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Guest host Tim Lynch airs part three of the Beatles special, "Listening To The White Album" in the first hour, then spins some of the best of 2008's jam, groove, and grass in the second hour.
We present a one-hour radio documentary that highlights some of the major parts of the crisis and describes how it started—how tough-on-crime legislation and the zero tolerance policies of the 80's and 90's led to more convictions, longer sentences, and an explosion in the prison population. California now has the highest prison population and the … Continued
Rickey Vincent will be hosting his "Annual Jimi Hendrix Tribute Jam" with a special tribute to the late drummer Mitch Mitchell.
Today on a special holiday edition of Flashpoints, we spend the hour with Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Anthony Arnove, Mos Def, Aya de Leon, Melanie DeMore, Steve Earle, Nora el Samahy, John Trudell, and Luis Valdez, reading the voices of a People's History of the United States in part two of a two-part production recorded … Continued
The documentary details the long-sought return of the Alutiiq Masks from France to Kodiak. In the winter of 1872, a French anthropologist, Alphonse Pinart, traveled the Kodiak archipelago, assembling one of the world?s most extensive collections of Alutiiq ceremonial masks, and brought them back to France. In May, 2008, 34 of these Alutiiq ceremonial masks … Continued
We spend the hour with Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Anthony Arnove, Mos Def, Aya de Leon, Melanie DeMore, Steve Earle, Nora el Samahy, John Trudell, and Luis Valdez, reading the voices of a People's History of the United States in part one of a two-part production recorded in Berkeley in November 2006.
KPFA marks the dispossession of the Native Americans and their ongoing struggles, with a broadcast of the AIM sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz on Thanks-taking morning, produced by Miguel Molina.
The bailout expanded yesterday with billions being forwarded to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we'll speak to Catherine Austin Fitts about the expanding bailout and her recent trip to Estonia on this week's Community Business; also, Kristen Ess reports on how Israel's deadly siege impacts hospitals across the Gaza strip; JR and the Block Report … Continued
Doug sits with musician, Bay area premier bassist and composer Marcus Shelby. They will discuss Marcus's later CD Harriet Tubman.
Former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern speaks out against the decision by Obama to keep Robert Gates on as Defense Secretary; also, Project Censored's director Peter Phillips, just back from Venezuela, reports on the election and the Bolivarian revolution in progress there; Gaza plunged into darkness for the third week in a row as Israel … Continued
