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Tonight on Full Circle we celebrate Pride, with Pride In The Plaza. Pride In The Plaza is an annual event held in Concord California.The event is hosted by Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa. On tonight’s show we’ll hear sounds from the annual event including young poets of the Creatio Veritas slam crew and interviews with organizers and participants of the Pride In The Plaza event.

(LATE POST) On last weeks Full Circle show we heard from 4 phenomenal people who use and advocate ecological farming and/or gardening. Kanchan Dawn Hunter from Spiral Gardens in Berkeley, CA; Kelly Carlisle from Acta Non Verba in Oakland, CA, Marissa Lamagna, Bay Area Green Tours, based in Berkeley CA; and Dennis Hutson’s Allenworth Farm in California’s Central Valley. Be sure to tune in Tonight at 7pm as Full Circle brings you sounds from Pride In The Park, hosted by Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa

Tonight on Full Circle we give a shout out to dad’s and the LGBTQIA+ community. On tonight’s show we’ll hear stories and commentary about dad’s. In honor of pride month, we’ll hear a short introduction and some kpfa history from our own Channa Wilson. Also we’ll her a tribute to berkeley activist and educator, Mel Martynn (Mar-teen)

Tonight on Full Circle we’ll hear. Interviews collected at the 53rd Chicano Park Day commemoration, including directors and curators of the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center as we tour the museum. Also organizers of the event and indigenous cultural hip hop artists, Aztlan Underground.

Tonight on Full Circle we have two great stories for you. We’ll hear a shout out to the final days of AAPI heritage month with a special piece on Larry Itliong, the Filipino farm worker and organizer who many credit with starting the great grape strike and boycott of 1965. After that we’ll get an update from Camp Ox Sam. That is a resistance camp led by Native elders who are on the frontlines, fighting a mega lithium mine that is desecrating sacred tribal land. We’ll have Chase IronEyes and Max Wilbert on for that.

Tonight, we are going back to Antioch to get some good news from the East Bay city rocked by a recent police text message scandal and FBI investigation. On tonight’s show we’ll hear two opening ceremonies in the city. First, Antioch is now the only city in Contra Costa County with a non police emergency community response team. We’ll hear some voices from the kick off of what is now known as the Angelo Quinto Community Response Team AQ CRT. We also hear emotional testimony from the opening ceremonies of Antioch's launch of “Opportunity Village” a downtown hotel converted into transitional housing for our unhoused community. Later, to honor the birthday of Malcolm X, we’ll hear him in his own words after his return from Mecca.

Tonight on Full Circle, we will again be covering the Antioch police text message scandal and community outrage. On tonight’s show we’ll hear community response as the community takes to the streets and speaks out about racist police on the department steps ahead of a special city council meeting. We also hear from civil rights attorney John Burris as he launches a federal lawsuit against the Antioch police. John also brings the survivors of this violence to share their stories. And we’ll get an update on upcoming actions

This week on Full Circle we spoke to three young folks making a difference in the world. Jada Imani youth organizer with Bioneers and former garden student of your truly, Joy Moore. Also Aminah Davis of Access Clean California. Later we speak with Keoni Stokes a garden student at Berkeley Technology Academy.

Late post ICYMI, Full Circle 04-21-23, check out these special music selections for Earth Day. These selections were put together and introduced by Mrs. M. The earth has been designated as female, so consequently we consider her nurturing and bountiful, never the less, we know she also has a tumultuous side. Additionally some of her inhabitants have failed to give her proper respect and so our beloved planet is suffering her own timely demise, and thus, the world being of her inhabitants is threatened. Tonight we will have some songs that salute Mother Earth and urge her inhabitant to give her better care. We'll also have some songs created by earths mortal inhabitants that reflect some of the manifestations we experience from her base, as well as the human feelings and emotions that are artistically linked to her elements. WE LOVE YOU MAMA!!!

Tonight on Full Circle we will be talking about the Antioch Police text message scandal and investigation. On tonight’s show we’ll hear community response as people speak out at a recent city council meeting. We also hear the reflections of city council member and Mayor Pro Tem Tamisha Torres-Walker and Mayor Lamar Thorpe. And we will be asking for your support in honor of kpfa’s 74th birthday