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Click on the date of the show you'd like to hear.August 2007
08.17.07 Media Roundtable: Betsy Reed, Executive Editor of The Nation; Danny Schechter, Editor of MediaChannel.com; Jonathan Ledgard, Africa Correspondent for The Economist
08.16.07 What Did Democrats Accomplish in Congress? Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA's 14th Congressional District); Zachary Coile, Washington Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
08.15.07 Barack Obama: Marie Horrigan, staff writer, Congressional Quarterly in Washington; Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times editorial board; Salim Muwakkil, senior editor, In These Times
08.14.07 What's Happening in Iran? Mansour Farhang, Professor, Bennington College, Vermont; Asef Bayat, Professor and Chair of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) at Leiden University in Holland
08.13.07 Treading Lightly and Kicking Back: John Vlahidies, is a travel writer whose work has been published by Lonely Planet, Fodor’s, Condé Nast, Sunset, San Francisco, Out Traveler, Genre Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Miami Herald, and the New York Times
08.10.07 Media Roundtable: Harrison Chastaing, KPOO; Jesse Taylor, Daily Planet; David Folkenflik of NPR
08.09.07 Who Is Al Qaeda Now? Fawaz Gerges, Sarah Lawrence College; Ivan Eland, Independent Institute
08.08.07 What's Behind the Middle East Arms Deal? Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan; Carah Ong, Iran Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation
08.07.07 Rupert Murdoch: S. Derek Turner, Free Press; Bruce Page, former Sunday Times investigative reporter, and author of "The Murdoch Archipelago;" E.S. Browning, Wall Street Journal
08.06.07 Why Are We Still In Iraq? Thomas Ricks, Washington Post; Josh Rushing, Al-Jazeera
08.03.07 Media Roundtable: Robert Hodierne, Army Times; Prathap Chatterjee, CorpWatch; David Enders, independent reporter in Iraq and author of "Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation"
08.02.07 China Road author Rob Gifford
08.01.07 On the Record - Duncan Hunter
July 2007
07.31.07 Executive Power 101
07.30.07 What Are Kids Reading? Dana Goldberg, Executive Editor, Children's Book Press; Toni Bernardi, San Francisco Public Library Chief of Children and Youth Services; Elizabeth Jenkins, Cody's Bookstore
07.27.07 Media Roundtable: David Enders, author of Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation; Zahid Hussain, Times of London; Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor
07.26.07 Stories from the Holy Land: Duki Dror, Director, Mr. Cortisone Happy Days, Sidewalk; Ido Haar, Director, 9 Star Hotel; Nurit Kedar, Director, Borders, Lebanon Dream, Wasted
07.25.07 Trash Talk: Heather Rogers, Author of "Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage;" Katie Quan, Associate Chair of the Labor Center at UC Berkeley
07.24.07 Alan Weisman, author of "The World Without Us"
07.23.07 Affirmative Action: Phyllis R. Beaumonte, Rainier Beach High teacher and chairwoman of the Washington NAACP's Education Committee; Goodwin Liu, UC Berkeley Law professor; David Compos, General Counsel, San Francisco Unified School District
07.20.07 Media Roundtable
07.19.07 India at 60
07.18.07 What do Iraqis Say? Basma AlKhateeb, Iraqi AlAmal Association, Projects Management, Gender and Youth based in Baghdad; Saad Eskander, Director, Iraqi National Library and Archives in Baghdad; Sinnan Antoon, Novelist and political analyst in NY
07.17.07 On the Record with Joe Biden: John Nichols, Washington Correspondent, The Nation; Al Mascitti's, Columnist, Wilmington Delaware News Journal, and Talk Show Host, WDEL 1150 AM in Delaware.
07.16.07 Anthony Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
07.13.07 Media Roundtable: Franc Contreras, Mexico correspodent, Al-Jazeera English; Laila al-Arian, Writer, Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, Jeanne Carstensen, Executive Editor, Salon.com
07.12.07 Sacramento Update: Emily Rusch, Legislative Advocate, CalPIRG; Frank Russo, Editor, The California Progress Report
07.11.07 Politics of Sports: Dave Zirin, Author of "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports"
07.10.07 Suburbanization of San Francisco: Richard Walker, Professor of Geography at University of California, Berkeley; Tom Radulovich, Executive Director of Livable City
07.09.07 Gaza and the Palestinian State: Beshara Doumani, Professor, UC Berkeley; Eyad El-Sarraj, Founder, Gaza Community Mental Health Program and human rights activist
07.06.07 Media Roundtable: Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register; Ken Silverstein, Harper's Weekly; James Cusick of the Sunday Herald of Glasgow
07.05.07 Immigration Reform: Catherine Tactaquin, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Adrian Avila, Silicon Valley Debug; Dan Kowalski, Bender's Immigration Bulletin
07.04.07 Empire Vs. Democracy: Chalmers Johnson, Author, American Empire Project
07.03.07 On the Record with Tom Tancredo: John Caldera, President of the independence Institute; Patricia Calhoun, Editor of Westword, Denver's free weekly newspaper
07.02.07 "Sicko:" Mohit Ghose, America's Health Insurance Plans; Michael Lighty, California Nurses Association; Regina Herzlinger, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of "Who Killed Healthcare?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure"
June 2007
06.29.07 Media Roundtable: Nancy Youssef, Chief Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers; Betsy Reed, Executive Editor, The Nation; Anna Badkhen, Former staff writer and foreign reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle (She starts with the Boston Globe Monday)
06.28.07 Mixed Race Families: Andrew Jolivette, San Francisco State University; Dan Nainan, Comedian; Jilchristina Vest, iPride
06.27.07 Farmers' Markets: Chris Adams, Heart Of The City Farmers' Market; Kirk Lumpkin, Berkeley Farmers' Market; Toby Garrone, Far West Fungi
06.26.07 Affordable Family Activities: Gina Goff, City Editor at City Search; Michael Peck, Senior Editor at City Search; Cindy Byrne, Publisher of Bay Area Parent
06.25.07 Supreme Court: Martin Garbus, First Amendment Lawyer and Author of "The Next 25 Years: The New Supreme Court and What It Means for Americans"
06.22.07 Media Roundtable: Marc Sandalow, Former DC Bureau Chief, San Francisco Chronicle; Jonathan Curiel, Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle; John Bowman, Former Executive Editor, San Mateo County Times
06.21.07 China Road: Rob Gifford, NPR Correspondent
06.20.07 World Refugee Day: Emily Arnold Fernandez, Executive Director, Asylum Access; B. Katenge, Survivor of Rwandan Genocide; Sean Garcia, Refugees International
06.19.07 Atul Gawande: Author of "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance" and Writer for The New Yorker
06.18.07 San Francisco Budget: N'Tanya Lee, Executive Director, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth; Egon Terplan SPUR, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
06.15.07 Media Roundtable: Norman Solomon, Institute for Public Accuracy; Michael Kirk, Frontline; Andrew Gumbel, the Independent
06.14.07 Fearing Google: Mark Frauenfelder, Author of Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet---Better, Faster, Easier; Nicole Ozer, ACLU of Northern California; David Spark, Technology Reporter and Commentator
06.13.07 On the Record with Mike Gravel: Mike Gravel, Mike Gravel 2008; Joe Lauria, The Progressive; Greg Griroux, Congressional Quarterly
06.12.07 Trade Debate: Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch division; Ed Gresser, director of Progressive Policy Institutes Project on Trade and Global Market
06.11.07 Food Safety: Dr. William Hubbard, former Associate Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration and Advisor to the Coalition for a Stronger FDA; Dr. Roger Clemens, Spokesperson for the Institute of Food Technologists; Carolone Smith-DeWaal, Food Safety Director at Center for Science in the Public Interest
06.08.07 Media Roundtable: Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Times; Jeffrey Sharlet, The Revealer; Andreas Zumach, Tageszeitung
06.07.07 World Bank: Stephen Hellinger, Development Gap; Katherine Marshall, Georgetown University
06.06.07 On the Record with Republican Party Nominee and Congressman Ron Paul: T.J. Aulds, Producer, Channel 11's KHOU.com; Greg Giroux, Senior Writer at Congressional Quarterly
06.05.07 Prozac at 20: Dr. Larry Diller, Psychiatrist and Author, The Last Normal Child; Dr. Peter Kramer, Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University Author of the books Listening to Prozac and Against Depression
06.04.07 Summer Movies
06.01.07 Media Roundtable: Merrill Goozner, Center for Science in the Public Interest; Lawrence Pintak, Arab Media & Society; Marcela Sanchez, Washington Post
May 2007
05.31.07 Hillary Clinton: Michael Tomasky, Guardian USA; Ari Berman, The Nation
05.30.07 Indian Gaming: Patrick Dorinson, Morongo Band of Mission Indians; Peter Dreier, Professor of Politics and Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program, Occidental College in Los Angeles; Joely De La Torre, Professor of Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino
05.29.07 Photography: Andy Patrick, FiftyCrows; Chuck Mobley, San Francisco Camerawork; Terri Whitlock, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
05.28.07 Impact of the Iraq War: The Impact of the Iraq War: Linda Bilmes, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Dahlia S. Wasfi, an Iraqi born American physician and activist; Robert Barron, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, and Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
05.25.07 Media Roundtable: Stewart Powell, Hearst Newspapers; David Folkenflik, NPR; Hisham Melhem, al Arabiya
05.24.07 Sudan 101: Alex de Waal, writer and fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University; Scott Edwards, Amnesty International Sudan Specialist
05.23.07 Who Should We Let Out From Prison? Rose Braz, Director of Critical Resistance; Joseph D. McNamara, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
05.22.07 Religion in Public Schools: Professor Stephen Prothero, author of "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know And Doesn?t;" Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
05.21.07 Manager's Report to the Listeners: Matt Martin, KALW Station Manager
05.18.07 Media Roundtable: Robert Hodierne, Army Times; Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor; AC Thompson, Center for Investigative Reporting
05.17.07 Gamer Theory: McKenzie Wark, author of "Gamer Theory"
05.16.07 Is Torture Inevitable? Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University; Tony Lagouranis, former US Army interrogator, Abu Ghraib prison
05.15.07 Artists and Environmentalists on Respecting Nature: Chris Jordan, photographer; Mia Hanak, executive director of Natural World Museum; Subhankar Banerjee, artist, educator and activist
05.14.07 The Mommy Wars: Miriam Peskowitz, author of the book ?The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars;? Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, author, journalist, and Executive Director of MomsRising.org
05.11.07 Media Roundtable: Dahr Jamail, Independent Middle East Reporter; James Sterngold, Staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle; Brendan O?Neill, Editor of Spiked Online
05.10.07 The Farm Bill/The Food Bill: Dan Imhoff, Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill; Sara Cohen, Washington Post
05.09.07 The Impact of the Iraq War: Linda Bilmes, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Dahlia S. Wasfi, an Iraqi born American physician and activist; Robert Barron, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, and Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
05.08.07 Future of Venezuela: Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela's ambassador to the United States
05.07.07 When Soldiers Speak Out: Liam Madden, former Marine Corps Seargant in Iraq and co-founder of Appeal for Redress; Andrew Bacevich, Professor, Boston University
05.04.07 Media Roundtable: Greg Gordon, McClatchy; Brenda Payton, Oakland Tribune; Martin Fletcher, The Independent
05.03.07 What's Killing the Bees? Eric Mussen, UC Davis; Danny Weaver, American Beekeepers Federation; Laurie Davies-Adams, Coevolution Institute
05.02.07 Pro-Choice Movement: Amy Everitt, NARAL Pro-Choice California; Krista Jacob, author of "Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice;" Loretta J. Ross, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
05.01.07 Israeli Peace Movement: Jeff Helper, Founder, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; Anat Biletzki, Teacher, Tel Aviv University
April 2007
04.30.07 Mexicans in America: Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Times Reporter, author "Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration"
04.27.07 Media Roundtable: Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation; Tony Cross, Radio France International; Zachary Coile, San Francisco Chronicle.
04.26.07 What Next In Darfur? Brian Steidle, author of "The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur;" Eltayeb Ibrahim Suliman Giddo, Darfur Peace and Development Organization
04.25.07 Is Torture Inevitable? Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University; Tony Lagouranis, former US Army interrogator, Abu Ghraib prison
04.24.07 Speaking Out Against Rape: Brian H. O'Connor, Family Violence Prevention Fund; Michelle J. Anderson, Dean and Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law
04.23.07 African Oil: John Ghazvinian, author of "Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil."
04.20.07 Media Roundtable: Pakistani Journalist Zahid Hussain, Danny Schechter, the "news dissector" and blogger; Charlie Savage, Boston Globe
04.19.07 Gonzales Hearings: Neil Kinkopf, Georgia State University Law Professor; John Nichols: The Nation magazine
04.18.07 After Tax Day: Bob McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice; Anita Dancs, National Priorities Project; Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine
04.17.07 Virginia Tech: Richard Rapaport, freelance writer; Alexander Geroud, professor of Sociology and criminal Justice at San Francisco State University
04.16.07 Sexual Crime Fighting or Entrapment? Chris Hansen, Dateline NBC; L. C. Miccio-Fonseca PhD, California Coalition on Sexual Offending; Richard Rapaport, San Francisco Bay Area freelance writer
04.13.07 Media Roundtable: Borzou Dargahi, Los Angeles Times Iraq correspondent; Dave Zirin, Sport Journalist
04.12.07 Global Warming: May Boeve, Step It Up 2007; David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council; George Monbiot, Oxford University
04.11.07 Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and author "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy"
04.10.07 From Harlem to Congress: Charles Rangel, Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the House and Author of "And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since"
04.09.07 Democracy vs. Empire: Chalmers Johnson, Author, American Empire Project
04.06.07 Media Roundtable: Joan McCarter, Daily Kos; Jamal Dajani, WorldLinkTV; Nikki Finke, LA weekly
04.05.07 Consumerism: Benjamin Barber, Author of "Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole" and "Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy"
04.04.07 Future of Food: Deborah Koons Garcia, Director the ?Future of Food;? Jessica Prentice, Author ?Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection?
04.03.07 Oil on the Brain: Lisa Margonelli, Author, Journalist, and Fellow at the New America Foundation
04.02.07 Museums and City Life: Rene de Guzman, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Pamela Winfrey, Exploratorium; Lori Fogarty, Oakland Museum of California
March 2007
03.30.07 Media Roundtable: Neil Henry, Journalist and Professor, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
03.29.07 Paying Full Price: Richie Unterberger, Author of "Rough Guide to Shopping with a Conscience;" Micha Peled, China Blue
03.28.07 Gang Violence: Tyrone Poblete, United Playaz; Francis Chan, CYC San Francisco; Shawn Richard, Brothers Against Guns
03.27.07 AIPAC 101: MJ Rosenberg, Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum (IPF); Gregory Levey, Israeli Government's Speech writer, United Nations Delegate; Dorothy Naor, Israeli Peace Activist
03.26.07 California Education: Susana Loeb, Stanford University; Tom Timar, University of California - Davis; Annie Mladinich, Mount Eden High School
03.23.07 Media Roundtable: Jeanne Carstensen, Salon; Jay Rosen, Press Think
03.22.07 Jeremy Scahill, Author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary"
03.21.07 What are the Dems Doing about Iraq? Ann Eshoo and Lynn Woosley, California Congresswomen; John Nichols, Writer, The Nation
03.20.07 Meat Out: Tristram Stuart, Journalist and Author of "The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times"
03.19.07 Privacy in the Age of MySpace? Armen Adzhemyan, Blogger, Boalt School of Law; Rachel Severance, Blogger, Art Institute of California; Souheila Al-Jadda, Journalist and Producer in San Francisco
03.16.07 Media Roundtable: Sara Corbett, The New York Times Magazine; David Westphal, MccLatchy Papers; Jonathan Ledgard, The Economist
03.15.07 What Kind of Protests Work? Stephen Duncombe, Professional New York University; Jim Haber, United for Peace and Justice-Bay Area; Toby Blome, Code Pink
03.14.07 Why Are We Poor? William Vollmann, author of Poor People
03.13.07 Bush in Latin America: Bryan McCann, Georgetown University; Daniel Schweimler, BBC reporter; Gabriel Lopez, Blogger
03.12.07 Why do Men Control Most of the World?: Lis Wiehl, Fox News commentator and author; Ruth Rosen, UC Davis Professor and author
03.09.07 Media Roundtable: Ari Berman, The Nation; Allison Stevens, Women's eNews; David Brooks, Mexican Daily La Jornada
03.08.07 Fight Like a Girl: Professor Sharon Lamb, Saint Michael's College in Vermont; Megan Seely, Sierra College.
03.07.07 Federal Immigration Raids: Arnoldo Garcia, National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Barbara Pierce, Mayor of Redwood City; Kevin Westlye, Golden Gate Restaurant Association
03.06.07 Pakistan 101: Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas, Austin; Zahid Hussein, Editor, Pakistan's monthly Newsline magazine
03.05.07 Who is a Conservative? Charles Kesler, Claremont-McKenna College; Scott McConnell, American Conservative Magazine
03.02.07 Media Roundtable: Reese Erlich, Independent Reporter; Tony Pugh, McClatchy Capitol Hill Reporter; Alysia Tate, Chicago Reporter
03.01.07 War with Iran? Afshin Molavi, New America Foundation; Peter Tarnoff, International Advisory Corporation
February 2007
02.28.07 Transformational Leaders? Kelly Young, 21st Century Democrats; Dr. Sam Rima, Center for Transformational Leadership
02.27.07 Saudi Arabia 101: As'ad AbuKhalil, Professor, California State University and Author; Craig Unger, Investigative Journalist and Author
02.26.07 The Science and Mystery of Sleep: Carlos Schenck author of Sleep: the Mysteries, the Problems and the Solutions
02.23.07 Media Round table: Chris Toensing, Middle East Report; Kelly Kennedy, Army Times; Deepa Fernandes, "Wake Up Call," WBAI Radio
02.22.07 What can Democrats in Congress do for New Orleans? Carolyn Cheeks Kirkpatrick Congresswoman, 13th district, Michigan; Dr. Calvin Mackie, Louisiana Recovery Authority; Soleil Rodrigue, Common Ground Legal Collective
02.21.07 Hip-Hop Beyond Beats and Rhymes? Byron Hurt, Filmmaker; Jeff Chang, Hip Hop Journalist and Author; Crykit, Sisterz of the Underground.
02.20.07 The FY2008 Budget: Robert Borosage, Institute for America's Future; Marguerite Nowak, Food Bank for Monterey County.
02.19.07 The Virgin of Flames: Chris Abani, Author of The Virgin of Flames
02.16.07 Media Roundtable: Robert Parry, Consortium News; Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor; Anna Maria Tremonti, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
02.15.07 What do Iraqis Say? Dr. Tahseen Al-Shekhly, Academic & Political Researcher; Sinnan Antoon, NYU Professor in Premodern Arabo-Islamic culture; Hanna Edwards, General Secretary for the Iraqi Al-Amal Association
02.14.07 Ralph Nader, Consumer Activist, Lawyer and Author
02.13.07 Flower Confidential: Amy Stewart, author, "Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers"
02.12.07 California's Presidential Primary: Rick Jacobs, Chair and Founder of the Courage Campaign; Paul Hogarth, Columnist with BeyondChron.org
02.09.07 Lowell Bergman, Frontline; John Micklethwait, The Economist
02.08.07 The Golden Gulag: Ruth Gilmore, author of "The Golden Gulag"
02.07.07 Can Soldiers be Peacemakers? Chen Alon and Suleiman al-Hamri, Combatants for Peace
02.06.07 Conversations Across the African Diaspora: Rhodessa Jones, artistic director for the San Francisco International Arts Festival; Robert Moses, artistic director of Robert Moses Kin; Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, co-founder of the Black Choreographers Festival
02.05.07 What a Party! Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe
02.02.07 Media Roundtable: Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune, Aaron Glantz, reporter and author of "How America Lost Iraq", Douglas Fischer, ANG newspapers in the Bay Area
02.01.07 I Want It Now: Dr. Donna Bee-Gates, author and professor
January 2007
01.31.07 Force in Somalia: Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill University; Emira Woods, Institute for Policy Studies
01.30.07 Military Moms: Sara Rich, Military family Speak Out and Code Pink; Nadia McCaffrey, the founder of Angelstaff.org; Carolyne Ho, mother of Lt. Ehren Watada, the first officer to publicly refuse to serve in Iraq; Pat Soler, member of Blue Star Moms
01.29.07 The Mark of Shame: Stephen Hinshaw, UC Berkeley psychology professor
01.26.07 Media Roundtable: Geneva Overholser, Missouri School of Journalism and John Nichols, Nation Magazine
01.25.07 What do Abraham Lincoln, Philip Roth, and David Lynch have in common? Greil Marcus
01.24.07 Talking about Israel: Cecilie Surasky, Jewish Voice for Peace; Rabbi Jane Litman, Temple Beth El, Berkeley
01.23.07 Drowning in Debt: Erica Sandberg, Consumer Credit Counseling Services; Christian Weller, Center for American Progress
01.22.07 Is Mother Nature Confused? Dr. Brenda Ekwurze, Union of Concerned Scientists and Jason Barbose, Environment California
01.19.07 Media Roundtable: AC Thompson, SF Weekly and Mark Seibel, McClatchy
01.18.07 What are Aaron Peskin's plans for San Francisco? Aaron Peskin, President, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
01.17.07 What has Yoga Become? Baxter Bell, M.D.; Judith Hanson Lasater, yoga teacher and author of Living Your Yoga; Kaitlin Quistgaard, Editor-in-Chief, Yoga Journal
01.16.07 Who will own Iraq's Oil?- Antonia Juhasz, author: The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time; Richard Swann, Platt's Energy Information Services
01.15.07 MLK Jr. Day- What happened to Non-violent Resistance: Jack DuVall, Intenrational Center on Non-Violent Conflict; Adrienne Maree Brown, The Ruckus Society; Erik Brown, Impact Game
01.12.07 Media Roundtable: Peter Waldman, Wall Street Journal; Robert Hodierne, The Army Times; Charlie Cobb, allafrica.com
01.11.07 The Ethics of International Adoption: Thomas DiFilipo, Joint Council on International Children's Services; Sara Dorow, author of "Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship"
01.10.07 Five Years of Guantanamao: Vincent Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights; Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo detainee; Dr. Len Rubenstein, Physicians for Human Rights
01.09.07 What is Iran up to?: Mansour Farhang, Bennigton College; Dr. Kaveh Ehsani, University of Illinois
01.08.07 Winter Theater Preview: Greg Hubbard, American Conservatory Theater; Chloe Voltman, SF Weekly; Chris Smith, Magic Theatre
01.05.07 Media Roundtable: Lawrence Pintak, Adham Center for Journalism; Bruce Schapiro, The Nation; Jeff Cohen, FAIR
01.04.07 Dems and Small Biz: Lloyd Chapman, American Small Business League; Scott Hauge, Small Business California
01.03.07 What's the Good News? Nina Utne, Editor at Large, Utne Reader; Susan Gleason, Yes! Magazine
01.02.07 America's Airports: Don George, Lonely Planet; Jeane Cooper, San Francisco Chronicle; Bruce Schneier, security technologist
December 2006
12.29.06 Media Roundtable: Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press; Robert Scheer: Truth Dig; Matthew Bajko, The Bay Area Reporter; Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor; Barbara Harris, Jackson Advocate; Michael Kirk, Frontline
12.28.06 Life In Gaza: Mohamed Omer, independent photojournalist; Mona al-Farra, Al-awda Hospital; Amira Hass, Ha'aretz, and Mohamed Farah, the Dynamite Rapper
12.27.06 Creating an Artistic Life: Playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith
12.26.06 Forgotten Afghanistan: Carlotta Gall, New York Times; Sohailoa, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan; Manija Atli, local Afghan woman
12.22.06 Media Roundtable: Bob Egelko San Francisco Chronicle, Mark Glaser, Media Shift
12.21.06 Your Citizenship Test? Ira Mehlman of The Federation for American Immigration Reform; May Chen of Self Help for the Elderly and Sharon Rummery of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
12.20.06 The Book Show
12.19.06 Zebra Murders: Prentice Earl Sanders, author: ??The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights??
12.18.06 The 110th Congress and Ethics: Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Craig Holman, Public Citizen
12.15.06 Media Roundtable: Marcia Kuntz, Media Matters, Craig Silverman, Regret the Error, Dahr Jamail, Tomdispatch.com
12.14.06 Crisis in Lebanon: Robert Fisk, correspondent for the Independent
12.13.06 Escaping Poverty: Katherine Newman, author of "Chutes and Ladders" and Eric Weaver, founder of Lenders for Community Development
12.12.06 On the Brink: Tyler Drumheller, author of On The Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence
12.11.06 The 110th Congress and Trade: Edward Gresser, Progressive Policy Institute and Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
12.08.06 Media Roundtable: Dave Marash, Al Jazeera English, David Bacon, KPFA
12.07.06 Harry Shearer, host of "Le Show" and author of "Not Enough Indians"
12.06.06 Creating an Artistic Life: Playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith
12.05.06 Robert Gates Senate Hearings: William Arkin, Washingtonpost.com
12.04.06 The 110th Congress and Health Care: Pete Stark, Congressman from the East Bay
12.01.06 Media Roundtable: Gary Younge, author of "Stranger in a Strange Land: Travels in the Disunited States"; Clara Jeffrey, Mother Jones Magazine; Habib Battah, Middle East Broadcasters Journal
November 2006
11.30.06 Gauging Global Warming Amy Luers, Union of Concerned Scientists; Jason Barbose, Environment California; Ken Alex, California Office of the Attorney General
11.29.06 A Sleeping Giant? Rosa Rosales,League of United Latin American Citizens; Raquel Donoso, Latino Issues Forum; Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Professor of Chicana and Political Studies at UC Irvine
11.28.06 The 110th Congress: Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco, and Megan Scully of Congressional Daily
11.27.06 Soldiers Speak Out: Garrett Reppenhagen, U.S. Army veteran; Ted Wong, U.S. Marine Reservist; Audrey Clark, National Guard
11.24.06 Democracy on Deadline: Cal Skaggs, Director of Democracy on Deadline and Deborah Nelson, University of Maryland Journalism School
11.22.06 Unbowed: Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
11.21.06 An Ethical Christman: Tex Dworkin, Global Exchange; Kalle Lasn, Adbusters; Valeria Orth, Sweat Free Communities
11.20.06 Women in Overdrive: Nora Isaacs, author and former editor of Yoga Journal
11.17.06 Media Roundtable: Jane Mayer (The New Yorker), Amira Hass (Ha'aretz)
11.16.06 Top Shelf Books: Oscar Villalon, San Francisco Chronicle Book Editor
11.15.06 The New Yorker Covers the World: Deirdre English (Felker Magazine Center at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism), David Remnick(New Yorker)
11.14.06 Gang-Free Zoning? Jack Jaqua (Omega Boys Club), Michaela Hoctor (Deputy City Attorney)
11.13.06 Soldiers Speak Out: Garrett Reppenhagen, U.S. Army veteran; Ted Wong, U.S. Marine Reservist; Audrey Clark, National Guard
11.10.06 Media Roundtable: Lakshmi Chaudry (In These Times), Robert Hodierne (Army Times), Bill Scher (Liberal Oasis)
11.09.06 God's Green Earth: Richard Cizik (National Evangelical Association), Melanie Griffin (Environmental Partnerships, the Sierra Club)
11.08.06 Post-Election: What Happened? MARK LOTWIS (21 Century Democrats) DAVID BINDER (David Binder Research), KRISTINA WILFORE (Ballot Initiative Strategy Center), KIM GANDY (National Organization for Women)
11.07.06 Do You Know Where Your Vote Is? Steven Hill (New America Foundation), Justin Levitt (Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law), Marybeth Kuznik (VotePA), Mary Boyle (Common Cause)
11.06.06 If Dems Get the Reins, Where Should They Go? Edward Epstein, Washington Correspondent for the Chronicle; Greg Shaw, President, Harvey Milk Club; Jamal Dajani, Director of Middle Eastern Programming, Link TV
11.03.06 Media Roundtable: Jonathan Curiel of the San Francisco Chronicle, Jeanne Carstensen of Salon.com, and David Brooks of La Jornada
11.02.06 Saving the Old Neighborhood : David Lee, Executive Director of the Chinese American Voter Education Committee; Tommy Avicolla Mecca, housing rights advocate; Willie Ratliffe, publisher of the San Francisco Bay View
11.01.06 Buying Votes with Cheap Gas? Stephen Kretzmann, Executive Director of Oil Change International and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Energy and Environment correspondent for The Economist
October 2006
10.31.06 Unbowed: Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
10.30.06 Choice in America: 1973-? Amy Everitt (NARAL Pro-Choice California), Lindsay Roytman (South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families), Parker Dockray (Access), and Susan Hill (National Women's Health Organization)
10.27.06 Media Roundtable: Omar Fekeiki, Washington Post in Iraq; Marc Cooper, The Nation; Carlos Ramos, freelance reporter for Spanish-language publications
10.26.06 A Green Future? Jo Chamberlain, campaign manager for Peter Camejo and Richard Winger of Ballot Access News
10.25.06 Abandoning Angelides? Mark Leno, Assmeblymember for the 13th district of California, Mark Dicamillo, director of the Field Poll, and Joe Mathews, Los Angeles Times reporter
10.24.06 Funding our Future: HD Palmer, Deputy Director State Department of Finance; Steve Levy from Center for the Continuing Study of California's Economy; Erika McDonald from the San Francisco Green Party
10.23.06 Proposition 89: Susan Lerner, Yes on 89 and Sandy Harrison, No on 89
10.20.06 Media Roundtable
10.19.06 The Future of American Labor: Andy Stern, President of Service Employees International Union
10.18.06 Iraq's Wounded: Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Gene Bolles, former head of neurosurgery in Landstuhl Air Base in Germany, Dahlia Wasfi, M.D. Global Exchange.
