Tuesday Night

Prog Notes S H 10 09 24

12 AM
Street Sankofa with Dr. Ife Jie
Hip Hop and Community Outreach

1 AM
Herbal Highway
African-based Herbalism
Sara Holmes welcomes Olatokunboh Obasi, from Puerto Rico, whose herbalism is based in African origins and plants. Ola Obasi is a yoga and dance instructor, clinical herbalist, nutritionist, and birth doula. Committed to community holistic health, social justice, and education, she works heavily in community service and African (Diaspora) Traditional Medicine. Presently, she coordinates Herbalists without Borders International in Puerto Rico. This is a rebroadcast of a Herbal Highway that previously aired on KPFA, but not one we have aired here on KPFK.
More information: https://www.internationalherbsymposium.com/olatokunboh-obasi/

2:00 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Organic Insider
Did you know that there are efforts to weaken the organic label on foods? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Max Goldberg, MBA, Founder and Editor of Organic Insider newsletter covering the organic industry, and administrator of the Organic Food Industry group on LinkedIn. Goldberg discusses gene editing, regenerative agriculture, and food labels consumers can trust. Related Websites: www.organicinsider.com

2:30 AM
Choose To Be Curious
Curiosity and Bio-Diversity
Curiosity, biodiversity, rewilding -- these are the exciting places Carolin Sommer-Trembo Ph.D. takes us today. Carolin Sommer-Trembo PhD is a post-doctoral researcher and evolutionary biologist
Carolin is an evolutionary biologist. Her big goal is to focus attention on animal behavior as it effects evolution and biodiversity. To get there, she has studied curiosity in cichlid fish in Africa's Lake Tanganyika, combining some good old-fashioned field work with exciting new investigative tools, including AI and genetic scissors.
I came to the conversation interested in the curiosity angle, but Carolin's impassioned case for the importance of this basic research to eventually rebuilding vanishing biodiversity -- and the aforementioned "rewilding" -- puts the discussion on another level entirely.
Curiosity doesn't only promote biodiversity, it might just save us all.
Episode webpage: https://lynnborton.com/2024/08/22/curiosity-promotes-biodiversity-with-carolin-sommer-trembo/
Choose to Be Curious is a show all about curiosity. We talk about research and theory, but mostly it's conversations about how curiosity shows up in work and life.
Choose to Be Curious won the Alliance for Community Media's Hometown Media Award for best audio programming by an independent producer (2024) and best information talk show series (2021), as well as Arlington Magazine's Editor's Pick for best local podcast (2020).
WEBSITE: www.choosetobecurious.com
We are experimenting with various health related programming from the Pacifica affiliates since we moved Green Street from WBAI up to the daytime schedule. Let us know what you think about these auditions by emailing comments at kpfk dot org

3:00 AM
Whole Mother from sister station KPFT
Mike Loomis, Nurse, OB1Health
Mike Loomis is a nurse, a father, and the founder of OB1Health, a startup focused on developing applications to achieve better outcomes for patients and families. With over 18 years of experience as a registered nurse in maternal-child health, Mike has supported and empowered families during some of life’s most transformative moments. After witnessing firsthand the unique challenges and gaps in resources faced by new fathers, he decided to create Call of Dad Duty, an app designed to provide guidance and support alongside humor and experience. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/call-of-dad-duty/id6605920847
More information at https://www.ob1health.com/

4-6:00 AM
We Decide - national Pacifica coverage of the election process
Health Care and Medicare At Issue in the 2024 Elections
Two-hour special looking at issues around health, health care and Medicare as they are being addressed (or not addressed) by candidates in the 2024 elections. This weekly program, focused on issues rather than personalities, was developed by sister stations WBAI in NY and WPFW in Washington DC, and is building towards special national Pacifica coverage on Election night, Nov. 5, with participation from KPFK here in So Cal, KPFT in Houston, TX, and Pacifica affiliates around the country, including in such "swing states" as Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, as well as from Florida.
Following the Medicare discussion, they check in with our Pacifica affiliate in Asheville North Carolina to see just how that region is doing in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. They discuss the facts around FEMA recovery and relief efforts as opposed to social media lies, and issues around whether Congressmembers in the affected states supported funding for FEMA, as well as the role of radio in such crises.
While most of the US labor union movement has lined up behind the Harris-Walz ticket, the national Teamsters and Firefighters opted to stay neutral. We Decide talks with noted labor historian Joshua Freeman about organized labor's role in the election. Jenna Flanagan hosts.