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Emerge Berkeley

Emerge Berkeley

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Each week on the Emerge Berkeley podcast, hear teaching from lead pastor Garfield Harvey or a member of our teaching team. Get practical, relevant, biblical perspectives on the topics that matter to you. Learn more at www.emergeberkeley.org
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The University of California, Berkeley presents the Graduate Lectures. Seven lectureships comprise the Graduate Lectures, each with a distinct endowment history. These unique programs have brought distinguished visitors to Berkeley since 1909 to speak on a wide range of topics, from philosophy to the sciences.
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The University of California, Berkeley presents the Graduate Lectures. Seven lectureships comprise the Graduate Lectures, each with a distinct endowment history. These unique programs have brought distinguished visitors to Berkeley since 1909 to speak on a wide range of topics, from philosophy to the sciences.
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Berkeley Voices

UC Berkeley

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Berkeley Voices explores the work and lives of fascinating UC Berkeley faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars and artists. It aims to educate listeners about Berkeley’s advances in teaching and research, spark curiosity about the deeper layers of American history and to build community across our diverse campus. It's produced and hosted by Anne Brice in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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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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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
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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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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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THE SAVAGE NATION

Michael Savage

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Dr. Michael Savage earned his PhD in epidemiology and nutrition sciences from the Univ. of Cal. at Berkeley. Inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame after over 26 years at the top of the talk radio format. Borders, Language and Culture are his pillars. A NY Times Best Selling author of over 30 books and novels, he was appointed by the President of the United States to the Board of the Presidio Trust. A true conservationist, Savage converses about politics, science, films, nutrition, co ...
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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 Dean’s Speaker Series brings in a diverse mix of top leaders for fireside chats with MBA students about their leadership journeys. The Haas School’s premiere speaker event is now available as a podcast.
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Church Without Walls, Berkeley is a diverse community following Jesus, loving God, neighbor, the Bible and the world. We aim to worship God and explore Christian spirituality in a meaningful, approachable way. Our spirituality is centered on Jesus because we’ve discovered that his life and teachings deeply connect faith with everyday life. As our name implies, we believe that “church” is not a building. It is a community of people gathered to love God, one another and their city in a way tha ...
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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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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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East Bay Insiders

Steven Tavares

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East Bay political discourse will never be the same! Political reporter Steve Tavares, and Alameda County insiders Shawn Wilson and Dan Mendoza, dish the scoop on Alameda County, state, and national political scenes, with a few hijinks along the way.
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Climate Break

Berkeley Law

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Climate change is upon us. Fires, droughts, hurricanes, sea level rise, and melting ice caps are all part of our new normal. But something else is happening as well. Scientists, innovators, organizations, cities, companies, and citizens are taking action, making progress, and finding solutions. Climate Break brings you stories of climate progress and interviews with climate innovators from California and around the world, in under 2 minutes. Our solution-oriented, radio-ready shows are produ ...
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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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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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BLEAV in the Cal offers a passionate yet informed view of all things Cal Athletics. Write For California's Thomas Dunn delivers an insider's look at all things Golden Bears. From analyzing Cal Football across the board as they continue to embark in the ACC to observing Cal Basketball teams inside of Haas Pavilion, fans will get a look into the program from someone who grew up rooting for and now covers the Bears with a thoughtful perspective. It's all Bears, all the time.
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The Matt Walker Podcast is all about sleep, the brain, and the body. Matt is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the book, Why We Sleep and has given a few TED talks. Matt is an awkward British nerd who adores science and the communication of science to the public.
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The SnowBrains Podcasts interviews the most intelligent people in the snowsports industry and passes their fascinating knowledge onto you, our listeners. With our listeners, we explore skiing, snowboarding, snowsports, avalanches, technology, climate, snow science, medicine, nutrition, fitness, technique, and cutting edge adventure. The SnowBrains Podcast is hosted by professional freeskier, professional mountain guide, UC Berkeley Molecular Cell Biology graduate, and founder and CEO of Snow ...
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Matrix Podcast

