Breaking: Ravi Ragbir Wins Stay of Deportation After Filing Free Speech Suit Over Being Targeted for Activism; Olympics Begin with Unified Korean Team Marching Together as Trump Continues to Threaten N. Korea; Scores of Democratic Lawmakers Join GOP to Back Budget Bill with No Protection for DREAMers; Lawrence Wilkerson: I Helped Sell the False Choice … Continued
As Nancy Pelosi holds the House floor for more than 8 hours telling the stories of Dreamers, we’ll turn to our immigration correspondent Juan Escalante for what the partisan fight over the spending bill is looking like. Then, Dr. Paul Song will examine a new and slick healthcare initiative called United States of Care launched … Continued
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The Berkeley Choro Ensemble–flutist Jane Lenoir, clarinetist/saxophonist Harvey Wainapel, percussionist Brian Rice, and guitarist Ricardo Peixoto–celebrates the release of its album, The View from Here, Saturday, Feb. 10, at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Albany (1501 Washington St.). But first the quartet visits KPFA and “The Hear and Now” to play its buoyant interpretations of choro … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Unproven WMD claims in Syria raise concerns over US escalations in the region. And what is the role of the white helmets? Human rights or propaganda. Also, we’ll replay our recent interview with Arturo Rodriguez. And we’ll speak with Professor Avi Chomsky to geta broader policy look at what is driving Trump’s … Continued
On today’s show we speak with Verbena Lea, a volunteer with the Prisoner Hunger Strike Committee to End Sleep Deprivation in California Prisons. Today lawyers for two prisoners, Christopher Lipsey and Maher Suarez, argued against an attempt by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to dismiss civil rights cases brought on behalf of … Continued
Diabetes is a health issue for many people. Join Sarah Holmes for a discussion of diabetes and how to work with and live well with this disease. In our society, this is an ingrained idea that fatness causes diabetes and when you lose weight, you lose diabetes, fasting sugar is a great way to loss … Continued
On today’s show, we are in conversation with David Cay Johnston, journalist investigator who has been covering the business transactions of Donald Trump for almost 30 years. In his latest book, It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, he highlights what the White House is doing and how … Continued
7:33 – Supervisor Jane Kim, represents District 6, in San Francisco (Tenderloin, South of Market, Mid-Market/Civic Center, South Beach, Mission Bay, Rincon Hill, and Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island neighborhoods. She is the chair of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee and also sits on the Budget & Finance Committee.
Directorate S: Steve Coll on the CIA & America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan & Pakistan; Black Lives Matter Activist Muhiyidin d’Baha, Who Grabbed Confederate Flag, Shot Dead in New Orleans.
Oscar López Rivera, one of the longest serving political prisoners in the world, imprisoned for his anti-colonial activism for Puerto Rico, is a free man. Rivera served 35 years of a 70-year sentence when President Obama commuted his term. On our show today we’ll play an interview I had with him at Pasadena City College … Continued
