Background Briefing – May 19, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Since time immemorial, storytellers have held an exalted role in human societies, because stories illustrate parables that help us make sense of the world and survive. In this episode, we hitch a ride with comedian, writer, futurist, technologist, and storyteller Baratunde Thurston. At this perilous existential threshold that will determine the fate of the human … Continued
Green Street with Patti & Doug Wood – May 19, 2025
Green Street with Patti and Doug Wood is a weekly environmental health show with news and expert interviews on a broad range of issues, from fracking to fluoride, plastic pollution to PFAS, and artificial turf to wireless radiation.
Womens Magazine – May 19, 2025
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Fund Drive Special: Fighting for the Redwoods
How was it that in less than two centuries the world’s tallest trees, the majestic redwoods, were almost logged off the face of the earth? And this despite the efforts over many generations, starting in the late 19th century, to preserve them. Greg King, writer and forest activist, argues that one of the world’s first … Continued
Breaking The Silence, with IDF Veteran Nadav Wieman
We spend the whole program with Nadav Wieman, a former IDF sniper and now executive director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli veterans who expose the reality of life in the Occupied Territories and work to end the occupation. He and Ralph discuss Nadav’s experience in the IDF and his work trying to … Continued
Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American author, born in Argentina. He is a prominent human rights activist who worked as press and cultural advisor to Salvador Allende in the final months before the 1973 military coup, and later spent many years in exile. He is the Walter Hines Page Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University and … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – May 19, 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).
Malcolm X Birthday: Ballot or the Bullet – Fund Drive Special
Today would be Malcolm X’s 100th birthday. We spend the day remembering Malcom’s contributions for our struggle against white supremacy by listening to selections from his famed speech that came to be known as “the Ballot or the Bullet”. He gave that speech on April 12th, 1964, in Detroit during President Lyndon Johnson’s re-election campaign. … Continued
Republican Budget Bill and California Budget Impact on Healthcare; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — Christine Mai-Duc is California Correspondent for KFF Health News, covering healthcare policy. Alexei Koseff covers state politics for Calmatters. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Democracy Now 6am – May 19, 2025
On today’s show: “Absolutely Genocidal”: Mouin Rabbani on “Gideon’s Chariots,” Israel’s Latest Escalation of War on Gaza Project Esther: New York Times Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of Israel” as Hamas Supporters On 100th Birthday of Malcolm X, Family Presses Trump to Release Government Files on Assassination
Steven Pifer / Tamar Jacoby / Omar El Akkad
Putin Plays Trump Again by Not Showing Up For Farcical “Peace” Talks in Istanbul
A Report From Kyiv on How Much Ukrainians Want Peace, But Not Surrender on Putin’s Terms
The Death Toll In Gaza Reaches 53,272, As Trump Plans to Send a Million Gazans to War-torn Libya
Setting the Standard 2 – May 19, 2025
A mix of la raza, reggae, jazz and politically conscious music.
Setting the Standard – May 19, 2025
Setting the Standard has been around 8-10 years, and was originally started by Maya Rise. We kept it going, and continues to evolve into many platforms. We are a all volunteer crew, and bring you information, poetry, music, and much more. You can tune in online at kpfa.org or on the radio at 94.1fm KPFA, … Continued