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Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues. The post Over the Edge – January 27, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities. The post Puzzling Evidence – January 27, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jamie Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia. She is the author of several books including her latest, The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction.       The post Our Wandering Minds: A History of what Early Christian Monks Learned about Distraction  appeared first on KPFA.

Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What's more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and wrongfully incarcerating our people. If we don't know its happening – then we can't fight back. We cant adequately organize a response. So, every week on Law & Disorder do a round up of news related to state violence. We hope this segment will serve to expose, agitate and build. This is the State Terror Round Up for the week of January 23rd, 2023. —- This episode featured music by Kofy Brown. Check out her website: https://www.kofybrown.com/ Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post State Terror Round Up for the week of January 23rd, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode we speak with with Amber Sherman about the recent police killing of Tyre Nichols, a young Black man who was pulled from his car for allegedly driving recklessly, and beaten for three full minutes by five officers. He was hospitalized on January 7th and succumbed to his injuries three days later. The five officers have been fired and the community is calling for criminal charges to be filed and the body camera footage to be released. Amber Sherman is an organizer with Decarcerate Memphis and a member of Black Lives Matter Memphis. She is a native Memphian and a nationally known political strategist, activist, organizer, and host of her own podcast called The Law According to Amber. Check out Amber Sherman's website: https://www.ambersherman.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Community angry after Memphis PD beat and kill again w/ Amber Sherman appeared first on KPFA.

We go to Los Angeles to speak with Harold Welton, a member of the Coalition to Free Ruchell Magee. Harold has been fighting for the liberation of Black people and all people for many decades, since being a member of the Southern California chapters of SNCC and then the Black Panther Party. Ruchell Magee is one of the longest held political prisoner in the country. He was first captured in 1963 on trumped-up charges related to a marijuana deal, and later became implicated as the lesser-known co-defendent in the same case that made Angela Davis famous, related to the Marin County Courthouse rebellion led by Jonathan Jackson. Ruchell is now 83 years old, and the coalition is trying to get him free. You can find ways to support the Coalition to Free Ruchell Magee, including petitions and phone numbers for legislators, on their website below. Check out the coalition's website: https://www.freeruchellmagee.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Ruchell Magee, one of our longest-held political prisoners w/ Harold Welton appeared first on KPFA.

photo of Susan Griffin by Irene Young Caroline hosts fellow Council of Unreasonable Women, alumna Susan Griffin, “radical feminist philosopher, essayist, novelist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works.” on her 80th birthday! Honoring her latest book “Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something. (A Writers Guide)” in which she be embodied encouraging, soothing, rousing fierce gentle Mentor of writing craft, to all of us who seek to gather our wits… our wonder and focus, whereby to cultivate and contribute our gifts. susangriffin.com www.counterpointpress.com/books/out-of-silence-sound-out-of-nothing-something The post The Visionary Activist Show – Out of Silence, Sound appeared first on KPFA.

Josh White, author of Goodbye United Kingdom, on that country's trajectory of decline • Felicia Kornbluh, author of A Woman's Life Is a Human Life, talks about the fight for abortion rights in the late 60s and early 70s, and how it must be part of a larger struggle for reproductive justice The post The rot of Britain and the fight for abortion rights 50 years ago appeared first on KPFA.

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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – January 25, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Why do so many people who see themselves as progressive nonetheless support the state of Israel, considered an apartheid state for its treatment of the native Palestinian population? Scholar Saree Makdisi argues that the answer partially lies in the Israeli state's cultivation of Western liberal support. He discusses campaigns designed to appeal to progressives — such as large-scale tree planting, creating museums to tolerance, and encouraging gay tourism — blocking from sight the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinians. He argues that support amongst progressives in the United States and Europe is slipping nevertheless. Resources: Saree Makdisi, Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial UC Press, 2022 The post Israel and the Progressives appeared first on KPFA.

New Jersey is rolling back rights for trans prisoners making it even more difficult for them to be incarcerated at institutions that align with their gender identity. We speak with Adam Rhodes, a queer, first-generation Cuban American journalist whose journalism focuses on public policy, the justice system, and our nation's most vulnerable people. His latest piece for the Appeal is called New Jersey Rolls Back Protections for Trans Prisoners. Read the article here: https://theappeal.org/new-jersey-transgender-prisoner-policy-demi-minor/ Check out Adam Rhodes website here: https://www.byadamrhodes.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Rights of trans prisoners being rolled back in New Jersey w/ Adam Rhodes appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now – January 25, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Cat gives her reactions and analysis about the suspension of Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong amid scandalous non-accountability, as his community makes public their demand of reinstatement. Follow Cat Brooks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/catscommentary —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Cat's commentary on the OPD Chief's suspension appeared first on KPFA.

