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Guests:  Sonali Kolhatkar is an award winning journalist, broadcaster, writer, and author. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali that airs at KPFK, KPFA and the Pacifica Radio stations. She is also a Senior Editor at YES! Media, and the author most recently of Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible. Ben Camacho is an investigative journalist and documentary photographer. His work focuses on state-sponsored violence and the communities impacted by it.  He is part of The Southlander, a new worker-led outlet in the LA area.  He has been covering the ICE raids in LA. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, dean of the People's Academy of International Law and past president of the National Lawyers Guild. Her books include Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.  Her articles can be found on Truthout.org. Mohamed Shehk is with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. He talks about Trump's attacks on immigrants and his latest travel ban. AROC is organizing in the Bay Area to prepare, respond and resist these attacks.   Photo credit: Ben Camacho, ICE Raids, Compton, CA, 2025 The post Trump Deployment of the National Guard to LA appeared first on KPFA.

In the decade of the 2010s, more people took to the streets than in any other time in history. And yet those horizontal protests, often spread through social media, were frequently co-opted by the right — and the decade ended with the rise of authoritarianism. Journalist Vincent Bevins spoke to activists around the world about the lessons they drew from the failed mass revolts, and discusses how democratic movements regained power in Brazil from the despotic Jair Bolsonaro. Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Public Affairs, 2023 Vincent Bevins, “This Land Is Our Land: How Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement Emerged from Right-wing Rule Stronger Than Ever” The Nation, April 8, 2025 Photo credit: Jonathan Rashad The post The Mass Revolts of the 2010s appeared first on KPFA.

UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. The post UpFront – June 9, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Los Angeles Under Siege: Trump Sends in National Guard as Protests Continue over Militarized ICE Raids “Absolutely Unprecedented”: Trump Deploys National Guard to Los Angeles and Hegseth Threatens to Send in Marines “Kidnapped in International Waters”: Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Aid Ship, Detains Greta Thunberg and Others   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 9, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

As Israel has continued its attacks on starving Palestinians who are seeking aid in Gaza, the humanitarian aid flotilla that had been set to arrive from its journey across the Mediterranean sea bringing a small amount of basic support was captured early this morning by Israeli state piracy forces. The 12 humanitarian activists aboard that vessel from all around the world were kidnapped and brought as hostages to the Israeli port of Ashdod. Well over 600 days, now, of the zionist war of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, today, we return to our recurring segment, the Palestine Post. We're joined by Nora Barrows-Friedman, editor of the Electronic Intifada and former KPFA host and producer. Check out the Electronic Intifada here: https://electronicintifada.net/ — 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 Palestine Post: Gaza Flotilla Captured by Israeli Piracy Forces w/ Nora Barrows-Friedman appeared first on KPFA.

Cameroon sits on top of a new list of most neglected displacement crises in the world. In this episode, we turn our attention to the annual report that accounts for this neglect, led by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). We'll discuss what those primary crises are and how they've been neglected politically, economically, and by the press. We're joined to discuss the report and its findings by Laila Matar, the Communications Director of NRC, an independent humanitarian aid organization working to help people fleeing war and persecution. Check out the report here: https://www.nrc.no/resources/reports/the-worlds-most-neglected-displacement-crises-in-2024 — 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 New Report Shows African Displacement Crises Systematically Neglected by the West w/ Laila Matar appeared first on KPFA.

