Friday, June 28, 2024

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.

Thursday, June 27, 2024

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, June 24, 2024

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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Friday, June 21, 2024

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

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 06-20-24

12 AM
Dave Emory - For the Record
"Conversations with Monte"
David Emory begins a new series, introducing his new co-host, Monte (or spelled Monty in some spots), a medically-retired 10+ year US military combat veteran who fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and in cross-border operations in Pakistan and elsewhere, and came out feeling that everything he was reading about that "theater of operations" was a lie. He has been researching the roots of US military involvement there and his study exposed links to same Nazi intelligence apparatus that Emory has tracked since its integration into the US national security state at the end of World War II.

1 AM
Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate'
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal joins Ilan Pappe, trailblazing Israeli revisionist historian and author of "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" to discuss how the Israeli military relies on state terror as part of its doctrine to suppress resistance to its occupation of Palestine. Junaid Ahmad moderated the discussion.

2 AM
Final Straw Radio
This week you'll hear an interview with Cricket, a tree sitter in a tree called Goldie in southern so-called Oregon as well as D of Siskiyou Rising Tide. The two talk about the experience and efficacy of tree sits, about the land threatened by the Bureau of Land Managements plan to have Boise Cascade and other timber companies log this area theyre calling Rogue Gold, recent success of a tree sit at Poor Windy, revelations of police surveillance and some of the history of forest defense in this region.
You can find more at TreeSittersUnion.org , donate via venmo to @Cascadia-Defenders or see lovely pictures on the instagram accounts @TreeSittersUnion or @Siskiyou_RisingTide

- Police spying on Siskiyou Rising Tide: https://risingtidenorthamerica.org/2023/11/oregon-police-obsessively-spied-on-siskiyou-rising-tide-for-years-even-after-pipeline-fight-ended/
- Recent article on both tree sits: https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/tree-sit-stops-old-growth-logging-project-in-southern-oregon/
- Announcement of lawsuit by conservation groups: https://www.kswild.org/press-releases/rogue-gold-litigation
- Another article on the BLM sale & logging: https://siskiyoucrest.com/2021/10/18/the-rogue-gold-timber-sale-logging-the-last-old-forest-above-the-rogue-river-valley/

3 AM
Out-FM from sister station WBAI
Reclaim Pride March; ACT UP & JVP Protest Global Queer Rights Group’s Refusal to Denounce Gaza Genocide

2024 Reclaim Pride March
Naomi Brussel discusses the Reclaim Pride March with Jay Walker, an organizer with the group Reclaim Pride. The Reclaim Pride Coalition is the grassroots collective that has organized the Queer Liberation March in New York City every June since 2019. They seek to honor and reclaim the spirit of the Stonewall Rebellion, centering and amplifying the voices and needs of marginalized LGBTQIA2S+ communities. In the tradition of early Pride Marches, they reject corporate sponsorship and police involvement. As a community, they take to the streets to challenge systemic oppression, advocate for justice, and create a world where all queer and transgender individuals are free to live authentically and without fear.

ACT UP & JVP Protest Global Queer Rights Group’s Refusal to Denounce Gaza Genocide

John Riley interviews two guests:
Ariel Friedlander, an ACT UP organizer since 2018 and a Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) member, and Emmaia Gelman, ACT UP member since 1996, Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionist and longtime Palestinian Solidarity Activist Organizer.
They discuss how ACT UP's support for the Palestinian struggle came about as a result of the genocide being committed against Palestinians and their subsequent solidarity actions pressing progressive LGBTQ+ organizations to support the Palestinian struggle and work against the genocide. ACT UP continues its work on a range of HIV/AIDS, MPOX, STDs, and other health issues.

4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from Thom's non commercial broadcast of 6-19-24
Includes Congressman M, Pocan taking calls when he was on live.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Tuesday Night

Prog Notes S H 06-19-24

12 AM
About Health
Vision Health
Join Nurse Rona and Dr. Ella Faktorovich as they discuss vision health as it relates to different stages of life. They will answer question about issues such as myopia (near-sightedness), computer vision syndrome, presbyopia (far-sightedness), cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and how to keep your eyes healthy. Dr. Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of Pacific Vision Institute in San Francisco. More information here: https://www.pacificvision.org/

1 AM
Herbal Highway
Herbal first aid at protests
More information at IG accounts @indigenousRN and @grassrootsapothecary

2 AM
Green Street
Standing Up to the Methane Industry
This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about micro- and nanoplastic particles and what we can do to reduce them. Then biologist, author and cancer survivor Dr. Sandra Steingraber talks about her efforts to stop the expansion of natural gas infrastructure and the tactics the industry is using to silence any opposition.

