Location:
San Francisco, United States
Networks:
KALW
Description:
KALW's call-in show: Politics and culture, dialogue and debate.
Language:
English
Episodes
New film shows Bay Area early child care providers' fight for fair pay
5/2/2024
Make A Circle follows several Bay Area child care providers as they work to keep their doors open and advocate for better pay and benefits.
Duration:00:52:06
Can mindfulness practices in schools improve student wellbeing?
5/1/2024
For many students, the pressure to academically succeed starts young. Are mindfulness tools, the answer to helping students to curb stress?
Duration:00:52:11
How Flight Attendants Led The Fight for Workplace Equity
4/30/2024
Since the 1920’s, women have used the flight attendant profession to live and travel independently. A new film documents their fight for gender and racial equity.
Duration:00:52:07
How one company is buying up rural Arizona farmland to sell the water
4/29/2024
In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town—and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away.
Duration:00:23:08
How the food industry is cashing in on the anti-diet movement
4/29/2024
A Washington Post & Examination News investigation details how food companies are exploiting the “anti-diet” movement to promote ultra-processed foods
Duration:00:28:37
Universities intensify crack down on the growing pro-Palestine protests
4/26/2024
Protests and encampments against the war in Gaza are continuing to grow on college campuses across the US, despite hundreds of arrests and crackdowns.
Duration:00:52:02
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
4/24/2024
Dr. Uché Blackstock's new book is "as much about my work and awakening as a physician as it is a call to reimagine who we are as a country."
Duration:00:52:01
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
4/23/2024
In their new book, Dr. Jenn Jackson shines a light on the central role of Black women in liberation movements, both in US history and their own life.
Duration:00:51:24
Inside the private security forces patrolling California’s homeless
4/19/2024
A new CalMatters investigation finds that governments, nonprofits, and businesses are increasingly hiring private guards to patrol homeless shelters and street encampments.
Duration:00:26:16
FRONTLINE chronicles the search for Ukraine's missing children
4/19/2024
Children of Ukraine, a Frontline documentary, examines how thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken and held in Russian-controlled territory.
Duration:00:25:36
A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
4/18/2024
David Mas Masumoto's new book tells the story of his aunt, who was taken as a "ward of the state" in 1942. Seventy years later, Masumoto finds out his aunt is alive.
Duration:00:52:01
San Francisco Women Against Rape's 50th Anniversary
4/16/2024
50 years ago, a group of women created San Francisco Women Against Rape, an organization led by survivors. In 2024, the work they do is more important than ever.
Duration:00:52:05
Until the End of the World documentary investigates the fish farming industry
4/15/2024
Until the End of the World, a documentary following journalistic investigation into the fish farming industry across three continents
Duration:00:52:04
Sudan’s humanitarian crisis, as war nears 1-year anniversary
4/12/2024
Over the past year, the war in Sudan has killed nearly 16,000 people, displaced millions, and triggered the world's largest hunger crisis
Duration:00:23:29
Inside the conspiracy to take down wind and solar power
4/12/2024
As the effects of climate change become irrefutable, the oil and gas industry has employed a number of tactics to block or delay climate action.
Duration:00:28:34
Health workers back from Gaza: we've never seen so many dead children
4/11/2024
More than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed during the US-backed Israeli assault since October 7. More than 13,000 of those deaths are children.
Duration:00:52:08
Advocates in GOP states fight laws banning abortion, books & DEI
4/10/2024
Republicans on AZ's Supreme Court reinstated an 1864 abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest. This follows FL's high court, which allowed a six-week ban.
Duration:00:52:19
Dr. Peter Hotez on The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science
4/9/2024
In his new book, Dr. Hotez writes, "I'm fearful for the future of our scientific institutions. We must restore the people's trust in science and scientists."
Duration:00:51:59
The fight against the illegal orca trade
4/8/2024
The new documentary Orca: Black & White Gold exposes the illegal trade in endangered wild orcas caught in Russia and sold to China, all fueled by US business practices.
Duration:00:25:42
Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power
4/8/2024
The documentary Blue Carbon explores the power of coastal ecosystems to absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than tropical rainforests.
Duration:00:26:23