Americas Back 40 – January 7, 2018
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The hicks from coast to coast. Hosted by Mary Tilson.
Featured Episode
Music of the World with Joanna Manqueros – Live Performance by Yassir Chadly
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Moroccan born Yassir Chadly sings in Arabic, plays oud, gambri and other stringed instruments from the Arab world. Stephen Kent plays didgeridoo. We will be celebrating the vibrancy and strength of the KPFA musical community. Co-Hosted by Joanna Manqueros and Tawfic Halaby.
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll examine how young people are using spoken word as a mechanism for social change. The show also will explore how Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam has challenged mainstream culture and created spaces that welcome and encourage marginalized communities to speak up about their life experiences – all through poetry. Featuring: Kayla Kitchen; … Continued
Updates on net neutrality, workplace sexual harassment, bitcoin, worsening global inequality, Europe’s recovery and instability, and using prison labor to fight fires. Major discussions of consumerism, gathering revolt against capitalism, and the economics of alternative populisms. Hosted by Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff
On November 26th 2016, Honduras held its first election since the 2009 coup. Since then, Honduras has seen demonstrations erupting across the country, protesting the supposed re-election of semi-dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez. Speaking with us from El Progreso in Honduras, Ryan Morgan, an advocate with the International Team with Witness for Peace, gives an update … Continued
The Biggest Secret: James Risen on Life as a NY Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror.
We’ll begin our show today with a look at Iran. After nearly a week of mass protests the government has declared the unrest over. My guest Ahmad Sadri, a professor at Lake Forest College will explain what sparked the protests, how the US is involved, and what’s next for the democratic aspirations of the Iranian … Continued
Caroline welcomes Dan Flores, author of “Coyote America, a Natural and Supernatural History” That we may glean knowledge which leads to respectful honoring, and partnering with of our ingenious wiley playful Trickster Intelligence ally… which likes “against all odds.” Flores is the author of over ten books, recipient of innumerable awards, spiraling stories out into the memosphere in innumerable media venues, of which … Continued
Today host Mitch Jeserich talks with Robbin Légère Henderson, granddaughter of Matilda Rabinowitz and illustrator of her memoir, about the life of this immigrant girl of the early 20th century who became a radical woman fighting for her rights. The life of Matilda Rabinowitz is related in an illustrated memoir, Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early … Continued
Although KPFA is financially healthy, its sister station in New York, WBAI, is raising very little money, and is trapped in a lease on their antenna tower that they cannot pay – it currently costs $60,000 per month, and is rising. In late 2016, the landlord, the Empire State Realty Trust, sued for unpaid rent. … Continued