February
11
2019
Featured Episode
Support KPFA, Donate Today!!! BOOK Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston Edited by Deborah G. Plant $150 Best of Letters and Politics 2018 Book Collection includes: Tyrant by Stephen Greenblatt, How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley, The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey, Barracoon by Zora Neal Hurston, and A Radical History … Continued
Trump’s Energy Adviser Runs Away When Questioned by Democracy Now! at U.N. Climate Talks; Typhoon Haiyan Survivor: Fossil Fuel Companies Killed My Family by Hastening Climate Change; U.S. & Other Big Polluters Obstruct U.N. Climate Talks, Stalling Efforts to Reduce Carbon Emissions.
On todays show, well go to Katowice, Poland to speak with US youth activist Kristy Drutman about how she and others disrupted Donald Trumps coal promotion event at the UN Climate Conference. Then author Nicole Seymour will discuss her new book, Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age. Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.
Excerpts of the 4 DVD Set “Untold History of The United States.” With Host Sasha Lilley.
“The Long Shadow,” a documentary film written and directed by Frances Causey, investigates the history and legacies of slavery and anti-Black racism in the U.S.
“Our Leaders Are Behaving Like Children”: Teen Climate Activist Confronts World Leaders at U.N. Summit; School Strike for Climate: Meet 15-Year-Old Activist Greta Thunberg, Who Inspired a Global Movement; Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson: World’s Richest Must Radically Change Lifestyles to Prevent Global Catastrophe.
The Yellow Vests protests in France have rocked the nation and forced President Emmanuel Macron to back down from a fuel tax hike. On today’s show we’ll examine whether the framing of the protests as “People Vs. the Climate,” is accurate or not with author and journalist Steven Hill. Then, as a potential government shutdown … 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
Excerpts of the three-part documentary film “Dubious Friends of Donald Trump.” With Host Brian Edwards-Tiekert