TALK OF THE TOWN with Mike Aguirre and Co-host Arthur Aguirre Sat 11am-Noon

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PASTOR TED BURNETT, California Poor People’s Campaign Coordinating

Pastor Ted Burnett statewide historian for California Poor People’s Campaign (PPC): Retired Deputy Director of SEIU Local 1000 State Workers Union. Environmentalist and Social Justice Community Activist!

From Pastor Burnett:

As members of the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC), we are here to talk to you because we live in the wealthiest nation in the world, yet poverty is the 4th leading cause of death in this country. Poverty kills 10 times more people than homicides! This poverty pandemic requires a response at the scale of the problem. It requires our country’s policy-makers to create policies that invest in fixing the problem at the systemic, structural level. And this kind of change requires building a movement to demand policy choices that lift people out of poverty.

This PPC movement to end poverty has a long history. In November 1967, Dr. King announced the Poor People’s Campaign to challenge economic inequality, militarism and poverty. Rev. Dr. King articulated a clear formula for how the poor can claim the power that resides within our communities. He said: “Power for poor people will really mean having the ability, the togetherness, the assertiveness and the aggressiveness to make the power structure of this nation say yes when they may be desirous to say no.”

On December 4, 2017,the 50th anniversary of the announcement of the first Poor People’s Campaign, a diverse leadership came together in Washington, D.C. to launch the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival — a movement co-chaired by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II of Repairers of the Breach and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis of the Kairos Center with the support of many organizations, denominations and individuals, now organizing in 40 states across the country.

The PPC was launched with two primary goals:

Change the narrative by changing the narrator — more focus on who and why people are poor. PPC is committed to amplifying the voices of those most impacted by systemic poverty, systemic racism, ecological devastation, militarism/war economy and the distorted moral narrative of white Christian nationalism.

Build power to change policy through a fusion movement that unites communities and partner organizations.

Our Fundamental Principles guide decisions about what we do and how we do it. Our non-violent, non-partisan but deeply political movement is based on our deepest religious and constitutional values, lifting up the leadership of those most affected by the 5 interlocking injustices identified by the PPC.

In 2019, before the pandemic hit, 140 million people (43% of the US population) who are poor and struggling in the richest country in the world. Poverty, policy violence, kills 250,000 people every year so the Poor People’s Campaign is calling for/building a Third Reconstruction to complete the moral fusion organizing work of extending constitutional guarantees to every person. The work began during earlier periods of US history but is not yet complete.

There are 38 million children who are poor in this country.

And 60% of African Americans are poor.

And 65% of Latinx are poor.

And 40% Asians are poor.

And there are 67 million poor white people in the United States.

In California, the PPC is organizing to close the wealth gap. California’s gross domestic product is the 4th largest in the world after Germany, the US, China and Japan, yet poverty is widespread in our state:

Between 2018-2020, there were almost 19 million poor people (low/no income or wealth) accounting for 47.6% of the population

A household with two adults and two children needs to earn over $30/hour to meet their basic needs. However, the current minimum wage is just $15/hour; at this wage, an individual must work 104 hours/week to afford a modest two bedroom apartment. Clearly, a poverty wage is violence.

You can contact the CA PPC at california@poorpeoplescampaign.org..

More info at www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

Check out our California PPC newsletter here.

Thank you for your interest in building a movement to end poverty.

PPC invites you to join them

Pain | A Poor People’s Campaign Introduction to Affliction in America

Poor People’s Campaign Fundamental Principles https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/about/our-principles/

Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/…/poor-peoples…/

Poor People’s Campaign Audit The Souls of Poor Folk https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/…/PPC-Audit-Full…

Brady Report — “Novel Estimates of Mortality Associated with Poverty in the U.S”.

California 2023 Fact Sheet https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/…/state-fact…/

Contact: https://www.facebook.com/ppcbayarea/

You can reach CA PPC at california@poorpeoplescampaign.org

FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Wed 7pm, Sat 2 pm

Tune in to Friendly Fire a Voice for Veterans tonight at 7pm PDT and Saturday at 2pm to hear an interview with two Veterans For Peace, one from Minneapolis and the other from San Diego. They will update us on the latest developments after the ICE shooting of activist Renee Good last week.

The Women’s Radio Hour with Patricia Law Wed pm

EXCLUSIVE–INTERVIEW WITH GREG PALAST–INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER

VENEZUELA

Greg Palast is known for his investigative reports for The Guardian, BBC Television, Rolling Stone and his string of New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits.

His latest film, “Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman” is narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen.

“Doggedly independent, undaunted by power. [Palast’s] stories bite, they’re so relevant they threaten to alter history.” – Chicago Tribune

Palast and his hat have been seen on over 2000 media appearances. Pacifica Radio Network broadcasts his weekly Election Crimes Bulletin.

