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PLEASE NOTE: THE EVENT LOCATION HAS BEEN CHANGED. WE WILL BE HOSTING CHRIS HEDGES AT COLUMBUS HALL, 4425 Home Ave, SD 92105

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CHRIS HEDGES IS RETURNING TO SAN DIEGO AND TO KNSJ ON TOUR WITH HIS LATEST BOOK

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A Genocide Foretold, Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

Event Location: COLUMBUS HALL, 4425 Home Ave, SD 92105

Tell your friends and neighbors. Another dynamic book showing Hedge’s astute observations and critical eye, his first-hand experiences and his eloquent writing style. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author. Chris will also be in Los Angeles for KPFK and in San Francisco for KPFA.

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Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and New York Times best selling author, Chris Hedges is on tour with his latest book “A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.”
– With intimate and harrowing portraits of the human consequences of oppression, occupation, and violence experienced in Palestine today, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges issues a call to action urging us to bear witness and engage with the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
– Hedges wrote the first section of the book when he was in Ramallah in July 2024, and he draws from his experience doing extensive reporting from the Middle East, including Gaza, for the New York Times.
– A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive. Weaving together personal stories, historical context, and unflinching journalism, Chris Hedges provides an intimate portrait of systemic oppression, occupation, and violence. The book includes chapters on:
– What life is like in Gaza City and Ramallah in the midst of approaching bombs and gunfire.
– The history of the dispossession of Palestinians of their land in relation to the ideology of Zionism.
– A portrait of Amr, a 17-year-old highschool student who is forced to evacuate his village with his family.
– Psychoanalysis of the state of permanent war that has led to the destruction of hospitals, telecommunications centers, governmental buildings, roads, homes universities, schools, and libraries and archaeological and heritage sites in Gaza.
– The ways in which the collective retribution against innocents is a familiar tactic employed by colonial rulers.
– A heartbreaking final chapter called “Letter to the Children of Gaza.”
– Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize–winning former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, is an Arabic speaker who spent seven years covering the conflict. He wrote the first section of the book when he was in Ramallah in July 2024. A Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, he is also the author of two bestselling books, War is a Force that Gives us Meaning and The Greatest Evil is War. In A Genocide Foretold he writes with an emotional depth that can only be achieved from spending many years on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank. A Genocide Foretold is a call to action, urging us to bear witness and engage with the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

FRIENDLY FIRE with DON KIMBALL Sat 2pm

A Show For and About Veterans

Don is in conversation with Veterans for Peace about the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by SCOTUS in 2022. We also hear from former US Marine Captain and State Department official Matt Hoh on the War in Ukraine

TALK OF THE TOWN LIVE with MIKE AGUIRRE Sat 11am

Call in with questions or comments at 619-790-KNSJ (5675)

In case you were unable to attend KNSJ’s Fundraiser with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and former Bureau Chief with the New York Times, Mike and his guests are in conversation about the first-hand accounts Chis Hedges’ related, and more. Chris is on tour with his latest book A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.

with GAIL STEWART

– L.A. BASED GREG PORPER SCREENWRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER UNPACKS FROM NAVIGATING THE TREACHEROUS WATERS OF DISTRIBUTION –

– HIS DARK OFFICE COMEDY “DON’T TELL LARRY” IS OUT — BUT MAINTAINING CREATIVE CONTROL AND CHAIN OF TITLE — NOT FOR THE WEAK OF HEART!

– JOIN SAN DIEGO SCREENWRITER STUDIO’S PRODUCER/HOST GAIL STEWART AND GREG PORPER FOR AN AMAZING STORY OF HOW HE DID IT!

STOP & TALK with GRANT OLIPHANT, Fri 8am

Thougtful conversations and a good way to start the day! STOP & TALK dives deep into the themes of purpose and opportunity, guided by the insights of leaders in the arts and culture, health, philanthropy, finance, and innovation fields. Together, we celebrated local achievements and envisioned what’s possible in San Diego County.

https://stopandtalkpodcast.com/

EAST COUNTY MAGAZINE with MIRIAM RAFTERY Mon 5pm, Tue 8am, Fri 5pm, Sat 8am

Award-winning investigative journalist Miriam Raftery and her team of reporters cover East County news and events.

East County Magazine has won 147 major journalism awards from San Diego Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists San Diego chapter and more, including top honors for investigative reporting and other categories.  Founded in 2008, ECM is a division of the nonprofit 501c3 Heartland Coalition and supported by the nonprofit 501c3 East County Media..Our show, like our online magazine, has a mission is to reflect all voices in our region, particularly those under-represented in other media.

The East County Magazine radio show hosts reflect the rich diversity of our region and bring a multitude of qualifications, experiences and passions to their work. 

EDITOR AND FOUNDER

Miriam Raftery has over 35 years experience as a journalist and editor.  She has won more than 400 major journalism awards, including the American Society of Journalists & Authors’ national Arlene Award for community journalism and San Diego Press Club’s Best of Show award prior to founding ECM.

She has covered major news stories including the California wildfires, Congressional and presidential elections, and Hurricane Katrina, as well as topics ranging from politics and election integrity to health, nutrition, homes and gardens.  

A former columnist and freelance writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune, she has also worked as an editor of a national nutrition journal and a literary magazine as well as senior national investigative reporter for RawStory.com. Her works have appeared in many national and regional publications, from Woman’s Day to Arizona Highways, as well as in many local community newspapers and magazines. An East County native, she takes pride in exploring East County’s back roads and byways, leaving no stone unturned in the quest for news and feature stories.

https://www.eastcountymagazine.org

THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Mon 4pm

Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa’s harrowing experiences treating patients in Gaza undoubtedly show that Israel’s “war” on Gaza is not a conflict with Hamas—but a full throated attack on the civilian population.

If anyone can witness the genocide in Gaza with utmost clarity, it would be medical professionals working there. Their accounts continue to be as harrowing as those of journalists and Gazans themselves, stripped of rhetoric and left with only raw truth. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a general, trauma and critical care surgeon in California, has been to Gaza twice and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report.

“There is no serious health system in Gaza anymore,” Sidhwa tells Hedges. Instead, what’s left of hospitals are mere buildings filled with medical professionals stripped of the equipment vital to saving lives, refugees seeking anything more than tents and endless streams of people barely surviving the constant onslaught of bombs. Sidhwa explains the gut wrenching details of treating people mangled by bombs, children shot in the head and the inability to save people because of the lack of basic equipment. While describing the treatment of a six-year-old boy with severe shrapnel injuries, Sidhwa explains, “In the flagship hospital of any third world country, this kid could have survived. But at Nasser [Medical Complex], we don’t have the right types of pressures, the right types of critical care medications and even just simple things like a pediatric ventilator, which just wasn’t available. So he died 12 hours later.”

The situation in Gaza, as Sidhwa details, is morbidly bleak:

“I don’t know how women who need C-sections will get them. I don’t know how people who even just have regular role general surgery problems will be able to get them. I don’t know how a kid that has asthma will be able to get albuterol. I don’t know how somebody with heart disease will be able to get their medications. Just leaving aside the trauma. And then on top of that…the whole population is being starved. Literally no food has gone into Gaza for six weeks.”

LOCATION CHANGE–CHRIS WILL APPEAR AT COLUMBUS HALL, 4425 Home Ave, SD 92105 bit.ly/KNSJ2025

A REMINDER: Chris Hedges will be in San Diego this Friday, May 30, 5pm on a fundraiser for KNSJ with his latest book A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. Order your tickets now. http://bit.ly/KNSJ2025. Tell your friends and colleagues. Another dynamic book showing Hedge’s astute observations and critical eye, his first-hand experiences and his eloquent writing style. Tickets can be purchased at bit.ly/KNSJ025

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author.

RADIO CURIOUS Mon 3:30pm

Bottom Trawling Fishing; Global Warming

Killing Important Organisms and Habitat for Fish we Eat and that Other Sea Animals Eat, Affecting the Sea Food Chain, and More.

– Bottom trawling kills vast numbers of organisms in the sea bed.

– The conversation continues to the climate crisis and sea level catastrophes.

– Host and producer Barry Vogel, Esq. began interviewing people as a child and has been curious ever since. Creating mental images from radio voices, Barry Vogel interviews on a curiously wide array of topics including politics, religion, environment, law, culture, travel, self-identity, genetics psychiatry/psychology, food, humor, music.

BUILDING BRIDGES Mon 3pm

The Root of Haiti’s Misery, Reparations

The Root of Haiti’s Misery, Reparations

– Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report is the longest running and best known labor & community affairs radio program in the New York Metropolitan area.

– As the show name implies, it provides a mix of labor and community based programming, tackling the issues of the working class, where they work and where they live. Building Bridges believes that by broadcasting the voices of those who seek social justice, it heightens public awareness, and facilitate unity between groups that fight for change.

FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball

A Show For and About Veterans

LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, FOUNDER BEYOND NUCLEAR

Beyond Nuclear is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) membership organization. Beyond Nuclear is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. Specifically, the organization aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic. The organization works with diverse partners and allies to provide its members, the public, government officials, and the media with the critical information necessary to move humanity toward a world beyond nuclear.

Linda Pentz Gunter founded Beyond Nuclear in 2007 and serves as its international specialist. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets.

While focusing her writing on the Beyond Nuclear International site, Linda continues to write for Truthout, Counterpunch, Capitol Hill Citizen and others. She also makes appearances on television and radio programs and is a sought-after speaker for conferences and webinars.

Originally from the UK, Linda has a BA Honours degree in English and Italian Literature from Warwick University. Linda can be reached at linda@beyondnuclear.org.

https://beyondnuclear.org/

THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Sat 1pm

Guest CATHERIE LIU

Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism

– The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on both sides of the political aisle. While Republicans and right-wingers address some of these needs head on, they do so by luring people through empty rhetoric and culture war distractions. On the other side, Democrats and liberals police and enforce a cancel-culture paradigm built by elites that also distracts and divides the proletariat from ever engaging in meaningful connection and change.

– Catherine Liu, a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss her new book, “Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.”

__ REMINDER ORDER YOUR TICKETS NOW___

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* Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist, NY Times best selling author Chris Hedes will be in San Diego for KNSJ Commuity Radio *

Chris Hedges will be speaking at a Fundraiser for KNSJ Friday May 30. Location: St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2728 6th Avenue, San Diego, ENTRANCE on 5th Ave, The event begins with a reception at 5pm. At 7pm Chris will talk about his new book “A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.“ Order your tickets now at bit.ly/KNSJ2025.