Katrina Uncovers: Exploited Workers and Endangered Wetlands On this edition, we hear from migrant workers helping to clean up and rebuild New Orleans and about their struggle for better wages and working conditions. We also hear from one organization fighting on their behalf. Then, we visit the bayou of Louisiana where we meet with locals … Continued
Crisis in Nepal – Reese Erlich, freelance foreign correspondent; Mary Des Chene, anthropologist who co-founded the journal "Studies in Napali History and Society" Hope Edelman, author of "Motherless Mothers: How Mother Loss Shapes the Parents We Become" Estate Planning Seminar; Penny Righthand Estate Planner; Michelle C. Lerman, Attorney at Law Anthony Platt (with Cecilia O’Leary) … Continued
Pushing Limits hosts Doyle Saylor and Gene Sharee will present a variety of topics and issues. They will describe important upcoming events impacting the disability community. Items to be covered include a rally on workers’ rights, providing information on Workers’ Compensation deregulation in addition to interviewing injured workers. The program will also cover the deYoung … Continued
We continue our in-depth coverage of the escalating US war rhetoric against Iran, Phyllis Bennis takes a further look at the ramifications of a potential attack and what the day after that war might really look like; news headlines from occupied Palestine with Kristen Ess; documenting systematic Israeli settler violence in occupied Hebron; and the … Continued
Women correspondents who covered the war in Iraq will join us by phone. May Ying Welch, freelancing with Al-Jezeera, Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times London, Hannah Allam with Knight Ridder and others will talk about the perspective that women bring to the coverage of the war. Marking the 57th anniversary of KPFA we host … Continued
Election Coverage in Italy Norman Birnbaum, Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and editor at The Nation Elections in Peru Danna Harmon, Latin American Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, speaking to us from Peru Reflections on KPFA’s Anniversary with Susan Stone, former director of KPFA’s Drama and Literature Department Richard Schwartz, author of … Continued
The McClatchy newspaper chain is buying the larger Knight Ridder chain. What does this latest episode of corporate media concentration mean for journalism? We’ll hear from Ben Bagdikian, author of the landmark book, The Media Monopoly, and former UC Berkeley Journalism School dean. It’s well-established that Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress fed all kinds of … Continued
Kenji Yoshino author of "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights"
Pushing Limits’ hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leroy Moore will cover "The Media Looks at Disability". They interview Mitch Jeserich who went from KPFA’s newsroom training to interviewing Colin Powell in a few short years and Charles A. Riley who tried to compete with Oprah with "WE," a lifestyle magazine for and about people with disabilities. … Continued
SPECIAL LIVE COVERAGE: The Senate Judiciary Committee holds its second hearing into President Bush’s authorization of warrantless wiretaps within the United States. Breaks will include expert analysis and anchor commentary.
