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Program Archives
8/27/2006 Second Hour |  | In our second hour...
The Aftermath: relief, displacement, and a shattered public education system.
Guests: Xan West (mxgmoakland@hotmail.com) is an Oakland-based activist who went with a group of women of color to volunteer in the Gulf Coast region. Amber McZeal(evolutionmuse@hotmail.com) was displaced from her Gulf Coast school and is now a student in the Bay Area. She works with the group Survivors for Survivors (hurricanesurvivors@yahoo.com). For event information contact (415 820 1662 or http://peopleshurricane.org/). Also joining us is Jane Hannaway with the Urban Institute (www.urban.org). | | 8/20/2006 First Hour | | This week on Sunday Salon, hosted by Matt Gonzalez...
In our first hour...
Immigration and the California Governor's race....
With Nativo Lopez, President of the Mexican American Political Association
(www.mapa.org), and Larisa Casillas, Executive Director of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights
Coalition (www.bairc.org).
| | 8/20/2006 Second Hour | | In our second hour...
California's spiritual landscape is as diverse as its topography, its ecosystems, its population. A conversation with author Erik Davis (http://www.techgnosis.com) and photographer Michael Rauner (http://www.michaelrphotography.com), collaborators on the new book "The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape" (Chronicle Books).
| | 8/13/2006 First Hour | | In our first hour...
The Middle East Crisis: History, Context, and Prospects for Resolution.
Analysis with author and journalist Chris Hedges
( http://alternet.org/story/39715/); University of Chicago Professor of
Modern Jewish History Bernard Wasserstein (Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do
They Fight? Can They Stop? Yale U.P., 2003); and Rashid Kalidi, the Edward
Said Professor of Middle Arab Studies/Director of the Middle East Institute
at Columbia University (Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and
America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2004).
But, first and from Beirut from activist and artist Zena al-Khalil
( beirut.blogspot.com) | | 8/13/2006 Second Hour | | In our second hour...
How a University lives with the community surrounding it is important. Best
practices from around the country, and how does UC Berkeley measure up?
Guests: Doug Buckwald and Anne Wagely
( http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?archiveDate=07-11-06&storyID
=24601) | | 8/6/2006 First Hour | | This week on Sunday Salon...
In our first hour:
The Battle of the Ballot: Iraq and Elections 2006. We'll take a look at
how Iraq policy plays into three Congressional primaries: Lamont/Lieberman
in Connecticut, McKinney/Johnson in Georgia, and Clinton/Tasini in New York.
Confirmed Guests:
Jonathan Tasini, NY Democrat running against Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton
Paul Bass, covering the Ned Lamont run against Joseph Lieberman for the New
Haven Independent (www.newhavenindependent.org)
Matthew Cardinale; Atlanta Progressive News (atlantaprogressivenews.org)
Plus: A discussion with California Assembly Member Paul Koretz (D-West
Hollywood) about Assembly Joint Resolution 39 calling for the impeachment of
President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
| | 8/6/2006 Second Hour | | And in our second hour:
An from Lebanon from Zena al-Khalil: (http://beirut.blogspot.com).
Then, a discussion about the social service networks of Islamic Political
Parties.
Confirmed guests, both Professors of Anthroplogy at UC Berkeley:
Saba Mahmood, author, Politics of Piety (2005 by Princeton University Press)
and Charles Hirschkind, author of the forthcoming, The Ethical Soundscape
(Columbia University Press).
| | 7/30/2006 First Hour | | In our first hour...
An from Beirut with artist, activist and blogger Zena al-Khalil:
http://beirut.blogspot.com.
Then...
Resisting War. Resisting Invasion and Occupation. On GI's resisting
Vietnam and Iraq. Our guests: David Zeiger, filmmaker, "Sir, No Sir!"
(www.sirnosir.com); and author and journalist Peter Laufer, "Mission
Rejected: US Soldiers Saying No to Iraq" (Chelsea Green;
www.peterlaufer.com).
| | 7/30/2006 Second Hour | | And in our Second Hour...
Analysis on the crisis in the Middle East with MIT professor, author, and
commentator Noam Chomsky, whose most recent book is " Failed States: The
Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy." Plus, clips from the Media
Education Foundation DVD: Peace, Propadanda, and the Promised Land: U.S.
Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."
It's nearing the end of KPFA's Summer Mini-fund drive. We'll offer the
books and DVDs mentioned as thank-you gifts when you pledge your support to
KPFA during Sunday Salon.
| | 7/23/2006 First Hour | | A Special three-hour edition focusing on the escalating crisis in the Middle
East...
The Israeli military assault on Lebanon is in its second week, and a
full-scale invasion is possible. Meanwhile, Israel's offensive in Gaza and
the West Bank has been going on for four weeks... The number of Lebanese
and Palestinian civilians killed by Israel nears 500. The number of Israeli
soldiers and civilians killed is over 30. The Bush Administration and the
U.S. Congress have expressed unequivocal support for Israel, and U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says there's no "moral
equivalence" between the the deaths of Israelis and the deaths of the Arab
people Israel is killing. Joining us:Robert Blecher, fellow at the Center for
Human Rights at the University of Iowa and an editor of Middle East Report(merip.org),
Zena al-Khalil, Lebanese artist and activist living in Beirut(beriutupdat.blogspot.com),
and Norman Solomon, media critic and author of "War Made Easy" (warmadeeasy.com).
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