The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today's Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine. The post Bay Native Circle – January 25, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

We interview a USC researcher who found interesting new insights about the impact of participation in music on the sense of well-being for children and adolescents. The post Education Today – January 25, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

On Wednesday, January 18 26-year-old activist Tortuga was shot and killed by Atlanta police while protesting the construction of the planned $90 million Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (or ‘Cop City'), an 85-acre police training facility in the South River Forest. But what is Cop City? Why is it being built? What has the organizing looked like even prior to the violent and deadly repression organizers and activists experienced at the hands of law enforcement? We are joined by  Tunde Osazua, a member of the Atlanta chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace (or BAP), who is also a member of BAP's national coordinating committee. He's also a part of a broader coalition of individuals and orgs fighting back against Atlanta's Cop City plan. Read BAP-Atlanta's statement on Cop City: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/bapatlantaonstaterepression Follow BAP on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blacks4Peace —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Atlanta's Cop City and the grassroots fight against it w/ Tunde Osazua appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 — Shaharzad Akbar(@ShaharzadAkbar), is the former chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, now executive director of the new Afghan human rights organization Rawadari. 0:33 — Jim Chanin, Civil Rights attorney who got the Oakland Police Department into a court-supervised reform process now in its 20th year. The post Developments in Afghanistan; Plus, OPD Chief Leronne Armstrong suspended appeared first on KPFA.

For ten years, the Black Organizing Project (BOP) fought to remove police from Oakland schools. Developed from BOP's Peoples' Plan for Police Free Schools (2019) and an accumulation of a 9 year organizing campaign launched in 2011, the George Floyd Resolution (GFR) was passed June 24, 2020 making Oakland Unified School District the first district in the country to eliminate an entire school police department. In 2020 they won that fight and the George Floyd Resolution was passed. But that was just the beginning of the work and the state is still pushing back – desperate to hang on to the status quo. BOP has released the peoples budget – a road map – and how much it will cost to stop criminalizing our children. We are joined by Ebony Johnson, the Black Sanctuary Organizer with the Black Organizing Project. She leads most of the Black Organizing Project's work surrounding the George Floyd Resolution and the People's Budget. Check out the Black Organizing Project's website: https://blackorganizingproject.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Black Organizing Project proposes an Oakland city budget w/ Ebony Johnson appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Governor Gavin Newsom visits Half Moon Bay the day after a mass shooter kills seven people in an apparent act of workplace violence One person dead and four injured in last night's Oakland gas station shooting The U.S. and Germany prepare to announce they'll send advanced Abrams and Leopard tanks to Ukraine The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists sets the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight Armageddon than ever before   Image: from Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock The post Police say Half Moon Bay mass shooting was a workplace violence incident; U.S. prepares to announce it's sending advanced tanks to Ukraine to pressure Germany to do the same; Doomsday Clock edges closer to midnight: The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 24, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Join Sarah Holmes for an in depth exploration of depression. Tune in as she covers strategies and plants to support people during challenging times. Episode two of two. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram @theherbalhighway. Photo by Daniel Páscoa on Unsplash If you are suicidal and/or need mental health support dial 988 in the US. The post Depression: Part Two – January 24, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – January 24, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

The Oakland Police Chief, Leronne Armstrong has been placed on paid administrative leave by Mayor Sheng Thao after he made the news for neglecting to follow through on punishments for an officer who violated policy and law multiple times – including a hit-and-run car accident while driving a city-owned vehicle and discharging his firearm in an elevator. Yesterday, Chief Leronne Armstrong teamed up with Public relations consultant Sam Singer – the same crisis communications manager that worked with terminated police chief Anne Kirkpatrick in her lawsuit against the city – and fired back demanding he be immediately reinstated and taking aim at the federal monitor Robert Warshaw. We speak with James Burch, the Deputy Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project to address the situation, and also to discuss the latest work of APTP, including the opening of a new building called The People's House. At the end of the conversation, we're joined by April Green, aunt of Keita O'Neil who was killed by San Francisco police officers in 2017. Check out APTP's website: http://aptp.org/ Follow APTP on Twitter: https://twitter.com/APTPaction —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post OPD Chief suspended and APTP opens The People's House w/ James Burch appeared first on KPFA.

A number of things are bad for your health. Is economic inequality one of them? According to Stephen Bezruchka, U.S. population health lags behind that of dozens of other countries for two main reasons: extreme economic inequality and a lack of government support directed at early life. Stephen Bezruchka, Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World Routledge, 2022 (Image on main page by AllaSerebrina.) The post Inequality's Impact on Health appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now – January 24, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. The Answer to The Debt Ceiling Standoff  Guest: James K. Galbraith is Professor of Government and Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a former staff economist for the House Banking Committee and a former executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.  He is the author of Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016) and Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016).   Part II. The Making of American Capitalism Guest: Edward E. Baptist is a professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the award-winning Creating an Old South and The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.   Feature photo by Adam Nir on Unsplash   The post The Answer to the Debt-Ceiling Standoff & Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.

