On today's edition of "Corporations and Democracy" radio, hosts Annie Esposito and Steve Scalmanini explore "Will New Supreme Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett Become the Most Radical Right-Wing Member of the Supreme Court" with guest Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and former president of the National Lawyers Guild.

In the second half of the program, Annie and Steve welcome Harvey Wasserman, a long-time writer and radio host, for a take on "The Integrity of the Presidential Election."

"Corporations and Democracy" airs from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. [Pacific Time] on Mendocino and Ukiah public radio stations KZYX & Z, 90.7, 91.5, and 88.3 FM, or you can listen live at the station website, www.kzyx.org. 

Do we need a new stand-alone branch of the military to ensure that the US dominates space or is our military-industrial complex big enough already? President Trump's proposed "Space Force" has its critics inside government and even within the military, but even more so among activists, with few better able to weigh in on this notion than Bruce Gagnon, chair of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.

Bruce joins Steve and Annie on this edition of "Corporations and Democracy" to discuss how activists around the world are pushing back on both the privatization and the militarization of space and planets. He's joined in the second half of the show by Dennis O’Brien, an attorney, former member of the NASA-Hastings Law Project, and founder of the the Space Treaty Project.

You can listen to or download the program here.

On Tuesday's edition of "Corporations and Democracy," Steve and Annie welcomed Kathryn Donahue, retired board member of the California Nurses Association (CNA), and Martha Kuhl, secretary/treasurer for National Nurses United (NNU) for an election year update on single payer health care in California, and where the candidates stand on this issue.  You can listen or download the show here, and catch up with past broadcasts on the show's archive page.

​"Corporations and Democracy" airs at 1 p.m. Pacific time on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month, on KZYX&Y, Mendocino Public Radio. You can stream it from the website live, and podcasts are posted here a few days after the show airs. 

On "Corporations and Democracy" radio this week, Annie Esposito and Steve Scalmanini will discuss "Funding of Mendocino County’s Employee Pensions: Crisis or Just Another Manageable Problem," with guests John Dickerson of Your Public Money and former State Assemblymember Michael Allen. The show airs live on Tuesday, February 13 at 1 p.m. Pacific on KZYX & Z, 90.7, 91.5, and 88.3 FM in Mendocino County CA. You can also stream the show live at www.kzyx.org, or listen to the archived broadcast after the show airs here. ​

Tuesday's edition of "Corporations and Democracy" radio was a great, heartening talk with Gar Alperovitz, author, activist, historian and political economist, and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Take an hour to hear about how a new economic system, neither centrally-planned state socialism nor investor-oriented capitalism, is quietly emerging across the US and the world. Coops, worker-owned businesses, public banks, B corporations, and new applications of renewable energy technology are all steps forward to reorienting economic activity toward the good of people and planet. 

You can listen to or download the show from the "Recent Shows" page on this site, or hear previous shows on the Archives page. For more information about the Democracy Collaborative's Next System Project, click here. 

​Is President Trump’s new Election Integrity Commission a fix or a fraud? That was the topic on this week's edition of "Corporations and Democracy," a twice-monthly radio show hosted by Alliance secretary Steve Scalmanini and Annie Esposito. Their guest was election integrity and voting rights activist Jan Ben-Dor, a founding member of the Michigan Election Reform Alliance, and a member of the board of directors of the National Election Defense Coalition, as well as a former election official.  

You can listen or download a podcast of the show here.