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Recently on Full Circle we heard from folks in the Berkeley Albany area who are focused on bringing better health, nutrition and welfare to the community. We hear from Dr Amelia Barili, UC Berkeley instructor, a past participant at the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and a stellar instructor in Yoga, Qigong and meditation. Also UC Berkeley Gill Tract Community Farm participants, Aconnie James, Lady E and Miss Eden and Dr Ricardo Carrillo noted Bay Area trauma therapist and author of “Cultura y Bienestar” please stay tuned.

This week on Full Circle we check in on some upcoming local events planned to help educate and bring awareness on the situation and history of Palestine. On tonight's show, we'll speak with renowned international speaker and author, Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac. Rev. Munther is a Palestinian faith leader and the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church of Bethlehem. Rev. Munther gained global notoriety when his sermon, Christ Under The Rubble, went viral. He is on a speaking tour and will be in the Bay Area this weekend. We'll kick off the show with Rev. Munther’s, Easter Vigil For Gaza. To close out the show, we’ll check in with our friend, Layla Darwish. She is a Palestinian activist out of Fresno and she has Just set up her second Palestinian History display in the Fresno Public Library.

Tonight on Full Circle, we will be in conversation with West Oakland to West Africa International Poetry Exchange. (WO2WA). We will talk about what they’ve been doing since the last time they honored us with their presence on Full Circle. We will also hear about their upcoming production, Lake Walking, Revolutionary Talking.

First Voice Graduate Stevie G speaks with folks from the Black Repertory Group about the history of the Theater group, their historic location and what the future holds for both.

Last Friday on Full Circle, as the devastation continues in Gaza, we spoke with a critical care physician and trauma surgeon, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa. He volunteered in Gaza and has returned to share his story. And in California, a thirteen year old Palestinian girl wearing a hijab was attacked and assaulted by a US combat veteran as she and her sister spelt out Free Palestine on a popular sand dune in Monterey County. Part of the assault was caught on video and we share the audio from that. And we spoke with the sister of the young woman as the case headed to court. To close out the show, we spoke with Meres-Sia Gabriel, she is the daughter of Black Panther Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas. Meres-Sia is an artist herself and is performing in her one woman show titled, I Was There Too, A Firsthand Account of Growing Up In The Black Panther Party.

This week on Full Circle, it’s clear now that Israel has enacted the Hannibal Doctrine on October 7th and it’s ongoing, allowing the Israeli occupation forces to kill their own people to prevent them from being taken prisoner. We’ll check in with a report from the Electronic Intifada. And as the devastation from hurricane Beryl is being felt across a large portion of the country we’ll get some updates from the Houston area. First an on the ground report from a mutual aid organizer with the We Got Us Collective. Then we’ll get an update from our sister station, KPFT in Houston Texas. The station is up and running after temporarily going off the air after hurricane Beryl rolled through Houston Texas.

Thanks for your patience as we catch up on some post’s. Last week on Full Circle, we shared some sounds from the IITC 50th anniversary gathering. As some of you may know, I recently became part of the Bay Native Circle team here at KPFA Radio. Tonight we’ll play a couple of interviews that just aired on Bay Native Circle. We'll hear from two women working to make the future a better place for our people, for all people and the planet. First we’ll hear from MAMA Julz, Lakota land defender, water protector and the founder of MAMA’s, Mothers Against Meth Alliance. Then we’ll hear an interview with Dr. Vivian Delgado by Miguel Gavilan Molina and Sara Blanco. We’ll also hear some traditional music recorded at the event.

Last week on Full Circle, First Voice Graduate, Channa Wilson , along with her partner Dana travelled to Alaska where they met a wonderful family who are reviving their Haida Nation's cultural practices. This is, of course, after the awful impacts of colonization: deaths from smallpox and other diseases, and Alaska Native children being shipped to boarding school where they were forbidden their language and cultural practices. Now, two generations of the Hamar family are carving ocean-going canoes, totem poles, and masks, weaving ceremonial regalia, practicing traditional harvesting of foods, curating a family museum of artifacts, and taking part in language revitalization.

This week on Full Circle we have two stories for you. On tonight's show, we hear from the prayer vigil for Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist and land defender that is coming up on 50 years of incarceration for a crime he didn’t commit. At that prayer vigil for Leonard Peltier, a simultaneous, but autonomous free Palestine encampment was set up and at one point the two actions merged in a prayerful moment; we'll hear some clips from that. And we’ll close out the show with a detailed and in depth report that debunks, again, the allegations of systemic rape and sexual violence allegedly committed during the October 7th attacks in occupied Palestine.. This report comes from rigorous investigative journalism, and we’ll get analysis from the Electronic Intifada

Last week on Full Circle, we heard from Melissa Nold, human rights attorney out of Vallejo CA. There is a lot happening out there trying to clean up a racist violent police department. Melissa will give us an update on a planned action for (tonight) Tuesday June, 11th, at the Vallejo city council. We’ll also check in on the San Francisco Black Film Festival with our special guest, actor, director and filmmaker, Mario Van Peebles. And we’ll close out the show with a short update with our friend from Soul Mechanix, Graal Swartz. They have a show coming up at Yoshi’s and we get the details.