Work Week Radio – January 7, 2020

Covering issues facing working people and the trade union movement from education, healthcare, housing, the environment and public workers. It also examines the role of international labor and the US trade union movement
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Voices of the Middle East and North Africa Feb 24, 2023

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Twit Wit Radio – March 10, 2019

Responsible Anarchy. Live satirical comedy performed by a cast of comic actors speaking ridicule to power.
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The Week Starts Here – September 23, 2018

A New Age Talk Show. Interviews with New Thought leaders, Metaphysicians, Self Help gurus, and everyday people who have stepped out on Faith and written a new chapter in social evolution. Hosted by Veronica Faisant.
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In Conversation with Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta is a giant within the labor movement. She got her start in the movement early, pivoting from her work as a young teacher in California’s Central Valley community organizing when she saw how her students and their families were struggling. She hasn’t stopped since, and has spent the last seven decades fighting for farmworkers rights, including for fair wages, safer working conditions, and the very right for workers to collectively organize. She’s helped shape the environmental justice movement in the United States, and has proven a tireless advocate for civil rights and women’s rights. She is perhaps best known for co-founding what would become the United Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chavez in 1962s, and currently, she serves as the founder and president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which advocates for social justice by empowering marginalized communities through grassroots organizing, civic engagement, and educat

Suspense – September 30, 2018

A new version of the classic radio anthology series by the same name,performed by a growing company of Hollywood actors, hosted by Daamen Krall.
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Disability Movement Tension Spots – Pushing Limits – March 29, 2024


 
People with mental, emotional and cognitive disabilities face significant limitations in their daily life.  They’re considered disabled under the law.  Yet, some people with mental health conditions feel their needs are ignored by those with mobility and other physical disabilities.   And, some people with mental health issues choose not to identify as disabled due the stigma of the category.
 
We talk to Brian Hollander from Disability Rights California, who identifies himself as someone with mental health challenges.  Hollander gives his perspectives on why there seems to be division in the community and the steps both groups can take to work together.
 
Natasha Vita More at the AND Festival Salon
Also, we talk to “Megan” a community organizer from L. A. about the journey she is on in becoming comfortable with identifying as someone with a mental health disability.

No, COVID Isn’t Over, and the Need for Continued Community

March marks four years since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to take matters into their own hands. On today’s show, we look at two groups steeped in the values of community care: the Auntie Sewing Squad and Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future.
GUESTS:
Kristina Wong – founder of the Auntie Sewing Squad
J Mase III – organizer with Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future
Gata – organizer with Pandemic Solidarity for the Long Future
 
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Silver Screen War Machine

This week’s show presents excerpts from a recent panel discussion about the “Military-Entertainment Complex.” Inspired by the documentary “Theaters of War,” the panelists examined the remarkable extent of Pentagon / CIA
influence over movies, television, and computer games, and its aim of molding the attitudes of Americans about the military as well as U.S. behavior in the world. The panel was co-sponsored by the Media Education Foundation and Project Censored, and moderated by Mickey Huff.
Roger Stahl is Professor of Communication at the University of Georgia, and the director of “Theaters of War.”
Robin Anderson is Professor Emerita of Media Studies at Fordham University.
Fatooma Saad is a doctoral student in Communications at Wayne State University, and formerly a Marine Corps corporal assigned to public relations.
Mnar Adley is the founder and editor-in-chief of Mint Press News, an online journalism site.
 
Th

Living Room with Guest Host Kevin Pina – April 8, 2016

What’s in the news, what’s behind what’s in the news, what’s not in the news that should be in the news. Hosted by Kris Welch.
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Full Circle – April 12, 2024

Your cultural affairs radio magazine, produced by members and graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program right here in Huichin, in that part of occupied Ohlone Territory known as Berkeley, California.
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Education Today – March 20, 2024

Two educators from the Navajo Nation fill us in on the complexity of Navajo education.
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Democracy Now 6am – April 3, 2024

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
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Cover to Cover with Jennifer Stone – March 10, 2020

Culture critic Jennifer Stone’s commentary on social justice as reflected in film, television, theatre and mass media: the Zeitgeist watch.
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Cover to Cover Open Book – April 1, 2020

Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. Hosted by Nina Serrano the second Wednesday of the month; Jovelyn Richards the third & fifth Wednesday; and Reyna Cowan the fourth Wednesday.
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Chris Bernadel on Haiti

This week on CounterSpin:
U.S. corporate media’s story about Haiti is familiar. Haiti, according to various recent reports, has “whipped from one calamity to another.” The country is a “cataclysm of hunger and terror,” “teetering on the brink of collapse,” “spiraling deeper into chaos” or else “descending into gang-fueled anarchistic chaos.” It’s “become a dangerously rudderless country.” According to one Florida paper’s editorial, “Haiti’s unrest” is now “becoming our problem,” as Floridians and the U.S. “struggle to help people in Haiti, although history suggests there are no answers.”
According to The Washington Post, there is one answer. They made space for a former ambassador to explain that 20 years ago in Haiti, “the worst outcomes were avoided through decisive American intervention. Today’s crisis might require it as well.”
We talk about what has to change — including Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent

Bookwaves/Artwaves – March 28, 2024: The Films of Agnes Varda – Burton Lane Part Two

​Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Links to assorted local theater & book venues 
 

The Films of Agnes Varda
Susan Oxtoby and Agnes Varda in Berkeley, November 2013. Photo: Mariana Lopez courtesy BAMPFA.
Susan Oxtoby, Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), discusses the current retrospective of the films of the great Belgian-French film maker Agnes Varda (1928-2019) with host Richard Wolinsky.
Agnes Varda began her career as a stills photographer and became a director with La Point Courte (1954), having seen very few films in her life. She went on to international fame with Cleo from 5 to 7 and Vagabond, but her late life films The Beaches of Agnes and Faces, Places established her as one of the most important directors of the modern era.
All the films discussed i

Bookwaves/Artwaves – March 28, 2024: The Films of Agnes Varda – Burton Lane Part Two

​Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Links to assorted local theater & book venues 
 

The Films of Agnes Varda
Susan Oxtoby and Agnes Varda in Berkeley, November 2013. Photo: Mariana Lopez courtesy BAMPFA.
Susan Oxtoby, Director of Film and Senior Film Curator at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), discusses the current retrospective of the films of the great Belgian-French film maker Agnes Varda (1928-2019) with host Richard Wolinsky.
Agnes Varda began her career as a stills photographer and became a director with La Point Courte (1954), having seen very few films in her life. She went on to international fame with Cleo from 5 to 7 and Vagabond, but her late life films The Beaches of Agnes and Faces, Places established her as one of the most important directors of the modern era.
All the films discussed i

APEX Express – 03.28.24 – Stories from the Southern Border

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.
 
This year, more than 24,000 Chinese migrants have made the dangerous 60-mile trek through the Darien Gap to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
 
For this episode of AACRE Thursday, host Cheryl is joined by Annette Wong, Kelly Wong, and Kennis Chen, members of Chinese for Affirmative Action’s Immigrant Rights and Chinese Digital Engagement teams who flew down to the San Diego Migrant Welcome Center early March to meet the influx of Chinese migrants who would have otherwise had to rely on Google Translate for support.
 
In the three days the team was in San Diego, they had met people from all over the world. There were Vietnamese speakers, Arabic; Gujarati, Portuguese, in addition to

About Health – April 1, 2024

A program designed to give listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts in the fields of both traditional and non-traditional health, with Dr. Lenoir and Rona Renner, RN.
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35th Annual Bioneers Conference


On today’s show, I spoke to two amazing climate leaders that will be featured at the 35th annual Bioneers conference.  The first one, Martin Bourque, executive director of Ecology Center and the second, Najari Smith, executive director of Rich City Rides.
Bioneers Registration Link:  conference.bioneers.org
Ecology Center Resource Link:  https://www.resourcefulapp.com/berkeley/
 
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The Developing Changes in Israel-US Relations with Rashid Khalidi; Plus, Inside the Israel Lobby

0:08 — Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance.
0:33 — Luke Goldstein is a writing fellow at The American Prospect.
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The Balfour Declaration: How the British Empire Broke Its promises to the People of Palestine

Guest: Peter Shambrook is an independent scholar and historical consultant to the Balfour Project, which works to advance equal rights for all in Palestine/Israel. He is the author of French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936, and his latest, Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939.
 
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AIPAC targets leftish Dems, how Schumer and the ICJ are playing in Israel, troubled youth as a symptom of social problems

David Moore on how AIPAC is using Republican contributors’ money to go after progressive Dems • Meron Rapoport on how Schumer and the ICJ are being received in Israel • Jamieson Webster on the social aspects of mental disorder among the young
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Bay Native Circle – November 15, 2023

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.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 29, 2024

Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.

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Drone strike that kills three American servicemembers in Jordan mistaken for US drone and not intercepted.
House impeachment vote on Homeland Security Chief Mayorkas could come by next week.
UN Chief calls for countries cutting funding to UN Relief agency to reconsider.
Gazans dependent on UN aid worry about loss of relief funding.
Vice President Harris visits San Jose to talk reproductive rights as part of nationwide abortion rights tour.
Climate activists protest at Wells Fargo San Francisco headquarters to demand bank disinvest in east coast gas pipeline.

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Flashpoints – April 1, 2024

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.
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Over the Edge – March 22, 2024

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.
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Lessons in Self-Managed Abortion

While the Supreme Court considers restricting abortion pills, feminists in the Global South have shown the way forward for safe abortions outside of the law. Sociologist Naomi Braine has documented the efforts of networks and collectives of activists, some formed in the struggles against dictatorship in Latin America, who provide information, pills, and support in ending unwanted pregnancies without the need for medical personnel.
Resources:
Naomi Braine, Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion Verso, 2023
If/When/How
Digital Defense Fund
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Springing into Action – April 2, 2024

Join Renée Camila for an exploration of how to support the physical body during the transition from the cozy depths of winter into the sunny expansiveness of summer. Renée offers 4 plants and accompanying practices that invigorate and strengthen the pillars of holistic spring re-emergence: blood cleansing, digestive stimulation, lymphatic awakening, and adrenal/nervous system nourishment.
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Africa Today – November 6, 2023

A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner.
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Puzzling Evidence – March 29, 2024

Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
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