Hard Knock Radio

Davey D in Conversation with Rocky Rivera: Exploring Long Kiss Goodnight

Davey D sits down with acclaimed hip-hop artist, journalist, and activist Rocky Rivera to discuss her latest collaborative project, Long Kiss Goodnight, an album created in partnership with fellow Bay Area artist Otayo Dubb. In this candid and insightful conversation, Rocky Rivera delves into the creative process behind the album, its inspirations, and the themes … Continued


The Visionary Activist Show

The Visionary Activist Show – Trickster Version Project 2025

  We gather to con-sider, to avert greater dis-aster Trickster Version Project 2025: Tis not “ what’s gonna happen?” But What’s the assignment….?! What’s available with which to cooperate…./ Considering the path of evolutionary opportunity Caroline welcomes colleague from way back Rick Geer- “Rick Geer has been a professional astrologer for 50 years, specializing in … Continued


Behind the News

Best of 2024 retrospective

Three interviews on Israel’s many wars: Rashid Khalidi and Pankaj Mishra with a historical perspective, and Annelle Sheline adds a former insider’s view. Then, Aziz Rana on the awfulness of the US constitution, Anna Kornbluh with a cultural critique of immediacy, and Brooke Harrington on the offshore money-hiding racket. And a memorial to Jane McAlevey.


Some of the people making LGBTQ news in 2024 including Taiwan’s LGBTQ-supportive incoming president Lai Ching-te, trans-supportive Missouri Rabbi Daniel Bogard, anti-LGBTQ Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Philadelphia’s Guinness World Record-breaking Drag Queen Story Time, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s pro-insurrectionist wife Martha Ann, Thailand’s pro-marriage equality lawmakers, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman, predictably … Continued


Law & Disorder

Opposing Solitary Confinement from Behind Bars w/ Christopher Blackwell

We’ll spend the hour today in conversation with Christopher Blackwell, an award-winning journalist currently incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center. He is serving a 45-year prison sentence for taking another human’s life during a drug robbery and has been incarcerated since 2003. We’ll talk about the book he’s contributing to about the terrors of solitary … Continued