Hour 1

What's wrong with positive thinking? And what's with the Female Happiness Conundrum?
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”

Healthcare reform bill passes in the House (open phones)
Ellen Shaffer, co-director of Center for Policy Analysis in SF

Hour 2

Green Festival: The State of Green

The Great Liberation Upon Hearing: a new work based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Krissy Keefer, co-founder and artistic director of Dance Brigade

Honduras update
Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (www.cepr.net)

The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
Irene Khan, the first woman and first Asian secretary general of Amnesty International

Hour 2

Featured music: Kitka "Cradle Songs"

Hour 1

Fox News targets another progressive
Robert McChesney, author, professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , co-founder of Free Press (www.freepress.net)

Uncovering post-Katrina violence
AC Thompson, staff writer with ProPublica (www.propublica.org)

Hour 2

Free Speech Forum (listener calls)

Featured music: Bob Marley and the Wailers "Catch A Fire" (Peter Tosh's birthday October 19 (b. 1944))

[audio archive of this show is not yet available through kpfa, but hopefully it will be posted here as soon as possible. --AEL]

Prof. Clarence Lusane and listener comments on Barack Obama's Nobel Prize; Helen Keller honored at U.S. Capitol; Plus: artist Lily Yeh, and Annie Leonard's "The Story of Stuff" at Bioneers 2009 

with host Andrea Lewis

Hour 1

New Developments in the Rise of (White) Nationalism
Leonard Zeskind, author of “Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream”

Tribute to late KPFA programmer Gina Hotta
Apex Express excerpts
Eric Mar, San Francisco supervisor, District 1

Hour 2

Featured music:The Rough Guide to Brazilian Lounge

 Fall Fund Drive Special

UC Berkeley Professor George Lakoff on The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics;

Plus: The Woodstock Experience, featuring Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin and the filmmakers who documented the event