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Program Archives
11/5/2006 Second Hour |  | In our second hour...
A look at the issues, the candidates, and the financing in California elections, and nationwide. Joining us...
AG Block, of The University of California Center Sacramento (UCCS) is an expert in California politics.
Matt Gonzalez, former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and a one-time Green Party candidate for mayor of that city. Wilson Riles, Jr., former Oakland City Councilmember.
| | 10/29/2006 First Hour | | This week on Sunday Salon...
In our first hour...
Elections Ohio. People concerned about fairness at the polls are watching the state
for signs of voter suppression, fraud, and irregularities. We'll speak with
attorney Cliff Arnebeck of Ohio Common Cause (www.commoncause.org), and
Columbus radio host Charles Traylor. Then, a look at what's happening across the country, what might happen in Congress, and what's going on with the Barak Obama phenomenon.
Guests: Jennifer Senior, writer for New York Magazine (www.newyorkmetro.com/news/politics/21681);
Paul Glastris, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Monthly
(www.washingtonmonthly.com)
| | 10/29/2006 Second Hour | | In our second hour...
Present-day Propaganda: the documentary film...
Guests:
James Forscher, Director of the Media Production Program at California State
University East Bay, and curator of the upcoming "The Pow Pow Power of
Persuasion," a film series at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archives
(http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa_programs/powpower/index.html);
Andrew Berends, filmmaker, "The Blood of My Brother"; and
James Longley, filmmaker, "Iraq in Fragments"
| | 10/22/2006 First Hour | | This week on Sunday Salon...
In our first hour...
What's wrong with Congress? Can it be fixed? And if so, how? Our guests:
Thomas Mann, co-author of " The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing
America and How to Get It Back on Track" (Oxford University Press) and
senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; and
Elizabeth Holtzman, lawyer, former four-term Democratic Congressmember, and
co-author of the recent "The Impeachment of President George W. Bush"
(Nation Books).
| | 10/22/2006 Second Hour | | In our second hour...
Six young environmental activists will receive the Brower Youth Award this
week in San Francisco. We'll be joined in-studio by three of them...
Jessica Assaf is a 16 year-old from San Rafael, California; she's an
activist with the Safe Cosmetics Campaign.
May Boeve, 21 of Middlebury Vermont, co-coordinated a biodiesel bus tour to
Detroit to convince automakers to increase fuel efficiency.
Alberta Nells, 16, of Flagstaff Arizona is an activist with Youth of the
Peaks, a group that works to protect lands sacred to Native groups in the
San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff.
www.broweryouthawards.org
| | 10/15/2006 First Hour | | This week on Sunday Salon...
In our first hour...
More on stolen U.S. elections with filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman, "Stealing
America: Vote by Vote" (www.stealingamerica.org), and Joel Bleifuss,
co-author of "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" (Seven Stories), and editor of
In These Times (www.inthesetimes.com).
| | 10/15/2006 Second Hour | | In our second hour...
Can Israel and Palestine co-exist peacefully? How? Our guests, frequent
writers and commentators on the issue, have some ideas...
Ali Abunimeh is the co-founder of www.electronicintifada.net, and author of
several books on the Middle East. His newest book is "One
Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse"
(Metropolitan Books, 2006).
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia
University. His most recent book is, " The Iron Cage: The Story of the
Palestinian Struggle for Statehood" (Beacon Press, 2006)
KPFA's Fall Fund Drive continues. The books and DVDs discussed during the
show will be available to you when you pledge your support for Sunday Salon
on listener-sponsored, community radio station KPFA.
| | 10/8/2006 First Hour | | This week on Sunday Salon...
In our first hour...
What's being done in the Bay Area to combat climate change? What can you do
as an individual? Springing from Al Gore's arguments in his book and the
film, "An Inconvenient Truth," we'll talk about actions to slow down global
warming, with special focus on the Bay Area. Our guests:
Melissa Capria, Climate Action Coordinator, San Francisco Department of
Environment (http://www.sfenvironment.com/index.htm)
Ori Skloot, Executive Director of the Berkeley-based Rising Sun Energy
Center (www.risingsunenergy.org)
Both the DVD "An Inconvenient Truth" and Al Gore's book of the same name
(Rodale Books) will be available as premiums when you pledge your support to
KPFA during this hour.
| | 10/8/2006 Second Hour | | In our second hour...
Countless Iraqi civilians have died. More than 2,700 U.S. soldiers killed. Bomb and gun attacks are at an all-time high in Bagdhad. And, U.S. Intelligence Agencies say the ongoing U.S. occupation of Iraq is fueling the type of sentiment that inspires terrorist attacks. So, who's benefiting? A few U.S. Corporations. Big time. Our guests: Filmmaker Robert Greenwald, director and producer of the new film "Iraq for Sale: the War Profiteers" (www.iraqforsale.org) Robert Young Pelton, author, "Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror" (Crown).
Both "Iraq for Sale" and "Licensed to Kill" will be available as premiums when you pledge your support to KPFA this hour.
| | 10/1/2006 First Hour | | This week on Sunday Salon...
In our first hour...
There's just one month left before the general election. Recent elections have seen trouble with electronic voting machines, hanging chads, and possible fraud will your vote count? Our guests: Mark Crispin Miller (markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com), author of "FooledAgain: How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections and Why They'll Steal This One, Too (Unless We Stop Them)" (Basic Books) Steve Freeman, co-author, "Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count" (Seven Stories) Beverly Harris, author of " Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century Harris" (Talion) (www.blackboxvoting.org)
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