CODE PINK with Co-hosts MARCY WINOGRAD and MEDEA BENJAMIN
Co-hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin explore Venezuela’s peaceful overture to Trump, question UN approval of the Gaza occupation plan and discuss Epstein’s relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Barak. On the second half of CODEPINK Radio, Marcy speaks with Delaney Nolan, an independent journalist and author of The Nation magazine article, AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.
THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Sat 1pm
HOW PALESTINIAN HISTORY IS SYSTEMICALLY FORGOTTEN with MICAELA SAHHAR
Micaela Sahhar reframes monumental events in Palestinian history through an intimate lens of her own family’s displacement during the 20th century.
“How do we understand now if we don’t understand 1948 or 1917 or all the things that happened during the British Mandate?”
This is a central question Micaela Sahhar, author and educator, asks while dissecting her book, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate. Sahhar reframes these monumental events in Palestinian history through an intimate, granular lens of her own family’s displacement during the 20th century.
Sahhar joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, sharing more personal narratives, revealing how her family lived through the pivotal moments that shaped modern Palestine.
“To grow up as a diaspora Palestinian,” Sahhar explains, “ is to be equipped with a particular kind of superpower, which is to understand the enormous rift between a dominant culture and what you know to be true from the people you love and trust.”
TALK OF THE TOWN with MIKE and ARTHUR AGUIRRE LIVE Sat 11am-Noon
With Brandon Wu, Director of Policy and Campaigns at ActionAid USA
Brandon just returned from the COP30 Conference
Call in with your questions and comments at 619-790-KNSJ (5675)
Brandon Wu is dedicated to overseeing ActionAid USA’s research, advocacy, coalition building and campaigning work on issues such as politics & economics, land rights, biofuels and more. He personally leads ActionAid USA’s work on climate justice, approaching the problem of climate change from the perspective of sustainable development and rights of impacted people. His work in this capacity has focused on climate finance for developing countries, fairness and equity in the global climate regime, and energy democracy in the Global South.
Brandon has served on the Board of Directors of Climate Action Network-International, a network of over 900 NGOs in 100 countries, and recently completed a two-year term as the first elected developed country civil society representative on the governing Board of the Green Climate Fund, a multilateral institution dedicated to funding adaptation and mitigation projects.
Brandon’s voice is frequently heard in major media outlets, including the Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, PBS NewsHour, and Telesur. He has previously worked for Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG (now Environment America).
Brandon holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, where he played a lead role in an effort to unionize 4,500 graduate employees. He also holds a B.A. in sociology from Yale University.
A major focus of Brandon’s work has been how to quantify fairness in the global climate regime, and he was a founder (in 2015) of the Civil Society Equity Review project that produces annual reports on this question here: https://www.equityreview.org/
Most recently, at COP30 Brandon had an op-ed published that spoke to one of the major issues that came up in the second week of the conference – the idea of a “roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels” and why certain countries were – justifiably – not entirely enthusiastic about it. https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/21/just-transition-finance-and-equity-thats-how-we-get-cop30-to-act-on-fossil-fuels/
______About ActionAid
ActionAid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice.
We know this can only be done by shifting power – towards communities and away from elites – and aid as traditionally practiced does not accomplish this. That’s why we take action in partnership with people on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. Together, we tackle the symptoms of unequal power – poverty, hunger, gender-based violence, climate change, conflict, and disaster – and challenge the ideologies, legal systems, and social norms that lie underneath.
ActionAid embraces feminist leadership as necessary to moving our mission forward. We define feminist leadership as the positive and inclusive use of power to build an organization capable of changing the world. Feminist leadership informs and guides our core values, theory of change, and objectives.
ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which works in more than 70 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. We influence U.S. policy and international institutions like the United Nations and elevate marginalized voices in the halls of power.
Our Vision
A just, equitable and sustainable world in which every person enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from poverty and all forms of oppression.
Our Mission
To achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication by working with people living in poverty and exclusion, their communities, people’s organizations, activists, social movements and supporters.
THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Sat 1pm
The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology with Antony Loewenstein
Filmmaker, author and journalist Antony Loewenstein documents how Israel has used Gaza as a weapons showcase. Spyware, killer drones, robot dogs and other weapons are debuted in Gaza and field-tested on the civilian population, demonstrating their effectiveness to regimes around the world that await their chance to purchase them.
Loewenstein joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to chronicle what he has learned from writing The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World and producing The Palestine Laboratory, a documentary based on the book.
“I think the whole idea of what Israel…has been showing the world, I say two things. One, what weapons you can use to murder, kill, target Palestinians but also how to get away with it. I think Israel sells that concept,” Loewenstein explains.
