Jan 20 2016
GUEST: Reese Erlich, veteran freelance foreign correspondent who has traveled widely across the Middle East. He has written a number of books including, The Iran Agenda, and his latest is Inside Syria. He has reported.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei this week praised the lifting of sanctions against his nation as a result of the US-Iran nuclear deal. The US, European Union, and United Nations …
Jan 20 2016
GUEST: Siddhartha Roy, Flint Water Study Researcher and PhD student at Virginia Tech.
Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore has written a letter to President Obama about his hometown in Michigan, contending that, “at least 10 people in Flint, have now been killed by [the] premeditated actions of the Governor of Michigan.” The predominantly African American town of Flint recently was found to be supplied by water that …
Jan 19 2016
GUEST: David Dayen, contributing writer to Salon, weekly columnist at The Fiscal Times, contributor to The Intercept.
Just 15 days before the Iowa caucus, Senator Bernie Sanders, Former State Secretary Hillary Clinton, and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley faced off in a Democratic Party debate in Charleston, South Carolina. The debate was sponsored by NBC and YouTube, and took place just a few blocks from Mother Emanuel …
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Jan 19 2016
GUESTS: Matthew Pakucko, resident of Porter Ranch, California, and the President and co-founder of Save Porter Ranch, Alexandra Nagy, Organizer with Food & Water Watch.
On October 23rd of last year, the second largest gas storage facility in the US, located at Porter Ranch, Southern California, began to leak. Massive amounts of methane gas has been escaping, uncontrolled, not too far from KPFK’s studios. The Aliso Canyon …
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Jan 19 2016
GUEST: Renee Tajima-Peña, Director of ‘No Mas Bebes’.
A new documentary airing shortly on PBS, covers a grisly era of California history – the forced sterilization of untold numbers of poor, mostly Latino, Spanish-speaking women, in the 1960s and 70s. No Mas Bebes tells the story of how ten women, led by a courageous attorney, sued doctors at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center over tubal ligation …
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Dec 15 2015
GUEST: Eros Sana, French activist, member of Zone d’Ecologie Populaire (ZEP).
In the days following a historic agreement in Paris to curb greenhouse gas emissions, a strong contradiction has emerged between those who claim it is a major victory for the planet and most climate justice activists who see it as a death sentence.
That contradiction was in full view at the 2 week COP21 meeting in …
Dec 15 2015
GUEST: Alexis Rowell, an organizer with Coalition Climat 21, and author of ‘Communities, Councils and a Low-Carbon Future: what we can do if governments won’t.
In the second week of the COP21 climate talks, dozens of prominent climate justice non-profit groups organized a large convergence area in a historic space traditionally used by artists. CentQuatre, in a working-class neighborhood near the River Seine, hosted a series of …
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Dec 15 2015
GUEST: Liddy Nakpil, Coordinator of Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development, from the Philippines.
Next door to the COP21 meeting, the UN and the French government built an official gathering space for members of civil society to use called Espaces Generations Climat, or Climate Generation Space. It was unofficially referred to as “the Green Zone,” as opposed to “the blue zone” where the official COP21 …
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Dec 15 2015
GUESTS: Faith Gemmill, Arctic Village Alaska, Princess Daazhraii Johnson, Arctic Village Alaska, Jihan Gearon, Navajo Nation Arizona.
Indigenous activists had a strong presence at the COP21 meeting, both inside and outside. At the Climate Generation Space, I spoke with a trio of women from US-based indigenous communities who explained to me why they were there.
Watch a video of Sonali’s report here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaLTQN-M05w.
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Dec 14 2015
GUESTS: Martha Agbani from Nigeria, Executive Director of the Lokiaka Community Development Center, Pinki Alanga from South Africa, with the South Africa Green Revolutionary Council, Patience Muramuzi from Uganda, with the National Association for Women’s Action and Development, and Sophie Ogutu from Kenya, with the World March for Women.
Representatives from 190 countries announced success on negotiating an agreement to regulate greenhouse gas emissions after years of …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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