1st Qtr 2014

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Matthew Fox, former Catholic priest and author of
Letters to Pope Francis, on the return of the church
to original Christian values.
Democracy NOW!
A look at the life and work of Amiri Baraka (19342014): Poet-Playwright-Activist Who Shaped
Revolutionary Politics, Black Culture. He passed
away Thursday at age 79.
Letters and Politics
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, authors of
The Rise of the Second Machine Age, talk about
how computer innovation is slowing down as speeds
hit theoretical physical limits.
Monday, January 27, 2014 10:00
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Democracy NOW!
Caroline welcomes feisty, reverently irreverent ally,
90 year old Rabbi Harry Sky, that we may plant seed
stories of desirable tolerant accord, (with
contributions from allies known and unknown.) Let
Venus be.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 14:00 1 Hour
The Sixth Extinction: Elizabeth Kolbert on How
Humans Are Causing Largest Die-Off Since
Dinosaur Age.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 09:00 10 Mins
George Takei on Arizona’s Anti-Gay Bill, Life in a
Japanese Internment Camp & Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu Monday, February 17, 2014 09:00 20 Mins
Against the Grain
Mitchell Nathanson traces the impact of class-based
concerns, racial dynamics, labor struggles, and
1960s protest mobilizations on baseball's origins and
development. Nathanson also considers the oftpropagated story of baseball as America.
Monday, March 17, 2014 12:00
Against the Grain
Compared to objective truth, truth of the subjective
kind may appear shaky, unreliable, even arbitrary.
But Jay Gupta, drawing from Kierkegaard, contends
that subjective truth is key to ethical understanding
and action. To illustrate the point, Gupta examines
how war and the horrific toll it takes are reported in
the media
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:00 1 Hour
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Against the Grain
In his books "Animal Rights" and
"Animal Studies," anthrozoologist Paul
Waldau looks at animal protection
activism and the push for animal rights. Wednesday, January 01, 2014 12:00
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“The Ford Presidency" with Webster
Griffin Tarpley. The Ford Presidency is
analyzed, from Gerald Ford's
participation on the Warren
Commission; the Watergating of
Richard Nixon; Ford's appointment to
the Vice Presidency upon Spiro
Agnew's resignation; his ascension to
the Presidency with Nixon's resignation;
the selection of Ford's Vice President;
to the stolen 1976 Presidential election. Wednesday, January 01, 2014 13:00
Dog Whistle Politics: How Politicians
Use Coded Racism to Push Through
Policies Hurting All. Tuesday, January 14, 2014 09:00
Democracy NOW!
State of Conflict: Bill Moyers on North
Carolina’s Right-Wing Takeover & the
Citizens Fighting Back; Bill Moyers on
Dark Money, the Attack on Voting
Rights & How Racism Stills Drives Our
Politics. Monday, January 27, 2014 09:00
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Against the Grain
Four men who would have a profound
impact on U.S. culture converged at
Harvard in the early 1960s. In the book
'The Harvard Psychedelic Club', Don
Lattin tells the story of what Timothy
Leary, Ram Dass, Andrew Weil, and
Huston Smith did, how they interacted,
and how they influenced the
psychedelic and countercultural,
spiritual and holistic-health movements
of the 1960s and '70s and way beyond. Tuesday, January 28, 2014 13:00
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In his State of the Union Speech,
Obama Tells Divided Congress to
Expect Executive Action in Face of
Continued Obstruction by Republicans. Wednesday, January 29, 2014 09:00
Debate: Was Snowden Justified?
Former NSA Counsel Stewart Baker vs.
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. Friday, February 14, 2014 09:00
Untold History: More Than A Quarter of
U.S. Presidents Were Involved in
Slavery, Human Trafficking.
Monday, February 17, 2014 09:00
Angela Davis on Prison Abolition, the
War on Drugs and Why Social
Movements Shouldn’t Wait on Obama. Thursday, March 06, 2014 09:00
Snowden Docs Expose How the NSA
"Infects" Millions of Computers,
Impersonates Facebook Server. Tuesday, January 02, 1900 09:00
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Mass Displacement in Mexico; Zapatista Uprising
20 Years Later: How Indigenous Mexicans Stood
Up Against NAFTA Death Sentence.
Friday, January 03, 2014 09:00
Abdullahi Gallab, professor of African Studies at
Arizona State University, on the conflict in and
history of Sudan. Monday, January 06, 2014 10:00
Justin Podur on Afghanistan past and present,
plus Medea Benjamin and others on the politics
and morality of drone strikes there.
