Good afternoon for the keep if the newsroom say with the daily 4 pm headlines the Los Angeles City Council was quite busy today before the start of the 3 day Memorial Day weekend they addressed a proposal to bring about free or low cost citywide wireless Internet they also discussed an early earthquake detection system as well as opposition to President Donald Trump review of national monuments among other agenda items the council unanimously voted today to oppose the trumpet ministrations plan to read examine the status of some national monuments last month Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to review all designations of national monuments greater than 100000 acres created since 1906 trumps order suggested some of the monuments have been created without the proper amount of public input and have also hurt the economy d city council member Paul carets said quote If the trumpet ministration is allowed to do what it wants it will be drilling in the Grand Canyon in your woods
This is k c m j p Colorado Springs streaming at k c m j dot org And today broadcasting at 93.9 f.m. From the top of the Daum at the Stargazers theater and event center. In 1006 a young Polish playwright name Scholem wrote a play in Yiddish called the God of vengeance. The play was risque for its time it told the story of a young woman falling in love with another woman and it was a hit in $1023.00 the God of vengeance was translated into English and opened on Broadway that s where the trouble began shortly after the 1st performance all 12 actors plus the place producer or arrested for obscenity and put on trial it was the 1st trial of its kind in the city and their verdicts made the front page of The New York Times the God of vengeance was guilty of obscenity. The. Today and with good reason and we speak with Paul a vocal a playwright who s no stranger to controversy on the stage Polish distinguished career in theater has won many accolades including a Pulitzer Prize her do play indec
To go to. NY died 252-028-0992 extension 5. 1 listing for Monday thank you for joining us site Gary Crawford. In University Book Club today we re reading from the crash of 20161 of my favorites in her writings which of this is from page 62 by the way to a middle class or primer is the chapter title in her writings which have become foundational for libertarian theology author Iran suggested that the only purpose of government should be to present prevent oppression by force what she neglected to consider was all the in force inherent in nature if you re hungry there is the force of biology if you re homeless you confront the force of wind storms ice and rain if you re sick you confront the ravages and force of disease these are the forces that provoke the 1st governments the 1st communities the 1st clans and tribes the 1st nation states it s easy for a libertarian to leaders such as multi-millionaire tea to t.v. Talking heads or college kids reading Atlas Shrugged to talk about how th
And we re in this hour with Book Club tower and University Book Club today reading from tears we cannot stop a sermon to white America by Michael Eric Dyson was a guest on our program a while back uh this is from page $878061.00 of the great privileges of whiteness is not to see color not to see race and not to pay a price for ignoring it except of course when you re called on it even then the price pales quite literally in comparison to the high price black folk pay for being black we pay a price to her not even being able to derive recognition and financial reward for the styles that make the world want to be black so bad if they don t mind looking like us as long as they never ever after be us if the appropriators can freely rip off our culture with no consequences those who revise racial history a 4th stage of white racial grief are even less accountable for their deeds the way of the racial revisionist when it comes to black life and history is simply to rewrite it their motto is
This Valley s k j Welcome to the Commonwealth Club of California the nation s largest public affairs celebrating over a century of great public service the Commonwealth Club on k m j starts right now. Welcome to today s program of the Commonwealth Club of California I m Gloria Duffey president and c.e.o. Of the club a nonpartisan nonprofit public forum dedicated to airing diverse views on important topics of the day let s join today s speakers appearing before a live audience in the Bay Area and now please join me in welcoming the seal Richards and Wade Davis to the Inform States. While you are a beautiful bunch Thank you all so much for that warm welcome so any initial thoughts when you come out to a crowd that is this excited to hear from you I wish the whole world look like Fan Francisco because. I m not saying I don t get this kind of reception in every single state in America but you don t get it in Texas I do get in Texas actually a little known fact. Act Planned Parenthood in T