https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/suzi-weissman/ webmaster@kpfk.org (Archive Manager) webmaster@kpfk.org (KPFK Admin) en-us Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0700 60 Pacifica Archive archiver_9.0.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Public Affairs - Local KPFK Public Radio - Online Archives webmaster@kpfk.org Suzi Weissman no https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260830_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260830_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0700
Roberts — who spent over 30 years in City of London financial institutions and is the author of The Great Recession, The Long Depression, and Capitalism in the 21st Century — helps us understand what's going on in the bond markets and why we should care; the crisis in private credit, what it is and why it could also be a catalyst for an economic crash; why everyone seems to be getting it wrong on inflation and what to do about it; and whether and how and when we might expect a recession or a depression to be imminent. The discourse in the financial press seems to be talking about an economy that is wildly different from what we are experiencing in our day to day struggles, and we unpack why that is and what the implications of the anxiety at the top of this k shaped economy are for the American working class.]]> 3604 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260823_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260823_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0700
As record temperatures, fires, floods and drought shake the planet, we're returning to a prescient 1995 talk by Mike, “Reconceptualizing the Environment.”

More than thirty years ago, Mike was already challenging the idea of “natural disaster.” He argued that market-driven development had deliberately put Los Angeles in harm's way—building homes in wildfire corridors, floodplains and other hazardous landscapes while shifting the costs of disaster onto the public and, ultimately, onto the poor.

He ranges much further: indigenous fire management, El Niño and megadrought, environmental memory, global warming and the growing danger of extreme climate events.

And the political question beneath them all: when disaster strikes, who is protected—and who pays?]]> 3604 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260816_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260816_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0700 3604 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260809_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260809_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0700 UVM Medical Center was found to be over-earning by the state board that regulates it. Its response was to cut frontline union jobs — while its 19 top executives split $3 million in bonuses in a single year.

Historian Gabriel Winant , author of "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America," explains how deindustrialization made health care the country's largest employer, but the jobs are understaffed, lower-paid, and more precarious.

We hear from AFT Vermont union leaders --Melissa LaVallee, Teagan Cook, and Emma Galvin — fighting for safe staffing as their contract heads toward an August 13th deadline. They describe their work conditions and demands: a chemo scheduler three weeks behind before her day even starts, a still-unimplemented 2011 universal health care law, and a "milk with dignity" campaign that extends to protecting immigrant co]]> 3603 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260802_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260802_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0700 3604 no Public Affairs - Local