Graceland ultimately became one of the most successful albums of Paul Simon’s career. It sold 14 million albums, and won the Album of the Year Grammy in 1987. While it turned a new generation of fans on to the music of South Africa, Simon was often criticized that the songs...
As The All Souls Forum continues its hiatus, we forge on with our Controlling Corporate Power Conference. Last week ended with the beginning of the Holding Corporations Accountable for their Crimes panel discussion, and this week, we pick up right where we left off, starting with Kansas City's Bill Black - Professor, University...
Greg Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic and The New York Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the soon to be released Billionaires & Ballot Bandits – Election Games 2012. In 1996, Greg Palast filmed the first investigation of the Koch brothers. In 2000, Palast...
Occupy!!! a readers theater perspective: written by Mary Rudge, poet laureate of Alameda, brings together community voices and activism. Mary Rudge has captured a myriad of views about the Occupy movement performed by 25 diverse, intergenerational, Bay Area poets ages,10-80 .
In this special edition of A World of Possibilities, two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of purpose - to use their unique sensibilities and life experiences to help heal a species and planet grievously...
Jimmy Porter is one of the stage’s most iconic misanthropes. He's the original “angry young man” in John Osborne’s classic play, Look Back in Anger: a portrait of the dreams and the disillusionment of three young Londoners in the mid-1950s. As Jimmy relentlessly harangues his wife Alison and their best...
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed Over Boycott of Israeli Goods We follow up on the Olympia Food Co-op lawsuit filed over boycott of Israeli goods earlier this year. For listeners unfamiliar with the case, a judge in Olympia, Washington dismissed a lawsuit tailored to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its...
A shelf of old recordings from the San Diego Folk Festival has been unearthed from the Pacifica Radio Archives including folk music, including country blues, 1950's country western, African and reggae. The musicians performing at the festival including some amazing names like Rose Maddox, Patsy Montana, Lydia Mendoza, and The...
