On today’s live show we preempted all of our normal coverage to go straight to the San Francisco Bay Bridge where protesters blocked all traffic in the westbound direction, demanding that no business continues as usual as long as Israel continues to bomb Gaza. We spend the hour with protesters blocking all lanes of traffic, … Continued
We’re just about a week ahead of the national colonial holiday Thanksgiving, so we’ll spend the morning with a member of the tribe that is depicted in the Pilgrim and Indian mythology of Thanksgiving. Hartman Deetz is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and has been a cultural steward of his people through language, … Continued
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” at Shotgun Players Ashby Stage through December 30, 2023.
Discussed in this episode: The subvariant rising to dominance in North America: HV.1 Getting vaccinated when your immune system is suppressed Combining Paxlovid with Metfomin To send in questions: [email protected] Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
As we do each Monday since October 7th, we spend today’s show on the ongoing violence Israel is waging against Palestinians. Today we’re in conversation with Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American activist, author, and community organizer. She is the author of her memoir We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders. Follow Linda Sarsour … Continued
Tim O’Brien, whose latest novel is a contemporary satire, “America Fantastica,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded at Book Passage on November 6, 2023. The author of ten previous novels, winner of the National Book Award in 1978 for “Going After Cacciato,” and acclaimed for his linked collection of stories about the Vietnam War, “The Things They Carried”.
In this episode: A four-hundred-year reckoning with the colonial workings of the carceral state and resistance against it. We talk about how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of US power around the globe as well as the power of prison resistance, from the Seminole Indians to Assata Shakur. Our … Continued
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Bulrusher” by Eisa Davis, at Berkeley Rep’s Peets Theatre through December 3, 2023.
Discussed in this episode: what Dr. Swartzberg reads to stay current The CDC Covid Data Tracker Dr. Katelyn Jetelina’s newsletter, Your Local Epidemiologist Dr. Eric Topol’s newsletter, Ground Truths To send in questions: [email protected] Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature … Continued
