This week, Oakland’s own Boots Riley from seminal rap group the Coup, and director of award-winning film “Sorry to Bother You,” stops by OTM to talk Bay Area cultural history, artistic process, and balancing creative work and creative expression.
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Excerpts of the 6 CD Set “Happiness, Love & Liberation,” by Thich Nhat Hanh. With Host C. S. Soong
Excerpts of “Dubious Friends of Donald Trump,” (A three-part documentary film). With Host Brian Edwards-Tiekert
Join Sarah Holmes for an exploration of keeping our hearts strong and our hope alive during these times; with plants as allies. Fund drive, co-hosted with Madalyn Berg.
Caught Between Lives: Migrants in Limbo on US-Mexico Border
By Lucy Kang, with help from April Newman KPFA News December 12, 2018 (Names have been changed and/or omitted to protect the security of the migrants.) Central American migrants line up outside a car carrying bags full of clothes. The car pulls up outside the gates of El Barretal, a nightclub venue on … Continued
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the Ur-epic inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. The Sumerian versions date back almost 5000 years. Scholar Kent H. Dixon explains what’s the Epic story of Gilgamesh, and how Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being … Continued
0:08 – Richard Walker is a professor emeritus of geography at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught from 1975 to 2012. He’s written dozens of articles and books on a diverse range of economic, urban, and environmental geography. His latest book is Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and The Dark Side of … Continued
Re-education Camps, Infiltration, Surveillance: China Criticized over Persecution of Uyghur Muslims; “The Silence of Others”: New Film Warns Against Spain’s Fascist History Repeating Itself.
On todays show, Patrick Woodall of Food and Water Watch will discuss what is in the new North American Free Trade Agreement. Then, journalist Fred Pearce joins us – he’s reported from 85 countries in 20 years and his new book explores the global state of nuclear affairs for the past half century. His book … Continued
Excerpts of the 3-CD Set “Radical Self-Acceptance,” by Tara Brach. With Host Kris Welch