Hard Knock Radio – June 2, 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.
Featured Episode
Michael Swaine / Ryan Cooper / George Packer
The Smallest Man With The Biggest Job in America Calls Out China in a Hegemonic Showdown
Trump and Musk’s Refugees From an Imaginary White Genocide
Part 2 of George Packer’s Atlantic Article on Our Next President: “The Talented Mr. Vance”
The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more than three dozen cities, townships and counties across the U.S. have adopted such laws to create legally enforceable rights for ecosystems to exist, flourish, regenerate and evolve. In this program, Native American attorneys, Frank … Continued
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about startup companies pushing recycling of spent nuclear fuel to power next generation power plants, and the Supreme Court’s decision to allow giant multinational mining companies to take over sacred land belonging to Apache tribes. Then nutritionist and award-winning author Dr. Marion Nestle talks about our … Continued
Womens Magazine – June 2, 2025
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Lasting contributions to radical political thought were made by Antonio Gramsci, the Italian thinker, writer, and politician who was imprisoned by Mussolini’s fascist regime. Andy Merrifield discusses Gramsci’s insights into political economy, everyday experience, social change, and the role of intellectuals. Andy Merrifield, Roses for Gramsci Monthly Review Press, 2025 (Image on main page by … Continued
The Tale of a Town Meeting
We hear from citizen activist, Diana Kastenbaum, who organized a town meeting in her congressional district in Western New York State filled with both Democrats and Republicans airing their concerns. How did the district’s representative respond? We’ll hear the whole story. Then, Ralph Nader welcomes back Washington Post tech reporter, Geoffrey Fowler, to discuss his … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – June 2, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Palestine Post: Israel Publicly & Intentionally Starves Gazans; Plus Oakland’s Non-police Emergency Response Program Updates
As Israel flexed it’s ability to publicly intentionally starve Palestinians in Gaza, this past week marked more than 600 days of the zionist war of ethnic cleansing. Joining us to discuss the latest news and analysis of that violence, is Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Samer also co-hosts the … Continued
Updates on the Russia-Ukraine War; Covid Calls w/ Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 – John Feffer, Director of Foreign Policy in Focus 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health