Palast is known for complex undercover investigations, spanning five continents, from the Arctic to the Amazon, from the Congo to California, using the skills he learned over two decades as an investigator of corporate fraud on behalf of the US Dept of Justice, 20 attorneys general and governments from England to Brazil.

Palast, who earned his degree in finance at the University of Chicago studying under Milton Friedman, has led investigations of multi-billion-dollar frauds in the oil, nuclear, power and finance industries for governments on three continents, has an academic side: he is the author of Democracy and Regulation, a seminal treatise on energy corporations and government control, commissioned by the United Nations and based on his lectures at Cambridge University and the University of Sao Paulo.

Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde. His writings have won him the Financial Times David Thomas Prize.

Palast won the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for his BBC documentary, Bush Family Fortunes. He has received the “Global Editors Award for Data Journalism” and “International Reporter of the Year” from the Association of Mexican Reporters.

His bestsellers have been translated into two dozen languages and films broadcast worldwide.

“The most important investigative reporter or our time, up there with Woodward and Bernstein” – The Guardian

“Greg Palast is one of those inconveniently stubborn journalists who gets his teeth into a story and shakes it bloody right there in the middle of the parlor. Palast [has] dropped a bomb into the elections that has left credibility shrapnel all over the democratic process, if anyone cares to look for it.” — Esquire

“An American hero,” says Martin Luther King III

“A cult fave.” — Village Voice

“A cross between Seymour Hersh and Jack Kerouac.

https://www.gregpalast.com/

NATIONAL NATIVE NEWS Headlines Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Peltola campaign for Senate puts safe Republican seat into play

Democrat Mary Peltola (Yup’ik), the first Alaska Native person elected to Congress, announced Monday that she’s running for U.S. Senate, taking on incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK). Alaska Public Media Washington correspondent Liz Ruskin reports interest in whether Peltola would run has been high for months.

TODAY on NATIVE AMERICA CALLING Mon-Fri Noon-1pm

KNSJ DAYTIME MUSIC INTERLUDES

11am CUSTOM TAYLORED with Tim Taylor. Custom Taylored is a chronological journey of the music that formed the roots of rock and roll. Today enjoy 1949 blues and jazz.

4pm SOLITUDE CITY with Carson Young. The best in jazz for your Sunday afternoon.

http://music.knsj.org

THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Sat 7pm

Guest Poet, Author, Educator STARLA LEWIS

Starla Lewis is a Global Educator of Self Love. For 40+ years she has taught people to see themselves, love themselves and use love to heal. As a Professor Emeritus, transformational speaker and founder of C.E.L.L. (Celebration of Everlasting Life & Love), she lectures and facilitates trainings on life mastery, diversity, racism, sexism, and women’s empowerment. She is author/illustrator of “Sunkisses” and Co-Author of “I Am: My Own Self-Validation.” She is Co-Founder of Woman’s Worth: Multigenerational Women’s Empowerment. Starla is a seven-time recipient of the Mesa College “Teacher of the Year” award, a “Women’s Hall of Fame” inductee, and a KPBS “Local Hero.” In 2019 San Diego’s City Council proclaimed December 20th, “Professor Starla Lewis Day.” In 2021 LEAD San Diego honored Starla for embodying and epitomizing excellence in community leadership. Starla Lewis is a community servant, life-long learner and believer in Black excellence. She lives by the motto: “All people are: Brilliant, Powerful, Limitless, Love!”

With Mike Aguirre and Co-host Arthur Aguirre Sat 11am

LIVE–Call the studio with your questions or comments 619-790-KNSJ (5675)

PROPAGANGA–EXACTLY WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE IT?

An in-depth conversation with Professor Stephen Goggin, San Diego State University

Stephen Goggin received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. His interests center on partisan polarization in modern American politics, particularly its role in shaping voters’ ability to hold politicians accountable. He focuses on how information in media and electoral campaigns can distort public perceptions of politicians and the institutions themselves, and, in turn, affect the strategic behavior of those inhabiting those institutions.

His research and teaching interests include political psychology, political communication, campaigns & elections, research design, statistical methods, American democratic institutions, and election administration. His research has been supported by grants, including from the National Science Foundation, and has appeared in journals such as The Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, and Election Law Journal.

http://sgoggin.org

WOMEN OF COLOR ROAR with Angela de Joseph Sat 10am

AL CHILE SPANISH RADIO con Ariana Gallegos Sat 9am

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EAST COUNTY MAGAZINE with Miriam Raftery Sat 8am

Award-winning investigative journalist and editor of East County Magazine Miriam Raftery and her team report breaking news and events from East County as well as other local, state, national and global news that affects everyone here at home.