As spyware companies like Pegasus and Paragon and arms companies like Elbit and Rafael see business boom, Loewenstein argues countries have a moral imperative to end trading with Israel. These same technologies perpetuating the genocide in Gaza, Loewenstein explains, will come back to haunt the citizenry of purchasing countries.
“All these governments around the world, whether they’re so-called democratic or repressive, are obsessed with these tools. They can’t give them up. They’re desperate to listen to their opponents, to the journalists, to activists,” Loewenstein remarks.
“It’s very hard for these regimes to give them up because there’s no regulation. There’s just none. It just doesn’t exist.”
FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Sat 2-3pm, Wed 7-8pm
A SHOW FOR AND ABOUT VETERANS
USAF Veteran and Whistleblower Reality Winner
This week Don brings you a broadcast from August 2018 featuring a live call-in from USAF veteran and whistleblower Reality Winner. Reality was awaiting transfer from a county jail in Georgia to a federal prison in Texas after
she was sentenced to 63 months for pleading guilty to violating the 1917 Espionage Act. Reality released one classified document to the media which documented Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential campaign. Also featured is Reality’s mom, Billie Winner Davis, USAF veteran and whistleblower Lisa Ling and activist and author Kevin Gosztola.
FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Sat 2-3pm
TODAY DON IS IN CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW HOH, EISENHOWER MEDIA NETWORK SENIOR FELLOW
Friendly Fire, a show for and about Veterans
Hear the latest on the war between Russia and Ukraine. Eisenhower Media Network senior fellow Matthew Hoh will analyze the current crisis as the ante is upped again with Russia’s recent announcement of two new deadly nuclear weapon delivery devices. In response, President Trump has inexplicably announced a renewal of testing our nuclear weapons. Matt addressed the UN Security Council last year on the dangers of the war to world peace. Don’t miss the unique perspective this Veterans for Peace, former US Marine combat veteran and State Department diplomat brings to the largest war in Europe since WWII.
TALK OF THE TOWN with Mike Aguirre and Arthur Aguirre LIVE Sat 11am
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Today’s Guest is Professor Roddey Reid
___From Professor Reid:
Since the kick-off of the 2016 presidential campaign, a climate of fear and intimidation has dominated national life in the United States to a degree rarely seen before, poisoning our politics and reaching into our very relationships with friends, co-workers, and neighbors.
Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying is about how this came to be, how we can see ourselves through it, but also why it is not likely to go away anytime soon.
At the core of this political history is a larger US public culture of intimidation and bullying in the workplace, media, and political arena that has been building for thirty-five years. The current harsh environment is a direct challenge to citizens and residents, especially those seeking to engage in progressive activism and party politics now and in the years to come.
The book’s hope is to provide a kind of clarity that helps us get a handle on events and diminish the terror of the current moment by providing some shared protective mental armor. This book offers a unique guide to the strategies and dynamics of contemporary political intimidation and public bullying: the dangers they present, the snares and traps that envelope their targets, and the lessons to be learned.
In the end, it’s about shedding light on the dark side of contemporary national life in order to see beyond it.
For this new edition I have thoroughly revised and updated the original text and added 70% more material in the way of new research and many current examples including an entirely new chapter (Chapter Seven) on civilian and state-sponsored physical and armed violence. The first five chapters lay the groundwork for the lessons offered in Chapters Six and Seven and the Conclusion.
As an appendix I have added, A Political Glossary for the Trump Era and Beyond, that highlights the dramatic shifts in U.S. politics and the emergence of far-right groups and organizations in our national life.
www.roddeyreid.squarespace.com
UNSAFE THOUGHTS BY RODDEY REID
About Professor Reid
Professor Emeritus
French Studies and Cultural Studies
Modern cultures and societies of France, the U.S., and Japan; print culture and visual media; interdisciplinary studies of science and medicine; globalization and public health.
Roddey Reid is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of French studies, science studies, communication, history, and cultural studies. He has studied and conducted research in the U.S., France, Italy, Belgium, and Japan. His teaching and scholarship at UCSD focused on the history of modern cultures and societies from the perspective of the changing ways in which citizenship and selfhood are shaped by particular cultural forms (literature, media, advertising, fashion), governmental policies, medical and scientific knowledge, and social movements. A former Japan Foundation Abe Fellow (awarded by the Social Science Research Council), his most recent book is titled, Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond (2017). He is also is author of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750-1910; (Stanford University Press, 1993), co-editor (with Sharon Traweek) of Doing Science + Culture: How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies Are Changing the Way We Look at Science and Medicine (Routledge, 2000), and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan (Indiana University Press, 2005). His most recent research has been on cultures of intimidation and bullying in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
He served as Department Vice-Chair (2009-14) during which time he chaired the Literature Building Committee and oversaw the implementation of remediation measures that addressed environmental health issues affecting the Literature Building. He also chaired the Academic Senate Committee on Planning & Budget (2012-13) that authored a ground-breaking overview of UCSD’s budget and planning processes, “UCSD and Its Budget Challenges”. He co-founded and led with Shankar Subramaniam (Chair, Bioengineering, 2008-13) the Council of Chairs (2010-14), an independent organization of all 50 academic department chairs, section heads, and vice-chairs in General Campus, Health Sciences, and Marine Sciences that has enriched campus governance. He served as a member of the UCSD Future Group (2011-12) of faculty & administrators that drew up recommendations for incoming Chancellor Khosla and served as a member of Chancellor Khosla’s Strategic Planning Committee (2012-14).
