Henry Giroux joins Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive to discuss the need for a radical democracy. He brings up important questions followed by even more important answers. Giroux says, “Disposable populations are no longer hidden in the shadows or relegated to the margins. They have been thrust into the harsh spotlight of a militarized spectacle, orchestrated by Trump’s Christian white supremacist nationalist regime. The faces of the undocumented, people of color, and those labeled as “gang members” are now paraded across a media landscape that eagerly captures their arrests, handcuffs, and deportations to brutal prisons. As the violence of this regime expands, it no longer confines itself to domestic borders. Its reach now stretches to women, children, and the elderly—both within the United States and abroad. This is starkly evident in the genocidal war against Palestinians, where thousands of children in Gaza are killed, their lives deemed expendable. What we are witnessing is a war on democracy itself—one that has come home. It is no longer concealed behind the terrorizing war on immigration and its expanded politics of disposability—reinforced with the racist language of invasions, poisoning of the blood of Americans, and charges of criminality. The same violence that targets the most vulnerable at home now extends its reach abroad, exposing the brutal, interconnected systems of oppression for the world to see.”
Henry Giroux (born 1943) is an internationally renowned writer and cultural critic, Professor Henry Giroux has authored, or co-authored over 65 books, written several hundred scholarly articles, delivered more than 250 public lectures, been a regular contributor to print, television, and radio news media outlets, and is one of the most cited Canadian academics working in any area of Humanities research. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge’s Key Guides Publication Series.
Sharon Kyle JD is a former president of the Guild Law School and is the publisher and co-founder of the LA Progressive. For years before immersing herself in the law and social justice, Ms. Kyle was a member of several space flight teams at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she managed resources for projects like Magellan, Genesis, and Mars Pathfinder. Sharon also sits on several boards including the Board of Directors of the ACLU and is on the editorial board of the BlackCommentator.com.
Dick Price is Editor of the LA Progressive. With his wife Sharon, he publishes several other print and online newsletters on political and social justice issues. He has worked in publishing as a writer, editor, and publisher for a quarter century. In earlier releases, he was a cab driver, bartender, construction worker, soldier, and farmhand, and for many years helped operate a nonprofit halfway house for homeless alcoholics and addicts.
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