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KPFK - Beneath The Surface

Suzi Weissman•kpfk.org
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Sunday, February 10, 2019 - The State of the Economy is NOT Strong

Guest: Robert Brenner Robert Brenner on politics and the state of the economy ''' matters of great confusion if you read the Business pages and hear the politicians, all touting how robust the economy is with record low unemployment, rising wages, the recovery of the stock market. But -- the Fed stopped raising interest rates, wages are stagnant, precarity and insecurity are the norm, homelessness has exploded, student debt is staggering and suffocating -- and teachers are striking to force stat...

Feb 10, 2019•1 hr

Sunday, January 20, 2019 - LAUSD District 5 election, charter schools, UTLA strike

Guest: Jackie Goldberg, Eric Blanc Jackie Goldberg, former teacher, member of the School Board, City Council and State Assembly is now running in the March 5th special election to the LAUSD School Board. If elected, Jackie will be an experienced and effective progressive voice for public education, opposing the charter allies elected with money from the '''bankrollers [who] have stacked the deck against district public schools.''' We talk to Jackie about the strike, the fight to save public educ...

Jan 20, 2019•1 hr

Sunday, January 13, 2019 - UTLA Strike; Burning Up: fossil fuel consumption

Guest: Arlene Inouye, Simon Pirani Arlene Inouye, Secretary of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) and Co-Chair of the Negotiations Team on how important the LAUSD strike, beginning January 14, is for public education, indeed, for the public. UTLA is demanding that LAUSD negotiate a fair agreement that addresses class size, funding for nurses, librarians, a halt to further privatization through charterization, and teacher pay -- or face teachers on picket lines. After the spectacular Red S...

Jan 13, 2019•1 hr

Sunday, December 30, 2018 - Fires reinforcing existing socioeconomic inequality

Guest: Mike Davis, Meleiza Figueroa, Steve Breedlove At year'''s end we look at the fires that ravaged California, and the aftermath ''' which as urban theorist Mike Davis reminds us, reinforces the socioeconomic inequalities that already characterize this nation-state of 40 million people. Mike Davis looks at the Paradise and Malibu conflagrations, the Tale of Two Fires first aired on November 18. Then UC Berkeley grad student and activist Meleiza Figueroa, who lives part time in Chico, near Pa...

Dec 30, 2018•1 hr
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