Cal Winslow
Host, ProducerCal Winslow is Director of the Mendocino Institute and a past Fellow in Environmental History at the University of California, Berkeley. He was trained at Antioch College and Warwick University, where he studied under the direction of the late Edward Thompson. He is a co-author with Thompson of Albion's Fatal Tree. After Warwick he worked as a warehouseman, truck driver and journalist, as a participant in and observer of the 1970’s rank-and-file workers’ rebellion in the US. He was a professor of labor studies at the Center for Worker Education, City College of New York, and he was a visiting Senior Lecturer at the Northern College for Residential Adult Education in South Yorkshire, also a visiting professor at the Evergreen State College.
His most recent book is River of Fire, Commons, Crisis and the Imagination. He is editor of E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left and co-editor of Rebel Rank and File, Labor Militancy and Revolt from below During the Long 1970s. He is an author of West of Eden, Communes and Utopia in Northern California, co-edited with Iain Boal, Janferie Stone and Michael Watts. He is author of Labor’s Civil War in California and is a regular contributor to CounterPunch.
As a KZYX programmer, he has produced several public affairs reports, including the following series: “Ecology and Community,” “An Antinomian Hour,” “Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement,” “Black Lives Matter,” “Talking about Socialism,” “Where are We Now?” and “Our Hispanic Heritage.”
He lives with his family on the Mendocino Coast near Caspar. He has four children: Jessie, Samantha, Rosie and Matthew. He and his wife, Faith Simon, a Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in pediatrics, are founding members of Mendocino Parents for Peace and are associated with the Bay Area gathering Retort.
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Today Talking About California presents the last of four programs in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month 2021 (Oct 13th). We interview three Mendocino…
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Talking About California presents: a Special Series for Hispanic Heritage Month. Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow host four programs, each considering an…
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Talking About California: Hispanic Heritage Month 2021 Part 2 Talking About California presents: Hispanic Heritage Month Special Series. Four programs,…
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Tuesday September 21 Hispanic Heritage Month Special Series Part 1Talking About California presents: Hispanic Heritage Month Series. Four programs, each…
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Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow host a special episode of Talking about California. They interview Professor Will Russell, an environmentalist at San Jose…
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10/20/20: The fourth installment of Talking About California features Professor Alvaro Huerta, Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning (URP) and…
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10/6/20: Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow host the third installment of a four-part series in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, featuring Maria Rendon,…
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9/29/20: Part 2 features a conversation with Professor Alex Vitale of Brooklyn College, author of “The End of Policing” and one of the leading voices for…
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9/22/20: Part 1, a conversation with UCLA Professor Chris Zepeda-Millan, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Chicano and Central American Studies.
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Join Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow on Talking About California, as they discuss the New Deal with Richard Walker, Professor Emeritus of Geography at the…