KPFA Music Director Mike Biggz recently had the pleasure of speaking with the wonderful and amazing Esthero. They discussed her life as a fully independent artist and the 20th anniversary of her album “Wikked Lil Grrrls”.
Today on the show: We are live from Medicine For Nightmares Book Store in the Heart of San Francisco’s legendary Mission District. We’ll be joined by Chicano writer/activist Alejandro Murguia: Activist Professor Lorena Gonzalez, Contra Costa College La Rasa Studies, Professor Ron Lopez , Chicano Studies Sonoma State University. Immigrants rights activist and Flashpoints Resident … Continued
Today on Hard Knock Radio we present Saltwater Soundwalk, an Indigenous audio tour of Seattle featuring a watery audio experience, with streams of stories that ebb and flow that intermixes English and Coast Salish languages. Indigenous Coast Salish peoples continue to steward this land and preserve its language, despite settler colonialism, industrialization and gentrification. Part story, … Continued
This episode with host Timothy Regan is part 2 of “Back to Basics” with Dr. Marshall Rosenberg in his own words. Timothy shares an excerpt from Marshall’s teaching, where through stories and clear examples, he demonstrates how to apply the “language of life” to the work of expressing what we want to change, in ourselves … Continued
How do you produce radio when you can’t see the screen? Or when you only have the use of a few fingers? This week on Pushing Limits, producers Dominick Trevethan and Denny Daughters take you behind the microphone to share how they edit audio, produce radio, and overcome barriers using assistive technology and adaptive techniques. They also discuss why authentic disability representation matters—not just in … Continued
Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are leading efforts to raise awareness about the harm of racism and to relearn Aztec history, correctly. This episode first aired in 2023. Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of … Continued
This week on the program, a special full show with Palestinian author, historian and academic Dr. Ramzy Baroud about his latest book Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine. Dr. Baroud takes us through long duree, a history that has not been amputated and … Continued
Kris Welch speaks with Mary Moore about Bohemian Grove protests, Bill Hartung on NATO, Iran, and military spending, John Nichols on the political landscape ahead of the midterms, Rachel Lee on Radio Day by the Bay and the California Historical Radio Society, plus Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier returns. The cultural, the intellectual, the … Continued
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This week on Economic Update, Professor delivers updates on rising wages for app-based NYC food delivery workers, a wave of U.S. firms being sold to their workers, McDonald’s disaster with an AI experiment, and how Canada’s leader Carney is also a major campaigner for capital and against labor inside Canada. The second part of today’s … Continued
