Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 07-19-2024

12:00 AM
Alan Watts
Philosophies of Asia
Two lectures by Watts from the "Huge Collection of Alan Watts", Philosophies of Asia, segments 02-01 and 02-02: Relevance of Oriental Philosophy 2, and Mythology of Hinduism 2

1:00 AM
The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
Shamanic Teachings of the Condor - Encountering the Mystical Traditions of the Andes
Martha Winona Travers is a writer, teacher and Mama Iachak who apprenticed with Ecuadorian Kichwa elder Taita Alberto Taxo for 22 years, including 10 years with the indigenous Kichwa in the Andes. She holds a doctorate in English literature from the University of Michigan and teaches contemplative practices at the University of Michigan. Her new book that we talk about in this interview is Shamanic Teachings of the Condor: Encounters with the Mystical Traditions of the Andes.

2:00 AM
Old Radio Break
Dimension X
Two episodes of the science fiction radio series from April 1950 - Outer Limit, and With Folded Hands

3:00 AM
Visionary Activist Caroline Casey from sister station KPFA
“Time of Useful Consciousness”
Earth Citizens Arise! Divination, dedication, political acumen ... Caroline welcomes return of Pat Ewing, who brings all of the above in her long journey as full service, adaptogenic political strategist in all realms……

Patricia Ewing is the former Deputy Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore, Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Harris Wofford (PA), Political Director for Governor Mario Cuomo and Business-to-Business Executive (NYS). During these tenures, she brought business and government together and created programs that were to the benefit of both. Today, she helps businesses by combining complementary business sectors, capital raises, and growing relationships to benefit clients.

4:00 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
A single hour again today from his broadcast yesterday to accommodate the extra hour of Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and the DN! crew wrapping up live from Milwaukee, scene of the RNC with input from the streets and communities in Wisconsin

5:00 AM
Democracy Now! live from Milwaukee - another hour of DN! will air at 8 AM, followed by Rethinking Heroes: Life After the Military with local host Cary Harrison taking your calls and comments in reaction to the recent developments in the electoral arena.

Tuesday Night

Prog Notes S H 07-17-2024

12 AM
About Health
Existential Psychotherapy
Dr. David Feldman, PhD, discusses another in a series on different approaches to psychotherapy and mental health -- this time, what does Existential Psychotherapy seek to accomplish and what issues might it be appropriate for -- with Dr. Jerald Lee Shapiro. Shapiro is the author of 17 books and a professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University, but has retired from his private practice and is no longer taking clients.

1 AM
Herbal Highway
Toxic Overload
Join Sarah Holmes for a discussion of toxins in our environment and the impacts on our bodies. She discusses strategies to decrease our toxic load as well as plants to support our health. Follow them on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway

2AM
Green Street
Climate change, weather and health; the dangers of "Grill, baby, Grill"
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug Wood discuss how climate change is impacting the weather, and how the recent Supreme Court decision allowing courts to interpret laws instead of federal agencies, overturning a Reagan-era precedent on deferring to regulatory agency interpretations, will impact environmental cases. Then dietician and cancer expert Denise Snyder talks about the hazards of grilling meat on an open flame.

2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Heavy Metal contaminants in food
Did you know that the mundane advice dietitians give to eat a variety of foods in moderation is actually critical to both reaching nutritional adequacy and protecting us from contaminants in foods? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Kellie Casavale, RD, PhD., Senior Science Nutrition Advisor at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Casavale discusses ways to protect vulnerable populations, especially children, from heavy metal contaminants (lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic) in our food, with an emphasis on fish and seafood.
Related website: Advice About Eating Fish and Shellfish: https://www.epa.gov/choose-fish-and-shellfish-wisely/epa-fda-advice-about-eating-fish-and-shellfish
https://www.fda.gov/media/102331/download?attachment
Closer to Zero: Reducing Childhood Exposure to Contaminants from Foods: https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/closer-zero-reducing-childhood-exposure-contaminants-foods

3:00
Radio Eco-shock
Whole Mother usually heard at this time, has not been producing new programs for KPFT the last few weeks, perhaps impacted by Hurricane Beryl, which produced destructive flooding in Houston. Instead we are running this program on heat waves from the Pacifica affiliates unit.
27 Ways Extreme Heat Can Kill You
How your body breaks down in extreme heat. We start with the paper Twenty-Seven Ways a Heat Wave Can Kill You: Deadly Heat in the Era of Climate Change. Medical terms explained. Short clips from an Ecoshock interview with lead author Dr. Camilo Mora included. Australian heat and health expert Elizabeth Hanna makes it all clear (replay). Quick review of 15 lessons from the Russian heat wave of 2010 (55,000 killed, wheat exports annihilated, and more). A new compilation of heat survival know-how.

