Host Tom Mazzolini
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The Blues: Afro-American roots art form
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Nomi Prins spells it out: Wall Street and the White House, an old and increasingly toxic relationship. PLUS David Carle (“Introduction to California Water”) tells us about the drought, and the emergency measures announced this week. AND the International Buddhist Film Festival starts next week. With host Kris Welch.
Former Iranian Ambassador: Historic Nuclear Deal has Prevented a New War in the Middle East; George Takei: LGBT Protections Still Needed Despite Amended Indiana, Arkansas Religious Freedom Laws; Star Trek’s George Takei on Leonard Nimoy: He Represented the Best of an Inclusive American Society; 147 Killed at Kenyan University, Deadliest Al-Shabab Attack Since Kenya’s 2011 Invasion of Somalia. … Continued
Lunar Eclipse Easter Radio: Let war be eclipsed by cooperation with Nature’s guiding symmetrical ingenuity. Caroline hosts long-time ally Green Permaculture-Distillation Wizard David Blume: “house your friends and feed enemies.” (We will delineate.) www.blumedistillation.com www.alcoholcanbeagas.com “David Blume, researcher, author, farmer and alcohol fuel pioneer first began to work on the puzzle of how to broadly … Continued
A conversation with Abdi Samatar, Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, about Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab. And Tom Burgis, author of the new book The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth.
The president of the Service Employees International Union joins us for a sweeping conversation about organizing in an age of backlash, and the debates and changes within one of this country’s largest unions. Plus: Governor Brown issues sweeping new water restrictions for golf courses, highway medians, local water agencies . . . pretty much everyone … Continued
Richard O. Moore (February 26, 1920 – March 26, 2015)
Richard Moore was one of the original founders of listener-supported KPFA and Pacifica Foundation along with Lewis Hill and Eleanor McKinney. On April 15th 1949, Moore was the presenter of the first program on KPFA’s air: Anglo-American Folk Ballads. Moore was a published poet and a close associate of Kenneth Rexroth’s intellectual circle in San … Continued
hard knock radio
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We’re joined in studio by Barney Frank, former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts. Barney Frank was the first openly gay man to serve in the US Congress and chaired the House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011. His new autobiography, Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage, was published this … Continued