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We’ll spend the hour going deep on Mumia Abu Jamal – his three decades of writing, broadcasting, and fighting censorship from behind bars; the larger significance of his work, his critical medical condition – and what it says about how prisoners across the country get treated. Guests: Johanna Fernandez, professor of History at Baruch College … Continued
What Buddhism taught a doctor about addiction and what that tells us about our society and our politics. We speak to Dr. Gabor Maté about his path breaking work on attention deficit disorder and his firmly held belief in the mind-body connection. Guest: Gabor Maté, Canadian physician who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction
Today African Americans make up about 12% of this country’s drug users and about 60% of the people doing time for drug crimes. Author Johann Hari joins us for a 100 year history of race and the war on drugs. Guest: Johann Hari, journalist and author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the … Continued
A special that explores the politics of water in California–where it comes from, where it goes, who has power over it and why? We look at why California wound up with the world’s largest government-run plumbing system and what that means for the fights we’re having today. Guest: Richard Walker, Professor of Geography at the University of … Continued
Eduardo Galeano wrote that the world was made of stories — this hour, we bring you some of his best . . . a tribute to one of the left’s greatest writers, through two decades of his KPFA talks.
Macarthur “genius” grant winner Ai-Jen Poo, director of of Caring Across Generations and Domestic Workers United, presents her new book, The Age of Dignity
Mario Martinez works at the intersection of health, psychology, neurology, and culture — a field he calls biocognition. We bring you a special presentation of a KPFA talk he delivered barely a month ago — that covers everything from why some people live well in their tenth decade, and what ritual has to do with … Continued
Marxian economist Richard Wolff delivers a brief history of capitalism — from before it existed, to what to watch for this December. This is the broadcast premier of a talk delivered on Sunday, February 15, 2015 at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. Guest: Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Visiting … Continued
Attorneys work to appeal of one of the only successful prosecutions of the war on terror — a cherry-picker, from Lodi, named Hamid Hayat. We’ll take a look at his case. Plus: a history of one of the nation’s most striking holdouts against gentrification — the Tenderloin. We’ll go through 100 years of fights over … Continued
On Tuesday, Jo Nan Hui’s supporters packed the courtroom once again for Jo’s sentencing hearing. Several weeks ago, Jo was convicted of child abduction for failing to file the correct paperwork before leaving the country with her baby five years ago. At the time, she was fleeing a domestic violence relationship and her visa had … Continued
