Flashpoints – May 16, 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 16, 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.
Today’s episode of Talk-It-Out Radio is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Liam O’Donoghue speaks with journalist and radio host Alexis Madrigal about his book about Oakland, California: The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City. To support our mission and receive Alexis … Continued
Today’s episode of Making Contact is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Brian Edwards-Tiekert speaks with photographer and author Josh Jackson, an advocate 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 … Continued
Today’s episode of Project Censored is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Jesse Strauss speaks with accomplished author, scholar, educator, cultural organizer, poet, and playwright Eve L. Ewing about her book Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. To support our mission and … Continued
Talkies – May 16, 2025
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Reform versus Revolution / Capitalism’s Uneven Development
In this special, hour-long edition of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff begins by analyzing the choice between reform and revolution through two historical discussions: the anti-slavery fight in the mid-19th century and the anti-Depression fight in the U.S., during the 1930s. He then explains the stakes in choosing reform or revolution as goals for social … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – May 16, 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).
Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Jeff Miller on Bay Area Wildlife
Today’s episode of A Rude Awakening is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Brian Edwards-Tiekert interviews Jeff Miller, the founder and Executive Director of the Alameda Creek Alliance. Miller also works with the Center for Biological Diversity on media, outreach, writing endangered species listing petitions, and biodiversity issues. His latest book … Continued
Malcolm Harris on Three Ways to Address the Climate Crisis – Fund Drive Special
00:08 — Malcolm Harris, is a freelance writer and bestselling author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. His latest book is What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis.
Democracy Now 6am – May 16, 2025
On today’s show: “They Want to Silence Me”: Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi on ICE Jail, Palestine, Activism, Buddhism The GOP War on Medicaid: 14 Million Could Lose Healthcare to Fund Tax Breaks for Rich Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Case That Could Also Sharply Reduce Judicial Power
Alan Morrison / Gabriel Chin / Gregory Treverton
Trump is Using the Birthright Citizenship Case to Get the Supreme Court to Stop Federal Judges From Blocking His Agenda Nationwide
The History of Birthright Citizenship Which Has been Settled Law Since 1898
Russia’s “Girlfriend” Tulsi Gabbard is Neutering the IC, as MAGAworld Makes America Deaf, Dumb, and Blind When it Comes to What is Happening in the Real World
Puzzling Evidence – May 16, 2025
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Over the Edge – May 16, 2025
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues.