"Be Bold America!‪"‬ Jill Cody, MPA

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)

Throughout Reagan’s eight years in the oval office, the “Great Communicator” was largely successful in shaping the soul of America to reflect his durable mantra that “government is the problem.”

That same American soul later embraced Donald Trump—a president who, arguably would have appalled Reagan.

Reagan’s contemporary mythology as tax cutter, deficit hawk, promoter of deregulation, the ordinary citizen, champion of traditional family values, small government and free market capitalism – all indelible images.

Reagan’s myth persists, and by understanding his time in office in the context of American history and of the American presidency, we can understand how a transformative president created more than policy by also shaping culture with the instrumental force of mythology.

Interview Guest:

Ed Oswald is a lawyer with an expertise in the federal taxation of municipal bonds. He is a partner in an international law firm in Washington, D.C. Ed is a frequent lecturer and speaker on financing infrastructure for State and local governments, non-profit organizations, and related matters. A graduate of St. John’s University in New York, B.S Accounting. He received his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. In 1991, he received an LL.M. in taxation from New York University. 

Ed served as an attorney-advisor at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Legislative Counsel during the second term of the Clinton Administration, where he worked on tax policy matters impacting US public infrastructure. At the US Treasury, he worked with the IRS, SEC, White House staff and economists, House Ways & Means Committee, and the Senate Financing Committee staff on a range of matters.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. The American College of Tax Counsel is a professional association of tax attorneys who are “recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments and professional achievements and for their dedication to improving the practice of tax law.” Fellows must be nominated by their peers and undergo a rigorous screening process before being admitted. Membership is limited to a maximum of 700 tax attorneys across the United States.Ed’s new book, From Ronald to Donald: How the Myth of Reagan Became the Cult of Trump, is now available wherever books are sold.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)

John F. Rothmann is a renowned radio talk show host, popular lecturer and political and foreign policy consultant.  

John will discuss Donald Trump’s 34 convictions, Justice Alito’s upside-down flags, Project 25, and the pivotal upcoming election.  And, what the future might hold if we do or don’t get out and vote!

vote this year.

John was a long-time host on KGO Radio until the station’s management suddenly changed its format. John has been a professor at the University of San Francisco Fromm Institute since 2004 and he has been involved in many political campaigns on the national, state and local levels. John has published a wide range of articles and books on education, the Middle East and on American political history.

Today, John Rothmann hosts a popular podcast called:“Around the Political World with John Rothmann.”

Interview Guest:

John F. Rothmann is a radio talk show host on KGO 810 AM in San Francisco. John first joined the KGO family in 1996.

A frequent lecturer on American politics and the presidency, John has spoken on over 150 university campuses throughout the United States, Canada and Israel. John has been a professor at the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco since 2004.

John has been involved in many political campaigns on the national, state and local levels including Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign and Senator Frank Church's California Presidential campaign in 1976. He served as Chief of Staff to Senator Milton Marks and as Field Representative for Senator Quentin Kopp, both of San Francisco.

John's passion is his 15,000-volume library, one of the finest private libraries in the country, specializing in American political history and political biography.

 

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday,

May 19, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)

“First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.” – Maria Ressa

 

Project Censored, in their latest book, takes the pulse of the media, highlights the most underreported stories of the past year, and exposes corporate manipulation of the news.

 

State of the Free Press 2024, brings together some of the most incisive media critics to expose the impact of corporate money and political influence on the press, highlights the top 25 most underreported stories of the past year, and profiles those brave journalists who continue to fight for a media that is free of both for-profit benefactors and political agendas. 

 

This book comes at a time when trust in the media is at an 

all-time low.

 

Interview Guest:

Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. Since 2009, he has coedited the Project Censored yearbook, including its most recent volume, State of the Free Press 2024. He is also coauthor, with Nolan Higdon, of United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (City Lights, 2019) and Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)

Back in 1929 when the market crashed and the Great Depression began, Uber, TaskRabbit, and the gig economy were almost a century in the future. So why are the laws we use to protect the workers who power those businesses unchanged from 100 years ago?