4:00 AM
Thom Hartmann Program
One hour only of Thom to accommodate Democracy Now's special coverage of the RNC live at 5 AM
Apologies for yesterday's technical failure. We will get the file up on the archives
Hour two from Hartmann's broadcast from7-16-24

5:00 AM
Democracy Now!
Live coverage with Amy Goodman and team from the RNC in Milwaukee WI and from the streets and the communities, with alternative views and analysis

Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 07-16-24

12 AM
Creative Frontline with Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone
Chemehuevi Sweet Corn
We visit with Elder Matt Leivas to talk about regenerative practices on the land, revitalizing vegetative landscapes and purifying water along the Colorado River.

12:30 AM
Shortwave Report
This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, France 24, and Radio Deutsche-Welle. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr240712.mp3 (29:00)
From JAPAN- Indian PM Modi has been in Moscow meeting with Putin about boosting trade and a path to peace in Ukraine. Hungarian PM Orban, current president of the EU, has been meeting with Chinese President Xi, discussing ending the fighting in Ukraine- Orban also visited Putin which was heavily criticized by some EU leaders. Members of the Japanese group for the abolition of nuclear weapons pled with their government to take action to influence members of the Non-Proliferation Treaty to implement their obligation under the treaty.
From CUBA- The cost of the current US nuclear weapon development has increased to $160 billion. In NYC 46 climate campaigners were arrested at peaceful protests against increased investments in fossil fuel expansion. Keir Starmer, the new UK PM, is emphasizing the need for a ceasefire in the war on Palestine- Jeremy Corbyn won a seat in Parliamentary elections as an independent candidate.
From FRANCE- A series of Press reviews- first the election in the UK which saw Starmer and the Labour Party sweep for the first time in 14 years. Then several press reviews on the defeat of the National Rally, far-right party in France, by combining the so-called far left coalition with the centrist party of President Macron. The National Rally however ended up winning 140 seats, up from 89, the most of any non coalition party.
From GERMANY- After bombing Palestinian refugees sheltering in tents next to a UN school, killing dozens of civilians, Israel ordered everyone to leave Gaza City.

1:00 AM
Le Show with Harry Shearer
On this week's edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of the Olympic Movement, News of the Godly, News of Smart World, News from the Land of 4,000 Princes, News of Musk Love, The Apologies of the Week, News of the Atom, great music, and more.

2:00 AM
Project Censored
For the main portion of this week's program, Eleanor speaks with international-affairs analyst Ben Norton about the economic factors behind the US/NATO intervention in Ukraine. Norton also explains what "petrodollars" are, and why they're important.
Then to conclude the program, what happened to Sweden -- why did the formerly 'neutral' nation join NATO, and surrender parts of its sovereignty in a defense pact with the US?
Ben Norton is editor-in-chief of the news-analysis web site www.geopoliticaleconomy.com. Hakan Julander is a Swedish actor and writer, and -- he says -- "a reluctant activist."

3:00 AM
Equal Rights & Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
The program focuses on Palestine for the full hour, beginning with Taz Salim as a special co-host for an interview with Jamaal Juma, a grassroots Palestinian activist since the first Intifada, organizer of the Land Defense Coalition of grassroots movements in Palestine opposing illegal settlements and the apartheid wall. Then, Taz Salim speaks for himself from George Washington University about NATO's role in the genocide in Gaza and ethnocide in the West Bank. Finally Richard Becker of the ANSWER Coalition speaks about the "people's red line" protest in DC later this month when Netanyahu is scheduled to address the US Congress, as protesters will seek to carry out a "people's arrest warrant" on Netanyahu for war crimes.


4:00 AM
Thom Hartmann Program
Hour 2 from Hartmann's earlier broadcast from July 15, 2024

5:00 AM
Democracy Now! Live from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
Amy Goodman and crew will be covering the streets, the suites and the convention floor, as well as other national and international with an extra hour of coverage all week. We are carrying hour 1 live at 5:00 AM this week, and then the second hour during Democracy Now!'s regular time slot on delay at 8:00 AM Pacific.

We will have additional RNC and in August DNC coverage from Pacifica this evening at 5:00 PM.

Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 07-12-24

12 AM
Alan Watts
The Tao of Philosophy - Man in Nature
A full hour lecture by Watts, wrapping up the Tao of Philosophy series

1 AM
The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
The Day the World Stops Shopping - part 2
J B MacKinnon is an award winning journalist & author. His books include Plenty,with Alisa Smith, about their year of eating only food produced within 100 miles. His new book is The Day The World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment & Ourselves. which explores what would happen if the world stopped shopping, with examples from recent history, including the pandemic.

We also talk about why our level of consumerism in the West is the biggest cause of climate change, and how we need to be talking about it a lot more. We also talk about examples of cultures and experiments in the West, that participate in sharing economies, and they experience a much greater sense of happiness, community engagement and quality of life.

2 AM
Old Radio Break
Sci Fi Theater from the 1950s
Wall of Darkness by Arthur C. Clarke
Field of Vision by Ursula K. LeGuin

3 AM
The Visionary Activist Caroline Casey from sister station KPFA
AGENTS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Visionary Activist Show for the 4th of July.
“Speak to the Weary – a word that will rouse them” (Isaiah). Let’s all be De-bamboozling Accomplices/Dark o Moon Magic US birthday.

