Hey Adam & Weyland!!

Really enjoyed the show today. Looking forward to MORE. This is something we can all benefit from hearing, even an old grandma like me. But I'm going to recommend it to my sons and others and pass the word around.

One small thing, I think you may have crossed the line about promoting things for sale when you gave the price of the artwork and where to get it. Might want to look into the FCC rules about that ... the station manager should have them ... I think you can always mention peoples' web pages, but not recommend that people go there to buy something.

Anyway, THANKS for doing this much needed and appreciated and engaging/entertaining program. Wishing you lots of success with it.

~Carol

Where is the information?
What the hell is this? Bozos who call themselves "Hip pops"? "Figuring out Fatherhood" for a damn hour? That concept belongs on public access tv with 0 viewers. Get lost, lazy asses! All I get is saxaphone cacaphony when I wanted Doug Henwood, and he has enough cacaphony in his musical breaks. This kind of dead-air, very-low-information-content crap has me recommending KPFA less and less. Oh, let's listen and hear "jazz is...the most democratic art form."? What?! Says who?! Man, this is CRAP!!!

because this is a waste of time
no information

KPFA has taught me to resisit my first inclination to REJECT the new, the different. I am enjoying this new show! I am interested to hear what young fathers think, what experiences they have in the world with their children, etc. Fathers of color have a different perception & no doubt, experience & I want to know this. I am open to learning, hearing all of it. Plus, some good humor going on in the studio...keep on keeping on. Spell your guests name so we can follow their work, RE Shawn,Shaun,Sean Taylor?
Thanks, Janet H

Thanks for the compelling new show, guys. Please note this onrushing KPFA event.

September 7. Friday, 7:30 pm
JONATHAN KOZOL (KPFA benefit)
Fire in the Ashes: 25 Years Among the Poorest Children in America
A Tribute to Public Schoolteachers and Schoolworkers
Co-sponsored with the Oakland Education Association & the Berkeley Federation of Teachers
King Middle School, 1781 Rose Street, Berkeley
Introduced by Alice Waters, Hosted by Anthony Cody

Hey, thanks you guys/gaias for putting together this show. Like Carol, I am a grandma. I will pass on the info about the zines, blogs, and the show to my sons.

Wonderful show today! I tuned in just in time for a song about reconnecting to the land and roots. I'd love to know who wrote the song - it really touched me. Thanks!

I think this is a fine show. I applaud the efforts for this thoughtful and timely program.
Please keep up the good work.

I so enjoyed your discussion of this film today. I just moved to the city so I'm just getting into KPFA. I will definitely tune in to you guys again!

I want to appreciate your guests naming how gentrification is fundamentally economically driven (it's an example of how capitalism requires the movement of capital - real estate became the place for big money to make more of it). I would, though, like to push back on the idea that race is not at play. In the U.S. (& globally), the development of capitalism has been inextricably linked to race & white supremacy, and this remains true today. Like your guests were describing, things like white flight were part of what created the conditions & set stage for the speculation & other economic practices that are some of the current expressions of gentrification. The role that the police play in gentrification is another clearly radicalized aspect. No question, it's about class/money/capital, but we are a long long way from racism not being deeply intertwined with how the economy functions. Thanks for the show. -vjm

Weyland,
I've been meaning to email you for several months to remark on the high quality and vision of what you and Adam are doing with this show. I've referred my younger daughter Julia (now 20) -- who loves hip hop -- to several segments, and will do again today. Particularly enjoyed Adam's interview with a man from Brooklyn (missed the name), and talking about the nature of property turnover in gentrified areas and how we can move beyond race in thinking about that phenomenon. Also similar theme on discussion of hip hop origins itself.
Would love for Julia to meet you guys sometime when she is here (in school in Oregon now).
Take care,
Tomas

Glad to hear your report on privatization and the SF Waterfront. You are an important service to the community. I look forward to hearing more and more. regards, robert kolbe