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Community Radio’s Monthly Community Meeting!

Thank you for your interest in KNSJ, San Diego’s only CommUnity Radio Station, broadcasting 24/7 online at knsj.org while we work to return to the air on 89.1 FM.

You’re invited to our community meeting on Thursday, September 17th, at 6:30 pm in person (preferred) or via Zoom.

Meeting Topics:

• What is the role of independent media in informing the public about the historic threat to democracy and freedom of the press?
• What role can KNSJ play in exposing authoritarianism and informing the community about local and national resistance organizing?

Updates:

• Getting back on the air!
• New shows.

It’s your opportunity to learn about the station, engage, or volunteer. Join us to “be the media” and build San Diego’s most consistently progressive voice for social change and for independent music. 

Please RSVP below so we know how many people to expect. 

RSVP

LOCATION:
In Person: Peace Resource Center, 3850 Westgate Place, San Diego, CA 92105
Directions
Lost or for info: 619-871-9354

Online on Zoom: https://bit.ly/knsj-zoom

We look forward to seeing you there! Please forward this email to friends and family who may be interested. 

Conservation Groups Protest Proposal to Swap Out Land in Yosemite

By Suzanne Potter

Sep 16, 2026

California lawmakers are leading the charge against a proposed land swap to allow a road to be built in Yosemite National Park, connecting it with a planned development just over the park border.

More than 150 lawmakers, including Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., just wrote to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, arguing national parks should not be carved up for private interests.

Lanny Davis, an attorney for the developer Kingsbarn Realty Capital, said he is negotiating with park officials to build a road through a few acres in the park to connect the developer’s property with Highway 120.

David Willms, associate vice president of public lands for the National Wildlife Federation, said the acreage is not the point.

“It’s the precedent that it sets to say that this is OK and it’s something we would consider doing in other parks around the country,” Willms contended. “Who knows if the next proposal would be larger or not?”

The developer has not released specific plans but has considered building a lodge and cabins in the past. Davis claimed in a statement the road would reduce air pollution because the shortcut would reduce the time vehicles take to reach the development. A similar proposal was rejected during several prior administrations. A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior told The New York Times no decision has been made.

Howard Penn, executive director of the environmental policy and advocacy group the Planning and Conservation League, said the Department of the Interior should not have the final say.

“Since Congress was the entity that created the national parks, seems like they should have that approval and it should just not be the executive branch deciding when and how they can swap land with a national park,” Penn emphasize.

The developer has not specified which land it proposes to give to the national park system in exchange. It could be near Yosemite or hundreds of miles away, as long as it is deemed environmentally sensitive land of equal value.

With Don Kimball Wed 7pm, Sat 2pm

Tune into Friendly Fire a Voice For Veterans tonight to hear three Veteran’s For Peace members discuss the immigration crisis and the devastating impacts it’s having on our communities and families. Featuring US Army veteran Zahid Chaundry and his wife “courage changes the odds” Mellisa speaking about her new book on their fight for justice. Also joining in the conversation is James L. Brown, ll, a former US Marine and founder of Black Deported Veterans of America, who has for years worked to bring attention to the plight of deported veterans

WOMEN’S RADIO HOUR with Patricia Law Wed 5pm, Sat Noon, Sun 6pm

MARTHA SULLIVAN ON ANIMAL CRUELTY AND ANIMAL ADVOCACY AND WHAT YOU CAN DO

Patricia is in conversation with Martha Sullivan about how we think of animals both domestically and in the wild compared to how we think of our pets or even how we think of our favorite people in, for instance, sports. Their in-depth discussion includes our taking for granted the use of animals as entertainment while ignoring the abuse of animals in order to perform, how they are bred for performance, treated behind the scenes, how they are discarded when no longer able to perform and more. Martha and Patricia talk about the plight of animals at marine parks, horse-racing and rodeos. This eye-opening discussion also gives you information on what you can do to protect animals from abuse.

Martha Sullivan worked for the CA Public Utilities Commission from 1979-98, and spent the last several years there managing the CPUC’s environmental review process under the CA Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and in concert with Federal agencies under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).  After moving to San Diego County in 2001, Martha has been a grassroots community organizer, including co-founding the Coalition to Decommission San Onofre in 2012 (representing Women Occupy San Diego), and being on the CDSO Intervenor Team at the CPUC in 2013-14.  As a member of Women Occupy San Diego, she helped to pass a Ballot Measure in 2020 for an independent Commission on Police Practices.  Martha has also been an advocate for San Diegans experiencing homelessness, and has sheltered over 3 dozen herself since 2009, with 3 of these her housemates since 2020. Martha co-organizes Kill Racing Not Horses to educate the public on the cruelty of the horseracing industry and to support the end of live horse racing

Mon-Fri Noon-1pm

TODAY

THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Sat 7pm

Guest Poet ROBERT O’SULLIVAN SCHLEITH

Robt O’Sullivan Schleith has hosted the monthly open reading for the Escondido Arts Partnership Art Gallery (Escondidoarts.org) since 2007 and publishes the annual Summation ekphrastic anthology, now in its eighteenth year; he serves as a regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual (sandiegopoetryannual.com, and has served as a poetry judge for the annual Eric Hoffer Prize since 2021. He previously published the ‘Drift Wood Highway’ series of poetry anthologies from 1999 through 2002, and is the (retired in 2003) founder of the San Diego Poetry Slam.

In addition to the SDPA, his work has appeared in Sun Runner Magazine, Dan River Press, Northwoods Press, Northern Virginia Review, Encinitas Quarterly and the City Works anthology (San Diego City College), as well as on a number of online sites like Poetry Super Highway.

He publishes under his mother’s maiden name O’Sullivan.

With Mike Aguirre and Co-host Arthur Aguirre LIVE Saturday at 11am

STEPHEN SKOWRONEK

Author of The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience. The book asks: “how adaptable is the American Constitution?” and “why, after a long history of adaptations, have we had such a hard time accommodating a fully inclusive polity in a stable and responsive set of governing arrangements?”  

Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University.  In 2019, he served as the Wynant Visiting Professor at the Rothermere American Institute, Balliol College Oxford.  He has also been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and he held the Chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.  His most recent book, The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience (2025), examines the democratization of the Constitution and the political and institutitonal difficulties encountered in adjusting a fully inclusive polity. 

Skowronek’s reseach has focused on American national institutions and American political development. He has written extensively on the American presidency and the executive branch.  His publications include Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive  (with John Dearborn and Desmond King), The Policy State: An American Predicament (With Karen Orren), Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 ,  The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton,  The Search for American Political Development (with Karen Orren), and Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal (third edition 2020). Among other activities, he was co-founder of the journal Studies in American Political Development, which he co-edited between 1986 and 2007, and he provided the episode structure and thematic content for the PBS miniseries: The American President (Kunhardt Productions).

Contact (203) 432-5272 stephen.skowronek@yale.edu

https://www.amazon.com>shop>theadaptabilityparadox

: https://press.chicago.edu/ucp/books.book/chicago/A/bo256018846.html

With Don Kimball Wed 7pm, Sat 2pm

A Show for and About Veterans

Tune in tonight to hear author/activist Norman Soloman discuss his book War Made Invisible.

KNSJ’S COMMUNITY FIRST THURSDAY MEETING IS RESCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 AT THE PEACE RESOURCE CENTER IN SAN DIEGO, 7PM. PLENTY OF PARKING. MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW.

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR. LEARN ABOUT KNSJ AND OUR VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES RUNNING A RADIO STATION AND MUTIMEDIA PLATFORM IN SAN DIEGO, AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER.

With Amy Goodman M-F 7-8am, 6-7pm

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