"Be Bold America!"

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 5, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) Back in 1929 when the market crashed and the Great Depression began, Uber, TaskRabbit, and the  gig economy were almost a century in the future.  So why are the laws we use to protect the workers who power those businesses  unchanged from 100 years ago? As we  learned with startling clarity  during the unp...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 21, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) Associated Press: Updated 6:02 AM PDT, April 10, 2024: “Humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat trapping emissions and it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift, the head of the United Nations.  [Climate...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89,5 & 89.7 FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 7, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) “We are not prepared, have no plan, don’t know how bad it’s going to get, and have no time to waste. Everything and everyone is at risk.” ~ Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjorkskov, Danish Climate Activist As the European Environmental Agency reported,  “We are entering an era of ‘Total Climate F-ery.’”  You kn...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, March 24, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”  – Franklin D. Roosevelt Moral courage is in the spotlight today given an upsurge in authoritarian regimes worldwide.  To date, 96 investigative journalists have been killed in the Israeli /H...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 25, 2024  at  5:00pm (PDT) This interview will take you on a  journey into the recesses of your soul  and will explore the ontological question: What is our underlying essence? Internationally acclaimed,  Pulitzer Prize nominated, and local author and filmmaker, Michael A. Allen,  uses the metaphor of the sea, and its ebb an...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7 FM Celebrating Be Bold America!’s 5-year Anniversary ! Back by popular demand! One of the most listened to “Be Bold America!” programs in five years. I f you missed it, here is another chance!   Be Bold America!” Sunday, February 11, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) New Zealander,  Capt. Pete Bethune , has been  run over  by Japanese whalers,  shot  at by illegal gold miner...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, January 28, 2024  at  5:00pm (PDT) As climate change and atmospheric rivers bring flooding, wind storms, and power outages to the Central Coast,  Monterey County must prepare for an ongoing shift in its communities.  This includes being faced with significant social and economic impacts including disadvantaged populations. “Be Bold Am...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM, 89.5 & 89.7FM When Policing the Border, Cruelty is the Point! “Be Bold America!” Sunday, January 14, 2024  at  5:00pm (PT) “Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world.” – Alice Walker It is t...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 17, 2023  at  5:00pm (PT) From praising the health benefits of cigarettes to moralizing on the character-building qualities of child labor, rich corporate overlords have gone to astonishing, often  morally indefensible lengths to defend  their profits. Since the  dawn of capitalism, they’ve told the same lies over and over  t...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 3, 2023  at  5:00pm (PT) Noam Chomsky states :  “Dying for Capitalism is carefully reasoned and informed, spelling out what we can and must do, without delay.” We are dying—literally—from capitalism , and if our species is to survive we need a new abolitionist movement whose goal is to overturn capitalism and replace it with...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7 FM (Note: You can still hear, but mic was not on but comes back soon) No one present at the  battle of Cape Lopez  off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were  on the edge of history. This obscure, yet fierce naval battle, would have a  monumental impact  on British colonies and  the future of slavery in America We will have the honor to...

Produced by KSQD 90.7. 89.5 & 89.7FM “Trump’s Mind, America’s Soul” “Be Bold America!” Sunday, November 5, 2023  at  5:00pm (PDT) (Some important points made in this interview: Dr. Lee shared that she isn’t political but that politics found her. She talks about how her life changed course after her decision ... her "Duty to Warn.  Dr. Lee states that fascism is not an ideology but is a pathology;...

Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 &89.7FM (See below post-show note from Congressman Farr) “Be Bold America!” Sunday, October 22, 2023  at  5:00pm (PDT) “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”  – Anne Frank America is at an inflection point!  We never thought authoritarian forces could take hold here, right? Wouldn’t our democracy live forever? T...

Produced by KSQD 89.5, 89.7 & 90.7FM and KSQT Prunedale “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 24, 2023  at  5:00pm (PDT) “ We don’t need to rely just on climate scientists anymore to warn us that we are in a Code Red emergency.” - John J. Berger The news is undeniably grim . Raging wildfires, record-breaking temperatures, monster storms, and any number of other climate-related disasters … warn us r...

Produced by KSQD 89.5, 89.7 & 90.7FM (Note: If you have not yet heard about Project 2025 , a $22M scheme to destroy democracy once and for all, it is discussed in this interview.) “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT) “Holocaust education must sound the alarm—clearly, insistently, repeatedly: The Holocaust is a warning.” write the philosophers John K. Roth and Leonard Grob,...

Produced by KSQD 89.5, 89.7 & 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 27, 2023  at  5:00pm (PDT) “You are not alone … and there is a solution. The stark polarization in American politics is woven into the fabric of our culture – but it doesn’t have to be.” –  Ruth Backstrom Are you tired of broken politics and the deteriorating quality of life in America  and aware that we need a dramatic shift f...

Produced by KSQD 89.5, 89.7, & 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday July 30, 2023  at  5:00pm (PDT In 2007,  Dr. Robin Stern   coined the phrase “gaslight effect”  to explain the long-term effects of repeated gaslighting:  an insidious, and sometimes covert form of emotional abuse  in which a  gaslighter  undermines and controls another person by deflecting, twisting and denying the reality.  Gaslight...

Produced by KSQD 89.5, 89.7 & 90.7 FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT) What do red deer, birds, and gnats have in common with democracy? Democracy is the default state of virtually every animal species on earth, and humanity is no exception . Only with the power of great wealth, control of media, or the force of arms and technology is it overcome by dictators, popes, and ki...

Produced by KSQD 89.5, 89.7 & 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT) The  American Legislative Exchange Council  (ALEC) is a pay-to-play operation in which legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind closed doors to write model legislation  that advances a radical right-wing, pro-corporate, and pro-Republican agenda on everything from suppressing voter access and denyin...

Produced by KSQD 89.5, 89.7 & 90.7FM  Be Bold America!  June 18, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT) Jill Cody, is a pro-democracy truth activist Jill is fighting for Americans to reclaim their boldness in pursuit of a creative, constructive, and compelling America that nurtures an America with ethical principles and functional systems. Jill believes we can be a country with engaged citizens whose lives are poli...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM KSQD 90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT) In this interview the New York Times bestselling author, John Perkins, blows the whistle on China’s economic hitman strategy , exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much needed solutions for curing the global Death Economy. In his shocking expose, former Economic Hit Man, John Perkins give...

Produced by KSQD 90.7FM  “Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT) “Your power is already in you. Now that you know, it’s up to you to believe and wield it on behalf of the powerless.” – Bill Wong Bill Wong, a renowned strategist to a bevy of iconic California politicians, offers readers in his new book “Better to Win” a unique and proven perspective on the craft and power of politic...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)   Warren Hern develops a deep and unsettling comparison between metastatic cancer and the expanding footprint of humanity , as we consume and degrade the environment that sustains us. - John W. Terborgh, Duke University What is Homo Ecophagus? It is a new term meaning, “The man who devours the ecosystem.” Over the course...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 23, 2023  at  5:00pm (PDT) The UN report released last month stated that  “climate change is speeding toward catastrophe.”  And … that, “the pace and scale of what has been done so far and … current plans are  insufficient to tackle climate change. We are walking when we should be sprinting.”   Recently, a climate scientist stated,  “that eve...

Produced by KSQD90.7FM Who is the bold personality behind “Be Bold America!”? "Talk of the Bay" host, Christine Barrington , takes you " Behind the Mic " with host Jill Cody , author of America Abandoned and Climate Abandoned whose vision for an American political renaissance centers on igniting citizen action.  Every other Sunday at 5:00pm (PT) on KSQD, Jill hosts local and national thought leade...