Noam Chomsky & Harry Belafonte in Conversation on Trump, Sanders, the KKK, Rebellious Hearts & More; Housing Advocate: It’s Scary That Trump HUD Secretary Pick Ben Carson Thinks Poverty is a Choice.
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Geoff Muldaur and Jim Kweskin perform live on the combined Bonnie Simmons Show / The Hear and Now, Thursday, Dec. 8
As program hosts Bonnie Simmons and Derk Richardson combine forces during the KPFA Winter Fund Drive, they present roots music legends Geoff Muldaur & Jim Kweskin, joined by fiddler/singer Suzy Thompson, live in the KPFA studio, with Tony Ferro engineering. Cohorts since the early 1960s and the heyday of Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band, … Continued
Our guest on this episode is Peter Linebaugh, an American Marxist historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic. He is the author of the pamphlet Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12. As a part of our fundraising drive, we … Continued
Water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota declare a major victory as the US Army Corps of Engineers says it will not let the Dakota Access pipeline cross Lake Oahe. We’ll speak with journalist Simon Moya-Smith with Indian Country Today Media Network about the decision and whether the fight will continue. And, we’ll hear a … Continued
with Favianna Rodriquez, Oakland based artist and activist.
From Climate Change to Nuclear War, Noam Chomsky Warns of Literal Threats to Our Survival; Noam Chomsky: Trump’s Victory Recalls Memories of Hitler & Fascism’s Spread Across Europe; “Welcome to the Fourth Reich”: Legendary Actor Harry Belafonte on the Election of Donald Trump; Patti Smith Dedicates Song to Oakland Fire Victims & Young People Who … Continued
Womens Magazine – December 5, 2016 – Fun with Feminism
Kate talks with Bonnie Burton about Crafting With Feminism. Learn how to make tampons buddies with sequins, Ruth Bader Ginsburg finger puppets and huggable uterus pillows just in time for the holidays. Plus riffs on pop culture. Sharon Sobotta talks with playwright AJ Baker about ENTANGLEMENT, a play about a play about the quantum mechanics … Continued
Ralph talks to political activist Kevin Zeese about how to resist in the age of Trump and to professor Joel Andreas about his graphic novel-style critique of the military industrial complex: Addicted To War: Why the U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism.
With Eileen Markey, investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice and America Magazine, among others. She is author of the new book: A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura. About the book: The 1980 rape and murder of four American women – three of them Catholic nuns … Continued
Immigrants have faced harsh deportation and detention under President Obama. What will they face under Trump? We’ll turn to Olga Tomchin of the National Day Laborer Organizing network to learn about the case of Mayra Machado and what it means for immigrant rights. And, Greg Palast joins us to explain what the Green Party vote … Continued