To avoid another election but they could not agree on a power sharing deal Netanyahu has been indicted on several corruption charges British voters are going to the polls in a rare December parliamentary election dominated by the issue of Bracks that the contest pits prime minister Boris Johnson who says he'll take Britain out of the e.u. By January 31st against opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn who promises another referendum on Bracks it Corben has also warned electing Johnson could lead to dismantling of Britain's National Health Service. Doctors say they've ended a 3 day protest against the trumpet ministrations refusal to allow them into detention facilities and administer flu vaccines to migrants held there the protests led to the arrests of 4 doctors and 2 other demonstrators outside the Border Patrol region headquarters in San Diego this week one of the doctor says officials met with protesters a group was told Customs and Border Protection would pass their request to start such a pilot program up to their chain of command in the past year 3 migrant children have died from influenza after being detained by u.s. Border Patrol agents and Klute a 16 year old Guatemalan boy seen on security footage recently writhing in agony before he died of influenza in the Border Patrol cell. There are fewer than 72 hours left to reach a deal at the international climate talks in Madrid on key issues to address the climate emergency United Nations Secretary General Antonio good tennis suggested negotiators in Madrid should stop listening to those who oppose more ambitious measures for reducing global warming emissions more than 100 activists led by representatives of indigenous people from Latin and North America have staged impromptu protests blocking the gates of the main plenary hall for a few tense minutes President Trump today said it's ridiculous that Time magazine had named great at tune Baird as its Person of the year she spoke during the climate change talks I'm Christine honest it behind the news is next. Hello and looking behind the news my name is Doug Henwood this is a special fundraising edition of the show featuring a recent talk by Paul Ortiz author of an African-American and Latino access tree the United States were just published about a year ago by Beacon the book places black Latino and indigenous voices and actors at the center of u.s. History countering the standard narrative as manifest destiny before we get to that a reminder that today's main item of business is raising money for k. P.s.a. 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If a dot org More when Brian Edwards taker chose you for the last 20 minutes of the show but why not act now and they just relax and listen for the next 45 minutes Ok now the 1st excerpt from Paul Ortiz is talk recorded in Berkeley Nov 12th or teases a professor of history at the University of Florida and director of that Samuel Proctor oral history program Paul Ortiz to be a good historian of this is something I learned from the people at Tommy how to be a historian to be a good historian you have to have imagination to be a good u.s. Historian you have to either be able to leave this country physically and be able to look at it from the vantage point of other people or you if you can't leave it physically you have to do it imaginatively you have to use your imagination what does the u.s. Look like to people in war Livia or in Caracas right now or in Mexico City where my wife and I were there for a month last year and a lot of people joked with us your president may not let you come back to your country what would you do and say I would love to live in Mexico City but in all seriousness and this is going you know this is going to be hard for us to hear because it is just but I'm just gonna say it involves is for the imagination you could sit Donald Trump down at it at a table with Thomas Jefferson with John Adams with Andrew Jackson with even a younger John Quincy Adams and they would be best buds they with congealed they would come together over issues of race and class domination they would have a common discourse a common rhetoric and I found this I'm making this argument because I've read the papers of a lot of these so-called founding fathers they had no love for anyone in this room by the way. They really did not if you read what Alexander Hamilton said when the British evacuated the port of ports of New York and Savannah and hundreds even thousands of former slaves evacuated with them Alexander Hamilton is apoplectic they've stolen our property our property when poor farmers in western Pennsylvania rise up against the 1st excise taxes who's the one who leads the charge to crush the farmers revolt even George Washington doesn't have the stomach to do it but Alexander Hamilton does he calls Native American savages that have to be eliminated. For our economy to grow that's why I say down are the founding fathers had no love for us this is why Donald Trump talked about making America great again he made a historical pitch in 2016 it may have been a coded pitch some people argue but to me it was just kind of a why don't you know in your face kind of pitch if you read what John Adams said about the Mexican War of Independence what Thomas Jefferson said about the Haitian revolution it's almost exactly the same kind of thing Trump says today here's another example a couple of folks came up to me and they said you know you're a historian tell us what this time period now looks like to you what other time period in American history is most like this time period I think it's