** "If you think that the government's only plan is to come to Washington DC and to oppress the people in DC - I got news for you..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon staked out on his home turf in DC, with an update on the Feds takeover there - and what it has to do with Chicago, NYC and Venezuela...

Labor Day 2025: US working class in crisis - how far we've come, how far we've yet to go.

** "So yes, we were innocent and ignorant - now no more..."

Lilly: A Conversation With Patricia Clarkson. Following her starring role up against McCarthyism and CBS back then in Good Night And Good Luck, Clarkson takes on a different set of corporate and government entities - facing off as real life blue collar worker Lilly Ledbetter, against the Alabama Goodyear Tire And Rubber Plant perpetrating female discrimination - and prevailing. And not unlike her own struggles as an actress in the film world.

And on this show heading into the Labor Day weekend, Clarkson discusses her character's struggle against on the job economic and sexual exploitation, resulting in her triumphant victory decades later with the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act - a triumph of a movie as well, diving into the glut of superhero saturated cinema, as a workplace screen rebel slips in...

** "Right away I realized something that my fellow sufferers failed to realize..."

Action Will Be Taken: A Heinrich Boll dramatic literary presentation. A Labor Day weekend factory noir - channeling company questionnaires, telephones, coffee, eggs and toast, night shifts - and 'the body on the floor...'

** "Lately what we're seeing is other kinds of disruption, as other forces have risen to oppose the Empire -- and it's happening everywhere..."

Bro On The Global Cultural Beat: In The Disruption - technology, madness, capitalism, culture - and a new kind of barbarism. Arts Express Paris Correspondent/ UK Morning Star Columnist Professor Dennis Broe probes the writings of Bernard Stiegler, the late eminent French philosopher who began his intellectual journey while imprisoned as a youth for armed bank robbery - and who committed suicide on August 5th as he suffered a terminal illness, five years ago...