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On today’s show . . . 0:08 – We explore the latest in congressional hearings on the January 6th insurrection with John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine. 0:33 – In May 2021 after an extended Immigration Customs Enforcement detention, Walter Cruz Zavala went back to El Salvador, but he’s back imprisoned … Continued
0:08 – Debriefing the watershed election from Colombia last week, which brought for the first time, a left wing government, we explore what it means to take office in a country that is mired in political corruption investigations beset by inflation. We’re joined by co-authors of a recent piece from Jacobin magazine: Mikael Wolfe (@Mikaeloup) … Continued
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the latest developments in international news: The G7 meeting, Russian oil, the war in Ukraine, and implications of Latin America’s latest elections. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, discusses the latest COVID science … Continued
0:08 – Two years after the Oakland Unified School District passed the George Floyd Resolution, which completely dismantled their school police department, we speak with Ebony Johnson, a staff organizer with the Black Organizing Project who was at the forefront of the push to dismantle. 0:33 – As we head into Pride weekend less than … Continued
As pride weekend approaches, we decided to look back at the political history of the annual Pride celebration. 0:08 – Former host Salima Hamirani speaks with Felicia “Flames” Elizondo, a local lifelong trans activist who was a part of San Francisco’s 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riots, who lived her last three decades with AIDS. Last year, … Continued
0:08 – Eugene Linden is a veteran climate and science writer whose new book is Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present. 1:08 – Ruth Wilson Gilmore joins us to discuss her latest book Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
On today’s show: 0:08 – Michael Willrich, professor of history at Brandeis University discusses his book Pox: An American History. 0:33 – David K. Randall (@dkrandall), senior reporter at Reuters discusses his book Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague. 1:08 – Gene Slater discusses his book … Continued
0:08 – We start this archival show on the theme of Juneteenth with a book talk by Ibram X Kendi (@DrIbram), Professor at Boston University and Director of that institution’s Center for Antiracist Research. The talk was presented by KPFA on May 4th of 2017, discussing his then-latest book, Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive … Continued
0:08 – As we head into the weekend of Juneteenth, we spend our first segment with Dr. Gregory Carr (@AfricanaCarr), Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University who joins us to chart the path of making Juneteenth a federal holiday. We start in Washington, where Carr … Continued
0:08 – Rounding up what’s happened recently and what’s still to come at the Supreme Court. The heavily anticipated decision on Roe v Wade hasn’t come down yet, but there have been some other significant rulings. We discuss the latest and preview what’s to come with Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC), a legal analyst and Supreme … Continued
