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Governor Gavin Newsom says a new law he signed yesterday will reduce red tape when it comes to building more affordable housing in California.
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Ben Rhodes will discuss the party's future, why Democrats lost the presidential election to Trump, and his new book, "All We Say: The Battle for American Identity."
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REVISITING THE GAY LIFE is a new audio documentary series from KALW’s QUEER POWER HOUR that takes listeners back five decades and tries to make sense of the earth-shattering years that were bookended by the murder of Harvey Milk and the early days AIDS. The series explores that pivotal moment in LGBTQ history through the lens of THE GAY LIFE, a local radio show that aired from 1977 to 84.
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Today we honor one of the strongest voices that's fought for the disabled community. And one group is trying to make a notoriously demanding festival more accessible.
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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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The visa process for visiting artists has always been complicated and expensive. Under the current administration, it's gotten significantly worse.
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Community leaders personally impacted by the AIDS crisis come together to recall the past and imagine a better future.
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San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood’s Affordable Groceries Act was removed from this Wednesday's Budget and Finance Committee agenda.