Hard Knock Radio – May 27, 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
Background Briefing – May 27, 2024
On Memorial Day, Those Who Serve America versus Those Who Want to Tear it Apart We begin on this Memorial Day with the difference between those who serve America and those who want to tear it apart with hatred and division, as we witnessed recently with President Biden addressing the graduates of West Point calling … Continued
Our mental health care system is broken. There aren’t enough psychiatric hospital beds, psychiatrists, therapists, safe out patient facilities, good follow up care, or housing for people with mental illness. Too often care isn’t coordinated, and many mentally ill people wind up on the streets or in prison. Join Nurse Rona and her guest, … Continued
Womens Magazine – May 27, 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.
The Politics of Camping
In the United States, few things seem as wholesome as camping, letting us temporarily escape the daily grind and commune with nature and each other. But Phoebe Young argues that camping has a complicated history, which tell us a lot about Americans’ notions of nature and the nation. She discusses the various forms that camping … Continued
The Ralph Nader Radio Hour – May 27, 2024
Ralph Nader talks about what’s happening in America, what’s happening around the world, and most importantly what’s happening underneath it all.
Guest: Sudhir Hazareesingh is a British-Mauritian historian. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history, among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the Prix du Mémorial … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – May 27, 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).
Ancestral Healing from Syria to the Sinai; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Leroy Moore
We’re joined on today’s show by the author of a brand new book that ties cultural survival to earth-based knowledge. In The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of … Continued
Michael Mann On Wars [rebroadcast]
00:08 Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology Emeritus at UCLA; Honorary Professor at the University of Cambridge; author most recently of On Wars [this is a re-broadcast of an interview originally recorded in September 2023]