May
21
2007
The Uprising Crew is taking a much-needed vacation! Sonali and Gabriel will be out of the studios starting Tuesday May 22nd. We’ll be back live on KPFK on Tuesday May 29th. Instead of Uprising, the 7 am editions of Morning Review will run special two hour shows from 7-9 am each day this week starting Tuesday. …
May
21
2007
GUEST: George Monbiot, weekly columnist for the Guardian Newspaper, author of “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning”
Most KPFK listeners know well the reality and danger of the warming of the planet, and that this global warming is happening as a direct result of human behavior through the burning of fossil fuels …
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May
21
2007
… about the White Night Riots .
Produced by Radio Rootz.
Radio Rootz works in public schools to train teens in media literacy and radio production. Rootz Youth analyze and critique the media, and learn how to create news that reflects their voices, issues, and communities. For more information, visit www.radiorootz.org. …
May
21
2007
From his introduction to the US edition of the book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, George Monbiot says, “The rest of the world cannot solve this problem without the United States, and the United States cannot solve it without the rest of the world. We could tear each other to pieces over what has happened in the recent past, but climate change is too important for that.” …
May
21
2007
Sonali Kolhatkar remembers Afghanistan, even if the rest of us don’t
By GUSTAVO ARELLANO in the OC Weekly
Thursday, May 17, 2007 – 3:00 pm
http://www.ocweekly.com/culture/books/that-other-quagmire/27160/
Remember Afghanistan? The Taliban? Hamid Karzai? That weird game Afghans play involving a goat carcass? Of course not. If the Iraq War is our latest Vietnam, then Dubya’s Afghanistan adventure is our Philippine-American War: a major incursion that became a quagmire no one talks about.
One of the …
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