Social Science Matrix

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The Matrix Podcast features interviews with social scientists from across the University of California, Berkeley campus (and beyond). It also features recordings of events, including panels and lectures. The Matrix Podcast is produced by Social Science Matrix, an interdisciplinary research center at the University of California, Berkeley.
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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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TalkRL podcast is All Reinforcement Learning, All the Time. In-depth interviews with brilliant people at the forefront of RL research and practice. Guests from places like MILA, OpenAI, MIT, DeepMind, Berkeley, Amii, Oxford, Google Research, Brown, Waymo, Caltech, and Vector Institute. Hosted by Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan.
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A broad group of leaders from academia and the private sector — including UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons and neuroscientist Emiliana Simon-Thomas of the Greater Good Science Center — discuss how kindness is a strategic asset rather than a professional weakness, and why the traditional “jerk” model of leadership is scientifically flawed. This shi…
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At 3 months old, Victoria Gray wouldn’t stop crying. Blood tests brought devastating news: she had sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder that blocks blood flow and oxygen delivery to the body. It causes unbearable pain that Victoria describes as “getting struck by lightning and hit by a truck.” As she got older, Victoria felt increasingly i…
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Topics: Listing the first Cal Football portal commits! Break down of each of the four footnoting some of the returners that declared they are coming back to Berkeley next year Socials: https://x.com/Thomasdunn24 http://substack.com/@td24 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of pe…
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Many people approach God by managing appearances and hiding weakness. Psalm 24 challenges the idea that worship is about performance, revealing that God desires honesty and integrity of heart. This message invites us to come before God as we truly are, laying down our masks and opening ourselves fully to His presence. As we worship, we practice emb…
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Sermon Series: Christmastide Lead Pastor: Rev. Dani Kilgore Description: We kick off the new year with a reminder that God will finish what he started. Missed us Sunday morning? Catch the recap! And join us at our regular time and location, Sundays at 10am at Berkeley Arts Magnet School. Supporting Scripture: Philippians 1:3-6, Hebrews 1 3:8 Slide …
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Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley December 28, 2025 From the Bedside Rev. Mr. Barb Greve Join Rev. Greve as he brings us to the bedside of his work as a hospice chaplain, inviting us to witness the ordinary and extraordinary that can occur as we near the end of our lives.By UUCB
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How do you navigate a nonlinear, “squiggly line” career in science and public health? Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and scientific communicator, explores challenges of science communication within academia—from cultural resistance to misaligned incentives—and why so much vital research never reaches the public. Joined by Dr. John Schwartz…
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(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk will1. Look back at 2025 reviewing what we've learned2. Open to where we are in the present3. Get in touch with our intention for the 2026 envisioning the qualities that will be most needed for us to deepen our understanding and inner peaceWe will also share a New Year's ritual of letting go and …
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In this final Sunday of Advent, Pastor Leah reflects on how love calls us to move through fear and into solidarity. Drawing from Joseph’s quiet courage in Matthew’s nativity story, she explores how faith often shows up not in loud declarations, but in steady, protective presence. Leah weaves together Advent scripture, contemporary acts of resistanc…
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Topics: Cal lands Dorian Thomas and Adam Mohammed Sifting through Keith Bonapha filling the RB room Just how expensive is a O lineman? Assessing Cal Basketball getting blitzed at Virginia Socials: https://x.com/Thomasdunn24 http://substack.com/@td24 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection a…
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Savage delivers an urgent warning to Americans in the new year. Inspired by a dream, he ties historical insights from the farewell addresses of Presidents George Washington and Dwight D. Eisenhower to contemporary issues. He echoes their warnings against foreign entanglements and the power of the military-industrial complex. He shares his concerns …
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00:08 — Narges Bajoghli is Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. She is the author of How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare. 00:33 — Mitchell Plitnick, is a political analyst and writer. He is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy, and is co-author, with Marc Lamont…
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Today on The Show: National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada, reads and speaks out on the Trump crackdown. Also joining us, Camilo Perez-Bustillo, former executive director for the SF Bay Area Chapter of the NLG, and on the front lines fighting the fascist creep against the human rights of brown and black people in this country The post Poet …
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Guest host Kalonji Changa leads a powerful and urgent edition of Hard Knock Radio, examining the killing of Renee Nicole Good and the broader systems of state violence, media distortion, and unaccountable power that shape immigration enforcement in the United States. In the first half of the show, Kalonji speaks with Emmy Award–winning journalist G…
