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People rallied outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco this morning to support a Bay Area father facing deportation.
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PG&E is planning to shut off power today for up to 20 hours in some areas of California, including parts of the Bay.
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On today’s show, an entire hour of poetry about rest, grief and intimacy from the voices of Black women. Hear a live recording of our moving event “When We Exhale,” which is inspired by the anthology of the same name. Featuring poets: Alie Jones, Nia Pearl, Lyn Patterson, Ayodele Nzinga, Adrienne Oliver, Kelechi Ubozoh, and Host Jeneé Darden.
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Today, lasting lessons from the AIDS crisis. Then, we hear three generations of local leaders share their experiences of transitioning.
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The Tibetan Freedom Concerts head to New York, where the team faces slow ticket sales, city bureaucracy, and the pressure of turning one breakthrough concert into something bigger. But even as the concert nearly breaks them, U2’s surprise appearance fulfills Erin’s teenage promise and helps carry the movement toward Washington, D.C.
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This week on BAY MADE: Freedom Needs a Soundtrack. Thirty years ago, an unlikely group of artists, activists, and friends helped build the Tibetan Freedom Concerts into one of the largest concert series of the 1990s and a rallying cry for nonviolence, freedom, and Tibet. Freedom Needs a Soundtrack looks back at how the concerts began, what they changed, and what their legacy offers now.
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