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Phil Proctor

Airs at: Thu, 01/24/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Phil Proctor co-founded the legendary Firesign Theatre comedy troupe over 50 years ago, and has never slowed down since.  Best known for his contribution to such groundbreaking albums as How Can You Be In Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All, he's also a ve... Read more

I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin

Airs at: Mon, 01/21/2019 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwins original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey... Read more

Buscando America on 01/15/19

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Recordando el triunfo de la Revolución Cubana y al poeta cubano mexicano Iván Portela Bonachea mejor conocido "el poeta de las dos islas" en alusión a Cuba e Irlanda. Jorge Rodríguez pastor de la Iglesia Metodista de Las Naciones habla de la delegación de Interfaith Movemen... Read more

Formosa Moon by Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman

Airs at: Fri, 01/18/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Our Radiozine guests today are Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman, authors of the new book Formosa Moon, from Things Asian Press. Formosa Moon is part memoir, part travel guide, in which Josh and Stephanie tell the story of their move from Portland, Oregon to Taiwan ... Read more

The Dream of Revolution: Robin Kelley

Airs at: Tue, 01/15/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  In some ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered twice. First by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis and then by killing his revolutionary message. Today, King is largely remembered with special holiday sales. His vision of radical revolution muted. He posed a special t... Read more

Buscando America on 01/08/19

Airs at: Tue, 01/08/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
El EZLN cumplió 25 años de levantamiento armado y en su acto de conmemoración  mandaron una advertencia respecto a la construcción de mega proyectos al gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. En esta emisión recordamos también la guerra de El Salvador en la década de los a... Read more

Preventing Nuclear Apocalypse

Airs at: Tue, 01/08/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
  You may know Apocalypse as a Marvel Comics supervillain. It is a word of Greek origin, meaning the catastrophic final destruction of the world. The use of nuclear weapons would be apocalyptic. It is difficult to imagine extinction. Understandably, most people would rathe... Read more

Jason Lutes - Berlin

Airs at: Thu, 01/10/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Jason Lutes is a dogged comics storyteller.  His previous graphic novel Jar of Fools was serialized for years in Seattle's Stranger newspaper before being collected in book form.  Now comes the 600-page magnum opus Berlin, a sprawling tale of urban struggle in Germany du... Read more

Hannah Versus the Tree by Leland de la Durantaye

Airs at: Thu, 01/03/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Leland de la Durantaye, author of the new novel Hannah Versus the Tree from McSweeney’s Press. Leland is a critic, translator, and professor of comparative literature at the Claremont Colleges. His journalism and criticism have appeared in The New ... Read more

Kristian Williams on the Police & Politics (Part One)

Airs at: Mon, 12/31/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick offers the first part of a three-part interview with Kristian Williams about how to keep police from supporting the far right. Part One focuses on the modern history of police strategies to suppress left insurgent protest, demonstrations, and actions—includi... Read more