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7:08 – Matthew Lasar teaches history and media courses at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He’s the author of Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio’s Civil War and Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network 8:08 – Fund Drive Premium: Voices that Changed the World from Pacifica Radio Archives
7:08 – Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and works as a writer, activist and analyst on Middle East and UN issues discusses the US’s decision to start military operations in Syria. 7:34 – Andrea Ritchie in conversation with Cat Brooks about her new book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women … Continued
7:08AM – Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco and coordinator of the Middle Eastern studies program. He is a specialist in Middle East politics. He spoke with us about President Trump’s tweet this morning threatening a missile strike on Syria. 7:20AM – Mark Zuckerberg Testifies About Facebook Before Congress … Continued
7:34AM – Joseph William, member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, which demonstrated outside the Police Protective League and is gathering at the LA Police Commission today to stand with the family of Eric Rivera, who was shot and killed by police and then run over by a patrol car last summer 7:49AM – Frances Causey, … Continued
7:34AM – Monique Judge, columnist and news writer for TheRoot.com, speaks about the police shooting of Saheed Vassell, an unarmed black man in Brooklyn 8:08AM – Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex Taina Vargas-Edmond – Executive Director of Initiate Justice Dorsey Nunn – Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or … Continued
7:08 – Lisa Lehner is Americans for Immigrant Justice, and focuses on litigation for immigrants’ rights. In December 2017 a deportation plane full of Somali immigrants turned around and came back to the US. On it’s return the Somali immigrants detailed horrific abuse at the hands of ICE officials on board the aircraft. Now, they’re alleging continued … Continued
7:36 – Fernando Carrillo was released earlier this week after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on October 11, 2017, after dropping off his 4-year-old daughter at daycare. We spoke with him and his wife Lourdes Barraza. 8:08 – Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and works as a writer, … Continued
Clarence Lang, Professor, and Chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. His research areas include African American working-class and labor history. 8:08 – Ben Felder, an investigative reporter for the Oklahoman, and a leader of their DigTeam who focuses much of his reporting on education. Torie Shoecraft, a … Continued
7:34 – Walter Turner, host of Africa Today, which airs Mondays at 7 PM. Also chair of the social sciences department at College of Marin. 8:08 – Padraic Kenney, professor of history and international studies at Indiana University and author of Dance in Chains: Political Imprisonment in the Modern World 8:34 – Pam Vogel is a research fellow at … Continued
Thomas Wolf, Counsel with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center, focusing on redistricting issues, and co-author of the recent piece “Why The Census Asking About Citizenship Is Such A Problem.” 8:14 Michio Kaku, professor of physics at the City University of New York, host of the radio show Explorations, which we air on KPFA, … Continued
