Flashpoints – January 19, 2023
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Featured Episode
We spoke to Master Gee and Jayquan about Hip-Hop’s 50th.
Jack O’Brien, theatre director and author of Jack in the Box, or How to Goddamn Direct, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Jack O’Brien has won three Tony Awards and has been nominated seven times. The former artistic director of The Old Globe in San Diego, from 1981 to 2007, he’s one of the premier directors working in America today. Among his Broadway shows are The Full Monty, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can and The Coast of Utopia. He directed the much lauded 2018 revival of Carousel on Broadway. Most recently, in 2021, he directed Hairspray in London.
The state of Afghanistan and the ecology of the port of LA
Matthieu Aikins, author of this article (among many), on the situation in Afghanistan with the US gone and the Taliban in control. And Christina Dunbar-Hester, author of Oil Beach, on the ecology of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Talkies – January 19, 2023
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.
Guest: Nick Tabor is a freelance journalist. He is the author of Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created.
Democracy Now – January 19, 2023
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Oakland’s school board election kerfuffle; Preventing sexual exploitation of girls in Oakland; Plus, anti-war rally on Sun Jan 22
We start today’s show with our weekly State Terror Roundup segment. Then, Oakland’s most recent school board election from November of 2022 appears rife with error. We speak with Mike Hutchinson, the Oakland school board representative for District 5. Due to redistricting from the city, he ran in our last election cycle for the open … Continued
An “intimate portrait of South Africa’s racial reckoning” with Eve Fairbanks
0:08 — Eve Fairbanks, is a former political writer for The New Republic. She’s lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, for thirteen years. Her debut book is The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning.
Democracy Now – January 19, 2023
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.