Want to know what feminist and women centered films to watch this June at SF Frameline and Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project film festivals ?       This Monday June 9th at 1-2pm pm on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine I will be talking about the two most important Queer film festivals in the U.S., the San Francisco Frameline LGBTQI + film festival and QWOCMAP. SF Frameline runs from June 18th to June 28th at venues in San Francisco and here in the east bay as well. Frameline will also have films available online to stream from June 23rd to July 1st. I will talk to SF Frameline's executive director Allegra Madsen about some of the films that feature queer women. All that info is at Frameline.org. Then we will talk to the directors and producers of two deeply moving standout feature length documentaries showing at Frameline that are both about Queer poets and activists.       I talk to Jessica Hargrave, who is a producer on the must see new feature length documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light” which is about spoken word artist and poet Andrea Gibson and their partner, poet Megan Falley, as they find meaning and love while dealing with Gibson's terminal cancer diagnosis.       And then we will look at another must see film, the new powerful and touching documentary “A Mother Apart,”about Black lesbian feminist poet and activist Staceyann Chin. That film explores Staceyann Chin's relationship with her mother and daughter and her search to find her mother who left her scarred when her mom abandoned her at the age of 9 and left Staceyann vulnerable to the violence women so often encounter within patriarchy. “A Mother Apart” follows Staceyann as she explores how her mother was herself impacted by the deeply misogynist and racist world we live in. The film also explores how Staceyann Chin found her own healing and self love and was able to pass on that love to her daughter Zuri, interrupting the cycle of violence that radicalized patriarchy and colonialism inflicts on so many women.      In the second half of the show I talk to Madeline Lim, founder and executive director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project or QWOCMAP. QWOCMAP presents their 21st annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival this year and it is offered for free, and runs from June 13th-15th at San Francisco's historic Presidio Theatre in the Presidio National Park. And we talk to Kirthi Nath who is an award winning South Asian lesbian filmmaker, whose lushly beautiful and touching film PARAMITA is being featured at QWOCMAP. For more info check out the website at QWOCMAP.org/festival.   The post Celebrate Queer Pride with SF Frameline and QWOCMAP film festivals appeared first on KPFA.

This week on CounterSpin: An email we got this week tells us: “The radical left is up in arms about DOGE. Just think about it — DOGE has exposed BILLIONS in wasteful spending, and is rooting out fraud and corruption at every turn. They're making the government work for the people of this great nation once again, as the founders intended, and that is why the left simply can't stand DOGE.” The ask is that we fill out a survey that represents “our once-in-a-lifetime chance to slash the bloated, woke and wasteful policies in the federal government. Thank you, and God Bless, Speaker Mike Johnson. (Paid for by the NRCC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.)” Reports are that Elon Musk is leaving government, going back to make Tesla great again or something. But if that's true, why did we get this weird, sad email? We'll talk about how to miss Musk when he won't go away with Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project. The New York Times has its stories on the Boeing “non-prosecution agreement” in the “Business” section, suggesting that whether planes drop out of the sky is mostly a concern for investors. A huge corporation paying money to dodge criminal charges is evidently not a general interest story. And the families and friends of the hundreds of people dead because of Boeing's admittedly knowing malfeasance? They're just another county heard from. If you want reporting that calls crimes “crimes,” even if they're committed by corporations, you need to look outside of corporate media. We'll hear about Boeing from independent journalist Katya Schwenk. Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of trans youth in sports and gender-affirming care.   The post Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk / Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal 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. Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is children's book creator, artivist, and Hollywood film illustrator and concept artist, Nikkolas Smith, whose newest hand-painted children's book is titled The History of We. Check out Nikkolas Smith's website: https://www.nikkolas.art — 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 Resistance in Residence Artist: Nikkolas Smith 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 – June 6, 2025 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 – June 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week's program. In the first segment, we learn about the ongoing crisis that began with Hurricane Helene and why it continues, as federal and state authorities fail to address the actual needs of the people affected by the disaster. Next, a look at how the Trump administration, and some states, are working to suppress free speech by labeling any criticism of Israel as “antisemitism” and why this effort is actually a danger to Jewish people. Chelsea White-Hoglen is a lifelong Western North Carolina resident, a community organizer, and a mutual-aid worker. She also produces and hosts “Rednecks Rising,” a podcast about Appalachia. Alex Kane is a senior reporter at Jewish Currents magazine (www.jewishcurrents.org).   The post Continuing impacts of Hurricane Helene / Governments weaponizing antisemitism appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: We welcome back Flashpoints Troubadour and human rights activist Francisco Herrera, protesting Trump's plan for fascism in America and the deportation of over 2 million, mostly people of color: Also our L.A. Report, Baca's backyard, with Gary Baca. We'll also have another sweeping up date on Israel's expanding killing fields. Also celebrating the Iconic La Pena Cultural center here in the San Francisco Bay Area: And Senior producer Miguel Gavilan Molina plans to take a very long walk in the very hot sun this weekend The post Flashpoints – June 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

