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🛠️ Know & Grow: Tools for Resistance and Resilience

🛠️ Know & Grow: Tools for Resistance and Resilience A community resource center from KPFA ✊🏽 IMMIGRANT RIGHTS CHIRLA chirla.org Free legal help, deportation defense, rapid-response hotline: 888-624-4752 Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) ilrc.org “Know Your Rights” guides, family prep plans, and advocacy tools. CA Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) caimmigrant.org Policy updates, legal resources, multilingual … Continued

How Gaza medical workers endure the impossible

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07.15.25 - 11:00amCanada-based emergency physician, Tarek Loubani, speaks with host Nora Barrows-Friedman. He is the medical director and co-founder of Glia, an international medical solidarity organization with field clinics inside Gaza. They discuss how Gaza doctors endure the impossible in the midst of the IDF’s targeting of hospitals and the people who work there. Dr. Sarah Lalonde … Continued

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ICE and Homeland Security On The Attack In The South Bay

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07.15.25 - 5:00pmToday on the show: Pro-Palestinian activist, Yves Engler, faces backlash by Canada’s support for Israel Yves runs for office in Montreal with the New Democratic Party. Also ICE and Homeland Security on the Attack in the South Bay , just south of San Francisco: we’ll feature a special report as people brace themselves for potential … Continued

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Songs to Obsess Over & Over… June 2025 Edition

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06.24.25 - 11:32amHey all! Your Interim Music Director, Mike Biggz here, back with the songs that I couldn’t stop listening to for the month of June, 2025 Songs to Obsess Over & Over June 2025 Drugdealer & Weyes Blood – Real Thing (Mexican Summer) Anytime Drugdealerr and Weyes Blood team up, you’re gonna get some fine … Continued

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31 nations sign condemnation of humanitarian crisis in Gaza; ICE agents harassing immigration court observers in Sacramento – July 21, 2025

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07.21.25 - 6:00pmComprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. 31 nations sign statement condemning humanitarian crisis in Gaza as food site killings continue; Environmentalists, tribal leaders blast planned Delta Tunnel water diversion; Immigration court observers in Sacramento harassed by ICE agents in acts of intimidation; CA … Continued

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August 13 2025

Unscripted: An Evening with Robert B. Reich

Robert Reich, political economist, UC Berkeley professor and former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton will be speaking about his new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America at an event co-sponsored by KPFA and Book Passage – Unscripted: An Evening with Robert B. Reich is on Wednesday, August 13th at the Golden...

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07.22.25 - 12:00pm

Against the Grain – July 22, 2025

A radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism.

Against the Grain

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07.22.25 - 11:00am

Understanding Hamas

This week on the show, we take a break from the news cycle to discuss understanding Hamas. Writer and analyst Justin Podur joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to talk about Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s novel The Thorn and the Carnation. He gives insight into Sinwar’s thinking and how it helped shape the resistance … Continued

Electronic Intifada Radio

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07.22.25 - 10:00am

Red Scare: The Early Years

Guest: Clay Risen is a historian and a reporter and editor at The New York Times. He is the author of several books including The Crowded Hour, a New York Times Notable Book of 2019, and his latest, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.

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07.22.25 - 9:00am

Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – July 22, 2025

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).

Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast)

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