January
25
2021
Featured Episode
Rashid Khalidi & Nora Barrows-Friedman: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a unique Zoom Event: Rashid Khalidi & Nora Barrows-Friedman THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017 …………………………… Tuesday, February 16, 6 PM PT Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rashid-khalidi-nora-barrows-friedman-the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine-tickets-131127992355 A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … Continued
Reform groups and prison abolitionists diverge on California’s Prop 25: Trading bail for anti-Black algorithms
This story aired on UpFront on Monday, November 2, 2020. By Ariel Boone (@arielboone), KPFA election reporter In the final days of the 2018 California legislative session, the push to eliminate cash bail went through massive revisions that lost it support from a lot of groups working to end mass incarceration. It passed — … Continued
Moms 4 Housing organizer Carroll Fife takes on incumbent McElhaney in fierce Oakland council race over housing, policing
By KPFA election reporter Ariel Boone (@arielboone) OAKLAND, CA – On a sunny Saturday morning in DeFremery Park in West Oakland, 50 people have come to knock on doors. There are ironworkers, students, democratic socialists, even Sunrise Movement climate activists — all here to support Carroll Fife, a candidate for Oakland city council in … Continued
Dick Lupoff 1935-2020
Richard A. Lupoff began his career as a writer creating a science fiction fanzine, Xero, which won a Hugo Award in 1963. He began his official writing career with a biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs and a first novel, One Million Centuries, in the early 1960s. Over the course of a very long writing career, … Continued
With Prop 16, a new generation of Californians has a chance to reinstate affirmative action. Will they?
By Ariel Boone (@arielboone), KPFA elections reporter OAKLAND, CA – California is one of only ten states that ban affirmative action by public institutions. Voters put that ban into the state’s constitution in 1996. But that could change this fall, when voters get a chance to overturn the ban with Proposition 16. Affirmative action … Continued
California’s election is now underway. Here’s how to vote safely and securely
Listen to the full radio report here, first aired October 7, 2020: By Ariel Boone (@arielboone), KPFA elections reporter SACRAMENTO, CA – “Do not wait. If you can vote early, please vote early this year.” That was the primary message of Sam Mahood, press secretary for California Secretary of State Alex Padilla. Mahood declined to … Continued
Talk It Out Radio:Sun 10/4, 7pm: AWARENESS, ACCEPTANCE, and ACTION: Conjectures of a Spiritual Activist in Recovery
Can we change only one person, ourselves, and still effectively change the world? Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Dr. Renato Almanzor about his work as a Transformation Catalyst, where he draws on lessons learned from 30 years of activism for social change and on Buddhism and 12-step recovery programs. Renato Almanzor is committed to transformative … Continued
Bay Area Cooling Centers for Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2020
Bay Area counties have set up locations as cooling centers and for wildfire smoke relief. Information and hours subject to change, and COVID precautions are required. Check local city offices for updated information. Last updated: Monday Sep 28, 12:30pm. For questions or updates, email Corinne Smith corinne@kpfa.org Alameda County Current List of Open Cooling Centers … Continued
Israel, UAE, and Bahrain accord, and the question of Palestine
In the wake of the much-vaunted Israel/UAE/Bahrain accord, this week we take stock of the situation in the Middle East with celebrated Israeli historian professor Ilan Pappe and see where this new development leaves the question of Palestine as well as the general state of human rights and civil rights in the region. Guest: Ilan Pappe is … Continued