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Jaws of Justice Radio investigates how we can achieve justice from a system of laws deeply rooted in economic, social and political inequality.  We want to dispel misconceptions created by the news and entertainment industry, politicians and our educational system. We hope you will listen. First, we want to express our sincere thanks for everyone who contributed to the KKFI Summer FUND Drive.  Because of your support, we are able to continue to produce vital programs to connect you with others.  A special kind of person appreciates a non-commercial community-based station like KKFI. You are listening right now and you get informed, entertained, inspired, even captivated. Your mind is engaged. This is programming that matters, for people who care. On Jaws of Justice, Bev Livingston opens our hour speaking with her guest, Sheena Rogers from the Joplin area. She's founder of Show Me Justice for All and From the Trenches Ministry. https://showmejusticeforall.org/ https://www.facebook.com/people/From-The-Trenches-Ministries/61585573536731/ Show Me Justice for All is a non-profit organization which fights for freedom, dignity, and justice for every person harmed by the criminal legal system. Born from lived experience, their work focuses on ending the harsh and inhumane sentences that keep people imprisoned for decades - including life without parole, and uplifting those who have been criminalized simply for surviving violence. They also advocate for abolishing the death penalty and advancing humane, restorative approaches to justice. They stand beside incarcerated people and their families, helping them navigate a system designed to silence them. They provide reentry support, community resources, and unwavering advocacy for fair and compassionate policies at every level of government. Sheena Rogers is a nationally respected justice reform advocate, criminal law paralegal, and keynote speaker whose work is grounded in lived experience, resilience, and a relentless commitment to transforming the U.S. prison system. Sentenced to juvenile life without parole and surviving 25 years in a Missouri prison, Sheena rebuilt her life from inside, first as a jailhouse lawyer and now as a trained criminal paralegal fighting nationwide for those still behind the walls. She is the founder and executive director of two grassroots organizations: Show Me JUSTICE FOR ALL, where she lobbies from Washington, D.C. to state capitals for meaningful policy reform, and From the Trenches Ministries, which supports individuals returning from incarceration and those impacted by addiction and homelessness. After the calendar, the second half of our hour will feature The Dark Side of the Ball from: the broadcast series produced by Victor Palomino, Futbol Is My Life. Ready to explore the beautiful game where soccer meets politics? This episode sits down with Professor Kirk Bowman, who turned his passion into a career studying the powerful connection between soccer and politics. Professor Bowman shares his incredible origin story, from watching Honduras qualify for the 1980 World Cup to seeing how clubs in Buenos Aires form the whole identity of neighborhoods, demonstrating futbol's power to create community and unity. Professor Bowman offers his academic critique of the World Cup and discusses the ethical tightrope fans walk today, covering US host politics, visa uncertainty for qualifying teams and how social issues are often sidelined during the tournament. On Jaws of Justice, we examine how to find justice in our society.  Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.    

It's KKFI's Summer Fund Drive! PLEASE DONATE DURING THE SHOW OR ANYTIME. YOU CAN CALL 888-931-0901 OR GO TO KKFI.ORG. Thursday, on the Heartland Labor Forum: This year's Missouri legislative session, perhaps more aptly known as the Legislative Session of Misery ended on May 15.  Rep, Emily Weber will give us the scoop on what passed and how you'll be affected.   Then, we'll check in with Representative Adrian Plank about the impact of the new labor legislator caucus and ask him What needs to be done next year to strengthen the working-class voice in Jefferson City. 

