Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Texas democratic lawmakers leave state to block scheduled republican redistricting vote; Nations negotiating global plastic pollution treaty as new report urges action on public health emergency; Activists celebrate appeals court victory on order barring discriminatory ICE practices … Continued
Today on the Show: Haiti, US Private Security forces and the big lie behind US foreign policy. And National Book Award Winning poet, Martin Espada reads from his latest collection of poetry JAILBREAK OF SPARROWS and speaks out against the expanding crack down and round ups of people of color Across the USA
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 offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
How do we change the story of corrosive racial inequity? First, we have to understand the stories we tell ourselves. In this program, racial justice innovators john a. powell and Heather McGhee show how empathy, honesty and the recognition of our common humanity can change the story to bridge the racial divides tearing humanity and … Continued
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the Trump administration’s plans to stop making scientific climate reports easily available to the public, and the new study showing that children living near oil and gas drilling sites have a significantly higher incidence of leukemia. Then Steven Feit, senior attorney with the Center for … Continued
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Many assume the majority of people living on the streets struggle with mental illness or just need jobs — and that homelessness is unfortunate, but intractable. Longtime advocate for the unhoused, Mary Brosnahan, argues that these are myths, and that much of what we assume about homelessness is wrong. She posits that at its root … Continued
Ralph and the crew spend the whole hour with Omer Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, who grew up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of his life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and is the author a New York Times op-ed entitled … Continued
Guest: Dr. Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist and author of Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Birth of the Modern Mind.
