Hitting Left

13/08/2024

Here's Friday's show 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...

11/08/2024

DNC SPECIAL ON HITTING LEFT. DON'T MISS IT.

HL with Mike KIonsky & Friends will be coming at you live during the Democratic Convention with four straight days of special programming. Aside from covering the day-to-day goings on inside the Convention, we will be talking with current protest organizers and '68 protest vets.

TUNE IN AUG. 19-22, 2-3 pm CDT at WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago and STREAMING LIVE everywhere at lumpenradio.com.

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Below: Pro-war candidate Hubert Humphrey speaks to the crowd during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August 1968. /AP

08/08/2024

COMING UP FRIDAY 8/9-- The Klonsky Brothers talking smack about the Democratic Conventions in Chicago '24 & '68...and more. TUNE IN TO WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago and STREAMING LIVE at lumpenradio.com.

22/07/2024

Here’s the 225th edition of Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers and guest, Marie Newman. We interviewed Marie on Friday. Biden announced he wasn't running on Sunday.

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.

18/07/2024

ON DECK -- Friday on Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers, our guest will be former IL Congresswoman Marie Newman. We'll be talking about the Biden Campaign, the future of the Democratic Party, and the upcoming DNC here in Chicago.

Tune in, 11-noon CDT to WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago and streaming live everywhere at lumpenradio.com

16/07/2024

You can listen to Friday's show in its entirety here. https://michaelklonsky.substack.com/p/last-friday-on-hitting-left-Lumpen Radio

It was a bad week for our city as we went on the air on Friday. Chitown was still reeling from 109 shootings the weekend before, which left at least 19 dead.

On top of that, homeless people who had been living in one of Chicago's largest and most visible encampments were being moved out and relocated to a shelter so the area would be emptied before the DNC.

We delved into the fallout from a century or more of Chicago's racist housing segregation policies.

10/07/2024

COMING UP FRIDAY ON HITTING LEFT
My guests will be 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.

TUNE IN FRIDAY 11-NOON CDT AT WLPN 105.5 FM IN CHICAGO AND STREAMING LIVE ACROSS THE UNIVERSE AT lumpenradio.com.

08/06/2024

Friday's show with guest Diane Ravitch.
This picture is from an earlier show with Diane in 2020. No bats this time around.

We find lots of common ground on education. Not so much on Israel, Gaza, & student protests.

26/05/2024

Episode #222 of Hitting Left with the Klonsky Bros.
Our guest is Bard student activist, Lucy Gunderson.
You can listen to the entire show here.

Bard College anti-genocide encampment organizer, Lucy Gunderson was our guest.

22/05/2024

This week Mike and Fred Klonsky spend the hour with Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Jennings Lewis. We talk about our experiences in the classroom, education and union politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Governor Bruce Rauner and the budget mess in Springfield. Karen Lewis talks about who has influ...

22/05/2024

On deck Friday, 5/24 11-noon CDT, it's the Klonsky Brothers talking student protests and politics with Bard College student activist Lucy Gunderson. Tune in to WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago or live streaming at lumpenradio.com.

07/05/2024

https://michaelklonsky.substack.com/p/hitting-left-episode-221-will-the

06/05/2024

Episode #221 with guests Mark Rudd and Ava Lyon-Sereno.

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.

02/05/2024

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN.

My show on Hitting Left this week will try and complete the circle between Columbia ‘68 and Columbia ‘24. My guests will be Mark Rudd and current Columbia student activist Ava Lyon-Sereno.

Tune in 11-Noon this Friday at WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago and streaming live everywhere at lumpenradio.com.

29/04/2024

ICYMI -- HERE'S LAST FRIDAY'S SHOW ON JULIAN ASSANGE.

Joining Mike on this edition of Hittiing Left is Kevin Gosztola. Kevin is a journalist, and author known for work on whistleblower cases, WikiLeaks, national security, and civil liberties. Formerly the managing editor of Shadowproof, he writes for The Dissenter. Gosztola has covered the court-martia...

25/04/2024

My guest tomorrow on Hitting Left will be Kevin Gosztola who’s been out front on the struggle to free Australian journalist and Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.

For five years Julian Assange has been detained in Belmarsh, a high-security prison in the UK. As he fights the extradition request from the US authorities, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said:

“Julian Assange dared to bring to light revelations of alleged war crimes committed by the USA. It is unacceptable that years of his life have been stolen. He remains arbitrarily detained in the UK on politically-motivated charges, brought by the USA for exposing their suspected wrongdoing.

Tune in Friday, April 26 11-Noon at WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago. Streaming live at lumpenradio.com

16/04/2024

Hitting Left '68+50 special from 2018 with Slim Coleman, Billy Che Brooks, Mary Scott-Boria, Mike James, Marilyn Katz, Fred Klonsky and me. Talking about the '68 DNC and more.

Fred sez "How fun was it to be in the same studio this morning doing our '68 Show of Hitting Left with Omar Lopez (Young Lords), Billy Che Brooks (Black Panthers), Mary Scott-Boria (Black Panthers), Rev. Slim Walter Coleman (SDS), Michael James (Rising Up Angry), Marilyn Katz (SDS) and my brother ta...