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Last week, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife went public with some of the voicemails and threats she has been receiving as a result of the public work she does as an activist and councilmember. While the threats were shocking to some degree, Black women who do work in the public space often live with these kinds of threats, hateful e-mails and attacks. We speak with Carroll Fife, a longtime community organizer and an Oakland City Council Member, representing District 3, elected in 2020. We are also joined by Melina Abdullah, a professor and the chair of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, as well as the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. Follow Carroll Fife on Twitter: www.twitter.com/carroll_fife Follow Dr Melina Abdullah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocMellyMel Follow Dr Melina Abdullah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/docmellymel/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Threats leveled against Black women organizers and politicians w/ Oakland CM Carroll Fife & Melina Abdullah appeared first on KPFA.

Mass shooting in Half Moon Bay follows similar incident in LA County. Investigations into motive behind LA County Lunar New Year shooting continue. Spotify lays off hundreds of employees worldwide. Suspended Oakland Police Chief demands immediate reinstatement. January 6 conspirators convicted for roles in Capitol insurrection. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 23, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

What explains the dangerous levels of air pollution In Iran's main cities? by VOMENA Team at KPFA

A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner. The post Africa Today – January 23, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Work changed dramatically during the Covid pandemic. Enormous numbers of people lost their jobs, while others were able to work remotely. And then there were so-called essential workers, whose in-person jobs put them at the highest risk. In response, many of them organized, often informally. Sociologist Jamie McCallum argues that the struggles of essential workers during the pandemic fed into a wave of labor organizing since. Resources: Jamie K McCallum, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice Basic Books, 2022 Jamie McCallum at the Green Arcade in San Francisco, Thurs, February 2nd at 6:30pm The post The Labor Struggles of Essential Workers appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now – January 23, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Kennan Diaries, Roosevelt's Lost Alliances, and his latest, Kennan: A Life between Worlds. The post George Kennan: The Architect of the Cold War Who Opposed the War appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia's war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners' COVID questions. The post Russia's War in Ukrain; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg appeared first on KPFA.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – January 23, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That's where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world. This week's Resistance in Residence artist is a whole family of artists – we speak with Tommy Shepard, Lil Tommy, and Anna Maria Luera. Follow Anna Maria Luera on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anluera/ Follow Tommy Shepard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/teeshep Check out the Alphabet Rockers‘ website: https://www.alphabetrockers.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Artist Resistance in Residence: Tommy Shepard, Lil Tommy, and Anna Maria Luera appeared first on KPFA.

CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the each week's major news stories, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting). The post CounterSpin – January 22, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

The News That Didn't Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy. The post Project Censored – January 20, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – January 20, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 20, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities. The post Puzzling Evidence – January 20, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues. The post Over the Edge – January 20, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Cultivating Wonder, Curiosity & Biophilia to re-kin with what remains of our Fauna Caroline re-hosts Dan Flores, author of 11 books, including Coyote America, and his most recent Wild New World: the Epic Story of Animals and People in America, Flora Fauna from Pleistocene, 66 million years ago, to now… “deep-time history of animals and humans in North America detailing human-wildlife relations across the continent, the sixth extinction, and the odyssey of species recovery in recent decades.” Elephants, Giant Buffalo, Camels, horses, giant Cats, have been found with arrowheads in their bones – humans on American Continent, hunting fantabulous animals 12,450 years ago…. and destroying our fauna kin in cruel ways, especially the last 500 years… Dan Flores is an American writer and historian who specializes in cultural and environmental studies of the American West. A native of Louisiana, Dan Flores is a writer who presently lives in the Galisteo Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of the History of the American West at the University of Montana-Missoula. He is the author of ten books, most recently the New York Times Bestseller, “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History” (2016), and “American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains” (2016). Dan Flores is an ambassador for Project Coyote, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science and advocacy. Wild New World website     Support The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon for weekly Chart & Themes ($4/month) and more… *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* The post The Visionary Activist Show – Cultivating Wonder, Curiosity & Biophilia appeared first on KPFA.

Matthieu Aikins, author of this article (among many), on the situation in Afghanistan with the US gone and the Taliban in control. And Christina Dunbar-Hester, author of Oil Beach, on the ecology of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The post The state of Afghanistan and the ecology of the port of LA appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nick Tabor is a freelance journalist. He is the author of Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created. The post A History of Africatown appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.     The post How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon appeared first on KPFA.

Can individual psychological problems be addressed without an understanding of social conditions and political factors? Silvia Dutchevici talks about critical therapy, an alternative to traditional psychotherapy that fosters discussion of structural forces and oppressive systems in relation to mental health. Silvia Dutchevici, Critical Therapy: Power and Liberation in Psychotherapy The Critical Therapy Institute (Image on main page by Alex Green.) The post Critical Therapy appeared first on KPFA.