortion RightsSend us a textBodily autonomy has been severely restricted by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. How can socialists organize to protect abortion rights where they exist, provide and expand access where they don’t, and win a permanent nationwide right to free and legal abortion?Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago"Socialists in Defense of Abortion Rights"Panelists: Aileen Garza and Suz WarshellModerator: Melanie Turner-Harper, DSA Tucson, member of DSA NPECAileen Garza was born and raised in Rio Grande Valley in Texas, which she refers to as th...2022-11-1022 min
Ohio Outdoors Podcast - Sportsmen's EmpireFrom Ranch Hand to Right Hand Man, Janis PutelisThis week the guys had the privilege to talk with Janis Putelis, of MeatEater. Many of you know Janis for his adventures with Steve Rinella and his clever remarks, but it didn’t start at the top. This discussion is more about how Janis got to where he is now. Janis discusses his younger days of working on ranches in Colorado, to time in Alaska, Utah, and eventually Montana. Paul’s been traveling the world again for work but gearing up for deer season. Andrew was able to take an afternoon in the DSA at KillDeer plains to ha...2022-09-141h 37Voice of the People: Radio By and For the 99%Power - 8/6/20022Our word of the Week is "power." Richard Bishop joins soundman Jim and Mark to discuss how the 99% can get power. Carol Wald, W MT Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organizer, discusses the organizing around reproductive justice in Montana, including advocating for a "no" vote on LR-131. We also look at the progress of rank-and-file democracy at the United Autoworkers Convention. And we see that the Inflation Reduction Act does not reduce greenhouse gases by as much as advertised. And we discuss opposition to nuclear weapons and war, while putting an eye on the averted strike by Boeing military...2022-08-081h 58
The Bitchuation RoomBumble Snitching with Josh Gondelman & Brianna Westbrook (EP 98)A dating app turns in yet another insurrectionist (this time a dude with a metal whip) and a Montana hero confronts a Fox News nightmare. Comedian and writer Josh Gondelman joins to discuss that and why his voice would be great for the Garden of Eden. Plus AZ Democratic Party vice-chair Brianna Westbrook on what to do about Kyrsten Sinema’s status quo stranglehold on the state, and what it will take to primary her. Featuring: Josh Gondelman, comedian(Make My Day Podcast, Author of Nice Try, writer for Desus & Mero on Showtime) Brianna Westbrook, vice chair of AZ Democratic Party(D...2021-07-261h 32
The Bitchuation RoomBumble Snitching with Josh Gondelman & Brianna Westbrook (EP 98)A dating app turns in yet another insurrectionist (this time a dude with a metal whip) and a Montana hero confronts a Fox News nightmare. Comedian and writer Josh Gondelman joins to discuss that and why his voice would be great for the Garden of Eden. Plus AZ Democratic Party vice-chair Brianna Westbrook on what to do about Kyrsten Sinema’s status quo stranglehold on the state, and what it will take to primary her. Featuring: Josh Gondelman, comedian(Make My Day Podcast, Author of Nice Try, writer for Desus & Mero on Showtime) Brianna Westbrook, vice chair of AZ Democratic Party(D...2021-07-261h 31
Laborlines'Can the Democratic Party become the party of labor?' With Don McIntosh & Mark AnderlikMark Anderlik, Co-Chair of the Western Montana DSA, life-long organizer and host of the radio show 'Voice of the People, by the People & For the 99%. And Don McIntosh, Senior Journalist with NW Labor Press join me in a panel discussion. We discuss the history of the Democratic Party and its relationship with labor, going back to FDR. Why these groups diverged, and what would bring back the DP again advocating politically for workers2021-02-251h 29
The Ranchers' VoiceEp 3 | Department of Livestock Part 2On the third episode of The Ranchers' Voice, Jay and Raylee share with listeners the new appointments from Governor Gianforte in addition to providing a recap of legislation from last week and a preview for the week of Jan 18, 2021.
Lastly, listen to the second part of our interview with the Department of Livestock's Executive Officer, Mike Honeycutt, as he discusses the Designated Surveillance Area (DSA), the status of the quarantine facility, RFID tags, and the brands rerecord happening this year!
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