WOMEN’S HOUR with Patricia Law Wed 5pm

ANIMAL ABUSE FOR PLEASURE AND ENTERTAINMENT

Patricia and her guest Ellen Ericksen are in conversation about the reality of using animals for entertainment, the abuse and deaths that are hidden from the public.

Ericksen is a dedicated animal rights activist. She has dedicated many years to organizing hundreds of protests at Sea World San Diego, the San Diego Zoo, Cruel Circuses and Horse racing protests at the Del Mar racetrack every summer for many years. She has helped organize the largest protests at Farmer John Slaughterhouse in Los Angeles, some of the largest marches in Los Angeles about the ivory trade and animal extinction and any other animal abuse that needs attention with other dedicated activists. When Ellen is not organizing protests or working full time in healthcare, she commits her time doing Vegan Outreach and has spoken as a humane educator at many universities, colleges, high schools and middle schools. Ellen is the recipient of the 2015 award from The Pollination Project as The Unsung Vegan Hero and FARMS 2018 Grassroots Animal Rights Activist of the year award.

She continues to spread awareness daily to educate many about the horror of factory farming, the environment and living a vegan lifestyle.

FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Sat 2pm

A show for and about veterans

Today Don is in conversation with Colonel Don Christensen, USAF Ret. and former President of Protective Our Defenders (POD) speaking about the increased threats of MST (military sexual trauma ) to our troops by the policies of the Trump administration and by directives from Secretary for War Pete Hegseth. Don retired from the USAF after 23 years of prosecuting crimes of sexual assault and harassment, and then worked at the nonprofit POD for eight years before moving to the Solomon Law firm. Truly a heroic figure, Don’s experience and expertise has helped many men and women receive the justice they deserved after the military turned its back on them.

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

IN MEMORY OF WELL KNOWN SAN DIEGO POET JIM MORENO

with HIS CLOSE FRIENDS

Call in with Your Remembrances at 619-790-KNSJ (5675)

Guests are well known poet Joseph Milosch, documentary filmmaker Alfred Williams, KNSJ station manager and co-founder of Activist San Diego Martin Eder and Elene Bratton, social worker and activist with SEIU Local 221 in San Diego.

Support KNSJ Because KNSJ Matters!

Giving Tuesday is a great day to show you care!

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As we approach the end of another year, one thing is abundantly clear: we are living in perilous times. News and stories on corporate media are being manipulated or simply not even reported! KNSJ knows it is important to you to hear news reports from the streets (that corporate media is desperately trying to keep from you) because you want to know what is really going on!

This is why KNSJ matters

Democracy, free speech and civil rights are under threat. Media monopolies, MAGA mouthpieces, and oligarchs wield massive influence on government policy while the gap between the ultra-wealthy and poor continues to widen. The climate crisis reaches catastrophic levels as those in power capitulate to the fossil fuel industry and rescind green energy projects.

The world’s seven richest billionaires are now media barons. Their overwhelming buy-up of our means of communication gives them extraordinary control over our media and public square, allowing them to set agendas and suppress forms of speech they do not approve of.

This is why KNSJ matters

Since taking to the airwaves 12 years ago, KNSJ has been a voice for social justice, civil rights, labor rights, climate action and democracy. Our station has featured live debates between candidates for City Council and the Mayor’s office, live broadcasts from climate, labor, civil rights, and peace rallies, as well as countless interviews with people representing a multitude of diverse voices and disenfranchised communities.

Our public-affairs programming schedule features critical locally- and nationally produced programs speaking to issues that are too often ignored by corporate media platforms, including shows like Democracy Now! streaming Live from Palestine awakening our conscience, Thom Hartmann talking to our representatives and to you as you tell America what really is—or isn’t-–happening in your neighborhoods and cities.

The service we provide to our listeners doesn’t stop at our Public Affairs programming. KNSJ is continuing to develop the best independent music programming schedule you’ll find in the entire county. Night in and night out, listeners who tune to 89.1 FM or stream online at knsj.org will hear an incredibly eclectic array of music that will not be found anywhere else on the dial.

