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APEX Express Host Miko Lee gives a brief history of Lunar New Year. 

Join the KPFA Black community on as we guide you through the rituals and spirit of this African American holiday. Learn about this cultural tradition and hear experiences from Black KPFA hosts, producers, administrative staff, volunteers and more.

Join us to celebrate liberation and light as we discuss Anti-Zionist approaches to the Hannukah season and get tips for earthly Hannukah practices to help us heal ourselves and the world. We also explore the concept of possession in Jewish culture as related to Zionism and a queer version of 1910s Yiddish play “The Dybbuk” that is currently in production. This episode features interviews with Elan...

Just in time for potentially awkward holiday gatherings, we present a holiday fave: Author and civil rights lawyer Abby Dees tells our allies go ahead, ask LGBTQ relatives or friends your burning questions. If you’re queer, she says grin and bear it, even encourage those cringe-worthy questions. Dees believes that if asking out of love, all questions are opportunities to broaden understanding. So...

Host mikO Tolliver interviews Bill Means, Miguel Gavilan Molina, Tony Gonzales and Morning Star Gali about the history and future of the Indigenous People's Sunrise Gathering broadcast live on KPFA Radio 94.1 from Alcatraz Island. This powerful event is a celebration of strength and survival, bringing communities together to reflect on the true history of this land and stand in solidarity with Ind...

Eric Jansen hosts this interview with D'Arcy Drollinger. While many states are restricting drag, D'Arcy Drollinger, the world's first Drag Laureate, tells us how she has crafted this new role, spreading the humor and "sparkle" of drag to make positive change in the world. Through performance clips we hear in this feature, Drollinger shows us the joy of drag and explains how it could help us all. D...

To honor Labor Day, mikO Tolliver interviews Philip Maldar,i a KPFA Radio host and programmer with over 50 years experience at the station as he tells the history of the KPFA Labor Union.

Host Greg Bridges interviews Percussion legend Pete Escovedo

Hosted by Rona Renner - Pain is an unpleasant signal and complex experience when something hurts. It’s an important message to let us know something is wrong, and to help us to take action to prevent further harm. Pain will often go away on its own, but it can also persist and become chronic pain, which is one of the most common reasons people seek out medical care.

July 2, 2024 - KPFA Radio station updates with host mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz 75th Anniversary Year 4th of July Federal Holiday - Station Closed No Summer Fund Drive ON THE DECK taking summer break. Will return in September. Donor Highlight - Stephen from Ukiah Follow KPFA on Social Media

A recent chat with Jeremy White , film-maker, activist, and street medic who’s facing prison time in what has been dubbed the “San Diego Antifa” case. You’ll hear Jeremy talk about what happened on January 9th, 2021 at the Stop The Steal rally, how the police interacted with members of American Guard and Proud Boys as they assaulted passers by, the conspiracy-theory driven DA Sommers Stephan and w...

Hosted by Mickey Huff In the first segment, Mickey speaks with Professor Raza Rumi, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, who explains the declining relevance of “legacy” media and the essential work of a truly independent press. They go on to talk about media censorship and propaganda around Israel and Hamas and what appears to be an unfolding genocide Gaza. They al...

June 4, 2024 - KPFA Radio station updates with host mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz 75th Anniversary Year KPFA x First Fridays Block Party @ Donkey & Goat WHEN: JUNE 7, 2024 @ 3:00 PM WHERE: 1340 5TH ST BERKELEY, CA 94701 w/ DJ Mike Biggz & Zachary  Translated w/ Roxanne Elsewhere  “Frociaggine” “Playing the System” hosted by Game Master Tim Brown Urban Foraging –...

Host Brian Edwards-Tiekert interviews  Ajay Singh Chaudhary , Executive Director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research about his book "The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World"

Host Liam O'Donoghue give the history of Grizzly Bears & old growth Redwood and interviews Jenny Odell

Hosted by Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina. This episode reports on the protesting of Germany’s support for the Israeli genocide against Gaza. And, we celebrate the work of our very own, Miguel Gavilan Molina.

KPFA Radio station updates with host mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz 75th Anniversary Year Memorial Day - May 27, 2024 LSB Board Meeting - May 18 75th Birthday Special Events Rebel Airwaves: KPFA history with Liam O’Donoghue, Monday, June 3rd, 2024 Tickets Available at the $100 donation level https://secure.kpfa.org/support/  On the First Friday of each month we gather wi...

KPFA Radio celebrates its 75th birthday with interviews from long time hosts and producers. Interviews by Paula Burch and Prema Jackson and include Kris Welch, Emiliano Echeverria, Nina Serrano, Luis Medina, Brian Edwards-Tiekert & Amy Goodman.

KPFA Radio celebrates its 75th birthday with interviews from long time hosts and producers. Interviews by Paula  Burch and Prema Jackson and include Kris Welch, Mitch Jeserich, Bonnie Simmons, Walter Turner, Avotcja, Kevin Vance & Dennis Bernstein.

Women's Magazine host Lisa Dettmer and Kate Raphael talk to two Israeli spiritually informed Jewish activists and scholars about  what  the role  and effects are  of trauma are in living and growing up in the apartheid state of  Israel  on both their own lives, and the lives of others in Israel/Palestine and how that trauma and the exploitation of that trauma has supported the militaristic and col...

April 2024 - KPFA Radio station updates with host mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz 75th Anniversary Year 75th Birthday Special Events Saturday, April 6th Amy Goodman at First Church of Christ in Berkeley https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kpfas-75... **Tickets for a VIP meet and greet are available as a special premium on kpfa.org/donate ** CANCELLED!!! Monday, April 15th Music...

Sabrina Jacobs interviews Gabriel Manyangadze, Program Manager for SAFCEI – South African Faith Communities Environment Institute about the rebranding of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Organization Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and their upcoming summit of self-aggrandizement and lies being held in Tanzania. U.S. Right to Know documents on AGRA funding:  https://usrtk.org/bill...

Social Media Rep mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz give KPFA Radio station announcements for the month of March. 75th Anniversary Year 75th Birthday Special Events Saturday, April 6th Amy Goodman at First Church of Christ in Berkeley Monday, April 15th Music Birthday Celebration at Freight and Salvage with Russian Telegraph & French LeBeau.  International Women’s Day Ma...

Why is the aging of populations framed as a crisis? What settler-colonial and capitalist logics are at work, and how are older people viewed and treated as a result? Sandy Grande delineates and critiques mainstream frameworks; she also advances a decolonial perspective that draws on indigenous attitudes toward elders and toward old age-associated conditions like dementia. René Dietrich and Kerstin...

Social Media Rep mikO Tolliver & Interim General Manager Antonio Ortiz give KPFA Radio station announcements for the month of February. Station Holiday February 19 President’s Day 75th Anniversary Year 75th Birthday Special Events Saturday, April 6th Amy Goodman at First Church of Christ in Berkeley Saturday, April 15th Music Birthday Celebration at Freight and Salvage.  New Show on KPFA Wedne...