AL CHILE SPANISH RADIO con Ariana Gallegos Sat 9am
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EAST COUNTY MAGAZINE with Miriam Raftery Sat 8am
Award-winning investigative journalist and editor of East County Magazine Miriam Raftery and her team report breaking news and events from East County as well as other local, state, national and global news that affects everyone here at home.
Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales M-F 7am and 6pm
Today’s headlines include:
- REPORT from Colombia on Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Region;
- TRUMP’S Plan to Seize Greenland Would “Militarize the Arctic,” Trample Indigenous Rights;
- “IT’S All About the Oil, Stupid!”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela and Kidnapping Maduro;
- “FIRESTORM”: MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff on the Anniversary of L.A. Fires & “America’s New Age of Disaster.” In this report Jacob mentions that 40% of the properties that are selling are not going to locals but instead they are going to corporate investors.
THE WOMEN’S RADIO HOUR with PATRICIA LAW Wed 5pm
“LIFIN’ AND LOVIN’ with Starla Lewis
Starla Lewis is a Global Educator of Self Love. For 40+ years she has taught people to see themselves, love themselves and use love to heal. As a Professor Emeritus, transformational speaker and founder of C.E.L.L. (Celebration of Everlasting Life & Love), she lectures and facilitates trainings on life mastery, diversity, racism, sexism, and women’s empowerment. She is author/illustrator of “Sunkisses”, and Co-Author of “I Am: My Own Self-Validation”. She is Co-Founder of Woman’s Worth: Multigenerational Women’s Empowerment. Starla is a seven-time recipient of the Mesa College “Teacher of the Year” award, a “Women’s Hall of Fame” inductee, and a KPBS “Local Hero”. In 2019 San Diego’s City Council proclaimed December 20th, “Professor Starla Lewis Day”. In 2021 LEAD San Diego honored Starla for embodying and epitomizing excellence in community leadership. Starla Lewis is a community servant, life-long learner and believer in Black excellence. She lives by the motto: “All people are: Brilliant, Powerful, Limitless, Love!”
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LA PASTORELA 2025
LA PASTORELA DEL VALIENTE ON STAGE — ON RADIO HEARD ONLY ON KNSJ
W 12/17 2pm, Sat 12/20 6pm M 12/22 3pm, Th 12/25 7pm, Sun 12/28 noon
THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Mon 8am Wed 3pm, Sat 7pm
CARL HALLBERG
Poet, Essayist, Musician, Puppeteer
Carl Hallberg was born in the watershed of the St Croix River of eastern Minnesota surrounded by lakes, eagles, and redwing blackbirds in the summer. Growing up around catholic workers and organic farmers exposed Carl to practices of mutual aid and reciprocal love for the land that formed the basis of his political and social understandings, which fomented in the 2020 uprising after the murder of George Floyd, and the indigenous led movement to oppose Line 3 of the following year. After graduating high school in 2020, Carl moved to New York City and got a degree in acting from the Juilliard School while also falling in with Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping and the Bread and Puppet Theater. Since graduating in 2024, Carl has toured internationally and nationally with both groups, and premiered a solo show of stories, songs, and puppet shows called A Performed Lecture on Gardening, Neighborliness, and John Brown in April 2025
_______A Statement on Influences and Hopes:
I write songs and make theater, often including original poems and prose. Recently I’ve been making simple, narrative based theater works in the vein of Spalding Grey, with inspiration from the Bread and Puppet Theater and the Rude Mechs of Austin Texas. Across disciplines, I’m inspired by Michael Hurley, gesturing toward decolonial futures, and the why cheap art manifesto by the bread and puppet theater, which says ‘Art has to be cheap and available to everybody because it is the inside of the world. Art is like good bread, art is like green trees, art is like blue sky.’ I’m drawn especially to the work of Michael Hurly, who sings very direct, catchy songs that capture the mystery of ordinary life, and the thrilling beauty of the natural world. By connecting to this beauty we can touch the fierce joy of life that, when united with our friends and neighbors, can beat fascists and topple governments. As the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures collective reminds us, there is profound physio-psychological work to be done to hospice the colonial psyche. I aim, through my work, to inspire this fierce joy in the spirit of this greater work, in all of its ordinary daily applications.
I want those who interact with my work to feel their hearts soften and stretch out toward the world, so that they can feel the pain and intensity of the current moment and remain open, connected to their neighbors and to the land around them.
STOP & TALK with Grant Oliphant and co-host Crystal Page Fri 8am, and Wed
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.
THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT Sat 1pm
The Encampments with Mahmoud Khalil and Michael Workman
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has become a litmus test of institutional integrity. When a university denies the reality of Israel’s brutality, it reveals complicity with the genocidal regime’s actions. To then misrepresent campus dissent over institutional investment in the Zionist entity as illegitimate — or even “antisemitic” — makes it clear that that these institutions are invested in the existence of Israeli apartheid and genocide.
These contradictions were brought to a head during the Gaza solidarity encampment movement in 2024, where hundreds of college campuses around the world protested against their universities’ affiliations and investments in anything related to Israel. The media and Zionists inside these universities cried wolf about widespread bigotry and hatred, and many believed them.
Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker documented through their film, “The Encampments,” that these protests were not only peaceful and nonviolent but that the violence described in the media almost always came from the Zionist counter protestors.
Workman and Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student who was a negotiator for the encampment movement and was made famous after being kidnapped by ICE agents, join host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. They share their experiences seen in the film as well as updates to Khalil’s case as he faces potential deportation by the Trump administration. The film — as well as their accounts — document a clear narrative that demonstrates the failure of our institutions to abide by any moral standards, and their active role in descending Western society into fascist authoritarianism.