Send us Fan MailThis is Understanding Israel Palestine. I'm Margot Patterson, the producer of this week's episode. 'll be talking to Robert Malley again, Mideast peace negotiator and author of the recent book Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine after news briefs.A yearlong Al Jazeera investigation found that as many as 51 countries armed Israel during its war on Gaza — including many that publicly condemned Israel, announced embargoes on weapons sales to the country, and demanded a ceasefire.These weapon transfers took place after the International Court of Justice warned on Jan. 26, 2024 that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza and reminded states of of their obligations to act to prevent genocide under the Geneva Convention. All of the 51 states arming Israel were signatory to the convention, yet arms shipments to Israel actually increased after the warning. The Al Jazeera report was based primarily on an analysis of Israeli Tax Authority import data between 2022 and 2025. The 5 largest suppliers of military goods to Israel were the United States, India, Romania, Taiwan and the Czech Republic.A French activist shared on  live TV  what she experienced in Israeli detention after Israeli forces abducted members of the Global Summed Flottilla seeking to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza. The 428 activists on 54 boats were intercepted May 19th in international waters  and taken  to Israel where their mistreatment in Israeli custody stirred international outcry after National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted a video showing him taunting blindfolded, bound activists. On French TVMay 23, Merriam Hadjal said she was slapped, beaten, kneed in the ribs and repeatedly groped and sexually assaulted by multiple Israeli soldiers. Hadjal is one of numerous flotilla activists who have  come forward alleging sexual violence in Israeli custody, including claims of sexual assault and rape by Israeli soldiers. Flotilla organizers say at least 15 of the detained activists reported sexual assault.Israel conducted more than 120 air strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on May 26, after IPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will escalete  its  war on the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.The  entire city of Tyre, and at least 10  southern villages in Lebanon have been ordered to evacuate. The expanding war violates  a nominal April 16 ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel and threatens to complicate negotiations between Iran and the U.S. IIran has said any agreement to end the war should end hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon. Since March 2,  at least 32oo  have been killed in Lebanon and 9700 wounded. More than 1 million people in Lebanonhave been displaced.My guest today is Robert Malley,  a Middle East expert and specialist in conflict negotiation.. He served as Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli affairs from 1998-2001 and was among the peace negotiators at the Camp David Summit of 2000. He was a member of the National Security Council during the the Obama administration and  was lead negotiator of the Iran nuclear deal. He was President Biden's envoy to Iran and is now at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs. His book,  Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine, was co-authored with Hussein Agha and looks at how the Oslo Accords deteriorated into an endless peace process that became a joke and then a fraud. This is the second of a two-part conversation. The first part aired May 15. You can find it on our program page on the KKFI website at www. kkfi.org or listen to it on our podcast available on most streaming platforms. Robert Malley, thanks for coming on the program again. When we spoke earlier, you talked about how the two-state solution has always been more popular with the international community than with either Israelis or Palestinians. That made it a heavy lift from the get-go. Not impossible, but difficult.In your book, you paint a very honest, nuanced picture of Yasser Arafat, who succeeded in convincing Palestinians that a Palestinian state on 22% of historic Palestine was not a betrayal of their rights and aspirations but a worthy goal. Could you talk more about Arafat and how the very traits that enabled him to unify and lead the Palestinian people made him suspect in Israeli and American eyes? Malley: It's a great question because he is the target of such contradictory perceptions and images in the West. The fact that he never left his military garb, that he, sometimes insisted on carrying a gun, spoke in very militant terms, particularly when he spoke to his own audience, particularly when he spoke in Arabic. All of that convinced many Americans, and certainly a majority of Israelis, that he was somebody with whom ultimately a peace couldn't be made because he could never give up on the aspirations of being a fighter, a militant in their eyes, often a terrorist. Now, Palestinian eyes, those are the traits that made it possible for him to sell some compromises which otherwise would have been even more difficult to swallow. You just mentioned the principal one, which is that even though the fight that the Palestinians have waged from, 1948 onwards was not a fight for a state on 22% of historic Palestine, it was a fight for liberation of all the land. It was a fight for the return of the refugees. And so his efforts, which were to make the Palestinians view that compromise not as a defeat but as a triumph, not as surrender but as conquest, was in part due to the fact that he retained, in their eyes, precisely the image that the West and Israel found repugnant, which is the image of somebody who would not drop his gun, who would not trade in his military garb for a diplomatic outfit, who would not only speak in the diplomatic language, but in the language of a rebel, of a militant, of a revolutionary. In some ways, what made it possible for him to sell the compromise to his own people made it very difficult and sometimes impossible for other audiences, Israeli or Western, to believe a word he said. Q.: You note that Americans were very deferential to the political constraints facing different Israeli leaders, but ignored those affecting Palestinian leaders. That was true for Arafat, but also for Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's successor and the man who has led the Palestinian Authority for umpteen years now. Abbas believed that nonviolence was the only way forward for the Palestinian cause and has lived that credo, but his efforts to advance statehood have gone nowhere. How did the United States unwittingly sabotage him? How do you think they failed him, and why haven't his efforts been able to go anyplace?Malley:  A word on your first point. The U.S. identifies much more closely with Israel; they are more familiar with its political system. We could debate how much a democracy it is, since today the majority of the people living under Israeli governance, half of the people, don't have the same rights as others and a large percentage, the Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza, have no political rights at all when it comes to Israel's political system. So you could debate how democratic Israel, is, but certainly from an American perspective, it's a system that runs through parliamentary elections an election system that we can understand with regular polling and regular elections. The Palestinian system is a very different one, and I think in the eyes of many Americans, and this doesn't just apply to the Palestinians, it applies to many other countries, and particularly many Arab countries, they view it as more of a one-man show, in the past, the one-man show of Arafat, then the one-man show of Abbas, in which they believe that even though sometimes there are the accoutrements of democracy, the elections don't mean all that much. The system can be run in a more autocratic way by the supreme leader, in this case the head of the PLO, Palestine Liberation Organization, head of Fatah, the main party, the head of the Palestinian Authority. They believe that Palestinian politics don't matter, that ultimately because they project this image of a system that is run by a single person or by a small group of people, that they can impose whatever they want on their own population. Public opinion doesn't really matter. You hear that when people speak about Saudi Arabia, when they speak about Egypt, when they speak about many of these countries that either are not democratic or don't have a form of democracy that the U.S .is accustomed to. Whereas in fact, it doesn't work that way at all. Precisely because the Palestinian leadership doesn't have, and Arafat didn't have, those regular mechanisms in which his authority could be validated at the polls, in which you had democratic institutions that would legitimize his rule, he was very dependent on a popular form of consensus for his decision-making, and he couldn't afford to stray too far away from that core center of gravity, that consensus, because then he would have no legitimacy at all. And that's been true of one Palestinian leader after another. I think there is this misperception that because Israel is more, quote-unquote, "democratic," we need to pay attention and sometimes excessive attention. I can't tell you how many times I heard American officials for whom I was working saying, "We can't do X or Y or Z because it will imperil the coalition in power because of the democratic institutions and processes that Israel has to go through." I never heard that when it came to the Palestinians. It was, if Arafat wants it, Arafat could get it. If the next leadership would want it, it could get it. If the next leadership would

