Folk icon Joan Baez gets personal in her new poetry collection

Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Folk icon Joan Baez gets personal in her new poetry collection

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Published on May 6, 2024, 12:00:00 PM
Total time: 00:51:01

Episode Description

Joan Baez talks about her poetry, memories of abuse, living with dissociative identity disorder, and abstaining from the Gaza protests on college campuses. 

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Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel. But in California, divestment may not be legally achievable because of a little-known civil rights law. 

Six months after the Hollywood strikes, film and TV productions are still down. Now IATSE is at the table with the AMPTP. Could a strike be on the horizon? 

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