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Guests: Raquel E. Aldana is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis.  Professor Aldana teaches criminal procedure, asylum and refugee law, immigration law and policy, comparative forced displacement, and immigration federalism.   Miguel Tinker Salas is Emeritus professor of History and Latin American studies at Pomona College. He is co-author of Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy and author of Under the Shadow of the Eagles and The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela. His latest book is Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know.   Photo: Soldiers and police officers that staff the CECOT prison in El Salvador on Wikimedia The post Deportations and the Abuse of War Time Powers appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Padraic X. Scanlan is an associate professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Slave Empire, Freedom’s Debtors, and his latest, Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. The post The Irish Potato Famine and Its Consequences appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Michelle Chen is a postdoctoral fellow in history at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She teaches labor and working-class history, studies the intersection of work, migration and social movements, and has covered labor issues as a journalist. She has also been a contributor to The Nation, In These Times, The Progressive, and Dissent, and has produced two podcasts, Belabored and Asia Pacific Forum The post The Second Red Scare & Political Deportations appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Loretta J. Ross is an activist, public intellectual, and a professor of women, gender studies, reproductive rights, white supremacy, and human Rights.  She is the author of many books including her latest “Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel.” Photo: Center for American Progress’s photo (licensed as Attribution-NoDerivs) The post Loretta Ross: Working with Opposition to Affect Change appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1. Deportations In The First Red Scare Guest: Chris Finan is an author and historian.  He worked as a free speech activist for over 40 years and led several groups, including the National Coalition Against Censorship. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning history, From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America.   Part 2. Geoffrey R. Stone on the History of the First Amendment Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author or co-author of many books on constitutional law, including Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime; and The Free Speech Century.     The post Deportations In The First Red Scare appeared first on KPFA.

Guests: Holly S. Cooper is Co-director of the Immigration Law Clinic. She is an expert on immigration detention issues and on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Hatem Bazian is a professor of Islamic law and theology at Zaytuna College. He is also a lecturer in the departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.  Most lately, he is the author of Erasing The Human: Collapse of The Postcolonial World and Refugee Immigration Crisis.   The post Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction & Targeting of Universities appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editorial director and publisher of The Nation magazine. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019.  Her writings can be found at Nation.com.   The post Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Russia-Ukraine War, Trump, and a Potential Peace Deal appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: James K. Galbraith is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.  He is also a Senior Scholar with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and part of the executive committee of the World Economics Association; and is the author of several books including his latest, Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production co-authored with  Jing Chen.   The post James Galbraith on Tariff Wars, Inflation, Recession, & the Politics of the Trump’s Economy appeared first on KPFA.

Today, host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of Kuan Yin, then he speaks with Maya Van Der Meer, author of Kuan Yin: The Princess Who Became the Goddess of Compassion. Guest: Maya Van Der Meer is an educator, environmentalist, and long-time Buddhist practitioner. She is the founder of the online education platform Bodhi Kids and the author of the children’s book Kuan Yin: The Princess Who Became the Goddess of Compassion, illustrated by Wen Hsu. The post Kuan Yin: The Princess Who Became the Goddess of Compassion appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age, and her latest, Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God. Letters & Politics Winter Book Collection Includes: Heretic by Catherine Nixey The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone The Rise of Athens by Anthony Everitt Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant Bodhisattva of Compassion by John Blofeld Kuan Yin by Maya van der Meer, Illustrated by Wen Hsu L&P Ancient History Audio Collection with 40+ interviews. The post Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God by Catherine Nixey appeared first on KPFA.