Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

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The Rev. Mark A. Thompson has spent most of his life as a political, civil rights & human rights activist and organizer. He not only has been a part of every major social justice movement & event over the past 35 years, he has also been a radio broadcaster for three decades, and he has spent over 10 years as a television commentator, as well. Mark, hosts Make It Plain, a political, human rights and non-mainstream news podcast. Mark’s lifelong social justice activism intersects with his years of experience broadcasting the news and issues of the day. Newsmakers, politicos, policy-makers, entert...

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Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

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Is New Gun Legislation Enough? 12.07.2022 23:28

White House Domestic Policy Council Senior Advisor Stefanie Feldman joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What About Student Debt Relief? 11.07.2022 20:49

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

How do we bring economic health...redemption...opportunity to the communities most impacted by incarceration? 07.07.2022 30:28

Fortune Society Deputy CEO Stanley Richards on the work the organization does to re-enter the formerly incarcerated into society, and giving them a voice to improve the communities where they return. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mainstream Media's Failed Coverage Of Roe 06.07.2022 27:21

Media Matters research director Julie Tulbert on mainstream media's failure to adequately report on the effects of Roe 's loss. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kelley Robinson of Planned Parenthood Action On Roe 05.07.2022 17:03

The executive director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the vice president of advocacy and organizing at Planned Parenthood Federation of America discusses next steps after Roe 's reversal and after mass civil disobedience last Thursday. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?" 04.07.2022 1:25:56

Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech is most prescient today. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Marching Against SCOTUS Roe Ruling And Jennifer Klein Of The WH Gender Policy Council 01.07.2022 16:23

Coverage of yesterday's march and civil disobedience action against SCOTUS and Jennifer Klein of the WH Gender Policy Council on Roe . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

African American Women Publishers React To Roe 30.06.2022 18:18

At the Annual National Newspaper Publishers Convention ( NNPA ), celebrating 195 years of the Black Press , African American women newspaper publishers react to Roe . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Jan. 6 Committee Holds Its Most Compelling Hearing Yet 29.06.2022 1:10:03

Daily Kos's Brandi Buchman on the bombshell testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Relationship Between Roe and Jan. 6 24.06.2022 1:12:27

How the national atmosphere Trump created, on no greater display than in the in the Jan. 6. hearings, brought about the overturning of Roe . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jan. 6 Hearings Update 23.06.2022 26:41

Daily Kos's Brandi Buchman joins Thursday Kos with the latest on the Jan. 6 hearings. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rent Going Up? Facing Eviction? | A Public Conversation 22.06.2022 58:41

Kevin Myles and Kiddada Grey of Community First Solutions on the rent and eviction crises the news cycle is ignoring. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For Juneteenth, A Reparations Song 20.06.2022 32:43

Nabil Ince of Common Hymnal on the newly released, "H.R. 40 Reparations Song," co-written by your host, Rev. Mark Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Poor People's Campaign is TOMORROW 17.06.2022 24:30

Oscar Sanchez of the Southeast Environmental Task Force makes the closing Mass Poor People's and Low Wage Workers Assembly and Moral March on Washington. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Inflation, Jan. 6 and Ukraine 16.06.2022 38:41

Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos and host of The Brief on how inflation and the Jan. 6 investigation may affect the November elections, and the latest on Ukraine. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"My solution is to move to Africa, but I'm going to dodge these bullets until I can get out." 15.06.2022 22:09

Martin Luther King, III, Parkland parents Patricia and Manuel Oliver , Live Free's Pastor Michael McBride, Life Camp's Erica Ford, and two families, including a mom ready to move to Africa to escape gun violence at Saturday's March For Our Lives on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jan 6 Committee Hearing Highlights 10.06.2022 40:09

The House Jan 6 Committee held its first hearing in prime time last night. OMG Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"More Hopeful About Jan. 6 Commission Because There's A Hard-Nosed...Conservative On That Commission." 09.06.2022 31:45

On this week's Thursday Kos, Markos contrasts Rep. Liz Cheney to "weenie" Dems on the Jan. 6 Committee. Also, the latest on Hill gun violence negotiations and how the arrival of weapons for Ukraine is not without its challenges . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

More "Violence Is Coming" 08.06.2022 22:00

Homeland security expert Dr. Donnell Harvin on gun violence and a possible looming race war. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What Biden CAN do about Gun Violence 07.06.2022 43:01

Igor Volsky of Guns Down America on definite steps President Biden can take to end gun violence. Igor also share his thoughts on the war as a native Ukrainian. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Low-Wage Workers Wage Gains Greater Than Inflation Over Last 12 Months 06.06.2022 18:58

Center On Budget 's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the May 2022 jobs report, and the COVID jobs recovery contrasted with that of the Great Recession. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Will Mass Shootings Motivate Voters? 02.06.2022 37:18

The Founder of Daily Kos , Civiqs and Host of The Brief on the impact og gun violence on the electorate and the latest on Ukraine. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"There's no stigma in COVID, and we still have the same stigma of HIV, 40 years in." 27.05.2022 26:43

Grazell R. Howard, Chair of The Black AIDS Institute , the only black domestic “think and do” tank focusing on HIV/AIDS, and CoFounder and Chief Strategist of ATIRTEC, a COVID-19 Testing and Solution Company, discusses the "Talk About It, Be About It" initiative, a series of community conversations and events focused on addressing prevalent health conditions among Black Women, with a spec...

On Location In Buffalo With Until Freedom 26.05.2022 52:47

Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and others in the leadership of Until Freedom organized a farmer's market yesterday for the community of Buffalo still reeling from the mass hate shooting at the neighborhood grocery that is still closed because of law enforcement's investigation. Here is a community trying to recover. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: http...

Fighting Mass Criminalization, Mass Incarceration And Repealing The 13th Amendment 25.05.2022 42:23

JustLeadershipUSA 's President DeAnna Hoskins on reentry, ending the carceral state and repealing the Thirteenth Amendment’s conditional exception permitting involuntary servitude for incarcerated people. . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy