KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Nick Pyenson is a paleontologist, he is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.  He is the author of Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures.       The post KPFA Special – Whales: From its Ancient Past to its Uncertain Future appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:Margaret Cerullo is a professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at Hampshire College and a member of the Lightning Collective which put together the book  Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World by Subcomandante Marcos. The post Zapatista Stories appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Laura Dassow Walls is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life, and her latest, The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season.   Feature image: Benjamin D. Maxham- Thoreau -Restored on Wikipedia The post KPFA Special – David Henry Thoreau: the Man Who Lived in Season appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Reflecting on the significance of the occupation of the Church of the Holy Cross (1982) in London to protest “police illegality and racism” against sex workers. Guest: Selma James is founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign and author of Hookers in the House of the Lord and The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, and Sex, Race, and Class.  Selma James was the first spokesperson for the English Collective of Prostitutes. Part II. A History of Railroad Labor Disputes and Government Intervention Guest: Joseph A McCartin is a Professor of History at Georgetown University and the Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.  His books include Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and The Origins of Modern American Labor Relations 1912-1921, and Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America, the book won the 2012 Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. Professor McCartin is one of the historians who have signed a Letter to President Biden in Support of the Railway Workers.   Feature image: ECP Church Occupation 1982 – Copyright Crossroads AV Collective. The post A Church Occupation by the English Collective of Prostitutes & A History of Railroad Labor Disputes and Government Intervention appeared first on KPFA.

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.