30/03/2024

https://michaelklonsky.substack.com/p/hitting-left-episode-219

With legendary photographer, author, & filmmaker, Danny Lyon

26/03/2024

FRIDAY'S SHOW
Our guest will be legendary movement and SNCC photographer, author, and filmmaker, Danny Lyon. Tune in on Friday, 2/29 at 11 a.m. CDT on WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago and treaming Live at lumpenradio.com.

On Saturday, 3/30, Danny will be doing a book talk and singing, 3-4 p.m. at Seminary Coop.

ABOUT DANNY'S BOOK,
His life has overseen adventures and tragedies of world-historical proportions. This Is My Life I’m Talking About (Damiani Books https://www.damianibooks.com/en) recounts them in generous detail, from Lyon’s friendship with the great American civil rights hero John Lewis—who is best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—to his involvement with the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, upon which his famous photojournalist work The Bikeriders (1968) was based. Throughout, Lyon writes with tremendous feeling and humor, and his text is accompanied by a selection of unpublished and unseen photographs.

17/03/2024

HITTING LEFT, EPISODE #218 with our guest, Tracy Ullman talking about serial killer John Wayne Gacy and his ties to Chicago's political machine.

You can hear the entire show here. https://michaelklonsky.substack.com/p/hitting-left-episode-218

14/03/2024

COMING UP TOMORROW ON HL...
Brother Fred will unpack the Oscars for you. Then our guest will be Tracy Ullman (not the comedian). She's an author, journalist, researcher, and filmmaker with a new book coming out about mass murderer, John Wayne Gacy and his ties to some Chicago machine figures you will recognize.

TUNE IN EVERY FRIDAY FROM 11-NOON AT WLPN 105.5 FM IN CHICAGO AND STREAMING LIVE AT LUMPENRADIO.COM .

07/03/2024

ICYMI-- Here's last week's show co-hosted with brother Fred. Our guest is Steve Goldsmith.

Joining Mike on this edition of Hitting Left is brother, retired teacher and activist Fred Klonsky and Steve Goldsmith. Steve is a veteran activist and currently the president of the Torrance California Refinery Action Alliance combatting the dangers of hydrogen fluroide (HF) to people and the envir...

01/03/2024

Lebron does his best MJ. He’s hitting right but we’re Hitting Left Fridays 11-noon CT on WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago and streaming live everywhere at Lumpenradio.com.

29/02/2024

COMING UP FRIDAY ON HL...
The brothers Klonsky are back at it, dissecting the news of the week, from Chicago to Gaza, as only they can. Joining them from the Left Coast will be old friend and veteran activist, Steve Goldsmith.

Steve currently serves as president of the Torrance California Refinery Action Alliance. You can learn more about TCRAA at https://traa.website/traa-mission-statement.

Tune in from 11-noon CT at WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago and streaming at lumpenradio.com.

25/02/2024

https://michaelklonsky.substack.com/p/hitting-left-episode-216-talking

22/02/2024

TOMORROW ON . Special show on resistance to war on Gaza. I'll talk with former Israeli Air Force pilot and war resister, Yonatan Shapira and Chicago anti-zionist Rabbi Brant Rosen.
TUNE IN -- 11-noon CT at WLPN 105,5 FM in Chicago & STREAMING LIVE at lumpenradio.com.

20/02/2024

Coming up Friday, a special CEASEFIRE Hitting Left show on WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago. Streaming live at lumpenradio.com.
My guests will be:
-- Yonaton Shapira, (top) former Israeli Airforce pilot.
-- Rabbi Brant Rosen (l) -- Chicago Tzedek Congregation
-- Steve Goldsmith (r) -- long-time social justice activist
We'll be talking Gaza and the politics of war.

08/02/2024

Rabbi Rosen's Op-Ed in the Tribune Wednesday voiced support for the Ceasefire resolution passed by the Chicago City Council. He will be my guest on Hitting Left 11-noon CT Friday 2/9 at WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago and streaming live at Lumpenradio.com

My co-host Susan Klonsky and I will also be talking about the war on Gaza with longtime social justice activist Steve Goldsmith, President of the Torrance California Refinery Action Alliance.

Cease-fire resolutions like the one Chicago City Council just passed are far more than symbolic, “feel-good” exercises.

04/02/2024

Dr. Rubin, who is the Senior Medical Officer at the Cook County Department of Public Health. brought us up to date on the growing threat being posed from the new NJ.1 Covid strain, which is spreading fast here and globally. The conversion moved from Covid to the politics of public health in general, to the war in Gaza. Dr. Rubin has been outspoken in support of a Gaza ceasefire.

Music by Warren Zevon.
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02/02/2024

TUNE IN THIS MORNING to 11-noon CT when my guest will be Dr. Rachel Rubin, Senior Medical Officer at Cook County Department of Public Health.
WLPN 105.5 FM in Chicago and streaming live everywhere at http://lumpenradio.com