So it comes to all of us- To assume cultural narrative lead… To be good Citizens, agents of accountability as sine qua non for democracy…Earth Citizens….Caroline welcomes these dedications in the human form of Jamie Yeager, mythopoliticoword wizard diagnostician, born into a Texas ACLU populist tradition; Incantational magic to invite in the protectors of democracy, that we all may wake up…

Note this program was truncated at 15 minutes when it ran on KPFA, apparently due to technical difficulties, but this is the full file.

4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program

Final two hours of Hartmann's program from 7-11-24, Jefferson Smith still sitting in for Thom, apart from the interspersed readings by Thom (when the live show is in commercials). First hour, the discussion focuses on whether current VP Kamala Harris could beat Trump running head to head for president. 

Second hour, the executive director of Fix the Court discusses how we got to our current Supreme Court and what can be done about it.

Tuesday Night

Prog Notes S H 07-10-24

12 AM
About Health with Nurse Rona Renner from sister station KPFA
"But You Look So Normal" - Hearing loss
Join Nurse Rona and her guest Claudia Marseille, author of the newly released memoir, But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found In A Hearing World. Her story of severe hearing loss from birth is one of courage and persistence as well as shame and struggle.

1 AM
The Herbal Highway from sister station KPFA
Rethinking Invasive Plants
How does the conversation between native and invasive plants perpetuate patterns of colonization? During this episode, Renée Camila offers an alternative lens towards understanding “invasive” plant medicine through the storytelling of introduced plants. She explores the magic and medicine of Plantain, Mullein, Dandelion, and Eucalyptus.

2 AM
Green Street
Breast Cancer in a Bottle
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about pending legislation on PFAS and its ubiquity in firefighting gear. Then attorney Polly Marshall talks about her group's efforts to document the links between common personal care products and an increased risk of breast cancer. More information at www.breastcancerovertime.org.

2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Food as Medicine & the Farm Bill
Did you know that our nations agricultural policies (the Farm Bill) largely subsidize crops that dont support food as medicine? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Christina Badaracco, MPH, Registered Dietitian, and co-author with Dan Imhoff of 

The Farm Bill: A Citizens Guide. Badaracco discusses her entry into healthcare transformation through nutrition, culinary medicine, the value of teaching kitchens, and the importance of national farm policies to support public health.

Related website: Food as Medicine: https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/five-food-problems-why-current-food-medicine-solutions-falling-short
The Farm Bill: A Citizens Guide: https://islandpress.org/books/farm-bill#desc

3:00 AM
Whole Mother with Pat Jones from sister station KPFT
Dr. Caroline Long
Dr. Caroline Long is a pregnancy and pediatric focused chiropractor and the founder of West U Wellness. Born and raised in Houston, she graduated from Spring Woods High School before pursuing her Bachelor of Arts at UCLA. While at Texas Chiropractic College, she learned more about chiropractic care for children. She discovered that chiropractic care could help with scoliosis, ear infections, colic, reflux, latch issues for infants, and more. While still a student, she heard expectant moms complaining of back pain during pregnancy and thought there must be a way to help women with pregnancy aches and pains who wanted a more natural labor. Dr. Long was one of the first chiropractors to be certified in pediatric and perinatal chiropractic in the Houston area.

When she started her clinic, West U Wellness, almost 20 years ago, she wanted to build a practice that offered customized, not cookie cutter, treatments for patients. In addition to chiropractic services, they offer acupuncture, dry-needling, cupping, functional medicine testing, nutritional counseling, decompression, physical therapy modalities, as well as multiple types of massage therapy. In fact, West U Wellness has more pregnancy and pediatric trained chiropractors than any other small business in Texas. Since 2000 she has built her reputation as a caring and compassionate chiropractor for patients as young as 1 day old all the way to a patient who was 106 years old. She and her husband Patrick have two daughters, Katia (14) and Victoria (16).

4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of Hartmann's non-commercial broadcast from 7-9-24
Jefferson Smith sat in for Thom and took listener calls. He introduced a new segment, "News from Jeff's dad" - his father was a former DA and former chair of the Democratic Party committee in Oregon.

Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 07-09-24

12 AM
Creative FRONTLINE
In a new documentary feature film, these clips together form a profound story of the ways we experience the land and the waters, in the nation's most populous state, and ultimately how we see ourselves.
The story begins in remote Beatty, Nevada and continues down the Amargosa, down the Colorado, and beyond to Tucson and San Diego, home to 40 million people.
The script, in development for a high quality documentary film project and educational campaign, resides here.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOtDrSBm40


12:30
Between the Lines radio newsmagazine with Scott Harris
After Disastrous Debate Urgent Calls for Joe Biden to Step Aside & Find a New Candidate; Julian Assange is Free, but his Prosecution Threatens Press Freedom; Civil Disobedience Protest at Citibank's NYC HQ Demands End to Fossil Fuel Financing
Gusets: Jeff Cohen, co-founder of the online activist group RootsAction.org; Kevin Gosztola, publisher of the Dissenter Newsletter and author; Alec Connon, Juan Mancias, Dr. Sandra Steingraber.

