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.
Maybe the whole world was watching: the UN in Geneva Switzerland has heard two reports about U.S. human rights abuses—including of Katrina survivors. We’ll talk with the reports’ author. … PLUS: a racial healing response to William Bennett’s suggestion that to stop crime we should abort black babies.
What You Eat Can Help You Control Your Own Health: Messages of Healing and Ways to Help Yourself Be Healthy The Knowledge of Healing a film on the pracitce of Tibetan Medicine Encyclopedia of Healing Foods an interview with author Michael Murray
With Bay Area housing casts continuing to skyrocket, Oakland landlords are suing to overturn the just-cause eviction measure EE passed by the voters in Nov. 2002. The suit hits the courts next Wednesday. We’ll hear all about it. Plus a tornado of Bay Area performing talent: UpSurge jazz poets, funny lady Diane Amos, and the … Continued
The Bush White House was found last week to have violated federal law—AGAIN—in creating "covert propaganda", using more than a quarter billion dollars of taxpayer money. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time: but there are some people who are calling for … Continued
He was arrested, convicted and sentenced, but that’s not the end of the story: Ed Rosenthal, marijuana guru, now wants his conviction overturned—and the prosecution wants his sentence thrown out because it wasn’t long enough. The latest national, state and local developments in the on-going campaign to legalize marijuana.
