Hard Knock Radio – September 15, 2004
Esmerelda Santiago talks about her new book The Turkish Lover; Power jazz trio the The Bad Plus.

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.
Esmerelda Santiago talks about her new book The Turkish Lover; Power jazz trio the The Bad Plus.
Participants from Slam Bush and Punk Voter discuss national campaigning efforts to get out the vote; Hip Hop pioneers Bran Nubians talk about hip hop and their new album.
A special tribute to Tupak Shakur; Participants from the War at Home Forum sponsored by the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition examining violence in American communities focusing on Bayview Hunters Point.
Michael Franti on the The 6th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival; Paul Florez and Will the Real One on Youth Speaks Second Sundays.
Labor watchdog group Citizens Out of Work asks the San Francisco Human Rights Commission why arent local residents being hired for construction jobs?; Davey D speaks with activist and lecturer Steve Cokely.
Mumia Abu Jamal: What the World thinks of this Empire; Another inmate dies at the California Youth Authority; Lenore Anderson from Books Not Bars; Creators of a new CD and comic book collection East Bay Politics.
Mumia Abu Jamal on the horrors of Chechnya; A Red Record A new Hard Knock segment hosted by Donald Lacey of the Lovelife Foundation..
Hard Knock Labor Day Music Mix.
Faviana Rodriguez reports back from the Republican National Convention; Davey D speaks with Chuck D in New York, who cancelled shows so that he could be in New York protesting the Convention.
Faviana Rodriguez reports from the demonstrations at the Republican National Convention in NYC.