1:00
Le Show with Harry Shearer
On this week's edition of Le Show, Harry brings us News of Musk Love, News from the Land of 4,000 Princes, The Apologies of the Week, News of Crypto-Winter, News of Smart World, News of the Godly, News of the Warm, News of the Olympic Movement, great music and more.
Part-time New Orleans resident Harry Shearer hosts a look at the worlds of media, politics, cyberspace, sports and show business while providing an eclectic array of music along the way.
Let us know what you think about carrying Harry Shearer's Le Show on KPFK, and whether you'd like to keep it as part of Something's Happening or whether there's somewhere else on our schedule you'd like to see it. Email comments@kpfk.org

2:00 AM
Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer
First, Robert Pape discusses his article in Foreign Affairs on how, despite Israel’s murderous onslaught on Gaza, Hamas is winning. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/middle-east-robert-pape
Then, Wanda Bertram discusses how US incarceration rates stack up against the rest of the world (massively - more than 20% of all incarcerated people in the world are in the US, the highest per capita rate globally), and other news on crime & punishment. If each state in the US were a country, nine of the top ten would be US states, exceeded only by the US protectorate, El Salvador. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html

2:55 AM
2024Talks
Pacifica Network's daily political and electoral news update in collaboration with the Public News Service (from 07/08)

3:00
Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Pride at Work
LGBTQ workers struggle for protection of their rights in the workplace.

3:55 AM
Labor History in two minutes
Rick Smith's headline account of significant events in labor history on this date in the past (from 07/08)

4:00-6:00 AM
MOATS - Mother of All Talk Shows with George Galloway
We're bringing back MOATS for a one-shot encore because of its on-the-scene coverage of the British and French elections and their surprises. Galloway himself was defeated in a bid for re-election to the British Parliament with the Workers Party that he heads. But the overall analysis underscores the undemocratic nature of even the Parliamentary system, where pluralities can win outright in a single round of voting in single-member districts. The Labour Party got its lowest vote total ever, in an election marked by a record low total turnout, but won 67% of the seats with only 34% of the total vote.

In France, the united left won big as a result of an agreement with the centrists of Macron to jointly field only a single candidate in each district against Le Pen's National Rally (whose antecedents are from the Vichy collaborationist government of France under the Nazi German occupation during World War II and fairly open fascism later).

Galloway, not humbled in the least by his own electoral defeat, discusses both of those from his own perspective, in talks with experts and calls from listeners, and later discusses Biden's (and Trump's) weaknesses and prospects with Bryce Green, a reporter with FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a progressive media watchdog group in the US (FAIR is heard on KPFK with Counterspin, Monday mornings at 6:30 AM).

Let us know what you think of MOATS. This is a one-shot at this point, Thom Hartmann will be back early tomorrow morning and the rest of the week.
Email comments at kpfk dot org with your opinion.

The Last Oasis:

https://youtu.be/HcOtDrSBm40

Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 07-05-24

12 AM
Alan Watts - The Tao of Philosophy
Wrapping up the segments from Alan Watts collection under the theme of the Tao of Philosophy we present two lectures by Watts: Limits of Language and Slices of Wisdom. Next week we will start a new group of lectures by Alan Watts on the theme of the Philosophies of Asia.

1 AM
The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
J. B, MacKinnon on how ending consumerism can save the environment & ourselves

Part 1 of 2
J B MacKinnon is an award winning journalist & author. His books include Plenty,with Alisa Smith, about their year of eating only food produced within 100 miles. His new book is The Day The World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment & Ourselves. which explores what would happen if the world stopped shopping, with examples from recent history, including the pandemic.
We also talk about why our level of consumerism in the West is the biggest cause of climate change, and how we need to be talking about it a lot more.
We also talk about examples of cultures and experiments in the West, that participate in sharing economies, and they experience a much greater sense of happiness, community engagement and quality of life.

2 AM
Old Radio Break
We have gotten requests from listeners for more science fiction in the old radio segments of Somethings Happening and are happy to oblige. Starting tonight, we will begin a run of episodes from SciFi Theater, radio adaptations of works many science and speculative fiction natables. This series is more contemporary than a lot of the old radio mystery and suspense material we have been running, from the 30s and 40s.
SciFi Theater: Sales Pitch by Philip K. Dick, author of Ubik and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which was the basis for the Bladerunner films, followed by an exploration of fear by the visionary writer Ursula K. LeGuin, whose speculative fiction imagines alternative to current oppressive and repressive society and technology. Despite her radicalism, LeGuin was honored with a stamp last year by the US Postal Service. For some reason, they gave it a high denomination, designed for mailing multi-ounce letters, I believe 3 ounces, so it did not get into very wide circulation.

