this episode is no longer available
On today’s show we speak with Verbena Lea, a volunteer with the Prisoner Hunger Strike Committee to End Sleep Deprivation in California Prisons. Today lawyers for two prisoners, Christopher Lipsey and Maher Suarez, argued against an attempt by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to dismiss civil rights cases brought on behalf of … Continued
Diabetes is a health issue for many people. Join Sarah Holmes for a discussion of diabetes and how to work with and live well with this disease. In our society, this is an ingrained idea that fatness causes diabetes and when you lose weight, you lose diabetes, fasting sugar is a great way to loss … Continued
On today’s show, we are in conversation with David Cay Johnston, journalist investigator who has been covering the business transactions of Donald Trump for almost 30 years. In his latest book, It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, he highlights what the White House is doing and how … Continued
7:33 – Supervisor Jane Kim, represents District 6, in San Francisco (Tenderloin, South of Market, Mid-Market/Civic Center, South Beach, Mission Bay, Rincon Hill, and Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island neighborhoods. She is the chair of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee and also sits on the Budget & Finance Committee.
Directorate S: Steve Coll on the CIA & America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan & Pakistan; Black Lives Matter Activist Muhiyidin d’Baha, Who Grabbed Confederate Flag, Shot Dead in New Orleans.
Oscar López Rivera, one of the longest serving political prisoners in the world, imprisoned for his anti-colonial activism for Puerto Rico, is a free man. Rivera served 35 years of a 70-year sentence when President Obama commuted his term. On our show today we’ll play an interview I had with him at Pasadena City College … Continued
this episode is no longer available
Dead to the World celebrates John Perry Barlow’s life and music. Dennis McNally calls in about 8:30pm PT and Steve Parish calls in about 9:10pm. Tim Lynch hosts the program. @JPBarlow
Dead to the World will celebrate John Perry Barlow’s life and music tonight (Wed. 2/7). Dennis McNally will call in about 8:30pm PT. Tim Lynch hosts the program. @JPBarlow Barlow was a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and so much more. Barlow passed away in his his sleep … Continued
Part One: Radio’s interwoven pair—Foley and Serrano, like guitar and piano, like Piedmontese and Siciliano, like tenor and soprano, like Paris and Milano—having survived Trump’s SOTU, are back, unimpaired, to offer their unique blend of whatchamacallit: poetry, music, commentary, what have you. Continues at 3:30 pm.
It’s week five of The Hear and Now’s six-week marathon of live music from the KPFA studio, and we feature the Berkeley Choro Ensemble–flutist Jane Lenoir, clarinetist/saxophonist Harvey Wainapel, percussionist Brian Rice, and guitarist Ricardo Peixoto. The ensemble will celebrate the release of its album, The View from Here, in a concert Saturday, Feb. 10, at … Continued
