The Morning Show – March 14, 2006
Kenji Yoshino author of "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights"
Kenji Yoshino author of "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights"
Pushing Limits’ hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leroy Moore will cover "The Media Looks at Disability". They interview Mitch Jeserich who went from KPFA’s newsroom training to interviewing Colin Powell in a few short years and Charles A. Riley who tried to compete with Oprah with "WE," a lifestyle magazine for and about people with disabilities. … Continued
SPECIAL LIVE COVERAGE: The Senate Judiciary Committee holds its second hearing into President Bush’s authorization of warrantless wiretaps within the United States. Breaks will include expert analysis and anchor commentary.
KPFA will provide live coverage of tonight’s rescheduled execution of Michael Morales at San Quentin Prison — and efforts to block it. We’ll be inside and outside of San Quentin with interviews on lethal injection, the role of doctors in administering the death penalty, and lawmakers’ renewed calls for a moratorium.
A depart from the original format since Michio Kaku is putting the final touches on a BBC special that will be broadcasted in March about the nature of time. Dr. Neil Tyson gives a guided tour of how to discover the night sky and an expert on black holes with chairman of the physics department … Continued
7:08 Execution of Michael Morales postponed until tonight Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus Rose Bras, Director of Critical Resistance 7:34 Kenji Yoshino, author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights 7:56 Andreas commentary on Black History Month 8:08 Women, People of Color and the Olympics Helen Lenskyj, Professor of Sociology … Continued
KPFA Local Station Board 2/18/2006 Meeting Minutes 11:00 AM convening Freight & Salvage Coffee House 1111 Addison Street Berkeley, CA Meeting called to order at 11:12AM Members of the Local Station Board introduced. In attendance: Sepideh Khoosrowjah (SK) Riva Enteen (RE) LaVarn Williams (LW) Max Blanchet (MxB) Joseph Wanzala (JW) Marnie Tattersall (MT) Stan Woods … Continued
The deepening Iranian crisis over their uranium development has left the world waiting for a showdown. We will analyze the position of the West and Iran. The ancestor of the tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered in China. Professor Daniel Dennett of Tufts University and author of a new controversial book â
A special three hour program … In hour one… On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about the Bush Administration’s warrantless surveillance activities. KPFA devoted that day to special coverage. We’ll recap, play highlights and have commentary by Elizabeth de la Vega, former assistant US attorney, and Clarence Lusane, professor of … Continued
Tune in for gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Judiciary Committees hearing on domestic surveillance with critical analysis hosted by Pacifica National Correspondent Larry Bensky.