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Media Cyphers is a weekly radio show out of Kalamazoo, MI where we discuss local issues, analyze and critique local and national media, cover important organizing in the SW Michigan region, and call out the establishment on its B.S. Listen to us live every Tuesday from 12PM-2PM on 89.1 WIDR or online at widrfm.org.
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Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
From the local to the national our first half focuses on austerity- in Kalamazoo Public Schools, in the federal response to recent storm activity in the area, to how the "big beautiful bill" is going to rob from Michigan's working class and give to the rich.
The second half of our show focuses on Palestinian solidarity and the genocide in Gaza. Students around the country are still standing against the massacre while our government lays out a McCarthyist strategy to clamp down on dissent. While the carnage continues in the Gaza strip we saw two Israeli embassy workers assassinated in DC. We talk about the "Imperial boomerang" and the rise of 'social despair' shootings.
2:04- 11:50 Local Schools Lose Librarians
12:05- 20:55 Kzoo County Sues Trump Administration
21:15- 31:20 Big Beautiful BS- How it Will Effect Michigan
31:40- 1:06:40 Free Palestine: Commencement Speeches, Government Oppression, and the Imperial Boomerang Hits Embassy Workers
SOURCES/ FURTHER READING
Parents petition to save school librarian after position gets axed in budget cuts
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/05/parents-petition-to-save-school-librarian-after-position-gets-axed-in-budget-cuts.html
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County board suing Trump White House over EPA funding
https://wkzo.com/2025/05/21/797645/
From taxes to Medicaid, what Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ would mean for Michigan
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/taxes-medicaid-what-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-would-mean-michigan
U.S. Students Protest Israel’s Genocide — and Universities’ Complicity — in Commencement Speeches
https://www.leftvoice.org/u-s-students-protest-israels-genocide-and-universities-complicity-in-commencement-speeches
Project Esther Is a McCarthy-Era Blueprint for Crushing the American Left
https://truthout.org/articles/project-esther-is-a-mccarthy-era-blueprint-for-crushing-the-american-left
The Israel Embassy Shooter Manifesto
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto
Video Shows Girl Trying to Escape Inferno as Gaza Family 'Burned Alive' in Israeli Massacre
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ward-al-sheikh-khalil
The Police State Hits Home: Media Cyphers Report from 2020 George Floyd Uprisings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCs1q0EQVLg&t=946s
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