3 AM
Caroline Casey - The Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA
Astro-Jungian Mythic News
Caroline welcomes forensic, clinical and cardiac psychologist, Steve Parker. Dr. Parker is a Jungian psychologist and stone mason. He lives with his partner, Kornelia Grabinska (a Jungian Analyst), in a birch forest overlooking Fairbanks. He has lived and worked in Alaska for more than forty years, and treasures living on the edge of the wilderness. He has traveled and worked throughout the state, and has been the director of four rural mental health centers. For thirty years he worked as a forensic psychologist, seeing folks at the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and Fairbanks Correctional Center.
He and his partner Kornelia have run a bookstore specializing in Jungian books (Silver Tree Books) and a toy store specializing in Jungian sandplay items (Happy Moose Toys.) They have taught numerous Jungian seminars, and helped start the C. G. Jung Society of Northern Alaska over ten years ago. He has been the webmaster for www.jungcurrents.com for many years.
He has been dealing with heart issues for twenty years, including a severe heart attack 20 years ago. Out of that heart struggle he has written a book and created a Stone Sanctuary. You can find also him on Facebook at:https://www.facebook.com/jung.hearted
This episode of the Visionary Activist was recorded either just before or during last week's debate between Biden and Trump on CNN, and Caroline spends some time envisioning a vigorous defense of climate protection by Joe Biden, and reflecting on what the stars and planets portend for Biden. As Shakespeare had it, however, the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.

4-6 PM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of the non-commercial broadcast from July 4th
Thom talks with Svante Myrick of PfAW in hour 2 of yesterday's Fourth of July show, and with Dr. Goldstein about pet health in hour 3.

Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 07-02-24

12 AM
Creative Frontline with Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone
Indigenous Plant Medicine in Zambia
Filmmaker, Journalist, Robert Lundahl interviews Dr. Oliver Mupila, internationally renowned Medical Doctor, Gerontologist, prolific Author, Environmentalist, and Human Rights Defender. Mupila has led research into indigenous plant medicine and is, himself, indigenous Lunda from Village Kameya , Chief Chibwika. District Mwinilunga North Western Zambia. He is founder of the Center of Excellence on Aging, an initiative of the Zambian International Health Alliance, of which he is CEO.
Creative FRONTLINE takes you on an eye-opening journey through indigenous plant medicine in Africa, equitable investing, and the enormous tribal reserve of pharmacological assets in Zambia.
https://CreativeFRONTLINE

12:30
TUC Radio:
Leonard Peltier – Prayer Vigil for his Parole in San Francisco
With Tony Gonzales of the American Indian Movement West
For the first time in 15 years, Leonard Peltier had a full parole hearing on Monday, June 10, at the United States Penitentiary at Coleman, FL. The decision whether he will be free will be rendered by mid July 2024.
Peltier is Turtle Mountain Ojibwe. He has been incarcerated for 48 years for the alleged killing of two FBI agents at Oglala on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in June 1975. For five decades, Peltier has maintained his innocence and hoped for the chance to clear his name.
Peltier had a controversial trial marred by falsified testimony, and fabricated evidence. And criticism of the trial even came from judges involved in the case.

1:00
Between the Lines
US Provocatively Permits Ukraine to Use American Weapons to Attack Targets Inside Russia; Active Duty U.S. Soldiers Appeal for Redress to Voice Opposition to the US Role in Israel's War in Gaza; "Voices from the Silenced" Play Tells Stories of Women Who Had Abortions Before Roe v Wade
Guests: Retired US Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell; U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Juan Bettancourt; Playwrights Martha Boesing and Victoria Rue

1:30
Shortwave Radio News Report from Dan Roberts
This week's show features stories from RADIO DEUTSCHE-WELLE, FRANCE 24, and RADIO HAVANA CUBA.
From GERMANY- Julian Assange has been released from a high-security prison in England, made to plead guilty to a single count of espionage, and returned home to Australia. Jameel Jaffer is the executive director of the Knight's First Amendment Institute, at Columbia University. He describes the deal that Julian had to agree to for his release. Jameel points out that the ruling will be used as a precedent in cases where a government wants to punish journalists for revealing information that they wish to keep secret- something reporters do frequently.
From FRANCE- There is a proposal for a 2% minimum tax that would apply to about 3000 of the world's richest people- the purpose is to balance out the fact that a great many of the wealthiest pay zero or close to zero in taxes because of shell companies and untaxed corporate stocks. France is facing snap elections for Parliament this week and next which will determine the Prime Minister who will serve under President Macron- according to latest polls the far-right National Rally is expected to win. Valerie deKamp discusses the environmental threat of a far-right victory in the current election.
From CUBA- The aid group Save The Children released statistics about the plight of Palestinian children under siege in Gaza from Israel. Israel is using internationally banned white phosphorous as a weapon in Lebanon, supplied by the US. UN Secretary-General Guterres spoke out against Israel expanding its war into Lebanon, as it could precipitate a much larger regional war.

