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That's it! When a new KPFA show is available, your podcast program will automatically download it! You can then play the shows from your computer, put them on your portable mp3 player, or burn them to a CD!
Our program is designed to give our listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts in the field of both traditional and non-traditional health. If you have suggestions for programs or questions about KPFA, please contact Dr. Lenoir at 510.834.4897 or by e-mail at drlenoir@drlenoir.com.
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Africa Today with Walter Turner
Mondays 7 pm - 8 pm
A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora. Africa Today seeks to update listeners on contemporary developments in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States. The program utilizes an interview and discussion format to explore political, social, economic, and cultural themes relative to the African experience.
About Walter
He is a Professor of History and Chairperson of the Social Sciences Department at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California, instructing courses in United States History, African History, and African American History. Walter is also President of the Board of Directors of Global Exchange, and is an African News analyst for Pacifica Radio Station KPFA.
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Against the Grain is a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters -- political, economic, social and cultural -- important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-hosted and co-produced by Sasha Lilley and C.S. Soong.
For more information, visit our home page againstthegrain.org
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MISSION:
APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, djs, and activists and airs each week on KPFA 94.1FM.
APEX Express is committed to building a broader social movement for justice and collective liberation for all oppressed people, including poor & working-class people, people of color, women and queer people. We support grassroots organizing and cultural work that advance these goals, and see APEX as a space for building consciousness and promoting critical discussion about these efforts.
As part of KPFA, we are committed to promoting independent community media that is free and accessible to everyone.
We work collectively to share our skills and resources, and to build the capacity and confidence of community members to tell their own stories. Within our group, we prioritize maintaining a culture of mutual support, respect, and love.
Send comments, questions, events to: APEX: (510) 848-6767x464.
email: apex@kpfa.org
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Behind the News covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Shows typically consist of some opening comments by host Doug Henwood on the recent news, followed by two or three interviews with authors, activists, academics, and other knowledgeable sorts. Since mystification is one of the tricks that power uses to maintain itself, emphasis is always placed on clarifying the complex.
Topics covered include the broad economy and the financial markets, trade and globalization, income distribution and poverty, political candidates (with an emphasis on their general bogosity), Latin American resistance to neoliberalism, crime and imprisonment, financing health care, environmental economics, and the culture of money. Of course, that list will evolve as circumstances warrant.
Host/producer profile
Doug Henwood has been hosting Behind the News since 1996; his radio career began in 1989, with commentaries delivered on the late and deeply missed Samori Marksman's show. His day job is as a writer and editor. He edits Left Business Observer, a newsletter he founded in 1986, and is a contributing editor of The Nation. He is the author of three books - The State of the USA Atlas (1994), Wall Street (1997), and After the New Economy (2004). He's at work on a study of the American ruling class, whoever that might be.
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On the Air Thursdays at 3:00pm
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First Friday: Poet to Poet, features poets & writers reading and discussing their own works with poet/host/producer Nina Serrano and technical direction by Jill Montgomery.
Second Friday: Theatre and More. Interviews with directors, playwrights, actors and others in the Bay Area theatre scene, as well as forays into literature and film, produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Third Friday: Storytellers Features. Storytellers of various genres sharing their work with performance artist/host/producer/Jovelyn Richards.
Fourth Friday: Frame to Frame, hosted by film critic Reyna Cowan, features interviews with filmmakers and reviews of films, media and art installations.
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Booktalk, readings, unique spins on the zeitgeist, and interviews with authors, poets, and others about all manner of things covering the written word.
Denny Smithson (510) 528-9937
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Hosted by Jack Foley
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Reviews and discussions with authors on literature, poetry, and passion.
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Hosted by award winning reporter Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! is one of the hottest national daily radio programs on the air today.
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Hosted by award winning reporter Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! is one of the hottest national daily radio programs on the air today.
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Hosted by award winning reporter Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! is one of the hottest national daily radio programs on the air today. Started as an election year show in 1996, Democracy Now! expanded into a hard-hitting investigative news magazine.
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Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.
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On the Air 2nd, 4th Fridays at 2:30pm.
With Host Kitty Kelly Epstein.
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INVESTIGATIVE News Radio every weekday. Listen to Flashpoints en Español every Friday at 5:45pm.
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FSRN is the only daily half-hour progressive radio newscast in the U.S. It is owned and managed by news reporters.
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"Guns & Butter" investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, "Guns & Butter: The Economics of Politics" reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state.
Produced and hosted by Bonnie Faulkner.
