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Iraq War vet Adam Kokesh and Winter Soldier in Oakland.  Plus, "Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein".  With host Kris Welch.

Guests: Adam Kokesh, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Michael Brown, performance artist with new one-person show

Molly Dwyer, author "Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein"

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Port of Oakland shut down, to protest war in Iraq.  We’ll bring you the rally, live. Veteran journalist Reese Erlich on Iraq, Iran and the elections.

Guests:

Leo Robinson, ILWU organizer.
Betty Olson-Jones, pres. Oakland Education Association.
Brian Edwards-Tieckert live from the rally in S.F., with guests.
Reese Erlich.journalist (CBC, NPR, SF Chron, etc.); author of "The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis."

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Guest host Eric Klein talks to a lead lawyer in the class action lawsuit against the The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; A debrief on the delaying the aerial spray for the Apple Moth. And we’ll learn more about the California proposition that promises to Reform Eminent Domain…. Protect All Property Rights.; The latest on the acquittal of the shooters of Sean Bell

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To protest the Wars, The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, ILWU, has organized a shut down of all U.S. West Coast ports for International Workers’ Day, May 1st 2008. Jack Heyman and Clarence Thomas of the ILWU will be on Living Room to talk about the action and put it into historical context. They’ll be joined by organizers of the companion Immigrants’ Rights marches taking place in Oakland and San Francisco on May Day 2008.

Also, in cities throughout California, new laws and regulations limiting tobacco smoking in Apartments and Condos are being passed, with new ones being considered all of the time. Find out what your rights as a non smoker are in this changing environment when Serena Chen of the American Lung Association takes your calls during the second half of the show.

On Living Room, with guest host Eric Klein.

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Highlights from FCC Hearing on the Future of the Internet

The Federal Communication Commission is coming to the Bay Area this week to hold a public hearing on the future of the internet.  KPFA broadcasts highlights from the hearing at Stanford University on the rules governing high-speed Internet networks.  Hosted by Kris Welch.

More audio from the hearing available at: kpfa.org/fcc

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Pratap Chatterjee reporting from Iraq. And, the FCC comes to Stanford, a do-over from the public hearing Comcast packed with hired snoozers.

Guests: Pratap Chatterjee, exec. dir. CorpsWatch; KPFA producer and host; KPFA correspondent in Iraq, embedded with military

Art Brodsky, comm. dir. Public Knowledge
Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance

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A review of Gen. Petraeus’s report. Plus the realities of the apple moth, and the spraying coming to a neighborhood near you. 

Guests:

Gareth Porter. historian, author.
Daniel Harder, botanist, exec. dir. UCSC Arboretum.

Michael Parenti, author and Concerned Citizen!
Max Ventura, Ecology Center.

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On the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., we talk about how much has changed – or not. Plus, Eco-feminist and award-winning author Susan Griffin with her new book, about her search for the soul of democracy.  With host Kris Welch.

Guests: Dedrick Muhammad, Program on Inequality and the Common Good, Institute for Policy Studies

Susan Griffin, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, finalist for Pulitzer Prize and Nat’l Book Award; new book "Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen"

The post Living Room – April 4, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.

Live from Iraq: an embedded Pratap Chatterjee. And Norman Solomon on Iraq, and War Made Easy. 

Guests:

Pratap Chatterjee, exec. dir. CorpWatch; author; journalist; embedded reporter
Norman Solomon, media critic, author

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