2:00 AM
Project Censored
In a plea bargain with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the Justice Department ended its effort to extradite him to the US for an Espionage Act trial, and Assange, freed from Britain's Belmarsh Prison to appear in a US court in colonized Micronesia, returned home to Australia a free man.
The Assange legal case is over, but what are the ongoing implications for press freedom? We hear from Kevin Gosztola, the reporter who covered the Assange case for its entire duration.
Then Mickey speaks with the three authors (also Project Censored staffers) of a new article on social media, the efforts of government and Big Tech to control or censor it (often without users' knowledge), and the countermeasures employed by online communities to maintain communications. And how might social media influence the 2024 election?
Kevin Gosztola's book on the Assange case, "Guilty of Journalism," was published in 2023. Gosztola is also the editor of the Dissenter newsletter, www.thedissenter.org.
Kate Horgan is Website Design & Media Assistant at Project Censored. Reagan Haynie is Social-Media Manager at Project Censored. Shealeigh Voitl is Digital & Print Editor at Project Censored. Their article, "Navigating the Digital Democracy," appears in the June/July issue of the Progressive magazine, and can be found online at www.Progressive.org

3:00 AM
Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Free the Truth: Julian Assange & The Politics Behind the Persecution & Prosecution,
The Use of the Espionage Act to Chill Dissent and Exposure of US War Crimes
Yan Gil, Venezuelan Foreign Minister speaks about supporting Bolivarian Venezuelan Sovereignty vs. US Interdictions and Sanctions in Latin America in Opposition to Self-Determination.

4-6:00 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program

We're back to Thom all four nights unless there is a substantial upswell in requests to bring back MOATS, the Mother of All Talk Shows with George Galloway.
There was a mixed response, more negative than positive among the few who did respond, and the one month trial run did not seem to improve or increase the audience or the financial support for Something's Happening
The Thom Hartmann program, like MOATS, is on a delayed broadcast from July 1, so you can't call in at this time. Hartmann will be on live taking calls at 9:00 AM

Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 06-28-24

12 AM
Alan Watts
The Tao of Philosophy - Man in Nature

1:00 AM
Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
Exile From the Kingdom of the Well
Sophie Strand is a poet, scholar and writer with a focus on the history of religion and the intersection of spirituality, mythology, storytelling and ecology. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous projects and shes the author of The Flowering Wand: Re-wilding the Sacred Masculine: Lunar Kings, Trans-Species Magicians & Rhizomatic Harpists, and The Madonna Secret, a historical fiction novel about Mary Magdalene and Yeshua, AKA Jesus.
Amanda Palmer is a singer, songwriter, musician, and performance artist, and the author of Evelyn Evelyn: A Tragic Tale in Two Tomes, and The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help.
This is a live recording of an in-person conversation between Sophie and Amanda, titled "Exile From the Kingdom of the Well", followed by a Q & A session.

2:00 AM
Old Radio Break
Sam Spade
The Whistler

3:00 AM
Caroline Casey the Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA
The Moon Walks the Earth – Solstice Dedications –
Caroline co-riffs with Jerome McGeorge, fellow anarcho*astro*animist, co-founder Organic Valley to and fro, with segments, honoring the Solstice, from our first show, and our last night conversing around the Mid-Summer Night entheo bonfire……..including message from the Kogi, of Colombia, for us now! with whom Jerome spent much time, and was their guide on their first trip to America… October 20th – Nov 5th, 1999, sponsored by Organic Valley, investigative mission of discovery; bringing messages of wisdom, warning, and mutual aid…
Am anchoring Jerome, pulling on his wizard ankles, to keep him in this world…. Tis time for him to receive supportive blessing from the multiverses to which he has contributed so much immeasurable good…and a treasure trove of applied erudition…. wins a best Aries Award! Imbued with the Medicine of seeing deeply, with a kind heart…..
Agent of Green Man, Jerome McGeorge is an ally of richly cultivated, playful erudition, longtime organic*bioregional farmer, founding member of Coulee Region Organic Produce Pool (CROPP), the cooperative that is “Organic Valley” …2000 farms!
Moon walks the Earth: The Full Moon rises at extreme Southern point of horizon, will travel low to the ground…happens once every 18.6 years…..

4-6 AM
MOATS - The Mother of All Talk Shows with George Galloway
The last of our trial run of MOATS from his podcast earlier on 6/26 (so prior to the Biden-Trump debate). If you want to hear more Galloway on KPFK, please donate generously this morning, and please email comments@kpfk.org with Keep Galloway in the subject line and let us know how you feel. The majority of the comment we have received up to this point has been unfavorable, and it does not seem to have attracted significant new listenership or support despite promotional efforts.

Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 06-27-24

12 AM
Dave Emory - For the Record
Conversations with Monty
Continuing Dave's Emory conversation with his new co-host regarding the integration of the Nazi intelligence apparatus into the global US national security state at the end and after World War II, focusing on US interests and Nazi ambitions vis a vis the so-called Middle East and Latin America

1 AM
Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate'
Peace, Peace, When there is no Peace
Aaron Mate' and Max Blumenthal discuss new mainstream coverage of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia back in 2023 amid Zelensky's bogus peace summit, Russian retaliation against US arming of Ukraine, new threats by Netanyahu against a cowering Biden administration, and Israel's continuing onslaught against Gaza.

