Court Rules NSA Bulk Spying Illegal: New Vindication for Snowden, and Uncertainty for PATRIOT Act; Omar Khadr, Child Prisoner Who Claimed Torture at Gitmo, Freed on Bail in Canada During U.S. Appeal.
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THE SEA OF INVISIBLE RICHES: ASIAN AMERICANS AND THE ALASKA SALMON GROUNDS
On Sunday, May 24th, from 2:15-3PM, The National Park Service celebrates Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with The Sea of Invisible Riches: Asian Americans and the Alaska Salmon grounds. This event takes place at the Hyde Street Pier, 2905 Hyde Street in San Francisco. For more information, call (415) 561-7006.
EVENING WITH MYSTERY AUTHORS
On Saturday, May 23rd at 7:30PM, you are invited to Pegasus Books’ Evening With Mystery Authors, who will discuss and read from their newwest works. This event takes place at Pegasus Books, 1855 Solano Avenue in Berkeley. For more information call (510) 649-1320.
ZYDECO FLAMES
The City of Concord presents the West Coast’s Premier Zydeco Band “Zydeco Flames” on May 21st at 6:30 PM in downtnown Concord at the corners of Willow Pass Road and Grant Streets. Zydeco Flames are said to have timeless and sizzling roots rhythms with a stunning and powerful groove. For more information, call (925) 671-3464.
Robert Jay Lifton on How Climate Change Joins Nuclear War in Threatening Human Survival; Robert Jay Lifton, Author of “The Nazi Doctors”: Psychologists Who Aided Torture Should Be Charged.
Mario Martinez works at the intersection of health, psychology, neurology, and culture — a field he calls biocognition. We bring you a special presentation of a KPFA talk he delivered barely a month ago — that covers everything from why some people live well in their tenth decade, and what ritual has to do with … Continued
Kicking off the first day of our May Fund Drive with a tribute to Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, “global soccer’s pre-eminent man of letters” and “a literary giant of the Latin American left.”
Saudi-Led Coalition Bombing Yemen with Banned U.S.-Made Cluster Munitions
Emails Show American Psychological Association Secretly Worked with Bush Admin to Enable Torture; Human Rights Watch: Saudi-Led Coalition Bombing Yemen with Banned U.S.-Made Cluster Munitions.
Marxian economist Richard Wolff delivers a brief history of capitalism — from before it existed, to what to watch for this December. This is the broadcast premier of a talk delivered on Sunday, February 15, 2015 at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. Guest: Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Visiting … Continued
Emails Show American Psychological Association Secretly Worked with Bush Admin to Enable Torture; Human Rights Watch: Saudi-Led Coalition Bombing Yemen with Banned U.S.-Made Cluster Munitions.