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KPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – December 20, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-12-2029 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – December 13, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-12-1329 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – December 6, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-12-0629 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – November 29, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-11-2929 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – November 22, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-11-2229 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – November 15, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-11-1529 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – November 8, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-11-0829 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – November 1, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-11-0129 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – October 25, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-10-2529 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – October 18, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-10-1829 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – October 11, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-10-1129 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – October 4, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-10-0429 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – September 27, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-09-2729 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – September 20, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-09-2029 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – September 13, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-09-1329 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – September 6, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-09-0629 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – August 30, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-08-3029 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – August 23, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-08-2329 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – August 16, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-08-1629 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – August 9, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-08-0929 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – August 2, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-08-0229 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – July 26, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-07-2629 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – July 19, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-07-1929 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – July 12, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-07-1229 minKPFA - The KPFA Evening News (Saturday)The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) – July 5, 2025Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News, which is a collaboration of KPFA and KFCF in Fresno.
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2025-07-0529 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA in the McCarthy Era: 76 Years of Alternative MediaGuest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York City. Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national syndicated television and radio program Economic Update that airs weekly on KPFA. Professor Wolff is the author of a number of books including Understanding Capitalism.
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2025-04-1559 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsA Book for Kids (& You) to Think About Palestine & Israel. Then, KPFA’s Audacious History.Part I. A Book for Kids (& You) to Think About Palestine & Israel.
Guest: Reza Aslan is a writer and scholar of religions. He is a recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Award and the author of such books as Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam; and his latest, A Kids Book About Israel & Palestine.
Part II. KPFA’s Audacious History with Liam O’Donoghue,
Guest: Liam O’Donoghue is the host and producer of the KPFA rad...
2024-05-3059 minKPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special Programming: A Tribute to Larry BenskyToday’s Letters & Politics is preempted by a special KPFA broadcast:
Mitch Jeserich hosts a special 2-hour remembrance of former broadcaster Larry Bensky. This program airs live from 10am-noon and includes time for listeners to call in with memories of Larry.
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2024-05-2859 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Richard Wolff on US-China Dynamics and the New Global OrderGuest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York City. Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national syndicated television and radio program Economic Update that airs weekly on KPFA.
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2024-05-2305 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Life & Works of Frantz FanonGuest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.
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2024-05-2100 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Creation of Cities: Wealth, Inequality and Environmental DestructionGuest: Gray Brechin has worked as a journalist and television producer and is coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream; and Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.
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2024-05-1559 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsSpecial – KPFA’s 75th AnniversaryGuest: Philip Maldari is a host and producer at KPFA Radio, currently he is the host of the Sunday Morning show.
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2024-04-1559 minKPFA - About HealthSpecial KPFA Fund Drive ProgrammingToday’s episode is preempted by special KPFA Winter Fund Drive programming.
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2024-03-0459 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Allen Ginsberg: The Great American Poet of the Twentieth CenturyGuest: Pat Thomas is a counterculture historian and archival music producer. He is the author of such books as Listen, Whitey!: The Sights & Sounds of Black Power 1965–1975, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary; and his latest Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg.
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2024-02-2910 minKPFA - About HealthSpecial KPFA Fund Drive ProgrammingToday’s episode is preempted by special KPFA Winter Fund Drive programming.
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2024-02-2659 min
KPFA RadioON THE DECK - February 2024 - KPFA’s Monthly AnnouncementsSocial Media Rep mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz give KPFA Radio station announcements for the month of February.Station Holiday February 19President’s Day75th Anniversary Year75th Birthday Special EventsSaturday, April 6th Amy Goodman at First Church of Christ in BerkeleySaturday, April 15th Music Birthday Celebration at Freight and Salvage. New Show on KPFAWednesdays @ 10 pm - All Your Old Records from 1964 to the PresentCity Cat Radio with DJ Hen Roc. Wednesdays 12am...
2024-02-0723 min
KPFA RadioON THE DECK - January 2024 - KPFA's Monthly AnnouncementsSocial Media Rep mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz give KPFA Radio station announcements for the month of January.Station Holiday January 15Martin Luther King Jr. DayListener Surveyhttps://kpfa.org/listener-survey/New Show on KPFAWednesdays @ 10 pm - All Your Old Records from 1964 to the PresentHerb of The Month - MugwortKPFA Best of Podcast - wherever you get podcastsON THE DECK - Weekly Recap - Tuesdays @ 2 pmFollow us on...
