Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research on the crisis in Honduras; The Yes Men take on Chevron; Amnesty International secretary general Irene Khan tells The Unheard Truth; African American author and National Park Service ranger Shelton Johnson; Canyon Sam on the women of Tibet
Robert McChesney of Free Press talks about being Fox News’ latest target; Investigative reporter AC Thompson uncovers post-Katrina violence; author Rich Benjamin goes “Searching for Whitopia.” Plus: Listeners speak their minds during Free Speech Forum 9-11am, with host Andrea Lewis
Author Leonard Zeskind on new developments in the rise of (white) nationalism; A tribute to KPFA programmer Gina Hotta with San Francisco city supervisor Eric Mar; HealAfrica works to bring peace and healing to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Plus: pink-washing for breast cancer with Barbara Brenner, executive director, Breast Cancer Action. With host … Continued
Fall Fund Drive Special. Award-winning reporter A.C. Thompson investigates vigilante and police violence post Hurricane Katrina; Rebecca Solnit speaks; two new documentaries tell us what corporate America doesn’t want us to know about food production. Plus: Love, chaos and brunch. With host Andrea Lewis
UC Berkeley Professor George Lakoff on The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics; The Woodstock Experience, featuring Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin and the filmmakers who documented the event. With host Andrea Lewis
The Supreme Court and corporate power; Obama’s healthcare speech; literary imagination and the environment: the 14th Annual Watershed Poetry Festival; Plus: Rebecca Solnit on the extraordinary communities that arise in disaster. With host Andrea Lewis
Independent journalist Reese Erlich on why sending more troops to Afghanistan won’t work; Labor Notes director Mark Brenner on the state of the labor movement in 2009; author Rachel Simmons on the Curse of the Good Girl; plus new studies expose serious violations of employment laws in urban areas, and the large percentage of rejected … Continued
Matthew Rothschild on Ted Kennedy; author Jon Jeter on being “Flat Broke in the Free Market” Mark Dowie on the 100 year conflict between global conservation and native peoples; musician Bob Ostertag on music, politics, people, machines, and the creative life.
Author Chris Hedges on Iraq and the Empire of Illusion; Eva Martinez on El Tecolote’s 39th birthday; Peter Richardson on how Ramparts magazine Changed America. Plus: State Sentator Leland Yee on landmark legislation that prohibits discrimination based on use of one’s native language.
