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
Legendary Patti Smith on Her New Memoir “M Train” & National Book Award Winner “Just Kids”; Patti Smith on Closing Guantanamo, Remembering Rachel Corrie and Feeling Frustrated with Obama; Patti Smith on 19th Century Poet William Blake and on Creating Political Art “Unapologetically”; “People Have the Power”: Patti Smith on Pope Francis and Her Performances … Continued
Nina Serrano hosts a tribute to Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, featuring four Bay Area poets reading a poem by Darwish and one of their own: Jack Hirschman, Lenore Weiss, Neeli Cherkovski, and Deema Shehabi. First broadcast on KPFA in 2008, the original program was produced by Nina Serrano and Lenore Weiss and was reedited by … Continued
We’re joined by Vijay Prashad, Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut. He is the author of a number of books, including The Darker Nations: a People’s History of the Third World and Arab Spring, Libyan Winter. His newest book is Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation. About the book: Impassioned and intimate … Continued
Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Trinity College, joins us for a lengthy in-studio interview on the escalating turmoil in Israel/Palestine. He the editor of a new anthology called Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation. He’s presenting a talk on Palestine for the Middle East Children’s Alliance tonight. Click here for … Continued
Father of Journalist Shot Dead On-Air in Virginia Speaks Out to End U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic; “Einstein’s Definition of Insanity”: Father of Slain Reporter on GOP Candidates’ Gun Control Remarks; Does Free Speech Have a Palestine Exception? Dismissed Professor Steven Salaita Speaks Out.
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Tonight’s program features: the economic crisis in Puerto Rico; A report back on the Tribunal of Conscience about the Human Rights in Mexico with poet, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez; A a message of solidarity to the parents of the 43 disappeared Mexican students in Spanish by Munia Abu Jamal; and an interview with filmmaker Lou Dematteis … Continued
Life on Mars – NASA announces that liquid water, for the first time, has been discovered on Mars. What does this mean? Guest:: Dr. Tom Jones, astronaut, talks about going into space. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
Are the rich wealth creators, as we commonly hear? Should we be grateful to investors and entrepreneurs, as they like to be called, for generating jobs and greasing the wheels of the economy? Or is the source of their massive wealth the rest of us? Scholar Andrew Sayer discusses rentiers, capitalists, and why the planet … Continued
