2:00 PM PST, Friday
Covering the movements, the issues, and the people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang.
It’s been a couple of years since the mortgage crisis first broke. And there is little to indicate that the financial picture will be improving anytime soon. In this year alone, it’s projected that more than two million people will lose their homes to foreclosure. On this edition, we continue our series “How We Survive”, … Continued
Joanna Manqueros hosts Music of the World. Interview with Lila Downs at 11AM, who will be part of the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco 8/29/09. Tickets for Israel Vibration at the independent and Alam Khan at Herbst Theatre for 9/19/09.
Physicians are taking a stand for a single-payer health care system for all. They say a public plan that cuts out for-profit insurers is the only way to fix our health care woes. Featuring: Michael Lighty, California Nurses Association; Oliver Fein, Physicians National Health Program president; Elizabeth Frost, Physicians National Health Program; U.S. Senator Max … Continued
Nearly two million Americans have fought in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On this edition, reporter Aaron Glantz takes us inside the war as it comes home to our communities … with a focus on the special role our educational institutions can play in helping former soldiers adjust to civilian life. Featuring: Andrew Berends, … Continued
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From the Tennessee Valley Authority to the federal theatre project, Roosevelt’s’ New Deal of the 1930’s dramatically altered America’s infrastructure in lasting ways. Now President Obama wants a New Deal too –– only this one is green. Obama plans to create more than two-and-half million “green” jobs over the next two years. But will these … Continued
Facing a world map, most Americans would not be able to point to the Himalayan country of Bhutan. But thousands of Nepali speaking refugees from this Buddhist-majority nation are arriving on North American soil, and soon will be part of the rich cultural fabric of U.S. society. On this edition, correspondent Adelaide Chen brings us … Continued
June is Pride month. Every year across the country and around the world––lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer people and those who support them gather to march, protest and celebrate. Over the past two decades, there have been profound transformations of human and civil rights for queer people in this country. Still, LGBTQ perspectives are largely … Continued
President Obama recently declared that "we have banned torture without exception." However, some would take exception to this claim. The practice of isolating a person in solitary confinement for extended periods of time causes severe sensory deprivation and has been denounced as torture by the United Nations. But tens of thousands are locked up in … Continued
