12/10/2006 Live From the KPFA Crafts & Music Fair
In our second hour... Interviews with artists, craftspersons, and musicians participating in KPFA's 36th Annual Crafts & Music Fair. The fair is Saturday and Sunday December 8th & 9th from 10am-6pm.  Come to the SF Concourse at 8th & Brannan Streets on Sunday between 10 & 11am, and say "hi" to the Sunday Salon crew, and other members of the KPFA staff. Here are directions to help you get to the fair:   http://www.kpfa.org/craftsfair/pages/gettingthere.html
12/3/2006 In our First Hour...
Former CIA director Robert Gates is President Bush's choice to take over for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who resigned earlier this month.  Ahead of confirmation hearings in before the Senate Armed Services Committee, we'll take a look at what the new Defense Secretary faces -- an increasingly chaotic Iraq, a possible U.S. attack on Iran, and growing public dissatisfaction with the Bush Administration's handling of security matters. Our guests: Reese Erlich, journalist who writes on the Middle East, and co-author of "Target Iraq:  What the News Media Didn't Tell You," just returned from Iraq and Iran. John Prados, is a senior fellow at the Naitonal Security Archives in Washington, and author of the book, "Hoodwinked:  The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War." Winslow Wheeler is the Director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.
12/3/2006 In our Second Hour...
The State of California seized control of the Oakland Unified School District from the school board in 2003, in an attempt to pull the district out of debt.  Many educators, parents and students resent the state's control, and question its administration of the district.  Next Saturday, the Oakland Education Association convenes the "Crisis in Public Education" Conference at Laney College.  We'll talk with students and conference participants. Guests:  Betty Olson-Jones, OEA President Yetunde Reeves, Principal, EXCEL High School Ishman Anderson, Graduating Senior, EXCEL High School Kathy Emery, former history teacher, co-author, "Why is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools?"
11/26/2006 In Our First Hour...
A 15th Christian politician assassinated in Lebanon. Israel continues to escalate its assault in Gaza. Some 200 Shi'ites die in the biggest bombing in Iraq since the 2003 U.S. invasion. U.S. analysts increasingly predict that the Bush Administration will attack Iran next year. What's happening in the Middle East?  And what part does the United States play? Our guests: Free Speech Radio News/Al-Jazeera reporter Jackson Allers joins us from Lebanon. Rostam Pourzal, Board of Directors, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, Frequent writer and commentator on Iran issues, and author of the recent piece "Don't Iraq Iran" http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1118-24.htm Seth Ackerman, frequent contributor to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting'smagazine, "Extra!," writes on Israel/Palestine issues www.fair.org.
11/26/2006 In our Second Hour
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11/19/2006 First Hour
This week on Sunday Salon... In our first our... The American holiday glut is about to begin, first with Thanksgiving, and continuing through the end of the year...  The fact that many will be eating more than their share makes this time of year particularly difficult for those who go without food, or without enough food every day.  We'll talk to Bay Area-based experts in food policy, and food scarcity...people with ideas about food distribution and injustice. Our guests: Michele Simon is the director of Center for Informed Food Choices (www.informedeating.org) and author of the new book, "Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back" (Nation Books). Brahm Amadi, is the Executive Director and co-founder of The People's Grocery, a West Oakland-based non-profit group that brings healthy foods to communities lacking access to it (www.peoplesgrocery.org). Christopher Cook is a journalist and the author of "Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis" (www.dietforadeadplanet.com)
11/19/2006 Second Hour
In our second hour... November 18th is the 28th anniversary of the tragedy at the People's Temple settlement known as Jonestown in Guyana.  A new film, "Jonestown:  The Life and Death of People's Temple" (www.firelightmedia.org) delves deep into the formation of the People's Temple, and how more than 900 -- including the Temple's leader, Jim Jones, ended up dead in Guyana. Our guests: Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jonestown survivor Tim Carter
11/12/2006 First Hour
This week on Sunday Salon... Analysis of the mid-term elections... In our first hour... A look at what happened across the nation:  the issues, races, and the Democrats taking over Congress. Guests: Clarence Lusane, Professor at American University's School of International Service, and regular commentator on Sunday Salon. Tom Hayden, long-time activist, and former California Assembly member.
11/12/2006 Second Hour
In our second hour... Progressive candidates who won Bay Area races... Chris Daly, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor, kept his seat. So did Kriss Worthington, city councilmember for Berkeley's District 6. And, Richmond city councilmember Gayle McLaughlin was elected mayor of that city, making her the first Green Party mayor in the Bay Area, and the first Green Party mayor of any major U.S. city.
11/5/2006 First Hour
In our first hour... National Journal Staff Reporter Peter Stone discusses Republican corruption scandals. Stone's the author of " Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Then a discussion on voter suppression and how the web has changed the face of political campaigns... Our guests: Wendy R. Weiser, Deputy Director, Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Steven Schneider, Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities at SUNY Institute of Technology, co-author of the new book "Web Campaigning" (MITPress).
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