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The Visionary Activist Show – Radio Magic for the Forests
Radio Magic for the Forests, Caroline welcomes the return of Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Who says Radio holds the ear, and fires the imagination… So we light our collaborative kinship fires, to quell the fires… Weaving Nature to resolve human cruelty…. Speaker for the Trees, Botanist, medical biochemist and author Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger possesses a unique combination … Continued
Today’s episode of Bookwaves/Artwaves is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from the classic writings The Way of Chuang Tzu, translated by Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang … Continued
Fundraising special: two views of Israel–Palestine
Meron Rapoport, co-author of this article, on Israel’s strategy of destruction in Gaza • Mouin Rabbani on Israeli politics, the fate of the Palestinians, and Trump’s scheming
Today’s episodes of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa and This Way Out are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Liam O’Donoghue speaks with renown geographer and author Richard Walker about his view of cities as living organisms and the role industry plays in development and ongoing health of cities. … Continued
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts of the Iliad by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson. Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – May 22, 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: A Genocide Foretold w/ Chris Hedges – Spring Fund Drive Special
On today’s show, we’re in conversation with Chris Hedges about his latest book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive Chris Hedges new book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. In it, the Pulitzer Prize–winning former Middle East Bureau Chief … Continued
Fund Drive Special: Teaching Palestine
00:08 — Adam Sanchez is the managing editor of Rethinking Schools and a former high school history teacher based in Philadelphia. He is the editor of A People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War and the co-editor of Teaching Palestine. Jesse Hagopian is a Rethinking Schools editor, a former high school teacher, and on … Continued
Democracy Now 6am – May 22, 2025
On today’s show: “Nothing Can Justify It”: Journalist Gideon Levy Reacts to Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers in D.C. “The Worst It’s Ever Been”: U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt, as Israel Widens Assault U.K. MP Jeremy Corbyn and EU MP Lynn Boylan on Europe Pressuring Israel to Halt Atrocities in Gaza … Continued