2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Child Nutrition
Did you know that teaching children how to cook improves their motivation and ability to eat well? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Pam Koch, Ed.D, R.D., Mary Swartz Rose Associate Professor of Nutrition and Education, and Faculty Director at the Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Koch describes her decades of research working to improve childrens nutrition, defines ultra-processed foods, and explains the importance of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.
Related website: Food Systems Based Dietary Guidelines: https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/20b9fd77-47f5-46f0-bdd9-94f798620368/content
Tisch Center: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/tisch/
Mary Swartz Rose Memorial Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkU1D-z2jXw
(Koch starts at 18:09)

3:00 AM
Whole Mother
Disparities in Birth and Maternal Care
For too long, the medical system has operated without transparency or any public accountability, particularly to Black women who are disproportionately dying in hospital settings during and after childbirth. Our back-end database, turns your qualitative experiences into quantitative data to identify patterns and behaviors, as we leverage the collective power of Black and brown consumers to push for social change.

Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker, strategist, and advocate for maternal and infant health. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the racial and socio-cultural complexities of birth, breastfeeding, and motherhood. She is the founder of IRTH a new “yelp-like” app for Black and Brown parents to address bias and racism in maternity and infant care. Kimberly also created BIRTHRIGHT, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth that centers on positive Black birth stories as a tool in the fight for birth justice and reverses the narrative of negative statistics common in mainstream media coverage of Black maternal health. Learn more at kimberlysealsallers.com Follow her @iamKSealsAllers on Facebook, twitter, and Instagram.

Sheridan Blackwell assumed the role of Head of Systems Change, Hospitals, and Partnerships in November 2022. Ms. Blackwell is a seasoned healthcare professional with 10 years of experience. Sheridan began her career as an administrative fellow and quickly rose to managerial positions holding various roles of increasing responsibility across program management, ambulatory operations and special IT projects. Most recently, she served as Administrative Director of Women’s Health at Jersey City Medical Center – RWJBarnabas Health. Sheridan oversaw a team of over 50 employees, responsible for administrative and financial management, strategic planning, population health and community engagement, and operations of inpatient and ambulatory Women’s Health Services. Ms. Blackwell holds a master’s degree in Health Administration from Seton Hall University and a bachelor’s degree in Health Administration from St. John’s University. Ms. Blackwell is passionate about improving maternal health outcomes with a strong emphasis on population health and improving health equity, reducing bias in care, and patient education.

4-6 PM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from the non-commercial broadcast on 6-18-24

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Monday Night

Program Notes Something's Happening 06-18-24

12 AM
Creative Frontline with Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone
The Gift Of A Rattle
Max Carmichael, Artist, is the guest again. "The Cry: Traditional Grief and its Meaning Today." Carmichael talks about what, as a person of European descent, learned from an Indigenous elder abut the role of ceremony in dealing with grief and loss more communally, to experience and express the feelings of loss in a safe space. Video version of each episode is on YouTube. This one is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-vtijPnzJw
Website for Creative Frontline is here: https://CreativeFRONTLINE.com

12:30 AM
A Sharpening of the Already Present - with Kim Tall Bear
This talk explores an Indigenous analytical approach to understanding the concept of the ‘Anthropocene,’ including why the present era is not quite everyone’s apocalypse: some Peoples are already post-apocalyptic survivors. In addition to drawing on Indigenous scholarship, Indigenous ideas about apocalyptic grieving are offered as alternative foundational concepts to counter settler-colonial ideological responses to the current environmental crisis and to the denied/impending fall of US empire.

1 AM
Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer
Edwin Ackerman on the Mexican elections, and the reasons for AMLO’s immense popularity {Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his MORENA Party, whose candidate Claudia Scheinbaum was just elected as Mexico's first female and first Jewish president.
(Sidecar piece here: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-amlo-project); Joel Whitney, author of Flights, discusses radicals' and revolutionaries’ battles with the CIA.

