Pushing Limits – January 3, 2025
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public.
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Jenny Odell on Saving Time (encore)
On this week’s episode, we speak with Jenny Odell, author of Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. We take a critical look at productivity culture and the idea that time is money. Then we hear how to begin to disentangle our daily … Continued
Ralph Nader on Social Justice and World Affairs
We begin 2025 on an optimistic note, with a timeless speech by the legendary political activist and consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader. Nader outlines some of the most critical problems facing Americans, including exorbitant military spending, out-of-control corporations, and thousands of annual deaths in the workplace, or from lack of health-care coverage. But then he names … Continued
Talkies – January 3, 2025
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Latinx farmworkers, who make up over 80% of California’s agricultural workforce, face some of the state’s lowest levels of food security, wealth, and homeownership. This week on Terra Verde, host and producer Hannah Wilton is joined by longtime farmer and co-owner of Full Belly Farm Paul Muller to discuss their research and development initiative to … Continued
Capitalism vs. Democracy (encore)
On this week’s show, Professor Wolff presents an analysis of how and why capitalism is an undemocratic economic system. The first half is devoted to the micro-level, namely to the organization of the enterprise (factory, office, or store). Its undemocratic character is exposed using examples and empirical evidence. The second half has a macro-level focus … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – January 3, 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).
KPFA News Headlines 1/3/25
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These are just a few of the stories we’re working on today. Please tune in for the hour-long Pacifica Evening News at 6 PM.
A Rude Awakening – January 3, 2025
An in-depth look at community affairs on a local, national and international level, with interviews and commentary. Hosted by Sabrina Jacobs.
Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis on Abolishing Rent
00:08 Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, co-founders of the L.A. Tenants Union, and now co-authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis