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.
AND THEN A COOL SEGUE BACK TO MUSIC AT 3AM.
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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.
Events listed at https://sdpride.org/events/
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
About The Electric Picnic
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.
With Mike and Arthur Aguirre LIVE Sat 11am-Noon
TODAY WE’RE TALKING COFFEE with JOHN RIPPO
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.
DEMOCRACY NOW! with Amy Goodman M-F 7-8am, 6-7pm
● A Disastrous Development”: Trita Parsi on Breakdown of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire
● “Demanding the Truth”: Family Wants Answers After ICE Kills Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
● Homicide by Asphyxiation: What Happened to Geraldo Lunas Campos, Who Died in a Texas ICE Jail?
● Albania’s Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov’t
WOMEN OF COLOR ROAR with Angela de Joseph Thurs 5pm, Sat 10am
Women of Color Roar is hosted by journalist and activist Angela de Joseph. A life-long journalist, Angela is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who began her career as an editor at Essence Magazine in New York. She hosts a weekly political talk radio show on KNSJ FM in San Diego. She is the chair of Indivisible Watu, a grass-roots community activist organization dedicated to voter education and engagement. Angela is also a Program Manager for GRID Alternatives the nation’s largest nonprofit solar installer and training program.
WOC Roar is a communications platform to give voice to Women of Color.
Thurs 3pm
Today Professor Wolff delivers updates on rising wages for app-based NYC food delivery workers, a wave of U.S. firms being sold to their workers, McDonald’s disaster with an AI experiment, and how Canada’s leader Carney is also a major campaigner for capital and against labor inside Canada. The second part of today’s show features an interview with psychotherapist Tess Fraad-Wolff on the psychological crisis faced by men in US capitalism today.
Economic Update is a weekly nationally syndicated radio program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze their own financial situation as well as the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life – wages, jobs, taxes, debts, and profits – the program explores alternative ways to organize markets and government policies.
About Richard D. Wolff
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City.
Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne). Wolff was also regular lecturer at the Brecht Forum in New York City.
Professor Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update.
With Don Kimball Sat pm
THE CURRENT WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
Another Special Conversation with Matthew Hoh, USMC Captain and State Department Officer, Iraq War combat veteran and Afghanistan War State Department officer.
Tune into Friendly Fire a Voice for Veterans today to hear former US Marine and State Department official Matt Hoh discuss the current war between Russia and Ukraine. A member of Veterans For Peace, in 2024 Matt spoke before the UN Security Council about the continuing “escalation ladder” between the two opposing nations, each launching massive drone and missile attacks on each other almost weekly now. The death and destruction are truly appalling, as are the environmental consequences of this continuing conflict. A senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network, Matt’s analysis of the war that has lasted longer for Russia than WWII is invaluable in helping to understand how we got to this stage of a war without an end in sight.
Matthew Hoh had nearly twelve years experience with the US military and the wars overseas with the United States Marine Corps, Department of Defense and State Department.
In 2009, Matthew Hoh resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matt took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-2005 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-2007 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matt worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-2008.
From 2010-2024, Matt was affiliated with the Center for International Policy, first as a senior fellow and later as a senior fellow emeritus. He is a disabled veteran.
THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Thurs 1pm
Weaponizing Civil Death to Crush Dissidents with Hüseyin Doğru
The sanctioning of German journalist Hüseyin Dogru establishes a new precedent in the West’s repression of anti-imperialist speech.
The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the boot of legislators who concoct fascist legislation to act as imperial henchmen. Their methods are stretching the limits of the law with the scope and severity of the punishments imposed. Nowhere is this repression more apparent than in Germany where, since October 7 of 2023, governments have banned languages and symbols related to Palestine and many people, not only journalists but also professors, doctors and lawyers, have lost their jobs for speaking out against the genocide or participating in pro-Palestine demonstrations.
In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with Hüseyin Dogru, a German citizen and father of three young children, who founded Red Media, an anti-imperialist, socialist media outlet. Since May 20 of 2025, Dogru has been experiencing a “civil death,” as Hedges calls it. Dogru and his family members are sanctioned by the European Union as part of its sanctions package against Russia. Their bank accounts are frozen, and they are forced to live on 506 euros a month, which is wholly inadequate for a family of five. Providing any support for Dogru’s family, such as bringing them food, is considered a violation of the sanctions and is punishable by heavy prison sentences and fines.
The allegations against Dogru are unfounded and inaccurate, but even though he has not committed any crimes, he is left with little recourse in the judicial system. Dogru describes the day-to-day struggles to find answers about what he is or isn’t permitted to do and the painful uncertainty of not knowing whether his children will have enough food or other necessities. His case illustrates the state’s expanding powers to weaponize the legal system and to control every aspect of a citizen’s life.
Dogru calls this attack on press freedom “militarization of the information space” and he notes its effectiveness. His trade union is siding with the government. Journalists are afraid to even report on his plight. Dogru explains, “What is happening to me and to my family scares the people and journalists so much that they self-censor.” When asked about Germany’s support for the Zionist State, Dogru exposes the hypocrisy of Germany’s claim to a historical responsibility to Jewish people. He places Germany’s actions in the context of its declining economy and search for relevance in a rising multipolar world, saying, “German imperialism is trying to be the leading force in Europe as well. And we know how it ended the last time when German imperialism got militarized and expanded in the world.”
With Don Kimball Sat 2pm, Wed 7pm
Don’s guest is Iranian-born USAF VETERAN PHEDREA BOND. Their coversation includes her military experience as a police officer. Now a member of Veterans For Peace in Maine, she is a police chaplain for the Portland PD and also a professional dog trainer.