2 AM
Project Censored
In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with professor Mohammed Bamyeh about a no-state solution for Palestine, an idea rooted in both Palestinian and broader Middle-eastern history, when societies often functioned primarily on organic anarchy rather than government orders. He also explains the actual origins of religious fundamentalism in Arab countries, and the appeal of revolution when realistic options fail.
Next, Eleanor interviews author John Washington about his latest book, "The Case For Open Borders" (Haymarket, 2024). Washington surveys some of the history of US border policies, and the surprisingly recent origins of today's militarized US borders. He explains why efforts to block human migration fail, and why, contrary to politicians' rhetoric, open borders actually are beneficial.
Mohammed Bamyeh is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of scholarship include anarchism, revolution, religion, and the Arab world.
John Washington is a staff writer for Arizona Luminaria (azluminaria.org). He has also been published in the Atlantic, the Nation, and the New York Review of Books, among others.

3 AM
Equal Rights & Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Netflix's offensive stereotypical animated reboot of Good Times draws protests for racist portrayals of Black people ; then Biden's xenophobic border closure - Mimi talks with Todd Miller, author of Build Bridges Not Walls, about whether Biden's executive order is about more than political theater and jockeying with Donald Trump for political advantage.

4-6:00 AM
MOATS - Mother of All Talk Shows with George Galloway
Continuing a trial run to the end of the month -- let us know what you think. George discusses US politics with Rachel Blevins, a Texas journalist formerly with RT America; discusses Palestine with Aarab Barghouti, son of Marwan Barghouti who is referred to as the Palestinian Nelson Mandela, one of the longest held Palestinian political prisoners in Israel; takes listener calls from the UK and the US discussing RFK Jr., Jill Stein, Biden and other aspects of US politics and government; and marks Fathers Day and the Muslim holiday of Eid.



Friday, June 14, 2024

Thursday Nights

Prog Notes S H 06-14-24

12 AM
Alan Watts
The Tao of Philosophy - Seeing Through the Net
Continuing the Tao of Philosophy series, as we work our way back through the corpus of Watts's lectures, these come to us through the Internet Archive Huge collection of Watts's work.

1 AM
Magical Mystery Tour
Shadow Work for the Soul: Seeing Beauty in the Dark, part 2
This is the second half of Tonio Epstein's interview with Mary Shutan, a spiritual healer and teacher with an extensive background in Chinese Medicine, energy work and somatic bodywork. She is the author of several books, including The Spiritual Awakening Guide, Managing Psychic Abilities, The Shamanic Workbook, and The Body Deva, and her new book is Shadow Work for the Soul: Seeing Beauty in the Dark.
In this interview we dive into some of the practices and benefits of doing shadow work. We discuss inner child work, the collective shadow, working with archetypes and what they are in this realm. We also talk about our shadow relationships with politicians, celebrities and narcissists, and the costly dynamics of not doing our own shadow work. And how the shadow is the source of our joy and power, and how to take it back from the external world to revitalize ourselves and our relationship with the world and everything in it.

2 AM
Old Radio Break
The Adventures of the Thin Man
The Case of the Moon Murder and The Case of the All-American Menace
Following up on the Lux Radio Theater radio dramatizations of two Thin Man movies based on Dashiell Hammett's characters Nick and Nora Charles, portrayed on screen by William Powell and Myrna Loy, here are a couple of episodes of the radio series. These, as well as a Sam Spade series based on Hammett's Maltese Falcon novel and film, were impacted by the Red Scare and the Hollywood Black List; Hammett's name was removed because he was tainted as a communist sympathizer or "fellow traveler" and one of the actors was also dropped after his name was printed in Red Channels, the publication that claimed to uncover communists in Hollywood.
The Adventures of the Thin Man radio series, initially starring Les Damon, was broadcast on all four major radio networks during the years 1941 to 1950. Claudia Morgan had the female lead role of Nora Charles throughout the program's entire nine-year run. The radio series was modeled after the film series which was based on the 1934 Dashiell Hammett novel. The first series, sponsored by Woodbury Soap, aired on NBC Wednesdays at 8pm from July 2, 1941 to December 23, 1942. Les Damon portrayed detective Nick Charles, and he continued in the role into 1943. Sponsored by General Foods (Post Toasties, Maxwell House Coffee, Sanka), the next series began on CBS January 8, 1943, airing on Fridays at 8:30pm and some Sunday timeslots and continuing until December 26, 1947. Les Tremayne and David Gothard were heard as Nick Charles in 1944-45, with Tremayne still in the role in 1945-46. Les Damon returned as Nick in 1946-47, with Tremayne back in 1948-49. The last actor to do the part was Joseph Curtin in 1950.

