Venita Ray was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 while serving as an Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia. She is currently the Public Affairs Field Specialist for Legacy Community Health in Houston, TX where she monitors healthcare policy and manages an advocacy training program for people living with HIV. This interview is part of … Continued
Photo from @DLamotJenkins The first of the J20 conspiracy trials resumed on Monday, November 27th. The prosecution continued its presentation of witnesses and evidence, including testimony from employees and managers of businesses in the downtown Washington, DC area that reported broken windows on Inauguration Day. Despite being in the second week of trial,there has still been no particularized evidence … Continued
In this episode, we talk to an organizer with Parkdale Organize, an autonomous and grassroots working-class organization in so-called Toronto, Canada, which has worked to build the power of collective action among various apartment buildings, neighborhoods, and workplaces. In this discussion, we talk about gentrification in Toronto, but moreover about how the group went about … Continued
Darryl V. Jones directs Aurora Theatre Company’s production of “The Royale,” a play by Marco Ramirez now at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley through December 10. He is interviewed by KPFA associate theater critic C.S. Soong.
Guest: Sara Wachter-Boettcher, a web consultant who works on designing things for people to use – and has just written a book about how that process so often goes so horribly off-track. It’s called Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and other Threats of Toxic Tech. Like this? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , or paste our feed link into any … Continued
Lisa Peterson, Associate Director of Berkeley Rep, and director of “Watch On The Rhine” at Berkeley Rep, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. In this interview, she talks about this new stage production of the Lillian Hellman play, as well as her upcoming directorial project, “Office Hour” by Julia Cho, and her history as a director.
Bill Hayes, author of “Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me,” and co-editor of the posthumous collection of essays, “The River of Consciousness” by Oliver Sacks, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Bill Hayes was partnered with the previously closeted neurologist, and in this interview talks about their life together and his love affair with New York.
In this episode, we discuss the ongoing Olympia blockade against fracking proppants with several locals who have watched the blockade, also known as Olympia Stand, grow. Our guests discuss how the current encampment, which has now lasted for over a week, has grown every day of its existence. Our conversation raises the question about why … Continued
Thank you for laptops, velcro and living in an inter-glacial period. Thanks for the Hubble spacecraft pictures, life on other planets and that it’s not just about us. Thanks for gravity as we hurl through space on this rock. Thanks for all the wisdom of the world available to us, for the beauty of the … Continued
“Kerkhoff admitted that the state does not have any evidence to prove that any of these 6 defendants are themselves guilty of any acts of property destruction. Even so, Kerkhoff has pursued these politically motivated charges in order to crush dissent and pave the way for similar prosecutions to be used against any protesters anywhere.” … Continued
