The Talkies
12:00 PM 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.
Living Room – Social Security under attack—from Democrats?
On its 75th anniversary, Social Security may be closer to extinction than ever, thanks to a Democrat-controlled White House and Congress. How—and WHY??? We find out. With host Kris Welch, noon to one. guests: Dan Newman, exec. dir. MAPLight.org Paul Kleyman,, ed. New America Media … Continued
Living Room – August 6, 2010
LIVING ROOM Friday 6 August 2010 Healthcare Update! Hamlet’s Blackberry. With most voters still largely clueless about the details, midterm politics are full of misleading soundbites about healthcare reform legislation. We try to shed some light. PLUS: always connected, anytime, any place—blessing or curse of the Internet Age? Discuss. With host Kris Welch, noon to … Continued
Living Room – Corporations in politics; wikileaks; housing in Haiti.
Target Stores is backing an anti-gay gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota, and MoveOn is testing that Supreme Court decision. PLUS: forget the message, get the messenger—the Wikileaks saga as deja vu for Dan Ellsberg. And sustainable construction in Haiti. With host Kris Welch, noon to one. guests : (someone from MoveOn) … Continued
Living Room – July 23, 2010
What is Helios and the Energy Bioscience Institute and what are they building downtown Berkeley at Shattuck and Berkeley Way? A discussion about the collaborative partnership between UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, supported by a $500,000,000 grant from the BP Corporation to create the West Energy Research Facility.
Living Room – July 22, 2010
Chaos, fire and fried turtles at sea in the gulf oil. A discussion about the effects of intentional oil fires burned in the gulf with guest Rose Braz, Climate Campaign Coordinator, at Center for Biological Diversity.
Living Room – July 16, 2010
The NAACP calls on the Tea Party movement to deal with it’s racist fringe – and the tea part responds by calling the NAACP racist – we’ll take your calls on that twisted logic– Plus – Unemployment is bad in the county, it’s really bad in this state – and it’s hitting the young particularly … Continued
Living Room – July 15, 2010
The California Dream has morphed into the California nightmare – and now some are dubbing our struggle state Fail-i-fornia – Comming up we’ll talk with one progressive activist who’s working on to move California from being a failed state to a progressive laboratory for change.