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! We experience more extreme temperatures because of global energy increase. As we move to the future, it will take ALL of us to make the world habitable for millennia to come. You can trust that KKFI will strive to broadcast relevant, accurate, and timely information. You share KKFI's mission of providing an independent voice to information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. From the filmmakers of “Kiss the Ground” there is a follow-up “Common Ground”, recipient of 30+ awards. Learn more at https://commongroundfilm.org/ Sobering yet hopeful, ‘Common Ground' exposes the toxic interconnections of American farming policy, politics, and health destruction and healing across the United States and beyond, and how regenerative agriculture and soil health plays a vitally important role in changing these systems for the better. At its root, it explores how people from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different places share one thing in common – the very soil beneath their feet. The film is directed by Josh and Rebecca Tickell (Big Picture Ranch), who have created bold and inspiring environmental films (Kiss the Ground, On Sacred Ground, Regenerate Ojai, Fuel, The Big Fix), while winning coveted awards along the way from Sundance, Cannes, Red Nation, and Tribeca. We can all find our common ground to heal the soil, our food systems, our health, and the planet. No action is too small, and every acre counts. From urban gardens to large ranches, composting to food production, ecological restoration projects to curriculum in the classroom and in the fields, we can do this if we work together. EcoRadio KC supports the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere. We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe. This will be a great radio hour! “The whole world is one neighborhood.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt

I recently welcomed my friend Sky Smeed to spend an hour with me on the Mid-Coast Live! program on KKFI. I have a fifteen-year history with this Kansas songwriter; he was the first artist I had join me live in the KKFI studios as I launched The Tasty Brew Music Radio Show in 2010. I've  hosted Sky at my home for a house concert.  A good number of the songs masterfully captured by Barak Hill on his latest album, a live recording at The Rock House in Reeds Spring, Missouri are familiar to me as are some of Sky's life experiences that gave rise to songs like “Don't Know What to Do” “Lunker Bass” and “Without Music.”  That familiarity does not diminish the emotional impact of hearing these songs on this recording nor is it required to appreciate the underlying artistry of the words, stories and guitar accompaniment.  It is ALWAYS a treat to hear a new (to me) Sky Smeed tuneand this recording introduces me to precious guitar work on “Hangin' On”, the affirmation that “Good Luck” is indeed “sick” according to Sky's daughter Rosalie, the bittersweet and comedic reality of not wanting to work “Nine to Five” anymore and concurrence with “Keep Rolling On” that things do/life does change in the blink of an eye.Sky exhibits wonderful crowd work and pacing on this record;his Prine-like sense of humor is front and center on tunes like “Chicken of the Trees,” “Barbecue” and “Bumper Sticker.” I have always appreciated his homage to those masters that came before him. His take on Dylan's “Don't Think Twice” is stellar.  Just sing along…it's okay.I have been privileged to attend a number of musicalevenings at The Rock House over the years.  The folks that were in attendance on this particular evening got to witnesslightning being caught in a bottle.  Kudos to Rock House Co-Hosts Jeanette Bair and Bruce Anderson, recording engineer (and awesome songwriter in his own right) Barak Hill and of course, to my friend, Sky Smeed.  Well done!#songwriter #rootsmusic #communityradio #tastybrewmusic

