Oct
26
2015
GUEST: Michael Bess, Chancellors Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, the recipient of various fellowships from the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Human Genome Research Institute, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. His earlier books include Choices Under Fire, and The Light Green Society.
Technology has shaped our lives in ways so serious that we barely live …
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Oct
23
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Michael Bess, Chancellors Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, the recipient of various fellowships from the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Human Genome Research Institute, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. His earlier books include Choices Under Fire, and The Light Green Society.
Technology has shaped our lives in ways so serious that …
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Oct
22
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, a contributor to the Nation, the Guardian, New York Times, Al Jazeera, and Artforum. His books include Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal.
The Syria refugee crisis captured the world’s attention this year. But there are migrant crises all over the world, some are fast floods, others are slow-moving. …
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Oct
20
2015
GUEST: AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University and the author and editor of many books including The Gloria Anzaldua Reader. She has just edited Light in the Dark/Luz En Lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality, by Gloria Anzaldua.
Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. It influenced women all over the country, in activist circles and in academia.
Anzaldua …
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Oct
19
2015
GUEST: Remi Kanazi, poet, writer, and organizer based in New York City, author of Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine and editor of Poets for Palestine. He is a Lannan Residency Fellow and an Advisory Committee member for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
Violence is continuing in East Jerusalem with the latest incident on Friday being a fire at Joseph’s …
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Oct
15
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: John Kay, visiting professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and a fellow of St. Johns College, Oxford University. He is also the director of several public companies and a weekly contributor to the Financial Times. His new book is called Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance.
If the objective of our global financial system is to organize the …
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Oct
13
2015
GUEST: Jorja Leap, faculty member with the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. She is an internationally recognized expert in gangs, violence and crisis intervention, and senior policy advisor on Gangs and Youth Violence for the City and County of Los Angeles. Her earlier book is ‘Jumped In: What Gangs Taught me About Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption’.
Social scientists love to give parents advice – …
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Oct
08
2015
BANNED BROADCAST ON KPFK
GUEST: Wen Stephenson, independent journalist and climate justice activist, contributing writer at the Nation Magazine and former editor at the Atlantic. His new book is called What We are Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Justice.
The United States is among the leading producers of carbon per capita in the world. It has pioneered energy …
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Oct
07
2015
BANNED BROADCAST on KPFK
GUEST: Eric Avila is a professor of history, Chicano Studies, and urban planning at UCLA. He wrote the book Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. His latest book is called The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City.
*This segment was originally featured on Uprising on July 8, …
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Oct
05
2015
GUEST: Annie Jacobson, author of The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency.
A recent headline in late September on the Popular Science Magazine’s website read, “DARPA Gives MIT Lab $32 million to Program Living Cells.” DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a secretive government agency that spearheads bizarre sounding scientific research. That headline was fairly typical of …
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