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December 2 - 6, 2002
Monday, Dec. 2
Re-initiating Smallpox Vaccination
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Around the country, state and local departments of health are putting together a national Smallpox vaccination plan for health care workers as requested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The plan is due to the CDC on Monday, December 9. Kitty speaks to Dr. Laurene Mascola, chief of the Acute Commutable Disease Control Unit for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to see how the California state and county plans are coming together.
For more information on the smallpox vaccination plan and on smallpox and other biological threats in general, visit www.ladhs.org.
Dolores Huerta
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Dolores Huerta, co-founder with Cesar Chavez in 1962 of the United Farm Workers Union, joins Kitty to celebrate her recent prize for Creative Citizenship awarded by the Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation for her work to help California farm workers. Most recently, the 72-year-old Huerta marched successfully with hundreds of farm workers on a 165-mile trek to the state capitol to urge Governor Davis to sign a bill that would help contract negotiations between growers and workers.
Boyle Heights Diaries
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Students from Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School worked with the Japanese American Museum to document the history and legacy of one of Los Angeles’ most ethnically diverse communities: Boyle Heights. Kitty speaks with the project coordinator and two of the high schoolers about the lessons learned on the challenges of living in a pluralistic society.
Boyle Heights: The Power of Place and the rest of the Boyle Heights Project are on view at the Japanese American National Museum until February 23. For more info call 213-625-0414 or visit www.janm.org.
Tuesday, Dec. 3
A Townhall Meeting: Stopping the Violence 2002
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The recent spike in LA homicides brings to the fore the same questions that Talk of the City considered during its February 2001 town hall meeting in south LA. Kitty Felde once again convenes a panel of law enforcement officials, including City Councilwoman Janice Hahn and Capt. Terry Hara of the LAPD’s Southeast division; former gang member, Keith Jones; former incarcerated youth, now an outreach worker for Street Poets United, Daniel Kocho; Chairman of the Association of Community Based Gang Invention Workers, Henry Toscano; UC Irivine criminologist, Geroge Tita; founder of Earn Respect, a hospital-based gang intervention project, Mike Baca; and, Reverend Joseph Peay, to discuss how to address the root causes of violence.
Cable station LA36 will air the town hall meeting on the following dates:
Tuesday, December 3, 10:00PM
Wednesday, December 4, 10:00PM
Thursday, December 5, 9:30PM
Friday, December 6, 9:30PM
Saturday, December 7, 9:00PM
Sunday, December 8, 9:30PM
Wednesday, Dec. 4
Micheal Beschloss on The Conquerers
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Presidential historian Michael Beschloss joins Kitty to discuss his latest exploration of what President Roosevelt knew and didn't know at the close of World War II in his book The Conquerors (Simon & Schuster). They explore the possible parallels between the Bush and FDR administrations as the U.S. prepares for possible war against a dictator.
FOUND Magazine
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Have you ever come across a note lost on the ground or found a picture of people you don’t know? Editor of FOUND magazine Davy Rothbart has made a career out of it. He joins Kitty in studio to talk about his eclectic magazine of found objects gathered from people all around the globe.
FOUND magazine is on the California leg of their Nation of Millions tour. Two Found parties are scheduled in Los Angeles.
December 4 -- L.A. (LOS FELIZ) at Skylight Books, 7:30PM, 1818 N Vermont
Ave, 323.660.1175
December 5 -- L.A. (WEST HOLLYWOOD) Book Soup, 8PM, 8818 Sunset Blvd,
310.659.3110
Leonard Nimoy
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Best known as Mr. Spock on the series “Star Trek”, actor Leonard Nimoy talks to Kitty about his role as the Vulcan, about the cult of “Star Trek”, and about his other forays into acting, directing and photography in particular, a passion he pursued as a young teenager in the 1940s. His latest book of Photography is Shekhina, a controversial collection of pictures of the female body based on the concept in the Kabbalah of the female manifestation of God.
Thursday, Dec. 5
Journalism and War
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Kitty speaks with two highly experienced war journalists, a reporter and a photographer, about the key questions facing journalists in the heat of conflict: how much of a difference can you make and how involved do you get with your subjects? Ian Stewart was West Africa bureau chief for the AP when he was shot in the head at point blank range. Peter Howe, himself an experienced combat photographer, has posed these questions to all of the photographers he features in a new collection called Shooting Under Fire (Artisan). Ian Stewart’s latest book is Ambushed: A War Reporter’s Life on the Line (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill).
La Cucaracha Goes Nationwide
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Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz joins Kitty on the occasion of his strip La Cucaracha going national. Celebrate the launch of La Cucaracha on Saturday, December 7 at 8pm at Smokin Mirrors, 4928 Hollywood Boulevard in L.A. Proceeds benefit CHIRLA’s Operation Tarmac Relief Fund.
Insurance Commissioner Garamendi
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Kitty speaks with incoming Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi about his recent election, the rise in interest rates, the effect on insurance premiums, and more.
Friday, Dec. 6
Perc Update
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Perchlorate and perchloroethylene. KPCC environmental reporter Ilsa Setziol tells you which is which and why they are in the news.
Education Cuts
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Today, Governor Gray Davis narrowed the state’s projected state shortfall with budget cuts, including a $1.9 billion from education spending. Kitty talks with Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters and LA School Board President Caprice Young about the cuts.
The Night Kitchen Radio Theater
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Straight from NY, it’s the Night Kitchen Radio Theater, a new repertory theater founded by Arthur Yorinks and Maurice Sendak. The troop revives the best of early radio and infuses it with contemporary, original themes. Co-founder Arthur Yorinks and associate producer, writer and actor, Anthony Zacarro, join Kitty for a discussion of the genre and about their upcoming performances at the Skirball.
The Night Kitchen Radio Theater will perform two newly-created productions at the Skirball Cultural Center this Sunday, December 8: “On Rosie’s Stoop” (based on Sendak’s “Really Rosie”) at 1PM and “The Session” at 7:30PM. For tickets and more information, call 323-655-8587 or visit www.skirball.com.
Book Club of the Air: Out of the Dust
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This month Kitty and students from the Morasha Jewish Day School in Rancho Santa Margarita talk about MacCarthur Genius grant recipient Karen Hesse’s young adult book, Out of the Dust (Scholastic, Inc.).
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