2 AM
Final Straw Radio
An interview with Courtney of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee& Millions For Prisoners New Mexico and Roc, communications bridge for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and residential manager at the JLS housing center to speak about the JLS call for Shut Em Down strikes inside and outside of prisons in December of 2024. We talk about abolitionism, the organizing that JLS is doing including that transitional housing project and other topics. You can find a past interview with Courtney at our website.
Then, you'll hear Monsour Owolabi, incarcerated New African political prisoner in the Ferguson Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system sharing some perspectives on inside-outside collaboration, the role of isolation in prisons as counter-insurgency and the importance of transitional housing projects. Monsour has been involved in Prison Lives Matter, the website https://www.texasletters.org/has published his writings, and supporters have an instagram @FreeMonsourOwolabi
By putting these segments together, we are not proposing any organizational overlap between Mr. Owolabi and JLS. Featured Track: Remember Rockefeller at Attica by Charles Mingus from Changes One

3 AM
Out-FM from sister station WBAI
Challenge by Queer Puerto Ricans to Nationalist Trans/homo-phobia
Benjamin Ramos, a queer member of the ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, interviews Raphael Agosta Miranda, a trans man and EMT who represents the New York-based Juventud Unida Por la Independencia (JUPI) or United Youth for the Independence of Puerto Rico. They discuss the history and evolution of homophobia and transphobia, and the growing strength of the LGBTQ+ movement, both on the island of Puerto Rico and in Puerto Rican communities in the U.S., especially within the independence movement.
We thank Benjamin for allowing us to rebroadcast parts of this interview from his podcast series "Despierta Boricua" or "Wake Up, Puerto Ricans," on YouTube.
Queens Pride: No Pride in Genocide
LGBTQ people of color formed a Palestine solidarity contingent to march in the Queens Pride Parade for the first time on June 2; Pauline Park speaks with Naomi Brussel about the impetus for the formation of the contingent in response to the Zionist leadership of 'New Queens Pride.
Out-FM is booting Betty & ditching the Zionist group's theme song
By Pauline Park
Out-FM produces LGBT-themed programming for WBAI and has been using Together as its theme song for many years but the collective decided in pride month 2024 to boot Betty and ditch the song.
Betty is an indie rock trio that includes Alyson Palmer (vocals, bass, guitar) and sisters Elizabeth Ziff (vocals, guitar, electronic programming) and Amy Ziff (vocals and cello). As activists, BETTY uses their music to work for equal rights, peace and optimal health for all and the environment, the group declares on their website " while failing to mention their strident support for Apartheid Israel.
In many public statements as well as tweets and retweets on Twitter (rebranded by Elon Musk as X), the Ziff sisters have repeatedly conflated Judaism with Zionism. I feel sidelined No one is taking away my Jewish gay pride. When people who are waving the Palestinian flag are screaming rape their daughters and mothers, kill all Jews, and shouting other slurs at Jews, that is not about Israel, Elizabeth Ziff told the Jewish Daily Forward (Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua, Queer Zionists ask: Where are our allies?, Forward, 30 June 2021).
On May 19 of this year, @BettyMusic retweeted a tweet from Jamie Metzl (@JamieMetzl) in which he wrote, Everyone should be as concerned about these protesters marching behind the Hamas flag in Brooklyn yesterday as we would be if KKK bigots marched behind a burning cross carrying nooses or goose-stepping Nazis marched with swastikas.

On May 1, the Betty account retweeted a tweet from Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) quoting U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) in which the Pennsylvania Democrat wrote,The protesters at Columbia demonstrated that there are two factions of the protesters " there's the pro-Hamas, and then there's the really pro-Hamas.
With Apartheid Israel's Gaza genocide having now claimed more than 37,000 innocent civilian lives, we in the Out-FM collective felt it was time to distance ourselves from this trio of Zionist propagandists who use their platform to generate support for the illegal and genocidal occupation of Palestine.
We therefore invite listeners to e-mail us at outfmfeedback@wbai.org with suggestions for a replacement to "Together". We would welcome suggestions for any song with a theme of freedom and liberation and would especially encourage suggestions of songs written and/or performed by LGBTQ-identified musicians, though the songs suggested need not have specifically queer content in them. We welcome your input. Once again, that's outfmfeedback@wbai.org

4 - 6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from Thom's non-commercial broadcast on 6/26/24

Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 06-25-24

12 AM
Creative Frontline
Johnny Bobb on What's Really Going On?
What’s Really Going on in the Amargosa River Basin, Ash Meadows and Beyond? Western Shoshone chief Johnny Bobb speaks on impacts to the natural ecosystem, his people and animals from nuclear testing, transport, and disposal near his home at Jomba, NV.

There are many unresolved scientific issues relative to the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site. These issues include hydrology, inadequacy of the proposed waste package, repository design and volcanism. The Yucca site is seismically and volcanically active, porous and incapable of geologically containing the nuclear waste. Even the State of Nevada is officially concerned that Yucca's aquifer drains to the Amargosa Valley, one of Nevada's most productive agricultural regions, is adjacent to a busy and growing Nellis Air Force Base, and is only 90 miles from the state of Nevada's largest metropolitan area, Las Vegas.

