Summary: Elections matter. This week on Talking Left, we wanted to dig in to a few stories that the corporate media has been skipping or glossing over. In hour one, we spoke with Justice Putnam of Netroots Radio about police brutality, Ferguson, and the need to change our militarized police forces. The stories of police violence and brutality seem to be a daily event, but we can't allow them to become the norm. We must return to community policing and give citizens more power to hold cops accountable. There are some great suggestions, and details for more events at National Black United Front DC. In the next hour, we got in to the "war" against ISIS with our great friend Nicole Belle, formerly of Crooks and Liars. Nicole gave us her take on the ridiculous notion that we can bomb the world in to peace, and the fact that Congress is shirking their responsibility to vote on military action. And, our "mainstream" media is failing to provide a real debate on whether or not we should be bombing anyone at all. And, as if this show could get any better with those first two guests, Brad Friedman of The Brad Blog joined us for the entire third hour! We got to hear Brad's brilliant take on voting rights around the country, on the wife-beating judge Mark Fuller, and, on the Republican operative who had the audacity to threaten Brad over his reporting. To find out more about the Don Siegleman case, be sure to check out - and share - Free-Don.org! Thanks to Rocky Mountain Mike for writing and producing our incredible theme music! Please check out his amazing Sound Cloud! Thanks to We Act Radio - 1480AM WPWC, Netroots Radio, SoFlo Radio, Progressive Voices on Tune in, and Radio or Not,- for helping to ensure all listeners have corporate-free, independent radio! You can also follow all of the news about upcoming topics and guests on our Facebook page and on Twitter @TalkingLeft. And you can subscribe to Talking Left free on iTunes! As always, thanks for listening!
