Flashpoints – December 16, 2025
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
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Hard Knock Radio – December 16, 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.
Background Briefing – December 16, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Special Fund Drive Programming
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Join us for part two of a two-part series exploring Winter Medicine. Emiliano Lemus explores the physical aspects of supporting our bodies in the winter, as we slow down and tend to this colder and darker time. We discuss immunity, nutrition, rest, and more. Fund drive. Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. … Continued
Historian Joshua Clark Davis disputes the idea that the Civil Rights movement did not organize against police repression. He discusses the extensive involvement of local police departments in disrupting and repressing the movement.
On June 13th, 2024, Israel and the United States launched a 12-day war on Iran. Al-Jazeera’s Fault Lines series executive producer Laila Al-Arian joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to talk about their latest documentaries: “Target Tehran,” about the human cost of Israel’s attacks on Iran, as well as “The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya,” about the pediatrician in … Continued
Special Fund Drive Programming – Mitch reads Animal Farm
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Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast) – December 16, 2025
ON TODAY’S SHOW: “We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age” From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning … Continued
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts w/ Dr. Rebecca Hall — Winter Fund Drive
On this episode, we speak with Dr. Rebecca Hall, author of the acclaimed graphic novel, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the powerful story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about … Continued