Monday, January 06, 2014 12:00
Letters and Politics
In conversation about the rise of Al Qaeda in
Iraq, Syria and Lebanon with Fawaz Gerges, the
former director of the Middle East Center at the
London School of Economics, and Vijay Prashad,
the Edward Said Chair at American University in
Beirut.
Tuesday, January 07, 2014 10:00
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Two and half years after its birth, the world’s
youngest nation state South Sudan is engulfed in
a crisis. Professor Khaled Medani speaks with
Voices of the Mideast and Shahram Aghamir about the armed conflict in
North Africa
South Sudan.
Wednesday, January 08, 2014 14:00
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Democracy NOW!
Noam Chomsky on the Legacy of Ariel Sharon:
Not Speaking Ill of the Dead "Imposes a Vow of
Silence; Noam Chomsky: Sabra & Shatila
Massacre That Forced Sharon’s Ouster Recalls
Worst of Jewish Pogroms.
Monday, January 13, 2014 09:00
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Democracy NOW!
Shock Doctrine in Japan: Shinzo Abe’s
Rightward Shift to Militarism, Secrecy in
Fukushima’s Wake; From Atomic Bombings to
Fukushima, Japan Pursues a Nuclear Future
Despite a Devastating Past; For Fukushima’s
Displaced, a Struggle to Recover Lives Torn
Apart by Nuclear Disaster.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 09:00
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Khalil Bendib speaks with Egyptian activist and
Voices of the Mideast and journalist Hossam el Hamalawy about the
North Africa
worsening political situation in Egypt.
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Russian scholar Stephen Cohen, professor
emeritus at New York University & Princeton
University, talks about the political crisis in the
Letters and Politics
Ukraine and its geo-political implications.
We Are the Giant: Bahrain’s Top Family of
Activists Pays Heavy Price for Challenging USDemocracy NOW!
Backed Government. Sharam Aghamir talks with Professor Erdem
Voices of the Mideast and Yoruk about the corruption scandal engulfing
North Africa
Turkish Prime Minister and how it all unfolded.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 14:00
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Monday, January 20, 2014 09:00
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Democracy NOW!
From Al Jazeera on Trial to Bloggers Behind
Bars, Army-Run Egypt Sees Growing "Silencing
of Dissent"; Sharif Abdel Kouddous: 3 Years
After Revolution, Egypt Faces Deadly
Polarization & Growing Militancy.
Death By Metadata: Jeremy Scahill & Glenn
Greenwald Reveal NSA Role in Assassinations
Overseas.
A New Cold War? Ukraine Violence Escalates,
Leaked Tape Suggests U.S. Was Plotting Coup.
A Coup or a Revolution? Ukraine Seeks Arrest of
Ousted President Following Deadly Street
Protests
Monday, February 24, 2014 09:00
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Letters and Politics
Miguel Tinker-Salas, professor of history and
Latin American studies at Pomona College and
author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and
Society in Venezuela, about the deteriorating
political situation in that country.
Monday, February 24, 2014 10:00
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Historian John Roosa, author of "Pretext for Mass
Murder," discusses the 1965-66 killing of half a
million communists and others by the Indonesian
military, with the support of the United States.
Wednesday, March 05, 2014 12:00
"Ukraine's Democratic Coup d'Etat: Washington
Supports a Neo-Nazi Coalition Government" with
Michel Chossudovsky Wednesday, March 05, 2014 13:00
Debate: Do Venezuelan Protests Reflect Popular
Discontent, or the Old Qualms of a Divided Elite? Friday, March 07, 2014 09:00
Ukraine’s Longtime Divisions & NATO’s Eastern
Expansion to Russian Border Lay Ground for
Crimea Vote.
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Khalil interviews co-founder of the social justice
group Code Pink, Medea Benjamin, who was
beaten and detained upon arrival in Cairo. She
was in transit to a Palestinian solidarity
Voices of the Mideast and delegation and then to the Palestinian territory of
North Africa
Gaza for a women’s conference. Wednesday, March 12, 2014 14:00
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A look at the new Tunisian constitution with
political scientist Nadia Marzouki and a
Voices of the Mideast and discussion on Prime Minister Erdogan's ban on
North Africa
Twitter in Turkey.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014 14:00
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Making Contact
When you call 911, who answers the phone?
How do they decide who to send to the scene,
and how fast will they get there? The results in
Oakland and SF are unexpected delays.
