The Economy: Are things getting better? Guest: Doug Henwood, editor of The Left Business Observer; Obama’s nominee for Surgeon General: Guest: Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General; Healthcare activism: Where’s the Left? Also: Divorce Union Style: Guest: Peter Drier, Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College; Plus: Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams at SFMOMA
This week on Sunday Sedition [for August 9, 2009] Emira Woods of Foreign Policy in Focus on Hillary Clinton’s trip to Africa; Norman Solomon on Afghanistan and the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Thomas Kim of Korea Policy Institute on what’s next for US/North Korea relations; Plus: Beyond the Odds: a new … Continued
Health care reform: What happened to single payer? Guests include: Dr. Andrew Coates, a national leader of Physicians for a National Health Program, and Dr. David Scheiner, president Obama’s personal physician for 22 years Plus: Phyllis Bennis on Obama and Israel And: Adults on the Autism Spectrum with Kathryn Stewart, executive director of Orion Academy, … Continued
Nation writer and Princeton University professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell, American University professor Clarence Lusane, and author Tim Wise (“Between Barack And A Hard Place: Racism and White Denial In The Age Of Obama”) discuss the Henry Louis Gates arrest and aftermath.
This week on Sunday Sedition with host Andrea Lewis: National Lawyer’s Guild president Marjorie Cohn recaps the Sotomayor confirmation hearings; author Chris Hedges discusses his new book the Empire of Illusion; labor journalist Steve Early gets into the trenches of the class wars at home. PLUS: an in-depth conversation with Amy Ray of Indigo Girls
Stephen Ronan, Helen Holt, Don. A three hour rail ride with a couple old hands from the early days of OTE, returning tonight for the first time in years. Railroad Ray reads from his traveling poetry as Miss Information plays horns, flutes, mandolin, and sound devices, interrupted by That Hellbound Train, The Signal Man, and … Continued
An exclusive interview with Army Sergeant Travis Bishop, the highest enlisted officer to resist deployment to Afghanistan, we'll hear the voice of the Sergeant before he was locked away in the brig and we speak to Dahr Jamail about the significance of the expanding GI resistance movement; also, 24 dead and over 120 wounded in … Continued
NYU’s Greg Grandin on the coup in Honduras, Robert Jensen on Ameican patriotism and his new book “All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice; Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar on U.S. troops beginning to withdraw from Iraq; Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki on “The Conscience of Nhem Em” and Cambodia.
Gay Pride Special: political writer and comic Kate Clinton and nationally-syndicated journalist Michelangelo Signoreli discuss Obama and the gay community. Plus: progressive sportswriter Dave Zirin on sports and gender; and Free Speech Forum: your thoughts on gay pride, Michael Jackson’s death and other the news of the week
Stephen Zunes with an update on Iran; guests from the Korea Policy Institute go beyond the narrow mainstream media discourse on Korea; dissecting Obama’s plan to reform Wall Street; details on the upcoming KPFA Local Station Board Election.
