Contemporary race issues, reparations, racial stratification and the modern day prison system in the

Program Title: LATIN WAVES INTERVIEWS INDEPENDENT RADICAL-DEMOCRATIC POLICY RESEARCHER PAUL STREET
Description: Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of seven books to date: Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era(New York: Routledge, 2005); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); The Empire s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010); (with Anthony DiMaggio) Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics (Paradigm, 2011); and They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy (Paradigm, 2014),

He speaks about contemporary race issues, reparations, racial stratification and the modern day prison system in the US.

We finish the show with a talk about Water as a human right and the rationale for fighting back against bottled water

Host(s): Stuart and Sylvia Richardson
Featured Speakers/Guests: Paul Street and audio from The Story of Stuff.

Credits: Stuart and Sylvia Richardson,
Latin Waves Grassroots Media
www.latinwavesmedia.com

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