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Please enjoy today's Tea Talk with Renée Camila and Sam Roberts, co-founders of Now and Then Herb School and co-producers of the Planting Medicine podcast and radio show on 94.1 KPFA! The Now and Then Herb School focuses on guiding modern herbalism to old magic within a social justice framework.

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 – December 5, 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 – December 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Tareq Baconi is a writer and scholar, president of Al-Shabaka: the Palestinian Policy Network; author of the 2018 book Hamas Contained, and just out with the memoir Fire in Every Direction The post Tareq Baconi on Fire in Every Direction 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! – December 5, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Full Moon Radio!!!!——Caroline welcomes, fellow radio cahooter, denizen of Moab Utah….collegial  pragmatic mystic, that we all participate in the generous opportunities bestowed upon us – if we dedicate… Many blessings to spiral forth….that conscience awaken in our rogue species….mass desertions….all following own wilderness path….   Christy Williams Dunton has led a colorful, contemplative life as a multidisciplinary artist and community builder on the Colorado Plateau. Public Radio Producer, co-founder of KZMU fm, Oral Historian, Hospice Chaplain, Somatic Counselor, Celebrant; she is driven by questions of Soul and of Science, and of Person in healthy relation to Place. She lives with her sculptor husband and their dog in Castle Valley, Utah, where they co-produce Moab ArTTrails, a non-profit, public sculpture program in Moab. She studied Liberal Arts, Mass Communications at Utah State University and CU Boulder, and is a certified practitioner of  Somatic Archeology from The Black Hills Historic Trauma Research and Recovery Center. www.kzmu.org www.moabarttrails.org  The post The Visionary Activist Show – Full Moon Blessings Radio appeared first on KPFA.

David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard of the Progressive International on the Honduran elections • Elfadil Ibrahim on the Sudanese civil war • Eric Blanc on the lessons of Milwaukee's decades of “sewer socialism” for Mamdani and Wilson The post Honduras, Sudan, sewer socialism appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: The family of Colombian fisherman, Alejandro Carranza, who was murdered in a U.S. military boat strike in September, has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. We'll speak to the attorney representing the family of the slain fisherma.: And Nora Barrows friedman joins us for our regular weekly newscast from the Electronic Intifada The post Family of Colombian Fisherman Murdered by U.S. Military Boat Strike Files Formal Complaint to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 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 – December 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Federal immigration policies spark push-back from residents as democrats push legislation to rein in the raids; Richmond teachers strike over pay, staffing and student support; Supreme court allows Texas redistricting plan to be used in next year's election; New York Times sues to stop Pentagon rules on journalists who cover military; World Meteorological Organization says Arab region heating at twice global average The post Federal immigration policies spark pushback; Richmond teachers strike over pay, staffing and student support – December 4, 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! – December 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Nothing sounds more wholesome than kids and sports. But as legal scholar Dionne Koller illustrates youth sports have become increasingly commercial, unregulated, and competitive with companies, including private equity firms, replacing publicly-subsidized recreational programs. This highly lucrative industry profits from, among other things, clubs, camps, equipment, mega facilities, and youth sports tourism — exacting a high cost from families and even greater physical and mental cost from children. Dionne Koller, More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport UC Press, 2025 Photo by Ben Hershey on Unsplash The post The Commercialization of Youth Sports appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: We talk to the Co-Coordinator of the Honduras Solidarity Network, Karen Spring, about Honduras Elections, Trump inserting himself into those elections and pardoning a former Honduran President after being convicted for large scale drug trafficking. And Immigration Defense Attorney Jane Lee, talks to us about her client from California, but held In Florida Immigration detention and faces numerous threats and abuse. And  we close out with a news update on Louisiana sweeps and national guard. The post Flashpoints – December 3, 2025 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 – December 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. Photo Ted Eytan Trump pick to head NASA gets second confirmation hearing after nomination pulled then reinstated; New Democratic Coalition announces health plan including protecting ACA subsidies; Senators discuss Russian abductions of Ukrainian children, legislative responses; Family of Colombian fisherman files human rights complaint over US boat strike that killed him; Trump's name added to building of US Institute of Peace that DOGE tried to dismantle The post New Democratic Coalition unveils health plan with ACA protections; Senators discuss Russian abductions of Ukrainian children – December 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! – December 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On this episode, we speak with LeaJay Harper about the City of Oakland's encampment abatement proposal that threatens unhoused residents.  LeaJay is a resident of Wood Street for 10 years now living in a solution to homelessness called Homefullness using her voice to represent for her family still outside. — 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 Advocating for Oakland's Unhoused Residents w/ LeaJay Harper appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode, we speak with Richard Tan, criminal defense attorney in Oakland about a lawsuit that challenges the unlawful arrest of Minister King X, a community organizer with California Prison Focus and All of Us or None (AOUON). Though the charges were dropped without a hearing, the arrest report describes him and others as “Black Identity Extremists” and “Black Supremacist Extremists” for his participation in a protest weeks before. On December 4, 2025, civil rights leaders will host a press conference outside the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse in advance of a hearing in King v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for unconstitutional restrictions against freedom of speech and assembly that disproportionately impact Black and Brown people. The press conference will be livestreamed below: @LSPCMovement @official_MinisterKingXPyeface — 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 Lawsuit Seeks to Strike Down California Penal Code Used to Arrest Activist Minister King X w/ attorney Richard Tan appeared first on KPFA.

