Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

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Hundreds marched on the U.S. Mission to the United States November 8, 2023 to demand the U.S. support a ceasefire in Gaza. Speakers included (in order of appearance); Rev. Mark Thompson, Emcee Rev. Adrienne Thorne, Senior Minister, Riverside Church Rev. Stephen A. Green, Co-Founder, Faith for Black Lives, Pastor, St. Luke's AME Harlem Imam Suhaib Webb Carmen Perez-Jordan, CEO and President, Th...

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Chad Stone, Chief Economist of the Center On Budget and Policy Priorities , joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

SEIU 512's Athena Jones on what Election Day in Virginia mens for home care workers. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On October 24, 2023, he family of Jawan Dallas and community members testify before the Mobile, Alabama City Council to demand the release of the July 2 Mobile police body cam footage of his fatal tasing. During the city council hearing, Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine discloses publicly for the first time that the officers involved in Jawan Dallas' death are back on the street. Advertising Inq...

Jawan Dallas died after a Mobile, Alabama Police officer tased him July 2, 2023. His mother, Christine Dallas, and the entire community have been demanding the body cam footaget to no avail. A Justice for Jawan Rally was held at Bethel AME Church in Mobile, Monday, October 23. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Democratic freshman Congreswoman from Texas's 30th district describes the chaos before the House Speaker election, and the post-election chaos sure to come. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for this week's Thursday Kos . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bishop William J. Barber, II leads a compelling voter registration teach-in in Biloxi, Mississippi, Saturday, October 21, 2023 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Chad Stone, Chief Economist of the Center On Budget, on the September 2023 Jobs Report and his beloved Phillies, and Joelle Gamble, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, on protecting consumers from Junk Fees. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For Indigenous People's Day, Rhonda LeValdo of Not In Our Honor joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Assistant Democratic Leader (D-SC) on what led to Kevin McCarthy's ouster. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos makes the case on this week's Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Small Business Administrator Isabella Guzman, Assistant and Senior Advisor to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Tom Perez and OMB Associate Director Jacob Leibenluft answer questions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached a tentative settlement, SAG-AFTRA is still in these streets. WGA Member Teri Jackson and SAG-AFTRA Members Jerome Brooks and Lee Cox bring us up to date. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Until Freedom 's September 18, 2023 Louisville event in memory of Breonna Taylor to mobilize voters to prevent incumbent Kentucky Attorney Daniel Cameron--who would not charge the cops who killed Ms. Taylor--from becoming Governor. The Town Hall features a panel including Carla Wallace of SURJ , City Council candidate Shameka Parrish-Wright and Until Freedom's Linda Sarsour and Angelo Pint...

The revolutionary and humorous columnist and commentator Michael Harriot joins to discuss his new book on sale today! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bishop William J. Barber, II of Repairers of the Breach, Bishop Frank Madison Reid, III of the 11th Episcopal District of the AME Church, The Very Rev. Kate Moorehead Carroll of St. John Episcopal Church of Florida, the Rev. Dr. James T. Morris, President of the Florida Council of Churches, Bishop Rudolph W. McKissick, Jr., Senior Pastor of the Bethel Church and the Rev. Alvin Jackson and others l...

On September 15, 2023, Bishop William J. Barber, II of Repairers of the Breach, Bishop Frank Madison Reid, III of the 11th Episcopal District of the AME Church, March For Our Lives Activist David Hogg and others March to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' to deliver a letter demanding he and other Florida electeds cease and desist from hateful rhetoric that may have contributed to the racist hate...

September 15, 2023 marks 60 years since the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, in which four little girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Denise McNair (age 11), Carole Robertson (age 14), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14), were killed. Addie Mae's sister, Sarah, survived the bombing, and she told her story on Make It Plain , September 19, 2013. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.c...

Kamau Franklin of Community Movement Builders joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A diverse group of clergy led by Bishop William J. Barber, II, Founder of Repairers of the Breach, and Bishop Frank Madison Reid, III, Presiding Prelate of the 11th Episcopal District of the AME Church, held a press conference Thursday, September 7, 2023 to respond to the racist hate killings that took the lives of Angela Michelle Carr, Anolt Laguerre and Jerrald Gallion on August 26 at the Jackso...

Markos Moulitsas joins for #ThursdayKos, and Chad Stone joins for the August Jobs Report. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy