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In Part 2 the author defines our drug problem. It isn't simple drug use, as debilitating drug addiction is relatively small. Rather, Baum introduces policies in...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 1:20pm PDT
Gone viral: an excerpt of Dan Baum's piece, "Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs," recently published in the April 2016 issue of Harper's magazine, has been shared across social media, resulting in videos, quotes, tweets, and more. Here's the full piece, it's a long one, with policy recommendations, data, and more....
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 1:20pm PDT
Brussels Attacks - Belgian authorities word unquestioned, presented as fact
BCfm's weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 11:43am PDT
Interview with Orleans Parish Reform Coalition member, Janet Hays, in advance of press conference in New Orleans. OPPRC and Religious Leaders demand Sheriff Marlin Gusman resign from office immediately, citing the pervasive culture of violence and neglect in the new jail....
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2016 7:40am PDT
Interview with Kevin Caldwell - Executive Director of CommonsenseNOLA - a marijuana reform advocacy organization. Listeners learn about why a proposed city ordinance that would reform marijuana prohibition in New Orleans is needed. Discussed are issues of racial equity, summonses, citations and the negative economic and humanitarian impacts of high bonds amounts on poor people who have committed low level non-violent offenses....
Posted: Fri, Mar 4, 2016 7:02pm PST
Hundreds of activists marched through downtown to the site of “SuperBowl City” Saturday to protest unrelenting economic displacements, part of a series of protests during this 3-week long corporate extravaganza in attempts to highlight to the world the city’s pathetic political priorities. Hear housing organizer Tommi Avicolli Mecca describe aspects of the problems in short stops in front of Twitter headquarters at 7th and Market and at the Market and Powell cable car stop, speaking to the...
Posted: Sun, Feb 7, 2016 3:27pm PST
January 15, 2016
Today on Hard Knock, we’ll hear landmark speeches from American Civil Rights icon, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., along with interviews fr...
Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2016 10:56pm PST
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Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2016 10:56pm PST
January 19, 2016
On today’s program we speak with Alicia one of the protesters from the Bay Area Bridge shut down. And later we hear from organizers gathered...
Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2016 10:56pm PST
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1FM @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson. This is their series of broadcasts around Martin Luther King Jr Day 2016....
Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2016 10:56pm PST
William Pepper on Air America, Dr. Martin Luther King on freedom and DJ mouse and the Harding/Nieto/Lopez/Woods murder boss on KALW in January 2013...
Posted: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 3:17pm PST
"I place you under citizen's arrest Greg Suhr"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 3:17pm PST
Families demand justice in SFPD shootings of Mario Woods, Amilcar Lopez, Alex Nieto and Kenneth Harding...
Posted: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 3:17pm PST
DJ Habi of WTUL News and Views interviews artist and prison reform advocate Jackie Sumell about her in-progress exhibition called The Solitary Gardens. Sumell discusses Herman Wallace, who sparked her interest in the abolition of solitary confinement, and who was the focus of one of her previous projects titled Herman's House. She explains the symbolism behind the project, as well as the medicinal and healing values it will have....
Posted: Wed, Dec 30, 2015 7:47am PST
Part 2 from journalist David Sheen’s lecture “the Bullet, the Ballot, and the Boycott” at University of New Orleans on Tuesday, November 10, 2015....
Posted: Sun, Nov 29, 2015 5:49pm PST
(audio in ogg-vorbis format, 1 hour 9 minutes) Holly Sterling,Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake and Ray McGovern urge president to issue pardon for Jeffrey Sterling...
Posted: Wed, Oct 21, 2015 8:33am PDT
The New Orleans Independent Police Monitor, Susan Hutson talks about recent attacks on her professional behavior from the Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux when he called for her to be fired. Yvette Theirry joins after Susan to discuss the police monitor and this fight from a community perspective....
Posted: Wed, Oct 7, 2015 7:36am PDT
Gahiji Lumumba Barrow interviews Leroy Perry who runs the re-entry program at the homeless Mission in New Orleans they are joined by Lauren Anderson a staff attorney with the Orleans Public Defenders Office and Donald Jones who is a re-entry client. 23:47...
Posted: Wed, Sep 23, 2015 7:22am PDT
Mirandizing People with Intellectual Disabilities, an interview by Gahiji Barrow with Janet Hays, founder of Healing Minds NOLA and mental health advocate- Ann Morel, mother who bravely shares her story -and Morel's lawyer Josephine Heller of Manasseh, Gill, Knipe, and Belanger...
Posted: Mon, Sep 21, 2015 6:46am PDT
Last year the Stop Urban Shield Coalition succeeded in getting the City of Oakland to cancel this year's Urban Shield war games and weapons exposition. Nevertheless, Urban Shield returned to the Bay Area on 09/11, once again organized by Alameda County Sheriff Gregory L. Ahern and the Alameda County Sheriff's Department. This time its hub is in Pleasanton, a suburb between Oakland and Livermore with a population of roughly 70,000....
Posted: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 3:29pm PDT