KPFA Radio 94.1 FM with Project Censored & City Lights presents: “UNITED STATES OF DISTRACTION” MEDIA MANIPULATION INPOST-TRUTH AMERICA AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT NOLAN HIGDON & MICKEY HUFF Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 7:30 pm The Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St Berkeley co-sponsored by City Lights & Project Censored tickets: $12 advance…
AMITAV GHOSH GUN ISLAND with VIJAYA NAGARAJAN Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 7:30 pm First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond Bookstore $15 door, KPFA benefit Information: kpfa.org/events Gun Island is a…
RANDALL MUNROE HOW TO: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems Hosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 7:30 PM First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond Bookstore, or…
P.E. MOSKOWITZ author of How to Kill a City, writer for the Guardian, Slate, New York Times, Al Jazeera America, Wired, Buzzfeed “THE CASE AGAINST FREE SPEECH” THE FIRST AMENDMENT, FASCISM & THE FUTURE OF DISSENT Hosted by PHILIP MALDARI WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28, 7:30 PM First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way Berkeley…
DAN KOVALIK THE PLOT TO OVERTHROW VENEZUELA HOW THE U.S. IS ORCHESTRATING A COUP FOR OIL Hosted by Sabrina Jacobs WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14, 7:30 PM Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond…
DANIEL ELLSBERG+JEFFREY STERLING TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES With Norman Solomon Hosted by Kevin Cartwright WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 7:30 PM First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley (NOTE VENUE CHANGE) 2407 Dana Way Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond Bookstore,…
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER& SAMIN NOSRAT (“Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat”) “We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast” with Sherry Gendelman Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 7:30 pm First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs….
RICHARD WOLFF “Save Capitalism? Why? We Can Do Better” Hosted by Sabrina Jacobs Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 7:30 pm First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond Bookstore $15 door, KPFA benefit…
John Carlos Frey SAND and BLOOD America’s Stealth War on the Mexican Border with Miguel Guerrero Thursday, June 25, 2019, 7:30 pm St. John’s Presbyterian Church 2727 College Ave Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond Bookstore…
Anne Lamott Reading from her new book Almost Everything & in conversation with Reverend John Dear IN CELEBRATION OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF PACE E BENE NONVIOLENCE SERVICE Monday, May 20, 2019, 7:00 pm Grace Cathedral 1100 California St. San Francisco tickets: • General admission: 7:00pm-9:00pm $25. • Pre-event reception with Anne Lamott and John Dear: 5:00pm-6:30pm:…
EVENT IS BACK! NEW DATE AND LOCATION BELOW MAX BLUMENTHAL “The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump” with Nora Barrows-Friedman Thursday, May 16, 2019, 7:30 pm St John’s Presbyterian Church 2727 College Avenue Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books…
Bhaskar Sunkara THE SOCIALIST MANIFESTO Hosted by Sasha Lilley Monday, May 13, 2019, 7:30 pm First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond Bookstore $15 door, KPFA benefit Information: kpfa.org/events…
CUBA LIBRE! Che, Fidel, & the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History TONY PERROTTET with Steve Wasserman Thursday, May 2, 2019, 7:30 pm Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond Bookstore $15…
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & St. John’s Presbyterian Church present The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup DANA FRANK Wednesday, April 3, 7:30 PM St. John’s Presbyterian Church 2727 College Avenue Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books…
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock vs the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. NICK ESTES with ROXANNE DUNBAR ORTIZ March 28, 2019, 7:30pm Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs….
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness & Resistance Carolyn Forché Hosted by Dennis Bernstein Tuesday March 26, 7:30pm Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond Bookstore $15 door,…
Regrets: event has been canceled due to author illness. THE END OF THE MYTH From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America GREG GRANDIN hosted by Mickey Huff Wednesday, March 20, 7:30pm First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or…
KPFA Radio & The Nation Magazine present Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen Cohen WAR with RUSSIA?From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate hosted by Mitch Jesserich Monday, Feb 25, 2019, 7:30 pm First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way Berkeley CA tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or…
VANDANA SHIVA + VIJAYA NAGARAJAN Women, Ritual, Ecology in India Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar and environmental activist, who has authored more than 20 books.Vijaya Nagarajan is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco, and the author of “Feeding a Thousand Souls”. Wednesday, Feb 6, 2019, 7:30 pm First Congregational…
Robert B. Reich The Common Good With Kathryn Horsley Wednesday, Feb 6, 2019, 7:30 pm First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way Berkeley tickets: $12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com T:800.838.3006, or Books Inc. (Berkeley), or Pegasus Books (3 shops), or Moe’s, or Mrs. Dalloway’s, or Walden Pond Bookstore $15 door, KPFA benefit Information:…