Michelle Smirnova, Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliate faculty member of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas discusses her new book The Prescription to Prison Pipeline. This week’s Resistance in Residence artists are Gabriele Christian and Chibueze Crouch who make up the performance duo OysterKnife. You can learn more about … Continued
Today marks one year since the Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023. We are joined once again by Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration The U.S. continues to openly endorse Israel’s expansionist foreign policy, moving more U.S. military assets into … Continued
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded in 1983. Octavia Butler, who died in 2006 at the age of 58, was one of the giants of modern science fiction. Winner of multiple awards for her short fiction and novels, her work explored issues involving gender, race, and power and featured protagonists often at odds with their societies. First posted May 20, 2017.
We start our show with Joe Rivano Barros, senior editor at Mission Local who describes the monied interests behind Proposition D and the people who stand to profit from and the November elections should San Franciscans vote in favor of Proposition D. The proposition would slash the total number of oversight commissions, give the mayor … Continued
On Monday, the UN voted unanimously to extend the security mission in Haiti for another year. Dahoud André, a Haitian community activist based in New York and a member of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti contextualizes this latest development inside of what he describes as a decades long political operation to exert … Continued
Reporter Nico Lang has been a recurring guest on this show as we continue to cover the dizzying and dangerous demagoguery and anti-trans legislation against trans youth. They join us today to share about some of the people they met in small town America, trans kids and their families directly impacted by the anti-trans policies … Continued
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Choir Boy” at Shotgun Players Ashby Stage extended through October 26, 2024.
Human Rights Watch investigations have documented war crimes against journalists and civilians in Southern Lebanon, including Israel’s widespread use of white phosphorus and other weapons supplied by the US. Israel’s use of booby trapped pagers and recent aerial bombardments targeting medical workers and civilian infrastructure in Lebanon have also raised alarm from human rights advocates … Continued
Discussed in the episode: Two new studies are out on the long-term impacts of COVID on the brain: the first tracked impacts on people with COVID severe enough to require hospitalization, and found cognitive deficits equivalent in magnitude to 20 years of ageing; the second studied the impacts of deliberately (!) exposing young, healthy volunteers … Continued
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
