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General Motors cuts striking workers healthcare, as 50,000 UAW workers strike enters Day 3; Plus: Demonstrations in South Africa protest xenophobia, sexual violence

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0:08 – General Motors workers have gone out on strike. They’re demanding better wages, secure and quality healthcare, and fair staffing and management structures. We’re joined by Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) former New York Times labor reporter and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present & Future of American Labor. 0:34 – South Africa … Continued

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People’s Park Special

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The Battle for People’s Park: 50th Anniversary On Wednesday May 15th 2019, the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Thursday when the University of California retook People’s Park by force, Heyday publisher/executive director Steve Wasserman moderated a panel featuring The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969 author Tom Dalzell and Mayor Jesse Arreguín, Michael Delacour, Judy Gumbo, Ruth Rosen, Donovan Rundle, Dove … Continued

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Evicted

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A couple months ago, KPFA brought you a documentary on day to day life in a homeless community in Oakland near Home Depot in Fruitvale called The Community of Grace. That was a community that was more or less self-organized: the people there set rules, enforced them, chose who to let move in, and who … Continued

The Hear and Now

Oakland art-rock duo Grex performs live on The Hear and Now, 10 p.m., Thursday, Sep. 19

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Karl Evangelista (guitar, voice, percussion, electronics) and Rei Scampavia (keyboard, voice, percussion, electronics) are Grex. Their most recent album is Electric Ghost Parade, so you’ll probably hear some of that music as they play a live-broadcast in-studio concert, but they also promise to debut “some brand new slabs of explosive art rock and electronic sound.” … Continued

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Ariel Wang and Briget Boyle perform live on The Hear and Now, 10 p.m., Thursday, September 12

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Bay Area singer-songwriter, guitarist (and classical violinist) Ariel Wang is about to release a new album, Bridges, and celebrate it with a show at the Starry Plough in Berkeley on Saturday, Sep. 14. As a preview, she and her band–Lewis Patzner, cello; Terrell Liedstrand, mandolin and vocals; Tim DeCillis, drums; Kevin Gordon, bass; Matt Montgomery, violin; … Continued

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Tod Dickow with Charged Particles Play the Music of Michael Brecker on The Hear and Now, 10 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 22

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The Hear and Now, hosted by Derk Richardson, welcomes the Northern California jazz trio Charged Particles, with guest saxophonist Tod Dickow, to the KPFA performance studio for an in-studio concert, broadcast live and engineered by Tony Ferro. Formed in the early 1990s, and taking its name from a Chick Corea composition, the trio is anchored … Continued

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Living/Dying project with Dale Borglum

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Kris Welch speaks with Dale Borglum of the Living/Dying project about the new documentary on Ram Dass, Becoming Nobody and about Dale’s work offering spiritual support to people who are dying and that means all of us. More info at: https://www.livingdying.org/intro/  

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Talk It Out Radio, Sun, 9/1, 7pm: COMPANIONSHIP AND CONNECTION

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Non Violent Communication can help us connect across differences but it can also help us more deeply experience the companionship and understanding that comes with being heard by others in similar situations.  Host, Marlena Willis, is joined by members of her Chronic Illness and Disability Non Violent Communication Practice Group that happens on a conference … Continued

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Talk It Out Radio, Sun., 6/30, 7pm: Who Leads, Who Follows, Who Decides

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Host, Marlena Willis, explores leadership with insights from Non Violent Communication and Mindfulness Meditation as well as looking at who leads in these communities, with particular focus on recognizing the leadership potential of those who grew up working class and those with disabilities.  This show encourages community participation and will welcome call-ins throughout the show … Continued

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September 20 2019 through August 29 2019

Cine+Más Presents the 11th San Francisco Latino Film Festival

Co-Sponsored by KPFA Radio

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The San Francisco Latino Film Festival (SFLFF) September 20th through the 29th is a volunteer run and produced program. Its mission is to showcase the work of emerging and established filmmakers from the US, Latin America, and the Iberian Peninsula; increase cultural opportunities for the Latino community, as well as create a cultural dialogue amongst...

September 24 2019

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER & SAMIN NOSRAT

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

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Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of four novels:Everything Is Illuminated,  Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Tree of Codes, Here I Am, and two books of non-fiction:  Eating Animals, and We are the Weather.  His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

September 28 2019

KPFA Movie Matinee Presents: BOULEVARD NIGHTS 40TH ANNIVERSARY

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Forty years ago this summer, in 1979, Warner Bros released “Boulevard Nights,” a film that centers around a fatherless Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. After film discussion led by Miguel Molina of Flashpoints and La Onda Bajita. This is a KPFA benefit.

October 10 2019

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: DENNIS J BERNSTEIN & WARREN LEHRER

“FIVE OCEANS IN A TEA SPOON” Poems & Visualizations

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Five Oceans in a Teaspoon is a memoir in short visual poems, written by poet/investigative journalist Dennis J Bernstein, typographic visualizations by designer/author Warren Lehrer. Like his journalism, Bernstein’s poems reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. 

October 22 2019

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM with Project Censored & City Lights Present: Nolan Higdon & Mickey Huff

United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America

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“Higdon and Huff have produced the best short introduction to the nature of Trump-era journalism and how the ‘post-truth’ media world is inimical to a democratic society.” —Robert W. McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times

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