10.17.06 Prop. 83: Robert Coombs, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and Stacie Rumenap, Stop Child Predators
10.16.06 Do Cops Equal Quality? Dawn Edwards, director of the Ella Baker Center; Professor George Kelling, Rutgers University, and Frank Williams, Bayview Hunters Point Senior Center Re-entry Program
10.13.06 Media Roundtable: Jessica Clark (In These Times), Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal) and Naeem Mohaiemen (shobak.org)
10.12.06 Global Blogs: Sree Sreenivasan, head of the New Media Program at Columbia Journalism School and Ndesanjo Macha, with Global Voices
10.11.06 900 New Laws: Jordan Rau (Los Angeles Times), Bill Allayaud (Sierra Club of California), Vince Solitto (California Chamber of Commerce), and Katelynn Vega (California Labor Federation)
10.10.06 Fighting Words: Feminist writer Robin Morgan on her new book, "Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right"
10.09.06 Playing to the Crowd: Tony Taccone, artistic director for Berkeley Reperatory Theater, Brad Erickson, executive director of Theatre Bay Area, Catherine Castellanos, member of Campo Santo
10.06.06 Media Roundtable: Matthew Bajko, assistant editor for the Bay Area Reporter; Nikki Finke, business and entertainment reporter for the LA Weekly; Linda Feldmann, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor
10.05.06 After Annan: James Traub of the New York Times Magazine and Shogo Kawakita with NHK News
10.04.06 Youth Speaking for Themselves: David Inocencio and Will Roy from The Beat Within and Chinaka Hodge, Youth Speaks
10.03.06 Proposition 89: Susan Lerner, Yes on 89 and Sandy Harrison, No on 89
10.02.06 Daycare for All? Dr. Ronald Lally, Co-Director, WestEd's Center for Child & Family Studies and Dr. Lella Gandini, U.S. Liaison, Reggio Emilia Program and Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts
September 2006
9.29.06 Media Roundtable: independent Afghanistan reporter Fariba Nawa, Christian Science Monitor Congressional reporter Gail Chaddock, and Neil MacKay, investigations editor for the Sunday Herald of Glasgow
9.28.06 Book Show: San Francisco Chronicle book editor Oscar Villalon
9.27.06 Prop. 90 debate: Andrew Schwartz, an attorney with Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger and California Assemblyman Ray Haynes
9.26.06 Noam Chomsky on his book, "Failed States"
9.25.06 Building Green: Ed Mazria ( Architecture 2030), Greg Snowden ( Green Fusion Design Center)
9.22.06 Media Roundtable: NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik, the San Francisco Chronicles Robert Collier, and Corpwatch managing editor Pratap Chatterjee
9.21.06 Amy Meyer, author of "New Guardians of the Golden Gate"
9.20.06 Mel White, author of "Religion Gone Bad"
9.19.06 Nuclear Power is Not the Answer: Anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott
9.18.06 Healthy at 100: John Robbins of "Diet for a New America" fame
9.15.06 Pretensions of Empire: Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's
9.14.06 Chicano Visions: Daniell Cornell (Curator of American art at the de Young), Max Benavidez (author of the forthcoming book "Gronk")
9.13.06 Arianna Huffington, author of "On Becoming Fearless"
9.12.06 Thom Hartmann, author of "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class"
9.11.06 Sarah Chayes, former NPR reporter in Afghanistan and author of "The Punishment of Virtue"
9.08.06 IJoe Mathews, author of "The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy"
9.07.06 Iraq for Sale: Sara Feeley, Producer of the movie, "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers"
9.06.06 Supervising Labor: Ross Eisenbrey (Economic Policy Institute), Elizabeth Guadio (National Federation of Independent Business), Kathy Cassavant (Voice at Work, AFL-CIO)
9.05.06 Who are the Uninsured? Dr. Bree Johnston (Physicians for a National Health Program, David Grant (Senior Action Network)
9.01.06 Media Roundtable: Michael Scherer (Salon), Jim Carlton (Wall Street Journal), Reese Erlich, author of the forthcoming book "The Iran Agenda"August 2006
8.31.06 Where is the Immigration Movement Headed? Judy Golub (Immigrant Legal Resource Center), Juan Carlos Ruiz ( National Capital Immigration Coalition)
8.30.06 California's Energy Future: Dr.Shelley Luce (Yes on 87), Nick DeLuca (No on 87)
8.29.06 Creative Education: Susan Stauter (SFUSD Artistic Director), Ronald Chase (SF Art and Film for Teenagers)
8.28.06 How did Katrina Change Society? CeCe Campbell Rock (Survivors for Survivors), Natalie Walker (Advocates for Environmental Human Rights), Adrien Wing (Professor of Law at the University of Iowa)
8.25.06 Media Roundtable: Josh Norton (Biloxi Sun Herald), Betsy Reed (The Nation), Robert Hodiere (Army Times)
8.24.06 Who is Poor? Menachem Krajcer (Applied Research Center), Diana Spatz (LIFETIME), Barbara Robles, author of The Color of Wealth
8.23.06 How do we keep students interested in science? Rebecca Smith (co director of UCSF's Science and Heatlh Education Partnership), Theresa O'Brien (Graduate Students' Association, UCSF)
8.22.06 What's the role of the military in schools? Cody Kopowski (Oakland Military Institute), Paul McNiel, (San Francisco JRTOC), Escenthio Marign (Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors)
8.21.06 How do we fight fear? Bruce Schneier, author of "Beyond Fear", David Rees (Get Your War On), John Mueller, author of "Overblown"
8.18.06 Media Roundtable: Dahr Jamail, Linda Feldmann (The Christian Science Monitor), Rinku Sen (Colorlines)
8.17.06 Sexual assault in the military Chris Hanson (executive director of the Miles Foundation), Colleen Mussolino (national vice-commander of Women Veterans of America)
8.16.06 How do we oust incumbents? Mark Lotwis (21st Century Democrats), Chris Bowers (MyDD.com), David Keating (Club for Growth), Peter Goldmark (Goldmark for Congress) John Mercurio (Hotline from the National Journal)
8.15.06 How do we fight AIDS in the first world? Shalini Eddens (W.O.R.L.D), Jen Hecht, (Stop AIDS Project), Joe Amon (Human Rights Watch)
8.14.06 Why are coming of age rituals important? Jill Bornor-Brown (The Links, Inc. ), Liliana Cortez (El Tecolote), Rachel Brodie (Jewish Milestones)
8.11.06 Media Roundtable: Eric Boehlert, (The Huffington Post), Niraj Warikoo, (Detroit Free Press) Bob Egelko, (San Francisco Chronicle)
8.10.06 Who is served by the tax system? David Cay Johnson (New York Times)
8.09.06 Is there good graffiti? Suaro Cervantes (Precita Eyes), Mohammed Nuru (Department of Public Works), Dennis Herrera (San Francisco City Attorney)
8.08.06 A Moral Counterinsurgency? Joel Beinin (Director of Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo), Amos Guiora (Professor of Law at Case-Western University and former commander of the of the Israeli Defense Forces School of Military Law)
8.07.06 The Book Show Oscar Villalon, book editor for the San Francisco Chronicle
8.04.06 Media Roundtable: Andrew Gumbel, Independent, Saul Landau, El Progreso, Habib Battah, Middle East Broadcaster's Journal
8.03.06 How does memory shape us? Eric Kandel, author of "In Search of Memory" and Nobel prize winner
8.02.06 How are women helping rebuild Afghanistan? Raihana Popalzai (Kabul Universitys Womens Council), Heba Tarzi (Health and Development Center for Afghan Women), Marilyn Fowler (Womens Intercultural Network)
8.01.06 What is the future of business? Chris Anderson, former Wired editor and author of "The Long Tail"
July 2006
7.31.06 What is a conservative? John Dean, author "Conservatives Without Conscience"
7.28.06 Media Roundtable: Tim Redmond (San Francisco Bay Guardian) and Lawrence Pintak (American University of Cairo)
7.27.06 How did Hillary Clinton become the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination? Maryscott O'Connor (My Left Wing), Chris Nolan, Spot On, and Joan McCarter (Daily Kos)
7.26.06 How can teens become more self sufficient? Madeline Levine, author of The Price of Privilege, and Paul Pitcoff (Youth Advocacy Center)
7.25.06 Has the moment for solar arrived? David Hochschild(Photovoltaics Now) and Gary Gerber (Sun Light & Power)
7.24.06 What is Israel's strategy in the Middle East? Gideon Levy (Haaretz newspaper and a critic of the current campaign) and Stephen Zunes (Institute for a New Middle East Policy)
7.21.06 Media Roundtable:Abderrahim Foukara (Al Jazeera) and Ruth Conniff (The Progressive)
7.20.06 What does poetry do for us? Madge McKeithen, author of Blue Peninsula and Tree Swenson, executive director, Academy of American Poets
7.19.06 Peter Galbraith, author of The End of Iraq
7.18.06 Robert Scheer, political columnist and author of Playing President.
7.17.06 Should there be a ban on internet gambling? Adam Small (PocketFives.com) and David Robertson (National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling).
7.14.06 Media Roundtable: Deepa Fernandes (WBAI) and Jaxson Vanderbeken (San Francisco Chronicle).
7.13.06 What's the real nuclear threat in today's world? Kennette Benedict (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) and Michele Flournoy, Center for Strategic and International Studies
7.12.06 Sexual slavery and the trafficking of women and sexual slavery.
7.11.06 How are retired people working to serve society? Marc Freedman (Civic Ventures), Elaine Marten (Waste Reduction Partners), Gail Srevodonic (Peninsula Raging Grannies)
7.10.06 Good ideas for a cheap summer vacation.
7.7.06 Gary Younge, New York correspondent for The Guardian of London and author of Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States.
7.6.06 Who killed the electric car?
7.5.06 Are women human? A conversation with feminist legal scholar and activist Catharine Mackinnon.
7.4.06 Richard Hughes, author of Myths America Lives By.
7.3.06 Paul Robeson, Jr., author of A Black Way of Seeing: From 'Liberty' to Freedom.
June 2006
6.30.06 Media Roundtable:
6.29.06 Can universal health care be achieved from the bottom up? With Karen Davis (Commonwealth Fund), Steve Heilig (San Francisco Medical Society), and Jessica Jenkins (Network: A Catholic Social Justice Lobby).
6.28.06 A debate on the Mexican economy and the Mexican election. Alejandro Alvarez Bejar (UNAM) v. Isaac Katz (ITAM).
6.27.06 Can sloth be subversive? With Tom Lutz, author of Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America.
6.26.06 The literature of the Iranian women's diaspora
6.23.06 Media Roundtable: Barbara Ehrenreich (author of Nickled and Dimed), Fariba Nawa (freelancer in Afghanistan) and Norman Solomon (author of War Made Easy)
6.22.06 Where does gay marriage fit in the agenda for gay liberation? With Pamela Brown (Marriage Equality) and Lisa Duggan (author of The End of Marriage).
6.21.06 Surviving Guantanamo. With Ruhel Ahmed ("Tipton Three") and Mat Whitecross (co-director of The Road to Guantanamo).
6.20.06 Gary Younge, New York correspondent for The Guardian of London and author of Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States.
6.19.06 Miriam Engelberg, author of Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics.
6.16.06 Media Roundtable: Michael Kirk (Frontline) and Chris Kromm (Southern Exposure).
6.15.06 Humboldt County's Measure T: Corporate cash & local politics. With Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap (Yes on Measure T), Chris Crawford (No on Measure T), and Steven Levin (Center for Govenrmental Studies).
6.14.06 Summer reading, with San Francisco Chronicle book review editor Oscar Villalon.
6.13.06 Open line to Baghdad: The voices Bush won't hear in the Green Zone. With "Dr. Hussein", Ghazwan al-Mukhtar, and Chris Toensing (Middle East Report).
6.12.06 Empire of default: How much debt is too much? With Tamara Draut (author of Strapped) and Michael Shedlach (Global Economic Trend Analysis).
6.9.06 Media Roundtable: Bloggeras & journalists. With Mark Glaser (PBS MediaShift), Glenn Greenwald (author of What Would a Patriot Do?), and Nicole Sawaya (Yearly Kos).
6.8.06 How does the World Cup bring us together, and when does it push us apart? With Wendy Parker (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Michelle Kaufman (Miami Herald), and Christian Seebode (German Consulate, San Francisco).
6.7.06 Women in California's prisons. With Maisha Quint, Ida McCray, and Yvonne Crooks.
6.6.06 It's Election Day: Is your vote secure? Alan Dechert (Open Voting Consortium), David Dill (Stanford University), and Steven Hill (New America Foundation).
6.5.06 What will get you out to vote? With Jesse Taylor (Berkeley Daily Planet), Karen Nakamura (Coastal Post), and Jay Thorwaldson (Palo Alto Weekly).
6.2.06 Media Roundtable David Enders (Iraq freelancer, author of Baghdad Bulletin) and David Lazarus (San Francisco Chronicle).
6.1.06 How do you get disaster relief right? Lessons from the Pakistan earthquake of 2005. With Waseem Baloch (Hidaya Foundation), Tim Irwin (U.N. High Commission on Refugees), Farshad Rastegar (Relief International).
May 2006
5.31.06 How to live without a car. With Rick Hutchinson (City CarShare), Andy Thornley (San Francisco Bike Coalition), and Michael Kiesling.
5.30.06 How do you fight a big corporation -- and win? With Marie Harrison (Greenaction) and Paul Loeb, author of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear.
5.29.06 Can kids be convinced to defect from the fast food nation? With Eric Schlosser, author of Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food.
5.26.06 Media Roundtable: James Cusick (Sunday Herald, Glasgow), Aaron Glantz (author of How America Lost Iraq), and Michael Massing (Columbia Journalism Review).
5.25.06 What can we do to bring peace to Darfur? With Jason Miller (National Sudan Divestment Task Force) and Marie Clarke Brill (Africa Action).
5.24.06 Should there be limits placed on the use of technology to make us "better than well"? A debate between Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) and James Hughes (author of Citizen Cyborg).
5.23.06 What role will Iraq war veterans play in the debate over how to end the war? With Paul Rieckhoff, author of Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington.
5.22.06 Forgiveness, personal and political. With Kathleen Griffin (author of The Forgiveness Formula) and Father Michael Lapsley (Institute for Healing of Memories).
5.19.06 Media Roundtable: Eric Boehlert (author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush) and Maria Hinojosa (PBS-NOW/Latino USA).
5.18.06 Can we create a more humane juvenile justice system? With Jean Amabile (San Francisco Public Defender's Office), Perry Jones (The Beat Within), and David Utter (Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana).
5.17.06 What's the future of equal access and innovation on the internet? A debate on internet neutrality between Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law School) and Kyle Dixon (Progress & Freedom Foundation).
5.16.06 How can mothers set a healthy path in life for their daughters? With Dr. Christiane Northrup, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers, Daughters, and Health.
5.15.06 How has corruption in Washington distorted the way our government works? With David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government -- and How We Can Take It Back.
5.12.06 Media Roundtable: Gail Chaddock (Christian Science Monitor), Dave Marash (al-Jazeera), and Katrina van den Heuvel (The Nation).
5.11.06 What are the perils of prosperity? With Avner Offer, author of The Challenge of Affluence.
5.10.06 Has "No Child Left Behind" promoted testing at the expense of learning? Russlynn Ali (Education Trust West) v. Jennifer Knudsen (Parents for Public Schools).
5.9.06 The poetry and culture of Iraq. With Prof. Saadi Simawe, Denmo Ibrahim, and Zach Rogow (Center for Art in Translation).
5.8.06 What's the economic agenda animating Bush foreign policy? With Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time.
5.5.06 Media roundtable: Covering business, workers, and the economy. With Adam Davidson (NPR) and Lou Uchitelle (New York Times).
5.4.06 Dr. Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
5.3.06 Building bridges to China's environmental movement. With Yu Xiaogang (Green Watershed), Vinya Sysamouth (International Rovers Network), and Daniela Salaverry (Pacific Environment).
5.2.06 The legacy of urban visionary Jane Jacobs. With Scott Bollens (UC Irvine) and Kate White (Urban Land Institute).
5.1.06 Immigration & solidarity. With Thom Hartmann (Air America Radio), Roberto Rodriguez (Column of the Americas), and Steve Williams (People Organized to Win Employment Rights).
April 2006
4.28.06 Media Roundtable: Carla Marinucci (San Francisco Chronicle) and Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal).
4.27.06 Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma -- A Natural History of Four Meals.
4.26.06 Prof. Catharine MacKinnon, author of Are Women Human? And other international dialogues.
4.25.06 Is Ma Bell carrying the water for Big Brother? AT&T and N.S.A. wiretapping. With Jim Dempsey (Center for Democracy and Technology), David Kravetz (Associated Press), and Tim Shorrock (The Nation).
4.24.06 What are the challenges facingtoday's returning combat veterans? With Amy Fairweather (Swords to Ploughshares), Romeo Horvath (Peninsula Vet Center), and Polly Rose (San Francisco VA).
4.21.06 Media Roundtable: Michael Scherer (Salon.com), Chris Toensing (Middle East Report), and Helen Thomas (Hearst News Service).
4.20.06 The best in books, with San Francisco Chronicle book review editor Oscar Villalon.
4.19.06 Voting rights alert. With Debo Adegbile (NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund) and Steven Hill (10 Steps to Repair Democracy).
4.18.06 How has Care Not Cash changed the lives of homeless people in San Francisco? With Shelly Roder (St. Boniface Neighborhood Center), Kevin Sharps (Episcopal Community Services), and Herman Taft (Tenderloin Housing Clinic).
4.17.06 What's the future of birth control? With Kathy Kneer (Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California) and Dr. Sarah Prager (UCSF Center for Reproductive Health, Research & Policy).
4.14.06 Media Roundtable: Roberto Lovato (New America Media), James Sterngold (San Francisco Chronicle), and David Willey (BBC).
4.13.06 Is the Bush Administration seriously considering airstrikes on Iran? And can we stop it? With Joseph Cirincione (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and Mansour Farhang (former Iranian ambassador to the U.N.).