2024-01-0626 min
KPFA RadioKPFA Radio Presents Let's Talk Music w/ DJ Mike Biggz, Computrblu & D MinorKPFA music show hosts DJ Mike Biggz, Computrblu & D Minor discuss their shows and music at KPFA.I Had That Tape - Sundays @ 9 pmDon't Disturb This Groove - Mondays @ 10 pmLet's Talk Music - Sundays @ 8 pmwww.KPFA.org#kpfa #kpfaradio
2023-12-2349 min
KPFA RadioON THE DECK - December 2023 - KPFA's Monthly AnnouncementsSocial Media Rep mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz give KPFA Radio station announcements for the month of December.Station Closure for Xmas Holiday: December 25 - 26Other holidays to recognizeXmasHanukkahKwanzaFarewell to The Nightcap and host Mo HermsHoliday Fund Drive: December 5 - 15KPFA Best of Podcast - wherever you get podcastsON THE DECK - Weekly Recap - Tuesdays @ 2 pmFollow us on Social Mediawww.kpfa.org#kpfa #kpfaradio #pacificaradio #news
2023-12-1520 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Oakland’s Menorah and Xenophobia in America: Antisemitism and Anti-ArabismGuest: Dr. Penny Rosenwasser is a white queer Ashkenazi Jewish educator and activist. She is the author most recently of the award-winning book “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears.” She co-teaches a class on Antisemitism / Anti-Arabism with a Palestinian colleague at City College of San Francisco. She is a founding board member of Jewish Voice for Peace and helps lead racial justice work at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Oakland. She is also former KPFA radio host and producer!
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2023-12-1459 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Untold Story of Women Throughout HistoryGuest: Max Dashu is the founder of Suppressed Histories Archives. Since 1970 Max Dashu has been researching and documenting women’s history on a global scale. She is the author of several books including her latest Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissa, and Titanides.
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2023-12-0759 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Odyssey, Why It Still Matters Today & The Ancient War & Sorrow PackGuest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the first woman who translated the ancient Greek epic story, the Odyssey by Homer, into English language.
The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. It is about how we find community, how we find who gets to be in a particular community, and what does it mean that some people belong and other people don’t belong. It’s a poem...
2023-12-0659 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Cooking with Ralph Nader: Family Recipes From Lebanon and BeyondGuest: Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, host of The Ralph Nader Radio Hour that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network. He is the author of several books including his latest The Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook: Classic Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond.
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2023-09-1900 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Ralph Nader on the Politics of TodayGuest: Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, host of The Ralph Nader Radio Hour that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network. He is the author of several books including his bestselling first book “Unsafe at Any Speed”, it was responsible for US auto safety standards shown to have saved 3.5 million lives over fifty years. Other of his books include: The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future (2012); To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency and Why It Isn’t Too Late to Reverse Course (2018); Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lies and La...
2023-07-2700 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Richard Wolff on The Economy and the Current Political LandscapeGuest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York. Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national television and radio program Economic Update.
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2023-07-2659 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery
Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.
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2023-07-2559 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – George Kennan: The Architect of the Cold War Who Opposed the War
Guest: Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Kennan Diaries, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances, and his latest, Kennan: A Life between Worlds.
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2023-07-2400 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it
Guest: Kelly Lytle Hernández is the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is a 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and the author of the award-winning books Migra!, City of Inmates, and her latest, Bad Mexicans Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History.
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2023-07-2059 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Biblical Apocalypse & Its Real World Consequences
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End.
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2023-07-1959 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon
Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.
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2023-07-1859 min
KPFA RadioON THE DECK - June 2023 - KPFA's Monthly AnnouncementsSocial Media Rep mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz give KPFA Radio station announcements for the month of JuneHappy Pride!!!Drag Story TimeTuesdays June 6, 13 & 27@ 2:30 pmFather’s Day June 18Juneteenth Holiday - Monday June 19The Nightcap with Mo Herms on Wednesdays @ 10 pm with a mocktail of the month of June - Yogi’s ChoiceThe Herbal Highway’s Herb of the Month - YarrowON THE DECK - Weekly Recap - Tuesdays @ 2 pmwww.KPFA.org#kpfa...