kind of a trick question. But I said you know to me it is very much like 1930 again the world is in a global crisis certain people are coming to power not just in the United States but throughout the entire world the term strong men authoritarian masculine hyper masculine characters it's not a mistake it's connected to a global crisis in capitalism when Herbert Hoover was elected a president by the way when I asked my students a question well who is the president the presided over the the initial part of the Great Depression you know 9 times out of 10 they say j. Edgar Hoover. I find it to be very interesting now Hoover was very powerful right but what I tell them as I say I want to think about the Great Depression. And how Herbert Hoover believe or not up to that point is probably the smartest man who's ever president United States he was brilliant right brilliant engineer brilliant planner he had one of the smartest cabinets does ever been assembled in Washington d.c. But when the Great Depression broke out and it was clear that it wasn't just a one time one off thing that it was a national and it was an international crisis who did Hoover's cabinet blame for the onset of the Great Depression who were the 1st people to be blamed Mexicans poor people in the United States government see and went into communities and terrorized and kidnapped abducted and deported over a 1000000 Mexican Americans and sent them to Mexico some of them had never stepped foot inside Mexico matts family my family were impacted by this but this is something we didn't talk about growing up it was my great you know grandparents' generation it was considered to be a shameful thing to be terrorized like that and no one ever told me this growing up I had to ask questions and so to me my students have to deal with the fact that they may have federal agents in their backyards right now spying on them abducting their parents in Florida. Parents who lacks state issued I.D.'s cannot even step foot. And they're children's schools so how can they be part of the education education is supposed to be to take it out right and so that's why I think I those 2 time periods and on the negative side resonate but also on the other and on the more positive side these incipient movements you know the me to movement black lives matter the dreamers movement right now we're looking at the Supreme Court and I can tell you whatever decision the Supreme Court makes immigrant rights activists and labor activists are not going to quit they're going to keep struggling they're going to keep fighting there's a reason this nation didn't go fascist in the 1930 some years back as it was right as bad as Jim Crow was and lynching there's a reason it didn't get worse the reason is is that people organize together we had members of my family involved in the little still strike in 1037 this is a sacred moment if you're if you're a labor union or labor activists member when they organize the little still strike in Chicago Illinois steel and some of the other smaller still corporations the Chicago Police came out and shot and murder and workers and the headlines read the Chicago police were interviewed about this oh we only killed Mexicans and Bolsheviks and that was supposed to make it Ok but you know what those workers didn't stop organizing and they unionized all those plants and we just have to be as persistent as our ancestors and struggle. 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Dot org that I want a 2nd except from historian polar teases talk recorded at Berkeley a month ago I grew up in a shipyard Sam primarily called grammar turn Washington every adult that I grew up with or around had been either you know in the military and fought in World War 2 had been in Korea been in Vietnam I grew up towards I was born in 1064 all the male members of my family had been in the military and my father you know when it's Marine boot camp in 1986 he remembers the hits that your buddy Holly in both deadly You know that's how he kind of my dad remembers history just turned 81 but even you know his his uncles my great uncles and my grandparents' generation all fought the Mexican revolution that's how we ended up in the United States in 1914 the family moved to the United States the same time that the u.s. Invaded Mexico to supposedly secure the oil fields around Tampico and so growing up the earliest photographs that we have of me as a young boy are photographs of me with guns 1st plastic guns and then later you know when I learned how to shoot real guns so growing up in war was all we knew and I remember as a young boy a hearing about you know a friend's father. I've been killed in Vietnam are friends own goal and so that was really visceral for us the house forward I'm going to go to the classroom because so much of what I know comes I've learned from my students some of whom are here the 1st song that we play when I when I teach this course is Bob Marley's Buffalo Soldiers to me that's one of the most meaningful songs I've ever heard and we spent we spent a lot of time thinking and talking about Buffalo Soldiers and what that song means because as people of color as working class people as a present people were often the 1st recruits who then turn around and then become the soldiers of the Empire and I remember against Reno wish I could tell you that I you know became woke about us imperialism when I was in the military but that would not be true where I grew up there was no talk about nonviolence there was no talk about being against the why I didn't even know you could be against the war I remember the 1st