7:08 — Laura Carlsen, director of the Mexico-City based international relations think tank Mira: Feminisms y Democracies 7:20 — Jessica Mason-Pieklo, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered 7:33 — Steve Phillips, Founder of Democracy in Color The post Mexico's Ruling Party Sweeps Judicial Elections; Trump Rescinds Life Saving Abortion Care appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. USNS Harvey Milk Naming Ceremony 2016 Activists mark Gun Violence Awareness Day with rally in SF, legislation in Congress Immigrant rights activists in LA rally to protest ICE arrests at court hearings and check-ins LGBTQ veterans, State Sen Wiener, rally to protest renaming of naval ship USNS Harvey Milk Trump admin sanctions 4 International Criminal Court justices over investigations of Israeli war crimes in Gaza People in Gaza mark Eid al Ahda holiday with prayers outside destroyed mosques and homes The post Activists mark Gun Violence Awareness Day; LGBTQ veterans rally to protest renaming of USNS Harvey Milk – June 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Musk vs. Trump? Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule Trump Budget Bill Would Lead to 51,000 More Deaths Each Year, as Health Experts Urge Medicare for All “Completely Unwarranted”: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Sues Trump Officials over His Arrest at ICE Jail High Seas Update from Aid Ship Sailing to Gaza: Activists Vow to “Win Through Solidarity” Fired over Gaza? Dr. Rupa Marya Sues UCSF, Says She Was Targeted for Speaking Up for Palestine   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

WECAN Logo On today's show, investigative journalist for U.S. Right To Know, Pamela Ferdinand on her recent article entitled, “Plastics may disrupt the body's clock, raise risk of chronic disease”.  We'll switch gears and speak to founder and executive director of Women's Earth and Climate Action Network on their upcoming virtual online summit from June 23-28. The post U. S. Right to Know and WECAN International appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Emily Hauser is a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of three novels reimagining the women of Greek myth: For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner, and For the Immortal. She is also the author of How Women Became Poets, and most recently, of Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World through the Women Written Out of It. The post Women in Ancient History appeared first on KPFA.

    Composting tyranny into nutrient for democracy How shall we craft the redemptive Act V – from our current Act IV of cruel carnage ransacking (from Old Norse = “to pillage”) Community? Caroline welcomes Henry Giroux, deeply dedicated  cultural critic, translator of complex liberating pedagogy into accessible vernacular….always the micro to the macro…. and ladling out of the cauldron  redemptive strategy and vision  to navigate through this dangerous crack-pot tyranny time… education essential to good citizenship- essential to democracy Prodigious contributor- authored or co-authored over 65 books, articles, lectures”No one is better than Henry Giroux at analyzing the truly dangerous threats to our society. He punctures our delusions and offers us a compelling and enlightened vision of a better way.” — Bob Herbert “Henry Giroux is one of the singular intellects in contemporary life, a sane, compassionate, and fierce voice against the society of domination, inequality and the madness of ruthless Imperialist conquest.” — John Steppling, Playwright, screenwriter, and essayist https://www.henryagiroux.com/ The post The Visionary Activist Show – Composting tyranny into nutrient for democracy appeared first on KPFA.