2023-06-1222 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – How Big Business Linked Capitalism to Democracy
Guest: Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is the co-author of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us To Loathe Government and Love The Free Market.
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2023-05-2559 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part III)The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1863—1919)–scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts–devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture.
Tea was first used as a medicine and an alchemical elixir by the ancient Chinese Taoists, who praised its spiritual powers. Buddhist monks made drinking tea part of a tradition honoring the founder of Zen; this ritual was later refined in the performance of the Japanese tea ceremony as a meditative practice. The Book of Tea describes the rich aes...
2023-05-2433 minKPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part II)The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1863—1919)–scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts–devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture.
Tea was first used as a medicine and an alchemical elixir by the ancient Chinese Taoists, who praised its spiritual powers. Buddhist monks made drinking tea part of a tradition honoring the founder of Zen; this ritual was later refined in the performance of the Japanese tea ceremony as a meditative practice. The Book of Tea describes the rich aes...
2023-05-2359 minKPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Book of Tea: In Response to The Western Military Domination of AsiaThe Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1863—1919)–scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts–devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture.
This modern classic invites the reader to discover a unique tradition that has come to symbolize the wisdom, beauty, and the elegant simplicity of Asian culture. The author celebrates the Way of Tea from its ancient origins in Chinese Taoism to its culmination in the Zen discipline known as the Japanese tea ceremony—an enchanting practice bringing together such art...
2023-05-2259 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Map of KnowledgeGuest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.
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2023-05-1800 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 3): Decline and Fall of the EmpireHost Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens.
KPFA is offering a limited edition of The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today.
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2023-05-1759 minKPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – A History of Athenian Democracy (Part 2): Demagogues, Tyrants, and the PeopleHost Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens.
KPFA is offering The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone (limited edition)
In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today.
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2023-05-1600 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – A History of Athenian Democracy (Part 1): The TyrannicideHost Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens.
KPFA is offering a limited edition of The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today.
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2023-05-1559 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Odyssey, Why it Matters TodayGuest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the first woman who translated the ancient Greek epic story, The Odyssey by Homer, into the English language.
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2023-03-0959 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Homage to Judy Heumann; Disability Rights PioneerGuest: Judy Heumann (1947- 2023) was a pioneering disability rights activist and international advisory on disability, on the history of the disability rights movement.
Judy was a founding member of the Berkeley Center for Independent Living which was the first grassroots center in the United States and helped to launch the Independent Living Movement both nationally and globally. In 1983, Judy co-founded the World Institute on Disability (WID) with Ed Roberts and Joan Leon, as one of the first global disability rights organizations founded and continually led by people with disabilities that works to fully integrate people with disabilities i...
2023-03-0659 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another WorldGuest: Margaret Cerullo is a professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at Hampshire College and a member of the Colectivo Relámpago/Lightning Collective which put together the book Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World by Subcomandante Marcos.
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2023-03-0259 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Fund Drive Special – How Black Women Shaped the Communist Party in America
Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne state. and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research and Political Education Team. She is the c-editor, along with Jodi Dean, of the book Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.
Photo credit: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s website
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2023-03-0159 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Robin D.G. Kelley: A History of Black Radicalism
Guest: Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at UCLA. He is the author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
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2023-02-2859 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Media Coverage of the War in UkraineGuest: Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent. He is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of many books including, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.
On the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 24, 2022), he wrote the piece Putin & Zelensky: Sinners and saints who fit our historic narrative. Think about why the West wants to invoke WWII and the Cold War here, and then ask whether it’s been productive. You can...
2023-02-2759 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special- Códice Maya de Mexico, the Oldest Surviving Book of the AmericasGuest: Andrew D. Turner is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute, his work focuses on ancient Mesoamerican material culture, religion, and symbolism. He is the editor of Códice Maya de Mexico; Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas.
Images: Getty Research Institute
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2023-02-2159 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 4)Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
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2022-12-1559 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 3)Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
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2022-12-1459 minKPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 2)Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
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2022-12-1359 minKPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 1)Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
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2022-12-1259 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Whales: From its Ancient Past to its Uncertain FutureGuest: Nick Pyenson is a paleontologist, he is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures.
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2022-12-0859 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – David Henry Thoreau: the Man Who Lived in SeasonGuest: Laura Dassow Walls is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life, and her latest, The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season.
