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Author and journalist Katherine Stewart discusses her book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside The Movement to Destroy American Democracy on today's edition of Your Call. What will it take to turn things around and restore democracy for all? kalw.org/your-call.

Live now: we're discussing war crimes, accountability, and the precedents being set by the US-Israeli assault on Iran, the US-backed Israeli assault on Gaza, and the ongoing deadly boat strikes carried out by the Trump administration. kalw.org/show/your-call…

KALW is fully activated this month with a variety of events at 220 Montgomery to intrigue, delight, and inform you! Learn more and RSVP at kalw.org/events

The US at 250: A Native Perspective exposes the real history behind America’s founding, from stolen lands to erased stories, centering the voices of the Indigenous peoples who’ve endured for centuries. kalw.org/show/your-call…

Professor @afreemanlawprof traces US food policy from colonization and slavery to the Americanization of immigrant food cultures, the commodities supplied to Native reservations, and the long-standing alliance between government and the food industry. kalw.org/show/your-call…

Join KALW for a live watch party for the first California gubernatorial debate in the 2026 election, hosted by the KALW Election News Team. 2/3/26 @220 Montgomery St. | 5:30pm RSVP: kalw.org/220montgomery

Give to the People's Studio this #GivingTuesday and your gift will be doubled 1:1 through the end of tomorrow! Thanks to our Founding Donors, the People's Studio will be an original home for the Bay to remain independent, informed, creative, & engaged. bit.ly/peoplesstudio.

Our Authoritarian Playbook series is now on @prx. It's a weekly series from KALW examining the Trump administration’s authoritarian actions and policies. Please let your public radio's station manager or program director know that it's available for free. exchange.prx.org/series/56214-t…

Live now on Your Call. Join us w/@latimes @hiltzikm, @HungerFreeUSA CEO Joel Berg, @cforhd @NPLB_org @wendellpotter + @PNHP Dr. Monica Maalouf. 42M receive SNAP benefits - the average benefit is $6 a day. You have to be very low-income to qualify. kalw.org/show/your-call…

Join today's Your Call at 10am PT w/@GUQatar @gscheiring + @direkt36 @andraspe. Since 2010, Orban, Trump's close ally, has consolidated power, dismantled checks and balances, and taken control of universities, civil society, and 80 percent of the media. kalw.org/show/your-call…

"People are being pulled off of the streets. They're being thrown into unmarked vans. Family members are screaming because they have no idea where their loved ones are being taken. Naureen, how is this legal?" @ACLU @naureenshah: "It's not legal." youtube.com/watch?v=lli962…

Live now: @AmyCordalis, a member and former general counsel of the Yurok Nation, the largest Indigenous Nation in California, discusses her new book, "The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life." Join us: is.gd/joHigS

NYT: Federal surge called off across Bay Area Over the past three days, we've discussed violent raids, family separation, people going to court + being detained, the power billionaires have in SF and the White House + the following important facts...

Sunday on Fog City Blues: John Lennon would have been 85 years old today, so we'll listen to deep cuts from recent anniversary re-issues of his solo and Beatles recordings, along with Lennon-centric Beatles covers from Bay Area artists. Listen Oct 12 @ 4pm on KALW 91.7 FM.

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Live now on Your Call, we continue our series, The Authoritarian Playbook, with Raoul Peck, the acclaimed Haitian filmmaker whose new documentary, Orwell 2+2=5, examines how authoritarians come to power. Join us: kalw.org/show/your-call…

Our 2025 Audio Academy Cohort hard at work transcribing tape! They support the production of our award-winning daily news show @CrosscurrentsFM, hosted by @radiohana. They receive training on fact-checking and research, and pitch their very own stories. bit.ly/48CfBzF

Live now: we continue our new series, The Authoritarian Playbook, with historian Kevin Kruse, author of "Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past." How are historians taking on Trump's efforts to rewrite history? kalw.org/show/your-call…

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Live now: @UNC @KathleenADuVal discusses her Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America." Her book starts in the year 1,000. She wrote "Native Nations" to reinsert Native American history into world history. kalw.org/show/your-call…