International Revolutionary Day, marked each year on December 4th, is a day of remembrance and reflection on the radical struggle for liberation embodied by Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party. His vision of collective power, rooted in socialism and Black liberation, challenged state violence and poverty, making him a target of government surveillance and repression. On December 4, 1969, Hampton was assassinated in a police raid coordinated with the FBI, a killing that galvanized movements worldwide. International Revolutionary Day stands as a tribute to his legacy—a reminder of the cost of revolutionary change and the enduring call for justice, community power, and liberation for oppressed people everywhere. On today's show, we speak with Hampton's son, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. about his father's legacy. — 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 International Revolutionary Day with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. 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 – December 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

The drive to put prices on everything is a basic feature of capitalism. Political theorist Alyssa Battistoni asks then why capitalism has failed at putting a price on so much of nature, which she believes helps illuminate capitalism's destruction of the natural world. She also argues that the relationship that capitalism forces us to have with the rest of nature makes us less free as human beings. Alyssa Battistoni, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature University of Princeton Press, 2025 The post Capitalism and the Price of Nature appeared first on KPFA.

Today on The Show:  From Reformer to Living Martyr: The Legend of Imran Khan still reverberates in reactionary-lead Pakistan. we'll feature a special frontline report from Islamabad, Pakistan from Junaid Ahmad. And we'll feature a powerful interview with Culture Clash founder, Richard Montoya that was recorded last Thursday on  Alcatraz Island during the Unthanksgiving days celebrations The post A Special Frontline Report From Islamabad, Pakistan with Junaid Ahmad 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 – December 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. Venezuelan flag Trump wants ground attacks on Venezuela, as controversy swirls over attacks on alleged drug boats; 12 year old Gaza girl suffers faints, nightmares, lung surgery, as family seeks aid after deaths of her siblings in Israeli attacks during ceasefire; “Evict ICE Not Us” activists interrupt Board of Supervisors meeting to demand eviction protections for immigrants; SF sues ultraprocessed foods manufacturer, alleging company knew products harmful and addictive; Trump administration to withhold SNAP food benefits in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week; Trump Administration renames “National Renewable Energy Laboratory”, deleting “Renewable” and “Energy” – now it's “National Laboratory of the Rockies” The post Trump proposes ground attacks on Venezuela; “Evict ICE Not Us” demands LA enact eviction protections for immigrants – December 2, 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! – December 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode, we speak with Jesse Rabinowitz from the National Homelessness Law Center on the Trump Administration's alarming plan build a massive facility in Utah that critics warn will function as an “internment camp” where the unhoused will be subject to forced labor.  — 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 Homelessness Law Center on Utah Forced Labor Camp appeared first on KPFA.

