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Program Archives
4/9/2006 Second Hour |  |
In our second hour...
Who or Whom?
That or Which?
She or Her?
Which is right? When? And how much does it really matter?
Brush up on your grammar, or challenge your beliefs about it with Los
Angeles Times columnist, June Casagrande, author of the new book "Grammar
Snobs are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun & Spite," and
Geoffrey Nunberg, professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and the
author of a the upcoming book "Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned
Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving,
New York Times-reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak
Show."
| | 4/9/2006 First Hour | | In our first hour...
The Three "Rs"...
No, not THOSE three...
Revenge. Retribution. Rectification.
The story we've passed down from generation to generation about these values
fools us into believing our nation's penal system, including capital
punishment, is legitimate. That's according to our guest, Judith Kay,
author of "Murdering Myths: The Story Behind the Death Penalty" (Polemics). Also joining us will be Ari Wohlfeiser of Critical Resistance (critical resistance.org, 510 444 0484) and Justice Now (www.jnow.org, 510 839 7615)
| | 4/2/2006 First Hour | | A wholesome group of Christians serving God through policy, or a dangerously shortsighted, ideologically extreme administration selling empire wrapped in the Bible? Former Republican strategist Kevin Phillips joins us to discuss his new book, "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century."(Viking)
| | 3/26/2006 First Hour | | In our first hour...
Activism: The Tricks of the Trade.
Tune in for expert advice on organizing and running successful campaign.
Guests include:
Attorney and organizer Dotty LeMieux (www.greendogdemocrat.blogspot.com)
Jakada Imani, of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Books Not Bars
campaign (www.ellabakercenter.org)
Danielle Mahones, Executive Director, Center for Third World Organizing
(www.ctwo.org)
| | 3/26/2006 Second Hour | | And, in our second hour...
Round three of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings into the
Bush/National Security Agency Domestic Surveillance scandal is coming up on
March 28th. We'll check in with experts about what to expect.
| | 3/19/2006 First Hour | | The third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq...
In our first hour...
War is not the way to resolving conflict resolution: a Bay Area program is
getting people started on non-violent solutions when they're young. We'll be
joined by youth from the Berkeley-based Mosaic Project
(www.mosaicproject.org) and the program's Director.
| | 3/19/2006 Second Hour | | In our second hour...
A conversation about the war with author/journalists Pratap Chattergee
("Iraq Inc.: A Profitable Occupation," Seven Stories Press, 2004), Aaron
Glantz ("How America Lost Irag," Tarcher, 2005), and Christian Parenti ("The
Freedom," New Press, 2005)
| | 3/12/2006 First Hour | | In our first hour...
A look at how the world's religious leaders teach us about war, and how we
apply the lesson. We'll talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and
author Chris Hedges ("Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America");
Muslim thinker and theologian Hamza Yusuf(www.zaytuna.org), founder of the Hayward, CA-based
Zaytuna Institute, and independent photographer Kael Alford(http://unembedded,net/main.php), whose work
documenting the American bombing of Baghdad and the impact of the war on
Iraq, is featured in the new book "Unembedded."
All three of our guests will participate in the Saturday March 11th event in
Berkeley: "Does God Love War?" The free event is at 7:00 p.m. at the
martin Luther King Jr Middle School Auditorium, 1781 Rose Street.
| | 3/12/2006 Second Hour | | In our second hour...
First, two veterans events, marking the 3rd anniversary next week of the US
invasion of Iraq, then...
Iran, India, and Pakistan: The Bush Administration's foes and favorites in
nuclear policy. Joining us: Pakistani journalist and author ("Taliban")
Ahmed Rashid(www.ahmedrashid.com); and Angana Chatterji(www.ciis.edu), professor of Social and Cultural
Anthropology (California Center for Integral Studies) and author of the
forthcoming "Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present(www.gracelinks.org)"
| | 3/5/2006 First Hour | | This week on Sunday Salon...
In our first hour...
A look at poverty in Africa. Guests Besinati Mpepo, Ntando Ndlovu, Roxanne Lawson members of the American Friends Service Committee's "LIFE over debt and Poverty in Africa: Africa Peace With
Justice Tour" (www.afsc.org/africa-debt/), Robert Calderisi, author, " The Trouble with Africa: Why
Foreign Aid Isn't Working," and Kristin Sundell of Jubilee USA Network.
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