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59:00 Documentary on why we need single payer, featuring Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program and others....
Posted: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 4:29pm PDT
On a recent visit to San Francisco, Sumbul Ali-Karamali, author of The Muslim Next Door: The Qur'an, The Media and That Veil Thing, spoke with KPFA's Gabrielle Wilson. Audio 11 mins....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 12:18pm PDT
Urban mythology says lesbian and gay people in the U.S. are far wealthier than their heterosexual counterparts. This 28 minute documentary explodes that myth, talking to economics researchers, working class and poor queers, gender and social justice activists, and even the advertising executive who created the wealthy image....
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2010 1:38pm PDT
This panel of radical Queers criticize the gay marriage movement and present the racist and assimilationist aspect of this movement. Lisa Dettmer interviews Lisa Duggan, Matt Richardson, Marlon Bailey, and Mattilda Bernstein,...
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 1:54am PDT
Recorded in 2006 at UC Berkeley - Panel of Queer Graduate Students of Color who criticize the gay marriage movement for being racist, heteronormative and classist. Speaker are Matt Richardson, Marlon Bailey, Sara Kaplan and Priya Kandaswamy,...
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 1:35am PDT
check out AETA4.org for more info on the AETA 4...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 1:32am PST
The recent Supreme Court decision on corporate personhood, The Citizen's United case, has evoked considerable comment, and even some indignation: "Corporations have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money on politicians?!" - "outrageous!" Really? While people have every right to be outraged, we should inform our outrage, for, in truth, corporate interests have owned the political process -- and politicians -- for the better part of a century....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 4:44pm PST
In this clip, a community member shares with us some words while waiting for the release of Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno. Juan Manuel was imprisoned for over 16 ...
Posted: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 9:49am PST
In this clip, Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno shares with us words of hope upon recently being release from prison. He was imprisoned for over 16 months for being w...
Posted: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 9:49am PST
Kate Raphael talks to the amazing and versatile local African American musician Mary Watkins, about her recent opera, Dark River, which documents the life of Civil Rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Audio, 21:42...
Posted: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 10:58pm PST
Eight-minute excerpt of the hour-long interview which is available here:
Peter B. Collins web site...
Posted: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 5:03am PST
Report Back on Copenhagen by Anne Peterman, Exec Dir of the Global Justice Ecology Project. 29 minutes....
Posted: Sat, Feb 6, 2010 9:07am PST
This week, the Pittsburgh Indymedia show "Rustbelt Radio" interviewed Philadelphia journalist Linn Washington Jr. about the January 19 ruling by the US Supreme Court that vacated previous 2001/2008 federal court rulings that overturned the death penalty for death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. The sixteen minute segment of the Rustbelt Radio is included here. Linn Washington is a professor of journalism at Temple University and a columnist for The Philadelphia Tribune. Washington has been co...
Posted: Wed, Feb 3, 2010 3:45pm PST
Radical feminist theologian Mary Daly, who died last month at age 81, transformed the language in which we critique patriarchy. In this short clip, she reads from her Wickedary, a reimagining of the English language based on feminist principles. Copyright Pacifica Archives, permission required for rebroadcast. Audio 4:56...
Posted: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 1:45pm PST
Destiny Lopez of ACCESS Women's Health Rights Coalition talks with KPFA Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael about the Focus on the Family ad to run during the Super Bowl. Women's groups have organized to pressure CBS to pull the ad. Audio, 16:25...
Posted: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 1:34pm PST
La Suprema Corte de Justicia de Estados Unidos decidirá hoy sobre la petición de la fiscalía de Filadelfia de ejecutar al prisionero político, periodista y ex militante del Partido Panteras Negras sin audiencia....
Posted: Tue, Jan 19, 2010 7:53am PST
Did Black feminism arise from the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Which women got to speak at the 1963 March on Washington? How new is the controversy over the movie "Precious"? What's the value of women's studies? Feminist scholar and professor Michele Wallace discusses these issues and more with KPFA Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael. Audio 15:31...
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 12:16pm PST
Last week the judge in the trial of Scott Roeder, who killed Dr. George Tiller in Kansas, ruled that Roeder can introduce a justifiable homicide defense to argue for a conviction for voluntary manslaughter. Kathy Spillar of the Feminist Majority says this decision may lead to more murders of doctors who provide abortion services. Audio 5:58...
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 11:48am PST
A Mexican judge has once again called for the release of human rights activist Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno. Moreno was charged with the murder of Indymedia journalist Brad Will in 2006, despite the fact that there was no evidence against him. On Friday, a Mexican judge recognized this lack of evidence, and ordered Moreno’s release within fifteen days....
Posted: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 12:22pm PST