4.12.06 What works to reduce violent crime? With Eric Fleming (San Francisco D.A.'s office), David Kennedy (Center for Crime Prevention and Control), and Frank Rose (Oakland Community-Police Advisory Board).
4.11.06 Organized religion in the secular metropolis. With Father Charles Kullman (Old Saint Mary's), Michael Heimlich (Mission Minyan), and Reverend Alan Jones (Grace Cathedral).
4.10.06 The science and politics of the Endangered Species Act. With Emily Brin Roberson (Center for Biological Diversity) and Andrew Wetzler (National Resources Defense Council).
4.7.06 What's the economic agenda behind U.S. policy in Iraq? With Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy At a Time.
4.6.06 Amartya Sen, author of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
4.5.06 What impact is Wal-Mart having on our economy and society? With Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect.
4.4.06 Can the Democratic Party be reinvented from the bottom up? With Markos Moulitsas, author of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics.
4.3.06 The trees of San Francisco. With Mike Sullivan.
March 2006
3.31.06 Media Roundtable. With Franc Contreras (The World), Mark Danner (New York Review of Books), and Nathan Guttman (Jerusalem Post).
3.30.06 What makes a great community? With Stuart Cohen (Transportation and Land Use Coalition) and Don Neuwirth (Urban Ecology).
3.29.06 Immigration and economic justice. With Jared Bernstein (Economic Policy Institute) and Eliseo Medina (Service Employees International Union).
3.28.06 The future of California's fisheries. With Duncan McLean (Half Moon Bay Fisherman's Association) and Erin Simmons (Ocean Conservancy).
3.27.06 Should environmentalists embrace nuclear power to slow global warming? A debate: Patrick Moore (Greenspirit) v. Ralph Cavanagh (Natural Resources Defense Council).
3.24.06 Media Roundtable: Robert Hodierne (Military Times) and Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal).
3.23.06 Do international criminal tribunals create peace and justice? A debate: Paul van Zyl (International Committee for Transitional Justice) v. Helena Cobban (Al-Hayat).
3.22.06 A debate on impeachment, censure, and the politics of accountability. Bob Fertik (Democrats.com) v. Marc Cooper (The Nation).
3.21.06 The new DIY. With Shoshana Berger (Ready-Made) and Mark Frauenfelder (Make).
3.20.06 New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
3.17.06 Media Roundtable: Aaron Glantz (How America Lost Iraq), Michael Stoll (GradetheNews.org), and Nina Totenberg (NPR).
3.16.06 What's the future of fiction? With Oscar Villalon, book editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.
3.15.06 How should we understand Russia's renewed assertiveness on the international stage? With Boris Kagarlitsky (Institute of Globalisation Studies, Moscow) and Peter Zeihan (StratFor).
3.14.06 Life as an undocumented immigrant. With Guillermina, "Diego Ramirez," and Renee Saucedo (San Francisco Day Laborer Program).
3.13.06 William Vollmann, author of Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
3.10.06 Media Roundtable: Rekha Basu (Des Moines Register), Jefferson Morley (WashingtonPost.com), and Mark Schapiro (Center for Investigative Reporting).
3.9.06 Iraqi women speak their truth. With Faiza Al-Araji ("A Family in Baghdad") and Nadje Al-Ali (Act Together).
3.8.06 Can the Democrats take back Congress? Should they want to? With Jennifer Duffy (Cook Political Report), Marc Sandalow (San Francisco Chronicle), Lou Dubose (author of The Hammer Comes Down), and Joshua Green (The Atlantic).
3.7.06 Is a booming wine industry good for Northern California? With Ann Thrupp (California Sustainable Wine Growers Alliance, Chris Malan (Redwood Chapter, Sierra Club), and Nat Dubuduo (Allied Grape Growers of California).
3.6.06 Why are so many young people flocking to MySpace? With Danah Boyd and Lisa Aultman.
3.3.06 Media Roundtable.
3.2.06 What does the Peace Corps mean in a time of war?
3.1.06 Is it time to stop buying?
February 2006
2.28.06 Could a Black Party transform American politics? With Walter Mosley, author of Life Out of Context.
2.27.06 Do scientists need a crash course in ethics? With David Magnus and Mildred Cho from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.
2.24.06 Media Roundtable: Adam Davidson (NPR), David Enders (Mother Jones), and Abderrahim Foukara (Al-Jazeera).
2.23.06 BART v. Buses: What would a just and effective public transportation system look like? With Randy Rentschler (Metropolitan Transit Commission), Randall O'Toole (Thoreau Institute), and David Schonbrunn (TRANSDEF).
2.22.06 Kenji Yoshino, author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights.
2.21.06 Will business get behind health care reform? Deb Richter (Physicians for a National Health Program) and Sara Rogers (Sen. Sheila Kuehl's office).
2.20.06 What's the latest research in brain science? With Gerald Edelman (The Neurosciences Institute), Daniela Kaufer (UC Berkeley), and Greg Simpson (UC San Francisco).
2.17.06 Media Roundtable: Isabel MacDonald (independent Haiti reporter), Gary Robertson (BBC), and Michael Scherer (Mother Jones).
2.16.06 Winning the unwinnable? A debate on the Bush military strategy in Iraq. Conrad Crane (Army War College) v. Winslow Wheeler (Center for Defense Information).
2.15.06 Are the National Parks under threat? With Kristin Brengel (The Wilderness Society), Tod Hull (National Park Hospitality Association), and Rep. George Radanovich (R-Fresno).
2.14.06 What do men really want from relationships? With Neil Chethik, author of VoiceMale: What Husbands Really Think About Their Marriages, Their Wives, Sex, Housework, and Commitment.
2.13.06 Planets beyond Pluto? With Michael Brown (CalTech) and Greg Laughlin (UC Santa Cruz).
2.10.06 Media Roundtable: Linda Feldmann (Christian Science Monitor), Lindsey Hilsum (ITN Channel Four News), and Betsy Reed (The Nation).
2.9.06 What does Hamas want? And how will they govern? With Khalid Amayreh (Palestine Times) and Azzam Tamimi (Institute for Islamic Political Thought).
2.8.06 What's happening in West Coast art? With Kenneth Baker (San Francisco Chronicle), Janet Bishop (SFMOMA), and Larry Rinder (California College of the Arts).
2.7.06 How can you find out what's in your government file? With Harry Hammitt (Access Reports) and Peter Scheer (California First Amendment Coalition).
2.6.06 What's the ad you hate? With Dave Zirin, author of What's My Name Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States.
2.3.06 Media roundtable: Pratap Chaterjee (Corpwatch), David Lazarus (San Francisco Chronicle), and Jerry Levin (Christian Peacemaker Team).
2.2.06 What's the corporate responsibility of the gambling industry? Valerie Lorenz (Compulsive Gambling Center), Earl Grinols (Baylor University), and Bill Lee (author of Born to Lose: Memoirs of a Compulsive Gambler).
2.1.06 Finding hope in Bushworld. With Medea Benjamin (CodePink), Daniel Ellsberg, Rep. Barbara Lee, Deborah Burger (California Nurses Association), and Raahi Reddy (SEIU Local 715).
January 2006
1.31.06 Eco-tactics: How should the environmental movement respond to charges of "eco-terrorism"? With Judith Lewis (LA Weekly), Mark Potok (Southern Poverty Law Center), John Sellers (Ruckus Society).
1.30.06 How do we know whether we live in a universe with more than four dimensions? A conversation with physicist Lisa Randall, author of Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Earth's Hidden Dimensions.
1.27.06 Media Roundtable. With Nathan Guttman (Jerusalem Post), Sandip Roy (New American Media), and James Sterngold (San Francisco Chronicle).
1.26.06 Will teenage girls have more control over sex if they understand what they like about it? With Rosie Austin (Center for Young Women's Development) and Prof. Deborah Tolman (Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sex).
1.25.06 Have secret, unwarranted wiretaps ordered by President Bush created a constitutional crisis? A debate between Lee Casey (Baker & Hostetler) and Elizabeth de la Vega (TomDispatch.com).
1.24.06 What's the legacy of the Beat Generation for today's poetry and culture in San Francisco? With San Francisco poet laureate Jack Hirschman, Jennifer Joseph (Manic D Press), and Brenda Knight (Women of the Beat Generation).
1.23.06 Does the Bush Administrtion have a problem with science? With Chris Mooney (The Republican War on Science) and Susan Wood (former Director of the FDA's Office of Women's Health).
1.20.06 Media Roundtable: Pablo Bachelet (Miami Herald), Anna Maria Tremonti (CBC's The Current), and Joan Walsh (Salon.com).
1.19.06 Surviving justice: America's wrongfully convicted and exonerated. With David Pope (exonerated prisoner) and Lola Vollen (author Surviving Justice).
1.18.06 What's happening with Iraq's oil? With Antonia Juhasz (author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time) and Yahia Said (Iraq Revenue Watch).
1.17.06 What do lobbyists do? And what should they be able to do? Paul Miller (American League of Lobbyists), Massie Rich (Center for Responsive Politics), and Celia Wexler (Common Cause).
1.16.06 What will it take to create educational justice? With Pedro Noguera (City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education).
1.13.06 Media Roundtable: Lane Greene (The Economist), Tim Redmond (SF Bay Guardian), and Norman Solomon (Media Beat). [NOTE: Program begins at about 13 minutes in, following the Alito hearings.]
1.12.06 Alito: The environment, immigrants, and workers' rights. With Ian Bassin (The Alito Project) and Glenn Sugameli (Earthjustice). [AUDIO NOT AVAILABLE]
1.11.06 Alito: Civil liberties and civil rights. With James Brosnahan (Morrison & Foerster) and Margaret Russell (Santa Clara University Law School).
1.10.06 Alito: Reproductive rights and the prospects for filibuster. With Gail Chaddock (Christian Science Monitor) and Kate Michelman (former president of NARAL /Pro-Choice America).
1.9.06 No program. Preempted by the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Supreme Court justice nominee Samuel Alito.
1.6.06 The future of radio. With Mark Ramsey (Mercury Radio), Theda Sandiford (new technology consultant), Stephen Salyer (Salzurg Seminar/PRI), and Ben Scott (Free Press).
1.5.06 The future of fuel. With Hunter Lovins (Natural Capitalism) and Daniel Sperling (UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies).
1.4.06 The future of global democracy: Russia, Turkey and Venezuela. With Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Review of Books), Michael McFaul (Hoover Institution), and Omer Taspinar (Brookings Institution).
1.3.06 The future of food. With Fergus Clydesdale (Institute for Food Technology) and Michael Pollan (author of The Omnivore's Dilemma).
1.2.06 The future of independent media. With Cara Mertes (P.O.V.), Lois Vossen (Independent Lens), and Lawrence Wilkinson (Global Business Network).
December 2005
12.30.05 How can you move forward in peace after experiencing war and violence? With Claude Anshin Thomas, author of At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Story.
12.29.05 2005: The best in Bay Area music.
12.28.05 2005: The Year in Corporate Crime. With John Emswhiller (Wall Street Journal) and Russell Mokhiber (Corporate Crime Reporter).
12.27.05 How big is the global underground economy? With Moises Naim, author of Illicit : How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy.
12.26.05 2005: The Year in Military Technology. With John Arquilla (Naval Postgraduate School) and Philip Coyle (Center for Defense Information).
12.23.05 Media Roundtable: Alexander Cockburn (Counterpunch), Franc Contreras (The World), and Sandip Roy (New American Media).
12.22.05 What are the special challenges facing gay and lesbian elders? And how is the LGBT community responding? Brian DeVries (San Francisco State University), Bill Kirkpatrick (New Leaf), and Moli Steinert (Open House).
12.21.05 In a time of war and fiscal crisis, who'll pick up the tab? A debate on tax cuts and economic justice with Chris Edwards (Cato Institute) and Jason Furman (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities).
12.20.05 Where can you find nature in the city? With Chris Giorni (Tree Frog Treks) and Mike Sullivan (The Trees of San Francisco).
12.19.05 Where does our garbage go? With Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbageland.
12.16.05 Media Roundtable: Jenni Bergal (Katrina Watch/Center for Public Integrity), Mandalit del Barco (National Public Radio), and David Enders (MotherJones.com).
12.15.05 2005: The year in political movies. Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader), Natalie Silverstein (Ironweed Film Club), and Ben Svetkey (Entertainment Weekly).
12.14.05 Why do we reread? And which books are worth it? With Anne Fadiman, author of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love.
12.13.05 Have you seen New Orleans? With Marcel Diallo (Oakland2NewOrleans), Shilpi Gupta, Kate Hilsenbeck, and Bess Carrick.
12.12.05 Are foreign researchers in U.S. labs a threat to national security? With William Clements (Foley & Lardner), Tobin Smith (Association of American Universities), and Arthur Bienenstock (Stanford University).
12.9.05 Media Roundtable: Farai Chideya (News & Notes/Pop & Politics), Khaled Dawoud (al-Ahram), and Ken Silverstein (L.A. Times).
12.8.05 Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter talks about his new book Iraq Confidential.
12.7.05 Can you wear a diamond on your finger without having blood on your hands? With Cecilia Gardner (Jewelers Vigilance Comittee), Corinna Gilfillan (Global Witness), and Kareem Edouard (director of Bling: Consequences and Repercussions).
12.6.05 What is charity? And what kind of giving deserves a tax break? With Lilliam Barrios-Paoli (Safe Space) and Bill Somerville (Philanthropic Ventures Foundation).
12.5.05 What does the latest research tell us about the causes of breast cancer? With Barbara Brenner (Breast Cancer Action) Runi Chattopahdyay (UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center), and Tina Clarke (Northern California Cancer Center).
12.2.05 Media Roundtable: Michael Massing (Columbia Journalism Review), Rinku Sen (ColorLines), and John Simpson (BBC).
12.1.05 Are the politics of crime and punishment in California changing? Stefanie Faucher (Death Penalty Focus), Matt Gray (The Capital Alliance), and Jakada Imani (Books Not Bars).
November 2005
11.30.05 How is the U.S.-led war on terror affecting civil liberties and human rights in Europe?
11.29.05 What messages will allow the Democrats to capitalize on Bush's weakness in 2006?
11.28.05 Why do so many more people have allergies now?
11.24.05 & 11.25.05 No program.
11.23.05 Is it time to rehaul the way the U.S. distributes food aid?
11.22.05 Banning handguns: What happens next?
11.21.05 Physicist Brian Greene talks about Einstein's legacy and his quest for a unified theory of the cosmos.
11.18.05 Media Roundtable. Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for The Independent and author of The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East.
11.17.05 No show. Preempted by KALW's Manager's Report to the Listeners.
11.16.05 What would a constructive U.S.-China economic relationship look like?
11.15.05 Is country music only for right-wingers? with Chris Willman, author of Rednecks and Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music.
11.14.05 What is the latest scientific research telling us about why we sleep and how we can sleep better? With Dr. Jerry Siegel (UCLA Sleep Research Center) and Dr. Jerrold Kram (California Center for Sleep Disorders).
11.11.05 Media Roundtable: Jalal Ghazi (Pacific News Service/LinkTV), Andrew Gumbel (The Independent), Indira Lakshmanan (Boston Globe).
11.10.05 How will this generation of veterans change the country? With Andrew Duck (House candidate in Maryland's 6th District), Abdul Henderson (Iraq Veterans against the War), and Perry Jefferies (Operation Truth).
11.9.05 Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.
11.8.05 Captain James Yee, former US Army Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay and author of For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire.
11.7.05 How organic is organic? A debate on corporate food and the organic movement between Phil Margolis (Organic Trade Association) and Ryan Zinn (Organic Consumers Association).
11.4.05 Media Roundtable: Mark Curtis (KTVU) and Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal).
11.3.05 Earthquake preparedness and social justice. With Lt. Erica Arteseros (SF Neighborhood Emergency Response Team), Mary Comerio (UC Berkeley), and Karen McNeal-Luckett (Residential Lending and Rehabilitation Services, Oakland).
11.2.05 The ballot and the budget: A debate on California Proposition 76. John Coupal (Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association) v. Trudy Schafer (League of Women Voters).
