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Greg has a bone to pick. His satirical "Lake America" Nissan commercial got pulled off the air after the phones lit up, and he opens the show on why being offended is a choice. Jade, the deal slayer, is in the chair for all three hours, and Money Mike takes over the second hour.The spine of the show is one rule: if you cannot explain the deal simply, it is probably not a good deal. Dealers who can't convince you will confuse you. A good deal is one breath. A bad deal needs a spreadsheet and a guy in a short-sleeve dress shirt. If it doesn't fit on a napkin, walk away.Hour two is money. Steve wants to pay cash for a used Rogue Platinum and Greg won't let it go, which sets up the whole hour with Money Mike. Then Tony in Vaughan calls in with $1.3 million in the bank, no mortgage, a defined pension, and a 3.7% return, and gets an on-air intervention. As Greg puts it, being good at accumulation doesn't mean you're good at growth. Also: Alan on whether to break his mortgage, Don with half a million and no trust left in advisors, Dylan who lost $200,000 on penny stocks at 28, and the calculation that puts Jade at $2 million by 65 for $500 a month.The car calls: John choosing between a 4Runner, a Pilot and a Pathfinder, Jim's 2019 Pacifica, Anil on the new Rogue hybrid and Toyota's manufactured scarcity, Rose deciding between an Acura ADX and a Lexus UX when the Kicks would do, Susan's 14-year-old E350, and David's scrap Buick. Plus a ten-year-old-tires text, Greg's summer diving for sea snails in Chile at 13, Jade on living alone for the first time, the guy who keeps sliding into her DMs, and Greg's verdict on what all her exes have in common.IN THIS EPISODE1:19 — Good morning, slackers2:58 — The "Lake America" commercial, and why being offended is a choice7:15 — John: 4Runner, Pilot or Pathfinder, and is the 4Runner $25,000 better?14:18 — Jade's ChatGPT bestie has a name15:40 — Jim's 2019 Pacifica: "Cars don't break down. Owners don't service them."20:04 — If you cannot convince, confuse: the napkin test21:09 — Eight subscriptions, and the four you forgot about26:10 — Anil: the new Rogue hybrid, and Toyota's false scarcity32:42 — Steve: Crosstrek vs Rogue Platinum, and why Greg won't pay cash for a car40:24 — Money Mike is in the house41:18 — Baris: pay cash or take the 0%?49:27 — Tony in Vaughan: $1.3 million at 3.7%, and an on-air intervention57:18 — Alan: break the mortgage, or invest?1:01:44 — Don: half a million and no trust in advisors1:07:21 — Dylan, 28, lost $200,000 on penny stocks1:11:30 — $500 a month at 26 is $2 million at 651:16:28 — "Most Carrasco men don't live past 60," and three more kids1:17:36 — Wesley, 22, with $1,000 a month to put somewhere1:23:55 — Ten-year-old tires: never skimp on what's between you and the ground1:25:48 — Rose: Acura ADX vs Lexus UX, or just buy the Kicks1:29:00 — The most expensive driveway ornament you will ever buy1:32:13 — Sea snails, sewing machines and the Army: Greg's crazy life1:37:10 — Jade on living alone1:42:02 — Susan's 2012 E350: if it isn't broken, don't fix it1:45:46 — David's scrap Buick, and a spaghetti dinner offer1:47:43 — The guy in Jade's DMs1:51:56 — "All your previous boyfriends have one thing in common"1:56:51 — Stop waiting so long to make decisionsLive every Saturday morning on News Talk 1010 and the iHeartRadio app.Talk or text 416-872-1010.

First up, we mark 25 years since the 9/11 attacks by talking to James Paddon. On the 9th of September 2001 an airliner flew into the 93rd floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center. James was at his desk on the 83rd floor. Read more about his story here. Then, A medical school admission scheme designed to try and increase the number of Maori and Pacifica doctors, could have its days numbered. The ACT party says the scheme is discriminatory and wants to scrap the whole thing, but a group of doctors and academics want the government to release an independent review of the scheme. They say it will hold indisputable evidence of the schemes impact on Maori and Pacifica students. After that we look into the resurgence of padder tennis. Did you play it? Was it better than bullrush? Then finally: there's nothing more powerful than a craft group, when they put their minds to something. In Northland 22 women were given a very unusual assignment of sewing a set of unique doorstops, for the historic Clendon House.

KPFA News joins Tohono O'odham Nation Chairman Verlon Jose for an audio tour of the borderlands threatened by the Trump administration's proposed 30-foot wall. Tribal leaders say the project would destroy sacred sites and wildlife corridors, disturb ancestral remains and further divide thousands O'odham on the opposite side of the U.S.–Mexico border. Lauren Schmitt reports… Tohono O'odham Nation Fights Trump Border Wall to Protect Sacred Lands and Tribal Sovereignty The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – September 7, 2026 SPECIAL BROADCAST: Tohono O'odham Nation Fights Trump Border Wall to Protect Sacred Lands and Tribal Sovereignty appeared first on KPFA.

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Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. UN report warns climate overshoot could bring decades of extreme weather and other impacts. Trump Administration files emergency appeal to Supreme Court over mail voting rule. Federal judge blocks Trump's latest attempt to limit birthright citizenship. Trump pledges to help Republicans in midterm elections despite low approval ratings. Missouri and Maryland courts rule in favor of Democrats in two congressional redistricting measures for November ballots. House passes bill that would penalize universities participating in Israel boycotts. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – Trump Administration files emergency appeal to Supreme Court over mail voting rule. appeared first on KPFA.

1. Internal water pump replacement on a Ford Explorer 2. 09 Nissan 370 Z car noise 3. 16 Dodge Journey antilock codes 4. 383 Mopar fuel pump block off 5. 11 Sienna van trans drain and fill 6. 17 Pacifica engine replacement maybe? 7. 15 Rav 4 rear end squeak 8. 26 Maverick oil change time questions

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Medical groups issue fall vaccine guidance as federal recommendations remain in flux. Massachusetts voters reject Democrats' push for generational change in Senate primary. Tarrant County, Texas, Republicans approve plan to cut election day polling sites by nearly a third. Activists protest border wall construction threatening historic trees and cemetery near Nogales. California voting rights and immigrant advocates sue Trump administration over voter data checks. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – Massachusetts voters reject Democrats' push for generational change in Senate primary appeared first on KPFA.

This week, I'm joined by Tori and Doug from Pacifica Spindrift Players' production of Mean Girls, opening this week!

We hear it a lot, the idea that humans are bad at long-term thinking, that we're not good at planning, that it's hard for people to think beyond their own immediate problems. We've heard that people don't really think about the future until they have children, that they seek immediate gratification, and will always prioritise short-term profit over long-term gains. This idea pops up everywhere, particularly with the subtext ‘climate action was always doomed because it's impossible for humans to act think sensibly about the future'. But is this true? In this episode we talk about fictional futures - fantastic, terrifying, and inspiring - that humans have imagined for the future of our species, and talk to authors about how to expand our own imaginations. Media mentioned:Borne by Jeff VandermeerWoman on the Edge of Time by Marge PiercySalvage by Jennifer MillsStar Trek: TNGWarhammerAuthors interviewed:Mantle by Romy AshFrom the publisher:Ursula is a self-possessed geologist. In her life on the mainland, she's a guardian of the timescale, dividing history into segments and reading the Earth's depths. It sounds like science fiction, but it's simply science.When her ailing mother is struck with a mystery illness she is called to the coastline of lutruwita/Tasmania. What begins as an incurable rash evolves into something more dangerous.With the sickness spreading across the island, and beyond, Ursula finds herself stranded, stuck in her mother's house and increasingly entangled with a younger man who she met at the pub. She is grieving, beginning to unhinge – and now she too has the rash.  The wild places of the island are solace, even as the world around her begins to shift. As she faces this eruption of new life, and grapples with death and decay, Ursula realises that this change may not signal an end, but a beginning. Deeply moving and utterly original, Mantle is a powerful novel that shows us our fate is intertwined with the people around us, and the fate of our world.Killionaires by Scott LeckieFrom the publisher:A provocative and imaginative story, Killionaire asks what might happen if humanity decided that extreme wealth had limits and began building something radically different in its place.‘The world has never had more billionaires - 3,300 of them. Between them they hold more than 20 trillion US dollars. Anyone who bothers to look can see that they are undermining the very foundations on which democracy is based. My book asks 'What if no one was allowed to become a billionaire?' Leckie says.Blending satire, social commentary, political imagination and sharp humour, Killionaire introduces readers to ‘Pacifica', an ambitious social experiment that challenges conventional ideas about wealth, power and community.Conceived as a response to growing inequality, climate disruption and political division, Pacifica becomes the vehicle through which Leckie imagines an alternative future.With a cast of larger-than-life billionaire characters, including arms dealers, technology moguls and corporate powerbrokers, Killionaire examines the consequences of concentrated wealth and influence, asking what happens when money and power accumulate without limits. 

