Why should blind children learn to read braille? Given the amazing rise of audio books and audio screen readers, is braille a technology of the past? Our guest Mike Tanner answers these questions with a resounding “No” and, in this week’s program, makes the case for braille literacy. Most people gain literacy as children, which … Continued
Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. And the … Continued
In the first half of the show, we learn about the ongoing campaign to defend Oak Flat, a region of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest sacred to the Apache and other Native peoples of the region. Federal authorities want to allow a large copper mine to be dug there. The San Carlos Apache say the struggle … Continued
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
In today’s Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff discusses The Washington Post’s exposure of the corporate rich sponsoring police repression against student protests and how Boeing, while exhibiting the airlines’ worst safety record, rewards its CEOs. In addition, the UAW loses a union election, as German capitalists and southern governors join forces to intimidate workers with … Continued
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On today’s show, during this hour I’ll be playing a documentary by Max Monch entitled, “Footprints of War – Nature Under Fire” from Earth Stories – Climate Disaster Documentaries which displays how warfare is destroying our environment. It is available on YouTube.
00:08 Asaf Elia-Shalev, staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, just out with the book Israel’s Black Panthers: the radicals who punctured a nation’s founding myth. [This is an extended cut of an interview broadcast in abbreviated form during KPFA’s May fund drive]
On today’s show: Supreme Court Protects Access to Mifepristone, But War on Abortion Rights Continues to Escalate Birding While Black: Christian Cooper on NYC Audubon Society’s New Name & Racist Central Park Incident “Better Living Through Birding”: Christian Cooper on Being a Queer Black Man in the Natural World
The Senate Launches a Probe Into Jared Kushner’s $2 billion Payoff From Saudi Arabia’s MbS We begin with the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee asking Jared Kushner for more details about the $2 billion investment in his new company from Saudi Arabia’s MbS, at a time when there is much focus on Hunter Biden’s … Continued
