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