Podcast appearances and mentions of saul landau

This week, we interviewed the quintessential San Francisco sibling duo, Greg and Valerie Landau. Greg is a music and video producer, educator, and historian with 8 Grammy-nominated albums. Valerie, a Harvard-trained expert, specializes in innovative teaching and AI-infused education tools. Their lives were shaped by the influential 1960s and 70s in San Francisco as they grew up in The Mission District and Noe Valley. As children of poet-activist Nina Serrano and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Saul Landau, Greg and Valerie were influenced by the city's political upheaval as it became one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. Their parents' dedication to humanitarian causes like the civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, pro-choice, and gay rights movements, left an indelible mark on Greg and Valerie. These values continue to shape their work in education and the arts, and we're eager to share their stories with you on Beyond the Fog Radio. Meet Valerie and Greg Landau! Learn more about Greg Landau at https://greglandau.com/mystory Learn more about Valerie Landau at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landau Learn more about Nina Serrano at https://estuarypress.com/nina-serrano-homepage/ Learn more about Saul Landau at https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/arts/saul-landau-maker-of-films-with-leftist-edge-dies-at-77.html

Comrade Adam and Comrade Commissar Don tackle a hugely complex and fascinating topic this week and next: the guerrilla movements and insurgencies that were exploding all in Central America from the 1970's to the early 1990's. As an introduction into this vast historical landscape, we read through Saul Landau's 1993 book, The Guerrilla Wars of Central America. In Part 1, we provide a general overview of the book, Landau's approach in telling the history, and come critical points to consider in journalistic histories of guerrilla movements. After that, Comrade Adam takes the lead on talking through the Sandinista movement and guerrilla warfare in Nicaragua up to the late 1980's. Intro Music: "Guerrilla Radio" by Rage Against the Machine Further Reading/Citations Saul Landau The Guerrilla Wars of Central America Overview and Reader Reviews Fidel by Saul Landau (Full Documentary) Jeane Kilpatrick Kilpatrick's Blame America First Speech from 1984 GOP Convention 1953 Iranian Coup United Fruit Company 1954 Guatemalan Coup John Foster Dulles Allen Dulles When Banana Ruled Documentary Clip The Front Line Documentary Trailer Monroe Doctrine Jose Santos Zelaya Smedley Butler War is Racket by Smedley Butler Low-intensity Conflict (LIC) Augusto Cesar Sandino Somoza Family Organization of American States (OAS) Alliance for Progress School of the Americas Barbudos (Bearded Revolutionaries) Foco Theory of Guerrilla Warfare Tupamaros Coca-Cola Accused of Funding Right-Wing Death Squads ------------------------------------------------ Email us at redlibrarypodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front  

A sound portrait of Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante, a one-time leader in the Cuban cultural revolution who fell from favor and went into exile in London in 1965. Intense and compelling, Cabrera Infante was passionate about cinema, satire, puns, tongue twisters, and about his lost love — Cuba. In 1967 he wrote his best-known work—Three Trapped Tigers—a steamy, experimental journey into 1950s nightlife in Havana. In the 1970s he suffered a massive mental breakdown and was treated with electroshock and lithium. He was the author of over a dozen books, translated James Joyce’s Dubliners into Spanish, and wrote a screenplay adaptation of Under Volcano and the script for the film Vanishing Point. Cabrera Infante’s cinematic, jazz-like writing, comes to life in this story rich with music and interviews with cinematographer Nestor Almendros, painter Jesse Fernandez, activist Saul Landau, and the writer himself. Actors Lazaro Perez, and Ilka Tanya Payan are heard in dramatizations from Cabrera Infante's acclaimed novel, "Tres Triestes Tigres." Cabrera Infante lived in London with his wife Miriam Gomez until his death in 2005. Produced by The Kitchen Sisters as part of NPR’s series Faces, Mirrors, Masks: Twentieth Century Latin American Fiction.

Expectations for 2012—2011 was a tumultuous year in Canadian and world politics. ALERT asked on-the-ground activists to talk about their expectations for 2012: Judy Rebick on Canadian politics; Clayton Thomas Muller on Indian Country; Mathew Brett on the Occupation Movement; Saul Landau on US politics; Sam Bahour on the Middle East.

