Thursday, November 21, 2024

Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 11 21 24

12 AM
For the Record with David Emory
Conversations with Monty
Dave continues his protracted series of conversations with his new co-host, combat veteran turned researcher Monty.

1 AM
Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate
The Meltdown Begins
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the liberal meltdown over the latest round of Trump picks, and what they mean for his second term agenda, particularly on the world stage. They will also cover the latest from Gaza, Lebanon, and highly revealing comments by Tony Blinken on Ukraine.

2:00 AM
Final Straw Radio
Prison Conditions in North Carolina.
First up, you'll hear from Elizabeth Simpson of Emancipate NC, one of the signatories to a public letter to this states department of corrections calling for the release of hundreds of prisoners in North Carolina. This comes in response to over-crowding and understaffing of prisons following the emergency transfer of 2,000 prisoners from prisons in the western part of the state effected by Hurricane Helene. [00:01:15 - 00:18:50]
Then, Mona Evans of Benevolence Farm, a post-release residence and re-entry program in North Carolina for people coming out of the womens prisons talks about their programs, re-entry and some of the realities faced inside womens prisons in this state. [00:20:04 - 01:04:40]
In this conversation I mentioned Victoria Law's latest book, Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket Books). You can find our 2013 interview with her about her 2nd edition of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women at this link.
Other projects Mona mentioned include:
Arise Collective re-entry program
DownhomeNC engages in a number of progressive causes in this state, including the bail fund that Benevolence Farms is currently running. You can find our 2020 interview with them here.
Featured Track:
- Women on the Inside by Sistas In The Pit from The We That Sets Us Free: Building A World Without Prisons

3:00 AM
Out-FM from sibling station WBAI
TRANS PANIC & TRUMP'S TRIUMPH
Pauline Park speaks with sociology professor Cary Gabriel Costello and gender and sexuality studies scholar and activist Stephanie Bonvissuto about Donald Trump's election and the implications for the transgender community.
To listen to the promotional trailer go to outfm.org

4:00 AM
Omali Yeshitela, chair of the African Peoples Socialist Party and one of the Uhuru Three, discusses what Trump's victory means for Black people

5:00 AM
Work Week with Steve Zeltzer
News of how labor is confronting the current political and economic situation, locally and globally

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Tuesday Night

Prog Notes S H 11 20 24

12 AM
Street Sankofa with Dr. Ife Jie
Hip Hop and Community Outreach
The scholar-artivist presents a hip-hop generation take on mental liberation, community self-care and other matters. This is a re-broadcast.

1 AM
The Herbal Highway
Herbal Legacy
Join Sarah Holmes and her guest Danielle Benjamin @templeofearth @templefreedomschool for an exploration of reclaiming herbal legacy, creating community through plant medicine, and Black indigeneity. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway.

2:00 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Health hazards from gas stoves
Did you know that gas stoves pose health hazards, especially to vulnerable populations? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Mark Vossler, M.D., cardiologist, and President-elect of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Vossler discusses the unhealthy air pollution from gas stoves, related health risks, including causing and exacerbating asthma, vulnerable populations, and ways to mitigate risks.
Related Websites: Rewiring America: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/
Gas Stove Pollution Fact Sheet: https://psr.org/resources/gas-stove-pollution-fact-sheet/

2:30
WINGS- Women's International News Gathering Service
Violence Against Women Act
Archival coverage regarding the introduction and eventual passage (30 years ago last month) of the federal violence against women act. Sarah McClendon grills then Sen. Joe Biden.
On September 12, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration celebrated 30 years since the passage of the US Violence Against Women Act, with an announcement of new funds and new areas of coverage. Although passed by Congress in 1994, the VAWA bill was first introduced in 1990. From the WINGS archive 1991, here is then-81-year-old Washington reporter Sarah McClendon, interviewing then-49-year-old Senator Joe Biden, about the bill he drafted and introduced in the Senate, and would finally successfully shepherd through. He explains his first realization that the problem existed, and many of the angles to address it written into that bill. A similar version was introduced in the House by Barbara Boxer of California.
The VAWA finally passed in both houses in 1994 and has been renewed - although with stops and starts and amendments - ever since. McClendon opined that Biden's work on this bill would make up for his performance as chair of the Judiciary Committee, when Anita Hill's testimony was dismissed and Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the US Supreme Court.

3:00 AM
Whole Mother with Pat Jones from sibling station KPFT
Dr. Eric English – Technology and Babies
Dr. Eric English is a clinical psychologist licensed in Maryland. He received his PhD in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, after completing a Masters degree at UW-Madison in physiological psychology in 1976 and an internship in clinical psychology in 1979 at Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts.
He has been a licensed psychologist for 37 years, including 34 years working for the State of Maryland Department of Health. He retired from the State of Maryland in 2018. Dr. English has three children, all born at home with a midwife. (This is an archival episode of Whole Mother that has not previously aired on KPFK.)

4:00 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
An hour from Hartmann's non-commercial broadcast yesterday

5:00 AM
Bad Faith with Briahna Joy Gray (former press secretary for Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign)
Interview with Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges was interviewed on the 2024 election - what he sees as a contest between the corporate and the oligarchic elite -- and on the failures of the left as well as the Democratic Party, and the weakness of third-party efforts.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Monday Night

Program Notes Somethings Happening 11 19 2024

12 AM
Le Show with Harry Shearer

1 AM
CodePINK Radio
Why the Dems Lost & NATO: What You Need to Know
In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Marcy Winograd updates us on CODEPINK’s latest campaigns against Trader Joe’s and Netflix, then shares Bernie’s arms embargo speech and a Useful Idiots podcast analyzing the Presidential election.
The second half of the program features Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, and David Swanson, executive director of World Beyond War, the co-authors of NATO: What You Need to Know, a foundational text that unmasks the nuclear alliance as a global threat to peace.

2:00 AM
Old Radio Break
Cloak and Dagger
A 50s radio program glamorizing the World War II origins of the CIA as the OSS, carrying out clandestine warfare against the Nazis, designed as propaganda to support the National Security State apparatus built up post WWII which actually absorbed the Nazi intelligence apparatus, just as the military and NASA incorporated the Nazi physicists and rocket and weapons makers.

2:30 AM
Counterpunch Radio
Interview with Ralph Nader regarding incoming Trump administration and US weapons shipments to Israel

3:00 AM
Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sibling station WBAI
Auto workers and other UAW members call for union to divest from Israel; Countering Trump's terrorizing of immigrants

4:00 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
An hour of Hartmann's program from yesterday's non-commercial broadcast, looks at Trump's cabinet picks and related issues.

5:00 AM
Project Censored
In the first half of the program, Eleanor's topic is India's occupation of Kashmir and its violent suppression of human rights there. She says, for this topic, the guest's chair stayed empty, because Kashmiri journalists and activists -- even those outside Kashmir -- are forced to stay silent for fear of retribution against their families. Eleanor also points out the multiple parallels and connections between the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Indian occupation of Kashmir.
For the second half-hour, Ben Norton returns to the program to discuss the recent BRICS summit in Russia and compares the fast-growing BRICS group of economies with the US economy and its rising inequality