0:08 – On Monday, the US announced a new framework for peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The basic outline: the Taliban–which controls about 40% of the territory in Afghanistan, would agree to not let terrorists operate from the area it controls. The US would pull out — which could mark an end to the longest war in US history. Carlotta Gall (@carlottagall) is the New York Times Turkey Bureau Chief. She’s a Pulitzer-winning journalist who has covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for twelve years. She’s also the author of The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2000-2014. She joins us from Istanbul.
0:34 – Author Interview: Dahr Jamail (@DahrJamail) is an award-winning journalist with Truthout. He has journeyed along many of the geographical front lines of our environmental crisis, from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Amazon rain forest, to discover the consequences of the loss of ice to nature and to humans. His new book is The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption (The New Press, 2019).
KPFA Event: Is Our Earth In Hospice Mode? Dahr Jamail + Antonia Juhasz
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
JANUARY 31, 2019 @ 7:30 PM / FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 2345 CHANNING WAY, BERKELEY, CA.
1:08 – On Tuesday morning, actor Jussie Smollett was brutally attacked by two white men yelling “This is MAGA country!” It highlights the uptick of hate crimes, especially against black Americans and those that identify as LGBTQA since the election of Trump in 2016.
Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) is a strategist and political commentator based in Los Angeles.
Richard Saenz (@saenzr03) is a Senior Attorney and the Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct Strategist at Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national LGBTQ legal organization.
1:34 – Theater Review: KPFA’s Richard Wolinsky reviews the off-Broadway musical Come from Away at SHN Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco, running through Sunday Feb 3rd.
1:37 – February marks Oakland’s first Black Arts Movement Business District Festival! BAMBDFEST:2019 is a multi-day, multi-venue festival in celebration of the Black Arts Movement Business District and Black arts, culture, and economics in Oakland, CA. The month-long festival in February 2019, produced by the Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc. in collaboration with BAMBD, CDC, and The Flight Deck, is funded by a Creative California Communities grant from the California Arts Council. Ayodele Nzinga (wordslanger) is a playwright, poet, educator and Artistic Director of BAMBDFest.