KPFA - Living Room

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September 16, 2004 Living Room – September 16, 2004
Naomi Shihab Nye, award winning Palestinian-American poet, children’s book author, her upcoming event "An Evening with Palestinian Poets" is a production of Middle East Children’s Alliance. Micah May, co-founder of Just Democracy, on plans to organize 2000+ law students to go to polling places. Perry Lang, Senior Legislative Representative, People for the American Way Foundation, part of Election Protection Coalition www.electionprotection2004.com, formed to identify and stamp out attempts to disenfranchise voters.
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9 min
September 10, 2004 Living Room – September 10, 2004
The gender gap is a big factor in
elections. But perhaps the biggest electoral factor is femiphobia: men’s
fear of the feminine, including in themselves. Stephen Ducat ("The Wimp
Factor: gender gaps, holy wars and the politics of anxious masculinity")
joins host Kris Welch, noon to one.
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9 min
September 09, 2004 Living Room – September 9, 2004
Are you worried, anxious, uneasy,
distraught? Are the polls, the headlines, the deaths, the smog getting you
down? Well, me too! I’m looking for reassurance and reinvigoration, from
Marc Huestis ("Way Cool: RNC as not seen on TV, at the Roxie 9/19 at noon,
415-863-0611), Kelly Duane ("Monumental: David Brower’s fight for wild
America", at the Roxie 9/17-9/22 www.loteriafilms.org) and Joan Blades
(MoveOn.org) Host Kris Welch, noon to one.
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9 min
September 03, 2004 Living Room – September 3, 2004
Media Benjamin of Code Pink talks about being arrested on the floor of the Rebuplican National Convention; Meijing Ho of Siafu, a multiracial contingent of Bay Area community organizers, also arrested. The Healing Power of Art conference at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – www.yerbabuenaarts.org: A conference for anyone seeking to experience renewal and transformation through the arts; Free Speech Friday last 40 minutes – open phones.
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September 02, 2004 Living Room – September 2, 2004
Paul Rogat Loeb has made a career out of writing about courage and conscience. We’ll hear how he feels after four days of Republican weltanshauung (worldview). Plus a brazen 1980 political murder comes to trial today—in Fresno. With host Kris Welch, noon to one.
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August 27, 2004 Living Room – August 27, 2004
A report back from Haiti, and a slew of brand new films all about 9-11, the presidency, and the war in Iraq. Guests Jahahara Alkebulan Ma’at, American Friends Service Committee; Judith Scherr, journalist, former Berkeley Daily Planet editor, just back from Haiti; Brian Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti; Robert Pappas, director of the film "Orwell Rolls in His Grave."
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9 min
August 26, 2004 Living Room – August 26, 2004
The future may seem dark, as the grave—or as the womb! Danger and possibility are sisters, says author Rebecca Solnit. With host Kris Welch, noon to one.
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9 min
August 20, 2004 Living Room – August 20, 2004
Jeremy Rifkin talks about the Europian Union and his new book The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream.
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9 min
August 19, 2004 Living Room – August 19, 2004
Venezuela, the recall outcome and its meaning on the ground and regionally, with Fernando Vasquez, KPFK News Director, and Lisa Sullivan, a lay missioner in Venezuela. Don Foster guest hosts.
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9 min
August 13, 2004 Living Room – August 13, 2004
Frances Moore Lappe in the Bay Area
with her new book You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of
Fear. She’ll be taking your phone calls. with host Kris Welch, noon to
one.
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