In this powerful and timely episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with civil rights attorney, writer, and abolitionist Alec Karakatsanis for an unflinching conversation about his groundbreaking new book, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. Karakatsanis, founder of Civil Rights Corps and a long-time advocate against mass incarceration … Continued
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Celebrated educator and activist, Dr. Joyce King, will be with us. She writes extensively about dysconscious racism, effective education for African-American students, and many other topics. She is the former provost of Spellman College, the past president of the American Educational Research Association, and a professor with an endowed chair at Georgia State University
A weekly talk show produced by Oakland School for the Arts high school broadcast students, Our World As We See It will focus on local and world issues giving a fresh youthful perspective on how to create change.
This series explores stories of culture, politics and nature from Oakland, Berkeley and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
While we’re told by politicians that the ideas of Karl Marx are foreign and have no place in this country, history proves otherwise. Andrew Hartman shows that Marx and Marxism have had an a significant influence on the United States, from Marx’s journalistic writings for the New York Daily Tribune, on the mass politics of … Continued
Moira Meltzer-Cohen, a lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild, addresses questions of changes in peoples rights and risks in the USA with the police, searches, borders and other topics
Guest: Mark Blyth is a political economist and professor at Brown University. He is an expert on Global Finance & Banking and the author of several books including Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, and his latest, Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers, coauthored with Nicolò Fraccaroli.
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).
We start today’s show in conversation about the aid flotilla headed to Gaza. We’re joined by Ann Wright, a retired US Army colonel and retired State Department official. She was a passenger on the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, at the time when Israel boarded and assassinated a number of the flotilla activists. Then, the San Francisco … Continued
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
ON TODAY’S SHOW: “Death Traps”: U.S.-Israeli Aid Scheme Paused in Gaza After 100+ Palestinians Killed While Waiting for Food Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: It’s My Moral Obligation “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World Democracy Now! is … Continued
The Pentagon’s Slow Learning Curve on Asymmetrical Warfare Which Ukraine’s Attacks on Russian Bombers and the Kerch Bridge Just Demonstrated We begin with Ukraine’s ingenious drone attacks on Russian bombers deep inside the country at bases in Siberia and Murmansk as well as today’s underwater drone attack on the Kerch bridge linking Russia with Crimea … Continued
Rhythm Machine with hosts Ryan and Oliver(o-live-e-ay) aka Excuse My French. Wednesdays 2am-5am, playing all things on the electronic dance music spectrum.
City Cat Radio, the weekly radio program of Oakland’s own DJ/Producer/Engineer DJ HENROC, is designed to celebrate plain old good music including Soul, Roots, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, Afro Beat, Funk, House and Underground Hip Hop. For nearly 25yrs, DJ HENROC has played at some the world’s premier venues and has collected music from all musical … Continued