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“It's a dying gasp of white supremacy — and I say dying with a caveat, because that part depends on us.” — Sonali Kolhatkar Yesterday, Wendy Lesser suggested that Americans can learn much from the anti-fascist history of Berlin in the 1930s. Today, Rising Up With Sonali host Sonali Kolhatkar is even more explicit. Yes, she argues in her new book, Breaking ICE, the 2020s are eerily similar to the 1930s, especially in what she calls “state terror” and “MAGA fascism.” In 2023, Sonali Kolhatkar came on this show to talk about Rising Up, a book about the power of narrative. Three years later, her new book describes what she sees as the dying gasp of white supremacy. But to fully die, she argues, the community needs to rise up. So, like the perennial fascist threat, the ability to tell stories is a perpetual feature of politics. Thus Breaking ICE, Kolhatkar's story of stories about community defense against MAGA fascism. Five Takeaways •       Narrative Is Everything. The crackdown, Kolhatkar argues, was built on stories: immigrants “poisoning the blood of the nation” — Hitlerian language, used repeatedly — recast a population of workers and families as criminals, justifying the funding, the raids, and the denial of due process. The counternarrative is her book's project: the activists who retold the story of ICE agents as Gestapo-like masked thugs, and did it so successfully that public opinion has swung back. Trump, she argues, overplayed his hand — every day brings another story of a Trump voter whose spouse is deported at a routine check-in, protesting “this is not what we voted for.” The sequel to Rising Up thus practices what that book preached: narrative as the primary weapon of politics — a weapon, she notes via Springsteen and the protest singers, that artists have always wielded and the right has lately understood better than the left.•       A Dying Gasp — With a Caveat. Asked flatly whether this is a repeat of the 1930s, Kolhatkar answers yes — and adds that the echo is deliberate, down to “homeland,” a favorite term of the Nazis that George W. Bush domesticated. But the deeper lineage is homegrown: her interviewees Ibram X. Kendi and Robin D. G. Kelley trace American fascism through Native dispossession and mass enslavement — authoritarian, anti-democratic, racist. ICE, on this reading, is simply race-based policing restored. Hence her verdict: “a dying gasp of white supremacy,” with the caveat that the dying depends on us. No magic bullets, no finish line: “democracy is an ongoing exercise. There is no resting when it comes to freedom.” Fittingly, the episode lands the day after Wendy Lesser's Berlin hour — Kolhatkar making explicit what the cautionary mirror implied.•       The Mamdani Lesson. The hour's sharpest political analysis: flip the script on electoral politics. Politicians want elections as popularity contests — “this is who I am, who's behind me?” — when voters should be saying “this is what we want, who will back our demands?” The not-Trump ad is the losing move: it was Hillary Clinton's approach, Kamala Harris's approach, and now Xavier Becerra's in California. The winning move is Zohran Mamdani's: voters could instantly name what he was for — free buses, city-run grocery stores, rent control, universal childcare, fixed potholes. Her model is the civil rights movement, which didn't wait for a savior politician but marched and forced hands. And her defense against the radicalism charge: what the American left demands — healthcare for all — is centrist in Europe. If public schools are education for all, why not Medicare for All? And to Andrew's pushback — doesn't Abolish ICE alienate the persuadable middle? — her answer is the polling: majorities already oppose the raids, because Trump overreached.•       What State Terror Looks Like. The subtitle's claim, cashed out: downtown Los Angeles under curfew, freeways shut, armed National Guardsmen at the federal buildings — and the refrain she heard nationwide: who will save us from these masked thugs? The realization that the police belong to the same structure taught the lesson in her credo: only the people can save the people. The terror is bureaucratic as much as theatrical — green-card applicants seized at airports en route to see friends, families ripped apart, and 20,000 immigrant children stripped of legal representation in defiance of a law George W. Bush signed (“who we thought at the time was the fascist authoritarian and is now, you know, like a Democrat”). Against it, the book's nineteen voices — from Maine to Georgia to LA — deploy whistles, bullhorns, patrols, documentation, and, in a civil-rights echo, holding hands and singing to bring the temperature down. With Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kendi, Kelley, and a foreword by Roberto Lovato supplying the long view.•       Detention Centers & Data Centers. The conversation's bridge to this show's long Luddite summer: Kolhatkar sees the fight against immigrant detention centers and the fight against AI data centers as one struggle, since both, she argues, distract from and serve the same billionaire fleecing — “if we are busy blaming the day laborer at the street corner for stealing our job, we're not gonna look at what Elon Musk has done.” Even MAGA voters, she notes, don't want to live next to either. On movements that wither, her revision: Black Lives Matter didn't fizzle, it was muzzled — Musk bought Black Twitter, its biggest bullhorn — and its abolitionist platform reads as current as ever: take the first four letters away from police, and you're left with ICE. Her ask of journalism itself: solutions journalism — start with how people are fighting back, not one more story of how they're being crushed. About the Guest Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning multimedia journalist and the founder, host, and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali, the long-running television and radio show airing on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations. A senior editor at YES! Magazine and writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute, she is co-director of the Afghan Women's Mission and serves on the board of the Justice Action Center. Her books include Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice, Talking About Abolition, and Bleeding Afghanistan (as co-author). Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism (Seven Stories Press) gathers nineteen of her conversations from the front lines, with a foreword by Roberto Lovato. References: •       Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror and MAGA Fascism by Sonali Kolhatkar (Seven Stories Press, 2026).•       Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice — the book behind her first Keen On appearance, three years ago.•       Among the book's nineteen voices: Viet Thanh Nguyen, past Keen On guest Ibram X. Kendi, Robin D. G....

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: St. Mary's, Canada begins removing about 330,000 gallons of fermented fish sauce left in an abandoned Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company factory, with crews draining tanks, mixing the liquid with peat moss, and burying it in a prepared pit. In upstate New York, the Salamanca City Central School District postpones introducing “Sally,” a $60,000 robot teacher's assistant, after questions from parents, teachers, and officials about data collection and concerns about robots replacing educators; union leader Melinda of NYSUT says students need relationships with caring adults, and Sally's maker Realbotics is linked to RealDoll. In Australia, a library book missing since the 1870s is found bricked in a fireplace and returned after 150 years, with a calculated late fee of about 28,000 AUD but no penalty charged. Dutch students build a solar-powered ambulance, Stella Juve, designed for remote care and equipped with medical gear and a fold-out clinic tent. Finally, Pacifica, California hosts the World Dog Surfing Championships, where dogs compete by size and skill, including tandem and human-dog rides. 00:10 Fish Sauce Factory Cleanup01:51 Robot Assistant Controversy03:32 150 Year Library Return05:07 Solar Powered Ambulance06:04 World Dog Surfing06:58 Wrap Up and PlugBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/5-good-news-stories-happiness-and-fun--5747537/support.5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media networkJohn also hosts Daily Comedy NewsUnlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media!  For Apple users, hit the banner which says Uninterrupted Listening on your Apple podcasts app. Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories' with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

In this episode we take you to Hilton La Pacifica Hilton Los Cabos for a glorious weekend at the beachfront resort of your dreams. We share how to get this 4 day stay for less than $500 USD, what the oceanfront rooms are like, and detail all the amenities and pools at this amazing resort. We also rate the quality of the food (it's very good!), share the excursions you can book & how it works and describe the vibe & people you'd be vacationing with at this resort. Check out our Cabo Viator Experiences for all activities we recommend and even some that we wanted to do but couldn't get to.Find a great flight deal to Los Cabos (SDJ) with Thrifty Traveler Premium's flight deals. Use our promo code TSP to get $20 off your first year subscription.Other resorts in Cabo we recommend if La Pacifica Hilton Los Cabos isn't available:Pueblo Bonito Los Cabos BlancoCasa Dorada Los Cabos Resort & SpaFour Seasons Los Cabos Costa Palmas—---------------------------------------Shop: Trip Itineraries ⁠& ⁠Amazon Storefront ⁠Connect: YouTube⁠, TikTok⁠, and Instagram⁠⁠ and contact us at travelsquadpodcast@gmail.com to submit a question of the week or inquire about guest interviews and advertising.Contains affiliate links, thanks for supporting Travel Squad Podcast!