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Caroline hosts long-time astro*mytho ally Heather Roan Robbins, that we may navigate grief and horror, gathering to con-sider (“with the stars”) to avert greater dis-aster (“against the stars”). Heather Roan Robbins M.Th. is an author, intuitive, practical, choice-oriented astrologer, palmist, and spiritual counselor now based in Montana with an on…
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00:08 — Ryan Goodman is co-editor-in-chief of Just Security and Professor at NYU Law School. He served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense(2015-2016). 00:33 — Rafael Osío Cabrices is Editor in Chief at Caracas Chronicles. The post Continued Coverage of the US Invasion of Venezuela appeared first on KPFA.…
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This episode of Hard Knock Radio examines recent U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria within the broader context of shifting power dynamics across West Africa and the African continent as a whole. These military actions are unfolding amid a historic rupture between ECOWAS and the Alliance of Sahel States, signaling a profound realignment of regional alliance…
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As influenza cases reach a twenty-five year high, a look at the complicated history of long lasting post-viral conditions. Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall considers how the medical establishment has frequently ignored chronic but often invisible illnesses like long Covid and long flu, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme disease. Emily Mendenh…
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What is the LCFJ? The Latino Climate Justice Framework (LCJF) prioritizes environmental justice while helping to protect disproportionately affected individuals–commonly Latine people. Specifically, LCJF works with communities that “face numerous climate-related issues, from extreme heat affecting outdoor workers and poor air quality in neighborhoo…
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Season 6, Episode 98Caroline Gleich is a professional ski mountaineer, filmmaker, author, and one of the most visible climate advocates in the outdoor world. She's climbed and skied some of the biggest lines on the planet, including multiple 8,000m peaks, while using her platform to push hard for outdoor conservation. In 2024, Caroline ran for the …
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It’s a new year! 2026! Whatever your thoughts about resolutions, we can all agree that the new year offers a natural reset button. It’s a time when we can’t help but think about our goals, our values, our priorities. And this year, we’re offering you something new to consider – a set of goals, values, and priorities not just for transforming yourse…
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Today on Hard Knock Radio, guest host Thandisizwe Chimurenga leads a critical conversation marking 17 years since the police killing of Oscar Grant III on the Fruitvale BART platform. Oscar Grant’s murder became a catalyst for a generation of organizers, journalists, artists, and community members—igniting national conversations about police violen…
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As the United States seizes control of Venezuela, what lessons can be drawn from the movement against the US occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq? Historian Jeremy Varon reflects on how the anti-war movement grew into the millions in the face of jingoism and media complicity with the US state. Jeremy Varon, Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Moveme…
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Savage exposes the truth about "Democratic Socialism" as Zohran Mamdani becomes the mayor of New York City. He explains why he labeled Bernie Sanders the most dangerous man in American politics. He then traces the historical roots of socialism back to figures like Lenin, Trotsky, and Mao Zedong. He discusses the concept of rugged individualism vers…
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00:08 — Miguel R. Tinker Salas is Professor Emeritus of History at Pomona College. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela. 00:33 — Geo Maher is an abolitionist educator, organizer, and writer based in Philadelphia. He has taught previously at Vassar College, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School…
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Guest host Kalonji Changa sits down with Leonardo Flores, a Venezuelan political analyst, activist, and founding member of the Venezuela Solidarity Network, for an in-depth conversation on the escalating U.S. intervention in Venezuela. Flores, who has appeared on Democracy Now! and also serves as a Latin America campaign coordinator with CODEPINK, …
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Topics: Cade Uluave, Ryan McCulloch and Kendrick Raphael enter the transfer portal breaking down the immediate losses if they do leave Where is Tosh Lupoi and staff looking offer wise? Just how bad did Cal Basketball need that win over Notre Dame? Socials: https://x.com/Thomasdunn24 http://substack.com/@td24 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company…
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The United States spends over a $100 billion dollars more a year on the military than it did at the height of the Cold War. What does it get year upon year for that money? Since 2001, America’s overseas war have led to nearly a million deaths. Ben Freeman discusses the intersection of interests that drive America’s military spending, including the …
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Steve, David, Hannah, Jimmy, Matthew. and Francesco give Ralph a well-deserved break and highlight some of the clips they want to revisit from another challenging, inspiring, fascinating, infuriating, and galvanizing year. Featuring interviews with Chris Hedges, Jon Merryman, Mike German, and more. Ralph Nader talks about what’s happening in Americ…
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