Making Contact

Making Contact – COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2)

COINTELPRO, the secret FBI project to infiltrate and disrupt domestic organizations thought to be “subversive.”, targeted many African American, Native American, and other movements for self-determination by people of color in the U.S.  Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI conducted more than 2,000 COINTELPRO operations.  Over the next two weeks, we’ll broadcast the documentary film … Continued


The Talkies

Living Room – Cali budget; Labor Fest; Dave Zirin

Crisis is opportunity, they say, and California's budget crisis has the S.F. city assessor actually doing something about Prop. 13.  We get the details.  One of the largest celebrations of labor in America starts today in SF.  PLUS: the inimitable sportswriter Dave Zirin, in SF for "Socialism 2009".  Say what?  With host Kris Welch. guests: … Continued


Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – December 18, 2005

This week on Sunday Salon… In our first hour… We’ll follow-up 2 hours of live wrap-up coverage from the World Trade Organization’s meetings in Hong Kong. Our guests will analyze what inside and outside the meetings, and what it all means moving forward. In our second hour… Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz joins us in-studio to talk … Continued


Against the Grain

Against the Grain – May 18, 2005

Pox Americana The writing of some of the leading thinkers about imperialism — Peter Gowan, Sam Gindin, Noam Chomsky, Samir Amin, among others — have been gathered into a thought-provoking book titled Pox Americana. And at a recent event at Modern Times Bookstore, contributors Barbara Epstein, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Bernardine Dohrn joined Tariq Ali and … Continued


The Morning Show

The Morning Show – March 8, 2005

7:00 am Issues to think about this International Women’s Day. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing up Okie; Suzanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood; Aileen Hernandez, second national president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and founder of Aileen Hernandez Associates, an urban consulting … Continued