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Ram Dass, on Conscious Aging. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Bay Area historian Gary Kamiya with a KPFA-listeners-ONLY offer!  Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of Non-Violent Communication.   Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Tara Brach, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist as well as a Buddhist lay priest and popular teacher of mindfulness (vipassana) meditation. She is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community in Washington, D.C.

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Guest: Binyamin Appelbaum writes about economics and business for the editorial page of The New York Times. From 2010 to 2019, he was a Washington correspondent for the Times, covering economic policy in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. He previously worked for The Charlotte Observer, where his reporting on subprime lending won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of the book The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society.

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The last book by beloved teacher Ram Dass, completed after his death by his friend and colleague Rameshwar Dass.  Ramesh joins us to talk about the teacher, and the teachings. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Choreographer, teacher, dancer, writer, composer, artist/activist Robert Moses joins us to talk about his newest piece, premiering this month—and the challenge of being a working socially-conscious artist in this society, and under COVID restrictions.  PLUS: Raymond Nat Turner..Hosted by Kris Welch.

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One of the programs of the New Deal in the 1930s is being revamped for application today, in the U.S. Congress: to support writers and artists.  We talk with one of the instigators.  PLUS: it’s the one-year anniversary of Lockdown Comedy!  We talk with Lisa Geduldig. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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COHA senior fellow Danny Shaw rejoins us, with your calls, to further elucidate the politics of the Caribbean and Latin America. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The assassination of the president of Haiti has shocked the world.  Long-time observer and reporter on the region Danny Shaw joins us to discuss the current upheavals in the Caribbean. PLUS: a program of Oakland storytellers!  PLUS: poet Raymond Nat Turner. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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