Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills

Guest host Meilin Obinata and local activist Reggie Meisler speak with Dr. Anita Say Chan, a professor at the University of Urbana-Champaign who recently published Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future, the first book to draw a direct line between the data-fication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists […]

In a special joint radio program, Ami Chen Mills joins Luigi Oppido, host of “The Computer Man” show to discuss the massive breaches of security at the Treasury Department and multiple, other federal departments by Elon Musk and his DOGDY team of apparently virulently racist youngsters–and how to protect our information, if we still can. […]

Migrants and immigrants from Mexico comprise the bulk of all migration to the US, roughly 30 percent of all people who seek to cross US borders for employment and opportunities for themselves and their families. Why do they come and when did this “mass migration” start? What are its root causes? Dr. Ann López, is […]

Daniel Pinchbeck is author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, The Return of Quetzalcoatl, How Soon Is Now, When Plants Dream and Notes from the Edge as well as author and founder of the Liminal News Podcast and the Liminal Institute. Pinchbeck is considered a leading edge […]

Moment of Truth is thrilled to have aired this interview with Angela Davis, originally sponsored by the national group Showing Up for Racial Justice live, on Jan. 16 and titled: “Our Work in the Days Ahead.” This interview is followed by a conversation with Kathy Foss of Santa Cruz County SURJ. Davis is famous for […]

A few steps into a strange new world, with Donald Trump about to re-take office in the U.S. and the planet on fire, we thought a conversation with the permaculture teacher and Earth-based spiritual leader Starhawk was in order. Starhawk is a writer and author, an activist and a leading voice for ecofeminism and Earth-based […]

In this year-end special show, the Moment of Truth team discusses their favorite episodes of the past year, along with noting listener favorites. We also touch on some of the important news trends Moment of Truth helped to “break” over the last few years, including the “Tech Bro/Tech Oligarch” attempted takeover of San Francisco, with […]

In which we continue our discussion with Mother Jones Senior Editor & author Michael Mechanic. Mechanic wrote the book JackPot: How the Super Rich Really Live and How Their Wealth Harms Us All. He interviewed many exceedingly wealthy people to get at how they really think, how they live and if they are actually happy. […]

In the wake of the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly by 26-year-old Luigi Mangione–someone who has spoken about corporate greed and the failure of US health care systems to extend longevity—the specter of an increasingly disgruntled and angry U.S. populace rising up against the wealthy has dominated the news and social media. […]

We interviewed climate writer and Indigenous author Sherri Mitchell just over one year ago and her interview is by far one of our most popular podcasts. After this past, devastating U.S. election, we thought Mitchell could share some further words of wisdom and insight, from an indigenous and activist perspective. And from a spiritual perspective.  […]

Whether it is still election day in the US of A or beyond, you will want to listen to this remarkable interview with Rose Aguilar, award-winning, Native American journalist, on how we got here and where we may be going. Aguilar is host of the morning news and analysis program, “Your Call,” which airs live […]

Terra Vance, distant cousin of Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, has some words for her relative. Vance, she says, is Melungeon, like her and like Barack Obama, too. He has sold out his fierce and mixed-race ancestors to become both a scab and a Pinkerton. Our team found Terra just as we were looking into […]

In this energetic, educational and inspiring interview, Ami interviews Jessica Craven–a community organizer, activist, mom and elected member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party. She’s also the author of the popular Substack: “Chop Wood, Carry Water,” a daily-actions newsletter that’s been published five days a week since November of 2016. Craven is a delegate […]

What Can We Do About Climate? On Labor Day, 2024, Ami sits down with two long-time climate organizers to talk about the intersection between climate and labor ahead of a local Climate Fest on Sept. 22. Andrew Goldenkranz is Chair of the local Democratic Party (DCC), a former labor organizer and recent, national fossil fuel […]

Ami Chen Mills speaks with author Stephen Zunes about the history of the region: Israel-Palestine. After many highly emotional interviews on the Israel-Gaza war and ongoing massacres, this podcast is a factual and deep dive into the regional context of the current situation, what a Harris Administration might do and what a Trump Administration might […]

In this Part II of our series on “Sad Francisco,” we continue our deep dive into the history of the tech executives, crypto billionaires and venture capital/incubator heads who have attempted a (relatively successful) coup in San Francisco and now appear to be organizing a coup on behalf Donald Trump and JD Vance, who worked […]

Trump’s Vice Presidential pick, JD Vance has been heavily backed by Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and Palantir, the highly controversial military and domestic surveillance and info collection company based in Palo Alto, CA. In this Part I episode, we explore how San Franciso and Bay Area-based tech and venture capital executives like Thiel, […]

It’s a new day from our last “Flying Fork” episode, and now Kamala Harris is essentially the Democratic nominee for President. In this episode, Ami Chen Mills hosts a dialogue with Joy Schendledecker, Meilin Obinata and “accidental activist” Christina Johnson, who as a Black, single mother, has been battling Christo-nationalists on her children’s school board […]

Note from this episode’s host, Meilin Obinata Last week, David Sacks addressed the crowd at the Republican National Convention 2024 in Milwaukee, an event our Talk of the Bay host Chris Krohn has been covering [LINKS COMING SOON]. I strongly recommend reading Malcolm Harris’s book “Palo Alto” to understand how exactly we arrived at this […]

In this episode, Ami Chen Mills is joined by spiritual-political commentator Alvin Dawkins (in Austin, TX) and tireless advocate for the unhoused, Joy Schendledecker, to discuss the recent Presidential debate, the “Grants Pass” Supreme Court ruling on the rights of the unhoused to sleep or even to exist, the specter of a second Trump presidency, […]

Ami Chen Mills speaks with Palestinian journalist and trauma-resilience teacher Ashira Ali Darwish, featured prominently in the newly released documentary, “Where Olive Trees Weep,” about life in the Occupied Territories of Palestine-Israel.  Ali Darwish was raised in Ramallah and detained after being beaten by Israeli military forces during a nonviolent “singing protest” in Jerusalem. Insid...

In this energetic dialogue with the co-founders of the Get-Out-the-Vote and electoral organizing groups “Force Multiplier” and “Showing Up for Racial Justice,” we discuss the differences between Centrist Democrats and Progressives and/or  “Left” Democrats … and how should we think about the coming election? Plus: the possibility and implications of another Trump Presidency, Project 2025, […]

Ami Chen Mills in dialogue with her former co-host at Moment of Truth, Alvin Dawkins, a spiritual student and teacher who grew up in the Deep South–in Alabama–during the Civil Rights movement era and in the heart of the Black Church. In this episode, the two discuss the differences between mostly white “self-help” oriented, highly […]

In this field-produced, bonus episode, the Moment of Truth team interviews pro-Palestinian, student protestors and campers at encampments at UCSC‘s Quarry Plaza, and at Stanford University, in the courtyard in front of the Stanford campus bookstore—one of the longest-lived encampments in the nation. There is a lot of misunderstanding and projection onto these student protestors […]

Jewish Dialogues on Israel-Gaza-Palestine What conversations are Jewish people in the United States having about Israel, Gaza and Palestine among themselves at this time? With the collapse of ceasefire resolutions here in our little area of the nation … community members were instructed by our city’s “alternative resolution” to engage in “community dialogues” about the Middle […]