11.1.05 What does it take to green a small business? With Ritu Primlani (Thimmakka Resources for Environmental Education), Mark Klaiman (Pet Camp), Lachu Moorjani (Ajanta Indian cuisine), and Gabe Luna (Moon Dance Painting).
October 2005
10.31.05 Mary Roach, author of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife.
10.28.05 Media Roundtable: Jamal Dajani (Mosaic), John Nichols (The Nation), and Niraj Warikoo (Detroit Free Press).
10.27.05 What's wrong with Wal-Mart? With Caty Borum (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) and Weldon Nicholson (former Wal-Mart manager).
10.26.05 Is it time to divest from Israel? A debate between Ilan Pappe (Haifa University) and Ze'ev Maoz (UC Davis).
10.25.05 California Propositions 78 & 79: Big pharma and consumers groups face off on prescription drugs. Earl Louie (Consumers Union) v. John Graham (Pacific Research Institute).
10.24.05 Digital rights: What's the future of music, movies and video in the digital realm -- and who's in control? With Mia Garlick (Creative Commons), John Healy (L.A. Times), and Wayne Rosso (Mashboxx).
10.21.05 Media Roundtable: Sanjoy Banerjee (India Currents), Clara Jeffery (Mother Jones), and John Simpson (BBC).
10.20.05 Zimbabweans talk back to Robert Mugabe. With Wilf Mbanga (The Zimbabwean), Elias Mudzuri (mayor-in-exile of Harare), and Girley Tegama.
10.19.05 A debate on Proposition 80: Is it time to roll back electricity deregulation in California? Mindy Spatt (The Utility Reform Network) vs. Dan Pellissier (No on 80).
10.18.05 What can schools do to reduce childhood obesity? With Caroline Grannan (SFUSD Student Nutrition Committee) and Jessica Reich (California Food Policy Advocates).
10.17.05 Biomimicry: What can scientists and designers learn from nature? With Dr. Joseph Ayers (Northeastern University) and Norbert Hoeller (Biomimicry Newsletter).
10.14.05 Media Roundtable: Rebecca Dana (New York Observer), Dahr Jamail (independent Iraq reporter), Tim Redmond (SF Bay Guardian).
10.13.05 Have we become a culture of debt? With With Erica Sandberg (Consumer Credit Counseling Services) and Tim Wright (documentary Filmmaker: Plastic: The Culture of Debt.)
10.12.05 Iraqi consititution, American empire. Antonia Juhasz (author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time) and Thabit Abdullah (author of A Short History of Iraq: From 636 to the Present).
10.11.05 California's Proposition 77: Redistricting, power, and democracy. With Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Ethan Rarick (UC Berkeley Center on Democracy), and Trudy Schafer (League of Women Voters).
10.10.05 Fear, facts and the flu. With Mike Davis (author of Monster at the Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu) and Dr. Lawrence Drew (UCSF Clinical Virology Lab).
10.7.05 Media Roundtable: Laura Rozen (The American Prospect), James Sterngold (SF Chronicle), and Anna Maria Tremonti (CBC Radio).
10.6.05 Is the Catholic Church moving to purge gay priests? With Debbie Weill (Dignity USA), Father Michael Sweeney (Graudate Theological Union), and Amy Welborn.
10.5.05 The Republicans and their business allies are aiming at union power in California's November special election. What will it mean if they succeed? With Andy Furillo (Sacramento Bee), Ken Jacobs (UC Labor Center), and Jonathan Wilcox (GOP strategist).
10.4.05 Salman Rushdie talks about Kashmir, imperial borders, religious fundamentalism, global culture, and his new novel Shalimar the Clown.
10.3.05 Is it time for new environmental rules for nanotechnology? With Ken Geiser (Center for Sustainable Production), Michael Holman (Lux Research), and Chris Phoenix (Center for Responsible Nanotechnology).
September 2005
9.30.05 Media Roundtable: Jake Bernstein (Texas Observer), Lori Robertson (American Journalism Review), and Lamis Andoni (al-Jazeera).
9.29.05 What are the next steps for just, sustainable rebuilding after Katrina and Rita? With Darryl Malek-Wiley (Sierra Club Louisiana), Malcolm Suber (Community Labor United), Brenda Dardar-Robichaux (United Houma Nation).
9.28.05 How diverse is prime time TV? With Darrell Hamamoto (UC Davis), Darnell Hunt (UCLA), and Amalia Ortiz ("Fear of a Brown Planet").
9.27.05 Mark LeVine, author of Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil.
9.26.05 Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress.
9.23.05 Media Roundtable: Roberto Lovato (New American Media) and Norman Solomon (War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death).
9.22.05 British antiwar MP George Galloway.
9.21.05 The poetic legacy of June Jordan. With Cornelius Eady, Jan Heller-Levi, Junichi Semitsu, Gary Chandler, and Ruth Forman.
9.20.05 Iraq war realities, with John Crawford (The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell) and Christian Parenti (The Nation/The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq).
9.19.05 What does it take to be a socially responsible investor? John Harrington, author of Challenge to Power: Money, Investing and Democracy.
9.16.05 Prof. Cass Sunstein, author of Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America.
9.15.05 What do spectator sports have to do with radical politics? With Dave Zirin, author of What's My Name Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States.
9.14.05 John Roberts and the Judiciary Committee, round two. With Vikram Amar (UC Hastings College of the Law), Nancy Northup (Center for Reproductive Rights), and Michael Scherer (Salon).
9.13.05 Interrogation or coronation? Commentary and analysis on the John Roberts confirmation hearings, with Leslie Proll (NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund), Nicole Burner (Planned Parenthood Federation of America), and defense attorney Jim Brosnahan.
9.12.05 No show: Preempted for broadcast of the Senate confirmation hearings on the nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
9.9.05 Media Roundtable: Renee Feltz (KPFT-FM, Houston), Barbara Harris (Jackson Advocate), and Dave Wagner (former political editor of the Arizona Republic).
9.8.05 Opposing racism, after Katrina. With Malkia Cyril (Youth Media Council), Mab Segrest (author of Memoir of a Race Traitor), and Rinku Sen (Colorlines magazine).
9.8.05 Opposing racism, after Katrina. With Malkia Cyril (Youth Media Council), Mab Segrest (author of Memoir of a Race Traitor), and Rinku Sen (Colorlines magazine).
9.7.05 Environmental justice and Hurricane Katrina. With Azibuike Akaba (Communities for a Better Environment), Robert Bullard (Center for Environmental Justice), and Robert Shirek (Indigenous Environmental Network).
9.6.05 Chief Justice Roberts? With Gail Chaddock (Christian Science Monitor), Bruce Shapiro (The Nation), and Elliot Mincberg (People for the American Way).
9.5.05 Women working for peace: A conversation with 3 of the 1000 women who've been nominated for the 2005 Nobel Prize for Peace. With Medea Benjamin (Global Exchange/Code Pink), Roma Guy (SF Public Health Commission), and Elizabeth Martinez (Center for Mutiracial Justice).
9.2.05 Media Roundtable: Will Bunch (Philadelphia Daily News), Pratap Chatterjee (Corpwatch), and David Freedman (WWOZ-FM, New Orleans).
9.1.05 What do the changes at the top of the labor movement look like -- or mean -- to the rank and file? With Andy Levin (AFL-CIO) and Raahi Reddy (UC Berkeley Labor Center).
August 2005
8.31.05 The ethics of military recruiting. With Aimee Allison (Gulf War resister & counselor to c.o.'s), Major Gregg Blake (U.S. Army Sacramento Recruiting Battalion), and Prof. Jay Williams (University of Loyola-Chicago).
8.30.05 Women and heart disease. With cardiac nurse Kathy Berra and patient advocate Susan Cardelli.
8.29.05 What does the explosion of pornography say about our collective culture? With Pamela Paul (author of Pornified) and Craig Gross (xxxchurch.com).
8.26.05 Media Roundtable: Robert Hodierne (Army Times), John Nichols (The Nation), Paulo Sotero (O Estadao de Sao Paulo).
8.25.05 Voices from the frontlines of global warming. Matthew Gilbert (Gwich'in Nation), Billy Causey (Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary), Wahleah Johns (Black Mesa Water Coalition), and Prof. Edwin Maurer (Santa Clara University).
8.24.05 Is raising teacher's pay the bottom line for improving education? With Ninive Clements Calegari and Daniel Moulthrop, authors of Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of Our Children's Teachers.
8.23.05 The Iraqi constitution: By whom, for whom? With Antonia Juhasz, author of the forthcoming The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time.
8.22.05 What would effective antigang policy look like? Mikail Ali (San Francisco Police Department), Chuck DeMore (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Luis Rodriguez (author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.).
8.19.05 Media Roundtable: Ali Abunimah (Electronic Intifada), Barbara Harris (Jackson Advocate), and Bruce Shapiro (The Nation).
8.18.05 How can the peace movement build on the momentum created by Cindy Sheehan's vigil in Crawford? With Cindy Sheehan, Kathy Kelly, and Tom Hayden.
8.17.05 Is it time to lose the lawn? With John Greenlee (Greenlee Nursery) and Alrie Middlebrook (LosetheLawn.com).
8.16.05 What will immigration reform mean for workers? With Paul Egan (Federation for American Immigration Reform), Lynn Tramonte (National Immigration Forum), and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
8.15.05 What happens after the housing bubble bursts? With Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance.
8.12.05 Media Roundtable: Danny Schechter (MediaChannel.org), W. Leon Smith & Deborah Matthews (Lone Star Iconoclast), and Andreas Zumach (Die Tagezseitung).
8.11.05 Is Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip a victory for opponents of the occupation? With George Bisharat (UC Hastings School of Law), Mitchell Plitnick (A Jewish Voice for Peace), Ramiz Rafeedie (SF American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee), and Joel Schalit (Tikkun).
8.10.05 Karen Houppert, author of Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military -- for Better or Worse.
8.9.05 Why aren't we going to the movies anymore? With Kenneth Turan (L.A. Times) and Jeffrey Anderson (S.F. Examiner).
8.8.05 The debate over eminent domain and economic development. Tim Sandefur (Pacific Legal Foundation) vs. Andrew Schwartz (Community Land Use Project of California).
8.5.05 Media Roundtable: Renata Adler (author of Canaries in the Mineshaft: Essays on Politics and Media), Anna Badkhen (San Francisco Chronicle), and Greg Mitchell (Editor & Publisher).
8.4.05 Who are the Young Democrats? And will they change the Democratic Party? With Jay Augustine, Crystal Strait and Jeremiah Garretson.
8.3.05 A conversation with Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, the largest and oldest church ministering to the LGBT community.
8.2.05 The science and ethics of healthy women freezing their eggs. With Nadia Campbell (Extend Fertility) and Dr. Glenn McGee (Center for Medical Ethics at Albany Medical College).
8.1.05 How to find summer fun in the Bay Area, without going far or spending much. With Christine Enea and Dean Latourette, authors of Time Off: The Unemployed Guide to San Francisco.
July 2005
7.29.05 Media Roundtable: Patrick Farrelly (documentary filmmaker), Deepa Fernandes (WBAI Radio), and David Moberg (In These Times).
7.28.05 Why are so many girls getting locked up? A conversation with the creators of the film On the Outs: Lori Silverbush, Paola Mendoza, and Jasmine Long.
7.27.05 Mugabe's Zimbabwe: How should the world respond? With Andrew Meldrum, author of Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe.
7.26.05 Solidarity lives? Unions, communities, and worker power. With Ken Jacobs (UC Berkeley Labor Center), Robert Haaland (SEIU Local 790), and Ron Lind (UFCW Local 428).
7.25.05 How does greater control over the way we die change the way we grieve? With David Kessler (co-author with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross of On Grief and Grieving) and Susan Stern (director of "Self-Made Man").
7.22.05 Media Roundtable: Danny Rubinstein (Ha'aretz), James Sterngold (San Francisco Chronicle), and Paul Waldman (Media Matters).
7.21.05 Open Line to Iraq. With Juan Cole (University of Michigan) and Omar Fekeiki (Washington Post).
7.20.05 Ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes.
7.19.05 Progressive sprituality. With Carol Ann Flinders, Peter Gabel (New College of California), Robyn Thomas (Tikkun).
7.18.05 Public surveillance: After the London bombings, is it futile or vital?
7.15.05 Media Roundtable: Lane Greene (The Economist), Steven Jones (SF Bay Guardian), and Maher Othman (Al-Hayat).
7.14.05 The future of space exploration. With Alan Binder (Lunar Research Institute), Robert Zubrin (Mars Society), and Diane Murphy (X-Prize Foundation).
7.13.05 The battle over the next Supreme Court nominee. With Jason Dick (Congress Daily), Esther Kaplan (author of With God on Their Side), and Seth Rosenthal (Alliance for Justice).
7.12.05 Democracy in Afghanistan? With Prof. Wali Ahmadi (UC Berkeley) and John Sifton (Human Rights Watch).
7.11.05 Oakland's debate over "sideshows": How can cities balance public safety, civil liberties, and street culture? With Yapasua Zazaboi (Sydewayz.com), Jean Blackshear, Oakland City Councilmember Desley Brooks, Oakland Police Lt. Dave Kozicki, and Professor Kenneth Peak (University of Nevada at Reno).
7.8.05 Media Roundtable: George Monbiot (The Guardian), Michael Scherer (Mother Jones), and Matthew Yglesias (American Prospect). [Note: Program was interrupted by power outage.]
7.7.05 Macroeconomics 101: From the current accounts deficit to monetary policy, what do the economics buzzwords mean and why do they matter? With New York Times economics writer Jeff Madrick.
7.6.05 Living small, living well. With Sarah Susanka (The Not So Big House) and Eric Corey Freed (Organic Architect).
7.5.05 Domestic violence: No turning back? With Sara Catania (Mother Jones) and Minouche Kandel (Bay Area Legal Aid).
7.4.05 Should the U.S. declare independence from the U.N.? Should the U.N. reduce its dependence on the U.S.? A debate between Phyllis Bennis (author of Challenging Empire) and Jeremy Rabkin (author of Law Without Nations?).
7.1.05 Media Roundtable: Hannah Allam (Knight-Ridder), Vijay Vaitheeswaran (The Economist), and Richard Wolffe (Newsweek).
June 2005
6.30.05 Are mainstream NGOs serving the needs of Africans? With Doug Hellinger (Development GAP) and Susan Dicklitch (author of The Elusive Promise of NGOs).
6.29.05 Empathy TV: "Super Size Me" director Morgan Spurlock and partner Alex Jamieson talk about their new documentary series 30 Days.
6.28.05 Preempted for KALW's Manager's Report to the Listeners.
6.27.05 Workers who won. With Zack Pesavento (Georgetown Student for a Living Wage), Gail Tuzzolo (Nevada AFL-CIO), and Gerardo Reyes Chavez (Coalition of Immokalee Workers). [Rebroadcast]
6.24.05 Media Roundtable: Abderrahim Foukara (al Jazeera), Peter Hart (FAIR), and Holly Yeager (Financial Times).
6.23.05 Elections in Iran. With Nahid Mozaffari and Behrooz Moazami.
6.22.05 Free Speech Radio News reporter Aaron Glantz on How America Lost Iraq.
6.21.05 Fear of a queer planet? With Gary Dowsett (Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society) and Violeta Silva (International Sexuality Forum)
6.20.05 Breast cancer: What we know now. With Jo Anne Zujewski of the National Cancer Institute.
6.17.05 Media Roundtable: Anna Badkhen (San Francisco Chronicle), Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal). and Joan Walsh (Salon.com).
6.16.05 Guantanamo: No more? With Barbara Olshansky (Center for Consitutional Rights) and William Schulz (Amnesty International).
6.15.05 Former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper talks about his book Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing.
6.14.05 California prison spending: A debate. Lance Corcoran (California Correctional Peace Officers Association) vs. Rose Braz (Critical Resistance).
6.13.05 Walt Whitmania: Celebrating Walt Whitman, 150 years after the first edition of Leaves of Grass. With Michael Cunningham (Specimen Days) and Barbara Kerley (Walt Whitman: Words for America).