time I had an inkling that you could be opposed to war in this country when I was on my way home from deployment from Central America back to the United States I read in a newspaper that this minister called Jesse Jackson was in Mexico City trying to broker a peace accord between the u.s. And nations of Latin America Central America I didn't know you could broker a peace accord because again growing up in a militarist environment and you know I told a story I was talking a message earlier about this and this is going to sound very odd to people but I remember of the last day I was in the u.s. Army I was in Panama City and that last day somehow I ended up in a small post I was filling out paperwork trying to get out of the military and anyone who's been in the military knows you spent a lot of time we have a phrase we call hurry up and wait right hurry up in a wait and so you fill it paperwork then you wait for someone to. Process it and I remember walking across the street to the post library a very small library and I picked up this very thin volume out of the stacks at a very interesting very intriguing title and I started reading it and this rider was talking about how his people have been oppressed for centuries and it was time to stop being oppressed it was time to take action and it was a moral imperative to take action but he was using this language he was saying we need to take nonviolent direct action nonviolent civil disobedience and I had never heard of that in my entire life because I grew up in a country as Dr King said which is the most violent nation on earth we're so violent We don't even understand that for youth of the town I grew up in Bremerton and there are many towns like Bremerton were raised to be fighters were raised to be soldiers like I said the 1st photographs of me are with toy guns toys pistols the book I'm working on now I'm trying to figure out how did we get to be that way and so I'm writing a book on subtler colonialism because my belief is that settler colonialism has so profoundly impacted our culture we were not even aware of it so again that's kind of you know going back to thinking about my trajectory coming back to the United States the 1st time I ever had a picket sign in my hand was to protest the u.s. Invasion of Panama in 1989 and the promise that the u.s. Government gave for that war was a complete lie and I would hears up on the radio or on t.v. I hear my friends say well this is why we're invading Panama and I'd say you know that's a complete lie the other thing that kind of woke me up was that when I came back home in 1970. Friends that I grown up with some of whom are veterans to ask me Paul what are all these Hondurans doing in Los Angeles what are all these El Salvadorans doing in Seattle what are all these refugees doing and so one of the 1st things in fact I met my wife doing this work in part was getting involved in the sanctuary movement because I would tell my friends I would say you don't know why all these people are leaving Central America you don't know what I was doing there you don't know what u.s. Foreign policy is actually giving military training and weaponize ing the Central American conflicts and this is why people have to leave but when I would say these things to friends and again remember these are people I grew up with that I played sports with they look at mean they would say Paul I just cannot accept what you're telling me I was told that we were in Central America to stop communism and I would say I'm sorry but that's that's a lie that's not true. And then the next thing the luckiest thing one of the like as things in my life is that an older veteran who was in Vietnam Veterans Against the War put a book in my hand he says signed you have to read this book it's written by another combat veteran by the name of Howard Zinn. People's History United States. And because of the way Howard wrote the book and I had the incredible honor of meeting him years later through dinner Frank who many of you know was an incredible historian at u.c. Santa Cruz that book really helped me quite a bit as as I think it's helped many of us as a 2nd x. Or from the top but a historian Paul or tease recorded last month in Berkeley and we get a fundraiser in today's behind the news if you like the show and want to keep it coming please contribute our featured previews today or a copy of that talk for a contribution of $75.00 and Paul or teases book an African-American and Latino access tree of United States for 80 dollars or both 320 dollars you can make their contribution by calling 804395732 or visiting us on Ludeke at p.s.a. Dot org If you take the online route be sure to mention Behind the News 8043 month 732 or k. P.s.a. Dot org The reason you can hear serious material like this and keep p.s.a. Is because we don't have to rely on advertisers were foundations for support advertisers like it quick and shallow foundations like it slow it complacent but both in their own way reinforce the status quo because we rely only on our listeners for support we can disturb that status quo Please support us by calling 804305732 were visiting us on a lot of the hip e.f.i. Dot org And now on to the 3rd and final excerpt from last month's talk but Paul Ortiz hosted by Sabrina Jacobs a lot of us are familiar with what's been happening and with the right wing coup what's been happening in chill way what's happening in Iraq what's happening in Iraq. What's even happening in many u.s. Cities right now and part of it is to educate each other and our friends about the role that the u.s. Plays and has always played in