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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Laura Dassow Walls is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life, and her latest, The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season. Feature image: Benjamin D. Maxham- Thoreau … Continued
Part I. Reflecting on the significance of the occupation of the Church of the Holy Cross (1982) in London to protest “police illegality and racism” against sex workers. Guest: Selma James is founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign and author of Hookers in the House of the Lord and The Power of Women … Continued
Part 1. Remembering Disability Rights Icon Hale Zukas. Hale Zukas was a member of the Rolling Quads at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founder of the first Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley. He was active in working for accessible streets and public transit, and in the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of … Continued
Guest: Ahmed White teaches labor and criminal law at the University of Colorado Boulder and is author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers.
Guest: Nathan Robinson is the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine. He is the author of many books including his latest American Monstrosity. Donald Trump: How We Got Him. How We Stop Him and his upcoming, Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments.
Guest: Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, and most recently, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State.
Guest: David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. And is author of several novels and non-fiction books including his latest, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.
Guest: Damien Lewis is an award-winning writer who spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones for the BBC and other global news organizations. He is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, many of which are being adapted into films or television series; his latest is Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy.
Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller), and Bury the Chains (a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA … Continued
Part I. Nancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics Guest: Tim Redmond is long-time San Francisco political and investigative reporter, former executive editor of the SF Bay Guardian and founder of 48hills.org. Part 2. An Homage to KPFA’s Host and Producer Jennifer Stone Guest: Laura Prives is KPFA Fund drive Manager, former Program Director, … Continued
