0:08 – Breaking News: Oakland teachers vote to approve an agreement to end an 8 day strike
Kitty Kelly Epstein is an educator, scholar, and author of A Different View of Urban Schools: Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, and Unexplored Realities. She also host of KPFA’s “Education Today” airing each 2nd and 4th Friday at 2:30pm.
0:25 – Fund Drive Premium: Fandango at the Wall
Fandango at the Wall: Creating Harmony Between the United States and Mexico, is a experiential project by GRAMMY-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author, Kabir Sehgal, accompanied by a score from GRAMMY-winning musician Arturo O’Farrill and a foreword written and read by historian Douglas Brinkley. Through periods of great friendship with robust trade and loose immigration policies to tense relations beset by wars, the drug trade and human trafficking the relationship between the United States and Mexico has had its ups and downs. With the latest Trump-induced xenophobia toward Mexico, Fandango contextualizes how it is the latest swing in the up-and-down, two-hundred-year history of these two countries.
We speak with Kabir Seghal (@HiKabir), a five time Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning producer, author, and currently works as a corporate strategist with a global payments technology investment firm. His latest project is Fandango at the Wall: Creating Harmony Between the United States and Mexico.
Get the Fandango soundtrack (2 CDs) for your pledge of $100, or the box set (book + CD) for $150, or both for $200.
1:08 – Fund Drive Premium: Can We Feed the World Without Destroying It?
Eric Holt-Gimenez is the director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, known as Food First, a “people’s think tank” dedicated to ending the injustices that cause hunger. He’s the author of Can We Feed the World Without Destroying It? And A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism. Yours for a pledge of $100, and $150 to KPFA.
Cover Photo by Nick Alexandra for KPFA News