KZFR News & Public Affairs Programs

10/31/2024

Natalie Hanson hosts the Peace and Justice Program on KZFR 90.1FM on Friday, starting at 11:30. Her guests are Charles Turner, CSUC Political Science and Criminal Justice Professor and Sasha Abramsky, political pundit, author (Chaos Come Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America.)

If you value Natalie's work as a Journalist and KZFR Host please call in your support for KZFR's commitment to Public Affairs programming during Peace and Justice on Friday at 530-895-0131.

10/24/2024

Please support the Peace and Justice Program this Friday, Oct. 25th 11:30-1pm on 90.1FM, KZFR.org.
I’m filling in for host of the Fall Pledge Drive and my guests will be Bob Trausch (CHAT founder extraordinaire,) Kathy Faith (artist, activist,) and Robert Jones, our cohost who will be featuring his friend, philosopher John Sanbonmatsu sharing about his new book, “The Omnivores Deception.”
We will also hear from cohosts Eran Zelnik and Angela McLaughlin. (Next week Natalie Hanson will host.) Our team would Love your support of the Mighty Zephyr during the Peace and Justice Program. The pledge line is 530-895-0131 or go to the website and push the donate tab. Thanks!

10/18/2024

Eran Zelnik hosts Friday, Oct. 18th on the Peace and Justice Program at NOON. (90.1FM) His guest is Legal Historian, Aaron Hall, who specializes in the history of originalism. They'll be discussing how this has really led to bad decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. Hope you can listen!

10/16/2024

On September 29, Governor Newsom vetoed a bill (Senate Bill 299), passed with overwhelming support by both houses of the legislature, including bipartisan support in the Assembly, which would have given the Secretary of State authority to create a Secure Automatic Voter Registration system for California.
I emailed his contact form to protest. You too?

You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.

10/13/2024

My guest from the Peace and Justice Program sent me this info for those of you who might be able to help young Afghans stuck in Pakistan since the Taliban take over. Please, if you can. I know everyone is stretched thin.

From Kathy Kelly, Peace Activist: "A network of international “buddies” stays in touch with the young friends living in
Pakistan, encouraging them to learn Portuguese, study Portugal’s rich history and culture, and continue building a strong, resilient community. It’s hard. All of the young people deeply miss their loved ones in Afghanistan. They long to help their family members who continue to face desperate circumstances. We feel edified by their care for one another as they cope with traumas caused by war and human rights abuses.
"Our international team sincerely thanks the vast network of people who have shown steady, strong generosity toward young Afghans seeking safer havens. We hope you will consider assisting the next iteration of “Barakat Leiria.” Expenses for visas, transportation, housing, food, personal allowances and project
oversight are covered through donations from individuals and groups. To make an online donation, please visit The AJ Muste Foundation for Peace and Justice page
dedicated to this cause:
https://ajmuste.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=34
This will direct your donation to InPulsar.

Alternatively, a check can be issued to AJ Muste Foundation for Peace and Justice with InPulsar
written in the memo section.
The check can be mailed to:
AJ Muste Foundation for Peace and Justice
55 Exchange Place Suite 405
NY, NY 10005

Anyone wishing to join our twice monthly zoom calls will be most welcome. Calls take place on Thursdays at 3 p.m. central time. The next call will be this Thursday, October 17th."

photo- Women in burkas, the dress code of Afghanistan now.

10/11/2024

The Peace and Justice Program is at Noon. My 12:30 guest Kevin Martin, the most informed person you can imagine on how we can stop arms sales to Israel and restore UNRWA funding, is sick. He will let me know in the next few minutes if he can do the phone call with me and our KZFR listeners. Live Radio! www.kzfr.org

10/07/2024

All I can offer are two of the strongest, most outspoken and involved Peace Activists in the U.S. Kathy Kelly is a Nobel Prize nominee and founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She will be my guest at Noon on the Peace and Justice Program on Friday, Oct. 11. You can listen on the website kzfr.org or at 90.1FM. We will also have Kevin Martin, Executive Director of Peace Action, the largest peace organization in the country at 12:30. These two can help us understand better where we go from here in STOPPING the Genocide and working to a just future. Peace to all those who mourn today.

