Hard Knock Radio – May 19, 2025
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
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George Beebe / Natalie Melnyczuk / Casey Michel
Trump’s Phone Call Today With Putin and the Need For More Than Russia/Ukraine Ceasefire
A Ukrainian Nato Official’s Perspective on Trump’s Conversations With the Warring Parties
Trump and Family Have Elevated Corruption to an Industrial Scale
Since time immemorial, storytellers have held an exalted role in human societies, because stories illustrate parables that help us make sense of the world and survive. In this episode, we hitch a ride with comedian, writer, futurist, technologist, and storyteller Baratunde Thurston. At this perilous existential threshold that will determine the fate of the human … Continued
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about America’s brain drain of scientists as the administration eliminates grants and guts federal health agencies, and how big agrochemical companies are seeking immunity from all liability for their toxic products. Then UMass professor Dr. Laura Vandenberg provides an overview of endocrine disrupting chemicals, their ubiquity … Continued
Womens Magazine – May 19, 2025
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Fund Drive Special: Fighting for the Redwoods
How was it that in less than two centuries the world’s tallest trees, the majestic redwoods, were almost logged off the face of the earth? And this despite the efforts over many generations, starting in the late 19th century, to preserve them. Greg King, writer and forest activist, argues that one of the world’s first … Continued
Breaking The Silence, with IDF Veteran Nadav Wieman
We spend the whole program with Nadav Wieman, a former IDF sniper and now executive director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli veterans who expose the reality of life in the Occupied Territories and work to end the occupation. He and Ralph discuss Nadav’s experience in the IDF and his work trying to … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – May 19, 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).
Malcolm X Birthday: Ballot or the Bullet – Fund Drive Special
Today would be Malcolm X’s 100th birthday. We spend the day remembering Malcom’s contributions for our struggle against white supremacy by listening to selections from his famed speech that came to be known as “the Ballot or the Bullet”. He gave that speech on April 12th, 1964, in Detroit during President Lyndon Johnson’s re-election campaign. … Continued
Republican Budget Bill and California Budget Impact on Healthcare; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — Christine Mai-Duc is California Correspondent for KFF Health News, covering healthcare policy. Alexei Koseff covers state politics for Calmatters. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.