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Cuba
We spend the hour with Nina Serrano, prize-winning poet, activist, filmmaker, playwright, and radio host. Besides producing programs on politics and culture for KPFA over the last four decades, Nina is cofounder of the Mission Cultural Center and former director of San Francisco Poetry in the Schools. She was the first foreign woman to travel … Continued
Cuba/US relations “warming”? New Orleans whiter 10 years after Katrina
After more than 50 years, the flag was again raised over a U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba. What will this shift in relations mean, to Cuba and the Caribbean? Dr. Gerald Horne gives us some history. PLUS: Sakura Kone visits from his home in New Orleans, where he is a community activist, to share some … Continued
Cuba Aims to Preserve Sovereignty & Independence
WikiLeaks Launches Campaign to Offer $100,000 “Bounty” for Leaked Drafts of Secret TPP Chapters; As U.S. Drops Havana from Terror List, Cuba Aims to Preserve Sovereignty & Independence; Video Postcard from Havana: Cuban Tourism Industry Adapts During These Changing Times; Organic Farming Flourishes in Cuba, But Can It Survive Entry of U.S. Agribusiness?.
WikiLeaks Launches Campaign to Offer $100,000 “Bounty” for Leaked Drafts of Secret TPP Chapters; As U.S. Drops Havana from Terror List, Cuba Aims to Preserve Sovereignty & Independence; Video Postcard from Havana: Cuban Tourism Industry Adapts During These Changing Times; Organic Farming Flourishes in Cuba, But Can It Survive Entry of U.S. Agribusiness?.
Across the Great Divide – April 12, 2015
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Another Man Done Gone. A few songs from Cuba. Friends coming to town: Arlo Guthrie, Janis Ian & Tom Paxton. Happy Birthday Billie Holiday, and We Miss You, Phil Ochs. (And, Happy Birthday, big sister Sonny Ochs!) Plus, in honor of Hilary Clinton announcing she wants to run for President, I will play assorted songs … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 19, 2015
Dani McClain, journalist covering the Black Lives Matter movement. Tom Hayden, author of Listen Yankee: Why Cuba Matters