6.10.05 Media Roundtable: Elizabeth Kolbert (New Yorker), Jefferson Morley (WashingtonPost.com), and Niraj Warikoo (Detroit Free Press).
6.9.05 Rebuilding homes and lives under occupation. With Cindy & Craig Corrie and Khaled & Samah Nasrallah.
6.8.05 Joel Garreau talks about Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- And What It Means To Be Human.
6.7.05 The oceans & us. With Jennifer DiAnto (Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch) and David Helvarg (Blue Frontier Campaign).
6.6.05 What do you want from a public school?
6.3.05 Media Roundtable: Louis Freedberg (SF Chronicle), Tim Grieve (Salon), and Nathan Guttman (Ha'aretz).
6.2.05 The Popocalypse. With Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping choir.
6.1.05 The future of water. With Michael Carlin (SF Public Utilities Commission), and Mawuli Dake (Public Citizen's Water for All), and Deborah Raphael (SF Environment).
May 2005
5.31.05 Naomi Wolf, author of The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See.
5.30.05 Preempted for KALW News special report: "The Story of the G.I. Bill."
5.27.05 Media Roundtable: Said Arikat (Al Quds), Gail Chaddock (Christian Science Monitor), and Jim Lobe (Inter Press).
5.26.05 Start Making Sense: How can progressives turn the lessons of election 2004 into winning politics? With Lakshmi Chaudhry (AlterNet), Van Jones (Ella Baker Center for Human Rights), and Rose Aguilar (Stories in America).
5.25.05 The view from Beijing: China and the world. With Jean-Marc Blanchard (San Francisco State University), Will Dobson (Foreign Policy), and Ling-chi Wang (University of California at Berkeley).
5.24.05 The economics and pleasures of farmer's markets. With David Stockdale (Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture), Toby Garrone (Far West Funghi), and Steven Kashiwase (Kashiwase Farms).
5.23.05 Who's afraid of invasive species? A debate between Alan Burdick (author of Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion) and Daniel Simberloff (University of Tennessee-Knoxville).
5.20.05 Media Roundtable: Jamal Dajani (LinkTV Mosaic), James Madore (Newsday), and John Nichols (The Nation).
5.19.05 An Iraqi feminist speaks out. With Yanar Muhammad, Chair of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq.
5.18.05 Dr. Helen Caldicott: Weapons in space and the new nuclear danger on earth.
5.17.05 Einstein's "miracle year" of 1905, a century later. With Marvin Cohen (President of the American Phsyical Society) and John Rigden (author of Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness).
5.16.05 Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca -- Gang Days in East L.A. talks about his first novel Music of the Mill.
5.13.05 Media Roundtable: David Bacon (Pacific News Service), Harold Meyerson (The American Prospect), and Marcela Sanchez (Washington Post).
5.12.05 No show. Program preempted by the KALW Manager's Report to the Listener.
5.11.05 Scourge. Music, memory, and the history of Haiti with playwright, poet and dance Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
5.10.05 The financing of terror groups, with Loretta Napoleoni, author of Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks.
5.9.05 Can women find equality in islam? With Asra Nomani, author of Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam.
5.6.05 Media Roundtable: The State of Public Broadcasting. With Peter Hart (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), Ron Kramer (Jefferson Public Radio), and Cara Mertes (P.O.V.).
5.5.05 What next for Democrats: Message or Movement? With Christopher Hayes and Robert Reich.
5.4.05 Why civilian casualties matter. With Marc Garlasco (Human Rights Watch) and Marc Herold (University of New Hampshire).
5.3.05 Journalist Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shah's Men talks about fifty years of U.S. interference in Iran. [Rebroadcast]
5.2.05 Jim Wallis talks about God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. [Rebroadcast]
April 2005
4.29.05 Media Roundtable: Sig Christenson (San Antonio Express-News), Peter Waldman (Media Matters), and Sydney Schanberg (Village Voice).
4.28.05 Remembering Andrea Dworkin. With Catharine MacKinnon and Katha Pollitt.
4.27.05 Universal healthcare in California? With Don Bechler (Health Care for All California), Assemblymember Joe Nation, and Sara Rogers (consultant to State Senator Sheila Kuehl).
4.26.05 Big Brother, Inc.: Privacy, corporate power, and the war on terror. With Sean Blackledge (California Public Interest Research Group) and Robert O'Harrow (author of No Place to Hide).
4.25.05 Letters to America: A Chance for Us to Listen. With Erica Geller and Mark Brecke.
4.22.05 Women and the reform movement in the Catholic Church. With Angela Bonavoglia and Sister Joan Chittister.
4.21.05 New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, author of Promises Betrayed: Waking Up From the American Dream. [Audio unavailable]
4.20.05 Blue Vinyl: The world's first toxic comedy. With director Judith Helfand and Debra Lynn Dad, author of Home Safe Home.
4.19.05 The end of the oil-based society? With Gregory Greene (director of The End of Suburbia) and James Howard Kunstler (author of The Long Emergency).
4.18.05 Is organic enough? With Joel Salatin (farmer and author of Holy Cows and Hog Heaven) and Jake Lewin (California Certified Organic Farmers).
4.15.05 Media for the end times? With Amy Johnson Frykholm, author of Rapture Culture, and Esther Kaplan, author of With God on Their Side.
4.14.05 Tariq Ali: Speaking of empire and resistance.
4.13.05 Nurse power: The realities nurses face in a changing health care system, and the impact they're having as an organized political force. With Suzanne Gordon, author of Nursing Against the Odds and Deborah Burger, President of the California Nurses Association.
4.12.05 How do Bay Area arts organizations keep going in tough times? With Deborah Cullinan (Intersection for the Arts), John Kilacky (San Francisco Foundation), and Krissy Keefer (Dance Mission).
4.11.05 Confronting military recruiters: Jim Haber (War Resisters League), Arlene Inoye (Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools), Chris Dugan (former Marine recruiter, Campus Antiwar Network), and Gail Sredanovic & Ruth Robertson (Peninsula Raging Grannies).
4.8.05 Media Roundtable: Eric Boehlert (Salon), Franc Contreras (The World/Latino USA), and Mary Jo McConnahay (Pacific News Service).
4.7.05 Workers who won. With Zack Pesavento (Georgetown Student for a Living Wage), Gail Tuzzolo (Nevada AFL-CIO), and Gerardo Reyes Chavez (Coalition of Immokalee Workers).
4.6.05 The occupied economy of Iraq. With Pratap Chatterjee (Corpwatch) and David Enders (author of Baghdad Bulletin).
4.5.05 Taxes: Who's paying? Who's getting paid? Steve Ellis (Taxpayers for Common Sense), Kim Rueben (Public Policy Institute of California), and Anita Dancs (National Priorites Project).
4.4.05 Books with David Kipen.
4.1.05 Media Roundtable: Linda Feldmann (Christian Science Monitor) and Tom Lasseter (Knight-Ridder).
March 2005
3.31.05 Are hybrid cars the answer? Brendan Koerner (Wired Magazine), Felix Kramer (California Cars Initiative), and Jason Mark (Jumpstart Ford).
3.30.05 Should San Francisco make broadband internet a public utility? With Mike Jackman (California Internet Service Providers Association), Jeff Perlstein (Media Alliance), and Wells Whitney (SPUR).
3.29.05 How should medical marijuana clubs be regulated? With Jason Beck (Alternative Herbal Health Services), Susan Eslick (Dogpatch Neighborhood Association) San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, and Hilary McQuie (Americans for Safe Access).
3.28.05 Is Latin America turning left? With Alvaro Varga Llosa (The Independent Institute) and Gregory Wilpert (Venezuela Analysis).
3.25.05 Media roundtable: Alan Bock (Orange County Register), David Brooks (La Jornada), and Anna Maria Tremonti (CBC Radio).
3.24.05 Iran, the U.S. and the politics of oil. With Mansour Farhang (Bennington College), Stephen Pelletiere (Army War College), and Roger Trilling.
3.23.05 The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics: Are their toxic ingredients in your shampoo, deodorant, lotion, or makeup? With Jeanne Rizzo (Breast Cancer Fund), Tom Natan (National Environment Trust), Doug Schoon (Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association), and Lauren Sucher (Environmental Working Group).
3.22.05 Left, right and wrong. Author Garret Keizer talks about what's missing from the values debate.
3.21.05 The battle for California: Schwarzenegger's ballot initiatives and his push for a special election. With gubernatorial press secretary Vince Sollitto, Assemblymember Mark Leno, Allan Zaremberg (Citizens to Save California), and Hannah-Beth Jackson (Speak Up, California).
3.18.05 Media and the Military. With Mark Benjamin (Salon), David Enders (freelance reporter in Iraq), and Rone Tempest (Los Angeles Times).
3.17.05 Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom. With Victoria Brittain (co-writer of Guantanamo), Ellen Gavin (Brava Theatre), and Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights).
3.16.05 What's next for the FCC after Michael Powell? With Drew Clark (National Journal's Technology Daily) and Ben Scott (FreePress.net).
3.15.05 Bringing the War Home. With Hala al-Shahwany (Arab-American Cultural Center of the Silicon Valley), Cindy Sheehan (Gold Star Families for Peace), and Pam Stock.
3.14.05 The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. With filmmakers Julie Malozzi ("Monkey Dance") and Ali Kazimi ("Continuous Journey"), and festival director Chi-hui Yang.
3.11.05 Media Roundtable: Khaled Dawoud (Al-Ahram), Laurie Garrett (Newsday), and Michael Scherer (Mother Jones).
3.10.05 The Great Bankruptcy Swindle. With Prof. Melissa Jacoby (University of North Carolina Law School) and Ari Berman (The Nation).
3.10.05 The Great Bankruptcy Swindle. With Prof. Melissa Jacoby (University of North Carolina Law School) and Ari Berman (The Nation).
3.9.05 Celebrating Independents: Laura Flanders' address to the Independent Press Association.
3.8.05 Transgender Truths: The science, history, and politics of transgender people. With filmmaker and historian Susan Stryker and Deborah Rudacille, author of The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights.
3.7.05 Bird In Flight: Fifty years after his death at age 34, why do today's musicians still listen to, learn from, and remix Charlie Parker? With hip hop producer Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, jazz and soul singer Ledisi, and Matthew Backer, producer of Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project
3.4.05 Media Roundtable: Bob Egelko (San Francisco Chronicle), Richard Goldstein (The Nation), and Holly Yeager (Financial Times).
3.3.05 Ten years after the U.N.'s Beijing Conference on Women, how is the right-wing dealing with women's rights on the global stage? With Dorothy Aken'Ova (INCRESE Nigeria), Carmen Barrosso (International Planned Parenthood Federation), and Adrienne Germain (International Women's Health Coalition).
3.2.05 Why are increasing numbers of soldiers deserting or becoming conscientious objectors? And could they change the course of America's wars? With Kathy Dobie (author of "AWOL in America"), Steven Morse (GI Rights Hotline), and Sgt. Camilo Mejia.
3.1.05 What will it take for the FDA and our health care system to give us strong, safe drugs? With Larry Sasich (Public Citizen) and Dr. Jerry Avorn (Harvard Medical School).
February 2005
2.28.05 Ruth King on Healing Rage.
2.25.05 Media Roundtable: Norman Birnbaum (The Nation), Abderrahim Foukara (Al-Jazeera), and Matthew Wells (BBC).
2.24.05 Jim Wallis talks about God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It.
2.23.05 Should drivers pay extra to bring their cars into downtown San Francisco? With Graham Goodwin (Transport London), Jake McGoldrick (San Francisco Supervisor), Ken Cleaveland (Building Owners and Managers Association), and Sean Comey (AAA).
2.22.05 Eurogreens talk to the USA: What can American progressives learn from their strategies and successes? With Helga Flores Trejo (Heinrich Boll Foundation), Jean Lambert (Member of the European Parliament from the U.K.), and David Hammerstein (M.E.P. from Spain).
2.21.05 Pension power: The debate over the future of California's public employees retirement system. Daniel Clifton (American Shareholders Association/Americans for Tax Reform) vs. William Greider (The Nation).
2.18.05 Media Roundtable: Peter Byrne (California investigative journalist), Aaron Glantz (Free Speech Radio News), and Julie Rovner (NPR).
2.17.05 Filmmaker Avi Lewis talks about "The Take," a documentary about Argentine workers who organized to take ovr their factories after their country's 2001 economic collapse.
2.16.05 Where will Howard Dean take the Democrats? With John Dillon (Vermont Public Radio), Markos Moulitsas (Daily Kos), and Kenneth Baer (The New Republic).
2.15.05 Craig Newmark, creator of Craigslist.
2.14.05 Playwright, poet and novelist Jessica Hagedorn talks about her latest work, Stairway to Heaven.
2.11.05 Media Roundtable: Mark Danner (New Yorker) and Albert Krebs (Agribusiness Examiner).
2.10.05 If the Bush Administration won't fight global warming, can we? Ana Unruh-Cohen (Center for American Progress), Dan Kalb (Union of Concerned Scientists), Marlo Lewis (Competitive Enterrprise Institute), and Abby Young (Cities for Climate Protection).
2.9.05 Mary Ellen Pleasant: entrepreneur, abolitionist, and "mother of civil rights" in California. With Lynn Hudson (author of The Making of Mammy Pleasant), Karen Jay Fowler (author of Sister Noon, and Prof. Glenn Nance.
2.8.05 Are we ready for a flood of veterans returning from Iraq? With Michael Blecker (Swords to Plowshares), Rose Sutton (Next Step), Charlie Blythe (Program for Homeless Vets), Ricky Singh (Black Vets for Social Justice), and Iraq war veteran Wanda Borders.
2.7.05 Taboo, dissent, and freedom of expression. With science teacher Lisa Brosnick, veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas, filmmaker Debra Chasnoff, and cultural critic Richard Goldstein.
2.4.05 Media Roundtable: Rick MacArthur (Harper's), Russell Mokhiber (Corporate Crime Reporter), and John McManus (Grade the News).
2.3.05 What's the State of the Union where you live?
2.2.05 What makes for effective activism today? With Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, authors of Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism.
January 2005
2.1.05 The history of the hip hop generation. With Traci Bartlow, Jeff Chang (author of Can't Stop, Won't Stop), D.J. Kool Herc, and William Randolph (Black Resurgents).
1.31.05 Debating George Bush's economic plan: Daniel Altman (author of Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future v. Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute).
1.28.05 Media roundtable: Gail Chaddock (Christian Science Monitor), Jay Harris (Mother Jones), and Osama Siblani (Arab American News).
1.27.05 Journalist Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shah's Men talks about fifty years of U.S. interference in Iran.
1.26.05 Is it enough for the antiwar movement to say "troops out"? Brendan O'Neill (Spiked On-Line), Jonathan Schell (The Nation), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).
1.25.05 Young workers and Social Security. With Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Aurn Hoffman (Lead 21), and Ben Hubbard (Center for American Progress).
1.24.05 Blockbusters or Independents: What films do you think were the best of 2004? With film critic Gregory Weinkauf
1.21.05 Media Roundtable: Jamal Dajani (LinkTV Mosaic), Corine Lesnes (Le Monde), and Tara McKelvey (The American Prospect).
1.20.05 Talk back to the inauguration. With Carol Sobel (International ANSWER Coalition) and Sharon Gang (D.C. Mayor's Office).
1.19.05 Program preempted for KALW's Manager's Report to the Listeners.
1.18.05 Is it in the interest of the world's rich countries to forgive the debts of the poorest? With political economist Noreena Hertz, author of The Debt Threat: How debt is destroying the developing world and threatening us all.
1.17.05 How should the left move forward? With Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. [Rebroadcast]
1.14.05 Media Roundtable: Dahr Jamail (independent reporter in Iraq), Sam Smith (Progressive Review), and Alysia Tate (The Chicago Reporter).
1.13.05 Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of "Angels in America" and "Caroline, or Change."
1.12.05 Does the pro-choice movement need to rethink the value of fetal life? With Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for a Free Choice.
1.11.05 How do you find health insurance, and once you've got it, how do you make sure your insurer pays for your care? With Jerry Flanagan (Center for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights) and Anthony Wright (Health Access California).
