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Counter-Protests Planned for the Bay Area

KPFA is keeping a list of counter-protests to the Right-Wing Nationalist rallies planned in the Bay Area for this last week of August 2017. Friday, August 25th SF City Hall Rally, Civic Center San Francisco 12:00 Noon City officials are hosting a peaceful protest Friday at City Hall in response to a rally planned for Crissy … Continued

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Divided We Fall: A Visionary Response to Hate, the Alt-Right and White Nationalism

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Pacifica National Broadcast on Charlottesville Events: Divided We Fall: A Visionary Response to Hate, the Alt Right and White Nationalism. Hosted by Bill Fletcher, host of WPFW’s Arise, and Margaret Prescod, host of KPFK’s Sojourner Truth, this two-hour program offers the historical and constitutional context for white supremacy, examine the landscape of hate in America, … Continued

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Divided We Fall: A Visionary Response to Hate, the Alt-Right and White Nationalism

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Pacifica National Broadcast on Charlottesville Events: Divided We Fall: A Visionary Response to Hate, the Alt Right and White Nationalism. Hosted by Bill Fletcher, host of WPFW’s Arise, and Margaret Prescod, host of KPFK’s Sojourner Truth, this two-hour program offers the historical and constitutional context for white supremacy, examine the landscape of hate in America, … Continued

The Hear and Now

Rock ‘n’ Roll journalist-novelist Michael Goldberg visits The Hear and Now – August 10, 2017

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Michael Goldberg, former Rolling Stone editor and senior writer, and founder of the pioneering online music site Addicted to Noise, has just published his third novel, Untitled, the final installment of his Freak Scene Dream Trilogy, which includes True Love Scars and The Flowers Lied. They are tales of “Love, Truth, Innocence & Loyalty.  Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll … Continued

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The Summer of Love Special: The Hear and Now

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Let’s all wave our freak flags high and join the endless celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, when Bonnie and Derk merge The Bonnie Simmons Show and The Hear and Now on the last night of the KPFA Get Up Stand Up Summer 2017 Fund Drive. As we explore some of our favorite sounds that came out of San Francisco … Continued

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The Great Characters of Popular Music

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Who are your favorite characters in popular song? Pancho and Lefty? Ziggy Stardust? Mr. Bojangles? Eleanor Rigby? Happy Jack? (Ode to) Bille Joe? Tune in to find out what Bonnie Simmons and Derk Richardson have selected from their all-time favorites. It’s a fund drive special, from 8 p.m. until midnight. You can make a pledge to KPFA and secure … Continued

Pushing Limits

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Our guest, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, (she/they) is a queer disabled non-binary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger/ Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/ Roma ascent. Her work has been widely published, most recently in The Deaf Poets Society, Glitter and Grit and Octavia’s Brood.  Her memoir, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her … Continued

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