Friday, January 03, 2014 13:30
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APEX Express
Salima Hamirani speaks with students
Matthew Martinez and Kerri Ann NavarroBorja, and professor Vike Palaita of the Save
City College Coalition to get the latest updates
on the campaign, and to hear why they’re
encouraging as many as people as possible to
enroll in City College classes this semester.
Thursday, January 16, 2014 19:00
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Live at the Freight and
born in Berkeley and had a special affinity for
Salvage / Goodbye Peter: the city. Includes many folk and other artists
A KPFA/KPFK and KRCB who have been influenced by Pete and have
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interacted with him over the years.
Michael Storper on urbanization and why the
fortunes of the SF Bay Area have risen, while
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those of Southern California have fallen.
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Democracy NOW!
Weather Whiplash: As Polar Vortex Brings
Deep Freeze, Is Extreme Weather Linked
to Climate Change? From Sandy to Haiyan,
Year of Extreme Weather Brings More
Coverage of Climate Change; From
Funding Climate Deniers to Shadowy
Groups, Koch Brothers Network Spent
$400 Million in 2012.
Tuesday, January 07, 2014 09:00
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Democracy NOW!
Erin Brockovich: After Chemical Spill, West
Virginians Organizing "Stronger Than I’ve
Ever Seen"; West Virginia Water Crisis:
Behind Chemical Spill, Gaping Holes in
State and Federal Regulation.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 09:00
40 Mins
Democracy NOW!
“We Want To Fight For This Cause”:
Nuclear Refugees From Fukushima Join
Anti-Nuke Protests; Mayor of Town That
Hosted Fukushima Nuclear Plant Says He
Was Told: “No Accident Could Ever
Happen”; Protests Grow in Japan: “We
Want to Bring Our Message to the World to
Stop Nuclear Power Plants”
Friday, January 17, 2014 09:00
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Terra Verde
Serbian engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla
made his way to New York City in 1884.
Professor Bernard Carlson (author of Tesla:
Inventor of the Electrical Age), Dr. Elizabeth
Rauscher, and Dr. JJ Hurtak join host Laura
Garzon Chica to discuss what, if anything,
Tesla can offer the movement for a cleaner,
safer, more equitable, and more efficient
energy industry.
Friday, January 17, 2014 13:00
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Debate: State Dept Moves Keystone XL
Closer to Approval, But Does Conflict of
Interest Taint Report? One Consultant
Claims All Pipeline Experts with Experience
has Industry Ties.
Monday, February 03, 2014 09:00
20 Mins
Democracy NOW!
Meteorologist Jeff Masters: Climate
Change Affecting Weather Patterns
Regardless of Season; "This Should Not
Come as a Surprise": Bill McKibben on
Global Extreme Weather from U.S. to
Sochi.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014 09:00
Democracy NOW!
Carbon dioxide generated by the burning of
fossil fuels is being absorbed into the
oceans with already serious and potentially
catastrophic consequences for marine life
and human life. Meg Chadsey describes
the phenomenon of the acidification of the
ocean and the myriad threats it poses.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:00
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Japan, U.S. Move to Expand Nuclear
Power Programs Despite Contamination at
Fukushima & New Mexico.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 09:00 10 Mins
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We will be looking at the worldwide actions
that are taking place on the 3rd anniversary
of Fukushima. Nuclear workers and
communities are still being contaminated
and the Abe government seeks to re-open
Japan's 50 nuclear plants. We will speak
with No Nukes Activist Chizu Hamada and
author Cecile Pineda.
Monday, March 03, 2014 08:00
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Climate scientist Jennifer Francis of
Rutgers University, co-author of a report in
2012 that hypothesized that global warming
is changing the northern jet stream...and
that is what is causing severe weather
conditions this winter across North America. Wednesday, March 05, 2014 10:00
Ex-Japanese PM on How Fukushima
Meltdown was Worse Than Chernobyl and
Why He Now Opposes Nuclear Power.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 09:00
Voices of the Mideast and
North Africa
Malihe Razazan talks to Palestinian
enviromentalist, Muna Dajani, about the
Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance
Project, a 10 billion dollar program
attempting to revive the Dead Sea,
sponsored by the World Bank.
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Disabled Counseling Advocacy's director to
talk about what makes for a good deaf
language service following Mandela memorial
service debacle.
Friday, January 03, 2014 14:30
Mickey Eliason discusses Doing It For
Ourselves, a health & wellness program for
lesbian & bisexual women over 40. How
grassroots health educators turned the federal
craze for stamping out obesity into an
opportunity to promote community, self-love,
fun and health at any weight, shape and size. Monday, January 13, 2014 13:00
Freedom Summer: How Civil Rights Activists
Braved Violence to Challenge Racism in 1964
Mississippi.
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Five Years of the "Same Rhetoric":
Immigration Activist Faults Obama’s
Deportation Policy which He Explained in his
State of the Union Speech.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 09:00 20 Mins
"Black Trans Bodies Are Under Attack": Freed
Activist CeCe McDonald, Actress Laverne
Cox Speak Out.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 09:00 20 Mins
Spies of Mississippi: New Film on the StatesSponsored Campaign to Defeat the Civil
Rights Movement in the South. Tuesday, February 25, 2014 09:00
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Against the Grain
Womens' liberation, immigrants' and
prisoners' rights, gay liberation and queer
studies -- they're some of the most enduring
legacies of the 1960s and '70s. And as
Richard Wolin argues, they're partially the
inheritance of Maoism in France. He explores
the rise of Maoism in that country following
the upheavals of 1968 and its impact on the
thinking of intellectuals like Sartre and
Foucault.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:00
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Bay Native Circle
Winnemem Wintu Chief Caleen Sisk and
Toby McLeod talk about the proposal to raise
Shasta Dam and drown much of the last
remaining Winnemem Sacred Lands, an
issue addressed in Pilgrims and Tourists.
Thursday, March 26, 1936 19:00
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Womens Magazine
Research as Ceremony: Decolonizing Ethnic
Studies is the theme of the upcoming National
Ethnic Studies Association conference, to be
held at Mills College this weekend. We
preview the conference with some of the
organizers.
Monday, March 31, 2014 13:00
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Pushing Limits
A woman living with multiple personalities
has a stroke. A middle school student
develops excruciating stomach aches and
stops growing. Hear their stories about how
they've dealt with the system.
Friday, January 17, 2014 14:30
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Womens Magazine
Corina Dross challenges the concept of
"self-care" as well as the capitalist paradigm
of "care work" by social setvice agencies. Monday, March 31, 2014 13:00
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A look at who gets to decide when a child is
dead following the Children's Hospital
decision to declare a teen brain dead
despite objection from the family.
Monday, January 06, 2014 07:00
"Drugs Aren’t the Problem": Neuroscientist
Carl Hart on Brain Science & Myths about
Addiction.
Monday, January 06, 2014 09:00
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage,
editor of both the Bioinitiative Report of
2007 and the new updated Bioinitiative
Report of 2013 unpacks the results of over
1800 new studies showing harm to health
from wireless technologies. Special
attention is paid to the risks for children and
Your Own Health and Fitness developing fetus. Sarah Holmes discusses the importance of
Herbal Highway
the liver and how to keep it healthy.
Balz Frie PhD from the Linus Pauling
Institute exposes the flaws in research
Your Own Health and Fitness design on vitamin supplements.
Alive Inside: How the Magic of Music
Proves Therapeutic for Patients With
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Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 09:00
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Adrian F. Gombart PhD from the Linus
Pauling Institute describes his research into
Your Own Health and Fitness the immune protective effects of vitamin D. Tuesday, January 28, 2014 13:00
Sarah Holmes interviews herbalist and
Professor Margi Flint about back pain and
Herbal Highway
herbal care.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 13:00
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Biologist Raymond Peat PhD discusses a
different way to look at the imbalances that
result in heart disease and cancer,
Your Own Health and Fitness examining stress, hormones, and nutrients. Tuesday, February 04, 2014 13:00
Job Killer? How Media Spin Got
Obamacare Wrong — and Why SingleDemocracy NOW!
Payer Could Cure Its Actual Flaws
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Democracy NOW!
WorkWeek will look at the issue of
income inequality, our social system
and political alternatives with Ralph
Nader and Cindy Sheehan. Monday, January 20, 2014 08:00
"Cesar’s Last Fast": How Cesar Chavez
Risked Death to Protect the Lives of
Farmworkers He Championed.
Thursday, January 23, 2014 09:00
The Morning Mix
Workweek Radio
WorkWeek will look at the struggle of
San Francisco education workers
fighting for justice at the Martin Luther
King Middle School in San Francisco.
They recently went to Sacramento to
speak at the California Commission On
Teacher Credentials to speak about the
physical abuse of students, racism and
bullying against teachers and staff.
