Monday, August 13, 2018: Challenging Fictions with author Nina Serrano

In this segment we talk with Nina Serrano about her novel, Nicaragua Way: An International Novel of Love and Revolution in the 1980s, which tells the fascinating story of the Bay Area's involvement in the Sandinista revolution. Nina also gives her take on the current crisis in Nicaragua.

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Also on today's show:
What YOU can do to help immigrant detainees
Challenging Fictions with playwright Anne Galjour

Monday, July 9, 2018: It's the People's Power: Nicaragua

Songs of Love, Justice and Humanity

What's really happening in Nicaragua? Is this a people's movement or a right-wing coup fomented by U.S. imperialism? Katia Cardenal, who in the eighties was one of the best known cultural ambassadors for the Sandinista-led government, as part of Duo Guardabarranco, says there is no question - the people are in the streets. She has marched with half a million people and watched snipers shoot them down. Cardenal will perform at La Pena on Saturday, July 14, in a benefit concert for the victims of violence; she will also give firsthand information. Kate's short conversation with her is a preview of what we will hear in more depth on Saturday night.

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Also on today's show:
The Supreme Court
The art of Cecilia Vicuña

Canto a Nicaragua: Katia Cardenal Benefit Concert for Nicaragua

July 14 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

 $25 General Admission / Kids Under 10 Free

Doors open at 6pm / Concert starts at 7pm

Since April, the situation in Nicaragua has been getting worse, and help is needed now more than ever! In response, Chavalos de Aquí y Allá are presenting Canto a Nicaragua, a Katia Cardenal Benefit Concert for Nicaragua. Special guests Nina & Sebastian will also be performing. There will be a folkloric dance performance and Nicaraguan food as well!

Monday, October 21: Honduran Elections; History of American Scrapbooks

Interview with Suyapa Portillo Villeda

Xiomara Castro de Zelaya

With the Honduran elections less than six weeks away, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the candidate of the leftist LIBRE party, is leading in the polls.  Pitzer College professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda discusses the history of US involvement in Honduras, the coup of 2009 and the emergence of LIBRE as a broad popular coalition.  She also discusses the case against indigenous leader Berta Caceres. For more information about check out Free Berta Carceres.  30:12 min.


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History of Scrapbooks with Ellen Gruber Garvey

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Then Ellen Gruber Garvey, author of Writing With Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, talks about how people, especially women and African Americans, used scrapbooks to create their own narratives using the tools of mainstream media, just as news aggregators and bloggers do today. 23:08 min.



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