Laleh Khalili, author of this review, on the long relationship between the US military and industry • Kyle Chan, author of this article, on how China is surpassing the US The post Weapons and technology, China surpassing the US appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: We'll feature this weeks expanded frontline headlines from Occupied Palestine with Nora Barrows Friedman and the team at the electronic Intifada: Also a 70 year old member of the International Solidarity Movement arrested in the occupied West Bank for documenting up-close Israel's expanding program of ethnic cleansing. The post The Latest Headlines From The Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 — Lior Sternfeld, associate professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. 0:33 — Craig Aaron, president and co-CEO of Free Press. The post Israeli Parliament in Disarray Over Draft Exemptions for Orthodox Jews; Trump Asks Congress to Defund Public Broadcasting appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Big Beautiful Bill gets pushback from some Republicans, Musk, as Dems criticize court-weakening provision Central Valley farmers seeking more water pumping, dams for agriculture City workers, residents rally against Mayor Lurie's SF budget, want alternatives to cuts Dems blast Trump mass deportations, activists plan nationwide mobilization on June 14 Musk to ground SpaceX rockets used to service International Space Station after Trump threatens to cut Musk's government contracts The post Some republicans opposing Trump's Big Beautiful Bill; Dems and activists blast mass deportations, mobilizing for June 14 – June 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Trump Revives Travel Ban, Bars Citizens of 12 Nations in Move Decried as “Devastating” Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in “Immigration Gulag” for Nearly 3 Months, Challenges Deportation Efforts As U.S. Vetoes U.N. Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Kathy Kelly and Veterans Enter 3rd Week of Hunger Strike “The Shame of Israeli Medicine”: How Israeli Doctors Turned on Palestinian Colleagues and Patients “How to Survive the Broligarchy”: Carole Cadwalladr on Tech Titans and Rising U.S. Authoritarianism   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. The post APEX Express – June 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Two years ago, a fragile but hopeful peace in Sudan was broken when the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – which are both arms of the Sudanese state – went to war with each other. In the fighting since, more than 150,000 people have been killed and 13 million of a total of a 51 million person population, have been displaced. Famine is currently significant. And there are renewed reports of cholera tearing through the region, which has led to corpses rotting in the nile river, according to an Al Jazeera report.  But during these past two years of civil war, most media that covers international affairs and violence, and this includes us at KPFA, has focused on international coverage elsewhere, failing to give proper attention to the conflict in Sudan, often writing it off because we don't have strong contacts or because the war is somehow over our heads.  We're joined in conversation about the violence in Sudan, it's causes and potential pathways out, by Vijay Prashad, a historian and writer, and the executive director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, which recently produced its 20th newsletter, titled “A Language of Blood Has Gripped Our World,” addressing the conflict in Sudan. Check out the Tricontinental's website: https://thetricontinental.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 Sudan's Civil War Continues as Famine and Cholera Spread w/ Vijay Prashad appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode, we listen to a short story from Alexandrea Henry, reflecting on how carcerality is integrated not only in schools broadly, but even within the 1st grade classroom that she taught. Law & Disorder reached out to Alexandrea to request her contribution after seeing it first published in the recent pilot issue of the renewed Abolition Journal, produced by Philadelphia's W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction, which is a political education organization for aspiring revolutionaries and movement leaders from those communities most impacted by poverty, policing, and mass incarceration. Alexandrea Henry's generously offered to share her Abolition Journal contribution, titled Relearning the Language of Care: Reflections on Disappearing a First Grader, with us at KPFA Radio. Alexandrea Henry is a current Stanford PhD student researching how our youngest learners make sense of power and belonging in the context of school discipline. She is also a former School District of Philadelphia elementary school teacher. You can check out the full piece in written form, along with other contributions to the journal, at: abolitionjournal.com — Jesse Strauss 510 – 541 – 7361 Producer – Law & Disorder 8am Weekdays KPFA.org | 94.1FM The post Abolition in the Classroom: Reflections on Disappearing a First Grader w/ Alexandrea Henry appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Mark Blyth is a political economist and professor at Brown University. He is an expert on Global Finance & Banking and the author of several books including Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, and his latest, Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers, coauthored with Nicolò Fraccaroli.     The post The 50 Year War on American Workers appeared first on KPFA.

