The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 23, 2021
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Featured Episode
Flashpoints – December 23, 2021
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
A HKR Artist Spotlight and Poor News Network
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We speak with Marisa Ashanti about Oaklanders to Ghana for a cultural exchange and her artistry. Later Poor News Network examines America’s war on disenfranchised communities.
UpFront PM – December 23, 2021
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at upfront@kpfa.org.
The Visionary Activist Show – Cats Christmas ° Between the Worlds
This Day (Dec 23rd) – Cats Christmas, the tradition being to speak to our cats of our past Mentors, and to tell stories that will bring out the best in humans… Caroline welcomes Apela Colorado…. author of “Woman Between the Worlds,” that we restore the collaborative harmony betwixt all that has been falsely estranged, science … Continued
Susan Hill, author of the classic ghost story, “The Woman in Black,” which is now a play at ACT’s Strand Theatre, discusses her career as a writer. In an interview from 2011, Hollywood legend Rita Moreno talks about her one-woman show and her work in Hollywood. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
The political economy of Texas, and why do rich people pay so little in taxes?
Political scientist Clyde Barrow explains how Texas, a complex, diverse, urbanized state, is run by a bunch of white guys who think they’re cowboys (rebroadcast of a September interview). And Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica explains why very rich people pay almost nothing in taxes.
CalMatters! Prisons! Town Crier!
We catch up with all things California politics. PLUS: inmate suicides and shocking health conditions at Santa Rita Jail made public by long-time prison-reform activists. PLUS: poet Raymond Nat Turner. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Guest: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton); From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity, and his latest, Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History (Princeton).
Democracy Now – December 23, 2021
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.