Flashpoints – August 23, 2024
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Featured Episode
Kamala and The Democratic Dilemma and Poor News Network
In this episode Davey D speaks with Professor James Lance Taylor about Kamala Harris presidential run. And later Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor. 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.
Talk-It-Out Radio – August 23, 2024
A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
Spoiler alert: the world is inaccessible. Often, those in the disability community and with access needs struggle to go where they want to when they want to. We often have our entire days planned out around our needs. Additionally, it’s difficult to decide to go somewhere if you don’t know how accessible it is. Our … Continued
We need affordable housing now!
On today’s episode, we look more closely at two stories that underscore the importance of affordable housing. First, we’ll examine what the recent Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson means for unhoused people who are living on the streets and how historical disinvestment in affordable and public housing has created our current homelessness … Continued
Systemic failure of major disability organizations / What is Marsification?
Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s show. July 26 marked the 34th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act. But is the ADA as far-reaching as it should be? Are the large disability-rights organizations keeping too close to the country’s ruling institutions and, in doing so, defeating their own professed objectives? In the … Continued
Talkies – August 23, 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 Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special)
Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour Democracy Now, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Audio for the first hour of Democracy Now can be found here. Information about the topics covered on today’s Democracy Now plus the audio for the entire second hour can be found here. … Continued
Democracy Now, 9am (rebroadcast, 2-hour special)
This hour rebroadcasts the 5:00 am hour of today’s 2-hour Democracy Now special, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. For information about today’s show and audio for the second hour, see Democracy Now! (6am).
On today’s show, I’ll speak to Media Matters for America’s Director of Climate and Energy Program, Allison Fisher on her latest article, “Right-wing media falsely claim that Kamala Harris wants to ban red meat”. We’ll switch gears just a tiny bit and listen to a short Tedx talk by the chief executive of Farmwel and founder of … Continued