3 AM
Visionary Activist Caroline Casey - interview with Eddie Nix about the Israeli attack on a US Navy vessel

4-6 AM
MOATS - Mother of All Talk Shows with George Galloway

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 06-13-24

12 AM
For the Record with David Emory
Dave wraps up a conversation about "chokeholds" in the JFK assassination, focusing on the doppelgangers for Lee Harvey Oswald who were seen and testified to by numerous witnesses over the course of several years, including repeatedly in New Orleans when Oswald actually was not or could not have been there, for example when he was living in the Soviet Union.

1 AM
Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate'
Max and Aaron discuss US complicity in Israel's massively bloody so called hostage rescue, in which Israeli troops probably killed as many hostages as they recovered while killing almost 300 Palestinians and maiming over 700 others,

2:00 AM
The Final Straw
This week they're sharing an interview conducted in recognition of June 11th as the International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and other long term anarchist prisoners. You'll hear Julie Herrada, a long time anarchist activist, comrade of Marius Mason, and worker at the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan. Julie is joined by Matthew Hart, another longtime anarchist involved in labor organizing, historical research with the Dockstadter Mutual Aid Society and the Los Angeles Anarchist Black Cross chapter of the Federation. We speak about history, memory, prisoner support and continuing the struggle.
Marius Mason is a direct action environmentalist political prisoner and trans male now locked in a men's prison, but where prison medical personnel are refusing to perform parts of the gender aligning surgery to which he is entitled.
If you'd like to hear more about the history of June 11th and voices of anarchist prisoners and those who support them outside, we've taken the opportunity each year to have at least one show focusing on specific cases or concepts related to ongoing struggle and anti-repression work.
More info at June11.noblogs.org

3:00 AM
Out-FM from sister station WBAI
Everything You Wanted to Know About Trans but were afraid to ask
Transgender identity is often thought of as a relatively recent phenomenon and right-wing transphobes like to characterize it as a 'trendy' fad but in fact, there are people who anticipate contemporary transgender identities going back millennia. Veteran transgender activist Pauline Park talks with Naomi Brussel and Stahimili Mapp about what transgender is and isn't, and why right-wing Republicans are pushing an unprecedented wave of legislation in state legislatures across the country to limit and roll back the rights of trans people and especially trans youth.
Topics to be discussed:
1) Why are we doing this show?
2) Trans can be defined: legal, sex designation, biology, genetics, chromosomes.
3) Historical background
4) Concentric circles diagram & terminology
5) Trans as an umbrella term
6) Socially acceptable questions re gender identity, trans identity, hormones & surgery, etc.

4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from his non-commercial broadcast on 6-12-24

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Tuesday Night

Prog Notes S H 06-12-24

12 AM
About Health
David Feldman interviews Dr. Kimeron Hardin, head of the American Association of Pain Psychologists and author of Queer Blues - Lesbian and Gay Guide to Overcoming Depression, about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT.

1 AM
Herbal Highway
Favorite plants: Roots


2 AM
Green Street
This week on Green Street Patti and Doug talk about why processed foods are so addictive, and how telecoms are getting rid of copper land lines. Then investigative reporters Barbara Laker and David Gambacorta talk about their series in the Philadelphia Inquirer about artificial turf and members of the Phillies baseball team who all developed brain cancer after years of playing on the field.

2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
The Role of the Brain in Obesity and Weight Loss
Did you know that our brains play an important role in regulating appetite and food intake? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Marc Cornier, MD Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina. Cornier shares his research on the neurocircuitry related to appetite. He emphasizes that obesity is a chronic disease, and discusses the influence of high fat diets, gut microbiota, hormones, exercise and brain activity on weight.
Related website: My Brain Made Me Overeat! So What Can I do About it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bne4VOHMOsw

3 AM
Whole Mother with Pat Jones from sister station KPFT
Patty Wipfler was born, raised and educated in California, and is the mother of two sons. The focus of her work since 1974 has been teaching basic listening and parenting skills to parents and early childhood educators, and supporting parents’ leadership in their families and communities. In 1989, she founded the non-profit parent-led organization that has evolved into Hand in Hand Parenting. She has written booklets, produced videotapes and audiotapes, and has written over 100 articles on the principles and benefits of listening parent-to-parent and parent-to-child. Her book and booklets.
Her booklets have been translated into 11 languages, and her book: Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges, written with Tosha Schore, is in print in six languages, Hand in Hand Parenting is currently taught by about 90 active Instructors on six continents, and online for parents from anywhere in the world.
Patty lives in Palo Alto, California. More information about her and the Hand in Hand Parenting approach can be found online at HandinHandParenting.org.