American Democracy Minute
NV state judge throws out fake electors case
The American Democracy Minute is a daily radio report covering voting rights, money in politics, redistricting and other critical democracy issues in Washington and in states around the country. Reports are posted Sun-Thurs by 12 pm Eastern for broadcast Mon-Fri. Brian Beihl, Host & Producer, WethePeople@AmericanDemocracyMinute.org

US Navy Vet speaks out for Palestine

Drug War News:
Officer speaks out on coercion by criminalization

1 AM
Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer
Doug speaks with Steve Simon of Responsible Statecraft https://responsiblestatecraft.org/author/ssimon/ about Israel and the relationships with and to it of the various Arab states in the region. Then, Jennifer Berkshire, author of Education Wars and host of the Have You Heard? podcast https://x.com/BisforBerkshire discusses the right-wing’s latest educational ploys. More info also here regarding Marcus Brown's art installation of Wall Street as a market for enslaved people that Henwood mentions in his introduction: https://arslaverytrails.com/slave-market%3A-ws-nyc

2 AM
Project Censored
The Progressive magazine and Project Censored Examine the Media
The Progressive magazine dedicated its June/July issue to an in-depth look at media and media literacy,
especially in the context of the upcoming election.

On this week's program, we hear from the publisher of the venerable political journal, as well as two Project Censored staffers who took part in producing the special issue. Later in the program, Mickey and Eleanor discuss the usefulness -- and limitations -- of electoral politics.
Guests: Norman Stockwell, Andy Lee Roth, Mischa Geracoulis
Norman Stockwell is the Publisher of the Progressive (www.progressive.org). Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, coordinator of the Project's Campus Affiliates Program, and a contributor to the current issue of the Progressive. Mischa Geracoulis is Curriculum Development Coordinator at Project Censored, and was the guest editor for the Progressive's June/July media issue.

3 AM
Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Labor and Progressive Issues
The Association of Legislative Employees calls for divestment from Israeli securities. Mimi interviews ALE president Daniel Kroop and Musarrat Lamia of that union. Also, Nga Bui and Emily Woo Yamasaki of the Mobilization for Reproductive Justice discuss unions flexing labor's power to demand reproductive justice, and to protect abortion rights and women's health.

4-6 AM
MOATS - Mother of All Talk Shows with George Galloway
Galloway discusses the British, French and US elections, and recent terrorist attacks by ISIS in Russia, as well as Vladimir Putin's state visits to the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and to Vietnam. In the second hour his interview focuses on Iran and possible Israeli and US military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon

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Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 06-21-24

12 AM
Alan Watts
The Tao of Philosophy - The Myth of Myself
Continuing a series of longer lectures by Watts

1 AM
Old Radio break - Frankenstein
A serialization of Mary Shelley's novel of scientific hubris and the misunderstood monster created in Baron von Frankenstein's laboratory from reanimated human parts. We will do 3-4 short episodes a night until completion.

2 AM
Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
Liminal Dreaming & Exploring the Edges of Consciousness with Jennifer Dumpert
Jennifer Dumpert is a dream explorer and writer and the founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind and consciousness. She also developed the concept and practice of liminal dreaming "surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states. Jennifer Dumpert lectures and leads workshops all over the world & she's the author of a fascinating book Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep, that we talk about in depth.

3 AM
Visionary Activist Caroline Casey from sister station KPFA
LISTENING TO THE OCEAN with Michael Stocker
Dissolving the hubris of humans into nutrient for participatory animism….To dispel bad ideas disguised as “energy transition,” Caroline welcomes, long-time-ally, marine acoustician, Michael Stocker…(who is as though the Ocean adopted a human guise to be its voice…) What is the Ocean saying say to us now?!
Michael has served as the electronic and musical engineer on the benchmark film “Koyaanisqatsi,” and as a project development engineer for Pax Scientific, working in applied physics and acoustics – exploring how the principles of bio-mimicry can be used in fluid and air movement systems.
As founding director of Ocean Conservation Research he is using his fluency in bio-acoustics to explore the impacts of noise on ocean animals to inform ocean policy and practice toward decreasing human bio-acoustic impacts on marine habitats..
More information at Ocean Conservation Research: https://ocr.org/
Michael’s book: Hear Where We Are: Sound, Ecology, and Sense of Place

4-6 AM
MOATS - The Mother of All Talk Shows with George Galloway
Moving toward the end of our trial run, we have had a limited response so far, and it is trending more negative than positive. If you think we should keep airing the Mother of All Talk Shows, let us know by emailing comments at kpfk dot org, or better yet, by donating to support Somethings Happening and KPFK and let us know that you're in favor. Conversely, if you'd rather have us bring back Thom Hartmann for all four nights, donate and let us know that. Because without your donations, we may end up with nothing at all.

Guests include Ken Klippenstein, formerly with the Intercept, on US troops moving into Jordan in large numbers, and Chris Hedges