Nafeez Ahmed and Kevin Gosztola of Firedoglake

The program begins with a conversation with Kevin Gosztola, who writes for Firedoglake.com; Gosztola recounts his experiences in Ferguson, Missouri, in the days after the killing of black teen Michael Brown.

Then Sunsara Taylor of Stoppatriarchy.org speaks from Texas about the continuing closures there of clinics offering abortions; Dennis Trainor of Acronym TV asks why even left-leaning media outlets dropped his report about Taylor and the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride. Finally, UK Guardian writer Nafeez Ahmed warns that at least two U.S. universities are assisting the Pentagon in creating data-mining systems to spy on political dissidents.