While we're told by politicians that the ideas of Karl Marx are foreign and have no place in this country, history proves otherwise. Andrew Hartman shows that Marx and Marxism have had an a significant influence on the United States, from Marx's journalistic writings for the New York Daily Tribune, on the mass politics of the Socialist and Communist Parties and the Wobblies, on the most radical edge of the New Deal and the New Left, and finally with the return to Marx's ideas since the Global Financial Crisis. Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America University of Chicago Press, 2025 The post American Marx appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Flashpoints contributor, Sam Husseini, reports from the UN, as the US lobbies to ditch the current cease-fire proposal and destroy current efforts to poise the starvation-genocide expanding in Gaza. Also, Cynthis Papermaster on the 14th day of her fast for peace in Gaza.  And US covert action expands again to deal with a growing fight-back people's movement in Haiti… The post A Report Back on The US, Lobbying to Ditch Current Cease Fire in Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 — Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. 0:33 — David Dayen, executive editor of the American Prospect. His latest book is “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.” The post SCOTUS Revokes Biden Era Parole Status for Migrants; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Explained appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Elon Musk's AI DOGE logo Man arrested for bombing fertility clinic was opposed to pro-life ideology House DOGE subcommittee republicans blast nonprofits as radical slush funds Recalled Alameda Co District Attorney Price criticizes DA Jones Dickson over death penalty resentencing Nurses at San Jose's Good Samaritan Hospital rally for contract changes to improve patient care and nurse retention ICE officers told to “push the envelope” and ramp up arrests, with or without warrants June 4 is “International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression”, also anniversary of 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre of student pro-democracy activists The post House DOGE subcommittee blast nonprofits as radical slush funds; Recalled Alameda Co DA Price criticizes successor Jones Dickson over death penalty resentencing – June 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: “Death Traps”: U.S.–Israeli Aid Scheme Paused in Gaza After 100+ Palestinians Killed While Waiting for Food Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: It's My Moral Obligation “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy and Creating a New Colonial World   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Celebrated educator and activist, Dr. Joyce King, will be with us. She writes extensively about dysconscious racism, effective education for African-American students, and many other topics. She is the former provost of Spellman College, the past president of the American Educational Research Association, and a professor with an endowed chair at Georgia State University The post Education Today – June 4, 2025 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 – June 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Mary Annette Pember is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe. She is currently national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today.  She is the recipient of several awards for her journalism and is the author of Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools. The post A History of Indian Boarding Schools in America appeared first on KPFA.

At the height of leftwing activism in the Sixties, conservatives funded tax-deducible rightwing groups on campuses to counter Black Power, demands for ethnic studies, and the New Left. As historian Lauren Shephard illustrates, such groups like Young Americans for Freedom groomed future Republican leaders and influential conservatives, like Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich, where they learned to spin unpopular politics as popular. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America University of North Carolina Press, 2023 American Campus Podcast The post The Right on Campus appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Gaza, the hungriest place on earth, as the genocide by starvation continues. And Mass deportations of Haitians, Venezuelans, and other countries causing panic in many parts of the Americas, both north and south The post Mass Deportations Across North & South America appeared first on KPFA.

UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. The post UpFront – June 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Ed Secretary McMahon defends $12 billion budget cut, opponents blast weaponization of fed funding Republicans blast judicial overreach in Sen hearing, Dems say judges just doing job cuz Trump breaks law Activists blast proposed Medicaid cuts with speeches, prayer, and arrests at Capitol Palestinians call new Israeli aid distribution chaotic and dangerous as dozens killed Def Scty Hegseth orders renaming of ship USNS Harvey Milk, Pelosi blasts “shameful vindictive erasure”  Trump lobbies senators for his Big Beautiful Bill, Musk calls it “disgusting abomination The post Ed Secretary defends $12 billion cuts, oppos blast weaponization of funding; GOP Senators want to rein in judges, Dems say it's Trump needs reining in – June 3, 2025 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 6am – June 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Clay Risen is a historian and a reporter and editor at The New York Times.  He is the author of several books including The Crowded Hour, a New York Times Notable Book of 2019, and his latest, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.   The post The Witch Hunt Against the Left in the 1940s appeared first on KPFA.

Lasting contributions to radical political thought were made by Antonio Gramsci, the Italian thinker, writer, and politician who was imprisoned by Mussolini's fascist regime. Andy Merrifield discusses Gramsci's insights into political economy, everyday experience, social change, and the role of intellectuals. Andy Merrifield, Roses for Gramsci Monthly Review Press, 2025 (Image on main page by angrodZ.) The post How Gramsci Thought appeared first on KPFA.

Today on show: We'll be joined by the legendary Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers, with Cesar Chavez: Dolores joins us today to speak out against the racist ice sweeps that are no taking place in Southern California: We'll also feature an immigrants rights/fight back  rally that was held recently in san francisco The post United Farmworkers Co-Founder, Dolores Huerta on The Racist ICE Raids in Southern California appeared first on KPFA.

UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. The post UpFront – June 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner. The post Africa Today – June 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Activists launch nationwide “LIVING WAGE FOR ALL” campaign to hike minimum wage to $25/hour Youth leaders hold town hall to demand end to pepper spraying youth in Alameda County juvenile detention Students, educators, unions blast proposed state budget cuts to higher education in CA budget proposal Ukraine says weekend drone strike took out nearly 1/3rd of Russia's bomber aircraft UN chief blasts shootings at humanitarian aid sites run by Israeli-US backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation DHS removes list of “sanctuary cities” after push-back from sheriffs' association The post Youth leaders demand end to pepper spraying in Alameda County juvenile detention; Living Wage for All campaign aims for nationwide $25 minimum wage – June 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's show: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Wants “Permanent War” in Gaza, Not a New Ceasefire British Surgeon in Gaza Reports on Rafah Massacre as Dozens of Palestinians Killed Waiting for Aid Gaza Aid Worker: Israel's New Shadowy Humanitarian Aid Scheme Is “Tool to Increase Suffering” Harvard Commencement Speakers: Despite Crackdown, “Students Will Keep Speaking Up” for Palestine   The post Democracy Now 6am – June 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

As Israel flexed it's ability to publicly intentionally starve Palestinians in Gaza, this past week marked more than 600 days of the zionist war of ethnic cleansing. Joining us to discuss the latest news and analysis of that violence, is Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Samer also co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon. — 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 Palestine Post: Israel Publicly & Intentionally Starves Gazans w/ Samer Araabi appeared first on KPFA.

This week on CounterSpin: Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and … Oprah? They're among the entertainers in Trump's sights for, it would seem, endorsing Kamala Harris in the election and, maybe, for saying something unflattering about him or his actions — which, in his brain, and that of the minions who've chosen to share that brain, constitutes an illegal political contribution to his opponents, wherever they may lurk. At a moment when politicians who swore actual oaths are throwing over even the pretense of democracy, or public service — or basic human decency — many of us are looking to artists to be truth-tellers and spirit lifters: to convey, maybe, not so much information as energy — the fearless, collective, forward-looking joy that can sustain a beleaguered people in a threatening time. There's a deep history of protest music and music as protest, and our guest is very intentionally a part of it. Tom Morello is a guitarist; part of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, Prophets of Rage and The Nightwatchman, among many other projects. His music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial, economic justice. We talk about the work of artists in Trumpian times. Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of the embassy shootings, a lawmaker's arrest, and commencement protests.   The post Tom Morello on Music as Protest appeared first on KPFA.