4:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - FRIDAYS
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 speak with filmmaker Cheo Tyehimba Taylor about his new film, “Together We Rise,” a 3-part doc about everyday people across California finding their power to change the “systems” that repress them. Film tackles food justice for African immigrants in San Diego, revisiting the painful past of Indian boarding schools and reclaiming native languages in the classroom on a … Continued
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Dr. Mustafa BarGhouti discusses 100 Years after the Balfour Declaration: The Anti-Colonial Struggle in Palestine. Mustafa Barghouti is General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative & President of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
On today’s show we explore the Social History of LSD in America. The 10 hour history of LSD are talks, interviews and documentaries presented on the airwaves of Pacifica Radio. We feature the voices of Timothy Leary, Andrew Weil and Ram Dass.
ABOUT BEYOND THE MESSY TRUTH NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart—by the CNN political contributor and host hailed as “a star of the 2016 campaign” (The New York Times) who coined the … Continued
Symbols of Resistance explores the history of the Chicano Movement as it emerges in the 1970’s with a focus on events in Colorado and Northern New Mexico. It focuses on the struggle for land, the student movement, and community struggles against police repression highlighting the significance of the Chicano Movement and its relevance to struggles … Continued
We talk about the big senate election in Alabama and the efforts to save Net Neutrality.
Symbols of Resistance explores the history of the Chicano Movement as it emerges in the 1970’s with a focus on events in Colorado and Northern New Mexico. It focuses on the struggle for land, the student movement, and community struggles against police repression highlighting the significance of the Chicano Movement and its relevance to struggles … Continued
Today on Hard Knock we speak with George Galvis, the Co-founder and executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice about Dream Beyond Bars Youth Justice Town Hall, a community discussion to develop a vision to “Close Youth Prisons, Build Youth Leaders”. photo credit @ East Bay Express copyright @ East Bay Express
We speak with Chris Rachel about this weekend’s benefit for Pam The Funkstress. Later Davey D speaks with musician and activist Naima Shalhoub.
Davey D speaks with Refa 1 and Duane Deterville of the Oakland Maroons about the new Black Panther mural they just completed in West Oakland. And later Davey we speak with Oakland City Council member Desley Brooks about the Oakland Police Department’s involvement with a recent ICE raid