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! We experience more extreme temperatures because of global energy increase. As we move to the future, it will take ALL of us to make the world habitable for millennia to come. You can trust that KKFI will strive to broadcast relevant, accurate, and timely information. You share KKFI's mission of providing an independent voice to information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. Host Terri Wilke with speak with Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, author of Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home, published by Amber Lotus Publishing, May 5, 2026. https://www.kkwilkinson.com/ When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating from ache to action, doubt to possibility. Through transformational programs and books, including the national bestseller All We Can Save, Wilkinson has inspired hundreds of thousands of climate journeys. Whether steeped in climate or newly curious, readers will discover something grounding and generative in these pages. She shares a proven process for looking inward with care, outward with curiosity, and forward with courage. Ultimately, readers chart a course toward playing their unique part in our collective healing. Wilkinson lights the way through stirring personal essays, interwoven with the wisdom of other climate leaders and the beauty of poetry, art, and song. Whether steeped in climate or newly curious, readers will discover something grounding and generative in these pages. Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson's publications include the bestselling anthology All We Can Save, the podcast A Matter of Degrees, and the New York Times bestseller Drawdown. Dr. Wilkinson co-founded and leads The All We Can Save Project, where she shaped the much-beloved programs All We Can Save Circles and Climate Wayfinding. She holds a DPhil in geography and environment from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in religion from Sewanee: The University of the South. EcoRadio KC supports the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere. We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe. This will be a great radio hour! “The whole world is one neighborhood.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! We experience more extreme temperatures because of global energy increase. As we move to the future, it will take ALL of us to make the world habitable for millennia to come. You can trust that KKFI will strive to broadcast relevant, accurate, and timely information. You share KKFI's mission of providing an independent voice to information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. Host Terri Wilke will speak with Stan Slaughter, Organics Specialist at Missouri Organic Recycling.  Missouri Organic Recycling offers a variety of high-quality, locally produced top soils and blends, compost, and specialty mulches. All are made to the exacting standards required for some of Kansas City's most well-known green spaces and landmarks but are also perfect for home use. Stan Slaughter is an Eco-Troubadour, and he has traveled to more than 25 states and performed for about 300,000 children and their teachers. He works to develop environmental literacy and help people appreciate the natural world. KC Farm School was established in 2018. It is a nonprofit organization stewarding a 14.5 acre urban education and organic production farm in southern Wyandotte County. There is a lot to discuss about the regional food system, key groups coming to the festival, advances in soil fertility research and more. Compost Fest 2026, at KC Farm School, 4223 Gibbs Rd, Kansas City, KS 66106 is open from 9 AM until 2 PM on Saturday, May 9th, 2026. This event will feature all that is beautiful about Kansas City: urban ag, collaboration, fun, plants, compost, interactive play, bicycle safety and bike maze, composting, wildlife, soil, food rescue, mushrooms, and more! This is a great opportunity to visit with so many working within our local food system in one place. EcoRadio KC supports the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere. We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe. This will be a great radio hour!  EcoRadio KC supports the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere. We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe. This will be a great radio hour! “The whole world is one neighborhood.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! We experience more extreme temperatures because of global energy increase. As we move to the future, it will take ALL of us to make the world habitable for millennia to come. You can trust that KKFI will strive to broadcast relevant, accurate, and timely information. You share KKFI's mission of providing an independent voice to information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. Host Terri Wilke with speak with Missouri Coalition for the Environment representatives, Maxine Gill, Policy Coordinator, and Makenna Nickens, Kansas City Community Outreach Specialist. Maxine holds a BA in Environmental Policy from Washington University, and she is a recent graduate of the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs. She has a variety of experience across multiple sectors within the environmental field, including policy advocacy, green business consulting, and clean energy research. Makenna is a Kansas City native with a passion for the city's people, pride, and history. She holds a Master's degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Makenna has experience working and volunteering with many agencies that provide services in the mid-Missouri and Kansas City regions. She now works with Missouri Coalition for the Environment in the Kansas City region. Missouri Coalition for the Environment is Missouri's independent, citizens' environmental organization for clean water, clean air, clean energy, and a healthy environment. It is a trusted, non-partisan, 501(c)(3) state-level environmental advocacy organization, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a state-wide partner supporting allied organizations and initiatives around the state. They deliver vital information to thousands of Missourians on issues that affect our water, air, food, health, and environment and work to protect them. Missouri Coalition for the Environment works to educate, organize, and advocate in defense of Missouri's people and their environment. EcoRadio KC supports the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere. We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe. This will be a great radio hour!  EcoRadio KC supports the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere. We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe. This will be a great radio hour! “The whole world is one neighborhood.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! We experience more extreme temperatures because of global energy increase. As we move to the future, it will take ALL of us to make the world habitable for millennia to come. You can trust that KKFI will strive to broadcast relevant, accurate, and timely information. You share KKFI's mission of providing an independent voice to information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. Host Terri Wilke with speak with a group of students from the University of Kansas environmental studies program, Kenzie Schubert, Aaron Jones, Kensington Comfort, Nyah Noronha, and Gwen Nelson. For their senior year Capstone project, they have developed our show encompassing what they have learned from their studies.  The topic they have selected is fast fashion and generative AI and how those two are connected. Fast fashion is defined as the rapid production of inexpensive clothing that is designed to quickly move from the store into our closets. Brands are constantly releasing new collections to keep up with trends and encourage consumers to keep buying. The goal isn't sustainability but rather speed, affordability, and volume.  The students discuss the environmental impacts of this. Generative artificial intelligence is a type of AI that can create new content and ideas, including conversations, stories, images, videos, and music. Today, the students will unpack the environmental footprint of generative AI.  Both the Generative AI and fast fashion industries are similar in the alarming rates of wastes and emissions they produce, in the lack of transparency and regulation they operate under, and in the behaviors of their consumers.  These are both two large systems that many people contribute to daily, without realizing the harm they're causing by doing so. Tune in to hear what your cheap clothes cost the planet.  Fast fashion is a global supply chain built for speed that is leaving behind waste, toxins, and a trail of environmental wreckage. AI brings promise – and peril. The boom in AI and data centers is driving communities to defend their land, resources, and cultural knowledge from new forms of extraction. Tech companies train their generative AI on vast quantities of text, images, videos, and other online data. The information is typically used without shared agreement or approval. EcoRadio KC supports the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere. We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe. This will be a great radio hour! “The whole world is one neighborhood.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some things never get old…. Like the opportunity tointroduce a songwriter from  the Heartland to a radio audience for the first time.  I had the opportunity during a recent “Pledge Drive” on KKFI to introduce songwriter and Topeka, KS firefighter Caleb Nelsen to the Heartland's airwaves.  Caleb's has over a decade of writing and performing behindhim… a sound that  is a mix of Americana roots, shaped by influences from country, rock, pop, and punk creating musicthat is uniquely his own.Enjoy this conversation and live music performance fromCaleb Nelsen that includes several selections including a tune called “Open Space,”  a clear reflection of the grit and honesty that defines his sound drawn from real-life experience.#rootsmusic #countrymusic #songwriter #songwriting

