Saturday Morning Talkies – January 6, 2007
Filmmaker, writer and researcher Saul Landau, on traveling with Gore Vidal in Cuba. Plus, a chat with a tree-sitter on the UCB campus.
11:00 AM PACIFIC TIME: FRIDAYS
What’s in the news, what’s behind what’s in the news, what’s not in the news that should be in the news—and who’s doing what about it, here and now. Celebration and support from our vibrant, diverse community. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Filmmaker, writer and researcher Saul Landau, on traveling with Gore Vidal in Cuba. Plus, a chat with a tree-sitter on the UCB campus.
Richard Wolinsky sits in for Kris Welch on the Saturday Morning Talkies, this coming Saturday at 9 am. Scheduled highlights include previously unaired Bookwaves interview segments featuring cognitive linguist George Lakoff and John Berendt, author of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” plus a live discussion with an elections expert on electronic voting … Continued
It’s officially Veteran’s Day, and Military Families Speak Out are on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., saying "Bring our troops home now." We’ll talk with them. Then: Thom Hartmann, author and talk show host, about his newest book ("Screwed: the undeclared war against the middle class"), Green Fest (this weekend in S.F.), and election … Continued
Voter registration lists, voter IDs, voting machines—let me count the ways, that a vote could go missing. We’ll talk with the Brennan Centar for Justice to make sure your vote counts. Plus: it’s that other time of the year again, when the veil between the living and the dead is said to be thinnest. We’ll … Continued