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Jewelle Gomez: The Gilda Stories

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161119F.mp3 Show #147 | November 19, 2016 | Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel. This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian classic when it was first published in 1991, The Gilda Stories has endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of blackness, radical ecology, re-definitions of family, and yes, the erotic potential of the vampire story. The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) THE GILDA STORIES is a very American odyssey. The 2016 anniversary edition has a new forward by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, one of UTNE Reader's 50 Visionaries Transforming the World, a Reproductive Reality Check Shero,...

Documentary “Company Town” – Filmmakers Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161105F.mp3 Show #146 | November 5, 2016 | The once free-spirited city of San Francisco is now a “Company Town,” a playground for tech moguls of the “sharing economy.” Airbnb is the biggest hotel. Uber privatizes transit. And now these companies want political power as well. Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are driven out by skyrocketing rents and evictions–sparking a grassroots backlash that challenges the oligarchy of tech. Is this the future of cities around the world? The feature-length documentary, “Company Town,” is the story of an intense election campaign to determine the fate of the city at the epicenter of the digital revolution. Produced and directed by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow. Alan Snitow’s films include the award-winning “Between Two Worlds,” “Thirst”, “Secrets of Silicon Valley”, and “Blacks and Jews.” He was a producer at the top-rated KTVU-TV News, the Bay Area Fox affiliate, for 12 years. Before that, he was the News Director at Bay Area’s Pacifica Radio...

Whine and Wine: Post-Election Group Therapy

Unedited (longer) version: http://lftlc.com/carriage/WineWhineRaw128.mp3 Broadcast version: http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161112F.mp3 Show #145 | November 12, 2016 | In Deep's first show after the election was about venting feelings, and ways to cope and conquer. You can listen or download to either version of our post-election show. The Radio cut is just as it was heard on our stations and streams. The audio has been trimmed to fit the stations' broadcast clocks, and several profanities have been bleeped over. The Raw cut has been left as close as possible to what our live audience experienced, with only minor technical adjustments. It includes profanities and listener discretion is advised. Professor Charles Postel of San Francisco State University is an historian of political thought and social movements. His study of the Populist movement of the 1890s, The Populist Vision (Oxford, 2007), received the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award. He has taught at UC Berkeley, Sacramento State University, and the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and is a Fellow at...

Dan Levitin: A Field Guide To Lies

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161015F.mp3 Show #144 | October 15, 2016 | Dan Levitin: A Field Guide To Lies. The New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain on Music brings us a primer to the critical thinking that is more important and necessary now than ever. There’s no more perfect time than election season to join us for an event that asks us not to passively accept statistical data and faulty arguments, not to dangerously repeat it, and certainly not to make decisions based upon it without first checking the plausibility and reasoning of the information. Dr. Levit1n is a leader in his field, Dean of Social Sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco, and a faculty member at the Center for Executive Education in the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. There is no question Big Data has become a dominant theme of our culture, or that there is more information available to us than...

Jeff Chang on Race and Resegregation

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161008F.mp3 Show #143 | October 8, 2016 | We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation - Jeff Chang in conversation with Angie Coiro. In these provocative, powerful essays, acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural criticism, We Gon’ Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington D.C., the Great Migration to resurgent nativism. Chang explores the rise and fall of the idea of “diversity,” the roots of student protest, changing ideas about Asian Americanness, and the impact of a century of racial separation in housing. Throughout these essays, Chang includes the voices of many leading activists from around the country as he charts how popular voices on the ground and in social media have been the main catalyst for protest and change. Jeff Chang is Executive Director of the Institute...

Prisons, Profits, Principles

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_161001F.mp3 Show #142 | October 1, 2016 | The Department of Justice is detaching from contracts with private incarceration companies. Prison activists laud the beginning of the end of prison profitization - but of course the practice isn't restricted to the federal government. States and counties guarantee up to 90% capacity in the contracts they sign with private companies. When is a profit-centered model appropriate in a given market - and who gets to make that call? Is that a strictly philosophical consideration, or should it have real-world impact on market regulation? How do the answers play out in other democracies? Guests Dr. Debra Satz, Stanford University, is the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society, Professor of Philosophy and Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities and Arts; Corene Kendrick, Staff Attorney, Prison Law Office Permalink for this podcast here. ...

David Dayen: How Three Average Americans Took On The Banks and Mortgage Fraud

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160910F.mp3 Show #141 | September 10, 2016 | In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose. Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they were all foreclosure victims, and while struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act: closely reading their mortgage documents, discovering the deceit behind them, and building a movement to expose it. Fiscal Times columnist David Dayen recounts how these ordinary Floridians challenged the most powerful institutions in America armed only with the truth—and for a brief moment they brought the corrupt...

The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels & Rock’s Darkest Day

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160903F.mp3 Show #140 | September 3, 2016 | Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day. Rock historian and music critic Joel Selvin returns to In Deep, with his new book, Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day. In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s. In the annals of rock history, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6, 1969, has long been seen as the distorted twin of Woodstock—the day that shattered the Sixties’ promise of peace and love when a concertgoer was killed by a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker club acting as security. While most people know of the events from the film Gimme Shelter, the whole story...

Linguist Geoff Numberg: the Language of Campaign 2016

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160827F.mp3 Show #139 | Guest: Geoffrey Nunberg is an adjunct full professor at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley. His many books include the landmark Going Nucular, named one of the ten best nonfiction books of 2004 by Amazon.com and made best-of-the-year lists by the San Jose Mercury News, the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, and the Chicago Tribune. He’s a recipient of the Linguistic Society of America’s Language and the Public Interest Award. He also worked on the development of linguistic technologies for Xerox. | Show Summary: Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is “wacky”. Clinton claims Trump is “dangerously incoherent.” In the political world, nearly every word is carefully honed to convey specific messages to a deliberately targeted audience. From the choice of vernacular to the number of syllables, the chosen language speaks volumes about America’s culture and subcultures – and the people who want their vote. Linguist Geoff Nunberg joins Angie to unravel...

Rabia Chaudry, author of Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial

http://lftlc.com/carriage/InDeep_AngieCoiro_160820F.mp3 Show #138 | August 20, 2016 | In 2014, the podcast Serial, a spinoff of This American Life, captured the imagination of millions of listeners around the globe. Co-created by host Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder, the broadcast uses investigative journalism to create a nonfiction story over multiple episodes. Serial's first season focused on Adnan Syed's trial, and subsequent murder conviction of his former girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. The reason Sarah Koenig decided to investigate Adnan's case in the first place was due to one woman, Rabia Chaudry. Angie sits down with Rabia for an unforgettable exploration of her astonishing story. Publisher's page for Rabia's book: Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial. Additional research for this show provided by Janne Barklis. Additional production help from Benjamin Whiting. Permalink for this podcast here....