Hard Knock Radio – April 21, 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.
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Background Briefing – April 21, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Imagine an underground web of mind-boggling complexity, a bustling cosmopolis beneath your feet. Quadrillions of miles of tiny threads in the soil pulsate with real-time messages, trade vital nutrients, and form life-giving symbiotic partnerships. This is the mysterious realm of fungi. In this program, acclaimed visionary biologists Toby Kiers and Merlin Sheldrake guide us through … Continued
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about how the Trump administration wants to change the meaning of the word “harm,” how big tech data centers are sucking up tremendous amounts of water in places where water is already scarce, and how Exxon Mobil’s Baytown refinery and plastic recycling facility has racked up … Continued
Womens Magazine – April 21, 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.
Not one movement but a multiplicity of movements engaging in protest and direct action brought down France’s absolutist regime in 1789. Micah Alpaugh describes popular uprisings and insurrections in Paris and the provinces that unfolded without central leadership and later inspired anarchists around the globe. Micah Alpaugh, The People’s Revolution of 1789 Cornell University Press, 2024 (Image on … Continued
Civic Self Respect / Weaponizing the IRS
Ralph Nader talks about his new book, Civic Self Respect, which reminds us that our civic lives have different primary roles — not only voter, but also worker, taxpayer, consumer, sometimes soldier, and sometimes parent — and how each one offers special opportunities for people to organize to make change. Then, we welcome back former … Continued
Guest: Mary Jo McConahay is a journalist who has covered the Church for many years. She is the author of the book Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right. Featured photo: Wikimedia
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – April 21, 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).
Palestine Post: Latest News Plus Harvard in Trump Admin’s Crosshairs; Resistance in Residence Artist Martin Lynch
On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Harvard law student and KPFA correspondent Ariel Boone as well as Dr Lara Jirmanus, a Palestinian-Lebanese-American physician and a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School about Harvard’s targeting by the Trump Administration as well as its broader commitment to zionism. Then we speak with Dina from the Palestinian Youth … Continued