Episodes

  • Lessons from the LA fires / Surveillance of Student Protesters: The Case of Yale

    Lessons from the LA fires / Surveillance of Student Protesters: The Case of Yale
    Jan 24 2025
    In the first half of today’s show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Leyna Quinn-Davidson, the Fire Network Director for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources about the confluence of issues that are quite literally fueling the fires in LA County. Leyna highlights how we have to shift our thinking about not only how fires burn but their historic and vital role in bolstering healthy ecosystems. She also pinpoints some simple actions people in the area can take to protect their homes and, perhaps more important, their communities, since what your neighbor does or doesn’t do in these situations will directly affect you. In the second half, experienced conflict correspondent Theia Chatelle joins the program to talk about suing Yale PD, a frustrating but enlightening process that uncovered a vast and deep web of surveillance and repressive tactics aimed at students engaging in constitutionally protected speech and protest. Theia discusses the frightening levels of coordination between campus police, local and federal law enforcement, Zionist organizations, and even counter-terrorism agencies. She connects this to a larger pattern of repression across U.S. colleges, universities, and towns and cities beyond campus borders, where the panopticon-style surveillance follows anyone and everyone who could be deemed a threat to the status quo. The post Lessons from the LA fires / Surveillance of Student Protesters: The Case of Yale appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Pressing Issues for 2025: Trump 2.0, Media Failures, and the Fight for Press Freedom

    Pressing Issues for 2025: Trump 2.0, Media Failures, and the Fight for Press Freedom
    Jan 17 2025
    This week, we swing into the new year (2025), with Mickey engaging media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss the incoming administration, Trump 2.0, the failures of the punditocracy, and what might mean for press freedom in his second term; social media and an end to so-called fact-checking; and why we will continue to need a truly independent press to keep us informed moving forward. Later in the program, media scholar Steve Macek joins the conversation, and it’s Deja Vu all over again as they revisit previously censored news stories around significant current events (including in Gaza) and how the ongoing lack of establishment media coverage around key issues contributes to low information voters and allows myriad injustices to persist at home and around the globe. Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in Education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus, a prolific author on media issues, and a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. His books include The Anatomy of Fake News; he also writes on Substack. Steve Macek teaches communications and media studies at North Central College in Illinois. He’s also the co-coordinator of Project Censored’s Campus Affiliates Program. The post Pressing Issues for 2025: Trump 2.0, Media Failures, and the Fight for Press Freedom appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Reporting Under Fire: Gaza, Genocide, and the Truth Behind the Headlines

    Reporting Under Fire: Gaza, Genocide, and the Truth Behind the Headlines
    Jan 10 2025
    Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program. Her first guest is Shrouq Aila, a Palestinian journalist/producer and resident of the Gaza Strip. She describes daily life under Israeli invasion and genocide, Israel’s targeting of reporters for assassination, and the challenges of living the story she covers. Then former State Department official Matthew Hoh shares his observations from a recent visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank and explains his belief that Israel’s primary goal for the next several years is to displace the West Bank’s remaining Palestinian population and annex the entire territory. GUESTS: Shrouq Aila is a Palestinian journalist/producer and resident of the Gaza Strip. She lost her husband in an Israeli attack. Her work can be found at www.instagram.com/shrouqaila. Matthew Hoh is a Marine Corps combat veteran, and a former State Department official. The post Reporting Under Fire: Gaza, Genocide, and the Truth Behind the Headlines appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Ralph Nader on Social Justice and World Affairs

    Ralph Nader on Social Justice and World Affairs
    Jan 3 2025
    We begin 2025 on an optimistic note, with a timeless speech by the legendary political activist and consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader. Nader outlines some of the most critical problems facing Americans, including exorbitant military spending, out-of-control corporations, and thousands of annual deaths in the workplace, or from lack of health-care coverage. But then he names some individuals who’ve made a difference in recent U.S. history, explains what students can accomplish on campus, and how voters can hold legislators accountable. Nader spoke on March 5, 2018 at Sonoma State University in northern California, as part of the campus’s annual Social Justice Week Lecture Series. The post Ralph Nader on Social Justice and World Affairs appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press (encore)

    Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press (encore)
    Dec 27 2024
    Project Censored’s new yearbook, “State of the Free Press 2025” is fresh off the presses. In the first segment, Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl talk with Mickey about the extensive process that culminates in the selection of the annual “Top 25” censored stories. They also speak about the need to extend media analysis beyond fact-checking to “frame-checking.” In the second half, Mickey and co-host Eleanor Goldfield speak about Eleanor’s new article on media literacy for activists, including various ideas on how activists can successfully interact with the different categories of media. Mickey and Eleanor also alert listeners to the dangers of House Bill 9495, a measure that would empower the U.S. Treasury Secretary to unilaterally remove an organization’s non-profit status. GUESTS: Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored and the coordinator of the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program. Shealeigh Voitl is digital and print editor at Project Censored. The post Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press (encore) appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press

    Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press
    Dec 20 2024
    Project Censored’s new yearbook, “State of the Free Press 2025” is fresh off the presses. In the first segment, Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl talk with Mickey about the extensive process that culminates in the selection of the annual “Top 25” censored stories. They also speak about the need to extend media analysis beyond fact-checking to “frame-checking.” In the second half, Mickey and co-host Eleanor Goldfield speak about Eleanor’s new article on media literacy for activists, including various ideas on how activists can successfully interact with the different categories of media. Mickey and Eleanor also alert listeners to the dangers of House Bill 9495, a measure that would empower the U.S. Treasury Secretary to unilaterally remove an organization’s non-profit status. GUESTS: Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored and the coordinator of the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program. Shealeigh Voitl is digital and print editor at Project Censored. The post Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Special Holiday Fund Drive Programming

    Special Holiday Fund Drive Programming
    Dec 13 2024
    Today’s episode of Project Censored is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2024 Holiday Fund Drive. To support our mission, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732. The post Special Holiday Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Ralph Nader and Peter Phillips on financial power vs. people power

    Ralph Nader and Peter Phillips on financial power vs. people power
    Dec 6 2024
    On today’s special holiday fund drive episode: Mickey talks with political sociologist Peter Phillips about his new book Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity. The sequel to 2018’s Giants, Titans identifies the money managers who control the world’s largest sums of capital, in their jobs at Black Rock and other huge investment firms, and how their power worsens the problems facing the human race. Legendary consumer-rights campaigner and political activist Ralph Nader returns to discuss his two forthcoming books: Lets Start the Revolution explains how grassroots people-power can defeat corporate power, while Out of Darkness is a collection of Nader’s writings from 2012 to 2022. The post Ralph Nader and Peter Phillips on financial power vs. people power appeared first on KPFA.
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