Forbes journalist Katia Savchuk joins us in-studio to discuss her investigation into the San Francisco’s for-profit Academy of Art University, the family dynasty that owns it, and the real estate empire they’re building. Plus: We talk to the UC Berkeley researcher who built a gentrification map of the Bay Area and ask: What is gentrification? … Continued
Guatemala President Faces Arrest as Business Interests and U.S. Scramble to Contain Uprising; Remembering Hurricane Katrina 10 Years Later: Voices from the Storm; New Orleans After Katrina: Inequality Soars as Poor Continue to Be Left Behind in City’s “Recovery”; If You are Poor, It’s Like the Hurricane Just Happened: Malik Rahim on Katrina 10 Years … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: We look at the issue of immigration reform and the impact it’s having on the presidential campaign. Next, an advocate for the homeless in San Francisco reacts to Mayor Ed Lee’s plans, to boot the homeless out before the Super Bowl comes into town. Finally, Flashpoints presents an special edition of the … Continued
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On this edition of Hard Knock, we’ll speak with Louisiana based community organizer Sukura Kone, about Hurricane Katrina ten years later and the visible differences between the old and new populations residing in New Orleans.
Food justice activists sometimes set up gardens in low-income communities. Margaret Ramírez studied a pair of food organizations in Seattle, including one led by Rev. Robert Jeffrey. Ramírez describes how the racial makeup of the staffers, the legacy of plantation slavery, and the gentrifying momentum created by “white spaces” affected what the two groups were able … Continued
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International, Eclectic & Contemporary Grooves with DJ Jose Ruiz aka MundoMuzik
A wide-ranging discussion on the history, understanding, and application of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” In addition, it forbids states from denying any person “life, liberty or property, without due process of law” or to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection … Continued
We spend the hour with Rick Perlstein, who has devoted three sweeping books to chronicling the rise of the right in American politics. The first, Before The Storm, covers Barry Goldwater, the insurgent Republican primary candidate who galvanized a generation of movement conservatives. The second, Nixonland, covers the president who looked like he would be … Continued
Two Separate Americas: David Simon’s New Mini-Series Looks at “Hypersegregation” in Public Housing; David Simon on Katrina Anniversary: New Orleans “May Be the Greatest Gift We Have to Offer”; The Drug War Has to End: David Simon on “The Wire” & Over-Policing of the Poor.
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Tonight we hear the thoughts, politics, and songs of San Francisco mayoral candidate, Francisco Herrera speaking about the “Francisco for Mayor” campaign; Salazar, of Chicanas for Third World Liberation Day, discusses the upcoming historic celebration of the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War and how now, 44 years later, we are fighting a war at … Continued
