Special Holiday Fund Drive Programming
Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2024 Holiday Fund Drive. To support our mission, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732.
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Ralph Nader and Peter Phillips on financial power vs. people power
On today’s special holiday fund drive episode: Mickey talks with political sociologist Peter Phillips about his new book Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity. The sequel to 2018’s Giants, Titans identifies the money managers who control the world’s largest sums of capital, in their jobs at Black Rock and other huge investment firms, and … Continued
Talkies – December 6, 2024
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.
Special Holiday Fund Drive Episode: Labor Unions and Political Power
On this week’s hour-long episode, Professor Wolff discusses Labor Unions and Political parties. He explains why U.S. and Western capitalism today provoke labor and unions into more and more social and political action. The latest examples are the recent Canadian Postal Workers strike and the Barnes and Noble bookstore workers rally in New York City. … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – December 6, 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).
A Rude Awakening will return on December 20th. Today’s special programming for KPFA’s 2024 Holiday Fund Drive is an interview with author and artist Obi Kaufmann discussing his book The State of Fire: Why California Burns. To support our mission, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732.
Fund Drive Special with Maria Finn
00:08 — Maria Finn is an author, speaker and chef living in Sausalito, California. Her forthcoming book is Forage. Gather. Feast.
Democracy Now 6am – December 6, 2024
On today’s show: Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, with Full U.S. Support “All That Remains”: As Gaza Faces Child Amputee Crisis, New Film Tells Story of 13-Year-Old Leyan Political Chaos in France: Macron Refuses to Resign After Hand-Picked PM Ousted by Lawmakers
Eric Kingson / Richard Beck
“It’s Going to Be Fun” Says Ramaswamy, Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare
How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the U.S.
Puzzling Evidence – December 6, 2024
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.