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This week on Full Circle we go back to cover Palestine and the ongoing genocide taking place. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear from Rami of the Palestinian Youth Movement. He will bring us up to speed as to what it's like on the ground in Gaza. He will also give us details on upcoming actions in the Bay Area this weekend. Then we will check in with our friend, Palestinian American activist, Layla Darwish. She is down in Fresno for our friends at KFCF. There are actions planned in Fresno and she will get us the details.

This week on Full Circle, we’ll hear from the battle at People’s Park here in Berkeley. The historic park is again under threat of development. We have voices from yesterday’s rally and an interview with Andrea Pritchett. We’ll also hear from JR Valrey, and his interview with BART Co-Director Lateefah Simon about some of the things that she has worked on at the Bay Area Rapid Transit System since being elected. To close out the show, First Voice is collaborating with youth from Moving South Berkeley Forward. We’ll hear one of the first interviews from the group..

This week on Full Circle we keep our eyes on Palestine. We’ll hear from Palestinian American Layla Darwish as she reflects on the past couple weeks in Palestine. We’ll also hear from the Minister of Information, JR, as he speaks with former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney as she speaks about her experiences in Gaza and how she sees the current devastation unfolding in Palestine. And we'll feature music from Palestine and Supporters

Last week on Full Circle, Christmas was canceled in Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus. On last week’s show, we heard part of a special report from Democracy Now, focusing on Christmas festivities being canceled in Bethlehem. We’ll also shared some voices from the Labor Solidarity Rally for Palestine held in Oakland last weekend. And we featured music from Palestine and supporters.

This week on Full Circle we will keep our eyes and ears on Palestine. On tonight’s show, we’ll be joined by our special guest you met a couple weeks ago, Palestinian American Activists, Layla Darwish. She will again reflect on the past few days and give us an update on her work in Fresno. We’ll also hear some voices from past few weeks of Full Circle and tell you how to see the video of the events. Finally, we’re raising funds to keep kpfa on the air so we will be asking for you support.

This week on Full Circle we will check out sounds from the 2023 Memorial Walk for Justice for Timothy Charles Lee. A young Black/Indigenous gay man who was found hanging in a fig tree near the Concord BART station in 1985. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear some voices from the Memorial event. Including Richmond City Council District 1 Representative Melvin Willis, Antioch Mayor, Lamar Thorpe and community representatives from Rainbow Community Center, Concord Community Alliance and Reimagine Antioch.

This week on Full Circle we will take it to “The Rock”, Alcatraz,as Indigenous people gather for the annual No Thanks Given Sunrise Gathering. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear some voices from the island as thousands of people honored/memorialized and mourned the day. We’ll also be joined by our special guest you met a couple weeks ago, Palestinian American activists and organizer, Layla Darwish. She will reflect on some of the speeches from Alcatraz and the past few days' news with me and offer some Palestinian resistance songs for us to share in and enjoy .

This week on Full Circle we have community updates for you. First on tonight’s show, we’ll get a heads up on a planned rally and ceasefire march happening tomorrow at North Berkeley BART, and a caravan to MLK Memorial Park. Then we’ll hear some voices from the bay bridge takeover yesterday when hundreds of protesters blocked morning commute traffic into San Francisco. We’ll close out the show with an interview with local Pastor, Pastor Mike, he spoke with KPFA’s own Davey D on yesterday’s Hard Knock Radio and breaks down the black christians open letter calling for a ceasefire in Palestine.

This week on Full Circle we focus our attention with the rest of the world on the ongoing atTemted genocide in Palestine. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear an interview with Palestinian American and social justice activist Layla Darwish as she shares her thoughts on her family in Palestine and her silencing on social media. After that we’ll hear excerpts from the Indigenous Solidarity Rally for Palestine held in Oakland last night

This week on Full Circle, First Voice Media Graduate, Natalie Kilmer returns to the airwaves with the latest episode of her podcast, West Coast Water Justice. Tune in as she says... "We interview Jesus Alonso and Ngodoo Atume from Clean Water Action in California. Ngodoo is a Senior Water Policy Analyst and Jesus serves as Clean Water Action’s Kern County Gas and Oil Organizer. We learn about California’s Central Valley communities that do not have safe drinking water, some that have to pay for contaminated water, and others whose wells have been poisoned or sucked dry. Jesus shares stories from his community, in Kern County, we hear about what it's like living and attending school next door to an oil pumpjack and the health risks associated. We learn about the fossil fuel industry’s chemical and radioactive-laced wastewater and how it is sold to farmers and used to grow food in five California water districts."