As the COVID-19 pandemic is surging inside California’s prisons, jails and ICE detention facilities, we hear from people incarcerated inside and their family members. Renee Benavidez is the founder of We Are Their Voices, a group of family members fighting for better conditions for their incarcerated loved ones during the pandemic. Her husband Jason is … Continued
Earlier this summer, San Quentin State Prison was the site of one of the country’s largest COVID-19 outbreaks. Elsie Lee is a co-founder of Sistas’ with Voices, an advocacy group formed to speak against inhumane conditions in California prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her husband, Wilbert Lee is currently incarcerated in San Quentin. Elsie spoke … Continued
As COVID-19 surged inside California’s prisons, jails and ICE detention facilities, we hear from people incarcerated inside and their family members. Michelle Hoyt’s partner Lyle Crook, 54, is incarcerated at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran, CA. She’s been regularly communicating with him and others inside throughout the outbreak. In mid-December, Lyle contracted COVID-19. … Continued
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
