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Please join Dixie Treichel & John Townsend on Fresh Fruit:https://www.kfai.org/freshfruit Thursday April 15, 2010 from 7:30pm-8:30pm CST

Tonight’s Guests
Michael Korie, librettest
Ricky Ian Gordon, composer
Leigh Fondakowski, playwright
Leeanne Pooley, film director
Jake Yuzna, film director
Kelly Gilpatrick, film producer

Michael Korie, librettest & Ricky Ian Gordon, composer

The universe and the brain operate on the physical and metaphysical principles. Metaphysical principles are those that have always been there and always work, such as electricity. Man didn’t discover that, it was already there. But it is metaphysical in the sense that it doesn’t have weight or form, but it has affect.

Today, the American population suffers from a list of chronic health conditions, from asthma to cancer to diabetes. Every family has been impacted on every rung of our socio-economic ladder, creating a tremendous burden on our healthcare system, while countries around the world barely seem to sniffle.

Check out KFAI’s MovieTalk:https://www.kfai.org/movietalk as Jim Brunzell, Peter Schilling and Erik McClanahan speak to Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival Director, Al Milgrom. They’ll talk about the history of MSPIFF and what films are worth checking out at the festival at St. Anthony Main, April 15-30, 2010.

Do you think of yourself as white? Or have you never thought of it before? If you think of yourself as white, how do you feel about it. Do you think of yourself as a person who is usually trusted, who can buy what you want anywhere you want with whatever credit you might need without paying extra for the privilege? Can you live pretty much anywhere you wish?

Cathi Cinicola talks abour gender inequities in the U.S. health system for women of color, rural and low-income women—and the role Planned Parenthood plays in meeting basic healthcare needs.She also updates on the fight for women’s reproductive rights and fact-based sex ed on KFAI’s Catalyst Friday, Mar. 26, 11am.

Hear organziers of the 2010 V-DAY MINNEAPOLIS (April 15-19) read from the new play A Memory,A monologue, A Rant, A Prayer part of the annual international event to raise awareness about violence against women on KFAI’s Art Matters,Thur.March 25, 7pm. ALso:Minnesota filmmaker Teresa Konchne talks about her film Woven From the Ground,screening Sat.Mar.27, 1:30pm at Walker Art Ctr.

The cozy conclave of legislators and the insider baseball played by regulators with those they regulate have become the engine driving too much of our state, local and federal policies and public largesse.

Hear from Minnesota filmmakers, Barbara Weiner (Ida’s Story, Mar. 20) and Teresa Konechne (Woven From The Land,Mar. 27) who’s films screen at the Walker Art Center’s annual Women With Vision FIlm Festival. Plus: Twin Cities economic activists update on opposing Gov.Pawlenty’s massive social cuts at the State Capitol. On Catalsyt, Friday,Mar.19,11am, hosted by Lydia Howell

Judy Grahn, internationally known poet, writer, and social theorist is featured on Fresh Fruit:freshfruit for Women’s History Month.