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Alan Blinder ; author of After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, The Response, and the Work Ahead Massive Climate Protests Planned for 2/17; Michelle Myers , Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Director, as well as Jamie Henn , Communications Director, 350.org Wolinsky on Practical magic;. Berkeley’s Aurora Theater has world-premier production of … Continued
Tunisia’s second uprising; we’re joined by Zied Mirsi , founder of ,tunisia-live.net currently at the funeral for ,Shokri Belaid as well as Laurie Brand, professor of international relations at University of Southern California Old, Female, and Homeless ; Many elderly Females in San Francisco are living outdoors, and sitting in chairs at drop in centers … Continued
John Brennan faces Confirmation Hearing to head CIA;Mel Goodman, Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy , author of National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism, Boys and Men of Color; Sandre Swanson , former assembly member who chaired the select committee on boys and men of color. Currently Deputy Mayor of Oakland.
California Supreme Court to decide on medical Marijuana;Tom Ammiano Assembly member representing the 17th District, chair of public safety committee. Google Racism ; Andrew Leonard , Staff writer, Salon.com Nanomaterials in our Food?; Andy Behar , CEO of the corporate responsibility group As You Sow Unequal Recovery: Black Workers; Steven Pitts , labor policy Specialist, … Continued
Obama’s Judicial appointments; Nan Aron , President, Alliance for Justice Al Young Day ; Al Young , California Poet Laureate Emeritus
Monitor’s Report says OPD is backsliding; John Burris, Oakland-based Civil Rights Attorney The Myths of Happiness ; Sonja Lyubomirksy , author of The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make You Happy, but Does
Latest Unemployment Figures; Doug Henwood,editor of the Left Business Observer, and host of Behind The News , which airs on KPFA thursdays at noon Israel bombing inside Syria;Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan , 49ers in the Super Bowl, LBGT issues at the forefront; Dave Zirin writes about the politics of … Continued
Senate hearing on Chuck Hagel nomination for DOD director; William Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security Project at the New America Foundation , and Alice Slater , New York director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Progressive Change and the Political System;Norman Solomon author, media critic, and co-founder of rootsaction.org and John Nichols , … Continued
Egypt ; Ashraf Khalil , independent journalist based in Cairo, and author of the book Liberation Square Plutonium Shipments to Lawrence Livermore; Scott Yundt , Staff Attorney, Tri-Valley CAREs Speaks with us about a new Government Proposal that involves transporting plutonium bomb cores from Los Alamos National Laboratory In New Mexico, to the Lawrence Livermore … Continued
California and the Coming Immigration Reform Debate; Anoop Prasad , Staff Attorney for Immigrant Rights with the Asian Law Caucus and David Bacon , UpFront Labor Correspondent and author of the forthcoming The Right to Stay Home: Ending Forced Migration and the Criminalization of Immigrants join us in studio. Does CEQA need to be reformed?; … Continued
