Hard Knock Radio

Hard Knock Radio

4:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - FRIDAYS

Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.

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Black Lives Matter and Organizing

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We speak with Melina Abdullah who heads up the Black Lives Matter chapter in LA. We speak to members of SURJ (Standing Up for Racial Justice about their recent protest at Lake Merrit over the weekend.

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Bail Reform and The Battle to Save Public Education

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Raj Jayadev is the director of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a community organization based in San Jose that leads campaigns around criminal justice reform, immigrants rights, and economic justice. The organization created a model for families and communities to impact the outcome of the cases of their loved ones and transform the landscape of power in … Continued

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Resisting Trump and Fascism

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We speak with organizers and protesters in San Francisco, protesting the Trump Inauguration. Later we speak with Alison Mata about the upcoming Women’s March happening in Oakland, California on Saturday.

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Oscar Lopez Rivera and Poor News Network

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President Obama on Monday granted clemency to 231 federal inmates, the most in a single day by any president in U.S. history. Obama commuted the prison sentences of 153 people and pardoned 78 others, among the list of names was Oscar Lopez Rivera. He has been imprisoned since 1981. Today on Hard Knock, we speak … Continued