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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 Elana June Margolis aka The Priestess of Milk and Honey in the Void, a Queer anti-Zionist Jewish teacher and mystic, and Becca Wolff, queer SF-based Jewish theatre and film director.

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 she wrote Queer Questions, Straight Talk: 108 frank & provocative questions it’s okay to ask your lesbian, gay or bisexual loved one. Hear a bunch of them — and how Dees handles them — on this edition of Out in the Bay. We also hear Dar Williams’ “The Christians and the Pagans,” about the Solstice-celebrating lesbian couple that drops in unexpectedly on a conservative uncle’s family on Christmas Eve.

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 Indigenous peoples. Hear interviews about the origins of the occupation movement, the broadcast and what it takes to put on the event twice a year.

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. Drollinger -- who uses "she" when in drag, "he" when in “boy clothes” -- was appointed San Francisco’s Drag Laureate in May 2023 to celebrate drag as an art form and enhance the city’s tarnished tourism draw. A year into the role, Drollinger has initiated an annual Day of Drag and taken steps toward creating a drag mall in one of San Francisco's many vacant retail spaces. Meanwhile, at least three states have severely restricted drag performance and 15 more have similar bills advancing. Under Arizona’s proposed law, for example, a drag performer just reading a book in front of a child could be imprisoned for more than 10 years and registered as a sex offender.

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 where the case was before it resumed on March 18th, after we recorded this chat. Jeremy also worked on a horror-comedy film called “Bitch Ass“.

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 also discuss the coming 16th Annual Izzy Awards at the Park Center (named after the late great muckraking reporter, I.F. Stone), which honors the best independent journalism in the public interest. Later in the program, Mickey and Eleanor deconstruct how establishment media are slanting Gaza coverage in Israel’s favor, including at the New York Times, which has gone so far as to control language and censor their own journalists to further a their bias while demonizing those who offer counter narratives based on transparently sourced factual reports from the region.

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 – The Unnatural History of Golden Gate Park In-Person Event + Book In-Person Event • Urban Foraging + Book WHEN: JUNE 29, 2024 @ 10:00 AM WHERE: GOLDEN GATE PARK IN SAN FRANCISCO Herb of The Month Chamomile Donor Highlight - Alexis from San Jose Follow KPFA on Social Media www.kpfa.org

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 with the community plus our neighbors Hammerling Wines and Broc Cellars in our dreamy Berkeley backyard to host a Block Party from 3 – 8pm! NEXT Block Party: June 7th | 3-8pm New Show - Translated with Roxanne Elsewhere Herb of the Month brought to you by The Herbal Highway, Tuesdays @ 1 pm Hawthorn Donor Highlight - Edward Vander Clute from San Rafael Follow KPFA on Social Media www.kpfa.org

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 colonialist Zionist state of Israel. And we discuss how racism and white supremacy are intrinsically part of the colonialist Zionist project in Israel from its founding and how healing from trauma is one of the important steps to peace. We talk to Meital Yaniv who was born in Israel, and is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words, with moving and still images, with threads, with bodies in front of bodies, with the Earth. they are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they keep Fires and submerge themselves in Ocean and Sea Water often. yaniv is learning to listen to the Waters, birdsongs, caretakers, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-ʔívil̃uwenetem Meytémak, Tongva-Kizh Nation, Luiseño-Payómkawichum, and Serrano-Yuhaaviatam/Maarenga’yam.yaniv is the author of bloodlines. They make offerings through true name collective. And we talk to Hadar Cohen who is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She is the founder of Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching Jewish mysticism and direct experience of God. She cultivated her own curriculum on the cosmology of creation and teaches it through her training God Fellowship. Malchut is also home for her Jewish Mystical School that includes a library of her classes and a community platform for connection. She is a 10th-generation Jerusalemite with lineage roots also in Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq and Iran. Hadar consults and teaches on Judaism, multi-faith solidarity, spiritual and political activism and more. Her podcast, Hadar’s Web, features community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Hadar coaches and mentors people 1:1 as well as leads and facilitates groups and community gatherings. Hadar weaves the spiritual with the political through performance art, writing, music and ritual. Hadar can be heard at her substack where she share writings, events and talks for people who want to stay connected https://hadarcohen.substack.com