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Last episode was part one of NOW READ THIS! , in which ten awesome people awesomely awesomed up their awesome reading recommendations. Why? Because a whole bunch of angries didn’t like the Bradford Reading Challenge. What’s the Bradford Reading Challenge, you ask? Simple! Author, tech-reviewer, and fandom activist K. Tempest Bradford suggested in an xoJane.com opinion piece that readers should discover the world of writers who never get confused for Mitt Romney, Stephen Harper, or Patton Oswalt. This episode, instead of ten boffo-socko book baptisers, let’s level up to SIXTEEN SCINTILLATING BOOK SPEAKERS. That’s right! We’ll hear from: Directors Ernest Dickerson, Seith Mann, and Reginald Hudlin Alternative Radio founder and interviewer David Barsamian South Sudanese community activist Buk Arop Sociologist and author Algernon Austin Columnist, author, and activist Bill Fletcher Hip hop artist and activist Young Mav Actors Isaiah Washington, Jamie Hector, Robert Wisdom , and...

CJSR FM88.5 www.cjsr.com 6pm Mountain Time Tonight’s discussion is on the electio n of Barack Obama as US president, a victory has thrilled literally hundreds of millions. What may be lost in the jubilation is substance instead of style. What policies will an Obama administration enact? How will it be substantively different from a Bush or a Clinton government? How hawkish will it be in international affairs, especially with Iran , Somalia and Venezuela ? How will it deal with the US and global economic crisis? How will it deal with America ’s multicultural and multireligious population, in an era of right wing Christianist reaction? To answer these questions and more, I spoke with Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Lester Kenyatta Spence. “ Bill Fletcher, Jr. , is a longtime labor and international activist and the former President and chief executive officer of TransAfrica Forum, a national non-profit organization organizing, educating and advocating for policies in favor of the peoples ...