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CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week’s major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).
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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
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Bay Area theatre reviews with KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky, plus interviews with local Artistic Directors, actors and directors. Older posts include interviews witth former associate KPFA theatre critic C.S. Soong. Dates when reviews airs can be found at http://bookwaves.homestead.com/Theatre_Reviews.html
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A podcast posted every Sunday featuring extended interviews and discussions from Bookwaves, Art-Waves, and Bookwaves Artwaves Hour programs on KPFA, and newly digitized and edited archive interviews from the pre-digital Probabilities series dating back to 1977. Literature, theater, film, the visual arts: in-depth interviews from a progressive and artistic viewpoint, with long-time KPFA/Pacifica host Richard Wolinsky.
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The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.
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A Rude Awakening is an award-winning climate crisis and environmental justice radio show with interviews and commentary – hosted and produced by Sabrina Jacobs. Tune In! Every Friday @ 8am Follow A Rude Awakening on Facebook, Mastodon, Twitter and Instagram
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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
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Dedicated to “anything we need to know to have a democracy”: Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, Applied Divination, Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity. Hosted by Caroline Casey. Her guests are allies contributing to a culture of reverent ingenuity. Critique and Solution.
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Terra Verde delivers news and views about the most critical environmental issues across California and globally. From agriculture and wildlife to energy and climate change, industrial pollution to design solutions, Terra Verde brings you stories of struggle and triumph that will determine the future of our planet.
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Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.
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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at [email protected]. Theme Music: Turn It Up by Digital Primitives, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.
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A weekly update on new research and developments concerning COVID-19 (and occasionally other infectious diseases that hit the news). We take questions via call-in during the live broadcast, Mondays at 7:33am Pacific, streaming via kpfa.org. Podcasts with show notes go up later the same day. Between live shows, we take questions via email at [email protected] . Our guest most weeks is Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Heal ...
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The Pacifica Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM. KPFA News broadcasts news headlines throughout the day at 5:55, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and 4:00. Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
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Planting Medicine enhances the community’s knowledge of herbal medicine by sharing voices of traditional, holistic healers and healing practices. Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. Find archived episodes of The Herbal Highway here.
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Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. The first week of every month is a combined one-hour program featuring Jack Foley & Nina Serrano. The archive can be found at Cover to Cover with Jack Foley. The second week is hosted by Nina Serrano, Poet 2 Poet. The third week is hosted by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro. The fourth week is hosted by Reyna Cowan, Frame to Frame. And the fifth week (if there is one) is hosted again by Jovelyn Rich ...
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Voices of the Middle East and North Africa is a weekly program hosted by Malihe Razazan and Mira Nabulsi. It explores the richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa through a complex web of class, gender, ethnic, religious and regional differences. Voices of the Middle East and North Africa airs on KPFA radio, 94.1 FM, in Berkeley, CA. Online on kpfa.org or on Apple Podcasts.
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KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Little Women,” adapted by Lauren Gunderson, at TheatreWorks Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts through October 12, 2025. Little Women Review The classic pre-twentieth century books never die, on stage or on film. A Christmas Carol keeps coming back in December, year after year after year. Mayb…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Government shutdown continues as Republicans link Dems to Marxism, Dems see attack on health care; Federal government shutdown affecting bay area with shuttered parks, long TSA lines, and housing cuts; Arguments begin in lawsuit to bl…
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Today on the Show: We feature a front-line interview with Nane Alejandrez, the celebrated founder of Barrios Unidos: Nane is on the frontline holding the line against the extreme right wing that has taken control in Washington D.C.: And Trump appears to declare war on Venezuela The post Flashpoints – October 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…
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On this Hard Knock Radio episode, Davey D opens with “Ancestors” by guest Miko Marks, framing her long road to wider recognition as audiences rediscover Southern Soul, Americana, and country through mainstream moments—from Beyoncé’s country pivot to Ryan Coogler’s recent work. Marks traces her journey from a 2005 traditional country debut to an exp…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Federal government shutdown continues as Dems blast health cuts, Repubs oppose aid for “illegals”; Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza intercepted by Israeli navy, activists to be deported to Europe; Second “Conscience” flotilla on way to G…
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Today on Hard Knock Radio, we’re reflecting on that legacy and the new book The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity. This collection is not just history — it’s a blueprint, urgent and relevant in today’s political climate. And to help us bring this story to life, we’re joine…
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Revelation Fest – Act IV tragedy yearns for Redemption Act V – Let the Dead speak….. Welcoming Peter Janney, author and psychologist, known for his book Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace. The book makes the case that ex-CIA wife (and John F. Kennedy mistress) Mary Pinch…
