Pete Escovedo and Poor News Network
We talk with legendary musician Pete Escovedo about his latest happenings and the latest edition of Poor News Network.

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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. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.
We talk with legendary musician Pete Escovedo about his latest happenings and the latest edition of Poor News Network.
Davey D speaks from one of the many student walkouts that are happening across the country to protest gun violence.
Davey D speaks with Debbie Russell about the recent package bombings in Austin, Texas. Reports from a rally at the Alameda County courthouse regarding the recent BART police murder of Salim Tindal.
We speak with local SF activist Ben B about recent killing by police in SF’s Mission district.. Later on we speak w/ former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad who speaks about humanitarian crisis in the Congo.
On today’s show we look at the new film, Healing Justice produced by World Trust in collaboration with Shakti Butler, Ph.D. Healing Justice, explores the causes and consequences of the current American justice system and its effect on marginalized communities. The film walks back through the history of violence that has led to our current … Continued
On today’s program we present, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which individuals and organizations of the media have of marginalized the public through the dissemination of information, domestically and internationally. Noam Chomsky’s film, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
NOAM CHOMSKY speaking on, “Whither Palestine?” NOAM CHOMSKY is political theorist, activist, historian, social critic, and author of more than 100 books – and is internationally recognized as one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world. An unapologetic critic of US foreign policy, mainstream media, and capitalism, Chomsky’s most recent book is “Requiem … Continued
On today’s show we look at the new film, Healing Justice produced by World Trust in collaboration with Shakti Butler, Ph.D. Healing Justice, explores the causes and consequences of the current American justice system and its effect on marginalized communities. The film walks back through the history of violence that has led to our current … Continued
with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, an assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida. Discusses his latest book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course … Continued
On today’s show we look at the new film, Healing Justice produced by World Trust in collaboration with Shakti Butler, Ph.D. Healing Justice, explores the causes and consequences of the current American justice system and its effect on marginalized communities. The film walks back through the history of violence that has led to our current … Continued