Today on Flashpoints: We celebrate the 420 cannabis revolution toward legalization and distribution, Is the new Pulitzer-prize winning play, about Alexander Hamilton, a theatrical cleansing of early an early American racism? And we rebroadcast our interview with Beverly Bell of Other Worlds on the continuing violence against activist indigenous communities in Honduras
Creative destruction is the hallmark of capitalism, as the economist Joseph Schumpeter argued. But the destructive side is often overlooked. Francesca Ammon discusses the enormous wave of demolition that accompanied the postwar boom — transforming the rural, urban and suburban landscape, and displacing the residents of scores of communities around the United States. Resources: Francesca … Continued
In a true win for California’s unionized teachers, the Appeals Court last week unanimously rejected another well-funded attempt to strip rights to due process in hiring and firing. We talk with David Bacon, about this and other labor news. AND: How has the Tenderloin, alone of S.F.’s neighborhoods, avoided gentrification? We talk with Randy Shaw. … Continued
With Azi Paybarah, reporter for Politico New York. He has covered politics for The New York Observer, WNYC, The New York Sun and the New York Press. And Ruth Conniff, Editor in Cheif of The Progressive Magazine. Then, David Rosen, author of Sin, Sex & Subversion: How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America’s New Normal. … Continued
The Cannabis Industry, Marijuana Legalization, what’s on the ballot? Guest: Davis Downs, Independent journalist; covered cannabis (Scientific American, San Francisco Chronicle); contributor, weekly column Legalization Nation, East Bay Express (2010); editor pot blog ‘Smell the Truth’, SFGate.com. www.DavidRDowns.com. Voter issues for California’s primary Guest Kim Alexander, President of the California Voter Foundation, Get voting details at … Continued
With veteran journalist Herb Boyd of the New York Amsterdam News. And Sri Lankan-American novelist Nayomi Munaweera on her new book What Lies Between Us. About the book: In the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family; but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in … Continued
Linda Khoury interviews Leila Abdelrazzaq about the challenges of putting the Palestinian experience in graphic novel form. Plus: What happens when popular movements collide with giant pools of wealth that say they want to help? Erica Kohl-Arenas spent years studying the relationship between foundations and farmworker organizations — we’ll discuss her findings. Guests: Leila Abdelrazaq, … Continued
This Monday April 18th KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine talks to Erin Araujo and Sarai Garcia Lopez two of the women from Chiapss who created a non monetary, non capitalist feminist economic community where people donate and exchange services and goods for free. Their inspiring documentary, “Cambalache: El Valor de Inter-Cambiar” (The Courage to Inter-Change) which … Continued
In the popular imagination, U.S. anarchism ended with the deportation of Emma Goldman in 1919, only to re-emerge recently with the masked Black Bloc. But according to scholar Andrew Cornell, anarchism survived and thrived in mid-century America, deeply influencing bohemia, Civil Rights, and the New Left. Resources: Andrew Cornell, Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in … Continued
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Entrevistas con el cantautor chileno Gepe y la banda de Los Angeles La Santa Cecilia. Rod Armstrong provee información sobre el 59 Festival Internacional de Cine de San Francisco.
