The Bonnie Simmons Show – May 15, 2025
Bonnie Simmons presents a unique mix of singer/songwriter folk, rock, soul, country, and R&B.
Today’s episodes of Our World As We See It and Education Today are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. C.S. Soong speaks with Norma Wong about her book When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse. To support our … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Supreme Court mulls power of courts to block presidential actions in birthright citizenship case World Health Organization says life expectancy dropped by nearly 2 years under Covid-19 pandemic, warns without urgent action 8 million kids could die … Continued
Flashpoints – May 15, 2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Hard Knock Radio – May 15, 2025
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, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
Background Briefing – May 15, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
The Visionary Activist Show – Green Hermeticism
Caroline re-plays her still humming with pertinence conversing with Pir Zia… from 2009….. Pir Zia is the first son of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Taj Inayat, born in 1971 in Novato, California. He grew up in California, New York, and New Mexico. Since 2004 Pir Zia has served as Head of theInayati Order, guiding Sufi communities in … Continued
Today’s episode of Bookwaves/Artwaves is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Mitch Jeserich speaks with historian and author William Dalrymple about his book The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. His earlier books include The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. To … Continued
Fundraising special: wobbly dollar, perpetual wars
Fundraising special: Barry Eichengreen on why the gyrations in the value of the US dollar matter • Courtney Rawlings and Alex Jordan, hosts of Always at War, on why the US is always buying more weapons and bombing people
Today’s episodes of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa and This Way Out are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Sasha Lilley and economist Rob Larson discuss the power and wealth of the capitalist class, how they rule, and how to fight against them. To support KPFA’s mission and … Continued
Guests: Tiny (Lisa) Gray-Garcia aka “PovertySkola” is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher and single mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled mama Dee, and the co-founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. Victoria Montaño is a Po-scholar, interdisciplinary artist focussing on Indigenous Solidarity across seas and borders, Queer liberation, the Land Back … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – May 15, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Law & Disorder – May 15, 2025
Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.
Democracy Now 6am – May 15, 2025
On today’s show: “Trump’s Fake Refugees”: As U.S. Welcomes White South Africans, Trump Falsely Charges “Genocide” Israel’s “Crime of Apartheid”: New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day “Surveillance Humanitarianism”: As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food
Joshua Landis / Nader Hashemi / Angela Stent
Trump Lifts Sanctions on Syria Calling Its New Leader, a Former Islamic State Fighter, “a Young Attractive Guy”
A Judge Orders ICE to Release Another Wrongly-Detained Scholar Held for 8 Weeks in Detention in Texas
Will Putin Show Up for Peace Talks? / Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intel Officials for Speaking Truth to Power
Non-fiction Music – May 15, 2025
A mix of jazz, folk, blues and more with Joel Sachs.
LoveSoul with Al Glenn – May 15, 2025
Enjoy sensuous bedroom soul, sexy Smooth Jazz, and scintillating social commentary with Bay Area native and longtime Classic Soul radio taste-maker and Smooth Jazz connoisseur Al Glenn. Have some before this tasty Midnight snack is all gone!