First Hour: "Homeless Teens: A Special Case?" Guests include Rebecca Prophet, homeless teen outrach worker at Jubileespot in Berkeley, CA., and two homeless teens. Second Hour: "Howard Zinn: A Long Life, Well Lived." Guests include David Joyce, author, Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision (Prometheus Books), and Howard Zinn, author, A Peoples History of the … Continued
Hour One: "The 2004 Election: Any Chance to Beat Bush?" Guests: Matt Gonzalez, president, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, recent candidate for SF mayor as a Green Party member; Scott Armstrong, founding executive director, National Security Archive, Washington, DC, journalist and author on electoral politics. Second Hour: "The 2004 Election: The Role of the Streets" … Continued
Guest Host: Wes "Scoop" Nisker, author, The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: Spiritual Experiments of My Generation, Harper/San Francisco, 2003. First Hour: "New Year’s Rituals" Guest: Malcom Margolin, author, The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscenes, Stories, and Songs, Heyday Books, 1993. Second Hour: "Daddies and Daughters: Buddhist Generations" Guests: Jack Kornfield … Continued
First Hour: "Who’s Watching Us, How and Why – Citizen Surveillance After 9/11" Guests Include: Ted Morgan, author, Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth Century America (Random House); Christian Parenti, author, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America (Basic Books); and Maria Blanco, Executive Director, San Francisco Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights (formerly with Mexican American Legal Defense … Continued
Special Pacifica Broadcast: "The Capture of Saddam Hussein – What Now?" Co-hosted by Larry Bensky, at KPFA, Berkeley, and Verna Avery Brown from Washington, D.C. Guests include: Roger Normand, Center for Economic and Social Rights (www.cesr.org) Phyllis Bennis, Senior Policy Analyst, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C. (www.ips-dc.org) (See article by Stephen Zunes on IPS … Continued
First Hour: "Music and Social Change: the Hip-Hop Experience" Guests: Lauren Lazin, Director, "Tupac Resurrected;" Kevin Epps, Producer/Director, "Straight Outa Hunter’s Point;" Joslyn Rose Lyons, Producer/Director, "Soundz of Spirit." Second Hour: "The Greening of San Francisco?" Discussion of the upcoming 12/9 mayoral runoff between Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez and Democrat Gavin Newsom. Guest: Robert … Continued
First Hour: Land, Government, and Justice in the Central Valley. Guests: Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, authors, The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret Empire Second Hour: World AIDS Day: Keeping Up with the Plague Guests: John Iverson, Oakland AIDS activist, reporting on the Global Network of People Living With … Continued
First Hour: "Culture and Social Change" Guest: Curtis White, author, The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves. Second Hour: "Caught in the Crossfire: Children and War" Guests include participants in Saturday’s 11/22 conference on "Rights of the Child and the UN Role in the Middle East"
25th Anniversary Retrospective: Jonestown and the City Hall Murders. Features a rebroadcast of Larry Bensky’s 1978 KSAN Documentary, "1978 in Your Ear," with historical material about that November’s tragedies, as well as live interviews with former SF Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, Cleve Jones, an aide to Supervisor Harvey Milk, and Jonestown survivors and analysts.
First Hour: Repression Then and Now Guests include: Robert Meeropol, son of executed "atom spies" Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, author of An Execution in the Family James Bovard, author of Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil Huwaida Araf, a Palestinian founder of the International Solidarity Movement to … Continued
