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Fund Drive Special: Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses; Rest in power, bell hooks

bell hooks discusses about her book All About Love: New Visions | New York City 115th St Library, September 23, 2000

On today’s show:

0:08 – Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, activist, and author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering, walking, hope, and disaster joins us to discuss her latest book Orwell’s Roses.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Rebecca Solnit’s Orwell’s Roses.

1:08 – bell hooks tragically died in her home early yesterday. She was 69 years old. In honor of her life, and the immense gift she left us with her work, the second hour of our show features a bell hooks lecture she gave at the Los Angles Central Library in 1999, recorded by our sister station KPFK.

bell hooks‘ full lecture is now included in The Holiday 2021 Storytelling for Social Change Video Collection. Our gift to you if you donate any amount during KPFA’s Holiday Fund Drive.