Maggie & Cindy go in-depth regarding her newly released recording "Coherence" Drummer, bandleader & composer Cindy Blackman Santana has been a force since her debut album featuring legends Wallace Roney, Joe Henderson, Kenny Garrett, & Buster Williams. Fast forward to 2026, and Cindy commands that same power with her new album, Coherence: a once-in-a-lifetime journey combining jazz, rock, fusion, & spirituality, with special guests John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana. Buckle up for a masterclass in modern music from one of the most electrifying drummers to ever do it. Coherence: a once-in-a-lifetime musical journey combining jazz, rock, fusion, and spirituality, featuring special guests John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana. Buckle up for a masterclass in modern music from one of the most electrifying drummers to ever do it.Source: https://cindyblackmansantana.com/new-album-coherenceSource: https://mackavenue.com/products/cindy-blackman-santana-coherence-vinyl?srsltid=AfmBOopGRUT5DJMtCoFvtRFJOg6f9vNa8J5t-hWE6vqbcNli4wp5nfF9Source:  https://santana.com/news/cindy-blackman-santanas-coherence-is-out-now/Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.Send us Fan MailSupport the show@profileswithmaggielepique@maggielepique

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Children enjoy a water fountain at the Ebrahim (Abraham) Park, while temperature reaches 40 C (104 F) in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi). Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. DESPERATION OR STRATEGY? THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THREATENS SECONDARY SANCTIONS AGAINST COUNTRIES DOING BUSINESS WITH IRAN—AS TEHRAN CONDEMNS THE PLAN AS “ECONOMIC TERRORISM.”THE PENTAGON FIRES THREE TOP STARS AND STRIPES JOURNALISTS AMID THEIR REPORTING ON THE IRAN WAR AND ITS HUMAN TOLL… MORE THAN 170 DAYS INTO THE CONFLICT ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE SOUNDING THE ALARM AFTER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MOVED TO SCRAP A 25-YEAR-OLD RULE PROTECTING NATIONAL FORESTS FROM LOGGING AND ROAD CONSTRUCTION THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAUNCHES THE NATION'S FIRST AUTISM-SPECIFIC MISSING-PERSON INITIATIVE TRUMP CAMPAIGNS FOR DARLINE GRAHAM AHEAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA'S REPUBLICAN SENATE RUNOFF—FOLLOWING HER HIGH-PROFILE FOREIGN-POLICY FLUB. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA MOVE CLOSER TO A DEAL TO AVERT 50-PERCENT TARIFFS—AS MANITOBA'S PREMIER WARNS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS “NOT TO BE TRUSTED.” THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IMPOSES NEW SANCTIONS ON CUBA—AS AN OIL BLOCKADE DEEPENS BLACKOUTS AND SHORTAGES FOR FAMILIES ACROSS THE ISLAND.       The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 21, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

