We have suffered a great loss: bell hooks, brilliant author, poet, essayist; clear-eyed , eloquent and fearless writer, has died.  We listen to her recorded words today, glad to have had her awhile, if not long enough.  Hosted by Kris Welch.

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It’s the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking, revolutionary book Diet for a Small Planet.  It is more relevant than ever today, and we speak with the author, brilliant activist Frances Moore Lappe. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Here we go again: UC in another attempt to co-opt activists and build on People’s Park in Berkeley, the latest episode in decades of citizen resistance to university development plans.  PLUS: the pandemic in SF, as depicted in a beautiful new film. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Wonderfully inspiring and invigorating words from passionate and skilled women activists! Yee-HA!!!  Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Charter schools, parent protests, anti-vaxxing, funding cuts, teachers leaving the field—it’s not a pretty picture for public education.  We get the grim reality, plus a surprising optimism from Louis Freedberg. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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It’s not just here: the far right is flexing real muscle all over the globe. We hear history, present, and possible future from John Feffer, of Foreign Policy in Focus.  Your calls welcome. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Supreme Court storm clouds gather over a woman’s right to choose.  We get the latest.  PLUS: poet Raymond Nat Turner, the Town Crier.Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Guest host Max Pringle speaks with Strand Magazine publisher Andrew Gulli about a previously unpublished Tennessee Williams short story in the magazine’s latest issue.

Then the San Francisco Mime Troupe are back this holiday season with “the Red Carol” a radio/podcast musical based on Charles Dickens’ “a Christmas Carol.” Max Pringle speaks with the musical’s author Michael Gene Sullivan.

And KPFA’s annual Craneway Crafts Fair returns November 27 and 28. The internship program has produced a retrospective on the Crafts Fair’s first 50 years.

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