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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Poland consulting NATO after Russian drones incursion, as US lawmakers call for sanctions on Russia; Congressmember Huffman discusses Trump authoritarianism and possible budget shut-down; Common Cause opposes gerrymandering but sees r…
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Host Davey D opens with “Am I Human?” and frames Samora Pinderhughes as a Bay-raised, Juilliard-trained composer/pianist/vocalist who blends jazz, R&B, and movement work. Samora embraces that lineage—crediting his parents’ community praxis—and talks frankly about maintaining integrity in an industry that rewards spectacle and “Black dysfunction.” T…
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Anniversary of September 11th Inaugurating a Better Guiding Story with Caroline Casey, solo show Dedicated to “anything we need to know to have a democracy”: Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, Applied Divination, Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity. Video: Mars escapes the Kennedy Center The post The Visionary Activist Show – September 11, 2025…
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Émile Torres on the tech moguls’ dream of transcending the merely human (article written with Timnit Gebru here) • Daniel Wortel-London, author of The Menace of Prosperity, on the fiscal history of NYC, and how we could do better than subsidizing the rich The post Tech transhumanism, fiscal politics of NYC appeared first on KPFA.…
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00:08 — Bill McKibben is an author, environmentalist and journalist. He is founder of the Third Act, a climate justice organization and 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign. His latest book is “Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.” The post Bill McKibben is Optimistic About Solar En…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Missouri House passes GOP redistricting plan, Dems vow to keep fighting racist roll-back of rights; Revised US job numbers suggest weakening economy, White House says revision shows need for new leadership; Health professionals warn T…
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Today on the show: Breaking News! We are opening the show with our initial thoughts and discussion around what seems like an assassination of Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative youth organization and joining me is Camilo Perez Bustillo. Also, as we speak, The senate education committee will decide on Californi…
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On Hard Knock Radio, I sat down with Jelani Cobb—dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, and a thinker rooted in Hip Hop’s habit of connecting dots across time. We talked about his new book, Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here (2012–2025). I called it “a book of books” on air for a reason: Cobb i…
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U.S. imperialism has produced migration, sometimes to places you wouldn’t expect. According to Emily Mitchell-Eaton, the Marshall Islands and Arkansas are both central to the workings of empire. The perceptions of longtime residents of demographically transformed cities like Springdale, Arkansas reflect geographical imaginaries that occlude the fac…
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00:08 — John Sifton is the Asia Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch. 00:33 — Carter Lavin is Co-Founder of the Transbay Coalition. The post Youth-led Antigovernment Uprisings in Nepal; Plus, Future of Bay Area Transit Jeopardized if Newsom Rolls Back $750million Loan appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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Host Davey D convenes SEIU 1021 organizer Jennifer Esteen and Women’s Economic Agenda Project director Ethel Long-Scott to unpack a seismic—and largely ignored—economic gut punch: 300,000 Black women cut from the federal workforce in the first half of 2025. Both guests frame the layoffs as part of a broader, deliberate restructuring—legal, politica…
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U.S. imperialism has produced migration, sometimes to places you wouldn’t expect. According to Emily Mitchell-Eaton, the Marshall Islands and Arkansas are both central to the workings of empire. The perceptions of longtime residents of demographically transformed cities like Springdale, Arkansas reflect geographical imaginaries that occlude the fac…
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00:08 — Khury Peterson-Smith is Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. 00:33 — Stephanie Kirchgaessner is a reporter and deputy head of investigations for Guardian’s US bureau. She is based in Washington DC. 00:45 — Oscar Palma writes for Mission Local from the…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Israeli strike demolishes high-rise in Gaza City as Israel tells Palestinians to evacuate; Aid ship headed for Gaza hit by drone causing fire, was part of largest aid flotilla to date; Labor, immigrant advocates speak out on massive i…
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Discussed in this episode: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got grilled by the Senate Health Committee on Thursday over (among other things) firing the CDC director he’d helped get confirmed earlier this year, and presiding over an FDA decision that may make it much harder to get COVID vaccines. To send us a question in advance of next week’s…
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Today on the show: Our weekly segment Genocide-Watch with Sam Husseini. Pro Palestine protestors get arrested in London for speaking Truth to power. Dave Lindorf, just back from the racist British Monarchy, reports. Also, Kathy Kelly says “We Will Not Be Silent on the Gaza Genocide”. Also the International Indian Treaty Council and the American Ind…