SCREENSHOT FROM COMPLIANT TECHNOLOGIES' WEBSITE SHOWING ITS “GENERATED LOW OUTPUT VOLTAGE EMITTER,” OR G.L.O.V.E. THE COMPANY MARKETS THE DEVICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER AGENCIES. IT HAS BEEN PROPOSED FOR USE BY FEDERAL IMMIGRATION OFFICERS AND IS REPORTEDLY ALREADY DEPLOYED IN SOME NEBRASKA SCHOOLS.   Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. A SCHOOL DISTRICT IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FIGHTS TO GET POLICE OFFERS TO STOP CARRYING ELECTRIC SHOCK GLOVES ON CAMPUSES. The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 20, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Hind Rajab poses in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, with a photo of her granddaughter, Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed alongside her family in Gaza in February 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) Trump threatens new sanctions against Iran and scales back joint U.S.–South Korean military exercises. Primary election results trickle in for several vacant U.S. House seats. Aisha Wahab leads by two percentage points in the too-close-to-call race to replace disgraced Representative Eric Swalwell in California's 14th Congressional District. Part three of the Pacifica Evening News series on California's nursing crisis examines whether artificial intelligence is driving nurses from the profession. President Trump defends construction of his $400 million White House ballroom as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether the project can move forward. The Golden State Valkyries will host the 2027 WNBA All-Star Game at San Francisco's Chase Center. On World Humanitarian Day, displaced Palestinians in Gaza call attention to Israel's continuing restrictions on food and humanitarian aid. Settler attacks escalate across the occupied West Bank, trapping a Palestinian-American man and his family without running water or electricity. Israel acknowledges responsibility for the 2024 attack that killed five-year-old Hind Rajab, six members of her family and two Palestinian paramedics sent to rescue her.   The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 19, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.   The 60-Day Interim Ceasefire Between the United States and Iran Expires Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Declines to Pledge DOJ Independence From White House Another Humanitarian Flotilla Sets Sail to Challenge Gaza Blockade Taliban Marks Five Years Since U.S. Withdrawal Amid Grave Women's Rights Crisis Gaza Peace Plan Stalls as Israel Rejects U.S.-Backed Roadmap Ossoff Campaigns in Georgia as the Only Democratic Senator to Win in a Trump State California Nurses Walk Off the Job Over Deteriorating Working Conditions (Part One of an Investigative Report) People walk past tents sheltering displaced Palestinians amid the ruins left by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) The post The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays – August 17, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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Wyndi (Rodokal) Tagi is a Visionary who is passionate about enhancing the mana of Māori and Pacifica People, with a vision to impact the lives of 10 million.Wyndi took an idea, convinced her husband to start a business and things were going well. Then they were told by one of the big 4 accounting firms that they should stop spending so much time & money with their community & with their family - that their culture didn't differentiate them. It was demoralising but also a big turning point for Wyndi & her husband Eli.Hear how they took this, what it prompted in them & how they built this into a purpose-led business across several countries.Wyndi is now one of my EOS clients. We connected on LinkedIn initially and just chewed the fat over a walk & talk. Later on, she contacted me having read the EOS books & wanted to talk to me to see if I could help them. She shares what EOS has done for the business & their family, how they went from 47 goals down to 6 & how they manage to employ family in the business without any issues.More about Wyndi:On her mother's side, she is from Ati-Hau-Nui-A-Paparangi, on her dad's side, she is of NZ European descent from England and Greece.After her first breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, she decided that she wanted to ensure she lived her best life and she wasn't interested in dying with regret. So she's been living into her purpose, which is to better the statistics of Māori and Pacifica people. WE Accounting is one of the many vehicles she drives for doing just that."At WE, WE don't just believe in a better future, WE are building it. Our Accounting Practice provides support, guidance and opens growth opportunities to small and medium-sized NZ businesses. WE know that SME's are the backbone of the economy and when they thrive, so too do families, communities and our economy."

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For over 30 years, Making Contact has been bringing you grassroots voices and context, to better understand the world and the people who are struggling to make it better. As Pacifica radio takes over production of the show, media critic and Making Contact co-founder Norman Solomon joins us this week, to understand the crucial role of independent media, and how we've navigated change—from the Bill Clinton era, to the second term of Donald Trump. Featuring: Norman Solomon, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and Making Contact co-founder Archival audio: Bill Clinton, President of the United States; Deborah Toller, political economy analyst; Naomi Perez, former American Apparel employee; Roberto Surro, professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC; Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent at The Nation   Credits: * Host: Mark Maxwell * Reporters: Andrew Stelzer, Phillip Babich, Julie Light, Reese Erlich, Patrick Burke, Lucy Kang, Rami Almeghari * Executive Director: Ace Estwick * Staff Producer: Dan Pavlish * Engineer: Mark Maxwell * Editor: Jessica Partnow

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In 1976, a group of Pacific women came together in Auckland to support Pacific women who were newly arrived into New Zealand. 50 years on Pacifica Incorporated is a UN affiliated NGO with branches throughout New Zealand from Northland to Southland. Pacifica national president Repeka Lelaulu joins us.

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This August crowds will be gathering at Lindemar Beach in Pacifica to answer one question. Which dog is the greatest surfer in the world?

Today, the transformative power of cold water and the people who jump right in. Then, we meet a club that has been swimming in frigid water for more than a century in the Bay. And the World Championship for Dog Surfing comes to Pacifica. 

