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Oakland approves additional funds for OPD; Plus Fund Drive Special with David Wengrow and Damon B. Akins

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On today’s show: 0:08 – Cat and Brian reflect on yesterday’s Oakland city council vote to approve additional funds for police. 0:13 – David Wengrow (@davidwengrow), is professor of comparative archeology at University College London. His latest book, co-authored with the late David Graeber is available as a fund drive premium. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – … Continued

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Kshama Sawant recall vote tallies today; Nikki Giovanni, Mitch Jeserich from our new Storytelling for Social Change Video Collection

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On today’s show: 0:08 – Rich Smith (@richsssmith), Associate Editor at the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger, joins us to discuss the Kshama Sawant recall. 0:33 – Nikki Giovanni, poet, writer, publisher, activist, educator, Grammy-winner, and one of the most iconic voices of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s joined us on a … Continued

Letters and Politics

The Second Amendment: How Slave Supporting Politicians Got Their Right to Quell Slave Revolts

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Guest: Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of One Person, No Vote, longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award; White Rage, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Bourgeois Radicals; and Eyes … Continued

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KPFA Fund Drive Special: Ta-Nehisi Coates with Greg Bridges in Berkeley

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0:08 – Today, we’ll be sharing excerpts from KPFA’s sold out author event, co-sponsored by Marcus Bookstore, featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me in conversation with KPFA host Greg Bridges at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley, in October 2015.  Pledge to KPFA today and receive this book, or KPFA’s Abolish … Continued

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KPFA Special from the Archives: Nick Estes on his book ‘Our History is the Future’

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Nick Estes (@nickwestes) is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and a co-founder of The Red Nation, an organization dedicated to native liberation. His latest book is Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and … Continued

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KPFA GM Report: August 19, 2020

KPFA Exceeded the Summer Fund Drive Goal at $337,700 as donations continue to come in. The high fulfillment rate is at 73%.  The KPFA’s Abolish Racism Audio Collection was distributed as a link to ANYONE who donates during the Summer Fundraiser, there is no minimum donation required. Patrice Cullors with Cat Brooks in Oakland | 1-25-2017 | When They … Continued

KPFA’s Abolish Racism Audio Collection

Esteemed voices of our time from KPFA’s author event archive, speaking about the history and current manifestation of racial inequity in our society and steps forward toward change.

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Patrisse Cullors with Cat Brooks in Oakland |  1-25-2017 | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

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Angela Davis in Oakland  2-18-2016 | MUMIA ABU-JAMAL Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings – presented by Angela Davis • Johanna Fernandez • Walter Turner 

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Ibram X. Kendi 5-4-2017 in Oakland | Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ta-Nehisi Coates in Berkeley 10-28-2015 | Between the World and Me

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Isabel Wilkerson in Oakland 9-23- 2010 | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in Berkeley 10-2-2014 | Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

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John A Powell in Berkeley 12-5-2014 | Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

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Paul Ortiz 11-12-2019 in Berkeley | An African-American Latinx History of the United States

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