Hard Knock Radio – June 23, 2023
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.
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.
This week, well mark Juneteenth with the launch of a special, exclusive series of interviews exploring the leading edges of the reparations ecosystem”and revealing a path toward healing and reconciliation. The interviews were conducted during the recent Alight, Align, Arise conference in Atlanta, Georgia organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. Well launch the series with … Continued
A week from today, Governor Newsom is expected to sign the 2023-2024 California state budget. In this program, we look at the deals that were struck and their impact on people with disabilities. Then we widen our camera to talk about our yearly budget advocacy and how our community can become more powerful in this … Continued
On this week’s Making Contact, we feature an extended interview with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a queer Din filmmaker and director of the award-winning documentary Powerlands. Powerlands traces how multinational energy corporations extract resources and profits while displacing and harming Indigenous communities around the world. The film follows Indigenous activists in Navajo Nation, Colombia, Mexico … Continued
To open the program, Mickey and former Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with writer Alan MacLeod. He’s just written about a new phenomenon in U.S. military recruitment: social media posts from “e-girls,” designed to catch the eyes of young males. Also joining the segment is military veteran Rosa del Duca. Then Eleanor Goldfield interviews … Continued
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.
This month, the EPA issued regulatory revisions to the National Contingency Plan after a years-long lawsuit filed by environmental and public health advocates, calling to limit the use of toxic chemical dispersants in oil spill response. The EPA’s final rule is an improvement to the outdated regulations that were previously in place, but additional, local action is needed to ensure community health and safety.
This week’s show includes updates on the US west coast ILWU strike, unemployment compensation for strikers, 1700 CT caregivers strike against austerity, as well as discussing Mexico’s fight with the US over Mexico’s ban against GMO white corn imports from the US. The major topics of discussion focus on (1) ignorance about socialism among its … Continued
On Today’s Show: As Media Spotlights Titanic Sub, Hundreds of Migrants Who Died in Greek Shipwreck Get Scant Coverage From Drone Strikes to Settler Attacks, Israel Intensifies Effort to “Completely Take Over Palestine” “The Palestine Laboratory”: Antony Loewenstein on How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation
Excited to share on June 30th I’ll be joined by members of fyield on A Rude Awakening fyield I Future Landscapes Fyield www.instagram.com/fyield_music www.futurelandscapes.cz Future Landscapes instagram.com/futurelandscapes.cz/ youtube.com/@Future_Landscapes soundcloud.com/future_landscapes In their work, fyield portrays unique entities that don’t usually attract our attention – even though our civilization depends on them. They are not people, mythical … Continued