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Covering the movements, the issues, and the people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang.
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×Composer, pianist, and vocalist Samora Pinderhughes tells us about The Healing Project. The Healing Project, a fundamentally abolitionist project, explores the structures of systemic racism and the prison industrial complex. This story first aired February 2023. The Healing Project takes action towards abolition with forms such as musical songs, films, an exhibition, community gatherings, live performances, and a digital library of audio interviews. At the center of the project are the intergenerational voices of people across the country, including folks incarcerated in prisons and detention centers. Their stories, experiences, and ideas serve as the foundation for The Healing Project’s vision for societal transformation. Featuring: Samora Pinderhughes, composer, pianist/vocalist, and interdisciplinary artist The post The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (encore) appeared first on KPFA .…
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we bring you a story at the intersection of therapy, healing and social justice. We’ll hear about one therapist’s work to bring the lens of radical therapy and community care into her practice. This piece was produced by the podcast Re:Work from the UCLA Labor Center. GUEST: Claudia Morales , therapist at Social Justice Healing The post Radical Therapy (from Re:Work) appeared first on KPFA .…
Geoengineering is defined as some emerging technologies that could manipulate the environment and partially offset some of the impacts of climate change. Seems like the perfect solution for a consumerist society that lives on instant gratification and can’t stop polluting even at the risk of our futures, right? Well, let’s slow down. Today we’ll discuss the dangers of geoengineering and the ethics of the fact that these new technologies are being tested on Indigenous lands. GUESTS: Basav Sen – Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies Dr. Steven Zornetzer – Vice-Chair, Governing Board of Arctic Ice Project Panganga Pungowiyi – Organizer for the nonprofit Indigenous Environmental Network in Alaska The post The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering (encore) appeared first on KPFA .…
For Black Maternal Health Week, we celebrate the important work that Black midwives do in their communities. In this week’s show, we’ll hear a conversation about how one woman followed her calling to midwifery in a story brought to us by the podcast Re:Work from the UCLA Labor Center. GUEST: Kimberly Durdin , licensed midwife and co-founder of Kindred Space LA and the Birthing People Foundation. The post The Calling: Black Midwifery appeared first on KPFA .…

1 The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (encore) 29:57
Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. And the wreckages of caste are replicated here in the US, too — erupting online with rape and death threats, showing up at work, and forcing countless Dalits to live in fear of being outed. Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan puts forth a call to awaken and act — not just for readers in South Asia, but all around the world. She ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective and laying bare the grief, trauma, rage, and stolen futures enacted by Brahminical social structures on the caste-oppressed. Incisive and urgent, her book The Trauma of Caste is an activating beacon of healing and liberation, written by one of the world’s most needed voices in the fight to end caste apartheid. Thenmozhi Soundararajan is the author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition . She is a Dali- American artist, organizer, technologist, and theorist and the Executive Director of Equality Labs. The post The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (encore) appeared first on KPFA .…
On this week’s episode, we speak with Bay Area based comedian Karinda Dobbins about the release of her debut comedy album, Black & Blue. In Black & Blue, Karinda shares personal stories, finding humor in the most ordinary moments of her daily life, including her girlfriend’s arbitrary policy on household pests, the changes hipsters have brought to Oakland, and a Black woman’s unique packing list for hiking. The post Catching up with Comedy Queen Karinda Dobbins (encore) appeared first on KPFA .…
During his first term, Trump stacked the Supreme Court with hard right judges, creating a 6-3 split that led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a stunning ruling in which a human right which was previously granted by law was taken away from the public. This time Trump faces even less resistance and could remake the Supreme Court once again. Elie Mystal , justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation magazine, joins us to talk about the Supreme Court — not only what the democrats could have done under Biden to fix the third branch of government so that we wouldn’t now be in such a politically vulnerable position but also what we can expect in terms of possible new Supreme Court nominations and what they could mean for our remaining rights. The post The Supreme Court Under Trump appeared first on KPFA .…
Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child development today. She became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition and contributed immensely to programs like Head Start — even though her name is often left out of the history. We hear more about her life and work in a story from the podcast “Lost Women of Science,” hosted by Carol Sutton Lewis and Danya AbdelHameid. GUESTS: Dolores Caffey-Fleming, Program director of Project STRIDE, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Allison Horrocks, Public historian Lauren Bauer, fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution The post Flemmie Kittrell and the Preschool Experiment, from Lost Women of Science appeared first on KPFA .…
Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Winter Fund Drive. Paul Reitter and Paul North discuss their translation of Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 , by Karl Marx. To support KPFA’s mission, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732. The post Special Winter Fund Drive Programming: Paul Reitter and Paul North on Capital, by Karl Marx appeared first on KPFA .…
Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Winter Fund Drive. For four days in September of 1971, prisoners revolted, taking over the institution that incarcerated them in upstate New York. By the time the dust settled in Attica, 33 prisoners and 10 guards or staff had been killed – notably all but one guard and three prisoners were killed by law enforcement gunfire when the state violently retook control of the prison. While the Attica rebellion has become fairly widely known, our guest has written a powerful book that reframes that rebellion not as a singular uprising, but as one important piece that contextualizes a series of rebellions by prisoners, engaging in tactics that include counter-violence, against the violence of the white supremacist capitalist framing of our society itself, asserting that US prisons are literal sites of war. Our guest is Orisanmi Burton , a Professor of Anthropology at American University, who describes this framing in his book as the Long Attica Revolt, or in description, “revolutionary struggle for decolonization and abolition at the site of the US prison”. His book is called Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt . Prisoners in, at least New York, Florida, Michigan, and California, have been banned from reading it under fears that it may itself incite rebellion. That’s a claim that our guest today rejects. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton . Burton goes beyond the state records that other histories have relied on for the story of Attica and expands that archive, drawing on oral history and applying Black radical theory in ways that center the intellectual and political goals of the incarcerated people who led the struggle. Packed with little-known insights from the prison movement, the Black Panther Party, and the Black Liberation Army, Tip of the Spear promises to transform our understanding of prisons—not only as sites of race war and class war, of counterinsurgency and genocide, but also as sources of defiant Black life, revolutionary consciousness, and abolitionist possibility. To support KPFA’s mission, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732. The post Special Winter Fund Drive Programming: Orisanmi Burton on the Long Attica Revolt appeared first on KPFA .…
Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Winter Fund Drive: David Walker , award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator, joins Brian Edwards-Tiekert to discuss Walker’s book The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom . To support our mission, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732. The post Special Fund Drive Programming : David Walker on the Life of Frederick Douglass appeared first on KPFA .…
The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, including Operation Teapot in 1955. One was Eldridge Jones , who later deployed to exercises in the Bay Area to try to clean up radioactive substances, directed by the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. In episode 2 of “Exposed,” from our friends at San Francisco Public Press, we explore a little-known chapter in San Francisco’s nuclear era: human experiments carried out to assess the health effects of radiation. Scientists from the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, located at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, designed and executed at least 24 experiments that involved gathering data from humans — in some cases, injecting test subjects with radioisotopes or having them ingest fluids laced with trace amounts of radioactive materials. Even football players from the San Francisco 49ers were enrolled as test subjects in these so-called tracer studies. We hear from military veterans who were sent on a mysterious mission to spread radioactive substances onto rooftops at an Army base near Pittsburg, California, for an experiment the radiation lab played a role in designing. Some recount experiences of witnessing nuclear bomb blasts in the Nevada desert. We also examine a national pattern of human radiation experiments revealed by Eileen Welsome , the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, who shined a light on similar practices conducted by government facilities, hospitals, and other institutions. Featuring: Eldridge Jones , served in the military and was part of Operation Stoneman Merle Votaw , Navy veteran who participated in Operation Stoneman II Eileen Welsome , author of “Plutonium Files” Holly Barker , anthropologist and professor at the University of Washington who studied the Marshall Islands. The post Exposed, part 2: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter’s Point appeared first on KPFA .…
