All archives are current

and the wonderful Chris T. at KDVS has upgraded the quality of the sound as well as the ease of download. Just click on the show referenced to the right of this box and thank you a million times for listening!!!!!!!!!! Namasté.

All archives are current

and the wonderful Chris T. at KDVS has upgraded the quality of the sound as well as the ease of download. Just click on the show referenced to the right of this box and thank you a million times for listening!!!!!!!!!! Namasté.

This coming Monday, July 10, 2006

where has the time gone? I promise to keep up the postings more frequently from now on. So much is going on. Coming up, a show about The Color of Wealth, with Meizhu Lui, and actor Mike Farrell will speak about the death penalty. Activist Victor Copeland will also be on.

On Vacation

yes, a very special one too.

Si se Puede!

Today, we heard from Davis High School students who were preparing to board a bus to go to march in Sacramento to protest HR-4371. These passionate and eloquent young people were imbued with the knowledge that they could affect their own future. Then, we spoke to a group of UCD students who were already marching in Sacramento. You could hear them catching their breath as they spoke about the reasons they were there while car horns honked in support of their cause. It was inspiring, to say the least. Michael Deibert also joined us to remind us that the first cause of Haiti is to alleviate the abject poverty which affects most of the population.

Thank you so much!

It is very humbling to see the kindness of all of you who generously donated during our fundraiser. Many many thanks for supporting independent radio.

The Communist Manifesto

Phil Gasper provided a contemporary perspective to Karl Marx' Communist Manifesto. He is the editor of the annotated version of The Communist Manifesto which is out on Haymarket Books. It was a tad chilling to hear how trends described a hundred and fifty years ago are more present than ever in our society.

David Edwards of MediaLens!

what a thrill it was to visit with the eloquent and informative co-editor of MediaLens. The fearless twosome, David Cromwell and David Edwards, just published their first book together. It is on Pluto Press and titled "The Myth of the Liberal Media". He dispelled some popular misconceptions about the BBC and related a few of the fascinating confrontations MediaLens serves on unsuspecting and complacent journalists and media elite. You can go to www.medialens.org to find out more! Thanks for listening. Monday will be Phil Gasper on the Communist Manifesto!

Raise the Village!

Professor David C. Berliner, a highly acclaimed authority on education and the psychology of education, was my guest on Monday. He made such great points, including telling us that all psychometry experts will flatly state that single tests should NEVER be used for important decision. He also mentioned that these tests are simply a political tool and devisive at best.

I wasn't fully there that morning, and no one corrected us, when Professor Berliner mentioned Walgreens when he clearly meant WalMart. My deepest apology to the audience.

People who serve

This past Monday, you got to hear back from Dahr Jamail who is one of a handful of truly independent journalists reporting the truth from Iraq. He told us about the horrible living conditions there and how the US has very little control or knowledge of what goes on outside the Green Zone. He also concurred with Iraqis who have given up the hope of surviving this disaster which we have visited upon them. That is how he serves.

And we heard from our very own Jeff Kravitz, constitutional attorney who used to host Panic Attack on KDVS. He can't this quarter because he is running for Congress on the Green Party ticket opposing Doris Matsui.

Breesa Kassing, a mechanical engineer student from Chico State, told us how she and some of her fellow students chose to spend their summer break helping with the clean up efforts in New Orleans. Very inspiring. Hope you listen to the archives! It is so good to be back!

Oh, and a HUGE thanks to Rex Babin for sitting in for me and sharing some of his keen insights while I was away. And, OF COURSE, thanks to Erik Klein for engineering the show.

Covering

I really enjoyed speaking with Yale School of Law Professor Kenji Yoshino. He suggests we look at the way we are forced to hide some parts of our identities as a crucial hurdle to us growing as a civilization. His book Covering, the hidden assault on our civil rights, encouraged me to think about civil rights in a very new way. And his writing is exquisite!

Rex Babin in the KDVS house!

Rex Babin, the editorial cartoonist for the Sacramento Bee, is sitting in for me today. I admire this Pullitzer Prize finalist so much for his keen insights and deep compassion. Hope you give him a listen. You can find view his brilliant work here