Feature image: Benjamin D. Maxham- Thoreau -Restored on Wikipedia
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2022-12-0659 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsNancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics & An Homage to KPFA’s Iconic Monologist Jennifer StonePart I. Nancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics
Guest: Tim Redmond is long-time San Francisco political and investigative reporter, former executive editor of the SF Bay Guardian and founder of 48hills.org.
Part 2. An Homage to KPFA’s Host and Producer Jennifer Stone
Guest: Laura Prives is KPFA Fund drive Manager, former Program Director, and Jennifer Stone’s Producer.
Jennifer Stone was born in Tucson, Arizona in December, 1933. She received her B.A. in theatre arts from Mills College in 1955 and her M.A. in creative writing from Sa...
2022-11-2159 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Bart Ehrman on Early Christian Texts & The Making of HellGuest: Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written or edited thirty-three books, including Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, and Heaven and Hell.
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2022-10-0659 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company
Guest: William Dalrymple is the author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire.
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2022-10-0559 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – A Brief History of U.S. Imperialism with Noam Chomsky
Guest: Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist and political activist and institute professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and laureate professor of linguistics and chair in the program in environment and social justice at the University of Arizona. He, along with Vijay Prashad, is the author The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power.
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2022-10-0459 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – A History of Democratic Socialism in Europe and the USGuest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of books including The New Abolition, Breaking White Supremacy, Economy, Difference, Empire, Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism; and his latest, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory.
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2022-10-0359 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Reza Aslan on Howard Baskerville & The Persian Revolution of 1906
Guest: Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer, producer, and scholar of religions. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot, and editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. His latest book is An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville.
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2022-09-2959 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: The Inspiring Life of Henry David ThoreauGuest: Laura Dassow Walls, author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in addition to his essay Civil Disobedience, a paean to human freedom. Two hundred years after his birth, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity.
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2022-09-2859 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: We The Elites: The Making of the US Constitution
Guest: Robert Ovetz is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at San José State University, US. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle. His latest book is We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few.
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2022-09-2759 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Adam Hochschild: WWI, The Red Scare and The Threat to Democracy
Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller), and Bury the Chains (a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award). His latest is AMERICAN MIDNIGHT: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.
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2022-09-2659 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Yanis Varoufakis on Inflation and the Economic Imbalances of the World
Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece, the co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement), and the author of several books including The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy, Adults In the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment, Talking To My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism, and his latest, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present.
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2022-09-2259 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Josephine Baker: Anti-Fascist Spy
Guest: Damien Lewis is an award-winning writer who spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones for the BBC and other global news organizations. He is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, many of which are being adapted into films or television series; his latest is Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy.
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2022-09-2159 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special: Chris Hedges on The Greatest Evil is War
Guest: Chris Hedges was a war correspondent for two decades in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, fifteen of them with The New York Times, where he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of many books, including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and his latest, The Greatest Evil is War. He writes a
column every Monday for ScheerPost and has a show, The Chris Hedges Report, on The Real News. You can find him at chrishedges.substack.com.
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2022-09-2059 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Africa and the Making of the Modern World
Guest: Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and former New York Times bureau chief in the Caribbean and Central America, West and Central Africa, Tokyo, and Shanghai. He is the author of the book Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War.
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2022-07-2859 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Gerald Horne: A History of Counter-Revolutions
Guest: Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston. He has published more than three dozen books, including The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Jazz and Justice, and his latest, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.
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2022-07-2559 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special -Vijay Prashad: Another View on the War In Ukraine
Guest: Vijay Prashad is the Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research which describes itself as an international, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations. He is also the author of such books as The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and his latest, Washington Bullets.
Photo by Miha Rekar on Unsplash
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2022-03-0859 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Ukrainian Marxist Fighting For Her Home
Guest: Yuliya Yurchenko is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute, University of Greenwich, UK. She is author of the book, Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: from Marketisation to the Armed Conflict (2018) Pluto Press.
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2022-03-0759 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – A Recent History of Russia, Ukraine, and the WestGuest: Tony Wood is a political and social historian most recently, of modern Latin America. His current work focuses on transnational radical debates on race, class, and nation in the 1920s and 1930s, tracing connections between Mexico, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. Wood is an specialist on Russia and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and is the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence, and Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War.
