https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/suzi-weissman/ alexa@kpfk.org (Archive Manager) alexa@kpfk.org (KPFK Admin) en-us Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0700 60 Pacifica Archive archiver_9.0.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Public Affairs - Local KPFK Public Radio - Online Archives alexa@kpfk.org Suzi Weissman no https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260308_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260308_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0700 Mather describes near-hourly strikes, hospitals hit, internet cut, and a propaganda war in which state TV claims nothing happened while satellite channels say nothing is left. She explains why Trump's promise to 'liberate' Iran has produced the opposite: people who were in January's anti-regime protests are now joining pro-government demonstrations — not for the regime, but out of rage at foreign attack. She assesses Khamenei's death, the removal of his brake on IRGC adventurism, Netanyahu's real objective (not the nuclear program but Iran as a country), and why this war makes 2003 look well planned. She also addresses the illusions some on the left hold about Russia or China as potential saviors — and why those illusions are not just wrong but dangerous.]]> 3604 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260301_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260301_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0800 3604 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260222_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260222_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0800 Ukrainian socialist Oleksandr Kyselov, author of “The Peace That Cannot Come,” explains why the current “peace process” is a dangerous illusion. Russia’s goal, he argues, is not compromise but subjugation — and any ceasefire that doesn’t confront that reality only postpones the next war. We discuss the Witkoff-Dmitriev 28-point plan (critics call it the DimWit plan), exhaustion inside Ukraine, and why calls from the Western left for immediate, unconditional ceasefire--without a single protest outside a Russian embassy are, as Kyselov puts it, "beyond naive."
Ksenia Kagarlitskaya joins us from Montenegro. Her father, Marxist sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, has now spent two years in Penal Colony No. 4 for opposing Putin’s war. Ksenia speaks about political prisoners in Russia — now more than 4,000 — and the growing movement to support them through her organization, Freedom Zone. As she reminds us: political prisoners don't appear in any peace negotiations because Russia refuses to acknowledge they exist.]]> 3604 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260208_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260208_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 08 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0800
Tens of thousands took to the streets in Minneapolis and around the country on January 23 and January 30 in “no work, no school, no shopping” actions. It wasn’t technically a general strike but it demonstrated how unions, clergy, and community could create the organizing infrastructure to transform outrage into collective power, building a movement and a new strike culture.

We explore how all this happened and what organizers believe comes next with labor journalist Luis Feliz Leon and President of Minneapolis CWA Local 7250 Kieran Frazier Knutson, who bring us stories from daily life under ICE occupation. Feliz Leon situates this Minneapolis moment in the history and theory of mass strikes. Knutson explains the role of mutual aid, the strategic targeting of corporations, and the push toward a worker assembly to shape the next steps. They show how ordinary people organized democratically to vanquish fear, turning moral shock into collective power.]]> 3614 no Public Affairs - Local https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260201_100000bts_friday.mp3 https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_260201_100000bts_friday.mp3 Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0800 3612 no Public Affairs - Local