Oct
08
2015
BANNED BROADCAST ON KPFK
GUEST: Peter Bibring, Director of Police Practices for the ACLU of Southern California.
Police in California are up in arms over a new bill that Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law, intended to track and identify racial profiling. AB 953, which was introduced by San Diego Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, will require police departments to collect the race and ethnicity of every …
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Oct
08
2015
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GUEST: Bill Waren, trade policy analyst for Friends of the Earth.
The Obama Administration is enjoying a major victory with the announcement of a new trade deal with 12 nations, known as the TransPacific Partnership (TPP). Aimed at bolstering US economic dominance in the face of China’s spectacular growth, the TPP faced huge opposition from progressive groups who have cast the deal …
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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: Santosh Giri practiced Constitution Law and Human Rights in Nepal from 1995 through 2005 and came to US to obtain a Masters in Law from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is also the West Coast coordinator for Bibeksheel, a new political party in Nepal.
*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 24, 2015.
After nearly a decade of political …
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Oct
07
2015
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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
07
2015
BANNED BROADCAST on KPFK
GUEST: Cecelia Tichi, author of Jack London, A Writer’s Fight for a Better America, and the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and professor of American Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her earlier books is Civic Passions, Exposes, and Excess, and Embodiment of a Nation.
*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 24, 2015.
When I was a child, one of my …
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Oct
06
2015
GUEST: Anand Gopal is the author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes. He served as an Afghanistan correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The Christian Science Monitor, and has reported on the Middle East and South Asia for Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, and other publications.
US forces in Afghanistan bombed a hospital …
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Oct
06
2015
GUEST: Grace Lee, film maker, director and writer of American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, and the Grace Lee Project.
Grace Lee Boggs has died at the age of 100 in her home in Detroit. The legendary civil rights activist was best known for her work in the feminist and Black Power Movements and through her friendship with Malcolm X. President Obama and First Lady …
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