3/18/2007 In our first hour...
As the 4-year anniversary approaches of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we'll take a look at the situation on the ground, in detention centers, in Congress, and at home.... We'll also look at the possibility of the U.S. invasion of Iran... Our guests... Malihe Razazan, host of KPFA's "Voices of the Middle East and North Africa." Nir Rosen, journalist who's spent years in Iraq since the invasion began. Roger Morris, historian and investigative journalist who served on the National Security Council Staff under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, and author of "Shadows of the Eagle," a history of American policy and covert interventions in the Middle East and South Asia. Ann Wright, retired United States Army colonel, retired official of the U.S. State Department, and now full-time anti-war activist.
3/18/2007 And in our Second Hour...
The Justice Department's bad behavior: The firings of 8 U.S. Attorneys, and the illegal use of National Security letters to get private information about Americans... Guest... Jamie Raskin, Maryland State Senator, and professor of Constutional Law, American University Washington College of Law.
3/4/2007 In our First Hour...
What promises to be a lively conversation with author and blogger Jane Smiley.  Smiley is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post.  Her new book is "Ten Days in the Hills" (Knopf).
3/4/2007 And in our Second Hour...
The new documentary "An Unreasonable Man" takes a look at the life and politics of "Public Citizen" and former Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader.  It opens this week in the Bay Area... Guests: Henriette Mantel, the co-writer, -producer, and -director of the film James Ridgeway, Washington Correspodent, Mother Jones Magazine Ross Mirkarimi, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Larry Says Good-bye
2/25/2007 In our First Hour...
On this week's Sunday Salon, we will be focusing on California's recent Health Care proposals with Deborah Berger, President of California Nurses Association and Jessica Rothhaar an Organizer with Health Access Foundation. We'll also hear about an event titled, Grassroots, Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine with keynote speakers, Mohammed Khatib and Feryal Abu Haikal who live in threatened communities by the Israeli military and settlers. They will speak of their personal experiences mobilizing their communities to nonviolently resist these measures.
2/25/2007 In our Second Hour...
We'll be speaking with two authors about their recent publications. Marisa Handler, author of the book, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist and Lisa Gray-Garcia AKA Tiny about her book, Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America. We'll be closing out the show with Lara Mendel , Director The Mosaic Project and hear about their upcoming event, Peacing It Together.
2/18/2007 In our First Hour
KPFA Reporter and author ("How America Lost Iraq"), Aaron Glantz will be sitting in for Larry Bensky. In the first hour...Glantz, who spent six months reporting from Iraq after the U.S. invasion, has recently been investigating incidents of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.  He'll be joined by Penny Coleman, author of "Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War" (Beacon).
2/18/2007 In our Second Hour
The Bay Area's Asian American population celebrates the Lunar New Year, commonly referred to as Chinese New Year. We'll discuss the history of the celebration in the United States and the Bay Area, the tradition and what carries over from celebrations in Asian countries to Asian American celebrations.Guests:William Poy Lee is a Berkeley-based attorney, and author of the new book "The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribut.
2/11/2007 In our First Hour
It's been 18 months since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast.  Hundreds of thousands of people were driven from their homes, many of them to other parts of the country... Now, people the vast majority of them people of color are barred from returning to their homes in New Orleans, and the federal government continues to fail or to opt not to pick up the pieces. Guests: Cornelius Washington, former New Orleans resident, who evacuated to the Bay Area and is now based in San Francisco Tracie Lee Washington, Attorney, and Director of the NAACP Gulf Coast Advocacy Center Those who pledge this hour will be able to choose Spike Lee's documentary, "When the Levees Broke" as a thank you gift.
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