1.10.05 The Palestinian elections: What difference will they make? With Said Erekat (Al Quds) and Danny Rubenstein (Ha'aretz).
1.7.05 Media Roundtable: Ali Abunimah (Electronic Intifada), Lou Dubose (Texas Observer), and Beth Fouhy (Associated Press).
1.6.05 American illusions, Iraqi reality. With Christian Parenti, author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq.
1.5.05 The political legacy of Shirley Chisholm.
1.4.05 Is environmentalism dead? With Adam Werbach, Director of the Common Assets Defense Fund and former President of the Sierra Club.
1.3.05 How should the left begin again? With Van Jones, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.
December 2004
12.31.04 Looking back at the year's news media, with Working for Change columnist Geov Parrish.
12.30.04 Beyond "rock en espanol": the wide world of pop, punk, techno, and hip-hop being recorded in Spanish. With Ana Machado & Jose Marquez of the San Francisco-based band Pepito, and d.j./music critic Ejival.
12.29.04 Bill Hicks: Radical funny. With Cynthia True, author of American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story.
12.27-28.04 No program.
12.24.04 Media Roundtable: Covering elections worldwide. With Hannah Allam (Knight-Ridder), Anna Badkhen (San Francisco Chronicle), and Andrew Gumbel (Independent of London).
12.23.04 San Francisco youth speak for themselves: What are the most important issues facing youth in the city? And which programs work to improve their lives? With Anthony Bell (YO! Youth Outlook), Debra Der (SF Youth Commission), and Dorian Salazar (Vision Youthz).
12.22.04 Open Line to Iraq: Everyday life under occupation. With Jabran Mansoor, Hiwa Osman, and Isam al-Khafaji.
12.21.04 How to protect your credit from reckless spending and aggressive corporate lenders. With Patrick McGeehan (New York Times), Erica Sandberg (Consumer Credit Counseling Services), and Steve Blackledge (CalPIRG).
12.20.04 Was Jesus a radical? And does the secular left want to hear the good news? With David Batstone (Sojourners magazine) and Rev. Emilee Whitehurst.
12.17.04 Media Roundtable: Jeff Cohen (Founder of FAIR), Mark Hosenball (Newsweek), David Lazarus (San Francisco Chronicle).
12.16.04 Videogames: What do they say about us?
12.15.04 Debating the future of Social Security. Olivia Mitchell (2001 President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security) vs. Mark Weisbrot (Social Security: The Phony Crisis), and Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA).
12.14.04 San Francisco and homelessness: Is "care not cash" working? With Jennifer Friedenback (Coalition on Homelessness), Dariush Kayhan (San Francisco Department of Human Services) and Jeff Kositsky (Community Housing Partnership).
12.13.04 Defending the right to vote, in Ohio & beyond, today & into the future. With Rep. Barbara Lee, Evan Davis (Pacifica Radio), and Stuart Comstock-Gay (National Voting Rights Institute).
12.10.04 Markos Moulitsas from the Daily Kos: Political blogs past, present and future.
12.9.04 Connecting people with disabilities and potential employers. With Patty Restaino (Women's Initiative for Self-Employment), Terry Goodwin (Arc of San Francisco), and Michael Takemura (Hewlett Packard).
12.8.04 Open line to Iraq: Is Iraq headed toward civil war? With Peter Galbraith (Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation), Laith Kubba (Iraqi National Group), and Saman Shali (Kurdish National Congress).
12.7.04 How to write a novel. With Chris Baty (National Novel Writing Month), Bridgett Davis (author of Shifting Through Neutral), and Danzy Senna (author of Caucasia).
12.6.04 Amos Oz: The acclaimed Israeli novelist and peace activist talks about his new book A Tale of Love and Darkness.
12.3.04 Media roundtable: Lane Greene (The Economist), Sandip Roy (Pacific News Service), and Antonia Zerbisias (Toronto Star).
12.2.04 AIDS and the politics of women's health: Why is the battle against HIV-AIDS failing women? With David Bryden (Global AIDS Alliance), Adrienne Germain (International Women's Health Coalition), and Marsha Martin (AIDS Action).
12.1.04 That funky dollar bill: What does it mean for us? With Steve Clemons (New America Foundation), Kenneth Kuttner (Oberlin College), and Michael Mussa (Institute for International Economics).
November 2004
11.30.04 Right-wingers and weed: Does medical marijuana divide the Bush coalition? With Mark Moller (Cato Institute), Marc Wheat (Subcommittee on Drug Policy), and Deroy Murdock (Atlas Economic Research Foundation).
11.29.04 Books, with San Francisco Chronicle book critic David Kipen.
11.24.04 Holiday movies, with New Times movie critic Gregory Weinkauf.
11.23.04 Backlash against the backdoor draft.
11.22.04 Bush's first four years: Energy policy. With David Lazarus (SF Chronicle), Dave Hamilton (Sierra Club), Peggy Maze Johnson (Nevada Citizen Alert), and Christine Real de Azua (American Wind Energy Association). [AUDIO NOT AVAILABLE]
11.19.04 Media Roundtable: Greg Mitchell (Editor & Publisher), Daniel Sneider (San Jose Mercury News), and Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal).
11.18.04 A stolen election, or long-term challenges to voting rights?
11.17.04 What next for the Democratic Party? With Rep. Brad Carson (D-OK), Michael Tomasky (The American Prospect), and Eric Mar (former member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee).
11.16.04 Filmmaker and novelist Neil Jordan, director of "The Crying Game" and author of "Shade: A Novel."
11.15.04 Yasser Arafat: A Palestinian Life. with Naseer Aruri (author of Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine), Beshara Doumani (author of Rediscovering Palestine), and Dan Ephron (Newsweek).
11.12.04 Media roundtable: Phillip Carter (Slate/Washington Monthly), Khaled Dawoud (Al-Ahram) and Robert Parry (ConsortiumNews.com).
11.11.04 Remembering the civilian veterans of war. With Gilbert Burnham (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), Zainab Salni (Women for Women International), and Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas (Women's Center for Legal Aid & Counseling).
11.10.04 Vollmann on Violence: Literary journalist William Vollmann talks about his new book Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means.
11.9.04 How do we build community from the bottom up? With Larry Best, Jill Kelly, and Judith Rosenberg.
11.8.04 Slow Food: What is it, why does it matter? With Michael Pollan and Alice Waters.
11.5.04 Media Roundtable: Xochitl Arellano (Univision), Ruth Conniff (The Progressive), and Andrew Gumbel (The Independent).
11.4.04 The anti-Bush coalition looks forward. With Simon Rosenberg (New Democrat Network), Jessica Tully (SlamBush), Tom McMahon (Democracy for America), Kevin Powell (author of Who's Gonna Take the Weight), and Naeem Mohaimen (Shobak.org).
11.3.04 The day after the vote: Were the votes counted? And what do they add up to? With Chellie Pingree, President of Common Cause and Ren Buchholz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
11.2.04 To the polls: Your experiences and your rights. With election protection attorney Leah Castella.
11.1.04 The World Speaks: Hear voices from Afghanistan, Mexico, Senegal, Turkey, Argentina, and Israel give their perspective on the U.S. election.
October 2004
10.29.04 Media Roundtable: Russ Baker (Guerrilla News Network), John Diaz (San Francisco Chronicle), and Kareem Fahim (Village Voice).
10.28.04 Gore Vidal reflects on the United States of Amnesia.
10.27.04 Planning for the day after the election. With Steven Hill (Center for Voting and Democracy), Jamie Raskin (American University), and Medea Benjamin (CodePink).
10.26.04 Defending the Black vote. With Melanie Campbell (National Coalition on Black Civic Participation), Nicoel rancisc (DNC), Angela Ciccolo (NAACP), and wrongly disenfranchised voter Sam Hayward.
10.25.04 The rest of the ballot: California's 16 propositions. With A.G. Block (California Journal) and Jean Ross (California Budget Project).
10.22.04 Media roundtable: Pratap Chatterjee (CorpWatch), Esther Kaplan (WBAI Radio), and Camille Taiara (SF Bay Guardian).
10.21.04 Operaganda: What can political theatre accomplish? With Eileen Myles and Michael Webster, librettist and composer of "Hell: The Opera" and Dan Chumley, director of the San Francisco production of "Laura's Bush".
10.20.04 Open Line to Iraq: When are soldiers right to say no? With Kim Sengupta (The Independent), Alex Neill (Army Times), and Paul Rieckhoff (Operation Truth).
10.19.04 How democratic is our democracy? With Steven Hill of the Center for Voting and Democracy.
10.18.04 China's environmental movement. With Chinese environmentalist Wen Bo and Melinda Kramerof Pacific Environment.
10.15.04 Media roundtable: Peter Grier (Christian Science Monitor), Naomi Klein (The Nation), and Roberto Lovato (Pacific News Service).
10.14.04 Talking back to the Bush-Kerry "domestic issues" debate. With Peter Edelman, Van Jones, and Dian Harrison.
10.13.04 How to choose fish that's safe for us and the environment. With Andy Peri of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project.
10.12.04 Debating the future of the Supreme Court. Sean Rushton of the right-wing Committee for Justice vs. Adam Shah of the Alliance for Justice.
10.11.04 Does the new Museum of the American Indian do justice to the history of Native Americans? With Vernon Bellecourt (American Indian Movement) and Bird Runningwater (Sundance Institute).
10.8.04 Media roundtable: David Bacon (Pacific News Service), Ramzy Baroud (Al Jazeera/Palestine Chronicle), and Fritz Wenzel (Toledo Blade).
10.7.04 Who votes -- and why? With Darnita Goodman, Charlotte Lagarde, and Anne Lewis.
10.6.04 What can the people fo Afghanistan expect from their Presidential election?
10.5.04 Prescriptions and profits. With Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and author of "The Truth About the Drug Companies."
10.5.04 Our monthly book show, featuring Ingrid Nystrom of Stacey's Books.
10.1.04 Media roundtable: Bruno Giussani (Swiss freelancer), Andrew Gumbel (UK Independent), and Your Call co-host Farai Chideya.
September 2004
9.30.04 Writer, actor, and director John Sayles talks about his new film "Silver City" and political storytelling in a time of lowered expectations.
9.29.04 Terry Gross, host of Fresh Air.
9.28.04 How to swing: Organizing to register and persuade voters in the states that will decide the November election.
9.27.04 Copyright and creativity, with Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig.
9.24.04 Media roundtable: Jon Lee Anderson (The New Yorker), John Nichols (The Nation), and Narda Zacchino (San Francisco Chronicle).
9.23.04 The Persians. What does Aeschylus's anti-war classic have to say to us 2500 years later? With Ellen McLaughlin.
9.22.04 Iraq: How bad is it? With Howard LaFranchi (Christian Science Monitor) and Eric Watkins (Iraqi Press Monitor).
9.21.04 The W. Effect: George W. Bush and Women. With journalist Richard Goldstein and Terry Evans (National Organization for Women).
9.20.04 Should progressives put their energy behind the Democrats? Counterpunch's Alexander Cockburn debates the American Prospect's Michael Tomasky.9.17.04 Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on his book "Chain of Command: From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib."
9.16.04 Naturalist Terry Tempest Williams talks about open space and democracy.
9.15.04 Aaron McGruder, creator of "The Boondocks."
9.14.04 How to make your home less toxic and more environmentally friendly. With Willem Maas (GreenHomeGuide), Jennifer Roberts ("Good Green Homes"), and sustainable architect Andrea Traber.
9.13.04 Framing progressive politics for victory. With linguist George Lakoff.
9.10.04 Dick Cheney: The man who is President. With John Nichols.
9.9.04 Cornel West on winning the fight for democracy and against imperialism.
9.8.04 Israel, Iran, and the neocons.
9.7.04 What election monitors do, how they make a difference, and how you can become one.
9.6.04 New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd (Rebroadcast).
9.3.04 Media roundtable: Margot Adler (NPR), Abderrahim Foukara (Al-Jazeera), and Rick Rowley (Big Noise Films).
9.2.04 How should the Democrats respond to the Republican National Convention? With Matt Bennett of the Democrats' convention "rapid response team."
9.1.04 What kind of Republican is Arnold Schwarzenegger? With Harold Meyerson (American Prospect), John Wildermuth (San Francisco Chronicle), and GOP media consultant Bill Whalen.
August 2004
8.31.04 Police, media, and the right to protest at the RNC in NYC. With Jeff Gruebler (Ronald REagan Home for the Criminally Insane), Moria Holland, Donna Lieberman (NYCLU), and Olga Vives (NOW).
8.30.04 How big is the GOP tent? With Roberta Combs (Christian Coalition), Scott McConnell (American Conservative magazine), Anne Stone (Republicans for Choice) and Ian Walters (American Conservative Union).
8.27.04 Media Roundtable: Kyle Johnson (Radio Free Silver) Brian Montopoli (Columbia Journalism Review Campaign Desk), and Anna Maria Tremonti (CBC Radio).
8.26.04 Accountabiliy in Darfur. With Paul Norton (International Organization for Migration), Samantha Power (author of "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide), and Kathy Ward (International Crisis Group).
8.25.04 Teachers Get Ready. With Dennis Kelly (United Educators of San Francisco), Greg Peters (Leadership High School), and Ben Visnick (Oakland Education Association).
8.24.04 Forces in motion: the Bush plan to redeploy US troops abroad. With Carl Conetta of the Project on Defense Alternatives, former Undersecretary of the Army Delbert Spurlock, independent strategic analyst Ehsan Ahrari, and Chris Hellman of the Center for Arms Control and Proliferation.
8.23.04 Burning Man and the good society. With Larry Harvey, Howard Rheingold, and Dave Cooper of the Bureau of Land Management.
8.19.04 Shockwaves from Najaf. With Hannah Allam, Knight-Ridder Baghdad bureau chief, and Abbas Kadhim, Najaf native and scholar of Islamic theology and politics.
8.20.04 Media Roundtable: Rekha Basu (Des Moines Register), Robert Hodierne (Army Times), and Jim Naureckas (Extra!).
8.19.04 Shockwaves from Najaf. With Hannah Allam, Knight-Ridder Baghdad bureau chief, and Abbas Kadhim, Najaf native and scholar of Islamic theology and politics.
8.18.04 California tort wars: Debating proposition 64. With David Huston (Yes on 64), Carmen Balber (Election Watchdog), and Steven Blackledge (CalPIRG).
8.17.04 How to survive in the music industry. With Tony Espinoza (SF Soundworks), Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys), and Johnny Cragg (Spacehog).
8.16.04 Women and the fertility industry.
8.13.04 Media Roundtable: Michelle Goldberg (Salon), Tina James-Tafoya (National Native News), and Michael Massing (New York Review of Books).
8.12.04 Maureen Dowd, author of Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk..
8.11.04 Paul Krugman, economist and New York Times columnist.
8.10.04 Debating the future of Section 8. With Howard Husock (author of The Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake and Barbara Sard (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities).
8.9.04 Venezuela's referendum on President Hugo Chavez.
8.6.04 Media Roundtable: Marcus Mabry (Newsweek) and David Puente (ABC News).
8.5.04 Women and ambition, with psychiatrist Anna Fels.
8.4.04 Civil disobedience: When is it appropriate? And what makes it effective? With attorney and activist Katya Komisaruk, and Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace.