Monday, February 03, 2014 08:00
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Womens Magazine
Labor activist Maria Guillen talks about
her experience growing up and how it
led her to commit her life to union
activism and other social causes to
bettering the world.
Monday, February 24, 2014 13:00
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Democracy NOW!
WorkWeek radio will look at the failed
UAW effort to organize the VW
Tennessee plant and the history of the
UAW in the South with journalist Steve
Early and "War Zone" organizer Mike
Griffin.
Monday, March 03, 2014 08:00
War Workers: Vulnerable Foreign
Laborers Swindled & Exploited to Toil
on U.S. Bases in Afghanistan
Monday, March 10, 2014 09:00
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Against the Grain
Kathi Weeks, author of 'The Problem
with Work: Feminism, Marxism,
Antiwork Politics, and Postwork
Imaginaries', criticizes the centrality of
work and wage labor for the left, and
argues that we need to envision life
beyond work.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:00
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Letters and Politics
Simon Head, author of 'Mindless: Why
Smarter Machines are Making Dumber
Humans', and the history of assembly
lines and the subsequent automation it
spawned.
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Democracy NOW!
"An Olympic Snowden": U.S. Luge Athlete on Being
Turned Into a "Spokesperson for Verizon" at 2006
Game for the to Get the Company's Name in Front of
Consumers.
Wednesday, February 05, 2014 09:00
20 Mins
Against the Grain
Social movement scholar Frances Fox Piven on the
"movement cycle" that, she argues, we are currently
witnessing -- from the Zapatistas and Occupy Wall
Street, to service worker struggles today affecting
consumers.
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Texas Student: After Reporting Rape, I Was
Accused of "Public Lewdness," Sent to
Disciplinary School Along with Her Rapist,
who She Saw Everyday.
Friday, January 03, 2014 09:00
20 Mins
Womens Magazine
Tara Dorabji talks with midwife Treesa
McLean about how new California laws
governing licensing of midwives affect
access to home birth and women's choices
about their prenatal care.
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Monday, January 06, 2014 13:00
Leslie Acoca MA, MFT, Executive Director
and Founder of the National Girls Health
and Justice Institute proposes an end to the
epidemic of incarcerated women and girls
Your Own Health and Fitness through mandatory health screenings.
Tuesday, January 07, 2014 13:00
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Womens Magazine
Tara Dorabji talks about Dear Sister: Letters
from Survivors of Sexual Violence with editor
Lisa Factora-Borchers and contributors
Michelle Ovalle and brownfemipower. Dear
Sister, a multi-ethnic anthology by and for
survivors, comes out from AK press this
week.
Monday, January 13, 2014 13:00
30 Mins
Womens Magazine
Freedom Rider Jean Denton-Thompson
recounts her experience of one of the
defining moments of the freedom struggle to
Women's Magazine's Eryn Ashleigh
Matthewson.
Monday, January 20, 2014 13:00
30 Mins
Womens Magazine
As President Obama announces a new task
force to combat the epidemic of rape on
college campuses, we'll talk with historian
Estelle Freedman about the history of how
rape has been defined in the United States. Monday, January 27, 2014 13:00
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Womens Magazine
Mariame Kaba, co-author of "Interlopers on
Social Media: Feminism, Women of Color
and Oppression," about the debate over
"toxic twitter feminism." Kaba calls out the
anti-black rhetoric of white online feminism
and challenges us to do better than false
claims of "safety" and "inclusion."
Monday, February 24, 2014 13:00
30 Mins
Making Contact
Profiles of the women of Greenpeace, the
legendary eco-activist organization. Hettie
geenan is first mate on the Greenpeace
ship, Rainbow Warrior.
30 Mins
Womens Magazine
We talk with Kristina Wilfore, former director
of the National Democratic Institute in
Ukraine and founder of Women Lead, about
women in the Ukrainian uprising.
Monday, February 10, 2014 13:00
20 Mins
Womens Magazine
Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call Radio and
facilitator of Use Your Voice workshops for
women talks about why women have so
much trouble breaking in and staying in
media, and why it matters.
20 Mins
Womens Magazine
Forced marriage in the U.S.? Researchers
and activists Vidya Sri and Darakshan Raja
explain that the practice is more common
than we think, cutting across all classes,
geographies, ethnicities and religions.
Monday, March 24, 2014 13:00
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Monday, March 17, 2014 13:00
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Democracy NOW!
Private Violence: Survivors & Advocates
Confront Victim-Blaming & the Epidemic of
Domestic Abuse, and How the Abuse Carries
Through Family Members.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 09:00
40 Mins
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Visionary Activist
Caroline hosts Max Blumenthal, author of "Goliath:
Life and Loathing in Greater Israel," a sine qua non of
field reporting, for anyone who wants to cultivate the
capacity to contribute to dynamic peace in the world,
by being deeply informed. Max Blumenthal is an
award winning journalist whose articles have
appeared in LA Times. NY Times, Nation, Salon, Al
Jazeera English.
Thursday, January 23, 2014 14:00
1 Hour
Womens Magazine
And Jackie Cabasso of Western States Legal
Foundation discusses a groundbreaking conference
in Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East,
aimed at peacefully eliminating nuclear weapons from
the region.
Monday, January 27, 2014 13:00
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Democracy NOW!
Okinawa’s Revolt: Decades of Rape and
Environmental Harm by the U.S. Military
Spur Residents to Rise Up to Legally Force
the Closure of the Bases.
Thursday, January 16, 2014 09:00
10 Mins
Letters and Politics
Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense
Committee and Cindy Cohn of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation on President's NSA
reforms and what practical effects it will have
legally.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:00
30 Mins
Letters and Politics
The legal history of Roe v Wade with Jessica
Mason Pieklo, adjunct professor of law and
legal analyst with RH Reality Check.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:00
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We Will Not Break the Law to Enforce the
Law": NYC to Reform Stop & Frisk, End
Racial Profiling as the Result of Court
Judgment.
The Killing of Jordan Davis: Michael Dunn
Faces 60 Years After Split Verdict in 'Thug
Music' Trial.
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Monday, February 17, 2014 09:00
10 Mins
Attorney for Edward Snowden Interrogated
at U.K. Airport, Placed on "Inhibited Persons
List"; Spying on Lawyers: Snowden
Documents Show NSA Ally Targeted U.S.
Law Firm
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 09:00
"The Death Penalty is a Hate Crime": Bob
Autobee Speaks Out to Spare Life of Son’s
Killer.
Wednesday, March 05, 2014 09:00
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Against the Grain
Criminal defense attorney Sherry
Gendelman discusses how cuts to the court
system have been accompanied by punitive
fines -- a regressive tax of sorts. She also
talks about how people should deal with the
police when they are pulled over. Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:00
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014 10:00
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014 10:00
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Letters and Politics
On the 50 Year Anniversary of LBJ's War on Poverty
Address with Annelise Orleck, professor of history at
Dartmouth College, to see if poverty has gotten better
or worse.
A look at Capitalist economics from Marxist professor
and economist Richard Wolff and why the current
system in the U.S. isn't working.
Making Contact
The cost of American democracy is the most expensive
in the world. In the 2012 elections billions of dollars
were spent on political campaigns. But there’s a
growing consensus that big business and wealthy
individuals are buying power. John Nichols and Robert
McChesney examines how politics are all stacked to
favor the 1 percent.
Friday, January 17, 2014 13:30
Guns and Butter
"Dress Rehearsal for Government Privatization" with
Michel Chossudovsky. Privatization of government
operating through the process of fiscal collapse; black
budgets; war and Wall Street; the Federal Reserve
Bank; shock and awe economics; IMF structural
adjustment; the Washington consensus; extreme
austerity measures; the proxy state; speculative
onslaught, regulatory capture; financial warfare against
the American public
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 13:00 1 Hour
Guns and Butter
Ethan Allen on The Commons; Wall Street profits vs
public capital at the University of California; conflicts of
interest on the Board of Regents; interest rate swaps;
privatization of of public finance system; Transportation
Infrastructure Finance & Innovation Act; securitization;
Port of Oakland; Doyle Drive, Presidio Parkway.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 13:00
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Rethinking Marijuana: As Colorado Opens
World’s First Pot Retail Stores for Adults
Over 21 for Recreational Purposes.
Monday, January 06, 2014 09:00
Execution Chaos: Witnesses Say
Executions Are Botched As States Use
Untested, Secret Drug Cocktails.
Friday, February 07, 2014 09:00
Up Front
Marijuana Advocate Ed Rosenthal
explains his proposed Initiative in
California that will legalize pot growing
and use.
Letters and Politics
Ed Rosenthal, who has advocated for the
legalization of marijuana, on various
surprising developments of in growing
marijuana in California and the impending
rise in prices due to the State's drought. Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:00
Democracy NOW!
Friday, February 14, 2014 07:00
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