On the Deck, KPFA Announcements for May 2022

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and it’s time for our Spring Fund Drive. We highlight some donors who have contributed to KPFA. And we’ve started live streaming news on our social media platforms and will do ON THE DECK Weekly Recaps on Tuesdays. Check out past On the Deck shows, here.


We speak with composer, pianist, and vocalist Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes about The Healing Project – YBCA. The Healing Project, fundamentally an abolitionist project that explores the structures of systemic racism — particularly the prison industrial complex — in the United States. Pinderhughes uses music, visual arts, film, and language as abolitionist action. The Healing Project takes multiple … Continued


Pushing Limits

Anti-Racist Disability Activists – Pushing Limits – May 6, 2022

  White disabled activists combating racism against the non-white disabled community is the topic of this edition of Pushing Limits radio program.  Producer/host Eddie Ytuarte will interview Micah Peace, a co-coordinator of Disability SURJ, a chapter of the national organization Showing Up For Racial Justice.   SURJ is  “a national network of groups and individuals … Continued


To open this week’s episode an attorney from Communities for a Better Environment joins Terra Verde to describe the rubber stamp permitting of the conversion of refineries in the SF Bay Area to high deforestation risk liquid biofuels. The second featured interview is with an organizer from the Indigenous Environmental Network who tells listeners how … Continued


Project Censored

Project Censored – May 6, 2022

The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.