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Erin Thompson on the politics of public monuments as Trump talks of restoring Confederate statues • Mouin Rabbani returns for a look at Trump’s ludicrous Gaza peace scheme The post Fundraising special: politics of public monuments revisited, Trump’s Gaza “peace plan” appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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00:08 — Niccolo Barca is a photographer, journalist and musician based in Rome. His latest piece for the Nation is “How Italy’s Workers Shut Their Country Down for Gaza.” 00:33 — Amanda McAllister Wallner is the Executive Director of Health Access California. The post Italian Workers Strike for Gaza Solidarity While Italian Government Retrieves Shi…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Federal government shutdown begins amid dispute over health insurance subsidies; Trump administration reviewing abortion pill access based on dodgy study; Immigration activists planning “stop the hate stop the raids” protests Saturday…
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Today on the show: We speak with Andrea Carmen, the Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council: We talk about Alcatraz we head toward Indigenous Peoples Day. And we get an update about the Border Wall being built in an area that sees almost no human migrants. This wall threatens the Jaguar and the Ocelot. The post Andrea Carmen o…
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Jeff Chang joins Hard Knock Radio to break down his new book, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. We start with a truth many of us in Black and Hip-Hop communities feel instinctively: Bruce isn’t just “an Asian hero,” he’s a global underdog icon—postered up next to Ali and Marley, sampled and name-checked in rap, and embra…
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00:08 — Josh Jackson is a writer, photographer. He advocates for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Through his Forgotten Lands Project, he employs storytelling and visual narratives to inspire engagement with California’s unknown landscapes. His latest book is The Enduring Wild: A Journey Into California’s Public Lands. T…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Trump proposes using us cities as military training grounds in speech to top brass Looming shutdown could impact vulnerable Americans. Palestinians opinion split on US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan promising aid but barring…
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Leonard Peltier joins Hard Knock Radio from house arrest on Turtle Mountain, grateful to be home yet blunt about the political moment. He warns of rising fascism, culture-war censorship, and the real danger of global conflict, arguing that only broad, cross-racial unity can blunt the slide. While skeptical of both parties, he urges strategic voting…
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Jessica Mitford was a muckracking journalist and memoirist, radical activist and wit. Born to an English aristocratic family, she became a Communist and eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew to fight in the Spanish Civil war. Two of her sisters were infamous fascists and friends with Hitler. Jessica, known as Decca, moved to the United States, bec…
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When the streets of Portland lit up between 2016 and 2020, the world saw nightly battles between protesters, far-right groups, and federal officers. But for longtime organizer and writer Luis Enrique Marquez, those years were less about spectacle and more about community defense. His new book, Anti-Fascist: A Memoir of the Portland Uprising, docume…
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1942-2025) Tanith Lee (1947-2015) This podcast honors two master practitioners of horror, fantasy and science fiction, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Tanith Lee, with two interviews back to back. In the first, in 1983, Tanith Lee is interviewed by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. In the second, in 1979, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is interviewed by R…
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In the first hour, “Brown Shirts on the March” with Sasha Abramsky In the second hour, “The Campus Crusade” with Lawrence Rosenthal. The post Sunday Show – September 28, 2025 “Brown Shirts on the March” and “The Campus Crusade” appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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Photo by S. Sobotta Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubles down in the face of global pressure to stop the war in Gaza.https://kpfa.org/app/uploads/2025/09/KPFA-Sharon.mp3 Palestinians in Gaza react to the countries that ha…
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Today on the show: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler/Colonialism in the Palestine Liberation Struggle. The post Omar Zahzah Discusses His New Book “Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler/Colonialism in the Palestine Liberation Struggle.” appeared first on KPFA.…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. San Francisco Protesters join the global movement to protect the Gaza-bound Flotilla and end the blockade.https://kpfa.org/app/uploads/2025/09/SOBOTTA-on-ICE-ISRAEL-PROTESTS_2025-09-25_18-04-37.mp3 President of Palestinian National Au…
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Today on the show: The genocidal slaughter in illegally occupied Palestine continues. We’ll feature our weekly news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman: Also more poetry from the genocide with Anita Barrows/ That’s Nora’s mom!! The post The Latest Headlines on Gaza From The Electronic Intifada appeared first on KPFA.…
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KPFA in Fund Drive Replaying a portion of last week’s conversation with actor, comedian, author, political-spiritual wit, agent of Liberating Christianity, John Fugelsang… And honoring his fantabulous book Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds Deft for…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. 2025 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation holds annual legislative conference. Ukrainian President says Drone Strikes and AI Threaten Global Security California Climate Change Progress Highlighted at Clinton Foundation Summit The pos…
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Today on the show: We have a special report on an issue that could impact thousands of you listening to this right now. -A start up company , has been testing for a plastics Incineration Facility, in Rohnert Park California, and has been under the radar of the public until now. We also share an update on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of 52 boa…
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On Hard Knock Radio, host Dave “Davey D” Cook sat down with Oakland-raised investigator and former CPRA executive director Mac Muir, co-author (with Greg Finch) of Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing. The conversation moves from New York’s entrenched resistance to oversight to Oakland’s imperfect but real gains, and lands on pra…
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