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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.
Davey D speaks with Tim Redmond. 48 Hills editor and former executive editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian all about this November’s election, including the proposition to limit short term rentals units rented out through companies like Airbnb on the ballot, that is, Prop F.
We speak with attorney Nekima Levy-Pounds about the ongoing actions in Minnesota to combat police terrorism. Later we hear from organizer Kevin Moore, who gained nationwide attention in April for capturing the arrest of Freddie Gray, on a cellphone video. In the aftermath of Gray’s death, Moore created WeCopwatch Baltimore and has accumulated dozens of … Continued
This is a conversation on gentrification in down town Oakland.. It features excerpts from a planning meeting held Wednesday night at Paramount theater… U hear clips from City council president Lynette McAlhaney, Black developer Alan Dunes and mayor Libby Shaaf. Next we have an interview with Dwayne Wiggins giving a historical breakdown of artists, Oakland … Continued
Up next, we’ll discuss the general elections in Haiti, held on October 25th of this year. Haitians were choosing from more than 50 candidates to succeed President Michel Martelly. They were also electing members of the Congress, which was dissolved in January amid politically motivated mass murders in Haiti. Preliminary results could be issued in … Continued
Author and hiphop activist Sister Souljah speaks at Oakland’s McClymonds High school about the youth being in a state of emergency.
We speak with independent journalist & filmmaker David Sheen about the heightened racist treatment of African asylum-seekers in Israel. Later we speak with filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi about immigration and the new film, Ellis Island.
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We speak with organizer Jovanka Beckles about the murder of Sandra Bland and an upcoming march to commemorate her life as well as the countless other victims of police terrorism. Later on we speak with filmmaker Stanley Nelson about his documentary film, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.
Hard Knock Radio correspondent Thandisizwe Chimurenga discusses Harriet Tubman on the 20 dollar bill, Poor News Network explores economic violence against poor communities and Soul Mechanix’s Graal Swartz stops by to discuss the changing music business. Thandisizwe Chimurenga | @idabweewells | facebook.com/LoveOfTheNation | Soul Mechanix https://www.facebook.com/Soul-Mechanix-103209893137748/
HKR’s Davey D speaks with attorney Walter Riley and other legal practitioners about the radical lawyering, the legal battles of the Black Friday 14 and the upcoming National Lawyers Guild conference that will bring together practitioners, law students, and community activists from around the country to discuss innovative, progressive approaches to law and social change.
Justa Cause Oakland’s Robbie Clark, Favianna Rodriguez, Chaney Turner and others discuss the attack on Black expression and Black life in the city of Oakland and how to protect it.
