Growing Concern at the Supreme Court’s Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges We begin as this year ends with selected programs from our archives following yesterday’s coverage of events from early in the year. Today we cover stories from the middle of the year, then on tomorrow’s show from later … Continued
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A weekly talk show produced by Oakland School for the Arts high school broadcast students, Our World As We See It will focus on local and world issues giving a fresh youthful perspective on how to create change.
This series explores stories of culture, politics and nature from Oakland, Berkeley and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Is a world of nation-states desirable? If ultranationalism is pernicious, are some forms of nationalism beneficial? Should struggles framed in terms of national liberation be lauded and supported? Nandita Sharma emphasizes the exclusions inherent in all nationalist politics, exclusions dictated by considerations of who does and does not belong to the nation. (Encore presentation.) Nandita Sharma, Home Rule: … Continued
Ian spoke with Adam Shapiro, Co-editor of We Are Many, a comics anthology released as part of the Cypher Zine project (@cypher_comics on Instagram) and published by Radix Media.
Mae Ngai is the author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics.
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
We spend the hour with famed writer Adam Mansbach, whose latest novel draws on Jewish mysticism to fight anti-semitism and modern white supremacy. The Golem of Brooklyn offers a serious take, but is written in a long legacy of Jewish self-deprecating and laugh-out loud humor. Adam Mansbach, has won awards for many of his books, but … Continued
In the later years of the Ottoman empire, big areas were consumed by religious conflict and nationalist independence movements. But not the Arab near east, including present-day Israel,/Palestine, where Christian, Muslims, Jews, and others basically just . . . got along. We’ll discuss the deep foundations for peace with with Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History … Continued
