Our volunteers have confirmed that the American Tower Company’s tower on Monument Peak at 6,200 ft. elevation collapsed in the February winter storm due to severe ice accumulation and wind. The tower where KNSJ rented space since beginning broadcasting on July 4th, 2013, is now a crumpled pile of steel and cabling. The tower also hosted two cell phone transfer stations, for AT&T and T-Mobile, as well as several other smaller clients. KNSJ was the only broadcast station on the tower. KNSJ is still streaming online, but restoring our broadcast signal will require urgent funding for engineering, equipment, and a possible new site.
AN EVENING OF MUSIC BEGINNING AT 8, AN ECLECTIC MIX ONLY ON KNSJ IN SAN DIEGO. LOCAL DJs SPINNING VINYL THAT WILL BE JUST WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR.
THEN A BREAK AT 12 AM WITH SOMETHING’S HAPPENING AT MIDNIGHT–SOME SURPISES FOR YOU AS WELL AS NEWS AND MUSIC AND THOUGHTFUL CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE MORE THAN HEADLINES AND SOUND BITES. PERSPECTIVES AND VOICES YOU MAY HEAR ONLY ON KNSJ WITH NEWS REPORTS THAT WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT TOMORROW.
● “Empire of Abuse”: MAGA Influencers Andrew & Tristan Tate Arrested on Rape & Sex Trafficking Charges
● “Unlimited Money for Bombs”: Democrats Slam Hegseth for Seeking $67B for Iran War
● Trump Says Images of Bombed Iran School Could Be “AI” But Study Confirms U.S. Killed 140+ in Strike
Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide.
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone, and was later selected for induction into the Park Center’s I.F. Stone Hall of Fame. The Independent of London called Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! “an inspiration.”
Goodman has co-authored six New York Times bestsellers. Her latest, Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America, looks back over the past two decades of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Before than, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, and Breaking the Sound Barrier, both written with Denis Moynihan, give voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power. She co-authored her first three bestsellers with her brother, journalist David Goodman: Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006) and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She co-writes a weekly column with Denis Moynihan (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.
KNSJ ALWAYS ON THE MOVE AROUND SAN DIEGO AND AT PRIDE TODAY
VISIT OUR BOOTH AND SAY HI TO OUR DJs SPINNING VINYL FOR SAN DIEGO
In San Diego, Pride is year-round and the Pride organization and other LGBTQIA+ serving nonprofits and organizations host community events, programs, and fundraisers throughout the year that aim to further their mission of fostering pride, equality, and respect for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities locally, nationally, and globally.
Democracy Necessitates Resistance with Roger Hallam
In his new book, Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion provides tools for effective resistance to climate collapse under repressive systems.
We are living in an age of climate collapse, which will most likely result in mass displacement and death, warns Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. And while that reality is hard to accept, it is an honest assessment of what lies ahead that must be addressed as we decide how to navigate what Hallam calls humanity’s “darkest hour.” In his new book, “Suicide: The Political and Legal Implications of Creating Endless Mass Death,” written while he was in prison for climate action, Hallam shares his background in academic sociology and organizing for social change to provide tools for resisting under the current repressive legal and political systems.
People often respond to repression with greater courage and resolve to resist it. Hallam’s experiences in prison and elsewhere taught him that “we always have that opportunity to choose how we’re going to react and how we’re going to live our lives in response to the involuntary hell that’s imposed upon us by the powers that be.”
Hedges and Hallam explore the ways that societies can fracture as they are collapsing, tending towards violence or hedonism. Some people may “retreat into crisis cults” as demonstrated by the growth of the Christian Right in the United States. They emphasize the necessity of a form of spiritual or moral grounding that transcends the individual and awakens our sense of connection, of being part of something greater than ourselves, of being willing to ask difficult questions and to make sacrifices. It is through organizing and collective action that people can confront the power structure effectively and build a different society.
Finally, Hedges and Hallam analyze the state of social movements and what it takes to create a popular revolution. They call out the liberal class, including mainstream climate organizations, that “perpetually undermines the ability to bring along the objective revolutionary conditions, which are strategically and ethically undeniably necessary at the present time.” They point to the dire need for revolutionary demands and prophetic leaders who will guide social movements. In the end though, Hallam points out that social transformation is the result of door-to-door organizing in our communities, building support systems and challenging power in the streets
Guest Carol Olewine (she/her) with the Santee United Methodist Church
Carol Olewine (she/her) is a member of Santee United Methodist Church, and a queer person of faith. Santee United Methodist Church is the only LGBTQ+ affirming church in Santee, and is the host of the annual Santee Pride Festival and Pride Walk. Where churches and Christians in this country have far too often become more insular and less accepting in recent decades, we talk about the ways faith and sexuality intersect, and how faith communities can rise to become sanctuaries for the LGBTQ+ community as well as other marginalized groups.
Santee United Methodist Church online at santeeumc.org and on Instagram/Facebook: @santeeumc
THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Wed 3pm, Sat 7pm, Mon 8am
Poet JOSEPH RUBANO
Joseph Rubano is a Biographical Counselor, poet and long time student of Anthroposophy (the teachings of Rudolf Steiner). His 50 plus years of meditation and inner work has included Native American Ceremony, and many forms of practice, Eastern and Western. In addition to counseling individuals and couples, he is on the faculty of the Biography and Social Art program (through the Center for Biography and Social Art) and has been offering the True Heart True Mind Enlightenment Intensive and the Desert Solo (Vision Quest) Experience in San Diego since 2009. He has a counseling practice in Oceanside, CA., and has two books of poetry, self-published, available on Amazon. (Go To The Edges and This Crazy Love Life
The Electric Picnic, a show about Poetry, Prose, and Spoken Word presents verse and storytelling every week on KNSJ 89.1 FM. Your host is poet and educator, Susan Taylor who interviews poets, novelists, songwriters, journalists, all philosophers in their genre. Hear calls to social justice and well-crafted words from local and international poets.
Today Don is in conversation with Dr. David Kirean speaking about some of the unseen wounds of military service. PTSD and TBIs can have devastating effects on individuals, are often misunderstood or misdiagnosed. Hear the author talk about how he researched the book that has already help so many understand the terrible costs of these two conditions affecting our troops.
Call in with your questions and comments: 619-790-KNSJ (5675)
Climate crisis, economics, roasting coffee, local roasters and coffee in San Diego and always much more.
John Rippo publishes www.theespresso.com, a site that engages San Diego’s coffee trades and provides daily information to consumers about local coffee roasters.
