Thanks to all our wonderful supporters, the KPFA Spring fund-drive was a huge success and we are now ready to get back into the swing of things this summer. Throughout the month of June, we have several amazing online events for you to check out. Spanning a wide range of topics and perspectives, the following collection of speakers is sure to excite, inform, and inspire KPFA listeners and the wider community. Please share this post and following events on social media and invite your friends!
JoAnn Wypijewski & Kris Welch: What We Don’t Talk About: Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life
June 3, Thursday, 6:00 pm PT
“What if we took sex out of the box marked “special,” the contents of which are either the worst or best thing a person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of human life in general? In this extraordinary book — in defiance of the long-standing media obsessions that turn every sexual topic into a morality tale of monsters and victims, shame and virtue—journalist JoAnn Wypijewski does exactly that in this searing indictment of modern sexual politics.”
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Mick LaSalle & Richard Wolinsky: Dream State: California in the Movies
June 8, Tuesday, 7:00 pm PT
“Dream State is a freewheeling journey through several dozen big-screen visions of the Golden State, with LaSalle’s unmistakable contrarian humor as the guide. His writing, unerringly perceptive and resistant to cliché, brings clarity to the haze of Hollywood every and self-regard.”
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Margaret Talbot, David Talbot, and Greg Bridges: By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution
June 15, Tuesday, 6:00 pm PT
“New York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century— brought to life through seven radical episodes that offer urgent lessons for today.
The political landscape of the 1960’s and ‘70’s was probably the most tumultuous in this country’s history: the fight for civil rights, women’s liberation, Black Power, and the struggle to end the Vietnam War. In many ways, this second American revolution was a belated fulfillment of the betrayed promises of the first — working to extend the full protections of the Bill of Rights to non-white, non-male, non-elite Americans excluded by the nation’s founders.”
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Andrew Bacevich & Philip Maldari: After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed
June 22, Tuesday, 6:00 pm PT
“The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington’s insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common good, its faith in the idea of the “West” and its “special relationships,” its conviction that global military primacy is the key to a stable and sustainable world order—these have brought endless wars and a succession of moral and material disasters.”
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