Jenny Holzer är en av världens mest kända och anlitade konstnärer. Texten är hennes främsta uttrycksmedel och redan på 70-talet skrev hon sina första Truismer; påståenden om världen, våld, och maktförhållanden. Då illegalt uppklistrade affischer runtom Manhattan, sedan dess har budskapen spridits över världen i form av ljusprojektioner, elektroniska skyltar. Idag är det framför allt USAs krig mot terrorismen och tidigare hemligstämpat materia som är hennes utgångspunkt. Kosmos Cecilia Blomberg har träffat Jenny Holzer i Los Angeles. Och så har frilansjournalisten Ric Wasserman mött den prisbelönta amerikanska dokumentärfilmare Saul Landau som är aktuell med filmen Will the real terrorist please stand up. På Kalmar konstmuseum visas utställningen "A Complicated Relation" med samtida verk av konstnärer från östra Europa. Fredrik Wadström har varit där. Programledare Anneli Dufva. Jenny Holzer är en av världens mest kända och anlitade konstnärer. Texten är hennes främsta uttrycksmedel och redan på 70-talet skrev hon sina första Truisms; påståenden om världen, våld, och maktförhållanden. Då var det på illegalt uppklistrade affischer runtom Manhattan, sedan dess har budskapen spridits över världen i form av ljusprojektioner och elektroniska skyltar, men också huggits in i sten och finns även här i Sverige på Wanås slott i Skåne. Efter den 11 september har Jenny Holzer helt fokuserat på kriget mot terrorismen och på de övergrepp USA begått i sin kamp för en säkrare värld.  Texterna skriver hon inte längre själv, utan hon arbetar utifrån tidigare hemligstämplat material. Hon har gjort målningar och ännu fler textprojektioner och ljusskyltar med alltifrån bilder av planerade bombräder i Bagdad, till militärförhör och dokument om tortyr i fängelser som Abu Ghraib och Guantanamo. Kosmos Cecilia Blomberg fick en intervju med konstens dolda världskändis - på ett hotellrum i Santa Monica i Los Angeles. På utställningen Helvete, som öppnade nu i veckan på Liljevalchs konsthall i Stockholm, kan man se flera av Jenny Holzers verk. Bland andra Torso, från 2007, ett av de verk som bygger på autentiska brottsstycken från rapporter om enskilda soldaters brott och straff i Mellanöstern. Och så har frilansjournalisten Ric Wasserman mött den prisbelönta amerikanska dokumentärfilmare Saul Landau som är aktuell med filmen Will the real terrorist please stand up. Filmen berättar om de så kallade Cuban Five - kubanska agenter som försökte att stoppa terroristattacker mot Kuba som var organiserade av anti-Castro grupper i Miami - men som själva fängslades i USA 2001 och dömdes för terrorism. På Kalmar konstmuseum visas just nu utställningen A Complicated Relation med samtida verk av konstnärer från östra Europa. Temat är kulturens roll i samhället och konstens möjligheter att påverka demokratiprocessen i auktoritära samhällen. Fredrik Wadström har träffat konstnärer från forna Sovjetunionen, bland andra den ryska radikala konstnärsgruppen Voina och vitryska Marina Naprushkina som skapat Byrån För Anti-propaganda. Programledare: Anneli Dufva Producent: Marie Liljedahl

Director, write, scholar, poet, Saul Landau, internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues and  joins us to talk about his latest film: "Will the Real Terrorists Please Stand Up!" at Brava Theatre, Saturday, April 16, 2011, 7 PM. brava.org and http://realterrorist.wordpress.com/ Landau is joined in the studio with Alicia Jrapko, US National Coordinator of the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5. http://www.freethefive.org/  We then play a prerecorded interview with  Kirvan James Boyd, Boston, Mass., Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater highlighting the debut on the DOC channel film airing April 16, 2011, 8 PM, PT/ET of Phil Bertelsen's "Alvin Ailey, American Dance Theater: Beyond the Steps." If isteners would like a copy of the DVD while supplies last send me a message here on the show page or wanda@wandaspicks.com We play a teaser segment of an interview with Joanna Haigood & Charles Trapolin's performance installation: "The Monkey and the Devil," which opens APR 15, 8 PM  at YBCA Forum, Third and Mission, in San Francisco, and continues through APR 17, 12-2 PM and 3-5 PM (one hour cycles). Visit zaccho.org and ybca.org We close with an interview with Duane Baughman, Producer/Director, of a first film, "Bhutto: Democracy Is the Greatest Revenge," which is having a free ITVS, KQED, Neighborhood Empowerment Network, and HandsOn Bay Area, community screening Tues., APR 19, with a panel discussion folliowing, at San Francisco Main Public Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street. Visit http://www.itvs.org/films/bhutto

Roger Annis, coordinator of Canada Haiti Action Network, exposes Michel Martelly’s questionable background and talks about where Haiti is going under its new president. Economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., explains how the debt ceiling imposed by the US Congress almost shutdown the federal government and comments on Obama’s concessions to the far right. Saul Landau talks about his new film “Will The Real Terrorists Please Stand Up” and comments on how he got the Cuban exile community in Miami and retired FBI and CIA agents to candidly talk about their efforts over the past 50 years to assassinate Fidel Castro and bomb Cuba in an effort to bring down its government.

Award winning author and film maker Saul Landau talks about the significance of the attack on Wisconsin public sector unions led by Governor Scott Walker and the importance of the fight-back. Palestinian writer and activist Adam Hanieh gives an in depth explanation of the causes of the Arab revolt, where they are headed and the interest of the US in restricting its aspirations.

The Harper government foreign policy doomed Canada’s bid for a UN Security Council seat according to award winning editor and columnist Haroon Siddiqui. Stephen Shrybman, international trade and public interest lawyer and Board member of the Council of Canadians reveals the pitfalls of the Canada-European Union free trade agreement now being negotiated. Award winning film maker, broadcaster and writer Saul Landau talks about the right-wing swing in American politics and reflects on whether it matters that the Democratic Party will gain at the expense of the Democrats in next week’s Congressional elections. He also ruminates on California’s ballot to decriminalize possession of marijuana.

Film-maker Saul Landau on what’s behind the new American Far Right movement and how dangerous is it. Political scientist Jim Silver on Manitoba’s new NDP Premier, Greg Selinger. Trade unionist Fred Wilson on Canada’s Pension Crisis and how to fix it.

Canada’s Plan to Bury Carbon Emissions Sheer Folly. Graham Thomson, author of a new 63 page report, discusses the risks in building a system to capture and store carbon dioxide underground. Saul Landau, just returned from his 50th visit to Cuba, talks about his interviews of Fidel and Raul Castro and compares their startlingly different governing styles. Ingo Schmidt talks about new right-wing coalition government that emerged from last week’s German elections. Mitch Podolak with Music Is The Weapon.

Alert opens a new season with CAW economist Jim Stanford, who says says the economic recovery is only temporary. In the wake of the 8th anniversary of 9/11, author and film maker Saul Landau shows how the futile war against terrorism carries on in the age of Obama. CD collective member Angela Day argues that Canada’s immigration problems with Mexico begin with NAFTA. Founder of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Mitch Podolak, introduces a new season of Music is the Weapon.

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