Send us Fan MailBeyond the Walls: The Israel-Silicon Valley Nexus and the Penetration of U.S. Critical Infrastructure (with Mary Silva)Episode Overview: While public discourse naturally gravitates toward the physical realities of the occupation and destruction in Palestine, a parallel, largely invisible architecture of control operates far beyond the checkpoints of Gaza and the West Bank. This digital infrastructure has actively penetrated our personal devices, corporate networks, and municipal utilities.In this episode of Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls, host Jeremy Rothe-Kushel investigates the technological front lines of geopolitics and cyber warfare. Joining the broadcast is independent researcher and former Congressional candidate in Washington State, Mary Silva, who helps map the massive concentration of U.S. technology research and development within Israel and analyzes the deep penetration of foreign espionage networks into American sovereignty.Bridging the gap between the surveillance systems deployed on Palestinians and the espionage vulnerabilities faced by American citizens, this conversation examines the geopolitical outsourcing of U.S. national security.Silva details how major tech conglomerates—including Microsoft, Google, and Intel—have functionally outsourced core development to veterans of elite Israeli military intelligence cohorts, such as Unit 8200 and the IDF's Talpiotprogram. The analysis moves past surface-level electoral politics to expose the strategic dangers of embedded hardware backdoors, the proliferation of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, and how algorithmic suppression operates as a tool for narrative control in the current "information war."Crucially, this technological penetration is not restricted to federal intelligence networks. Silva highlights how local U.S. infrastructure—from smart-meter utility grids to public transit systems—is actively being compromised, often subsidized and locked in by legislative frameworks buried within the NDAA.Key Episode Insights:The Intelligence-to-Corporate Pipeline: How elite IDF veterans shape the core architecture and penetrate the supply chains of American government and civilian technology.Legislating Dependency: The federal frameworks mandating the integration of foreign surveillance tech into local U.S. municipal grids.The Export of "Combat-Proven" Systems: Unpacking how biometric and cyber-control tools, initially field-tested under military occupation, are repackaged as essential global security products.The Information Battleground: A critical look at algorithmic suppression on platforms like X, and the mechanisms used to manage public perception during global multipolar realignments.Upcoming Event: Field Testing Israeli Occupation Tech This broadcast serves as a vital primer for the upcoming online salon, Field Testing Israeli Occupation Tech: The Palestine Lab. Co-sponsored by Voices From the Holy Land and Nonviolence International, this panel features experts examining how Israel exports drones, cyber-weapons, and biometric systems to over 130 countries worldwide.When: Sunday, April 19, 2026 | 3 PM ET • 12 PM PT • 10 PM JerusalemRSVP: Register on the front page at VoicesFromTheHolyLand.orgListen & Subscribe:Radio Archives: Listen to past broadcasts of Understanding Israel Palestine on demand at KKFI.org.Extended Cuts & Deep Dives: For the longer form audio of this interview subscribe to the Beyond the Walls Substack.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.My guest this week is Julie Bennett Hume, whom is a daughter, a sibling, a wife, a mother, and a singer/songwriter.Follow Julie on Instagram at @julie_bennetthumemusic, check out her Web site, juliebennetthume.com, and find her stuff on Facebook, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and CD Baby.Julie has released three solo albums, Late Bloomer (2017), Vinegar (2019), and The Lorelei (2025), as well as a duo project called The Multiverse (2021). She's also a co-host of She Talk Wha'? on KKFI, Saturdays at 3:00, which you should definitely tune in for.For Episode No. 205, Julie and I talked about family, growing up, writing and recording, gigging, and so much more. We also had a peek at a few of her favorite albums, which were these:Europe '72 (1972), Grateful DeadThe Roches' self-titled release (1979)Rickie Lee Jones' Pirates (1981)Good As I Been to You (1992), Bob DylanCatch Julie Wednesday, April 15th at 7:00 p.m. at Hammers Dueling Piano Bar at 3901 Broadway in downtown Kansas City, and be sure to check out that KKFI program of hers; it covers a lot of cool stuff.copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the audio samples contained within this episode. They are snippets from a DJ Quik tune called, "Black Mercedes" from his 2006 release, Trauma Instrumentals, c/o Mad Science Recordings.

I have dedicated most of my discretionary time and income tocommunity radio in Kansas City for the past 25 years.  One of the perks from that association is to be introduced to and become friends and acquaintances with some amazingtalent.  Songwriters Sara Morgan and Kelly Hunt, who individually made their radio debuts with me over ten yearsago, are now creating music and touring together as the duo “Of a Feather.” They joined me in the KKFI studios during a Pledge Drive to perform new music and share their connection with and support of community radio.Sara Morgan writes and performs poignant, thoughtful, andsometimes hilarious tunes which cast back to the timeless country tradition of the second half of the 20th century. Her themes of love, loss, courage, introspection, and irony are in direct contrast to the current pop-influenced /cross-genre / multi-writer Country Music found on the market today.Kelly Hunt's songs hover beyond the constraints of genre,navigating between past and present, old world and new.  Self-taught on banjo and guitar, her style is highly original and her voice evokes both her Irish ancestry and her upbringingin the soul-infused Mississippi river delta. Together, as “Of a Feather” they say they are just wingingit, but it sounds oh so good in your headphones.  Enjoy this Radio Mom's recent visit from two of her favorite lyrical daughters…Of a Feather.#music discussion podcast; #music interview podcast; #music podcast interviews;#americana music radio;#heartfelt music conversations;#alternative music podcasts;#communityradio;#tastybrewmusic 

