Hard Knock Radio – September 8, 2022
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 – September 8, 2022
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].
The Visionary Activist Show – Supporting Lake Merritt & Underwater Kin
May our rogue species re-enter the choreography of creation, rather than disrupting Nature’s diverse equilibrium… Caroline, segues from last week, again hosting Citizen naturalist Damon Tighe, on the unfolding die-off at Lake Merritt, Oakland, and the SF Bay… let’s keep this crisis on the altar of urgent pertinence. Damon is a naturalist … Continued
Roz Chast, legendary New Yorker cartoonist, discusses her career and her book “Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York,” recorded October 26, 2017, followed by an interview with Roz Chast and Patricia Marx about their book, “Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother’s Suggestions,” recorded April 8, 2019. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Chilean political activist Antonia Atria explains why that country’s voters rejected a proposed new constitution, and Juliana Fredman, a public interest lawyer in the Bay Area, analyzes Biden’s student debt relief proposals. photo: Ehud Neuhaus on Unsplash
Talkies – September 8, 2022
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.
Combating Anti-Asian Hate Guest: Annie Lee, Director of Policy for Chinese for Affirmative Action and member of The Stop AAPI Hate Coalition. A Conversation on Originalism Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and author of the forthcoming book Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of … Continued
Democracy Now – September 8, 2022
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Charges dropped for cops who killed Angelo Quinto; Plus, Antioch Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker
We kick off todays show with this week’s State Terror Roundup – then going to turn our attention to both police in government in Antioch. First we speak with the family of Angelo Quinto who was murdered by police during a mental health crisis in 2020. The Contra Costa District Attorney just last week ruled … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We discuss extreme heat and its impacts on agriculture and farm worker communities in the Central Valley with Josué Medellín-Azuara (@josuemedellin), Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Merced and Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou (@drfernandezbou), a scientist at UC Merced and co-founder of the SocioEnvironmental and Education Network. Both … Continued