Hard Knock Radio – December 30, 2024
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.
Featured Episode
Sarah Churchwell / Samuel Moyn / Steve Benen (encore show)
A View From Abroad, as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship
Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy
How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and up to Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality
Architect and designer Jason F. McLennan takes the revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart into our built environment.
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug review some of the top environmental health news stories of the year, including the California lawsuit against Exxon for lying about plastic recycling, the renewed push for nuclear power (to support the insatiable power appetite of AI), the debate over fluoride in public water supplies, how “forever” … Continued
Womens Magazine – December 30, 2024
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Why has the term complicity become so ubiquitous in recent years? Are we all complicit in the system that we live under? What use, or uses, does the notion serve? These are questions that legal scholar Francine Banner poses. She makes the argument that the term bears different meanings, sometimes holding the powerful to account … Continued
Hollow Constituencies / National Popular Vote / Tort Museum Interns Read the Dictionary
First up on today’s wide-ranging show, Ralph speaks to political scientist Adolph Reed about how American politics has started taking its cues from professional wrestling and how the left can rebuild itself. Then, we welcome Steve Silberstein from National Popular Vote to update us on their interstate compact’s progress. Finally, we’re joined by three interns … Continued
(Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzeCOZfd7WM&t=3s Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli-American journalist based in Los Angeles. He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the author of Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth.
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – December 30, 2024
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).
Appalachian Roadside Theater in Appalachia
Roadside Theater is a professional ensemble of storytellers and theater makers hailing from the mountains of central Appalachia. In its decades since its founding in 1975, the ensemble has taken on the task of people’s theater, engaging social issues and abandoning the ‘fourth wall’ concept in order to bring audiences into the process of cultural … Continued