Bill Clause, Nancy Mays, and Beverly Harvey discuss the No Kings rallies being organized for March 28 focusing especially on the KC metro area, Johnson County and the Plaza. This discussion will include the issues that seem to be of greatest concern to the public. NoKings.org invites anyone to "Host an event" and list it with them. As this is being written 2026-03-16, eighteen rallies were found at nokings.org in KKFI's listening area between Warrensburg and Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Topeka, Kansas. The biggest may be at Mill Creek Park on the Plaza from noon to 3 PM. More information for that rally is at indivisiblekansascity.org. BootsOnTheGroundMidwest.org is organizing an event from 9:30 to 11:30 AM between 75th and 119th along Metcalf in Overland Park. Other morning event in the KC metro area are being organized in Baldwin City and Gardner, Kansas, and Platte City, Liberty, Independence, Excelsior Springs and Lee's Summit, Missouri. Other events in the KKFI listening area are being planned for Topeka,  Ottawa, Lawrence, in a grassy area southeast of the intersection of Metcalf and 135th St. in Overland Park, plus Kansas City, Kansas, and in Saint Joseph, Richmond, Warrensburg, and Harrisonville, Missouri. More information at nokings.org.   State Capitol Topeka KS 11:00 14:00 501 S Main St Ottawa KS 14:00 16:00 Watson Park Lawrence KS 15:00 17:00 600 Ames St (only stop light in town) Baldwin City KS 9:30 10:30 East Main Street & South Moonlight Road Gardner KS 10:00 11:30 Grassy area at southeast corner of Metcalf and 135th St. 135th OP KS 11:00 13:00 75th-119th Metcalf OP KS 9:30 11:30 106th Street & Parallel Parkway Kansas City KS 12:00 13:30 Public Sidewalks - East Hills Mall Side Saint Joseph MO 15:00 17:00 300 N Holden St Warrensburg MO 12:00 14:00 (address private: sign up for details) Harrisonville MO 10:00 12:00 2301 Running Horse Rd Platte City MO 10:30 12:00 W. Kansas Street sidewalks between Route 291 and Conistor Street Liberty MO 10:00 11:30 (address private: sign up for details) Independence MO 10:00 12:00 Mill Creek Park Plaza MO 12:00 15:00 Northeast Chipman Road & Northeast Douglas Street Lee's Summit MO 10:00 12:00 Century Park Excelsior Springs MO 10:00 12:00 900 Walton Way Richmond MO 13:00 15:00

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 9am - 10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Guest DJ Toni and music specially curated for this special program. Join us as we celebrate the hour with fun, conversation, and joy with one of KKFI's longtime supporter, DJ Toni.

Send a textOvercoming the Structures of Erasure and the Semantics of Genocidal Management with Aseel AlBajeh"How do we talk about a reality that is being systematically erased in real-time?"On this episode of Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls, we examine the epistemology of erasure and how to transcend it through factual reframing. We explore the reality that a genocide is not just committed with bombs, but maintained with words.Host Jeremy Rothe-Kushel is joined by Aseel AlBajeh, the Advocacy Officer at the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD). A legal researcher turned advocacy strategist, Aseel joins us to elucidate the "Communicating Palestine" guide—a vital new strategic manual designed to help advocates move beyond defensive fact-checking and into offensive narrative power.We dive into the guide's core pillars—"Reframing Narratives" and "Engaging Palestinian Voices"—to understand how to shift the conversation away from the "security" traps set by the occupier and back toward the root causes of history, colonization, and rights.Together, we use the guide to decode the deceptive language of "Peace Plans" and "Day After Scenarios" that currently mask permanent military encampment and starvation logistics in Gaza. We analyze the "Rogue Actor" myth of settler violence in the West Bank to reveal the unitary reality of state annexation.Crucially, we confront the historical architecture of "Sacred Terrorism." Drawing on the definitive work of Livia Rokach, Thomas Suarez, and Naeim Giladi, we trace how the foundations of the Israeli state were built by self-confessed terrorists like David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin—figures who utilized political violence not as a desperate last resort, but as a calculated tool of statecraft. We examine how this history has been inverted, trapping Western diplomacy in a "double bind" where the victims are labeled terrorists to justify their erasure, while the state architects of terror are shielded by the very "Peace Process" they designed to fail.Finally, we address the ultimate weapon of the status quo: Apathy. We discuss how the claim that the situation is "too complex" is often a deliberate tactic to induce paralysis. Aseel shares how the Communicating Palestine guide provides the epistemological confidence and ethical clarity needed to cut through this weaponized complexity, empowering listeners to move from feeling overwhelmed to speaking truth with power.This episode serves as a primer for the upcoming Voices From the Holy Land online film salon and workshop on Sunday, February 15th.Links & ResourcesThe Guest & The Tools:The Strategic Guide: Communicating PalestineA comprehensive resource for reframing the conversation on Palestine, moving away from exceptionalism and towards universal rights and historical context.The Organization: Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD)The Event: Voices From the Holy Land: "Say What??" Workshop (Register for Feb 15th)The Show:Radio Broadcast: Understanding Israel Palestine at KKFI 90.1 FMSubstack: Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Rothe-KushelKeywordsOvercoming Structures of Erasure, Genocidal Manag