8.3.04 Defending freedom in the digital domain. With Shari Steele and Katina Bishop of the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
8.2.04 Our monthly book show with David Kipen.
July 2004
7.30.04 The Friday Media Roundtable with Naeem Mohaiemen of shobak.org and altmuslim.com and Peter Hart from FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
7.29.04 From the Democratic National Convention: Convention Wrap-Up with both of our hosts, Laura Flanders and Farai Chideya
7.28.04 From the Democratic National Convention: Who's Yer Daddy, Senator Kerry? with Derek Willis of the Center for Public INtegiry, Micah Sifry of Public Campaign and Kenny Diggs from Voices for Working Families
7.27.04 From the Democratic National Convention: What is Good Security? With Rep. Lynn Woolsey, Linda Burnham from the Women of Color Resource Center and Erik Weaver
7.26.04 From the Democratic National Convention: What Do You Want from Your President? with Jim Hightower and Prof. Steffen Schmidt
7.23.04 The Friday Media Roundtable with John Grebe of the Boston Social Forum and Voices of Dissent, from the SF Weekly, Staff Columnist Matt Smith and Brian Montopoli from The Campaign Desk of the Columbia Journalism Review
7.22.04 The Boston Social Forum with Jason Pramas, organizer of the Forum, poet, professor and peace worker Dennis Brutus and Winona LaDuke, indigenous people's advocate and former vice-presidential candidate
7.21.04 Open Line to Iraq: Humanitarian Workers in a Changed and Dangerous World with Nathaniel Raymond of OXFAM America, Michelle Kendall of CARE International in Kabul and "John" a humanitarian worker in Iraq
7.20.04 Get Your Meditation On with Angel Kyodo Williams
7.19.04 Saving the Oceans with David Helvarg of the Blue Frontier Campaign and Rod Fujita with Environmental Defense
7.16.04 The Media Roundtable with Salon.com Washington Correspondent Mary Jacoby and Sacramento Bee columnist and author Peter Schrag
7.15.04Summer Farmer's Market show with the director of the Heart of the City Farmer's Market, Christine Adams and founder of the California Federation of Certified Farmer's Markets, Randii Macnear
7.14.04 Campaigning Behind Enemy Lines with Kyle DeBeers, the executive director of the Wyoming Democratic Party and Tim O'Brien, communications director for the Massahusetts Republican Party.
7.13.04 Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pablo Neruda with the director of a new documentary Pablo Neruda Presente!, Mark Eisner and the composer of the film's soundtrack, Quique Cruz.
7.12.04 Just How Radical an Anti-Corporate Candidate Is John Edwards Anyway? With Darren McKinney from the National Association of Manufacturers, Robert Lezner from Forbes Magazine and Chris Kromm of Southern Exposure Magazine
7.09.04 Media Roundtable: Dana King from KPIX, Jamal Dajani from Mosaic and the managing editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader John Voskuhl
7.08.04 Politics, science and the International Conference on AIDS. With Jody Jacobsen and Dr. David Olson of Doctors Without Borders
7.07.04 What are our troops coming home to? with Steve Robinson of the National Gulf War Resource Center, Nancy Ecker of Blue Star Moms, and Bill Mitchell of Military Families Speak Out.
7.06.04 Debating the disaster in Darfur. Abdel Bagi Kabeir of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington v. Jemera Rone of Human Rights Watch.
7.05.04 A conversation on media and democracy with Bill Moyers.
7.02.04 Media Roundtable: David Lazarus (San Francisco Chronicle) and Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal)
7.01.04 What's the DNC done for LGBT? With Dave Noble, Matt Foreman, Chris Barron and Kathy Kelly
June 2004
6.30.04 What are your rights when you're questioned or detained by the police? With Jonathan Simon and Frank Zimring.
6.29.04 Searching for peace in Israel/Palestine. With Professor Tanya Reinhart.
6.28.04 Women v. Wal-Mart.
6.25.04 Media Roundtable: Beth Fouhy (Associated Press), Rick Salutin (Globe & Mail), and Demetri Sevastopulo (Financial Times).
6.24.04 What makes an effective political film? With Jahene Noujaim, Director of The Control Room, Mark Achbar, Director of The Corporation and Jonathan Curiel of the San Francisco Chronicle.
6.23.04 Iraq's economy in transition. With Pratap Chatterjee (Corpwatch), Steven Susens (Coalition Provisional Authority) and Svetlana Tsalik (Iraq Revenue Watch).
6.22.04 Politics and the non-fundamentalist faithful. With Rabbi Michael Lerner, Imam Faheem Shuaibe, and Rev. Byron Williams.
6.21.04 The truth about jobs. With economists Eric Engen and Ellen Frank.
6.18.04 Media Roundtable: Clara Jeffery (Mother Jones), Michael Massing (New York Review Books), and Fritz Wenzel (Toledo Blade).
6.17.04 Is it time to champion secularism in public life? With Michael Newdow and Susan Jacoby.
6.16.04 The National Hip Hop Political Convention. With Chuck D, Kate Rhee, and Wyclef Jean..
6.15.04 Fit and fat? With Wendy Shanker, author of The Fat Girl's Guide to Life.
6.14.04 Cindy & Craig Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie, the International Solidarity Movement activist killed by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip.
6.11.04 Media Roundtable: Aura Bogado (Free Speech Radio News), Jonathan Curiel (San Francisco Chronicle), and Joe Strupp (Editor & Publisher).
6.10.04 Women and ambition. With Anna Fels.
6.9.04 The interim Iraqi government: who's who in its leadership, what are its powers, and how can it be sovereign under foreign occupation? With Juan Cole, Corrine Lesnes, and Saad Maliki.
6.8.04 Getting real about the Reagan record.
6.7.04 Debating biotech. With Val Giddings and Andrew Kimbrell.
6.4.04 Media Roundtable: Joe Feuerherd (National Catholic Reporter), Jane Mayer (New Yorker), and Brenda Payton (Oakland Tribune).
6.3.04 World Environment Day 2005: Green Cities. With Jared Blumenfeld and Brennan Van Dyke.
6.2.04 Debating Haiti. With Marguerite Laurent and James Morrell.
6.1.04 Ben Cohen on showing George the door in 2004.
May 2004
5.31.04 Books with Pat Holt. Featuring William Pryor, author of "Survival of the Coolest: An Addiction Memoir."
5.28.04 Media Roundtable: Jen Banbury (Salon.com), Khaled Dawoud (Al-Ahram), and Dion Nissenbaum (San Jose Mercury News).
5.27.04 Noam Chomsky. American hegemony or human survival?
5.26.04 Soldiers' stories from Iraq. With Sgt. Jimmy Massey, Sgt. Matthew Fontes, and Lieutenant Paul Rieckhoff.
5.25.04 Robert Reich. Why liberals will win.
5.24.04 Women making peace in conflict zones. With Patricia Smith Melton and Huwaida Arraf.
5.21.04 Media Roundtable: Aaron Glantz (Free Speech Radio News), Jill Nelson (MSNBC.com), and Gail Sheehy (New York Observer).
5.20.04 Is the United States doomed to repeat the mistakes of past imperial powers in the Middle East? With Rashid Khalidi.
5.19.04 Cosmetic surgery: personal choices and social implications. With Deborah Sullivan.
5.18.04 Arianna Huffington. Visionary politics and the single women's vote.
5.17.04 Creating educational equality, 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education.
5.14.04 Media Roundtable: Michelle Goldberg (Salon.com) Nathan Guttman (Ha'aretz), and Mark Silva (Orlando Sentinel).
5.13.04 The Hip Mama Guide to Raising a Teenager. With Ariel Gore and Maia Swift.
5.12.04 Race, power, and the war in Iraq. With Hussein Ibish and Robert Jensen.
5.11.04 Ashcroft v. Greenpeace. Why is Greenpeace being charged with a federal crime last prosecuted in 1890?
5.10.04 A conversation with Bill Moyers.
5.7.04 Program preempted by live coverage of Donald Rumsfeld's appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
5.6.04 How to Get Out of Iraq. With Gen. William Odom, Peter Galbraith, and Erik Gustafson.
5.5.04 Challenging Brown v. Board of Education. With Derrick Bell.
5.4.04 Armistead Maupin talks about his transformation from right-wing Vietnam vet to chronicler of gay liberation.
5.3.04 Who is John Kerry? With the Boston Globe's Michael Kranish.
April 2004
4.30.04 Media roundtable: Sandip Roy (Pacific News Service), David Savage (LA Times), Melissa Segars (Madison Capital Times).
4.29.04 Greg Palast vs. the vote-stealers.
4.28.04 Occupation for Hire: Why are there so many hired guns in Iraq? And what are they up to?
4.27.04 Sex, work, AIDS, and the porn industry.
4.26.04 Renegade pro-tax Republicans in Virginia: Are they a bellwether for a change in the politics of taxation nationwide?
4.23.04 Media Roundtable: Pratap Chatterjee (Corpwatch.org), Nikki Finke (LA Weekly), Andrew Gumbel (The Independent).
4.22.04 A march for the lives of all women? Audio not available.
4.21.04 How can environmentalists put their issues on the political agenda in 2004? With David Orr.
4.20.04 After ten years of democracy, where is South Africa headed? With Patrick Bond and Daniel Ngwepe.
4.19.04 Books with Pat Holt. This month's recommendations.
4.16.04 Media Roundtable: James Cusick (Sunday Herald, Glasgow), Jamal Dajani (WorldLinkTV), and Richard Wolffe (Newsweek).
4.15.04 Common Cause President Chellie Pingree.
4.14.04 Open Line to Iraq. With Newsday Middle East bureau chief Mohamad Bazzi and author/activist Rahul Mahajan.
4.13.04 The legacy of musical revolutionary Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
4.12.04 In the lead-up to the April 25th March for Women's Lives, what are the legal threats to reproductive choice?
4.9.04 Media Roundtable: Adam Davidson (Marketplace), Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!), and Carolyn Lochhead (San Francisco Chronicle).
4.8.04 Is the Bush-Cheney White House even more secretive than Nixon's? With John Dean.
4.7.04 Life on the Outside. With Elaine Bartlett and Jennifer Gonnerman.
4.6.04 Every Child Is Born a Poet. With Piri Thomas and Rico Pabon.
4.5.04 9/11 and principled leadership. With Mel Goodman and Andrew Rice.
4.2.04 The GOP vs. MoveOn, et al.
4.1.04 Subversive cartoonists. With Alison Bechdel ("Dykes to Watch Out For") and David Rees ("Get Your War On").
March 2004
3.31.04 Open line to Iraq. With Naomi Klein.
3.30.04 The working poor. With David Shipler.
3.29.04 Free markets, democracy, and ethnic conflict. With Amy Chua.
3.26.04 9/11 & U.S. Empire. With Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.
3.25.04 The truth about taxes. With David Cay Johnston.
3.24.04 Same-sex couples and the law.
3.23.04 The end of the oil economy? With Richard Heinberg.
3.22.04 Protesting war and occupation in Iraq, a year on.
3.19.04 Media roundtable: Lindsey Hilsum (ITN Channel Four News), Michael Scherer (Mother Jones) and Hani Shukrallah (Al Ahram).
3.18.04 Workers and worldsourcing. Do progressives need to change their response to outsourcing?
3.17.04 Rhodessa Jones & Idris Ackamoor discuss "The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women."
3.16.04 Genetically modified organisms: To ban or not to ban.
3.15.04 Philosopher Peter Singer on the ethics of President George W. Bush.
3.12.04 Media roundtable: Mark Danner (The New Yorker), David Lazarus (San Francisco Chronicle), and Cynthia Moothart (In These Times).
3.11.04 Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky talks about his remix manifesto Rhythm Science.
3.10.04 Are the military and the Veterans Administration prepared for the wave of servicemembers returning from Iraq?
3.9.04 Striking back at three strikes.
3.8.04 Is marriage the answer -- or the issue? With Lisa Duggan and Kay Whitlock.
3.5.04 Media roundtable: Harrison Chastang (KPOO-FM), Charlie Cobb (AllAfrica.com) and Hendrik Hertzberg (The New Yorker).
3.4.04 Haiti: After the coup. With Nicole Lee, Melinda Miles, and Lawrence Pezzullo.
3.3.04 The Buying of the President. With Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity.
3.2.04 Democracy and the Palestinians. With Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi.
3.1.04 Laura Flanders talks about her new book Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species.
February 2004
2.27.04 Media roundtable: Ami Eden (The Forward), Steven Rosenfeld (TomPaine.com), and Tali Woodward (San Francisco Bay Guardian).
2.26.04 Who votes hip hop? With Dereca Blackmon, Billy Upski, and Jahi.
2.25.04 Is Iraq headed for a women's rights crisis?
2.24.04 Crisis in Haiti: Looking for answers.
2.23.04 Historian Barbara Ransby talks about Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision.
2.20.04 Media Roundtable: Andrew Buncombe (Independent of London), Muzamil Jaleel (Indian Express), and Christian Parenti (The Nation).
2.19.04 Lynne Cox talks about her memoir Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer.
2.18.04 Marriage equality shout-out. The voices of the people who made history by getting married in San Francisco.
2.17.04 Can progressives reframe the political debate? With George Lakoff.
2.16.04 Wal-Mart wars. What power do communities have to say no?
2.13.04 Media roundtable. Pratap Chatterjee (CorpWatch), Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal), and Antonia Zerbisias (Toronto Star).
2.12.04 Agricultural system gone mad. With Richard Manning.
2.11.04 The state of workers' rights in occupied Iraq.
2.10.04 Pills, profits, protest. Can the world afford treatment for 40 million people with HIV-AIDS?
2.10.04 HIV-AIDS activism around the globe.
2.9.04 It's 2004: Do you know where U.S. troops are? With William Arkin.
2.6.04 Media Roundtable: Gail Chaddock (Christian Science Monitor), Bob Egelko (San Francisco Chronicle), and Osama Siblani (Arab American News).
2.5.04 TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson talks about Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from his Native Land.
2.4.04 An epidemic of autism?
2.3.04 The black vote, Al Sharpton, and the GOP. With Wayne Barrett.
2.2.04 Books with Pat Holt. This month's recommendations.
January 2004
1.30.04 Media Roundtable: John Cassidy (The New Yorker), Joe Conason (Salon.com), and Khaled Dawoud (Al-Ahram).
1.29.04 What is independent film today? With Peter Biskind, David Rosen, and Jeff Ross.
1.28.04 Carol Moseley Braun. The one-time presidential candidate and her campaign manager Patricia Ireland.
1.27.04 Who is profiting in occupied Iraq? With Naomi Klein and Isam al Khafaji.
1.26.04 Reconsidering the War on Poverty, with Frances Fox Piven and Peter Edelman. Encore presentation.
1.23.04 Media roundtable: Richard Benedetto (USA Today), Kareem Fahim (Village Voice), and Corine Lesnes (Le Monde).
1.22.04 Telling abortion stories, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
1.21.04 Debating the "war on terror." Neocon David Frum vs. libertarian James Bovard.
1.20.04 Where do the Democrats stand on the issues? With John Nichols.
1.19.04 The State of Social Activism: How has organizing changed since the time of Martin Luther King?
1.16.04 Media roundtable: Marcelo Ballve (Pacific News Service), Noah Shachtman (WiredNews), and Alysia Tate (Chicago Reporter).
1.15.04 Good green homes, with Jennifer Roberts.
1.14.04 Open line to Iraq: Which way to self-rule?
1.13.04 Marketing higher education, with David Kirp.
1.12.04 The revolution will be advertised.
1.9.04 Media Roundtable: Edward Gomez (SFGate), Pilar Marrero (La Opinion), and Anna Maria Tremonti (CBC Radio).
1.8.04 Reconsidering the War on Poverty, with Frances Fox Piven.
1.7.04 Political satirist Charlie Varon.
1.6.04 Debating the Clinton economic legacy, with Paul Krugman.
1.5.04 Zapatista Reckoning.
1.2.04 Dissident Diplomats: John Brady Kiesling & John Brown.
1.1.04 Isabel Allende: Chile, history, and remembering.
December 2003
12.31.03 Jill Nelson: Sexual Healing.
12.30.03 A debate on mad cow disease, featuring Howard Lyman.
12.29.03 Subhankar Banerjee's controversial photos of Alaska's wild lands.
12.26.03 Walter Mosley: A memoir toward world peace.
12.23.03 The year in civil liberties, with David Cole.
12.22.03 Making the most of end-of-the-year giving.
12.19.03 Media Roundtable: Brenda Payton (Oakland Tribune), Richard Wolffe (Newsweek), and Michael Scherer (Mother Jones).
12.18.03 Rupert Murdoch's alchemy of profit and power.
12.17.03 Open line to Iraq.
12.16.03 Environmental year-in review, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
12.15.03 How can San Francisco's progressives build on the Matt Gonzales campaign?