Several excerpts from recordings of Martin Luther King Jr. (and one of Coretta Scott King) from KPFA’s archives.

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7:08 Oliver Millman, environment correspondent for The Guardian, now author of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run The World [repeat from 2022]

7:33  Hajar Yazdiha   is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California; now author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement

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7:08 Tony Platt, currently Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society; author most recently of The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley [originally recorded for broadcast in September 2023]

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0:08 — Tom Dalzell has lived in Berkeley since 1984. He has worked as a lawyer for the labor movement for his entire adult life. Dalzell also writes the Quirky Berkeley blog and contributes to Berkeleyside. He is the author of “The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969.”

0:33 — Dr. Rupa Marya is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. Dr. Manal Elkarra is a family medicine and lifestyle medicine doctor practicing in San Francisco, the city where she was born and raised. Her family is from Gaza, Palestine. Prior to the siege, She volunteered with the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, Save the Children in Gaza, and the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Khan Younis. She is also a member of the Do No Harm Coalition.

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0:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation

0:33 — Cheuk Kwan is author of “Have You Eaten Yet: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World”

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0:08 — John Feffer, is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies

0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health

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0:08 — Ben Christopher covers politics and elections for CalMatters

0:20 — Harvey Smith, member of People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group

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0:08 — Negar Mortazavi is a journalist, political commentator, and host of the Iran Podcast. She joins us from Washington D.C.

0:33 — Rachel Lederman serves as senior council at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund. She is the attorney representing the 78 activists arrested on the Bay Bridge and over 470 activists arrested at the Oakland Federal Building in November.

0:45 — Joe Lissner is part of the People’s Park Council, and one of the people who applied for People’s Park to be on the National Register of Historic Places.

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0:08 — George Bisharat is a Professor Emeritus at University of California College of Law, San Francisco. His research and writing focus on international legal aspects of Palestine/Israel and on U.S. policies toward the Middle East

0:33 — Doug Henwood is an economic journalist and host of KPFA’s “Behind the News,” which airs Thursdays at Noon. He’s just published an extensive dissection of Joe Biden’s economic record for Jacobin

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0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies

0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health

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