4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from his non-commercial broadcast of 6-11-24

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Monday Night

Notes S H 06-11-24


VOLUNTEERS NEEDED AT KPFK:
If you are proficient at video production or editing, or can work on design platforms like Canva to produce graphics for social media, KPFK needs you! Contact gm@kpfk.org


12 AM
Creative Frontline
Last Chance for Freedom for Leonard Peltier, part 2
More from Lenny Foster and others about the long-held Indigenous political prisoner, Leonard Peltier of the American Indian Movement. His parole hearing before the US Parole Commission was scheduled for June 10.


1 AM
TUC radio: Ilan Pappe
"The US has NO LIMITS when it comes to ISRAEL"
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and political scientist. He is now a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
His best known book is The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Based on declassified British and Israeli government documents, the book explains that the expulsions of Palestinians were executed based on a plan drawn up in 1947 by Israel's future leaders. Ilan Pappe left Israel in 2008 after being condemned in the Knesset. A minister of education had called for him to be sacked.
Frank Barat, the French activist, author and film producer and long-time friend of Ilan Pappe spoke with Pappe on his podcast on May 26, 2024. This was within days of the missile launch into Israel, the International Criminal Court request for arrest warrants, and Pappe's detention by the FBI when he arrived in Detroit for a speaking tour.
You can find the full 29 minute talk on YouTube under the title: ILAN PAPPE: The US has no limits when it comes to Israel.


1:45 AM
Omali Yeshitela interviewed by Paul di Rienzo (Archival from 2022)
In Aug. 2022, FBI agents launched raid in three cities.. a move reminiscent of COINTELPRO.. the secret government program that targeted progressive activist in the 1960s and 70s..
The agents came in the early morning hours.. without notice using flash-bang grenades, they smashed windows and sent in drones targeting the homes and offices of the US based African Peoples Socialist Party.. in St Louis.. Missouri, St. Petersburg, Florida and Sacramento, California..
The organization's Chairman Omali Yeshitela spoke exclusively with the exile news today he described the sudden invasion that occurred early in the morning.


The upshot of these raids is that Yeshitela, the chair of the African Peoples Solidarity Committee Penny Hess, and Jesse Nevel, chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, known as the Uhuru 3 are facing federal prosecution in September in Florida on charges that they are Russian agents (!) for opposing US and NATO militarism. More information here: https://handsoffuhuru.org/


2 AM
Project Censored
Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield co-host this week's Project Censored Show. In the first half of the program, we learn about the ongoing campaign to defend Oak Flat, a region of Arizona's Tonto National Forest sacred to the Apache and other Native peoples of the region. Federal authorities want to allow a large copper mine to be dug there. The San Carlos Apache say the struggle is about both land defense and religious freedom. The Supreme Court is slated to hear the case.
In the second half of the program, Mickey and Eleanor critique the recent performance of media in covering Israel's ongoing massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Among other observations, they take note of an article explaining the bizarre tactics Palestinian journalists must use to avoid having their reporting censored by social-media algorithms.
Vanessa Nosie is a member of Apache Stronghold (www.apache-stronghold.com), an organization working to defend Oak Flat (Chi'chil Bildagoteel). She is also an archeology aide with the San Carlos Apache.


3 AM
Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Immigration Repression, Palestine, and more
Oscar Chacon, Executive Director of Alianza Americas, discusses Biden's new draconian border closures as dehumanizing and white supremacist. Then, Richard becker discusses Palestine, Israel and the US Empire.


4-6 AM
MOATS: The Mother Of All Talk Shows with George Galloway
Continuing the trial run of the international podcast talk show with the leader of the pro-socialist Workers Party, who was elected to the British Parliament and is standing for election again in the elections scheduled for July 4 in England. This is a delayed broadcast; to call in you would have to do so on Sunday early afternoon when his YouTube/podcast is live.
Galloway discusses the results of the European parliament elections in Germany and a number of other EU countries, where the extreme right parties such as AfD in Germany and the FN in France won big. He also looks at the British elections where the ruling Conservatives are likely to get swept from power, and where his own Workers Party but also right wing forces are likely to make gains.
We want and need your feedback on whether or not to continue airing Galloway and MOATS. Email comments@kpfk.org with your opinions. Ideally we would prefer a program where we could take calls ourselves and hear from listeners live on the air, but we have to run both MOATS and Hartmann as delayed broadcasts, and run the overnight programming on automation, without a board operator or live host because of financial constraints.


