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 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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    With the Klonsky Brothers.

    On this week's episode of Hitting Left the brothers discuss the current state of the election, the choice of Tim Walz at VP, the upcoming DNC in Chicago. They also look back at the 68 Democratic Convention in Chicago, planned protests at the upcoming Chicago convention, the impact of the war on Gaza and more.

    10 August 2024, 6:50 pm
  • 58 minutes 40 seconds
    With Marie Newman.

    Former member of Congress Marie Newman joins Mike and Fred (Fred zooming in from Brooklyn) on this edition of Hitting Left. On the day after the Republican National Convention and as Democratic Party leaders try to foce Joe Biden out of the race, we discuss all things politics.

    19 July 2024, 6:04 pm
  • 58 minutes 38 seconds
    With Bruce Orenstein and Floyd Webb.
    Mikes guests on this editon of Hitting Left are filmmakers Bruce Orenstein and Floyd Webb.   Bruce's PBS series, "Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation" lays bare the story of how Chicago devised the nation’s most sweeping system of racially segregated housing—and how it diminished the lives of generations of Black families, creating the vast racial wealth gap that persists to this day.   Chicago South Side native Floyd Webb, a filmmaker known for starting the Blacklight Film Festival four decades ago, calls himself an “AARP-generation success story” for reinvigorating his career at age 70.
    12 July 2024, 8:29 pm
  • 57 minutes 58 seconds
    With Diane Ravitch.

    Joining Mike on this edition of Hitting Left is noted education historian Diane Ravitch. Diane has been a sharp critic of corporate school reform practices such as high stakes testing, vouchers and privatization. In the second half of the show Mike and Diane discuss the presidential election and the war on Gaza and the student protests against it.

    7 June 2024, 7:13 pm
  • 59 minutes 43 seconds
    With Bard College peace activist Lucy Gunderson.

    Joining Mike and Fred on this edition of Hitting Left is Bard College student and activist Lucy Gunderson talking about the student movement against Israeli genocide in Gaza.

    25 May 2024, 12:30 pm
  • 58 minutes 22 seconds
    With Ava Lyon-Sereno and Mark Rudd.

    Joining Mike on this week's edition of the podcast Hitting Left are Columbia student strike '68 veteran Mark Rudd and current Columbia student activist Ava Lyon-Sereno.

    6 May 2024, 6:19 pm
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