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The bombshell book that exposes the Bush White House lies behind the war on Iraq.  Pulitzer Prize-winning  journalist Ron  Suskind joins host Kris Welch.

Guests: Ron Suskind, journalist, author (The Way of the World)

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Sara Palin; Asian American Orchestra 10th anniversary; play about home birth. 

The choice of Sara Palin: Rovian politics?  PLUS: the Asian American Orchestra celebrates 10 glorious years.  PLUS: "the Vagina Monologues for birth" on stage in SF.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Paul Rogat Loeb, author (The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s guide to Hope in a Time of Fear);columnist (Huffington Post, etc.)

        Anthony Brown, dir./founder Asian American Orchestra

        Karen Brody, author/playwright ("BIRTH" at the Brava Theater Center, SF); childbirth activist

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The RNC turns Minnesota into a police state; Ed Roberts Campus groundbreaking. 

A heavily armed, extremely large police presence, sweeping raids, mass arrests, excessive force: this is the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.  We hear all about it.  PLUS: 13 years in the planning, the Ed Roberts Campus, the first national disability services and transit center in the country, breaks ground in Berkeley—today! 

With host Kris Welch.

guests: Zona Roberts, Ed’s mom, disability rights activist
        Kathy Martinez, exec. dir. World Institute on Disability (Ed co-founded)

        Marjorie Cohn
        Starhawk, at RNC, her group tasered at Poor People’s March
        Chuck Samuelson, exec. dir. Minnesota ACLU
        somebody from I-Witness Video, raided by FBI Saturday

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Malik Rahim of New Orleans’ Common Ground speaks on the three year commemoration of Hurricane Katrina while preparing to evacuate from Tropical Storm Gustav. An expert from Levees.Org says that he feels safer now than he did 3 years ago. And, About 700 Oakland residents of affordable housing, including the California Hotel, are in danger of loosing their homes as their landlord goes out of business – Just Cause Oakland is fighting for them.

With guest host Eric Klein.

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Smog in the Central Valley is the worst in the nation and the number 4 cause of air pollution there is the spraying of pesticides. We talk to two environmental justice advocates from The Center for Race Poverty and the Environment. Plus Larry Bensky, live from Denver at the Democratic National Convention. With Guest host Eric Klein.

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African Americans and the dems; Katrina three years later. 

What do African Americans stand to gain—or lose—from the Democrats and Barack Obama?  PLUS : It’s almost three years since the worst natural disaster in U.S. history,  and the Katrina trauma continues in the Gulf.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, journalist, author, broadcaster (Huffington Post, etc.)
         Dr. Clarence Lusane, prof. International Relations, American University; former editor Black Political Agenda; author (Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race, and the New American Century ’06)

         Sakura Kone, special events/ media coordinator, Common Ground Relief, New Orleans
          Wanda Sabir, poet, member Bay Area Poets and Artists, co-host Katrina poetry benefit Friday 8/22 7 p.m. Rebecca’s Books, Berkeley

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