The debut collaborative album from doPE—a project by The Doors' drummer John Densmore and Public Enemy's Chuck D—is titled no country for old men. The 2026 Record Store Day (RSD) exclusive release features the 2026 RSD Song of the Year, "every tick tick tick". do-Doors PE = Public Enemy The project's origins trace back to a 2014 Record Store Day panel, where the two music legends first met. A year later, Chuck D reached out to Densmore with a simple pitch: “You've got the beats, I've got the rhymes, let's make doPE”. The resulting record blends spoken word, rhythm, and raw social commentary to bridge generations of musical rebellion. Maggie & John discuss the project and listen to tracks together with John's play by play insight into the songs & messages. We also discuss the recent Bruce Springsteen American Music Honors concert where The Doors were honored. The Bruce Springsteen American Honors program—formally called American Music Honors—is an annual awards and celebration event created and presented by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. Its purpose is to recognize artists who have had a profound and lasting impact on American music and culture.According to the Center, the program exists to honor American artists who demonstrate artistic excellence, creative integrity and a long term commitment to music's role in American life. The 2026 honorees for the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's annual American Music Honors were Dionne Warwick, Patti Smith, Dr. Dre, The E Street Band, and The Doors. The fourth annual ceremony took place on April 18, 2026, at Monmouth University's Pollak Theatre. The album No Country for Old Men by doPE (the collaboration between Chuck D and John Densmore) was released by the independent record label Org Music.Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.Souce: https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/19800Source: https://www.johndensmore.com/Source: https://publicenemy.clothing/Source: https://rockhall.com/inductees/public-enemy/Source: https://springsteencenter.org/american-music-honors-2026/?playlist=c1441df&video=dc5d272Send us Fan MailSupport the show@profileswithmaggielepique@maggielepique

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On this episode of Talking Guitars on Johnny Beane TV, we're diving into the latest twist in Fender's ongoing legal battle over the iconic Stratocaster body shape—and this time, one of the biggest names in the industry is involved. Yamaha has confirmed it received a cease-and-desist letter from Fender, making it one of the latest companies drawn into the controversy surrounding Strat-style guitars. Could this change the future of guitar design?

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Senate Democrats block $1 trillion defense bill as war resumes  Trump Intelligence Pick Faces Tough Questions at Confirmation Hearing Brentwood Mother's Death Ruled Accidental Following Police Encounter, nearly a year after initial incident   Nominee to Lead Top Public Health Agency Pledges Science Over Politics Along Gaza's Shore, Children Reclaim a Sense of Normalcy Amid Destruction  Bay Area Rights Organization Sues ICE Detention Facility Over Working Conditions Mexico Seeks U.S. Investigations Into 17 Migrant Deaths Linked to ICE Black Leaders Push for Political Action at Economic Forum  Wildfires Scorch Thousands of Acres Across France   (KPFA Gaza Correspondent Rami Almeghari at Qarara Beach, where free swimming lessons are offered to children, including many orphans and amputees.) The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 15, 2026: Senate Democrats Block $1 Trillion Defense Bill as War Resumes; Gaza Children Reclaim a Sense of Normalcy Amid Destruction;  Bay Area Rights Organization Sues ICE Detention Facility Over Working Conditions appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Maine ICE Shooting Prompts Protests & Policy Shift, Renewed Calls to Abolish Agency Congress Presses Fed Chair on Inflation and Rate Policy Alameda County $30 Minimum Wage Measure Moves Toward November Ballot Supreme Court Seeks Increased Security Funding Amid Rising Threats Iran War Whiplash Continues as Trump Abandons Hormuz Toll Plan Trump to make “Very Important” Election Announcement Thursday After Fatal ICE Shootings, Congressional Latino Caucus Calls for Agency's Abolition Anti-Genocide Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil Alleges Trump Administration Conspiracy The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 14, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. No Body Cameras, Few Answers: Second Fatal ICE Shooting in a Week Record Heat Fuels Deadly Wildfires Across Europe Unpaid Health Workers Strike as Congo's Ebola Outbreak Worsens Newsom Signs Housing Reform Bill to Cut Costs and Speed Construction Trump Ally Lindsey Graham Dies at 71; Sister Appointed to Fill SC Senate Seat U.S. and Iran Clash Over Strait of Hormuz as Ukraine Expands European Defense Ties Anti-ICE demonstrators march after a man was shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday, July 13, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Blood is seen on the pavement near the scene of a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Monday, July 13, 2026 in Biddeford, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)   The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 13, 2026: Second Fatal ICE Shooting in a Week; U.S. and Iran Clash Over Strait of Hormuz; Newsom Signs Housing Reform Bill appeared first on KPFA.