Time flies… it really does.  I first had songwriter Teri Quinn on The Tasty Brew Music Radio Show ten years ago introducing the release of her Moons and Meltdowns EP.  I've been present at some amazing performances from Teri at Folk Alliance, at a festival in Kansas City's Roanoke Park and at local KC venues like RecordBar and The Rino.  I took the opportunity to reconnect with Teri when I hosted my monthly residency on KKFI's MidCoast Live! program.  Teri was joined by her bandmates, The Coyotes… Landon Hambright on guitar and backing vocals and Carly Atwood on upright bass.Teri has an ambitious sense of genre-crossing creativitythat has always made their music dynamic, diverse, and laced with surprises. Since moving to Kansas City, MO in 2009, from her native Michigan. Quinn has been experimenting and discovering their voice as a musician and songwriter. Outer Reaches festival wrote that “ Teri Quinn is the folkhero the goth world has always needed. Their voice is a golden light to all those that need to hear it.”You know what else you need to hear…. The provenance storyof Teri's banjo.  It's a wonderful Louis Meyers vignette.   If you know, you know.Enjoy this musical conversation with Teri Quinn and TheCoyotes!  

Lauren Karr is a Kansas City–based singer, songwriter who blends raw emotion with thoughtful lyricism. Her music weaves together stories of resilience, healing, and truth—reflecting both her personal journey and a deep desire to connect with others. Through her LCK Studios, Lauren is building a body of work rooted in authenticity, independence, and heart. Lauren recently reached out to me to help get the word outabout a newly penned and recorded song “Desolation”.  We got together on a recent Saturday on the radio during my monthly residency on KKFI's Siren Song.  I appreciate it so much when artists like Lauren are willing to be vulnerable and share their most personal creations on the 100,000 watt blowtorch of creative insanity that is community radio.  As of late 2025, early 2026 Lauren is building out a newwebsite.  For now you can find her on Reverbnation and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/laurenckarr  

This episode of Labor History Today features historian Marcella Bencivenni on Arturo Giovannitti—Italian immigrant, poet, socialist, and labor organizer—whose role in the 1912 Lawrence textile strike made him a target of state repression and a powerful voice of labor resistance. Arrested for his words, Giovannitti turned imprisonment into poetry that helped define an era of immigrant-led radical organizing. The episode explores free speech struggles, anti-immigrant repression, and labor solidarity—lessons from more than a century ago that still resonate in 2026 America. We close with the Labor Song of the Month, featuring “Joe Hill's Ashes,” performed by Otis Gibbs. Today's show comes to us from the always fabulous Heartland Labor Forum on KKFI in Kansas City.

Bess Wallerstein Huff shares her vision for KKFI with Radio Active Magazine regulars Craig Lubow and Spencer Graves. Ms. Wallerstein Huff joined KKFI as Executive Director on August 12, roughly four months ago. She is an experienced executive, creative strategist, and community builder with over 20 years of leadership in the arts, media, and nonprofits. She has guided teams through brand evolutions, organizational change, and multimillion-dollar engagements. She was a founding team member of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. She spent over a decade in that role developing programs, marketing strategies, and partnerships that welcomed broad and diverse audiences into the arts. Her leadership in crisis communications during COVID-19 helped build community trust and organizational resilience. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Marketing & Sales at Starlight, one of the nation's largest outdoor performing arts venues. That effort saw record-breaking sales growth with new strategic initiatives including a $40 million capital campaign for Starlight's 75th anniversary. In 2020 she co-founded "Show Delivered", a pandemic-era venture that brought live performances directly to neighborhoods across Kansas City. The project reimagined connections during a time of crisis and reaffirmed her commitment to accessibility, creativity, and community.1 She has served on numerous boards and public commissions, including the Arts & Recreation Foundation of Overland Park, the Johnson County Public Art Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts' Challenge America grant panel. This included making history by raising nearly $28,000 for the local nonprofit Band of Angels, setting a new individual fundraising record as part of the organization's Rockstar program in 2024. She holds an Executive MBA from Rockhurst and a BFA from the University of Central Missouri. As KKFI's Executive Director, she is working to help KKFI amplify diverse voices, deepen community connection, and expand inclusive access to the airwaves. KKFI SURVEY Bess is asking KKFI listeners to "join@kkfi.org" and click on the survey link at the bottom of kkfi.org and share your thoughts about what you think are the strengths of KKFI and what you would like different. FACEBOOK Spencer mentioned that he had interviewed Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who said that, " the shortest path to a click is anger or hate." Bess recommended Sarah Wynn-Williams's book Careless People. _______ 1. "ARTSPEAK RADIO with Show Delivered and Heartland Song Network", 2021-02-17   https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/artspeak-radio-with-show-delivered-and-heartland-song-network/

To commemorate and celebrate 15 years of the Tasty BrewMusic Radio Show on KKFI,  I partnered with the Heartland Song Network in the summer of 2025 to seek submissions for a theme song for the show.  Although I did not ultimately choose the entry submitted by Kansas City based songwriter Tica Felise, I was enchanted by her story and musical journey and invited her to spend some time with me on air so my listeners and I could get to know her better.Tica was born in Costa Rica and has found a home in KansasCity by way of Denver and Omaha.  A very early interest in music led to lessons and performance eventually morphing into writing her own songs and performing and recording as a solo artist in Kansas City.  Enjoy this conversation with an unapologetic ukulele goddess as we share some of the stories behind the recordings of Tica Felise! 

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As a Marvel property, The Fantastic Four has been downright snakebit. There have been four live-action box office disappointments plus one in the 90s that was never even released. Thankfully, […] The post Freeze Frame: “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” (PG-13), “Oh, Hi!” (R) appeared first on KKFI.

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“I Know What You Did Last Summer”…and it's pretty much the same thing you did in 1997. This reboot of the slasher franchise is about self-centered teens who cover up […] The post Freeze Frame: “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (R), “Finally Dawn” (R), “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight” (R) appeared first on KKFI.

Do you long for the classic Superman, one whose main aspiration is wanting to do the right thing for humanity? If so, then writer/director James Gunn's new take on the […] The post Freeze Frame: “Superman” (PG-13), “Brick” (R), “Hotspring Shark Attack” (Not rated) appeared first on KKFI.

“Jurassic World Rebirth” is the seventh installment in the wildly popular sci-fi franchise. Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali lead a covert expedition to recover dinosaur blood samples from living specimens […] The post Freeze Frame: “Jurassic World: Rebirth” (PG-13), “The Old Guard 2” (R), “Heads of State” (R) appeared first on KKFI.

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The family sci-fi comedy “Elio” stands as yet another example of why Pixar remains the gold standard for animation. They get the story right before building the spectacular visuals. A […] The post Freeze Frame: “Elio” (PG), “28 Years Later” (R), “Deep Cover” (R), “Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical” (TV-PG) appeared first on KKFI.

The live action remake of the terrific, animated fantasy “How to Train Your Dragon” may not be better than the original, but it's possibly its equal. It's an enjoyable adaptation […] The post Freeze Frame: “How to Train Your Dragon” (PG), “The Life of Chuck” (R), “The Unholy Trinity” (R), Echo Valley (R) appeared first on KKFI.

“Ballerina” from the world of John Wick is an over-the-top action thriller that's really an extended stunt reel. In the fifth film in the bloody franchise, Ana de Armas plays […] The post Freeze Frame: “Ballerina” (R), “Dangerous Animals” (R), “Predator: Killer of Killers” (R), “Mountainhead” (R) appeared first on KKFI.

The quirky black comedy “The Phoenician Scheme” is the most “Wes Anderson-y” Wes Anderson movie yet. Benicio del Toro leads an all-star cast in the story of a corrupt 50's […] The post Freeze Frame: “The Phoenician Scheme” (PG-13), “Bring Her Back” (R), “Lulu is a Rhinoceros” (TV-Y7) appeared first on KKFI.

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Move over “Barbenheimer,” it's time for the “Stitch Impossible” weekend. The live-action remake of Disney's 2002 animated hit “Lilo & Stitch” has landed on Earth, with our fugitive alien befriending […] The post Freeze Frame: “Lilo and Stitch” (PG), “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” (PG-13), “Fountain of Youth” (PG-13) appeared first on KKFI.

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Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, stars along with Jenna Ortega in the artsy and very dark musical drama, “Hurry Up Tomorrow.” Tesfaye wrote the script along with Reza […] The post FREEZE FRAME: “Hurry Up Tomorrow” (R), “Murderbot” (TV-MA), “Octopus!” (Not rated) appeared first on KKFI.

Whether or not the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust” should have been released at all is a question for another time. Now available on streaming on demand platforms, the controversial Western […] The post Freeze Frame: “Rust” (R), “Fight or Flight” (R), “Clown in a Cornfield” (R), “Nonnas” (PG) appeared first on KKFI.

Nicholas Cage gives yet another gonzo performance in “The Surfer,” an Australian production inspired by and modeled on 70s-era exploitation movies. Cage returns to the beach of his childhood to […] The post Freeze Frame: “The Surfer” (R), “Another Simple Favor” (R), “Bullet Train Explosion” (PG-13) appeared first on KKFI.

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In the action thriller “The Accountant 2,” Ben Affleck is back as the autistic savant money launderer and crime fighter…just go with it…who's trying to solve a murder. He recruits […] The post Freeze Frame: “The Accountant 2” (R), “On Swift Horses” (R), “Havoc” (R) appeared first on KKFI.

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“The Wedding Banquet” is a remake, or rather a reimagining of the popular 1993 gay rom com of the same name. Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone lead the cast in […] The post Freeze Frame: “The Wedding Banquet” (R), “Sneaks” (PG), “The Dark Money Game” (TV-MA) appeared first on KKFI.

Oscar winner Rami Malek stars in a tight and smart throwback spy movie, “The Amateur.” Malek plays a meek and mild CIA computer analyst and decoder whose wife is murdered […] The post Freeze Frame: “The Amateur” (R), “Sacramento” (R), “The Luckiest Man in America” (R) appeared first on KKFI.

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You can chalk up the comic horror thriller “Death of a Unicorn” as a near miss. Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega play a father and daughter who hit a unicorn […] The post Freeze Frame: “Death of a Unicorn” (R), “A Working Man” (R), “Number One on the Call Sheet” (TV-MA), “Holland” (R) appeared first on KKFI.

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