In this episode, we speak with Jamal Abdi, the president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) on the Trump administration's plans to “rigorously reexamine” the status of every green card holder from nineteen nations, including Iran, and to allow for “negative, country-specific factors to be considered when vetting” nationals of those same nations applying for adjustment of immigration status. — 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 Reactions to DC's National Guard Shooting with Jamal Abdi from NIAC appeared first on KPFA.

Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is writer/actor Wayne Harris.  He is the creator of the solo show Drapetomania, reclaiming a 19th-century pseudoscientific term once used to pathologize enslaved people's desire for freedom. Wayne recently wrapped a run at The Marsh Theater https://themarsh.org/shows_and_events/wayne-harris-drapetomania/   — 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 w/ Wayne Harris appeared first on KPFA.

Since the global financial crisis, and even more over the last five years, capitalism's popularity has fallen, while the fortunes of the capitalist class have risen steeply. Polls show that a majority of people under forty, of any political affiliation, view democratic socialism positively and capitalism negatively. Even a majority of Republican voters believe that our economic system favors corporations and the wealthy. Journalist John Cassidy discusses capitalism through the eyes of its critics. (Full-length presentation.) John Cassidy, Capitalism and Its Critics A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025 The post Criticizing Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: We feature our weekly segment, Genocide Watch with Sam Husseini and this week's special guest, Miko Peled,  founder of Palestine House of Freedom in Washington D.C. Also Anita Barrows continues writing her powerful daily poems on the genocide.  And Reporter Dave Lindorf is suggesting USA change its battle fighting outfits to fit the new genocidal  wars of the 21st century The post Genocide Watch w/ Sam Husseini & Special Guest Miko Peled. 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 – December 1, 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 – December 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Lawmakers opening investigations after US double-strike near Venezuela that destroyed boat, then finished off survivors; Activists raising awareness of Amazon contracts for technology used in immigration raids; Food prices causing worries in wake of federal government shutdown; December 1 is World AIDS Day, though US government is not observing occasion; Native American actor Elaine Miles detained by ICE in Seattle after agents tell her tribal ID card “looked fake”; 200 protesters foil ICE raid in NYC by blocking parking garage where agents assembled The post Lawmakers open investigations after US strikes destroy boat, then kill survivors; Activists protest Amazon technology contracts for immigration raids – December 1, 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! – December 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

On today's episode we speak with Oneg Ben-Dror, from Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) prisoners and detainees department. PHRI released a recent report that reveals over the past two years, up to August 2025, at least 94 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention facilities.  Read the report here https://www.phr.org.il/en/palestinian-deaths-behind-bars-eng/ —- 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 Death Sentence for Palestinians in Custody: Report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel appeared first on KPFA.

On today's Palestine Post, we are joined by Samer Araabi from the Arab Resource Organizing Council to discuss latest headlines from the ongoing genocide in Palestine. —- 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 w/ AROC's Samer Araabi appeared first on KPFA.

