Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Arcchive:
PFA Associate Curator Kate MacKay discusses a retrospective of films directed by John Cassavetes featuring Gena Rowlands, which runs from May 2 – May 14. Senior Curator Susan Oxtoby discusses the life and films of director Agnes Varda. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental, on the state of the US empire and the state of the global working class • Becca Rothfeld, author of All Things Are Too Small, speaks up for bigness
Oppressive governments like the Trump administration may try to erase queer identities and histories, but California Naturalist and educator Jason “Journeyman” Wise reveals how science is recognizing that the rigid, patriarchal, binary view of the natural world is no match for the true fluid, diverse and interdependent reality (interviewed by Jason Jenn). And in NewsWrap: … Continued
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
Guest: Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History and the Mastin Gentry White Professorship in Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the winner of the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow. Her latest book is Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American … Continued
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).
In recognition of International Workers Day, we are airing an interview with authors behind a book that explores forced and under-or-un-paid labor of prisoners across the United States. The book is called Abolition Labor , and it draws connections between the labor forced on prisoners who hustle to survive on the inside and our precarious economy … Continued
00:08 Peter Linebaugh, emeritus professor of History at the University of Toledo, and the author of many many books, including The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day [originally recorded in 2016] 00:33 Fred Glass, author of From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement (and formerly communications director … Continued
On today’s show: “I Am Not Afraid of You”: Mohsen Mahdawi’s Defiant Message to Trump After Release from ICE Jail in VT “They Shattered Our Dreams”: New York Father Recounts How ICE Snatched His Son and Sent Him to El Salvador Is Trump’s “Minerals Deal” a Fossil Fuel Shakedown? Antonia Juhasz on New U.S.-Ukraine Agreement … Continued
Two Nuclear Powers — India and Pakistan — are Poised to Go To War
Trump’s 100th Day and the Record-Breaking Collapse of His Poll Numbers
Today’s 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, Which Trump is Boycotting While Slapping 46% Tariffs on Vietnam
