On today’s show:

0:08 – Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, activist, and author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering, walking, hope, and disaster joins us to discuss her latest book Orwell’s Roses.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Rebecca Solnit’s Orwell’s Roses.

1:08 – bell hooks tragically died in her home early yesterday. She was 69 years old. In honor of her life, and the immense gift she left us with her work, the second hour of our show features a bell hooks lecture she gave at the Los Angles Central Library in 1999, recorded by our sister station KPFK.

bell hooks‘ full lecture is now included in The Holiday 2021 Storytelling for Social Change Video Collection. Our gift to you if you donate any amount during KPFA’s Holiday Fund Drive.

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On today’s show:

0:08 – This first hour, we bring you excerpts of a longer interview with Malik Al Nasir (@malikandtheogs), journalist, filmmaker, academic, performance poet, and author of Letters to Gil, his memoir of racism and abuse under Liverpool’s care system, the transformative power of the music, and the mentorship of Gil Scott-Heron.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Malik Al Nasir’s Letters to Gil. Malik’s full interview is now included in UpFront’s Rethinking History Collection. Pledge $100 and receive ten (mostly) new conversations to change the way you think about the past.

1:08 – We spend our second hour with Bryant Terry (@bryantterry), Chef-in-Residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and editor-in-chief of 4 Color Books joins us to discuss a massive collaboration he edited called Black Food.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $200 and receive a copy of Bryant Terry’s Black Food.

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On today’s show:

0:08 – We spend our first hour with Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest living National Park Service Ranger. She celebrated her 100th birthday earlier this year.

Fund Drive Premium – Betty Reid Soskin’s full interview is included in UpFront’s Rethinking History Collection. Pledge $100 and receive nine (mostly) new conversations to change the way you think about the past.

0:33 – David Wengrow (@davidwengrow), is professor of comparative archeology at University College London. He joins us to discuss his latest book, co-authored with the late David Graeber, which is now available as a fund drive premium.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of David Wengrow and David Graeber’s The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.

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On today’s show:

0:08 – US sees its highest rate of inflation since 1982. Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood), an economic journalist and host of KPFA’s Behind the News joins us to discuss his latest piece for The Nation, What Should the Democrats Do About Rising Inflation?

0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us again to discuss research on the Omicron variant.

1:08 – Fredrika Newtown, co-founder of the Huey P Newton Foundation and wife of the slain human rights icon and Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton, joins us to discuss his life and efforts to preserve the history of the Black Panther Party.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Fredrika Newton’s full interview is included as part of UpFront’s Rethinking History Collection. Pledge $100 and receive nine (mostly) new conversations to change the way you think about the past.

The Holiday 2021 Storytelling for Social Change Video Collection is our gift to you if you donate any amount during the Holiday Fund Drive.

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On today’s show:

We spend the hour with a seminar from our friend, colleague, and history buff, Mitch Jeserich (@mitchjeserich). Mitch offered tickets to an online seminar on the history of democracy during the fall fund drive. It was amazing. And now, we’re offering it to you as part of our new Holiday 2021 Storytelling for Social Change Video Collection.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – The Holiday 2021 Storytelling for Social Change Video Collection is our gift to you if you donate any amount during the Holiday Fund Drive.

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