East Bay Yesterday – December 18, 2024
This series explores stories of culture, politics and nature from Oakland, Berkeley and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Featured Episode
Commodifying Water
Over the last forty years, bottled water consumption has exploded. Once a rarefied item, global sales of bottled water dwarf every other beverage — totaling $300 billion a year. Environmental sociologist Daniel Jaffee argues that packaged water doesn’t only imperil our oceans and bodies with plastic waste, but undermines safe public water even more than … Continued
This is a presentation entitled Art as a Vehicle for Anarchist Ideas with anarchist graffiti artists and designers N.O. Bonzo, Des Revol, and Sugarbombing World.
Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – December 18, 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).
Basketball, Ascension, and Palestine w/ Hanif Abdurraqib; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Chris Burger
On today’s show, we’ll be in conversation with the author of one of the most anticipated books of the year. The book is called There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, and it’s a poetic love letter to basketball; also to being rooted in Columbus Ohio, where the author has lived most of his … Continued
Foreign Relations for a New Syria Under HTS; Plus, Alameda County Data Report Traces Homelessness in Oakland; And, San Francisco’s Houseless Population in Recent Storms
00:08 — Mouin Rabbani is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, previously principal political affairs officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria. 00:33 — Natalie Orenstein covers housing and homelessness for The Oaklandside. 00:45 — Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the San Francisco … Continued
Democracy Now 6am – December 18, 2024
On today’s show: “Obey the Law”: Palestinians Sue State Department, Saying Arms Sales to Israel Violate U.S. Human Rights Law Justice for Ayşenur Eygi: Family of U.S. Citizen Killed by Israel Meets with Blinken Demanding Probe Trump Escalates War on Press by Suing Des Moines Register Days After ABC Agreed to $15M Settlement
Paul Waldman / Jonathan Metzl / Suzanne Schneider
As Trump Declares War on the Press, ABC News Preemptively Capitulates
The Latest of 323 School Shootings This Year Involves a 15-Year Old Girl Who Killed 2, Wounded 6, and Shot Herself at Her Christian School
Our “Christo-Fascists” Compared to the Islamo-Fascists We Decry
Rhythm Machine – December 18, 2024
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Rhythm Machine with hosts Ryan and Oliver(o-live-e-ay) aka Excuse My French. Wednesdays 2am-5am, playing all things on the electronic dance music spectrum.