Richard Barnard, Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley and Richard Medhurst. These are some of the canaries in the coal mine for what is to come in the West as the region’s elite quickly becomes Israel’s international police. Medhurst joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to talk about his own experiences in the United Kingdom and Austria, where federal agents and police arrested him and searched his home under draconian counterterrorism laws.
I was just trying to tell the truth as best as I could with the facts that we had at that time and that’s it. And I think they’re trying to make an example out of me, definitely,” Medhurst tells Hedges
CHRIS WILL BE IN SAN DIEGO FRIDAY MAY 30 FOR KNSJ. PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS NOW.
Please Note: If you have not yet purchased your ticket to KNSJ’s Fundraiser Friday May 30, featuring CHRIS HEDGES ON TOUR WITH HIS LATEST BOOK A GENOCIDE FORETOLD, get your ticket at http://news.knsj.org
Tune in today at 2pm to a Friendly Fire “Blast From the Past”as we revisit an incredible day of action with Code Pink and Veterans For Peace from April of 2023. Activists led by Medea Benjamin took to the streets of Syracuse, NY, to make the public aware of the “Merchants of Death,” and Friendly Fire was there!
TALK OF THE TOWN LIVE with MIKE AGUIRRE Saturdays 11am-Noon
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The Trump Administration: $1 Billion Cut in Mental Health Grants to Schools—OUR schools are affected in Lemon Grove, Spring Valley and La Mesa.
MIKE IS IN CONVERSATION WITH DEBBIE SKIPPER AND REBECCA BURTON WITH THE LEMON GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT
❖ DEBBIE SKIPPER, EDUCATOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE LEMON GROVE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: Debbie is a teacher in the Lemon Grove School District. She has been a public school educator for over 25 years, working with students in grades TK-6. She started teaching kindergarten for San Diego Unified School District , then and in Las Vegas for the Clark County School District before moving back to San Diego and joining Lemon Grove 10 years ago.
❖ Debbie has been the President of the Lemon Grove Teachers Association (LGTA) for 5 years. Debbie is a proud wife and mother of two – one son working on an engineering degree and daughter graduating from high school and will be majoring in Political Science next year.
❖ REBECCA BURTON – LEMON GROVE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND STUDENT SERVICES, AND SHE NOW SERVES AS THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT
❖ Rebecca has been an educator for 19 years, starting as a special education teacher in Mexico, and then in public education for Title I districts in Los Angeles and San Diego county. After teaching, she moved into her first district office role as a Special Education coach, and grew into other leadership roles from there. Five years ago, Rebecca began working at Lemon Grove School District in San Diego County as the Executive Director of Special Education and Student Services, and she now serves as the Deputy Superintendent. During her time in public education, Rebecca has led launching Multi-Tiered Systems of Support across three different organizations, which have continued to grow and thrive to this day. Rebecca is deeply passionate about whole child education, creating high quality programs in underserved communities, and building school systems that function as equity champions for vulnerable student populations.
❖ LEMON GROVE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: LGTA represents and advocates for 191 teachers, psychologists, speech/language pathologists, nurses and social workers. This small association is dedicated to the success of students, families and the local community
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GINGERLILY LOWE Actor, Director, Writer, Songwriter, Teaching Artistand San Diego’s ASIAN STORY THEATER
Gingerlily has been a teaching artist with Arts for Young Audiences, Institute for Arts Education, and currently is on the teaching artist staff for Guitars in the Classroom. She is the Education Director for ASIAN STORY THEATER, writing curriculum for the theater’s education component. Gingerlily is a retired classroom teacher spending many years in San Ysidro, San Diego Unified, and The Museum School where her students always participated in lots of integrated art projects and activities–including script and lyric writing.
She performed her radio theater play, “ASIAN SCARY THEATER” at the 2024 SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL. Her play “BOUND” was presented at the OLD GLOBE THEATER’S Powers New Voices Festival, 2023. She was one of the Co-Directors and contributing song-writer’s for ASIAN STORY THEATER’s new musical “NOT WORKING” –which premiered fall 2021, and performed as Ah Toy, the second Chinese woman to arriving in the US in the 1800’s in ASIAN STORY THEATER’s, “THE GOLDEN RULE” at SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL, 2022.
Gingerlily and her husband, Kent Brisby, performed together in the PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT 38TH “PLAYS BY YOUNG WRITERS” 2023. Currently they are working together on the LAST CENSUS PROJECT, where they have produced/commissioned over 30 scripts of varying lengths (a small festival of the plays including AST’s “CENSUS AND CENSIBILITY” were part of the OLD GLOBE 360 PROJECT 2025) leading towards a culminating production in June 2025 of “THE LAST CENSUS.”
email Gingerlily@asianstorytheater.org
ABOUT ASIAN STORY THEATER
History & Future
Asian Story Theater began in 1989, dramatizing Chinese folk tales as a project sponsored by the San Diego Chinese Center. The first production was The White Snake (1989-90), presented at the Lyceum Space Theatre and subsequently toured to county schools, libraries, and recreation centers. In 1991 the company staged its first adaptation based on the 16th century fantasy novel Journey to the West, featuring the Monkey King with additional productions following each year. In 1995 the company incorporated as the Asian Story Theater, independent of the San Diego Chinese Center, to diversify programming and expand touring operations to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Each year since, we have produced at least one production in pursuit of our mission. Touring and scale of production has varied depending on funding, talent, and venue availability. Recent years have led to increasingly diverse programs, including a full-length musical about the artist Paul Gauguin (PRICK: The Musical Paul Gauguin, November 2011-May 2012), as well as partnering to produce a pilot television episode, based on our 2006 project SHAVE ICE (December 2013). We are also committed to continuing a series of annual touring theater productions related to the Lunar New Year Celebrations, presenting WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED A PIPE, for Year of the Tiger.
WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED A PIPE, for Year of the Tiger.
We continue to explore new production partners and collaborators, such as for WHAT ARE YOU? (2019) and THE GOLDEN RULE, 2020-2022, NOT WORKING 2022- a new original musical featuring songs from our BIPOC creative community about our shared experiences during COVID, THECOFFEE PLAYS 2023 celebrating coffee stories and coffee culture around the world, and our latest endeavors Asian SCARY Theater 2023/2024 a radio theater project with “chicken-skin” storytelling and TWO DRAGONS 2024 featuring a Balinese naga shadow puppet play and a radio theater style dragon story from China. WHERE WE LAY OUR SORROWS DOWN 2024 a Cultivating Joy project
In 2024 ASIAN STORY THEATER in collaboration with TEATRO MASCARA MAGICA and SAN DIEGO BLACK ENSEMBLE is developing a new program about the census, to be presented in 2025.
A Genocide Foretold, Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego 92103, Entrance on 5th Avenue
Tell your friends and neighbors. Another dynamic book showing Hedge’s astute observations and critical eye on the truth, his first-hand experiences and his eloquent writing style. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author. Chris will also be in Los Angeles for KPFK and in San Francisco for KPFA.
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“An authoritative argument against the singularity of the conflict and an indictment of Western media narratives that present it as exceptional and beyond critique.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Chris Hedges writes with heart and extraordinary moral clarity about a genocide that has unfurled in front of our eyes. A Genocide Foretoldindicts not only the racist bloodlust that has overtaken Israeli society, but the full complicity of the U.S. government and media, and the hypocrisies at the heart of the West’s most cherished illusions.” —Beh Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
“With a searing urgency, Chris Hedges brings readers face to face with Israel’s devastation of Gaza. A Genocide Foretold is a scathing denunciation of the long violence of the Zionist project and its U.S. and European backers. The writing reflects his deep experience as a correspondent from Central America to Bosnia and his passionate moral outrage against both war and the hypocrisy that justifies it. Fast-paced and dazzling, the book gives first-hand accounts of the horrors of war and the courage of those resisting it.” —Aviva Chomsky, coeditor of Organizing for Power and author of Central America’s Forgotten History
“Chris Hedges profoundly describes exactly what is happening in Palestine and talks on behalf of the victims. In his painful writings, he makes their voices heard. This is genocide as I lived it in Gaza for three months. The book is full of stories, information, and shocking realities. This is not just reporting from there or about them, it is a courageous challenge to all attempts to misinform us about what life looks like in Gaza. Profound, honest, painful, moving and real…the book takes us through history, geography, politics, and news and helps us better understand the Zionist occupation. We cannot escape after learning about it! Chris is telling us: now you know.”—Atef Abu Saif, Minister of Culture of Palestine and author of Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide
STOP & TALK with Grant Oliphant Fri 8am You won’t want to miss this. Thoughtful conversations and a good way to start the day!
STOP & TALK dives deep into the themes of purpose and opportunity, guided by the insights of leaders in the arts and culture, health, philanthropy, finance, and innovation fields. Together, we celebrated local achievements and envisioned what’s possible in San Diego County. https://stopandtalkpodcast.com/
Friday’s Features: the latest news and voices you rarely, if ever, hear on mainstream media. Interviews and conversations with guests who are free to talk about their own experiences and what they see in their neighborhoods and in their own communities. Guests who are experts in their fields and understand the world view. Guests who talk about working together and respecting one another, and much more
6am Making Contact
6:30 Building Bridges
7am Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
8am Stop & Talk with Grant Oliphant
9am-noon Live The Thom Hartmann Show. Call-in with your comments and mention that you are listening to him on KNSJ, your San Diego Public Community station. Call 202-808-9925
12pm Native America Calling
1pm Nader Radio Hour “with the man himself Ralph Nader”
2pm Background Briefing with Ian Masters
3pm Talk of the Town with former San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre
4pm San Diego Screenwriter’s Studio with screenwriter Gail Stewart
4:30 pm Re: Work with voices telling us their experiences and stories
5pm East County Magazine with award-winning investigative journalist and editor Miriam Raftery
6pm Democracy Now! News Replay in case you missed it this morning
7pm Peace Talks
8pm-6am KNSJ’s Fantastic music block with our amazing San Diego DJs spinning vinyl. Check out their programs by pressing the Music Tab at the top of this page, or by linking at https://music.knsj.org
