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The Trap looks at the free market system run amok.

With your host Kris Welch.

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On International Workers Day, demonstrations across the country for human rights, immigrant rights.  Plus: swine flu, or NAFTA flu?  Mike Davis opines.  PLUS: a report-back from the UN conference on racism.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: May First Organizing Committee, UCB
        Mike Davis, social commentator, urban theorist, activist, author (City of Quartz, etc.)
        Cecilie Surasky, communications dir., Jewish Voice for Peace

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The US Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the Voting Rights Act, in a case that will have enormous implications for minority voters.  Plus: racial injustice in Texas goes to Hollywood.  PLUS: Obama's first 100 days—good or bad?  You do the voting.   With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Lachlan McDonald, dir. Voting Rights Project, ACLU

           Regina Kelly, whose story of false arrest and imprisonment, and her successful resistance, is the story of the new film, "American Violet"

           Dominique Apollon, research dir. Applied Research Center

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Control of the parliament, and the future of the constitution, may still be up for grabs in South Africa's election.  We hear what's at stake, for whom.  PLUS: a remarkable woman who has devoted her life to sufferers of AIDs in her homeland, South Africa.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Andrew Feinstein, former ANC MP, now ANC critic; author "After the Party"

         Sister Abigail Ntleko, founder Clouds of Hope (AIDS orphaned children), Khuphuka Project (home/health/legal/social services for people with AIDS, HIV); adoptive mother to 22;  receiving Unsung Heroes Award this weekend from Dalai Lama on her first trip out of South Africa in her 75 years!

         Wavy Gravy, on the 40th Anniversary of People's Park

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The global crisis of capitalism: a U2 headed for the bottom?  That's what our guest has called it.  PLUS: Sulak Sivaraksa, Thai Buddhist activist and teacher, on the recent mass protests in Bangkok, and revolutionary non-violence.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

Guests: Walden Bello, sr. analyst Focus on the Global South, prof. sociology Univ. of Philippines; pres. Freedom from Debt Coalition; bd member Food First, Int'l Forum on Globalization, Transnational Institute

    Sulak Sivaraksa, winner Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel); chr. Asian Cultural Forum on Development; former visiting prof UCB;initiator of social, humanitarian, ecological and spiritual movements and organizations in Thailand

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Cuba, Venezuela,  NAFTA, drugs, bio-fuels: just a few things on the Obama agenda at the Summit of the Americas, starting today. We get an analysis. PLUS: radio theater loonies Firesign Theater, with a reunion gig in Monterey.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one p.m.

guests: Firesign Theater (David Ossman, Phil Proctor, Peter Bergman, Phil Austin)

          Adam Sgrenci (sih-GREN-ski), Center for the Study of the Americas

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We here begin the next and final year in this  radio history, inaugurating 1989 by delving into the radio jingle/station ID productions of Century 21 and other companies producing radio promos. The corporate sound takes over. The Exxon Valdese spills it’s guts, England compiles it’s top 40, The World Series San Francisco earthquake, odd DJs rant between jingles, and even odder music from 1989.

3 Hours.

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