10/03/2024

This is the anti-democracy podcaster who influences Vance:

Curtis Yarvin's ideas have been influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and the public discourses of prominent investors like Peter Thiel [who funded Vance's Senate race] have echoed Yarvin's project of seceding from democracy. … In Yarvin's view, democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign joint-stock corporations whose "shareholders" (large owners) elect an executive with total power, but who must serve at their pleasure.[28] The executive, unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, could rule efficiently much like a CEO-monarch.[28] Yarvin admires Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping for his pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism, and the city-state of Singapore as an example of a successful authoritarian regime. He sees the US as soft on crime, dominated by economic and democratic delusions.[27]
He says we should get over a anti-dictator bias.
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10/02/2024

Natalie Hanson hosts the Peace and Justice Program on Friday, Oct. 4th at Noon. Her guest is Yucheng Tang, ChicoSol's newest reporter. He's already written important stories... check them out at www.chicosol.org Don't miss the interview at 90.1FM. It's YOUR community radio station.

09/27/2024

To order four tests from Covidtests.gov between now and the end of the year. People can also get tests by calling 1-800-232-0233 or www.covidtest.gov

U.S. households will be eligible to order 4 free COVID-19 tests at COVIDTests.gov. The COVID-19 Tests will detect current COVID-19 variants and can be used through the end of the year.

09/27/2024

The Peace and Justice Program for Friday, Sept. 27th. KZFR 90.1FM. Host Angela McLaughlin interviews Mike Johnson, Chico City Council Candidate and Jerm Leather, who is doing a comedy show to raise funds for Pediatric Cancer Research. Noon to One. Don't miss it!

09/19/2024

The Peace and Justice Program at noon this Friday will be hosted by Eran Zelnik on KZFR 90.1FM. His guest is Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.
Important program. We hope you can listen.

09/13/2024

Tonight!

09/11/2024

Natalie Hanson hosts the Peace and Justice Program on KZFR, 90.1FM on Friday, 9/13 at Noon. Her guests are Gridley City Council member Catalina Sanchez and Rose Yee, Candidate for Congress, District One. The focus will be on election stakes in the Northstate and combating anti-immigrant speech in politics. Important topics.

09/06/2024

Peace and Justice Program for Friday, Sept. 6th: At Noon, Rick Jankhow of Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities. We'll be discussing military recruiters in the schools and how to control how much access they have to students. 12:30 Florence Rence Ives of Chico Palestine Advocacy Network discussing their fundraiser, Tea Time for Palestine (9/7, 1078 Gallery, 6-10pm.) 12:45 Zach Connell, Paradise High School Site Council member, candidate for Paradise Unified School Board.

09/04/2024

Marty Dunlap and Emily Alma will be interviewed on Ron Toppi's show, Northstate Water Report, tomorrow evening, September 5, 6:00 pm, 90.1 fm. They'll be representing Groundwater for Butte, but plan for this to be a wide ranging conversation including the broad concerns about local groundwater issues, including their recent involvement with Butte County's Recharge Action Plan.

08/30/2024

Come celebrate the 20th Annual Touch of Chico

Sunday, Sept 15th Noon-4pm

Chico Creek Nature Center

It's free to attend, so bring the whole family for a fun afternoon. This holistic health fair brings local holistic healers together with the community to share their skills and help raise money for community radio as well as awareness of the holistic health options in "Chico, the Sacramento Valley, the foothills, and beyond".

With over 40 Local Practitioners you'll have a wide variety of healing modalities of body & energy work plus intuitive arts to try at

KZFR's 20th Annual Touch of Chico on Sunday, Sept 15th, Noon-4pm!

Come get a massage and stay to enjoy the music and food

at the Chico Creek Nature Center.

In addition to healing bodywork at $1/minute, there will be live music,

free skill share presentations, delicious food, artisans, vendors and more!

MUSIC LINE UP

This year's line up includes local favorites! Aaron Stroh of One Up, LeAnn Cooley & DeeDee Vest.

Plus the amazing dance troupe IllumaNexus will be doing 2 performances!

Come get a massage and stay to enjoy the music at the Chico Creek Nature Center in Bidwell Park.


SKILL SHARE SCHEDULE

There are 4 presentations for you this year.

Noon "Body and Mind Tools to Stay Calm"

with Gayle Kimball

1pm "Ortho-Bionomy" with Jim Berns

2pm "Compassionate Inquiry"

with Rakel Kieding

3pm "Storytelling of Ikigai" with Jesi Naomi

A very special thank you to each of the knowledgeable presenters for offering to share their skills with all of us.