KPFA goes live from the streets of San Jose for Broadcasting Resistance – Summer of Rage, a special broadcast confronting ...

Legendary musician, songwriter, Sly Stone, of the iconic Sly & The Family Stone, has passed away at age 82. Sly Stone, born ...

US Right to Know's Pamela Ferdinand on plastics and CA Environmental Voters's Melissa Romero on the Valero Refinery closure.

To celebrate Pride Month, we have a special show featuring stories from the Making Contact archives. We’ll revisit the Stonewall Uprising with the 1989 audio documentary Remembering Stonewall and then ...

To begin this week’s show, Mickey welcomes back media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss his new podcast Disinfo Detox and recurring special feature “The Gaslight Gazette,” which analyzes current ...

Acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby seeks to reconcile nature, culture, diversity, and belonging.

Miguel Gavilan Molina walking the long walk for immigrants rights. Also a special extended report from Gary Baca in  Los ...

We start today’s show discussing the Trump Administration’s cuts to arts funding and those cuts’ impact on communities, as well as reactions to the ongoing national uprising against ICE detentions. We ...

Paolo Gerbaudo on the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD’s rise (articles here and here) • Andrew Hartman, author of Karl Marx in America, on the bearded one’s reception in the US ...

Guests:  Sonali Kolhatkar is an award winning journalist, broadcaster, writer, and author. She is the founder, host, and ...

What if humans acted with nature, not on it? What would farming look like if we stopped trying to master and dominate the environment? According to Andrew Pickering, the no-plowing, no-weeding form of ...

Senior Senator Alex Padilla of California forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s news conference, in the same building where Padilla has an office: And we feature, as we do every week, the independently ...