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May 24, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Douglas Tallamy
0:08 — Douglas Tallamy is an entomologist and author of the best-selling books Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard and The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees.
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May 23, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with George Monbiot
0:08 — George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental activist, whose current research focus is on the global food system. His latest book is Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet.
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May 22, 2023 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
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May 19, 2023 • 2min
Fund Drive Special with Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte, in 2011, on the KPFA stage at First Congregational Church of Berkeley, in conversation with Marcus Books founder Raye Richardson.
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May 18, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Naomi Oreskes
0:08 — Naomi Oreskes is a Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her latest book is The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
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May 17, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Andrew Alden
0:08 — Andrew Alden is a geologist by training and a writer by trade. His new book is Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
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May 16, 2023 • 60min
This Year Marks the 75th Anniversary of the Nakba
0:08 — Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. His Most recent book is “The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance [1917-2017]
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May 15, 2023 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
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May 12, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Obi Kaufman
0:08 — Obi Kaufmann, artist and naturalist, author of The Forests of California.
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May 11, 2023 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Malcolm Harris
0:08 — Malcolm Harris is the author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
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