Full Circle KPFA

So … initially we had in store for you all a show about resolution and revolution … what time tested techniques do we use to create lasting transformation?  BUT... there is a crisis going on here at KPFA/Pacifica that we simply cannot ignore … therefore …

On tonight’s show, we will:

... Discuss the facts of the matter at hand.

... Speak with Grace Aaron of the Pacifica National Board.

... And, we'll hear from you!  We want to give you an opportunity to call in to ask questions and discuss solutions.

All that tonight on Full Circle.

Welcome to Full Circle, your cultural affairs radio magazine produced by members of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program.

On tonight’s show we are presenting to you the fiery and inspiring music of Oakland based artists Mother and the Boards. Ahead of their album release, we have them in studio to perform for us live and to tell us about the powerful message that drives their music. We will get to meet the band that uses their fierce blend of folk and blues to support movements for a sustainable planet, racial justice and resilient community. Let’s get right into it, this is, Mother and the Boards!

First Voice Graduate Apprentice and Full Circle Production Consultant, Joy Moore, talks with Leaders in the Food Justice Movement, highlighting successes and future challenges. Join us in conversation with three amazing people working to insure our food future: Dru Rivers of Full Belly Farm, Co-Founder of Eco-Farm, Ecological Farming Association, based in Santa Cruz and Mona Urbina, Youth Program Manager at Pie Ranch, a social justice education/training focused farm in Pescadero, California. Hear about the food justice movement, what has been and is being done! The future is here!  Please spread the word!

On tonight’s show we’ll be addressing financial inequality here in the USA. We’ll discuss ...

... How do we understand the widening wealth gap; what is fueling its runaway increase?

... Student debt and the cost of higher education as a barrier to building wealth.

... Also … medical costs, now a leading cause of personal bankruptcy and loss of savings.

... And finally, blessedly, a review of things being done to address financial inequality, especially in the Bay Area.

On tonight’s show we’ll be giving clips from the documentary film: Trumping Democracy. We explore the shock of a Donald Trump victory and the obscure tactic his team used to achieve it. We will listen to excerpts of the documentary “Trumping Democracy.” which also explains how our use of Facebook and other social media platforms gives them the tools to effectively hack democracy.

On tonight’s show, we will hear from folks who are at the frontlines of Oakland’s new soda tax, making sure that it addresses the epidemic of diabetes and other health impacts from too much sugar in our diets, and the racial dimension of this issue.

Tonight, we will …

• Hear from key leaders from the Sugar Freedom Project, who have gone door-to-door in East Oakland involving the community in setting priorities for this new fee on the soda industry.

• We will also hear other community and policy advocates from the Oakland Food Policy Council, the East Oakland Collective, and Roots Community Health Clinic weigh in on this issue.

• Finally, we have the chair of the newly-created Soda Tax Advisory Board in Oakland, which will make recommendations on how to spend up to $10 million for each of the next 10 years.

All that tonight on Full Circle.

We have such a treat in store for you tonight! We will be airing exclusive segments from City Arts and Lectures’ June Evening with Arundhati Roy and Alice Walker … and … I have in studio with me two very special guests whose lives and work are uniquely intertwined with Alice’s and Arundhati’s.

On tonight’s show…

... We’ll listen to Arundhati Roy reading from her latest novel “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”

... We will hear Alice Walker and Arundhati Roy in dialogue

... And my guests, Hemal Lalabhai, Arisika Razak and I, will discuss the significance of Alice and Arundhati’s incendiary insights and prose today

All that tonight on Full Circle.

Tonight we will be talking about Puerto Rico, or Borinquen, the island’s indigenous name. We will discuss the current social and political situation … how we got where we are, and what’s next.

On tonight’s show …

… We will learn some historical facts about the relationship between the U.S. government and Puerto Rico.

… We will go over the concept of disaster capitalism as defined by Naomi Klein in her 2007 book The Shock Doctrine, the rise of disaster capitalism and why is it important to understand Borinquen’s situation.

… We will speak with defend Puerto Rico’s activist Khalil Jacobs Fantauzzi about Puerto Rico before and after Hurricane Maria and how disaster capitalism has been manifested by the powers at play.

… We will learn about what’s happening at the University of Puerto Rico, and how organizations on the island are generating responses to the crisis.

All that tonight on Full Circle.

Tonight we will be talking about Puerto Rico, or Borinquen, the island’s indigenous name. We will discuss the current social and political situation … how we got where we are, and what’s next.

On tonight’s show …

… We will learn some historical facts about the relationship between the U.S. government and Puerto Rico.

… We will go over the concept of disaster capitalism as defined by Naomi Klein in her 2007 book The Shock Doctrine, the rise of disaster capitalism and why is it important to understand Borinquen’s situation.

… We will speak with defend Puerto Rico’s activist Khalil Jacobs Fantauzzi about Puerto Rico before and after Hurricane Maria and how disaster capitalism has been manifested by the powers at play.

… We will learn about what’s happening at the University of Puerto Rico, and how organizations on the island are generating responses to the crisis.

All that tonight on Full Circle.

We commemorate Armistice Day - Veterans Day - Remembrance Day…………..A memorial of the day in 1918 when the Allied Forces signed an armistice With Germany effectively ending all military operations and hostilities in all theatres and fronts of World War One. On this show we’ll hear from two veterans who have focused their life on peace. Discuss strategies for ending war and the Military Industrial Complex with a left-wing military historian and professor. We’ll also hear some anti-war music, both well known songs and some just written.