Pacific Gas and Electric is withdrawing its application to renew licenses for its two nuclear reactors in Diablo Canyon. That means California’s last nuclear power plant will close by 2025. We’re going to talk about why, what it means about the nuclear industry in general, who’s going to foot the bill for cleaning up Diablo … Continued
Thomas Frank on Clinton & Democratic Establishment: What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? Meet the FBI Informant Who Organized Neo-Nazi Gathering Attended by Jo Cox Murder Suspect in 2000; After Decades of Protest, Last California Nuclear Plant to Close & Be Replaced by Renewable Energy.
We speak with Pedro Julio Serrano, a prominent LGBT and human rights activist, founder of Puerto Rico para Tod@s, and Senior Advisor to New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito about the massacre in Orlando. And we speak with organizers in Oakland, California about police accountability and the recall of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.
Q and A: going to Mars? New cancer detection method? Life in outer space? Guest: Dr. Charles Seife, author of Sun in a Bottle, about fusion power. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
A conversation with Ellen Fitzpatrick on Victoria Woodhull: free love advocate, newspaper editor who was the first to publish the Communist Manifesto in English in the US and who was the first female Presidential candidate in 1872. She spent election night in jail. Ellen Fitzpatrick is a Professor of History at the University of New … Continued
Ashley Yates of the Anti Police-Terror Project joins us in-studio to discuss what should come after the Oakland policing scandals that have brought down three chiefs in less than two weeks. Then: San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos has a proposal for how to deal with policing problems in his city: withold $200 million in funding. … Continued
An Attack on Democracy Itself: UK Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn Pays Tribute to Murdered MP Jo Cox; Jeremy Corbyn: Why I Am Voting for Britain to “Remain” In European Union in Historic Brexit Vote; Police Department or Frat House? 3 Oakland Police Chiefs Resign in 9 Days Amid Sex Crime Scandal; #BlackLivesMatter Activist: Oakland Needs … Continued
The life of Kamau Amen Ra a master photographer, historian, and community activist who graced the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for more than 40 years. Kamau Amen Ra documented all of the major African American community events and was instrumental in building an photographic record of the African American experience.
Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine we will look at a current issue in the conflict that’s been brewing between the feminist and trans community for many years We will hear a talk by UC Berkeley Professor Wendy Brown on the war between some larger reproductive rights groups and with trans activists that demand that … Continued
We may take for granted that some regions do well economically — perhaps it’s the pleasant weather that attracts skilled workers to them — and that others do poorly. But history shows that regions rise and fall. Economic geographer Michael Storper reflects on the differing fates of regions, including the San Francisco Bay Area and … Continued
