A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on odd weeks Friday 2:30pm.
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Senate Republicans push a third coronavirus relief package. Public policy advocates push for greater funding for vulnerable populations. Food and Drug Administration explores coronavirus treatments. Lawmakers call for increase in production of protective equipment. United Nations Secretary … Continued
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
0:08 – Amid coronavirus shutdown, what’s happening in the economy? Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) is host of KPFA’s Behind the News, which airs Thursdays at 12pm PT; for years, he published the Left Business Observer. 0:34 – Ask the doctor: COVID-19 and best practices for staying healthy Dr. Rupa Marya (@DrRupaMarya) works in hospital medicine at … Continued
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Phil Lesh & Friends from 4/15/99 (w/ Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Steve Kimock, and John Molo) and 7/2/99 (w/ Bill Kreutzmann, David Nelson, Barry Sless, Steve Kimock, and Mookie Siegel) in the first hour. Happy 80th Birthday Phil Lesh! Grateful Dead from their new June 1976 box set in the second hour. Hosted remotely for … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. President Donald Trump issues several directives to curb coronavirus spread. Treasury Department pushes $500 million plan to give $2,000 to each resident. Senate passes $104 billion coronavirus relief bill-offering free testing and paid leave. Governor Gavin Newsom: … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Guest: Professor Linda Bilmes is Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Finance at Harvard Kennedy School. She was Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the US Department of Commerce during the Clinton administration. She has co-authored multiple books, including The Three Trillion Dollar War (with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz). … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch: Sanders vs. Biden debate, and COVID-19 bill passed in the House, will the Senate pass it? 0:34 – COVID-19 has now closed 85 percent of California schools. Jeff Freitas is the president of the California Federation of Teachers Brent Stephens is the Superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), and … Continued
Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, RJ Lozada and Anita Jonhson. Sign up for program alerts and sneak peeks from Making Contact at http://ow.ly/1FkV30aq1z2