This hour long radio program presents and discusses women's lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective. The post Womens Magazine – December 1, 2025 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 – November 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Lauren Gunderson, recognized as the most produced contemporary playwright in America four of the last five years, including 2025, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Lauren Gunderson is a prolific playwright whose plays are produced all over North America and in Britain and Europe. She is best known for such plays as “The Book of Will” and the “Christmas at Pemberley” series of three plays (co-written by Margot Malcon). She also worked on the script for the Pixar film “Lightyear,” and her book for the musical version of “The Time Traveler's Wife” recently played in London. As of the first week in December, two plays are currently being produced in the San Francisco Bay Area. Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, runs December 5-28 at TheatreWorks Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, and Ada and the Engine plays at the Pear Theatre in Mountain View through December 7th. A third play, Louisa Alcott's Little Women played earlier in 2025 at TheatreWorks in Mountain View, and plays at Portland Center Stage through December 21st. In this interview, she discusses those plays and others, with emphasis on Muse of Fire, in which she performs, directed by Evren Odcikin, which wil be produced by the Magic Theatre from September 22nd through October 11th. Among upcoming plays in 2026 are Silent Sky in Bethesda Maryland in February. The Book of Will in Wisconsin in January and Raleigh, North Carolina in April, The Revolutionists in Rhode Island in May and Raleigh in August, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women at the Guthrie in Minnesota next April through June. The Half Life of Marie Curie will be in Eureka California iwill be performed in February, 2026 in Eureka, California. The post Lauren Gunderson, Noted Contemporary Playwright, the “Christmas in Pemberley” series 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 – November 28, 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 – November 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week's program. In the first part of the program, Palestinian-American journalist, translator, photographer, and media analyst Laura Albast joins the show to discuss journalism as memory work, and the narrative as a battlefield upon which ever more advanced technology takes aim at Palestinian voices and lived experiences. Laura frames journalism as a commitment – to people and their stories, and talks about how the chasing of headlines and by-lines in the 24-hour news cycle leads to extractive journalism, and how and why movement media can be the antidote. Next up, Economics PHD students Shakked Noy and Aakaash Rao discuss their recent report: The Business of the Culture War which links the contemporary “culture wars” to changes in media technologies as well as economic incentives for cable news. Shakked and Aakaash discuss how their research shows that the economic drive for viewership has incentivized corporate media to turn away from actual political news and towards sensational infotainment, and how the commodification of legitimate rage leaves us dumber and more divided than ever before. The News That Didn't Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield 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 – November 28, 2025 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 – November 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Greg Grandin, Peter V and C. Vann Woodward Professor at Yale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, author of America America: a new history of the new world [originally recorded in May 2025] The post Greg Grandin on America, América [rebroadcast] 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 – November 28, 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! – November 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Leonida Odongo – Founder and Executive Director of Haki Nawiri Afrika Haki Nawiri Afrika Logo On today's show, COP 30 (Conference of Parties) is over, but the movements that are moving forward in the global south despite not being represented at COP have been taking care of their communities and gathering at their own summits.  I speak to Leonida Odongo, founder and executive director of Haki Nawiri Afrika based Kenya about the strides her organization is making despite the exploitation by the global north.  We'll switch gears and hear an excerpt from the opening ceremony of the 6th Conference on Land Policy in Africa held in Ethiopia earlier this month. Link to the Opening Ceremony of the 6th Conference on Land Policy in Africa: The post Without the Conference of Parties appeared first on KPFA.

    Saturn stationing Direct, a profound time of crafting our manifesto of dedicated devotion. Thanksgiving – to convene the Ouiji Board of Directors – the ancestral commuity of the dead. We invite them to help! Whatever bowl of dedication we put on the table – Jupiter will fill. Opportune, if dedicated. Caroline proffers a portion of her November 12th talk in Sonoma. Rising Aroused in Apocalyptic Times BodhiSattva Coyote's astro*mytho*politico guide to navigating this dangerous, opportune time with Dark humor, Grief, Community alchemical magic and jaunty Trickster pluck. Not averting our gaze from the cruel horror of our rampaging rogue species…. We are definitely in Act IV – which is evil, and are assigned the task of crafting Act V – Redemption First by understanding that the domestic tyranny before us is a grotesque animation of all that is unaddressed in America's shadow…. At this time of mega accelerating collapse, it behooves us all to animate the opportunities so generously proffered too us, lest we leave the fate of the world to the dementors… Tyranny has always attacked Community – because tyranny is a cult – the toxic mimic of Community. So, Let's compost the “cult” out of culture.       The post The Visionary Activist Show – Rising Aroused in Apocalyptic Times appeared first on KPFA.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. The post Behind the News – November 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

As the environmental crisis worsens, not everyone is drawing the same lessons. On the far right, xenophobic and racist ideas are increasingly dressed up as means of protecting nature. And, as scholar Alexander Menrisky posits, contemporary American culture furnishes a wealth of material for the right, from the ubiquity of apocalyptic and misanthropic ideas to concerns with Wellness and bodily purity. (Encore presentation.) Alexander Menrisky, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature University of Minnesota Press, 2025 The post The Fodder of Eco-Fascism appeared first on KPFA.