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Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers

Klonsky brothers.

Each week brothers Mike and Fred Klonsky, bloggers and activists engage in conversation, often with in-studio guests. Topics may be local, national or international, but always with a Chicago sensibility and perspective, and always from "the Left side of the plate."

  • 56 minutes 42 seconds
    With Rus Bradburd and Floyd Webb.

    Joining Mike on this edition of Hitting Left is basketball coach turned novelist Rus Bradburd and filmmaker Floyd Webb. Floyd and Mike will be talking about the Black Panthers on the 55th anniversary of the murder of Illinois Black Panther Chairman, Fred Hampton.

    8 December 2024, 5:53 pm
  • 56 minutes 26 seconds
    With co-host Susan Klonsky and guest Rabbi Brant Rosen.

    Joining Mike and co-host Susan Klonsky on this edition of Hitting Left is Rabbi Brant Rosen from Chicago's anti-Zionist Tzedek Congregation. Gaza, Lebanon, and resistance to war and genocide in the Trump era are the topics for discussion.

    1 December 2024, 1:40 pm
  • 56 minutes 8 seconds
    With Rashid Khalidi.

    Joining Hitting Left host Mike Klonsky onthis edition is Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University.

    22 November 2024, 10:02 pm
  • 58 minutes 17 seconds
    With brother Fred Klonsky and political strategist Joanna Klonsky.

    In the wake of the election of Donald Trump Mike is joined by former co-host Fred Klonsky and political strategist Joanna Klonsky to discuss the results and where we go now.

    9 November 2024, 5:46 pm
  • 57 minutes 36 seconds
    With Juan Gonzalez.
    Joining Mike on this edition of Hitting Left is Juan Gonzalez, co-Host of Democracy Now!, Senior Fellow at Great Cities Institute of UIC, founding member of the Young Lords and leader of the '68 protest at Columbia University. Juan Gonzalez is author of a new study of the "Brown Belt" in Chicago. 

     

    11 October 2024, 6:13 pm
  • 59 minutes 14 seconds
    With Bill Ayers.

    Joining Mike on this edition of Hitting Left is author, educator, activist and long-time friend, Bill Ayers. His latest book is called, When Freedom is the Question, Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation.

    7 October 2024, 1:28 pm
  • 56 minutes 39 seconds
    The Hitting Left Music Show.

    Another edition of Hitting Left Music feathering Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Paul Robeson, 10,000 Maniacs, Tom Morello, Mavis Staples, and more.

    15 September 2024, 9:17 pm
  • 59 minutes 55 seconds
    The DNC show with Beth Miller and Arielle Rebekah from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

    Joining Mike on day three of the DNC shows are Arielle Rebekah and Beth Miller Jewsih Voice for Peace.

    27 August 2024, 8:05 pm
  • 58 minutes 54 seconds
    With Peter Kutner, Susan Klonsky, Mike James and Bill Ayers

    On day two of the Democratic National Convention Mike is joined by long-time activists Peter Kuttner, Susan Klonsky, Mike James and Bill Ayers. All five were student and community activists at the time of the 1968 Democratic Convention. On this edition of Hitting Left Mike, Peter, Susan, Mike James and Bill recall the historic protests.

    27 August 2024, 7:38 pm
  • 59 minutes 18 seconds
    The DNC Shows with Dr. Dilara Sayeed and Pushkar Sharma.

    This edition of Hitting Left with Miike Klonsky and Friends, the Democratic National Convention shows, include Pushkar Sharma, co-founder and president of the South-Asian American Coalition to Renew Democracy Acts, or SACRED, and Dr. Dilara Sayeed, president of the Muslim Civic Coalition.

    22 August 2024, 8:42 pm
  • 58 minutes 51 seconds
    The DNC Shows with Marie Newman, Floyd Webb and Katy Hogan.

    This special Democratic National Convention edition of Hitting Left with Mike Klonsky and Friends has former Democratic congresswoman from the 3rd CD in Chicago, Marie Newman, film maker and community activist Floyd Webb and community activist Katy Hogan.

    22 August 2024, 8:25 pm
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