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Part 1. Remembering Disability Rights Icon Hale Zukas. Hale Zukas was a member of the Rolling Quads at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founder of the first Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley. He was active in working for accessible streets and public transit, and in the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Guest: Judith E. Heumann is an International Disability Rights Advocate. She is the author of Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist. She co-founded the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley California and the World Institute on Disability in Oakland California.   Part 2. The Abolitionist’s Journal: Memories of an American Antislavery Family Guest: James D. Richardson is a former senior writer with The Sacramento Bee and a retired Episcopal priest. He is the author of Willie Brown: A Biography. Feature Photo: Center for Independent Living, Inc. “In Loving Memory of Hale Zukas” The post Remembering Hale Zukas: Disability Rights Icon. Then, The Abolitionist’s Journal appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ahmed White teaches labor and criminal law at the University of Colorado Boulder and is author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. The post The Rise & Fall of The Wobblies: America’s Most Radical Union appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nathan Robinson is the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine.  He is the author of many books including his latest American Monstrosity. Donald Trump: How We Got Him. How We Stop Him and his upcoming, Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments.     The post Nathan Robinson on The Grotesquery of the American Political System appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, and most recently, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State.  The post Anarchists & Communists In Asia’s Anti-Colonialist Movements appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. And is author of several novels and non-fiction books including his latest, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present. The post A Counter Narrative of Native American History appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Damien Lewis is an award-winning writer who spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones for the BBC and other global news organizations. He is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, many of which are being adapted into films or television series; his latest is  Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy. The post Josephine Baker: Anti-Fascist Spy appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller), and Bury the Chains (a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award). His latest is AMERICAN MIDNIGHT: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis. The post Adam Hochschild: WWI, The Red Scare and The Threat to Democracy appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Nancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics Guest: Tim Redmond is long-time San Francisco political and investigative reporter, former executive editor of the SF Bay Guardian and founder of 48hills.org.   Part 2. An Homage to KPFA’s Host and Producer Jennifer Stone Guest: Laura Prives is KPFA Fund drive Manager, former Program Director, and Jennifer Stone’s Producer. Jennifer Stone was born in Tucson, Arizona in December, 1933. She received her B.A. in theatre arts from Mills College in 1955 and her M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State in 1975.  She authored books such as Over By the Cave and Mind Over Media. Stone’s radio show Stone’s Throw was produced and broadcasted weekly on KPFA Pacifica Radio. The show provided cultural, political, and social justice commentary on diverse current topics. The post Nancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics & An Homage to KPFA’s Iconic Monologist Jennifer Stone appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: John Nichols is Washington correspondent for the Nation Magazine. The post The End of an Era: Nancy Pelosi’s Legacy appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. A Modern History of Disinformation: From the Tobacco Industry to Climate Climate Change. Guest: Naomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.  She is a leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in blocking climate action.  She is the author of many books including the best-selling, Merchants of Doubt,  The Collapse of Western Civilization, Why Trust Science?, Science on a Mission, and her upcoming, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loath Government and Love the Free Market, which will be published in February 2023.   Part II. Conversations with Birds Guest: Priyanka Kumar is the author of Conversations with Birds.  She is a recipient of the Aldo & Estella Leopold Writing Residency, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, a New Mexico/New Visions Governor’s Award, a Canada Council for the Arts Grant, an Ontario Arts Council Literary Award, and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellowship.   Feature photo by Chris LeBoutillier on Unsplash The post From the Tobacco Industry to Climate Climate Change to Social Media: A Modern History of Disinformation. Then, Conversations with Birds appeared first on KPFA.