This episode comes to us from the podcast at SF Public Press. “Exposed” opens a window into the little-known history of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The sprawling abandoned naval base, in San Francisco’s southeast waterfront Bayview neighborhood, is currently the site of the city’s largest real estate development project. The base played a key role in the Cold War nuclear era, when it housed a research institution known as the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, which studied the human health effects of radiation. In part one, we trace the radioactive contamination found in the shipyard soil today back to its origins, with nuclear bomb testing in the Marshall Islands. We also hear from environmental justice advocates, including one who led a health biomonitoring survey revealing that nearby residents have toxic elements stored in body tissues that match the hazardous chemicals of concern identified at the shipyard. GUESTS: Ahimsa Porter Sumchai , community advocate and medical doctor Michelle Pierce , Executive director of Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates Leaotis Martin , resident of Bayview Raymond Tompkins , community advocate, chemist, and former member of the Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board Daniel Hirsch , president of Committee to Bridge the Gap Derek Robinson, Navy representative The post Exposed, part 1: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter’s Point appeared first on KPFA .…
Today we head back to Indianapolis with the podcast Urban Roots. In the 1950s and 1960s, Ms. Jean Spears was a young mother and burgeoning preservationist. She saved antiques from houses about to be demolished; she bought a home in a white slum and renovated it; later on, she did the same with a historic home in the black neighborhood near Indiana Avenue. In the eighties, she and some neighbors started digging into this black neighborhood’s history, uncovering the names of Black doctors, civic leaders, and other professionals who had lived there — many of whom had worked for Madam C.J. Walker. She helped rename the neighborhood to Ransom Place, in honor of Freeman Ransom: Madam Walker’s prodigious lawyer. And in 1991, they succeeded in getting the Ransom Place Historic District included in the National Register of Historic Places. Thanks in no small part to the connection to Madam C.J. Walker, Jean Spears was able to save this pocket of Black history, in an area that — as we explained last episode — the city of Indianapolis had almost erased from memory. But black Indy history is about more than Madam Walker; other stories and places in the city need protection, too. In this episode, we’ll introduce you to three Black women who are carrying on what Ms. Jean Spears started — safeguarding these little-known stories of the past and guiding Indianapolis toward a brighter future. GUESTS: Claudia Polley , Urban Legacy Lands Initiative Kaila Austin , artist and historian Judith Thomas , Deputy Mayor of Neighborhood Engagement for the City of Indianapolis Paula Brooks , Environmental Justice Program Manager at the Hoosier Environment Council The post Reclaiming Indianapolis’s Black History from Urban Roots appeared first on KPFA .…
Madam C.J. Walker was a brilliant entrepreneur who built a haircare empire and became the first African-American woman millionaire. You might have heard about her, but not many people know that her headquarters used to be located in Indianapolis, along a once vibrant Black corridor called Indiana Avenue, a place that today is known for parking lots, high-speed traffic, and uninspiring university buildings. Why do so few people know this story? Because, over decades, government planners and private developers slowly and systematically erased Indiana Avenue’s history. Luckily, however, some Black Hoosiers are working to uncover, and reclaim, what almost disappeared without a trace. In this episode, we tell their, and the Avenue’s, story. GUESTS: A’Lelia Bundles , Journalist and Madam C.J. Walker biographer Susan Hall Dotson , Indiana Historical Society Claudia Polley , Urban Legacy Lands Initiative Wildstyle Paschall , artist and community advocate Devon Ginn , Walker Legacy Center Mr. Thomas Hart Ridley , centenarian and Indiana Avenue author The post Urban Roots: Madam Walker and the Rise & Fall of Indiana Avenue appeared first on KPFA .…
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