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Jarvis-Gann alert
KPFA’s Helen Mickiewicz produced this news program examining the bill cutting property taxes and services in California, known as Proposition 13. Cheryl McDonald examines how the Jarvis-Gann Amendment has adversely affected educational services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wendell Harper reports on the mass layoffs of public employees in Alameda County. Joanne Mar looks…
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Seamus Heaney, poet / interviewed by Padraigin McGillicuddy. (Episode 1 of 2)
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The tracks of my tears: women on heroin / produced by Ginny Z. Berson
According to some sources, heroin use by women has tripled in the last decade. Why? Is “the life” different for women? What about recovery programs? Is the problem the illegality of heroin or the drug itself? This program was inspired by the book “Women on Heroin,” by Marsha Rosenbaum. Ginny Z. Berson talks with Sheila…
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Moscone-Milk newscast
KPFA news broadcast from 27 November, 1978, which covered the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, as well as a story on the Jonestown Massacre, the defeat of Japanese Prime Minister Fukuta, and the Supreme Court ruling on journalists withholding information. Louis Freedberg, announcer. This broadcast won the 1979 award…
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Ancient sources : Irish myth / Susan Porter and Brenden O’Hehir (Episode 5 of 7) ; produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy.
Irish mythological tales were part of a highly developed oral tradition consisting of four major cycles, and preserved by a highly revered caste of poets. With the destruction of the old aristocratic Gaelic order, this poetic tradition became the province of the peasantry, and as such was brought to the New World. Susan Porter was…
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Cancer / produced by Michael Singsen and Peggy Stein. (Episode 3 of 5)
Cancer–it can be caused by the work we do. But how much? What causes it? Who is to blame? What is safe exposure to a carcinogen? What is OSHA’s involvement? Heard in this report are Dr. Samuel Epstein, professor of occupational medicine at the University of Illinois Medical School and author of Politics Of Cancer;…
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Genetic hazards / produced by Michael Singsen and Mary Shinoff. (Episode 4 of 5)
How do the jobs we do affect our unborn generations? What are genetic toxins? How can we protect our children? Why is this not just a women’s issue? How can this issue be used to discriminate against women in the workplace? This program explores all of these topics, plus the American Cyanamid Plant in Willow…