National memorials and parks bombard visitors with rhetorics of nationhood. But the official stories propagated at such sites leave out critical things, including, asserts Stephen Germic, the claims of American Indians to territory and recognition. Germic examines a range of Native initiatives, both legal and militant, to assert their presence in the face of official … Continued
Shock & Panic in Turkey: Deadliest Terrorist Attack in Country’s History Leaves as Many as 128 Dead; From Million Man March to Columbus Day: Challenging White Supremacy & “Doctrine of Discovery”; Gyasi Ross: Why I Support Bernie Sanders & the #BlackLivesMatter Protesters Who Interrupted Him.
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Music for the Indigenous Resistance Day. Programa dedicado al Día de la resistencia indígena. Etno-Rock y otras fusiones de música indígena con el rock y la electrónica.
Love em or hate em, they’re an ever present part of American culture. And they’re not going away anytime soon. On this edition, we talk guns…from the shooting range, to the black panthers, to red state America. The people behind the trigger are probably not who you’d assume. Featuring: Matt Knox, gun owner; Ed & … Continued
Mark Crispin Miller of NYU discusses some of the recent additions to his Forbidden Bookshelf series, which seeks out important out-of-print political works and republishes them as e-books; Miller explains the insidious ways the books were first “disappeared.” Next, Peter Hart with the National Coalition Against Censorship speaks about this year’s Banned Books Week, and … Continued
We celebrate Malcolm Margolin, founder of HeyDay Books and publisher of the voices of Native Americans and native nature. He has just announced his retirement (sorta!) after over 40 years. PLUS: A new film celebrates comedy in S.F., with a focus on three legendary comics. One of them is satirist Will Durst, who joins us … Continued
On the heels of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to San Jose, a group of women from the Dalit Women’s Self Respect Movement are in the Bay Area to call for an end to violence against Dalit women and the culture of impunity that Modi continues to perpetuate. For the past three years, they … Continued
Nobel Peace Prize to Tunisian Civil Society Groups for Democratization Efforts After Arab Spring; Making Money from Misery? Disaster Capitalism from the Migrant Crisis to Afghanistan and Haiti; First Latino US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on Migrant Farmworkers, the Border and Ayotzinapa.
What the ugly history of a 1906 Bronx Zoo exhibit tells us about ourselves today. With Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Newkirk is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at New York University. And Nathan Ward, author of The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett. Ward was an editor at American Heritage, and … Continued
We’re take you inside organized labor’s debate over how to approach the Democratic primary – do you back the socialist who’s already on your side, or the frontrunner who might seek vengeance if she wins without your help? And should you be betting your chips on elections at all? Guests: Juan Gonzalez, reporter for The … Continued