In 2014-15 he chaired the Senate Coursera Workgroup that organized a UCSD campuswide workshop on Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use in the age of MOOCS and the Internet in May 2014 UCSD Campus Workshop; sponsored by the Academic Senate and the Office of the Chancellor, it was led by IP legal expert Kenneth Crews of Gipson Hoffman & Pancione of Los Angeles and featured Angus McDonald, Counsel, Office of the President and Amy Blum, Counsel, UCLA. The Senate Coursera Workgroup successfully pushed for strengthening IP protections for UCSD and its faculty in current and future contracts for online and hybrid courses developed with the UC Innovative Learning Technologies Initiative (ILTI) and with 3rd-party MOOC providers.
TALK OF THE TOWN with Mike Aguirre and Arthur Aguirre Sat 11am
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Guest Dr. Kathleen DuVal, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Native Nations: A Millenium in North America”
Kathleen DuVal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, and the U.S. history textbook Give Me Liberty! She is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Guggenheim Fellow. She has written for The Atlantic, Time magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history” (The New York Review of Books), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE, AND THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE
Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed.
A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans showed up in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand—those having developed differently from their own—and whose power they often underestimated.
For centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations, we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch—and influenced global markets—and how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continent’s land and resources. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory.
In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant—and will continue far into the future.
____“An essential American history”—The Wall Street Journal
THE WOMEN’S HOUR with Patricia Law Wed 5pm
During the first half hour, Patricia is in conversation about Planned Parenthood and Your Rights. Also discussed is Proposition 50.
During the second half hour Patricia is in conversation with David Swarens about our unique neighborhoods, preservation, San Diego history and community development
Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest (PPAFPSW) works to protect reproductive rights and access to sexual health care across San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial Counties. The mission of PPAFPSW is to advance sexual and reproductive health and justice through non-partisan political action, advocacy, and education.
PPAFPSW has long served as a champion of sexual and reproductive health, rights and freedom across our three-county region. Partnering with other organizations, coalitions, movements and individuals, we have built a strong foundation on which to face this next moment in our history
For more information on the election, including how to check your voter registration, track your ballot, and find a polling place near you, visit planned.org/voting. To learn about additional ways to get involved, visit voteforchoice.org/getinvolve
More information on Politics, Sex & Cocktails, an event to benefit PPAFPSW’s vital advocacy work can be found a voteforchoice.org/politics
To join the Honorary Committee, information at voteforchoice.org/politics.
________MEET THE GUESTS:
– Neal – Neal Ortiguerra is the senior director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, the second largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the nation. Neal also oversees the advocacy and electoral campaigns of Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest.
– Natives of San Diego’s District 8, Neal and his spouse still live in the district and are raising their family there. Neal proudly serves his community through volunteer work as board president of ACLU Cal Action, board member of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, board member of Engage San Diego Action Fund, and as a youth sports coach. He is an alum of UC Berkeley where he graduated with a degree in Public Health and a minor in Public Policy.
– Crissandra – Crissandra Flores is Manager of Events for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest and Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest. A local San Diegan, it is an honor and privilege to support this work in her community and for her two young daughters.Duingthe fist
Second Half Hour Guest–David Swarens
– David Swarens has been around the Golden Hill planning process for a number of years, becoming active in the GGHPC after he and his late partner moved to the South Park neighborhood in 2009.
He had served as Chair of the planning group for three terms before terming out, and currently serves in that capacity once again.
– During that period the community updated the GH Community Plan and implemented the South Park Historic District, and has been involved in community and economic development, and particularly historic preservation.
– Working with SOHO he was part of the team which negociated successful agrements with the Hotel Del Coronado and the Padre’s Petco Park.
– David served on the Enterprise Community Governance Board, and the Sherman Heights Revitaization team, and currently works with Preserve Greater Golden Hill, including on their canyon team.
– Previously lived in Sherman Heights for almost three decades, where he was one of the founders of the Sherman Heights Community Center, as well as the historic district.
– He also has served on the planning groups for Southeastern San Diego and Old Town and was active in community plan updates for both of those areas.
– A vetrano who remains active in his neighborhood, as well as community issues citywide.