SF Bay Area

Interview with Velina Brown, director of "American Dreams" 2024 San Francisco Mime Troupe play.

Interview with Talking Heads guitarist/keyboardist Jerry Harrison about recent Remain in Light tour with Adrian Belew

Interview with Ray Cappo, singer from punk rock bands Youth of Today and Shelter and author of 2024 memoir "From Punk to Monk."

"Free Casey Goonan! Free Jack Mazurek! Free the Cop City 61! Drop the charges against the Merrimack 4 and the Mountain Valley pipeline defenders! Free the Holy Land Foundation 5! Free Leonard Peltier! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free Cletus C Rivera! Free them all!" An audio recording of the message is attached. (The transcript has been modified slightly from the original upon listening.)

Members of homeless advocacy group Eugene Barefoot Defenders cited by Eugene Police for trying to help move tent people from railroad tracks during annual sweep.

Interview with Dave Maass, author of the new graphic novel "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis" based on a suppressed opera written in 1943 by Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann, two prisoners at the Terezín Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The authors did not live to see their masterpiece performed. Dave Maass is also investigations director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This interview was originally broadcast on "Transformation Highway" with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM / kzsc.org at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Max Wilbert has protested the project from the beginning. In an interview on Talk is Cheap he said for humanity to survive the upcoming climate collapse we have to restore the planet with a lifestyle approach more conducive to natures cycles.

People displaced by the US war economy and corporate sponsorship make up a potentially powerful voting block.

At a lecture at the Eugene Unitarian Universalist Church on March 18th activist Michel Shehadeh said the current genocide in Gaza is caused by Imperialism and detracts from real antisemitism.

Interview with Dave Maass from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on police surveillance technology and the recent Santa Cruz City Council approval for SCPD to install 14 Automatic License Plate Reader cameras in Santa Cruz, California.

Interview with Santa Cruz author about new book “That Loving Feeling: A Couples Guide to Transform Hurt and Criticism into Kindness and Gratitude.” It’s a practical guide to Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Originally broadcast on KZSC 88.1 FM and published in the Santa Cruz Good Times on May 16, 2024.