Welcome to Full Circle, your cultural affairs radio magazine produced by members of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. Tonight we bring you another presentation of our new segment, “People Helping People.”

On tonight’s show, we’ll ...

● Learn about Opportunity Junction, a free job training and placement program for folks in Contra Costa County …

● We’ll also learn about White Pony Express and Bay Point Community All-In-One, two organizations that help with free food, clothing and much more …

All this is part of People Helping People. That’s tonight on Full Circle.

Good evening, everyone … and welcome to Full Circle, your cultural affairs radio magazine produced by members of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program.

On tonight’s show, just a few days before Halloween, we will delve into both the mythology and known history of witches. I am pleased to welcome my guest Max Dashu, the founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives.

Tonight...

… We will learn why and how Max created the Archives and how it is used …

… We will discuss the history and mythology of witches in folk religions ancient and contemporary …

… And we will explore the pattern of persecution carried out against the European folk religions and then exported with the conquest and colonization of other areas of the world.

All that tonight on Full Circle.

Buenas noches, on tonight’s Full Circle we are pleased to present the fifth episode of the Spanglish Power Hour with our host Josiah Luis Alderete.

First, an offering of poesia from two latinx poets: Rene Vaz y Angel Dominguez.

Then we speak to Itzel Calvo and Araceli NL from the East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition, an undocumented queer+transgender youth organization based aqui in Oakland.

Along the way we’ll be grooving to the cross-cultural beats of Latinx musico Jess Sylvestre.

And finally, we have some Random Thoughts From a Stoned Pocho on “Why Halloween is NOT El Dia de Los Muertos.”

On tonight’s show, we are overjoyed to welcome our very special guest for the hour, Miakoda Taylor.

Miakoda is the founder of Fierce Allies, an organization that teaches relationship-based strategies that build communities of practice by catalyzing dynamics of power and privilege towards equity and justice.

Tonight ...

… We will learn why Miakoda created Fierce Allies, and exactly what it does.

… We will discuss specific examples of how these dynamics work.

… And … we will have the unique opportunity to be guided through practices that carry the work into our own lives.

On this program, we will explore poetry with WOWA (West Oakland to West Africa) poetry exchange group. This poetry group consists of some extraordinary poets in West Oakland as well as some of their phenomenal poet partners in West Africa. Guests include:

- Makeda aka Sandra Hooper Mayfield...poet, journalist, tutor, counselor, and community activist.

- Mimi Gonzalez...poet, freelance journalist, comedian, activist, and event producer.

- Sara Biel...poet, visual artist, and social worker.

- Wanda Sabir...journalist, activist, teacher, and poet

- Dr. Marcus Lorenzo Penn...holistic doctor, photographic artist, yoga teacher, wellness consultant, coach, and facilitator, poet, author, and speaker.

- Tyrice Deane-Brown...MFA student receiving her degree in creative writing and poetry. Tyrice is calling in from Virginia tonight.

- Radhiyah (Rashiddah) Ayobami...Brooklyn born with southern roots. She holds a B.A. in Africana studies and a MFA in prose. Radhiyah (Rashiddah) is calling in from New York tonight.

- Kojo Benedict Quaye aka Yibor Kojo calling in from Germany

- Etchian Jean Frederic Obeli aka Obi

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TONIGHT'S GUESTS:  John Mejia and Nicole Gervacio

Good evening everyone… and welcome to Full Circle, your cultural affairs radio magazine produced by members of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. This show was written, produced, and recorded in Huichin, occupied Ohlone territory, also known to settlers as the Bay Area.

Here at Full Circle we are overjoyed to welcome my co-host Laura Echegaray back from Puerto Rico! More on that on an upcoming episode. In the meantime, we turn our attention to the month of October - can you believe it’s already here! October is known for many things - pumpkin everything, witches, and here on native soil we get to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day. But did you know it’s also Filipino American History Month!?

That’s right! And on tonight’s show…

We will give a brief history of the migration of Filipinos to this country.

We will time travel back just a few decade’s to Larry Itliong and the role of Filipinos in the Delano farmworker strike.

And we will hear from a young Filipino American artist on her use of art as activism, ancestral healing, and a vehicle for nothing less than collective liberation.

Tonight’s show is going to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the passing of black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet Audre Lorde, with:

A collection of readings of her works and personal reflections from her friends.

And a celebration of how her life is supporting and inspiring successive efforts to combat injustice.

Also … since we are in the Fall Fund Drive, we will be asking for your support for KPFA and the First Voice Apprenticeship Program!

Tonight, Full Circle again comes to you prepared to do our part to raise funds for this important station. And we bring you “National Bird”… a documentary film that takes a look at our secret drone warfare program and the sensor operators that control them.

“National Bird” is a documentary film that takes a critical look at what happens to drone pilots when they are overworked, over stressed, and still pushed to keep going.

And it also speaks with survivors who live in fear of an instant out of nowhere strike from the sky.

On tonight’s show …

- We’ll feature excerpts from “National Bird.”

- We’ll also speak with one of the producers/directors of the film, Sonia Kennebeck.

- And, of course, tonight we will be asking for your support for KPFA and the Apprenticeship Program!

On tonight’s show we are remembering September 11th, and since I’m sure you will hear a lot about what happened in New York on this date, we are going to talk about what happened in Chile on September 11th of 1973.

On tonight’s show you’ll learn about what happened in Chile on that day, why it happened, why is it still important and how our bay area responded to it.

Tonight we will interview Chileans Fernando Torres and Hector Salgado.

We will also hear from Eric Leeson, one of the founders of La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley.

Then, we will hear the voice of singer-songwriter Victor Jara and talk a bit about Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda and his connection to the events.

Tonight we are also honored to have Fernando Torres, a Chilean musician and song-writer who lived in Chile at the time of their September 11th, back in 1973 and who was imprisoned and later exiled.

Just a quick trigger warning: please be forewarned that this radio hour includes discussion of colonization, sexual assault, and child sexual abuse. Please take good care of yourself while you listen.

Since the so-called sexual revolution, have we actually reached a -eh-hem- climax of sexual liberation? Might there still be unfinished work to do? Wouldn't sexual liberation require consent, decolonization & accountability? Let's find out.

On tonight's show, we will:

- Learn about the history of consent on this continent

- Move beyond the dominant understanding of sexuality in settler colonial culture

- And discuss loving with accountability.

This show is a collaboration between Full Circle and Liberation Spring. Featured guests include Dr. Sarah Hunt, Dr, Kim TallBear, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons. All guests are interviewed by Anjali Nath Upadhyay of Liberation Spring.