Latin America and in Central America and to try to get people to understand the role that capitalism has played in the under development and the profoundly unequal economic systems throughout the entire Americas not just Bolivia if you think about this ever more Alice was the 1st indigenous president of Yemen that's an incredible thing to even contemplate given the fact that this is an indigenous majority society what was it that kept back indigenous people for centuries in countries like will Libya what is it now that allows the United States government to continue to tyrannized us native in addition is people in this country trying to take their water rights trying to take their mineral rights I direct the oral history program to University of Florida and we've had students who've done oral histories with Western Shoni people in Nevada we've had students who do oral histories with the porch creek and southeastern Alabama and other parts of the country and I can tell you all of those Native American nations are really under siege right now the federal government private capital private interests are trying to take their resources away from them all the way from Latin America to to North America one of the exciting things about what's happening now in the indigenous rights movement was that indigenous groups are looking hemispheric wide now and saying Our problems are not rooted just in one country they're rooted across the entire hemisphere and then calling out American imperialism and one of the things in my book that I talked about. Again I learn those from my movement and intellectual elders is the concept of racial capitalism and we have to think about these things working together and the slavery that Indigenous people were faced with both in this country but also in Latin America continues to really mark the entire hemisphere but I think you know movement organizing teach ends are really important in Florida this issue is particularly acute I don't have to tell you Florida is not like California you know we've done amazing things in Florida we just finished an incredible 34 years long struggle which culminated in the Memmott 4 which overturned a felony disenfranchisement we got over a 1000000 signatures. And we had Cantor serves who are cameras in Haitian Creole and French and Spanish in English we had to go you know to get a 1000000 signatures to lift felony disenfranchisement you can't just go to the County Fair to get a 1000000 signatures. Part of what we have to do when we educate people about imperialism and talk about imperialism and talk about racism is we have to go outside of our comfort zone this is one of the reasons I love oral history in the classroom when I teach at the University of Florida and in a workshop Yes we're trying to create a respectful nurturing inclusive space but as soon as we began getting outside of that space to be effective politically we're going to unsafe territory the last oral history interview that I did in Florida just a few weeks ago I actually interviewed a retired Cuban American former CIA operative who was involved in the Watergate break in who was involved in a lot of bad things worse than Watergate believe or not Daniel Ellsberg will be talking about. Right this guy was involved in torture and other things and so you have to remember in the Florida culture or it's very common to hear people say things like well if the military calls for the coup then I guess we should support it I think about that for a minute the military calls for a coup we should support it in Bolivia What about the u.s. What if what if the u.s. Military called for a coup in this country should be supported. So so these are the types of things that we need to like you know talk to our neighbors about talk to our families about families are divided over this issue I'm actually the faculty advisor for a lot of Hispanic student organizations that you have one of them was the Venezuelan Student Association and we go back and forth and they're like well you know we have to support President Trump in Venezuela I'm like no you don't. He actually said that oh yes and some of them he set them right and while we talk we dialogue I try not to you know to browbeat them that's not an effective teaching technique right be gentle be kind this is where I can use my own background because I say look I'm not here to judge you because again I'm a soldier of empire right that's on my c.v. I will never get rid of that and so. Far be it for me to tell you you can have your believes if even if I think they're wrong are right. But actually brings me to to the next question American exceptionalism very sizzix and Mansa Pittodrie International was some talk to us about that described that so does everyone know what American exceptionalism is. Kind of Ok so is the belief broadly shared by our 2 major political parties that the Us is the greatest country on earth that we really can't do much wrong that when we do wrong it's not because we set out to do bad things it's because something went wrong along the way Ok but what American exceptionalism does by saying that the Us is the greatest country on earth us is a middle class society is it denies the reality of people or towns and neighborhoods that I grew up in I didn't grow up in middle class culture society most people the United States do not most of us grew up in working class communities and American exceptionalism denies our very existence we don't become successful my father and all of his generation of young Mexican American teenagers had to drop out of school in the 7th grade to help support their families so the whole thing about education true for some people not true for other people so trying to situate the u.s. In a reality where the United States is as good or as bad as its actions as our actions and when we do wrong let's come to grips with why we do wrong especially if we do want over and over and over again the master internationalism is grass roots movements that people like Frederick Douglass people like Harriet Tubman and people like Henry Howland Barnett Antone must sail hosts a model t. Counterpose to the idea of American exceptionalism and this is an idea of building solidarity across borders instead of building walls build bridges. I started the book with the Haitian revolution because this is the most important revolution from the vantage point of a present people it's more important than the French Revolution it's more important than the American Revolution it's more important than those revolutions because it ends with the abolition of slavery is the 1st successful slave slave revolution in human history chapter 2 is about the Mexican War of Independence and again here is a revolution that reaches across borders to fire the imagination of the radical abolitionist movement in the United States to where people are saying wow the Mexicans from the very outset an 810 start their revolution against Spanish imperialism by striking a blow against slavery and the oppression of indigenous people wow why could we do that what do we have to learn from that I guess the big thing is learning what this country has to learn from nations are around us when I talk to audiences I'm a long time member of Veterans for Peace and when I talk to audiences about war and they say war Constitution doesn't give us much of a way out I say then we need to study other constitutions let's start with the Mexican Constitution which has a very long and venerable history of anti interventionism how often is it in modern history that Mexico gathers an air force or an army and invades another nation. There's a reason for that it's not accidental there's a there's political traditions that we can learn from the decade I grew up in was a decade of backlash even a decade or 2 later as a younger labor organizer the eighty's to try to organize unions frankly we didn't organize many new unions in the late 1980 s. All we were doing is trying to protect and hold onto what we had our civil rights organizations were under See we were very much on the defensive There's a reason a mass incarceration as an enormous take off in the 1970 s. There's a reason that the society militarize us there's a reason that ideas of masculinity get hyped up in the eighty's and in the ninety's there's a thing called neo liberalism you know I talk about this in that chapter but these are all attacks against gains that we made that our elders fought and bled for in states like Mississippi the Central Valley of California the United Farm Workers the women's movement. Movements that period of time was very much a part of backlash and I think right now based upon what I'm seeing and places in the deep south in Florida we've had fight for 15 rallies and marches and civil disobedience that has has involved hundreds of people in towns that you're not you don't normally associate a movement with like Orlando where we had hundreds of people engage in civil disobedience under the chant fight for 15 and a union this is happening in the Deep South and we're seeing this all across the country just a few days ago the Seattle bit is simple elections Seattle said no to Jeff Bezos and Amazon. I was speaking at Bronx community college 2 days after Senator Sanders rally and you want to see some excited people the Dominican community was was so excited the Puerto Rican communities around the the South Bronx are so excited they're like something new is happening we're part of a new kind of movement so there's a lot of movement energy my argument about the 2006 general strike is that. We still don't understand how formative an experience that strike was we make a mistake if we think of that strike is just one of that I know this because a lot of the organizers of that strike are now in the labor movement some of you from u.c. Santa Cruz may remember a student on Tez who did I think graduated from Santa Cruz in 2006 and I just got a call from her the other day she's been elected vice president to one of the largest health care unions in the state of New York and this student close one of the organizers in the 2006 general strike young lawyers social justice lawyers now teachers people who are in all different types of occupations are really shaking things up but that 2006 general strike was a really important experience for them and so that's why I see that strike as being is being really formative and again reminding us where change comes from we all know that we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the sacrifices of people who came before us that shouldn't just be a slogan has should be something we just say in m.l.k. Day right it should be something that we remind ourselves constantly it's something that our government with actually like us to forget by the way I've had generations of students who say why do I have to wait to coddle hits it to get to college to learn the real story of the grass right civil rights movement why do I have to wait to college to learn the sacrifices of women suffragettes in my responses look no smart government is going to teach you how to shake things up right that's why you're not learning in high school and here's here's the last I'll say about that is psychologists