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Featured Episode
East Bay Yesterday – July 30, 2025
This series explores stories of culture, politics and nature from Oakland, Berkeley and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Fund Drive Special: What It Takes to Heal
Prentis Hemphill discusses their book “What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World.”
Author Dani Burlison speaks about disaster and renewal in “Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country” (AK Press, 2025)
Guest: Ann Schmiesing is professor of German and Scandinavian studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales and most lately, The Brothers Grimm: A Biography.
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – July 30, 2025
On Today’s Show: 60 Years After LBJ Signed Medicaid & Medicare, GOP Cuts Threaten Lifeline for Millions Disabled People “Will Die” as GOP Medicaid Cuts Go into Effect, Warns Disability Rights Leader “Beyond Atrocious”: Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid “The Most Peaceful Man”: West Bank Mourns Odeh Hadalin, Palestinian Activist … Continued
Chris Hedges Live in Oakland – Summer Fund Drive
On today’s show, we hear selections from Pulitzer-prize winning author Chris Hedges in celebration of the release of his most recent book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Thursday, May 29th with host Cat Brooks. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive Chris Hedges new book, A … Continued
Israel’s Imposed Starvation in Gaza and Palestinian Statehood Recognition in Europe; Plus, DOJ-led Lawsuit Against Oakland’s Jerusalem Coffee House
00:08 — George Bisharat is Professor Emeritus at University of California College of Law, San Francisco. His legal scholarship focuses on Palestine, Israel, and U.S. policies toward the Middle East. 00:33 — Abdulrahim Harara is the founder of Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland. Walter Riley is a veteran civil rights lawyer who has spent decades … Continued
Democracy Now 6am – July 30, 2025
On Today’s Show: 60 Years After LBJ Signed Medicaid & Medicare, GOP Cuts Threaten Lifeline for Millions Disabled People “Will Die” as GOP Medicaid Cuts Go into Effect, Warns Disability Rights Leader “Beyond Atrocious”: Arwa Damon on Desperation & Hunger in Gaza as Israel Continues Blocking Most Aid “The Most Peaceful Man”: West Bank Mourns Odeh Hadalin, Palestinian Activist … Continued
An episode unpacking Trump’s headline-grabbing EU trade deal announcement as a distraction from scandal, his escalating ultimatum to Putin on Ukraine, and the hypocrisy of rebuking Netanyahu over Gaza’s starvation while greenlighting territorial annexation.
Trump’s Announce First- Details Later Trade Deal With the EU and “Air Farce One: When Gift Becomes Grift” We begin with an analysis of Trump’s “announce first – details later” trade deal with the EU he proclaimed at his golf course in Scotland which critics see as an attempt to distract from the Epstein story. … Continued