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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.

Guest: Dr. Clarence Lusane is an author, activist, scholar, and journalist. He is a Professor and former Chairman of Howard University’s Department of Political Science.  He is the author of several books, including The Black History of the White House and his latest, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and democracy. The post Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson: The History and Future of the Twenty Dollar Bill and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Colia Lafayette Clark (July 21,1940 – November 4, 2022), was a committed Pan Africanist, she spent a lifetime in activist work in the areas of civil rights, human rights, women’s rights, workers rights and rights for the homeless and youth.  She was the Green Party’s candidate for the United States Senate in New York in 2010 and 2012. She was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and played a key role establishing equal voting rights in Selma, Alabama. She was also an organizer with the Birmingham campaign, as well as throughout Mississippi. She was chair of Grandmothers for the Release of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Clark was born in rural Hinds county Mississippi and spent most of her childhood years in Jackson, Mississippi. Each fall until her late teens, Clark’s family migrated to the Mississippi Delta for cotton picking season. She was born into a land owning clan, but her young father and mother secured a share cropper contract with a local white farmer. The family was an activist family with her father and maternal grandfather working on projects with the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in the neighboring county of Copiah. The post A Civil Rights Warrior of the 1960s: The Legacy of Colia Lafayette Clark appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: How The Midterm Will Effect Congress Guest: Matt Laslo, Capitol Hill Correspondent who has been covering the election for Wired and The Raw Story. Part 2: Florida Goes Deep Red Guest: Mitch Perry is the Senior Reporter for the Florida Phoenix where he’s based in the Tampa Bay area.   Photo by visuals on Unsplash The post How The Midterm Will Effect Congress & Florida Goes Deep Red appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: Election Integrity Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of  Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is a national political reporter focusing on democracy issues. He is the author of The Georgia Way: How to Win Elections Part 2: Young Voters Guest: Marisa Moraza, senior campaign strategist with Power California.  https://powercalifornia.org/ The post Talking About Election Integrity & Young Voters appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Peter Fritzsche, professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of the book Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich.  [Rebroadcast] The post How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nomi Prins is an economist, journalist, author, and former Wall Street executive. She is the author of many books including her latest Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever. The post Nomi Prins: How The Financial Markets Abandoned The Economy appeared first on KPFA.