As we learned with startling clarity during the unprecedented economic upheaval of the pandemic, our social safety net legislation is divorced from how Americans on the margins survive today.

Government policies have not kept up with the changing nature of how we work, and too many people—the forgotten jobless of the gig-economy who don’t qualify for government assistance—are falling through the cracks. While the relief money provided during the pandemic was a godsend for millions, for others, namely workers like drivers, delivery people, and handymen, that vital assistance never came due to archaic and pro-business unemployment laws. 

Interview Guest:

Alexandrea Ravenelle, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Her first book, Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy has been translated into Korean, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese.  

Dr. Ravenelle’s research has been published in The New York Times; Regions, Economy and Society; Journal of Managerial Psychology; Consumption Markets and Culture; and New Media & Society.

She is the recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation to study the impact of COVID-19 on precarious workers in New York, and funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to study the impact of elite gig work.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)

Associated Press: Updated 6:02 AM PDT, April 10, 2024:

“Humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat trapping emissions and it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift, the head of the United Nations. [Climate Secretary, Simon Stiell]”

 

The climate emergency is often described as a "wicked" problem—one that results from numerous factors that interact in new and surprising ways to defy standard solutions—the pervasive distresses and traumas it generates are also "wicked" problems that cannot be resolved through conventional, professionally delivered, individualized clinical treatment services.

 

Facing our climate future will require entire neighborhoods and communities be engaged to prevent and heal the distresses and traumas generated during the long climate mega-emergency. If whole-community initiatives are launched throughout industrialized nations and worldwide, the indomitable human spirit and capacity for resilience can be activated.



Interview Guest:

Bob Doppelt founded and coordinates the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), a network of mental health, social service, disaster management, climate, and faith organizations and professionals. He is trained in both counseling psychology (M.S.) and environmental science (M.S.) and has combined the two fields throughout his career. He is also a Graduate of the International Program on the Management of Sustainability, in Ziest, The Netherlands, and a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Instructor. He is also a former Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center.

 

Bob is the author of a number of books on the interface between individual, group, community, and social resilience and change and ecological regeneration. His newest book is Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide for Building Resilience and Hope in Communities. Bob also writes for Psychology Today. Due to his many years of work, in 2015 Bob was named one of the world’s “50 Most Talented Social Innovators” by the World CRS Congress.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday,

April 7, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)

“We are not prepared, have no plan, don’t know how bad it’s going to get, and have no time to waste. Everything and everyone is at risk.” ~ Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjorkskov, Danish Climate Activist

As the European Environmental Agency reported, “We are entering an era of ‘Total Climate F-ery.’” You know what the “F’ stands for.

The underestimated extreme heat occurrences, the rising ocean acidity that is scaring scientists, the unchecked deterioration of biodiversity loss, and water and food crises around the world are almost beyond our capacity to correct.

Why is this existential threat to humanity not being covered as if everything did not depend on what we do next? 

Betsy Rosenberg will share key indicators of ecosystems in decline and share her insights as a broadcast journalist insider about why the corporate news gatekeepers are only covering the tip of melting icebergs.

Last year was the hottest in recorded history, yet the networks focused less than ONE Percent of their coverage on the climate crisis! 

Please join “Be Bold America!” on Sunday, April 7 at 5:00 pm to hear how the news media is not covering the biggest “If it bleeds; it leads story” in history and what we can do about it!

Interview Guest:

Betsy Rosenberg has been a broadcast journalist for her entire career, beginning with a stint at ABC Sports during the Olympics in 1976 while still in college. Her first on air position was with CBS Radio, where she worked for two decades as a reporter at KCBS in San Francisco and later as a network anchor in New York City. 

After 20 years of covering breaking news, she left to cover environmental challenges and solutions as an independent radio host and producer. First on the Air America Network, and later on Internet Radio, Betsy conducted hundreds of interviews with leading eco-innovators and experts covering all shades of green--with extra emphasis on the worsening climate crisis. 

In addition to public speaking, she has written articles on Huff Post and Medium and has contributed to two books including Climate Abandoned—We’re on the Endangered Species List. Most recently Betsy was co-founder and host on GreenTV.com