On today’s program we speak with journalist Brendan Keefe talk about drug agents searching passengers for cash at airport gates. Later we speak with Jelani Cobbs about the legacy of Richard Roundtree also known as Shaft. Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio … Continued
Trump Gets His Speaker With a Friendlier Face But a Hard Right Record We begin with the House Republicans coming together today to elect a new speaker, Mike Johnson, after Trump had torpedoed the Republican whip Tom Emmer. Now with Trump’s blessing since Johnson led the effort to hand Trump an unelected second term, a … Continued
Hear both candidates for Oakland School Board District 5, November election. Their views and votes could have enormous implications for Oakland schools.
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.
Over the last forty years, bottled water consumption has exploded. Once a rarefied item, global sales of bottled water dwarf every other beverage — totaling $300 billion a year. Environmental sociologist Daniel Jaffee argues that packaged water doesn’t only imperil our oceans and bodies with plastic waste, but undermines safe public water even more than … Continued
Featuring interviews with participants in social movements, struggles, rebellions, projects, thinkers, and organizers.
Guest: Ryan Grim is The Intercept’s D.C. Bureau Chief and the host of the podcast Deconstructed. He authors the newsletter Bad News. He is the author of the books “This Is Your Country on Drugs” and “We’ve Got People.” His third book, due out in late 2023, will be called “The Squad and the Final Act of … Continued
On Today’s Show: Amnesty International Finds “Damning Evidence of War Crimes” by Israel in Gaza; Death Toll Tops 6,500 “A Man of Two Faces”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Memoir, U.S. Imperialism, Vietnam & More “We Need a Ceasefire”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Gaza & Israel’s Dehumanization of Palestinians Juan González: U.S. “Economic … Continued
Our producer, Jesse Strauss, shares a reflection on the shared grief experience of learning of the death and destruction in Gaza as the bombardments continue, connecting dots between shared Jewish grief of the holocaust, lessons we can learn from abolitionist organizing in the US, and a hope that one outcome of the collective grief process will … Continued
