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“There’s a bond the listener forms with you. They hear you every morning — it becomes part of their life.”
After 16 years of Letters & Politics, Mitch Jeserich joins Cat Brooks for a farewell conversation on Law & Disorder.
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Mitch Jeserich, in one of his final Letters & Politics shows, talks with economist Richard Wolff about the decline of empire, the rise of fascism, and why independent media like KPFA matters more than ever.

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FCC Censorship and Free Speech at UC Berkeley | KPFA I. First Amendment in Question, Censorship and the Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension.  Guest: Craig Aaron is the president and co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action.   II. UC Berkeley Shares Students and...

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes Craig Aaron of Free Press Action & #Berkeley Prof Hatem Baziam to discuss the Trump 2.0 #FCC overreach against broadcasters & #UCBerkeley 's collusion with the govt against the #PalestineSolidarity movement

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Ayn Rand’s legacy lives on — in greed, cruelty, and the myth that the rich deserve everything.

Lisa Dugan joins Letters & Politics to unpack it all.

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The Empire of Artificial Intelligence | KPFA Guest: Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. She writes for publications including The Atlantic and leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotli...

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes @karenhao.bsky.social, author of #EmpireOfAI: Dreams and Nightmares in #SamAltman’s #OpenAI

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The Power of Agricultural Industry | KPFA Guest: Will Potter is an award-winning investigative journalist who focuses on social justice and environmental movements, and attacks on civil liberties post-9/11.  He is the author of Green Is the N...

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes investigative journalist @willpotter.bsky.social, author of #LittleRedBarns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable

#factoryFarms #factoryFarming #CAFOs #crueltyToAnimals #BigAg #AgGagLaws #lawfare #USpol #animalWelfare #meatIndustry #books

Karl Marx's Influence in the US | KPFA Guest: Andrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for...

"Those [ #1848revolutions ] failed [...] and #Marx and many [exiles] ended up in London, but many of them ended up in the United States and they become known as the #48ers..."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #AndrewHartman, author of #KarlMarxInAmerica

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The Military Response to Sanctuary Cities & Immigrant's Right to Work | KPFA Guest: David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer. His work focuses on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. He has written several books ...

#LettersAndPolitics talks w/ author, photographer & #immigrantRights activist #DavidBacon about #Trump's military response to #SanctuaryCities & immigrants' right to work

#USpol #LAprotests #ICE #ICEraids #stateRepression #policeViolence #deportations #LAresists

Trump Deployment of the National Guard to LA | KPFA Guests:  Sonali Kolhatkar is an award winning journalist, broadcaster, writer, and author. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali that airs at KPFK, KPFA and the Pac...

#LettersAndPolitics looks at #Trump's deployment of the #NationalGuard to quell the #LAprotests over #ICEraids

guests: Ben Camacho, Sonali Kolhatkar, Marjorie Cohn, Mohamed Shehk

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A History of Indian Boarding Schools in America | KPFA Guest: Mary Annette Pember is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe. She is currently national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today.  She is the recipient of several...

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes @mapember.bsky.social, national correspondent for ICT News, and author of #MedicineRiver: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of #IndianBoardingSchools

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #colonialViolence #memoirs #books

The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company | KPFA Guest: William Dalrymple is the author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire.

The Corporate Origins of #Colonialism: The #EastIndiaCompany

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #WilliamDalrymple, author of #TheAnarchy: The East India Company, #CorporateViolence, and the Pillage of an Empire

#India #ColonialIndia #BritishEmpire #colonialViolence #charteredCompanies #books

When Workers Shot Back | KPFA Guest: Robert Ovetz is a lecturer in Political Science and Public Administration at San José State University. He writes about the politics of the labor movement, work, and the crisis of capitalism at...

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921

#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes historian #GregGrandin to talk about his latest book, #AmericaAmérica: A New #History of the New World

#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #books

Met my fav local public radio host togay and totally geeked out lol. Love me some @kpfa.org #LettersAndPolitics

Deportations and the Abuse of War Time Powers | KPFA Guests: Raquel E. Aldana is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis.  Professor Aldana teaches criminal procedure, asylum and refugee law, immigration law and po...

#Deportations & the Abuse of #WarTimePowers

#LettersAndPolitics speaks w/ law professor Raquel E. Aldana & historian Miguel Tinker Salas

#AlienEnemiesAct #StateRepression #ImmigrantRights #USpol #CivilRights #MassDeportations #MAGA #Trump

The Irish Potato Famine and Its Consequences | KPFA Guest: Padraic X. Scanlan is an associate professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is t...

#LettersAndPolitics via @kpfa.org | The #IrishPotatoFamine and its Consequences

guest: Padraic X. Scanlan, author of Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine

#GreatFamine #Ireland #IrishHistory #imperialism #BritishImperialism #colonialViolence #famines #books

The Second Red Scare & Political Deportations | KPFA Guest: Michelle Chen is a postdoctoral fellow in history at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She teaches labor and working-class history, studies the intersection of work, migrati...

#LettersAndPolitics via @kpfa.org | The #SecondRedScare

guest: Michelle Chen, postdoctoral fellow in history @ Cornell School of Industrial & Labor Relations

#MassDeportations #UShistory #AmericanHistory #ContemporaryHistory #ColdWar #StateRepression #CivilLiberties

The Intellectual Life of Frederick Douglas | KPFA Guest: David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University.  He is the author of several books on Slavery and Abolition including, Frederick Douglass: Prop...

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #DavidWBlight, author of #FrederickDouglassProphetOfFreedom

#FrederickDouglass #abolition #abolitionism #abolitionists #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #books #biographies

The Impact of the Trump's Immigration Executive Orders | KPFA Host Mitch Jeserich explains the executive orders on immigration signed by president Trump on Day 1 of his administration. Guest: Pedro Rios is the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s...

#LettersAndPolitics' Mitch Jeserich explores the history of #BirthrightCitizenship, from the #ColoredConventionsMovement to the #14thAmendment, and talks w/ Pedro Rios, director of the AFSC's US-Mexico Border Program about #Trump's #ExecutiveOrders on #immigration

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#JosephineBaker: Anti-Fascist Spy

Mitch Jeserich talks with #DamienLewis, author of #AgentJosephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

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