Hard Knock Radio – April 24, 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.
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UpFront PM – April 24, 2023
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at [email protected].
Getting Unstuck! Healing Patterns of Stagnation
Being stuck is a familiar state that many of us feel. Sometimes we try to move forward and despite all the tools and techniques we’ve learned, we still fall back to familiar patterns. Take a journey along with Thuy and Juliana as they connect the dots to uncover deep unresolved issues that influence patterns of … Continued
Many have concluded that the climate emergency will only be addressed by mass collective action. But given the small size of the U.S. left, who would populate such a movement? Scholar and participant-activist Kai Bosworth draws lessons from the struggles against the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines in the Upper Midwest, which brought … Continued
Protecting Yourself – April 24, 2023
Ralph welcomes Samuel Levine who heads the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission to give you tips on how to use this government agency to protect yourself from corporate fraud and abuse. Plus, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, Dr. Michael Carome stops by to give us the latest warnings about … Continued
Guest: Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the author of many books, his latest is A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. Photo(c): WikimediaCommons. Euskara: A Ku Klux Klan gathering in Muncie Indiana in 1922.
Democracy Now 9am – April 24, 2023
On Today’s Show: Sudan: Death Toll Tops 420 as Fear Grows That Fighting Between Rival Generals Could Lead to Proxy War What’s Next in Legal Fight over Mifepristone? Supreme Court Protects Access to Abortion Pill for Now Sudan Will Be “Nightmare Beyond Belief” If Conflict Grows, Warns Humanitarian Leader Jan Egeland Norwegian Refugee Council: … Continued
Nova Scotia Report: Police Should be ‘Secondary’ in Emergency Response; Plus, NY #MeToo Law Allows Incarcerated Women to Report Sexual Assault
We start with a new official report from Nova Scotia, commissioned after a 2020 mass shooting, that suggests that police should become “secondary” in some emergency response situations, and that emergency mental healthcare needs to lead the way in the process of defunding the police. We are joined to discuss by El Jones is a … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
Democracy Now 6am – April 24, 2023
On Today’s Show: Sudan: Death Toll Tops 420 as Fear Grows That Fighting Between Rival Generals Could Lead to Proxy War What’s Next in Legal Fight over Mifepristone? Supreme Court Protects Access to Abortion Pill for Now Sudan Will Be “Nightmare Beyond Belief” If Conflict Grows, Warns Humanitarian Leader Jan Egeland Norwegian Refugee Council: … Continued