California’s drought actually has the market for high-end wines booming – which may be a very bad thing for California’s drought. We’ll talk to journalist Will Parrish about diverted streams, bulldozed woodlands, and the class politics of viticulture. Plus: The San Francisco Mime Troup launches a new production focused on police violence — we’ll bring … Continued


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Tonight’s program features Noticias/ News from the Americas with Vylma V.; an important discussion led by Julieta Kusnir about the investigation into the sexual abuse of immigrant women in the janitorial industry: a commentary by Nina Serrano on the bilingual San Francisco Mission district newspaper, “El Tecolote” and its 45th anniversary and call for poetry; … Continued


Pratap Chatterjee is the Executive Director of CorpWatch, an investigative journalist and producer. He is the author of Halliburton’s Army, Iraq Inc.: A Profitable Occupation and The Earth Brokers. His most recent article on Greece is called EuroZone Profiteers: How German and French Banks Helped Bankrupt Greece. And Alex Abella, journalist and author. His article … Continued


California’s legislature has just sent Governor Brown a bill that would make it harder to opt out of mandatory vaccinations–over howls of protest from from libertarians and vaccine skeptics. We deliver a deep history of the very first vaccine, and the very first anti-vaccination movement – a movement that included lawsuits, riots, gun battles, and … Continued


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