Interview with Francesca of Prisoners For Palestine on the 6 hunger striking Palestine Action prisoners as the challenge to proscription & the direct action trials begin, Elbit Systems and fighting back against UK complicity with the genocide in Gaza. Then a previously un-broadcast portion of our November 16th chat with DFW Support Committee
This week, we’re sharing two segments: a chat with Palestinian writer and assistant professor Abdaljawad Omar and a segment of the October 2025 B(A)D News with network participants discussing thinking through resisting the rise of fascism
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This show focuses on forgotten tunes, mostly from the period 1965-1975. However, this is not a sentimental survey of that period. This is simply what ABOT would have done were it around back then- finding music worth hearing and giving it airplay. There are two basic groupings- unfamiliar tunes by familiar artists, and familiar tunes … Continued
The first half of an interview with Anton of Solidarity Collectives, a Ukrainian anti-authoritarian and anarchist project supporting comrades resisting the Russian invasion and giving aid to civilians and animals suffering in the war
Today’s episode of The Final Straw Radio is preempted by a special, live call-in show discussing the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the presidential election, and Gaza. Mitch Jeserich from Letters & Politics hosts.
Times of emergency require difficult decisions and we’re told by the likes of Bill Gates that nuclear power is necessary to get the world off fossil fuels. Nuclear power boosters argue that new technologies have made nuclear reactors cheaper and safer. Scholar and scientist M.V. Ramana calls this a fiction. He asserts that nuclear power … Continued
Davey D speaks with Nancy Mansour about her humanitarian visit to Gaza. And later Poor News Network talks about America’s war on the poor. 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, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
Radio is a medium with extraordinary propagandistic power — seductively transmitting ideas into the quotidian intimacy of one’s home and life. That power and potential was recognized early on by the state following the First World World. It was also appreciated by opponents of war, including the anarchist pacifists who founded KPFA Radio and the … Continued
Film brings to us — with unparalleled rawness — what feels like the intimate experience of war. But how true is that visceral feeling? And how do the tension and excitement of war on screen ultimately affect our sympathy toward each other and our humanity? David Thomson, one of the greatest film historians of our … Continued
Americans as a population have an unusually large appetite for psychoactive drugs, whether legal or illegal. And American history has been marked by periodic moral panics over drug use and normalization or legalization, as we’re experiencing right now. Why is that? What is it about US society that makes drug use simultaneously so appealing and … Continued
