May 11 2019

It’s the year 2039. Where’s your podcast? : A Preserve This Podcast Workshop

Free Workshop for Podcasters and Archivists

KPFA

Bring your hard drives. Bring your laptops. Bring your Dropbox password. We’re going to preserve your podcast. This is a free workshop to teach podcasters/audio producers how they can preserve their works hosted by Preserve This Podcast, a group of archivists and podcasters working on a Mellon-grant funded project to address today's issue of digital...


PACIFICA RADIO MAY DAY BROADCAST

On May 1st 2019 Pacifica Radio Producers – headed by the First Voice Apprentices at flagship station KPFA in Berkeley, CA – will broadcast 24 hours of reporting on International labor organizing.



We discuss the legal issues surrounding the circumstances of Julian Assange with Karen Greenberg.  Assange was arrested in London last week, he could face extradition to the United States. Guest: Karen J. Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and the author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the … Continued


Womens Magazine

Lights, Camera, Action! Feminist Films at SFFILM

SFFILM, the San Francisco International Film Festival, begins Wednesday, April 10 and runs through April 23 in multiple venues throughout the Bay Area. This year’s festival includes films by 72 women directors. We talk with director Janice Engel about her new film, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins, and with Kristina Motwani, co-editor of Midnight … Continued


0:08 – Mondays with Mitch 0:34 – What’s behind the growing measles outbreaks across the US? We speak with Dr Arthur Reingold is Professor and head of the Division of Epidemiology at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. 1:08 – The opposition to vaccines has a long history in the US – the fight has … Continued


April 12 2019

ART & WRITING CHALLENGE

KPFA

The 2019 Mount Diablo Peace & Justice Center 21st Annual Dennis Thomas Youth Activist Grant presents the Art & Writing challenge for Middle & High school students. The submission deadline ends Friday, April 12th, 1035 Carol Lane in Lafayette. For details, call 925.933.7850.


0:08 – The House Judiciary Committee votes to subpoena the Muller report; plus numbers are in for Democratic presidential candidate fundraising. We speak with John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation. 0:34 – Restorative Justice healing circles in Oakland Founded in 2005, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth or RJOY works to interrupt the cycles of punitive school discipline … Continued


Womens Magazine

Roderick Ferguson’s (Not) One-Dimensional Queer; Amy Foley Creates Feminist Dance

In his new book, One-Dimensional Queer (a homage to Herbert Marcuse), Roderick Ferguson counters orthodox portrayals of a gay movement narrowly focused on civil rights, and shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that … Continued


This week, we speak with Eli Clifton, contributor editor of Lobelia, about the recent controversies surrounding Representative Ilhan Omar, who has been questioning the US’s unconditional support for Israel as well as the influence of AIPAC, the powerful lobby that is instrumental in shaping US foreign policy in the Middle East.Later in the program, we’ll hear from 5 Yemeni women activists who speak about the impact that the war has had on their lives and how their view their role as Yemeni women, politically and socially.