VOLUNTEERS NEEDED AT KPFK:
If you are proficient at video production or editing, or can work on design platforms like Canva to produce graphics for social media, KPFK needs you! Contact gm@kpfk.org




Thursday, June 6, 2024

Wednesday Night



Prog Notes SH 06-06-24

12 AM
For the Record with David Emory #1325
In his first new episode after a hiatus, Dave returns to legal "Chokeholds" in the JFK assassination with a two-part interview, FTR 1325 and 1326. These programs continue the presentation of the legal concept of “Chokeholds” on the JFK assassination–dynamics that prove, legally, that there was a conspiracy.
These do not necessarily resonate precisely with aspects of the historical record, which embraces, but does not delineate, principles of law.
In these broadcasts, Jim DiEugenio, Paul Bleau and Mr. Emory are joined by Matt Crumpton, one of the contributors to the book, a lawyer and author of a brilliant chapter of the volume dealing with the Oswald impersonators.
We conclude the first broadcast with a tribute to the recently-deceased Cyril Wecht and Dr. William F. Pepper (who proved in court a conspiracy in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.).
KPFK is in our summer on-air membership and funding drive, and will again be offering David Emory's flash drive with dozens of hours of earlier conversations and interviews with Jim DiEugenio about the making of Oliver Stone's JFK, and that also has the 25-hour series on Destiny Betrayed, Jim's book. It's a thank-you gift for a pledge of $100 to support For the Record, Something's Happening, and KPFK.

1:00 AM
Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate'
Deep State Diaries
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss Donald Trump's felony conviction and what it means for Trump's re-election hopes and a potential second Trump term. They will also Israel's rejection of Biden's call for a ceasefire in Gaza, the atrocities in Rafah, and likely US escalation of the Ukraine proxy war.
Grayzone Radio is a production of The Grayzone, an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire. Washington DC-based independent journalist and author, Max Blumenthal, founded The Grayzone and is your host on Grayzone Radio.
For more info on The Grayzone and their reporting, please go to https://thegrayzone.com


2:00 AM
The Final Straw Radio
Here's our interview with Shannon Clay, co-author of We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action. For this episode, Shannon and Bursts o' Goodness walk through the book, covering some of the history of the network, how it evolved, challenges it faced, and invitations to discuss current day anti-fascist and anti-racist organizing on Turtle Island.
Shannon also suggests co-authors Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier's podcast interview on The Brief about Canadian ARA history: http://thebriefpodcast.com/anti-racist-action/
Featured Tracks:
- Rude Boys Gone To Jail by Desmond Baker from Rude Boy Gone To Jail / Don't Fool Me
- Lets Face It by The Mighty Mighty BossToneS
Michael Novick, interim General Manager of KPFK, and editor-publisher of "Turning The Tide" from Anti-Racist Action-LA, was a co-founder of the Anti-Racist Action Network, was interviewed extensively for the book, and contributed a lot of archival material for the book, on the history of the network and copies of publications from many of its US and Canadian chapters and various of the ARA national and regional gatherings during the late 80s, the 90s, and the early 2000s. He worked with Kristin, Lady, and Michael Staudenmaier, Clay's three co-authors, for many years in ARA . Subsequent to The Final Straw episode, Michael will reminisce about Anti-Racist Action and his prior experiences with the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, and will offer copies of We Go Where They Go along with free subscriptions to "Turning The Tide" as a thank-you gift for donations to KPFK of $100 or more to support Something's Happening and the station.

3:00
Equal Rights & Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Interview with Gerald Horne about repression of anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian views among university staff and professors as well as against student encampment. Includes Mimi's appeals for support for the program and the station carrying it, with a thank you gift of a Gerald Horne collection. We are offering Horne's "White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism and Anti-Communism versus the Liberation of Southern Africa" about settler colonialism and apartheid in South Africa, Namibia and the British settler colony of "Rhodesia" (which became free as Zimbabwe) along with I Dare Say, A Gerald Horne Reader essay collection.

4-6:00 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from earlier on June 5. Signed copies of Thom's book, The Hidden History of the War on Voting will be offered as a thank-you gift for donations of $100 or more to support Something's Happening and KPFK.
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