Tune in at 10 p.m., immediately following the Bonnie Simmons Show, as host Derk Richardson ushers out the old year–2020, good riddance!–with two hours of specially selected music leading up to the midnight hour and the turning of the year. PLAYLIST: Over the Rhine, (Merle Haggard’s) If We Make It Through December, Blood Oranges … Continued
Host Derk Richardson pre-recorded two hours of music as a soundtrack for Christmas Eve. Whether or not you celebrate the holiday–perhaps you’re just grateful for the gradual return of the light following the winter solstice–you might find some fun, some compassion, some solace, and some beauty in this playlist: IN THE FIRST HOUR: Laurie Lewis … Continued
Today on the Show: The Tony Award-Winning San Francisco Mime Troupe debuts a new activist adaptation of the Dickens Classic as a radio play: A Red Carol. Flashpoints will feature it in its entirety Christmas eve. Also the latest edition of our new prison abolition radio column in collaboration with the San Francisco Bayview National … Continued
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a unique Zoom Event: Rashid Khalidi & Nora Barrows-Friedman THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017 …………………………… Tuesday, February 16, 6 PM PT Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rashid-khalidi-nora-barrows-friedman-the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine-tickets-131127992355 A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … Continued
This story aired on UpFront on Monday, November 2, 2020. By Ariel Boone (@arielboone), KPFA election reporter In the final days of the 2018 California legislative session, the push to eliminate cash bail went through massive revisions that lost it support from a lot of groups working to end mass incarceration. It passed — … Continued
By KPFA election reporter Ariel Boone (@arielboone) OAKLAND, CA – On a sunny Saturday morning in DeFremery Park in West Oakland, 50 people have come to knock on doors. There are ironworkers, students, democratic socialists, even Sunrise Movement climate activists — all here to support Carroll Fife, a candidate for Oakland city council in … Continued
Richard A. Lupoff began his career as a writer creating a science fiction fanzine, Xero, which won a Hugo Award in 1963. He began his official writing career with a biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs and a first novel, One Million Centuries, in the early 1960s. Over the course of a very long writing career, … Continued
By Ariel Boone (@arielboone), KPFA elections reporter OAKLAND, CA – California is one of only ten states that ban affirmative action by public institutions. Voters put that ban into the state’s constitution in 1996. But that could change this fall, when voters get a chance to overturn the ban with Proposition 16. Affirmative action … Continued
Listen to the full radio report here, first aired October 7, 2020: By Ariel Boone (@arielboone), KPFA elections reporter SACRAMENTO, CA – “Do not wait. If you can vote early, please vote early this year.” That was the primary message of Sam Mahood, press secretary for California Secretary of State Alex Padilla. Mahood declined to … Continued