of race are telling us now. That racial attitudes are formed as early as age 2 So what that means is we can't put off discussions the tough discussions about the bad parts and the good parts of us Sr We can't put them off like years ago I Can Never people say well you know maybe young people or we should try to teach about slavery or racism until you know they're in high school too late by then too late they've already learned I was in 4th grade the 1st time someone called me a weapon addict and my father grew up in a generation where the signs were right there in front of them no negroes no Mexicans no dogs and so you're telling me in a society like this where again many of my students have to worry about when they come home are their parents going to be there or did the federal government kidnap them and put them in a detention center. And mourners decide where we have some school administrators who say that high school students in East Los Angeles are not mature enough to read James Baldwin So we have to we really have to kind of look at ourselves and say what are we doing as a society to to educate each other but what are we doing to prevent education from happening and so I think right now we're in this incredibly you know fraught moment of possibility of the potential danger things could go either way it is kind of like the early 1930 s. And you know in a certain sense there was a 3rd and final excerpt from polar teasers talk no they joined by Brother stickered in the k p f a studio and we'll tell you how you can support k.p. If they get these excellent premiums. Thank you recorded Doug had would and will be joined by his live counterpart very shortly. So the polar teases book is in African-American and Latin x. History of the United States I interviewed him about it earlier this year on my show up front which is on in the mornings and I have to say looking back on 2019 we do a lot of author interviews over the course of the year. And this is one that I've probably got the most out of in terms of learning things from actually reading the book while I was preparing and just thoroughly enjoying the conversation with Paul or t.v. As he is smart he is radical he is kind and the book is this incredibly important counter narrative to the kind of American history that we get from our textbooks and basically what it does is it puts at the center of the narrative oppressed people who are trying to change the circumstances of oppressed peoples in this country. That 1st chapter is on the Haitian revolution which obviously is incredible beacon tear. Everybody in the United States working against slavery the 2nd chapter is on the Mexican War of Independence which is really remarkable because it's just a few decades after the u.s. Wage its old war of independence. And the United States' political elites are completely against it because Mexico is also in addition to trying to free itself from Spain trying to abolish slavery within its borders the 3rd chapter looks at the internationalist dimensions of the Civil War and Reconstruction which is really interesting to see how the people involved in evolutionism and of the reconstruction is cause we're really taking a hemispheric perspective the 4th chapter looks at the u.s. Cuban solidarity movement in the late 19th century something I did not know much about. But you know it it I think speaks to this kind of balancing act that people have to do today which is. You look at an oppressive government abroad like what was operating in Cuba and the late 19th century. And you want to be on the side of the people suffering under that government and also not cheerlead your own. Imperialist intervention. When it cloaks itself in the rhetoric of operating on their behalf it takes you through chapters of the role of American banks and banana republics in Central and South America and opposition from within the borders of the United States to that through the congealing of modern racial categories in their early industrial era in the United States what he calls the emergence of racial capitalism and right up through the social movements of the president it's an incredible tour de force he's a really excellent writer the Writings are always accessible and it is also one of our most affordable thank you gifts of the Dr Paul are teases in African-American and Latin x. 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We'll also you know we had to spend some fundraising in order to cover the a piece in hearings which to real the fundraising but that's you know the kind of thing we do it k p f a and it be really good if we were rewarded for our good behavior through a generous torrent of gifts coming up in the next 10 minutes or so 804395732 The number to call or on line to get p.s.a. Dot org. If you do pledge on I'll be sure to mention behind the news so I get my back appropriately padded yeah I also think you know that this event of parties kind of speaks to the importance of k p f a not just as a broadcaster but as a community institution I go our our producers our hosts are paid staff to a tremendous amount of work kind of sifting through the world of ideas for people who are publishing interesting articles and books and. Going out how to bring their ideas to the airwaves through a conversation but we also have this event staff who work on bringing people like Paul or ts to the stage to have a much lengthier interaction than our on air schedule allows for our events run about 2 hours including the q. And a and to have a really interactive experience where the type of audience that comes to a k.p. If they have it can