1) Donald Trump's Repeated Stochastic Terrorism Now Targets Haitian Immigrants
Wajahat Ali, creator of Left Hook substack, co-host of The Democracy-ish podcast, and author of "Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American," discusses the presidential debate and election campaign, with a focus on Trump's threat to democracy, his demonization of immigrants and white supremacist rhetoric and action, as well as corporate media's skewed election coverage.

2) Common Cause Protecting 2024 Election Against Multiple GOP Threats

Jay Young, executive director of Common Cause Illinois and Cheri Quikmeyer, executive director of Common Cause Connecticut, discuss the work Common Cause is doing on election protection, i.e. addressing voter suppression, mass purges of the voting rolls, intimidation of poll workers, GOP election deniers' threats to delay certification of vote totals and sow chaos — and the group's recruitment of volunteers to be poll watchers.

3) Rebel Singer/Songwriter Billy Bragg on His 40-Year Career, Political Activism and Getting Older

Rebel Singer/songwriter Billy Bragg, who, in 2023 celebrated 40 years of making music and political activism with the release of a 14-CD box set titled, The Roaring Forty, 1983–2023, talks about highlights of his career, working on three albums of songs written by legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie, political activism and getting older. Billy Bragg will be playing a show at Norwalk, CT's District Music Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

4) El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele Provokes Growing Repression and Violence

John Guiliano, executive director of the Tamarindo Foundation in El Salvador talks about growing repression and violence across the impoverished Central American country under authoritarian President Nayib Bukele, who has targeted critics, sent troops into the legislature, and violated the country’s constitution to maintain his hold on power.

1) New Book Warns Voters that 2024 is "The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism"

Mark Green, former two-term New York City public advocate and author or editor of 26 books on U.S. politics, discusses his newest book, "The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism in 2024," which warns Americans that this November will be a choice between a Party of Progress and a Party of Dangerous Extremism that may determine the path for American governance for generations.

2) ACLU Lawsuit Pushes Back on University Repression of Student Gaza War Protests

Bryce Greene, a graduate student and writer, assesses the repression of pro-Palestinian anti-war protests on college campuses across the U.S. and his involvement in an ACLU lawsuit against Indiana University for their suppression of the right to free speech during a vigil last May.

3) The World is at a Crossroads on Our Climate Future: Apocalypse or Utopia”

Activist and author Brian Tokar, a board member of the Institute for Social Ecology, examines the climate crisis and how we can chart a new path to a future that is not only sustainable, but better than the way we currently live and interact with technology. Tokar will be addressing this topic at Hamden, Connecticut's Unitarian Society on Sept. 14.

4) Portland, Maine City Council Unanimously Votes to Divest from Israel

Abigail Fuller, co-chair of Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights talks about her group's recent successful campaign resulting in a unanimous 9 to 0 vote in the Portland, Maine City Council passing a resolution directing the city to divest from corporations that are complicit in Israel's occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people and how this divestment effort could be a model for other cities across the U.S.

1) Gaza War Continues to Kill as Massive Israeli Protests Blame Netanyahu for Hostage Deaths

James Zogby, co-founder and president of the Arab American Institute, discusses the effort at last week's Democratic party nominating convention in Chicago to address U.S. policy supporting Israel's brutal war and mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, as well as the threat of a regional war and Israel's latest lethal military raids into the West Bank, the largest in 20 years.

2) Coalition Demands US News Media Aggressively Cover Election Campaign Threats to Democracy

Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and director of digital justice and civil rights with the media democracy group Free Press, talks about the coalition led by Free Press calling on corporate media outlets to report on rising authoritarianism and threats to democracy during the 2024 election campaign, covering six practices the media should adhere to during moments of crisis.

3) Author Asks Do We Work to Live or Live to Work?

Claudia Strauss, the Jean M. Pitzer professor of cultural anthropology at Pitzer College and the author of "Making Sense of Public Opinion," talks about her new book titled, "What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic," where she unpacks the relationship of the American worker to their job and explains how inaccurate popular conceptions lead to poor policy decisions, a threadbare social safety net and an inability to prepare for the coming technological changes to the workplace.

4) Unique CT Cafe's Nonprofit Mission Promotes Inclusion, Tolerance & Racial Justice

Mark Thiede, owner of Two Wrasslin' Cats Coffee House in East Haddam, CT, talks about the non-profit group which operates his unique community cafe whose noble and big-hearted mission is, "to support inclusion, racial justice, reproductive freedom and the right to love and be loved."