** "Platoon changed my life - and it brought back a flood of memories, what we were being told and what we were not being told..."

Keith David Talks Sneaks, Platoon, His Frederick Douglass Portrayals Five Times On Screen. On the show, we explore the convergence today Wednesday of the Fall Of Saigon 50th anniversary, and the eve of May Day - and how those two events are manifested in our collective cultural experience.

And the veteran actor taking a look at the animated satire connecting sneakers to inner city youth identity - with David as an older, wiser worn out pair known as OG, remarking about his Sneaks character - 'you just have to live long enough, and they think you're an OG...' 

David, with a body of work that includes John Carpenter's political uprising thriller, They Live, Spike Lee's Clockers, and Assault On Wall Street, also revisits his portrayal that has meant the most to him - as a soldier in Oliver Stone's anti-Vietnam War classic, Platoon. And how the significance of Platoon and his five enactments of Frederick Douglass, resonate powerfully in the present time.

** "If somebody said, should I trust you Garland, running for office - I'd say no!"

Deciphering Donald: Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on the US crumbling political empire declaring war on reality. With connections to hot mics, pineapples, bags of popcorn, money laundering, and firing the masses.

** "What crime have I committed, I keep asking - the crime of being devoted to my people..."

Arts Express Playhouse. The Prison Poems Of Ho Chi Minh. A solo performance among his 100 poems written during the revolutionary leader's ordeal in eighteen prisons - where nevertheless unbroken, 'the moon smiles at the poet...'

** "Someone is watching me, following me - who are you..."

Bro On The Global Television Beat: Prime Target - Resisting Surveillance. Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe with a look at rebellion against the way things are on the small screen, as May Day looms.

And 'do the math' literally and politically, referencing banks, a rogue NSA agent, The Quiet American, a homicidal bureaucracy - and escaping the clutches of the security state.