E-mail Bonnie at blfaulkner@yahoo.com
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Voices of humanitarians building a wiser, more caring society. In these times of fast-paced change and challenge, how do we hold on to our humanity? Each week, public radio’s award-winning HUMANKIND presents answers from the doers and dreamers who strive to make our planet a more humane and livable place. Through David Freudberg’s moving documentaries and dialogues, we hear the voices of community: forward thinkers, peacemakers, health and education leaders, practitioners of spirituality and simplicity, environmental champions, media pioneers, grassroots volunteers and many others. David Freudberg, Producer
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Report from the KPFA Local Station Board, with your phone calls!
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Pacifica's Mitch Jeserich hosts “Letters & Politics,” a look at burning political issues and debates, and their historical context, within the US and worldwide.
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A semiweekly program about politics, society and culture. Interviews and analysis with host Kris Welch.
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With interim General Manager Andrew Phillips and guests.
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With Don Joyce.
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Disability Radio
Now Airing 1st, 3rd, and 5th Fridays at 2:30 pm
* Leave a message for Pushing Limits at: (510) 848-6767 ext. 636
* Email: pushinglimits[a]kpfa.org
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Deranged "edits" segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
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Oral histories: Ordinary folks, extraordinary circumstances.
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With Kris Welch.
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Suspense is a new version of the classic radio anthology series by the same name; the original ran on CBS Radio from 1942-1962, and featured a who's-who of Hollywood talent. The scripts are an equal mix of originals and adaptations, performed by a growing company of Hollywood actors that include Adrienne Wilkinson ('Xena'); Tucker Smallwood ('Contact'); Elizabeth Gracen ('Highlander'); and master voiceover artist Daamen Krall, who’s also the show’s host.
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A live public affairs program focusing on investigating and analyzing environmental issues from a global perspective. Our hope is both to bring key international perspectives to listeners, as well as make the issues relevant to northern California listeners.
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The Herbal Highway, hosted and produced by Karyn Sanders or Sarah Holmes, enhances the community's knowledge of herbal medicines and alternative choices to standard medical practices for healing.
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Weekend Edition of the KPFA Evening News
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Hosted by Steve Zeltzer, Sabrina Jacobs, Davey D, Anthony Fest, Andres Soto, Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff.
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The Evening News on Pacifica broadcasts each weeknight from the studios of KPFA-FM in Berkeley, the nation's first listener-supported radio station.
The Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and its sister stations KPFK-Los Angeles and KFCF-Fresno. This hour-long broadcast seeks to bring unreported and under-reported stories of interest to Californians, with a focus on issues of peace, and social & economic justice.
KPFA Radio c/o News Department
1929 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704-1037
(510)848-6767 ext. 699
Email: news@kpfa.org
Click here for a list of staff
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National news and public affairs. Hosted by Philip Maldari.
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The Visionary Activist show is the wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey.
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Provides an inspirational, empowering environment to serve as a platform to build a sustainable community experience. Produced and hosted by Veronica Faisant .
People need to feel “heard”—we open the phone lines to listen and dialogue. Listeners interact via the program’s Facebook page and other social media. People are empowered when they feel they can "make a difference". Community based projects will be identified and listeners invited to create community meetings to strategize and form work groups using the program as point of departure. This is interactive radio.
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A new entertainment program featuring a cast of improvisational comic actors and an online writing staff of listener humorists aka Twit Wits. A live Twitter feed lets listeners post much of the script performed by the cast, live,in real time, in the studio.
Show host regulars include Kurt Reinhardt, Lorrie Holt, Mantra Plonsey, Galen Corr and MiddleFingazUp. Online Twit Wits include SF International Comedy Competition finalist Tim Wiggins and bay area musicians Michael Hauser and Dan Plonsey.
Listeners will be invited to "Tweet Truth To Power With Humor and Wit" on a range of topics listed at the show website, See for yourself here - kpfa.twitwitradio.com.
Producer director George Coates describes the show as a disruptive challenge to mainstream media, "When consumers of media entertainment become its producers, on air personalities can serve as the peoples sock puppets for a change."
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An hour-long news magazine with a strong focus on state and local issues. A statewide collaboration, featuring hard-hitting interviews, debates, and in-depth reporting from journalists working everywhere from Los Angeles to Oakland to Sacramento.
Up Front is produced by KPFA's award-winning News Department. Listeners can look forward to challenging interviews with political and community leaders, civil but heated debates, and frequent breaking news updates.
About the hosts:
Brian Edwards-Tiekert is a radio journalist who has won multiple awards for his feature reporting and radio documentary work on environmental issues. He's the former co-host of The Morning Show, at the time KPFA's top-rated local program.
Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host and producer of Uprising, a daily morning program at KPFK-FM in Los Angeles. She's also the co-director of the nonprofit Afghan Women's Mission, and is the co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence.
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Uprising is a digest of independent news analysis, investigation, education, artistic expression, activism in the public interest. Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.
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Co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
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The Women's Magazine is an hour long radio program that airs on KPFA radio that presents and discusses women's lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Airs every Monday from 1- 2pm.
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