KPFA - Sunday Show

In the first hour “Reproductive Rights Under Attack” with Beth Parker,    General Counsel for Planned Parenthood  Northern California.  In the second hour, “Is the Pentagon Protecting You?”  with  Michael Klare , Senior Visiting Fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, Prof. Emeritus Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College.

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In the first hour The Battle for People’s Park.  In the Second hour “Al Nakba”.

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In the first hour “Occupation of the American Mind”. 

In the second hour  “The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup”     by

            Dana Frank, Prof. of History Emerita   UCSC

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In the first hour  “Trump Will Lose” with Steve Phillips, national political leader, civil-rights lawyer, and the founder of Democracy in Color.  In the next hour “First Kill All the Lawyers” with Karen J. Greenberg author of “Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State”.

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In the first hour “Trump Is Full of It” with Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights www. nnirr.org.  

In the second hour  “Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management”, with Caitlin Rosenthal, Assist. Professor of History, UC Berkeley.  Rosenthal will be part of a panel at the Bay Area Book Festival “The Business of Brutality: Slavery and the Foundations of Capitalism”1:30pm Sunday May 5th at the Shattuck Hotel.

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In the first hour, “Next Year in Jerusalem” with Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; ips-dc.org, author of “Understanding ISIS and the Global War on Terror, A Primer” and “Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer”.  In the second hour, “Corruption vs. Collusion”, with Bill Fletcher Jr., co-author of “Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a “New Path toward Social Justice”

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Guest host, Christina Aanestad, discusses the federal governments end of year spending spree ($5 million on lobster and crab and $673,000 on golf carts) and what closing down San Francisco’s juvenile hall could look like.

In our first hour, guest, Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO of Open the Books discusses their new report, “The Federal Governments Use-It-Or-Lose-It Spending Spree,” which details the $97 billion dollar spending that took place in September 2018–the last month of the fiscal year. The largest spender was the Department of Defense at $61 billion dollars.

In the second hour, three guests discuss a proposal to close San Francisco’s juvenile hall. Supervisor Shamann Walton is sponsoring legislation that is backed by a super majority of supervisors to close San Francisco’s juvenile hall, amidst a San Francisco Chronicle report that youth incarceration rates have plummeted in the last 20 years. Walton joins us in conversation with Kera Gomez of the Young Women’s Freedom Center and Mike Males with the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice to discuss the low rates of juvenile incarceration, what shutting down the city’s juvenile hall looks like and what to replace it with.

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In the first hour “America First” with John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.  In the second hour “Inshala” with Hatem Bazian, co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College and lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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In the first hour “What’s Next? after the Mueller Report” with Karen J. Greenberg, author of “Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State”, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University.  In the second hour “Washington Wrap Up” with  Bill Fletcher Jr.  Followed by “Is It Legal?” with Marjorie Cohn, past president of the National Lawyers Guild.

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In the first hour “What Is to Be Done?” with Ruth Conniff, Editor-at-large of The Progressive. In the second hour “White Sugar, White Flour, White Power” with Steven Gardiner, Program Area Lead for the Racial and Immigrant Justice Program.

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