pose questions to Paul or tease his you know normally do in the college professor thing in Florida dealing with a very different constituency and his classrooms there's a certain magic to that that I think speaks to the importance of k.p. If a is a community institution that plays this kind of convening role this platforming role and that's the work that we're asking you to support and we just got our 1st caller towards the pledge at 180-439-5732 we have a $1000.00 riding on our ability to get more of you to go to your phones in the next 10 minutes at 180-439-5732 what we're asking you to do is to support that work now the book is fantastic and African-American a lot next history of the United States. I wholeheartedly vouch for it it is yours for a pledge of $80.00 or more 180-439-5732 what is 80 dollars 80 dollars is half the price of an annual Netflix subscription what is 80 dollars 80 dollars that is less than one 6th the price of having the New York Times delivered at least in my neighborhood $80.00 is 112th the price of getting a cable subscription with a few premium channels thrown in and if you can pledge $80.00 right now you'll help get us started on that challenge you'll pick up this incredible book for yourself you'll be supporting an author doing important work and radio station doing important work each and every day and you'll be signalling your support for behind the news with dot head what you. You have 9 minutes to do all of those things with your pledge 180-439-5732 extension 1800 k. P.f.a. Or on line at w w w dot k p.f.a. Dot org And again if you can go further kind of the book with the recording of the event you get both together for $120.00 or combine it with our entire $29900.00 event recording collection and get both together for $250.00 whatever you do we have 9 minutes we have just one caller on the line towards that $1000.00 challenge 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hague. Or online at w w w dot k.p. F.a. Dot org Doug Yes the book which I have to admit I haven't seen but really fastening is an important sense of an important corrective to the kind of you know prose labor profound in the Father pro Andrew Jackson kind of history you get in school or you know the kind of popular history that circulates we have a president who has a picture of Andrew Jackson in his office now or in the Oval Office and this book is written from the perspective of the people who are resisting the slavers and the founding fathers of the in the Jacksonian killers and that's an important corrective to the kind of history that dominates people's thinking they see educational system and that's what the kind of thing that k.p. Play is so important for and as I was they were doing these things not just at my age you're speaking about so much that it's. There's so marvelous in themselves but they're also so much a sign of a really living community of people it's not just you know this is radio station might turn on an hour or 2 a week it really is a living thing and the unfortunate living thing is a little little money now and then because it can't go on for nothing. Rather the very very tight budget there are many radio stations are run on such tight budgets but it still requires more than 0 money so if you can help out. Help keep k.p.s. They independent what allows us to be told to run this sort of material. We need your help 804395732 The number to call around Monica p.s. I don't org The the talk is 75 book 82 together for 120 and that's what like $0.30 a day if you spread out over a cost a cost of spread the cost out for over a year yet and we love people such obvious dangers you know you can sign up you get a copy of the book by becoming a k p f a sustainer at the level of $8.00 a month you can't get anything for $8.00 a month you you can't go out to the movies once a month for 8 bucks unless you're getting a real matinee special I'm not even sure where you can't get 8 Netflix for 8 bucks a month but you can become a member of k. P.s.a. And get a picture of a copy of this book as your signing bonus for coming on board we love sustaining pledges that is a steady stream of income that we can count on that we can plan around it has a profoundly stabilizing effect on our finances and our planning and we're hoping will make it possible for us to shrink the length of future fund drives right now we've got 3 callers on the line so if the best you can do for k p f a is like 8 bucks a month do it and we'll get a copy of the book 180-439-5732 the best way the way we do Challenge Fund math is that the full annual amount of that gift which I guess would be about $96.00 will count towards our challenge it'll get us almost a 10th of the way there 180-439-5732 extension 1800 k. P.f.a. Or online it k. P.f.a. Dot org And if you can go a little further do it by all means keep your phase in each according to their ability kind of situation. If you can become a k.b. Of a sustainer at $20.00 a month we would love to give you that 2019 speech collection $27.00 new events from k p f a from the past year really stunning a ray of speakers that we brought to the stage they all include the q. And a session with the kind of questions that only a.k.p. If a crowd can produce for callers on the line now we need you to join them cause we're down to 5 minutes left on that $1000.00 challenge 180-439-5732 extension 1800 k. P.f.a. Or online at w.w.w. Dot k.p.s. a Dot org Joining us just pledge from Pleasanton thank you Akash who just pledged from Kensington thank you Esther she says I hope Kip if he keeps going for another 70 years she noticed that we marked