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About Dave EmoryDavid Emory is a political researcher and broadcaster whose California-based radio programs are heard on a regular basis in the United States, Canada and Europe.Mr. Emory's broadcasts focus on the U.S. military and intelligence community's historical involvement with international fascism. Researching such national security establishment abuses as domestic and foreign political assassinations, and governmental complicity with organized crime and drug smuggling syndicates, Mr. Emory has distilled his academic research into an archival documentary format. These “archive” programs consist of excerpts from printed sources read during his broadcasts.Mr. Emory's programs have been featured on a regular basis on Pacifica stations KPFK (Los Angeles) and WBAI (New York), and many smaller stations. He has appeared as guest on major commercial stations including KGO-AM (San Francisco) and WLUP-AM (Chicago) and as an expert commentator on broadcast outlets in three continents. Audio cassette copies of the archive programs are also circulated internationally.Mr. Emory began his work during the Watergate era when he noted numerous connections between that scandal and the assassination of President Kennedy. Pursuing his work on the JFK assassination, Mr. Emory discovered Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen's Eastern front spy apparatus, and its incorporation into the CIA after World War II. This led Mr. Emory to study the origins of fascism and its influence on the contemporary world.Mr. Emory graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in psychology.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Ronaldo Salgado, right, son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, speaks as his brother, Lorenzo Jr. holds family photographs during a news conference Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Survivors, advocates and city leaders rally in San Francisco to break the silence around sexual assault and support survivors. President Trump announces Ukraine will be allowed to manufacture Patriot air defense systems A Houston family demands answers after an ICE officer fatally shoots a Mexican father during an early morning traffic stop. As a nationwide blackout deepens in Cuba, the United Nations again debates the decades-old U.S. embargo, but the session ends without action. Michigan Democrats clash over the party's future as progressive and establishment candidates square off in a closely watched U.S. Senate primary. Q&A: Planned Parenthood says a surprise federal funding cut is forcing it to end relationship education programs in schools serving young people. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 8, 2026: Survivors speak out in San Francisco; Cuba's power crisis reaches the United Nations; a Houston family seeks answers after an ICE shooting; Trump and Zelenskyy meet at NATO, Michigan Democrats battle for their party's future, and Planned Parenthood warns of the impact of new federal funding cuts. appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.   Hamas Announces Dissolution of Its Government in Gaza, Plans to Transfer Power to U.N.-Backed Technical Committee Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Congo Grows Amid Conflict and Distrust U.K. Schools Close as Record Heat Wave Exposes Climate Risks NATO Secretary-General Urges Members to Boost Defense Spending President Trump revives Cold War rhetoric as the midterm campaign heats up  Protesters Rally Outside ICE-Linked GEO Group Facility in San Francisco The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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How a Pacifica Bar Became a Flashpoint for Queer Civil Rights The San Francisco Bay Area is known as one of the most LGBTQ+ friendly areas in the country but it wasn't always this way. Back in 1956, the beachside city of Pacifica was the scene of a police raid at a local bar, known to be friendly to the queer community. Hazel's Inn's owner, Hazel Nikola had her liquor license revoked and was arrested along with 90 of her patrons. As Ana De Almeida Amaral reports for the podcast Bay Curious, the raid would be a blueprint for law enforcement over the next 15 years. ‘Like an Angel': Meet the Helpers Working at Bay Area Immigration Court For decades, San Francisco was home to was Northern California's principal immigration court. Over time, advocates built around it one of the most extensive immigrant-defense networks in the U.S. a web of nonprofit legal organizations, volunteer court companions, rapid-response groups and pro bono attorneys who help immigrants find their way through a system where they're not guaranteed legal representation. But the Trump Administration has closed the court and by the end of this year, thousands of cases are expected to be transferred to Concord, about 30 miles to the northeast, where the immigration court is only a couple of years old and the support infrastructure around it is still developing. Sergio Jaime Lopez knows the importance of building up that network. He once stood in front of an immigration judge himself and is now one of many local advocates who are helping immigrants navigate the changing U.S.  immigration system.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week, the Pacifica City Council approved an emergency declaration to demolish the beloved Chit Chat Cafe at the Pacifica Pier, as parts of the structure began to crumble into the ocean. Plans for the rest of the pier are still up in the air, as Pacifica residents reckon with the future of their coastal community in the face of coastal erosion, sea level rise, and climate change. Links: ‘You Can't Beat Mother Nature': Destroyed Cafe Gives Pacifica Look at Climate-Changed Future Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices