Today on the Show: Andrea Carmen, Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council, reports on the fight for Indigenous rights and for the life of imprisoned AIM leader Leornad Peltier. Also the battle for a free, people’s Peru. And an update on the deadly border fire, and Mexico’s response.
We speak with Adante Pointer about police terrorism in Antioch, California.
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We welcoming John Perlin, whose prodigious “A Forest Journey,” has just been re-published by Patagonia. “Retaining our forests can help keep resolve climate crisis protect the integrity of many of our streams and rivers, and continue to provide food and shelter for much of the world’s land animals,” says Perlin, author of four books and … Continued
Gemma Whelan discusses her novel, “Painting in the Dark,” which takes place in Ireland and Northern California in the early 1980s. Then, a 2004 interview with Russell Banks (1940-2023) discussing his novel “The Darling,” an interview not heard in nearly two decades. The weekly theatre review looks at “English” now at Berkeley Rep, and “Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2” now at ACT’s Strand Theatre. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Economist Josh Mason of John Jay College on how we can save the climate before we get to overthrowing capitalism • Jen Duggan of the Environmental Integrity Initiative on a lawsuit to get the EPA to enforce the Clean Water Act
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
Guest: Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. She is an expert on the British Romantic era, her books include A Greeting of the Spirit (2022), Romantic Shades and Shadows (2018), and Reading John Keats (2015), as well as annotated editions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (2012), Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (2014), and her latest, On Mary Wollstonecraft‘s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
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We start today’s show with our weekly State Terror Roundup. In Kansas City, Black 16-year old Ralph Yarl was shot twice by a white homeowner last week, through a glass door, after ringing the doorbell at the wrong address while trying to pick up his younger siblings. After stalling on the part of prosecutors, the … Continued
