The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 20, 2022
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Featured Episode
Sen. Raphael Warnock Says He Won’t Rest Until Voting Rights are Secured.
Today on the Show: Sen. Raphael Warnock Says He Won’t Rest Until Voting Rights are Secured: Also We feature a powerful new front-line edition of the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman.
In Conversation with CA Working Families Party State Director Jane Kim
An Interview with CAWFP State Director Jane Kim about the Working Families Party that just launched in California. Jane has spent her career serving Californian working families. As San Francisco Supervisor, she led the way to make community college tuition-free for all San Franciscans, won a citywide $15 minimum wage, and secured full-time nurses for … Continued
UpFront PM – January 20, 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 – Citizen Trickster as Keeper of Democracy
Citizen Trickster as Keeper of Democracy: Caroline welcomes the return of long-time political*spiritual strategist ally, Patricia Ewing, as the Sun enters Aquarius, and we are all called to cultivate the qualities of being a good Planetary Citizen… that we may gather our wits, settle our souls, in order to align with the Phoenix’s song that … Continued
Kathy Geritz, film curator for Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, discusses the films of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety (1945-1998), followed by a 2003 interview with novelist and essayist Joan Didion (1934-2021). Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Erin Thompson, author of Smashing Statues, talks about the politics of public art. And John Huntington, author of Far-Right Vanguard, recounts the history of the far-Right and its often close relations with the “respectable” Right. photo: Pixabay
Talkies – January 20, 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.
Guest: William Jay Risch is a professor of history at Georgia College. He specializes on Eastern Europe and is the author of the book The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv.
Democracy Now – January 20, 2022
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.