HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DEMOCRACY NOW! NEWS PROGRAM CARRIED ON KNSJ M-F 7-8am, Replayed M-F 6-7pm

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Democracy Now! launched in 1996, airing on nine radio stations. More than two decades later, we have grown to be one of the leading U.S.-based independent daily news broadcasts in the world.

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TALK OF THE TOWN with Mike Aguirre Wed 1-2pm

EDUCATION

Mike is in conversation with Monique Barrett, San Diego Education Association.

https://www.sdea.net/

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KICK BACK WITH KNSJ’s DAYTIME SUNDAY MUSIC BREAK

11am-Noon CUSTOM TAYLORED with Tim Taylor. Custom Taylored highlights the early blues, jazz, gospel, and pop that influenced the later development of rock music. This episode features some of the very earliest of recorded blues, called country blues. Country blues originated in the rural south the early 20th century. It’s similar to early folk music and usually consists of solo vocals with acoustic guitar accompaniment. You’ll hear Blind Willie Johnson, Cannon’s Jug Stompers, and Little Hat Jones, among others.

3-4pm SOLITUDE CITY JAZZ with Carson Young. Carson plays cuts from classic and contemporary artists who have contributed to and expanded the form.

FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Sat 2-3pm

A Show For Veterans

Join the conversation about the Trump administration’s abandonment of DEI in governental agencies with USN veteran Angie Mencareilli and MilitaryPoisons.org Executive Director Pat Elder.

Sat 1-2pm

Chris covers US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society. Chris interviews writers, intellectuals, and dissidents, many banished from the mainstream. He gives voice to those, from Cornel West and Noam Chomsky to the leaders of groups such as Extinction Rebellion, who are on the front lines of the struggle against militarism, corporate capitalism, white supremacy, the looming ecocide, as well as the battle to wrest back our democracy from the clutches of the ruling global oligarchy.

TALK OF THE TOWN LIVE with MIKE AGUIRRE Sat 11am-Noon

PUBLIC EDUCATION, DEMOCRACY, UNIONS

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TODAY Mike is in conversation with Monique Barrett, Vice President of the SDEA. The San Diego Education Association is the second largest teachers union in California with more than 6800 teachers in about 174 schools in San Diego Unified serving around 90,000 students. SDEA is affiliated with the California Teachers Union, the National Education Association and the AFL-CIO.

Monique Barrett, SDEA Vice President, is a 20-year veteran special education teacher. She also holds a multiple subject credential and is in the process of completing her National Boards. She is a CTA State Council Representative, an NEA Representative Assembly delegate, a San Diego Labor Council Delegate, a social, racial, and restorative justice advocate , activist, and organizer.

AL CHILE SPANISH RADIO Con Ariana Gallegos Sat 9-10am

En Vivo! Al Chile Show hoy hablaremos sobre los derechos reproductivos con Alejandra Soto y en Arte y Cultura Alex Zuniga de Tijuana No!

Live! To Chile Show today we will talk about reproductive rights with Alejandra Soto and in Art and Culture Alex Zuniga from Tijuana No!

https://weberc.net/

TALK OF THE TOWN with MIKE AGUIRRE Fri 3-4pm

PROJECT 2025, ITS PLAN, DEMOCRACY, THE RULE OF LAW

Mike is in conversation with his guest Gary Aguirre delving into Project 2025 understanding it, understanding its reach and more.

Gary Aguirre is best known as the SEC attorney who resisted his supervisors’ demands to give preferential treatment to an influential Wall Street banker in an insider trading investigation. Fired for his so-called insubordination, Gary would prove to the satisfaction of two Senate Committees, a federal court, and three federal agencies that the SEC had acted unlawfully. These events became the focus of three Senate committee hearings and 108-page report by two Senate committees. The story has been told in a dozen books, national and international television, and hundreds of news articles, including the front page of the New York Times.
Gary is a San Diego native. After getting a bachelor and law degree from UC Berkeley, he returned to San Diego to work as a public defender. He would later represent plaintiffs in many high profile cases, including Johnson v PSA, which proved PSA’s liability for 134 victims of the 1978 mid-air collision over San Diego. He left law for six years to life in Spain, his father’s homeland. In 2001, he went back to law school (Georgetown) to retool for a new career in public service. His published thesis won second prize for the best paper on securities law in national competition sponsored by the SEC Alumni Association.
After joining the SEC in 2004, Gary soon headed an insider trading investigation of the world’s largest hedge fund. After his firing, he sued the SEC under FOIA to get the investigative files and won. Forbes discussed what happened next: “After a scathing 2007 report by the Senate criticized the SEC’s handling of Aguirre’s Pequot investigation, and after Aguirre dredged up the smoking gun e-mails and passed them along to the Senate, the FBI and the SEC, in late 2008, the SEC reopened the case in January 2009.” Pequot closed its doors a few months later. In May 2010, Pequot and its CEO settled with the SEC for $28 million, the same case Aguirre had uncovered five years earlier.
Since 2010, Gary has represented government and corporate whistleblowers before federal agencies, the courts, and the Congress

SUNDAY’S MUSIC RESPITE TUCKED INTO KNSJ’S DAYTIME TALK SHOWS

11am-Noon CUSTOM TAYLORED with Tim Taylor: Tim highlights the early blues, jazz, gospel, and pop that influenced the later development of rock music.  This episode features some of the very earliest of recorded blues, called country blues.  Country blues originated in the rural south the early 20th century. It’s similar to early folk music and usually consists of solo vocals with acoustic guitar accompaniment.  You’ll hear Blind Willie Johnson, Cannon’s Jug Stompers, and Little Hat Jones, among others. 

3-4pm SOLITUDE CITY with Carson Young: SOLITUDE CITY JAZZ on the RADIO with Carson Young playing cuts from classic and contemporary artists who have contributed to, and expanded the form.

^{In a recent conversation with Tim, he told us: “I’ve always dreamed of being a disc jockey, and now I’m fulfilling that dream in my retirement. I’ve been doing the Custom Taylored show for nearly two years now and it still gives me a huge thrill to discover vintage artists I didn’t know, or things I didn’t know about artists I’m familiar with, and to pass that information on to KNSJ listeners.”}