FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball Sat 2pm
A Show For and About Veterans
Tune in to Friendly Fire to hear retired USA Colonel and A&M professor Greg Daddis discuss his latest book, Faith and Fear: America’s Relationship with War since 1945.
WHEN RELIGIOUS MAFIA AND RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS TAKE OVER with ROLLO ROMIG
The 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, is indicative of the expanding tide of authoritarianism worldwide that is now infecting the United States.
One of the most stark examples of the expanding tide of authoritarianism worldwide was the 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, allegedly assassinated by a far-right religious group in India for her fearless journalism.
Joining host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report is Rollo Romig, a journalist whose Pulitzer Prize-finalist book, I Am On the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Ruse of Autocracy in India, examines the historic and political context of Lankesh’s murder.
Romig chronicles the rise of Hindu nationalist extremism in India, linking it to India’s current authoritarian policies under Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The group accused of Lankesh’s assassination, Sanatan Sanstha, operates on the vision “of making India an officially Hindu country and, equally importantly, relegating all non-Hindus to second-class citizenship and ostracizing, particularly, Muslims from Hindu society,” according to Romig.
Much like in the United States, Romig and Hedges argue that such fringe groups serve a strategic purpose of mainstreaming extremist ideologies that ultimately benefit the ruling class. Gauri’s work represented a threat to far-right political movements in India and she was often subjected to fierce intimidation campaigns, including, as the title of Romig’s book suggests, being placed on murder hit lists.
TALK OF THE TOWN with Mike Aguirre LIVE Sat 11am
CALL IN WITH QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS: 619-790-KNSJ (5675)
Mike’s Guest is KIM MOORE, Education and Training Director with the United Domestic Workers Labor Union in San Diego
United Domestic Workers is a statewide union representing over 200,000 home care and child care providers in California.
Kim Moore has been a community organizer for 20 years in San Diego working on various campaigns related to policing, mass incarceration and immigration. In 2018, she co-founded the San Diego bail fund with several other local organizers.
Kim has spent the last 11 organizing workers through her job at UDW, where she is the Education & Training Director.
Labor Day is only a few weeks away. Mike and Kim will be in conversation about the history of labor, the strength in organizing, having a seat at the table, the responsibilities of domestic workers, and more.
WOMEN OF COLOR ROAR with Angela de Joseph Sat 10am
STOP & TALK with Grant Oliphant and Crystal Page Fri 8am
Thoughtful conversations and a good way to start the day! STOP & TALK dives deep into the themes of purpose and opportunity, guided by the insights of leaders in the arts and culture, health, philanthropy, finance, and innovation fields. Together, we celebrated local achievements and envisioned what’s possible in San Diego County.
WOMEN’S RADIO HOUR with Patricia Law Wed 5pm
NEWS AND INTERVIEWS ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
Tonight Patricia is in conversation about UNRESTRICTED BUILDING IN SAN DIEGO
Patricia talks to Pamela Begeal, Current Administrator, ADU Bonus.
______ ABOUT PAMELA______
I have been a resident in the City of San Diego since 1965.
In 2025 segments started appearing on television and articles in print media about egregious sized apartment complexes being built in the back of single family homes in our City.
Calling themselves accessory dwelling units, ADUs or granny flats as they were commonly known
However no one had ever heard of 10, 12 or 18 being built in backyards but the pictures of what was springing up was undeniable.
After some investigating I found that starting back even before Covid, City and State planners were looking at increasing housing in the State of California by loosening restrictions on building and passing laws favorable to these larger developments.
In October 2020, the City of San Diego created the ADU BONUS program and the race was on. Developers quietly started buying up single family homes in anticipation of these more relaxed building laws. Commercials started appearing on television stating we will buy your home, no closing costs, etc.
In 2023 some of these smaller ADU bonus projects started appearing as 4 or 5 units in a backyard. By 2025 the floodgates were opened and these massive 10.12, and 18 units in backyards started appearing and citizens like myself noticed.
Grass roots organizations like Neighbors For A Better San Diego had been sounding the alarm since 2020, but now there was no longer any way to ignore it as these were going in on residential streets, two stories high, ruining neighbors’ privacy and creating absolutely no parking on already minimal parking area streets like cul-de-sacs.
Neighbors to these egregious projects were being bullied by the developers and turning to our City for help fell on deaf ears.
That is when I started ADUBONUS.org to help people who are fighting right now for their home’s value and their neighborhood.
We have information on how to contact the City and contractors with issues and complaints, map to show where the next set of large backyard complexes may be built, what to do before, during and after construction, neighborhood groups forming, protests and lawsuits.
For more information go to ADUBONUS.org
KNSJ MONTHLY INTRODUCTION AND COMMUNITY MEETING THURSDAY, 8/7, 6:30 PM
THURSDAY, 6:30 PM, ON ZOOM. WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU TO JOIN KNSJ TO HELP RUN A VOLUNTEER RADIO STATION. CALL 619-283-1100 FOR ZOOM INFO.
YES, YOU! ALL AGES (WELL, ALMOST). SCHOOL STUDENTS TO ???
NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED, JUST A PASSION FOR RADIO AT THE GRASS ROOTS LEVEL, COVERING NEWS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS, OUR RICH HOMETOWN CREATIVE ARTS COMMUNITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, SCIENCE, THOUGHTFUL CONVERSATIONS, POP CULTURE AND ??? YOU LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK NEEDS TO BE COVERED IN YOUR COMMUNITY. KNSJ, INDEPENDENT RADIO BROADCASTING IN SAN DIEGO, THE BORDER REGION, RURAL COMMUNITIES, FEATURING VOICES AND STORIES NOT HEARD ON STATIONS CONTROLLED BY MEGA CORPORATIONS WHO HAVE NO TIES TO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
JOIN US ON ZOOM THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 2025, AND FIND OUT ABOUT VOLUNTEERING WITH US FROM THE GROUND FLOOR, ADMINISTRATIVE, SOCIAL MEDIA, VIDEO, NEWS, INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES, WORKING ON A RADIO A SHOW WHETHER TALK OR MUSIC (DID I MENTION THAT WE HAVE A FANTASTIC MUSIC BLOCK AT NIGHT WITH LOCAL DJs?), AND A LOT MORE OPPORTUNITIES. AND, THE BEST PART, HAVE FUN WHILE MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY. CALL 619-283-1100 FOR THE ZOOM INFORMATION.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THURSDAY NIGHT AT 6:30.
WOMEN’S RADIO HOUR with Patricia Law Wed 5pm
NEIGHBORS FOR A BETTER PACIFIC BEACH with Guest Merv Thompson
Patricia and her guest talk about the growth of housing in Pacific Beach, congestion, traffic, air pollution, the environment, proper management of development in, and protection of, San Diego neighborhoods, concept of ADUs, destruction of an important Kumeyaay village, neighborhood communities speaking up to city officials. and more.
CIVIC CIPHER Hosted by Ramses Ja and Q Ward Wed 4pm
GUEST – MELINDA GRISBY ON THE HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS AND LATINO POPULATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
– Civic Cipher is a nationally syndicated radio show and podcast hosted by Ramses Ja and Q Ward. The program was created to foster allyship, empathy, and understanding, and bolster social justice efforts in hopes of creating a more equitable society for all. This show seeks to directly engage with diverse populations across the country.
– Set in motion in early 2020 by the violent and egregious murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Civic Cipher was created as a response to a desperate call to action, and an urgent need for change.
– Civic Cipher is intentionally, curated to be an invaluable, and timeless, resource for everyone. These conversations serve non-POC allies (as well as POC) who may not ot
THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Wed 3pm
Guest San Diego Poet JON VON ERB
Poet Jon Von Erb, new to San Diego, now resides here. Dubbed The Poet Laureate of University Heights, he is delighted in his new city. He mentors poets world-wide online. Professionally he recently retired from practicing therapeutic, medical massage therapy. His first career was that of a ballet dancer, choreographer and professor of classical dance techniques in America, including Alaska, and throughout Europe.
November 2019 marked the date of his 1st published book of poetry, Insights of a Dancing Poet. He now writes poetry for the University Heights Community Newspaper and occasionally the San Diego Union-Tribune. His poems have been published in many anthologies in San Francisco, Palm Springs and has a poem coming out in the San Diego Poetry Annual, 2023.
Following his desire to spread the joy of poetry, he offers his poems at three local coffee cafes and has a poetry box outside his residence in University Heights in the San Diego neighborhood.