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2022-03-0359 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – A History of the Spanish Civil War, the Rise of Fascism in Spain, and the Infighting Among the LeftGuest: Adam Hochschild is the author of several books including, King Leopold’s Ghost, To End All Wars, and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 among others.
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2022-03-0259 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Stalin: from Revolutionary to Authoritarian
Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books including, Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment, Stalin: Passage to Revolution, and They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide.
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2022-03-0159 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Kievan Rus To The Fall of The Soviet Union: A History of Ukraine
Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. His many books include They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton); The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, Stalin: Passage to Revolution, and his latest, Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment (Princeton).
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2022-02-2859 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – The Historical Meaning of The Current Russian Invasion of UkraineGuest: Anthony D’Agostino, Professor of History at San Francisco State University, and author of The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars.
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2022-02-2459 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – After The Revolution: Leon Trotsky
Guest: Bertrand M. Patenaude is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a lecturer in history and international relations at Stanford University author of the book Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary.
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2022-02-2359 min
KPFA - Letters and PoliticsKPFA Special – Neil Faulkner on A People’s History of the Russian Revolution
In memorian of Neil Faulkner who died on February 4th 2022 at the age of 64. This was an interview with Neil Faulkner recorded for radio in 2017 about his book A People’s History of the Russian Revolution.
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2022-02-2259 min
KPFA - The Hear and NowKPFA salutes Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday with the four-hour fund drive special, “Bob Dylan 80,”
In a once-in-a-lifetime experience, KPFA presents the four-hour fund-drive special: Bob Dylan at 80. KPFA programmers Derk Richardson (“The Hear and Now”) and Larry Kelp (“Sing Out”) co-host this birthday salute to Bob on Wednesday, May 26, from 8 p.m. to midnight. As they have done for 30 years, Derk and Larry present a mix of the Nobel Laureate’s greatest songs, original recordings, explosive live performances, rarities and incisive interpretations by fellow artists ranging from Mavis Staples to the Grateful Dead. Far from retiring, Dylan received unanimously rave reviews for his most recent album “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” considered among the best of his 60-y...
2021-05-1300 minKPFA - Cover to Cover with Jack FoleyKPFA’S 71ST BIRTHDAY POEMMy mind returns always to poetry
Not as a task but as a blessed relief
It is the spontaneous, generous gift, “grace,”
“Free, and totally unexpected, and
Undeserved.” Someone remarked
About Flannery O’Connor’s characters
That they were all seeking grace
But grace, like poetry, cannot be sought
My mind returns to poetry
Not as a task and certainly not as a job
But as a sudden, spontaneous, often surprising
Lifting of consciousness, a blessing surely,
Like t...
2020-04-1500 minKPFA - Full CircleDu Rags & Conversations on KPFA’s Full Circle, Fridays at 7pmhttps://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DATBOYMEDIA-on-First-Voice.mp4
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Make sure to check out tonight “Du Rags & Conversations: Homage To The Yay,” the first segment of a series on Full Circle at 7pm on 94.1 @kpfaradio
This segment is for Black and Brown Creatives that want to showcase their art, their way. Produced by DATBOYMEDIA of the First Voice Apprenticeship program, tune in tonight on Full Circle.
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2019-11-0800 minKPFA - The Hear and NowThe Hear and Now – Powell St. John and his band live in the KPFA performance studio.Before he celebrates the release of his new CD, On My Way to Houston (Tompkins Square), at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse next Tuesday night (Aug. 4), Texas/Berkeley legend Powell St. John brings his band, the Aliens, into the KPFA studio for rousing electric and acoustic sets. Best known in Bay Area music history as a founding member of Mother Earth (with Tracy Nelson) and the composer of "Living With the Animals," "Marvel Group," "The Fly," and other psychedelic-tinged folk-R&B classics), St. John is powerful singer and harmonica player–and a 2005 inductee into the Texas Music Hall of Fame–whos...
2009-07-3117 minKPFA - The Morning ShowKPFA Special Broadcast – May 4, 2007KPFA interim general manager Lemlem Rijio and interim program director Sasha Lilley will join Morning Show host Andrea Lewis to talk about the state of the station, the upcoming spring fund drive, and take your calls.
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2007-05-0408 min