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Is it possible to eat animal products ethically, as proponents of small-scale animal agriculture advocate? Or, as critical theorist John Sanbonmatsu argues, is consuming animals unjustifiable not just for reasons of disease and the climate emergency, but also because of the emotional complexity and intelligence of non-human animals? Sanbonmatsu mak…
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Ralph welcomes Palestinian-American writer, activist, and scientist Susan Abulhawa to discuss the ongoing Palestinian genocide and the evidence that supports a vastly higher death toll in Gaza. Ralph Nader talks about what’s happening in America, what’s happening around the world, and most importantly what’s happening underneath it all. The post Th…
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00:08 — Anthony D’Agostino, professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University. 00:33– Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. The post Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg appeared first on KPFA.…
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Robert Jay Lifton, who died on September 4, 2025 at the age of 99., was a psychiatrist and author who studied the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence. In the 1960s, he was part of a group that applied psychology and psychoanalysis to the study of history. By the 1980s and 1990s, he’d began exploring the survivors of atro…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Trump signs executive order changing Department of Defense to Department of War; Wildfire air pollution a growing problem exacerbated by climate change according to UN report; Healthcare workers protest short staffing, soaring executi…
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On today’s show we return to Haiti with an update on the situation and a discussion of the country’s status as the real narco-state in the Caribbean region. Then we turn our attention back to Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in Venezuela and Marco Rubio’s allegations of drug trafficking against Maduro and top socialist party officials. The post An Update …
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Host Davey D checks in with producer Tarik “Eccentric” Kazaleh and singer-organizer Naima Shalhoub about Gaza’s ongoing crisis, the grassroots effort Prosthetics for Palestine, their instrumental collective Shadow Band, and a benefit show this Sunday in Danville. Tarik explains Prosthetics for Palestine began as a family idea and, over the past yea…
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Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for program alerts and sneak peeks from Making Contact at: http://ow.ly/1FkV30aq1z2 The post Making Contact – September 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.…
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On today’s show, Earthjustice senior attorney Elizabeth Fisher explains how her organization is leading the fight to protect SB1137. We’ll switch gears and speak to literary and media legend David Obst about his latest publication entitled, “Saving Ourselves from Big Car” (Columbia University Press, Sept. 16). EVENTS: 9/9: Take a Stand Against Prop…
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00:08 Rabbi Alissa Wise is currently the Lead Organizer and Co-founder of Rabbis for Ceasefire; Rebecca Vilkomerson is former Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace and now Co-Director of the Funding Freedom project. They’ve co-authored the book Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing [rebroadc…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Health Secretary Kennedy faces harsh criticism from Dems and Repubs at Senate committee hearing; CA Assembly passes bill blocking ICE from getting private health data without warrant or court order; Legislature passes bill creating IC…
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Today on the Show: The Washington D.C. -based human rights group DAWN has posted an Open Letter to PLO President Abbas requesting that the UN General Assembly to deploy multilateral protection force in Gaza, meanwhile the PLO has been banned from entering the US and thus the UN, by high US officials in Including Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. Als…
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Davey D taps Netfa Freeman of Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the Black Alliance for Peace to unpack what’s really happening in Washington, D.C. Freeman says the story isn’t a sudden “DC takeover” but an intensification of long-running policies: federal agents augmenting MPD, a crime narrative used to justify containment, and a local govern…
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The Visionary Activist Show turns 30! We re-play the first-ever Visionary Activist Show (September 5, 1996) with James Hillman… (double Aries liberating Jungian psychologist) about the importance of ‘growing down’ into one’s self, recognizing demonic mythological possession at play, and awakening the imagination of everyone to dream the desirable w…
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00:08 — Jessica Mason Pieklo is Chief Content Officer of Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered. 00:33 — David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. His most recent book is “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power” (2020). The post Texas Bill Allowing Resident to Sue Out-of-State Providers of Abort…
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Trump mulls sending military to New Orleans, as Dems blast “wannabe dictator” moves; Lawmakers submit bipartisan bill to ban congress members from trading stocks; AG Bonta sues Catholic hospital in Humboldt County for refusing to perf…
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Today on the show: Communities Against Carbon Transport and Injection: a newly formed coalition talks to us about a proposed Carbon Waste pipeline in California. Polluters get paid to dump their waste and a private company gets paid to pipe it through wetlands. Not unique to California, this has caused disaster in Satartia Mississippi, ALL under th…
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