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* Bombings in Iraq aim to disrupt national elections
* Health Care Reform: Congress has 2-week deadline to pass bill
* Defending Public Education: local and statewide events
Producer Cathy Murillo
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Today, KCSB is covering the Day of Action to Defend Public Education. Events are happening at each University of California campus, including UCSB. At 12 noon, KCSB will pre-empt our normally scheduled program, “The Marketplace of Ideas,” to air live the rally and press conference taking place at UCSB’s Arbor, the public plaza in front of the Davidson Library.
We’ll have more coverage during our 5 p.m. newscast. At that time, we’ll present live reports from downtown Santa Barbara where area school teachers and other supporters will march to demand more funding for education in the State of California. Tune in at 12 noon and 5 p.m. for these reports, or listen online.
Demonstrations at entrances to UC Santa Cruz have rendered the campus inaccessible to vehicular traffic. According to reports from the Independent Media Center in Santa Cruz and radio station KZSC, students, university employees including faculty and both represented and non-represented workers are protesting against the privatization of public education in California. Santa Cruz IMC’s report reads, “As of 7 am, hundreds of students, faculty and workers have gathered at all campus entrances. Thousands more are expected throughout the day, especially for the 9 am and noon rallies, and the 5 pm general assembly, all at the base of campus at mission and bay.”
– Monica Lopez
Following the news, Elizabeth Robinson and Jordan Camp speak with Professor Rebecca N. Hill about her book Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History (Duke University Press, 2009). She is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York.
Jordan Camp and Elizabeth Robinson speak with UC San Diego Professors Sara Kaplan and Daniel Widener about the recent racist events at UCSD. We explore how the events expose the hostile climate for students of color on UC campuses as well as for people of color throughout California. We also discuss the role of African American studies and Ethnic studies in liberation struggles.
Listen Every Weekday at 12 noon
* Landslide in Uganda kills possibly hundreds
* Bombings in Iraq leading up to national election
* SB Channelkeeper wants Aera Energy to operate cleanly
* US EPA tears down contaminated Halaco buildings at Ormond Beach
* Students and educators to march for funding March 4
Producer Cathy Murillo
Prof. Dick Flacks, host of “Culture of Protest” writes: “Woody Guthrie wrote the song ‘This Land Is Your Land’ 70 years ago this week, so we’ll feature it on our next show, listening to many variations. But first we’ll talk with Kelly Burns, one of the organizers of tomorrow’s local demonstration in solidarity with nationwide local events in defense of education, organized by education unions and students.”
“Culture of Protest” airs Thursdays from 6-7pm on KCSB.
*Global headlines Harry Lawton
*Changing bull terrier perceptions Robyn Pennington
* Rhythmic Uprising Conchita Pang
*Reform to GATE program in Santa Barbara schools Holly Hyde
* UC Student Lobby and UC Hate Crimes Daniel Alvarenga
*Interview with activist Janelle Mungo on March 4th Day of Action Geoffrey Ticker
*March 4th Day of Action preview
Announcer: Courtney Brooks
Engineers: Cathy Murillo, Daniel Alvarenga
RadioIP with Levi and Tim: Worldwide, 12 million people suffer from autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease or ADPKD. In the U.S. the number is larger than those affected by Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia combined. UC Santa Barbara’s Dr. Thomas Weimbs, associate professor and director of the Weimbs Lab joined Levi and Tim this morning to discuss his team’s latest findings which could lead to one of the first drug treatments for a disease which currently can only be treated through dialysis and transplant.
Listen to the show here.
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to cinematic journalist and curator Livia Bloom, editor of Errol Morris: Interviews, a compilation of conversations with the nonfiction filmmaker behind such movies as Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. The book, which includes two interviews conducted by Bloom herself as well as other notable film writers like Paul Cronin and Roger Ebert, reveals a directorial mind filled with curiosity, love of truth and real or imagined misanthropy.
The Marketplace of Ideas airs every Thursday at noon.