our 70th birthday this spring 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey Kate p.f.a. Are on line w w w dot. A dot org Doug looks like we have just recorded our 1st 180 dollars towards that 1000 dollars challenge we have for callers on the line who haven't been tallied yet but just 4 minutes to close our $820.00 gap 180-439-5732. This is very hard I think nails or there are very few left at this point. Save my digits please 804395732 The number to call or online to k.p.n. Fade out or to make your pledge and keep this marvelous thing going and I know there are a lot of people who listen to my show on the web here from people all over the world who listen to it. If you're doing that right now well you have about 3 minutes to open up a browser window and make a pledge. You can do it online and be sure to mention behind the news if you do. Just what it really matters is making a contribution to keep the p.f.a. Going and reward us for our good behavior for having broadcast the impeachment hearings because they're so newsworthy rather than just looking towards our bottom line which is pretty paltry thing our bottom line but you know it would be probably a little less paltry if we hadn't done that so beef it up show a social appreciation for our sense of the importance of covering the news 1st 804395732 the number to call in line to keep e.f.i. Dot org looks like we've only got about 3 minutes left so let's make sure that 1000 dollars doesn't disappear like you know a mirage in the sun 3 minutes left for callers on the line we've now at $260.00 raised $740.00 Tico at 180-439-5732 extension 1800 hake a p.f.a. Oh just got 2 more pledges in that took our total up by a combined total of $400.00 so now we are at $660.00 raised and 340 to go in 2 and a half minutes 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey k.p.n. Fair money k p f a dot org tearing just pledged from Oakland and said This person I don't can't assign a gender but they typed a comment with their pledge that says k.p. If they are Mike. Aunts and uncles who live in my radio I love you. We love you too Terry look turn is there helping us make this $1000.00 challenge and if you feel the love for k.p.s. a Deep absolute best way to express that would be to make a pledge in the 2 minutes that we have left to make this challenge so that Terence contribution was not in vain 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Haiti p.f.a. Or on line a w w w dot k p f a dot org totals just bumped up again we're now at $710.00 raised $290.00 to go but we're also in our final 90 seconds 180-439-5732 Doug Yeah we love being inside to turn around and warm in here so we need to get out and get some fresh air so if you make that pledge right now that we can you know you can take a little walk in the clear clean air instead of inhabiting all this electronic space 804395732 that I want to call or I want to keep you have a dot org. Since time is winding down and I do want to thank the people who have pledged during the last. Hour or so and I want to thank the people who are on the line now and the people who are going to take advantage of the last 1545 seconds and they call it 10437 $32.00 or online a k p s I don't work now we're down to $170.00 to go but we're in our final 30 seconds at 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey Kay p.f.a. Again the polar to book an African-American the Latin x. History of the United States that's just 180-439-2573 extension 2 we just need 170 more to make 818-043-9573 extension 2 or you could do it in one fell swoop by pledging 482-1900 speech back 420-180-4395 extension 8732. Or k p f a dot org dot Henwood thank you so much for doing the show every week and for joining us to help raise money for the station as well thank you thank you as always for your help this is k p f a k p f e n Berkeley K.F.C.'s point one f.m. In Fresno k 248 be our 97.5 f.m. In Santa Cruz and on line around the world at w w w dot a dot org Still no thumbs up on that challenge we are so close and they will keep counting pledges as the next hour starts 180-439-5732 stating. My name is Brian Edwards Tikker Usually I'm on in the morning I'll be joining Liam in east yesterday for a special today as we mark 30 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake. That was quake started 30 years ago 5 o 4 pm just before game 3 of the World Series championship was about 10 miles outside of Santa Cruz that's where the epicenter was but the worst impacts were just a couple miles from k p f a studios and the East Bay where the cypress viaduct on Interstate 8080 collapsed ultimately killing 42 people. It was an elevated freeway right in the middle of West Oakland and West Oakland at that time was the neighborhood that that elevated freeway had been built to basically help suburban commuters not have to pass through. That is the topic of a very special production from East Bay yesterday that will be bringing you for most of this hour let's take it away. You're listening to the spade yesterday this show's about history. In the past. Let's begin let's be clear. I have a buddy Leon here that episode you're about to hear is a little different than usual it's a collaboration with one of my favorite shows snap judgment snap is an incredible story telling a show it was an honor to work with these folks so 1st you're going to hear the story that's airing on snout and then you're going to hear an additional story about what happened after that story and I know that sounds a little vague but I don't want to give anything away you'll see what I'm talking about in a 2nd. President . Off to.