First Hour: Youth Activism: Why Youth Are and Are Not Participating Guests include Alejandro Soto-Vigil, UC Berkeley graduate and youth activist. Also, Dr. Hardy T. Frye, a UC Berkeley sociology lecturer, professor-emeritus from UC Santa Cruz and civil rights activist (SNCC). Second Hour: I Want My MTV!: Music Videos and Their Influence on Today’s Youth … Continued
Hour One: Segregation and Integration in Education: What Went On, What’s Going On Guests: Sheryll Cashin, professor, Georgetown University Law Center, author The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream (Public Affairs Press); Dr. Dara Byrne, assistant professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University, N.Y., consulting editor, The … Continued
First Hour: Corporate America: The Invisible Hand Guests: Joel Bakan, author, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Free Press) and Jennifer Abbott, co-director, The Corporation (Opens in Theaters 6/4). Second Hour: The End is Nigh: Bush, Big Business,and Doom for our Planet Guests: Paul Rauber, co-author, Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration … Continued
First Hour Looking In, Looking Out Alice Walker A discussion with Alice Walker, about the state of the world, and the explorations for peace and sanity by individuals and society, on the occasion of the publication of her new novel (and thirteenth book), Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (Random House). Second Hour: … Continued
First Hour: Mother’s Day:The Pledge Today Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation (see www.sundaysalon.org "References"). Discussed by five KPFA mothers with very diverse experiences: Aileen Alfandary, news co-director; Amelia Gonzalez, director of apprenticeship program; Maya Orozco, engineer/producer; Kirsten Thomas, engineer/national Pacifica producer; Susan Stone, drama and literature department director. Second Hour: The Pulse of the … Continued
Hour One: Hip Hop Politics: The Difference in 2004? Guests: Yvonne Bynoe, author, Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture (Soft Skull Press) and Todd Boyd, Professor of Critical Studies, USC, author, Young, Black, Rich and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion,and the Transformation of American Culture (Doubleday) … Continued
Updates on the situation in Iraq, including live reports from Baghdad, at the top of both hours. Hour 1:Race and Racism in Education Guests: Dr. Pedro Noguera, professor of education, New York University, author, City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education (Teachers College Press); Dr. Amanda Lewis, visiting fellow, Stanford, … Continued
First Hour California State University Budget Crisis: What About It? A complete look at the CSU budget crisis with guests: Susan Meisenhelder, professor of English at CSU San Bernardino and immediate past president of CFA; Three students of the CSU, Blanca Castanea of CSU Los Angeles, D McKinney of CSU Hayward, and Christopher Robin Cox … Continued
First Hour: March Madness: What’s It All About? A look at college and professional sports, in the midst of NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Finals. Guests: David Steele, sports columnist, San Francisco Chronicle; Michael McDonald, Stanford basketball captain, 2000; Michael Mandelbaum, Johns Hopkins University, author, The Meaning of Sports (Public Affairs Press); Todd Boyd, USC, author, … Continued
First Hour The September 11 Commission Hearings: What Do We Know Now? Larry Bensky, anchor of Pacifica’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of this week’s hearings in Washington, talks with Sam Smith, editor of the Washington based Progressive Review, and American University professor Clarence Lusane, author of a forthcoming book about Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell. (A survivor … Continued