In 2026 we plan to release the KNSJ app, strengthen our terrestrial signal, continue to expand our locally-produced programming, do more remote broadcasts from our neighborhoods (maybe we’ll be in yours) and feature more of our creative arts community, organizing more debates and more lectures by authors mainstream media isn’t allowed to talk about, as we strengthen our ties to the community.

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Outrage After Footage of Israeli Soldiers Executing Two Palestinians in Jenin Goes Viral

 December 1, 2025

By Qassam Muaddi / Mondoweiss

The killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin has provoked international outrage after video footage of the incident went viral on Friday. Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows two young Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli soldiers and lying on the ground in front of a garage under soldiers’ instructions. They then appear to be directed by the soldiers to go back inside the garage, where one of the troops is seen aiming and shooting at him as he lies on the ground.

Link to video (Warning: Graphic): https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1994099203212034430?s=20

The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the victims as Muntaser Billah Abdallah, 26, and Yousef Asaasah, 37. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the killing in a statement, calling it “a war crime” and a case of “extrajudicial killing.”

The Israeli army and border police said in a joint statement on Friday that Israeli troops “operated to apprehend wanted individuals” allegedly affiliated with a resistance network in the Jenin area, and that after they exited, “fire was directed toward the suspects.”

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, under whose jurisdiction the border police operates, voiced his “total support” for the Israeli soldiers in question, asserting that they “acted exactly as expected of them: terrorists must die.”

The footage has drawn widespread condemnation from rights groups, with Israeli human rights group B’Tselem stating that “the execution documented today is the result of an accelerated dehumanization process of Palestinians” and calling on the international community to “put an end to Israel’s impunity.”

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the killings, saying in a statement that “killings of Palestinians by Israeli security forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank have been surging, without accountability, even in the rare cases where investigations are announced.”

A pattern of extrajudicial execution

While the latest killing in Jenin was caught on video, Palestinians have remarked that it is not an isolated incident. In 2022, the Palestinian Human Rights Association documented 38 cases of the arbitrary killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces between August 1 and November 4. Yet the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank has sharply risen since October 2023, with at least 1,030 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the past two years in the West Bank.

The killing of the two Palestinians in Jenin comes two days after the Israeli army announced the launch of a new wide-scale military operation in the northern West Bank, which began with a large raid into Tubas. The operation comes almost a year after Israel’s previous “Iron Wall” offensive in the northern West Bank, during which Israeli forces displaced over 40,000 Palestinians from their homes in refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem.

Jenin city and its adjacent refugee camp have been at the center of Israeli military raids since late 2021, as it became the center of Palestinian armed resistance groups such as the Jenin Brigade. After October 2023, Israel launched a protracted military campaign to dismantle them.

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THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Sat 7pm

Poetry ^o Prose ^o Spoken Word ^o Writing

Often described as our truth-tellers, Susan and her guest writers present verse and storytelling every week, delving into the art of writing, observations and how their art reflects our universe and empowers us.

_____About Susan

A poet, writer and educator herself, Susan interviews fellow poets and novelists, songwriters and journalists, all philosophers in their genre.  Hear calls to social justice and well-crafted words from local and international poets on The Electric Picnic, only on KNSJ.

ALTERNATIVE RADIO with David Barsamian Sat 4pm

ALTERNATIVE RADIO, established in 1986, is an award-winning weekly one-hour public affairs program.  AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in corporate media. Barsamian started the show to serve as a forum for controversy and debate.

_________About David Barsamian

One of America’s most tireless and wide-ranging investigative journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio program, Alternative Radio—40 years and running— and his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His recent books are Culture and Resistance, Retargeting Iran, Chronicles of Dissent and Notes on Resistance. His latest book is with Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire. David lectures on world affairs, imperialism, capitalism, propaganda, the media and global rebellions.

Radical Desi in Vancouver and the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center in Boulder presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. He has collaborated with the world-renowned Kronos Quartet in events in New York, London, Vienna, Boulder and San Francisco. He is the winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes.

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.

FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Sat 2pm

A Voice For Veterans

Don is in conversation with two air traffic controllers who speak out about how the 43 day government shutdown affected them, the traveling public and the air traffic system.

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.”