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12/07/2025

Monday, December 8, WPFW presents Saving Our Homes: The Crisis in Housing and Homeownership, in partnership with the Washington Informer, and the Missionary Baptist Ministers Conference of the DMV.

From 9am until 1pm, we confront gentrification, predatory buyers, tax sales, foreclosure traps, and the loss of family homes, defending our elders, and keeping generational wealth in our families. 

The programming continues at 5pm where we’ll unpack the lack of affordable housing and the displacement of renters. We  culminate in a town hall from 6-8pm moderated by Donald Temple and Denise Rolark Barnes where we welcome listeners’ calls. 

Guests include lawyers, activists, pastors, financial strategists, and government officials.

That’s Saving Our Homes: The Crisis in Housing and Homeownership, December 8 on WPFW, building a more equitable world one broadcast at a time. 

Listen at 89.3 FM in the DMV and worldwide at wpfwfm.org, the WPFW app, and most streaming devices.

12/06/2025

WPFW Local Station Board Town Hall
When: Saturday December 13, 2025
Time: 12 noon - 3pm
Where: Brookland Busboys & Poets, 625 Monroe St. NE WDC 20017

The WPFW Local Station Board is holding a Community Town Hall. The theme for this event, Free Airwaves: Fighting for Community & Public Radio.

In collaboration with Free D.C. and other community organizations, this year's Town Hall will focus on the power of community, building a stronger radio station, and resisting the authoritarian mindset infecting our body politic.

Please bring with you a new or lightly used winter coat as we will be collecting these items for those in need. We look forward to seeing you on December 13th and remember, the needs of the people can only be met by the deeds of the people. Peace!

12/05/2025

Did you miss WPFW's special show "The Congo is not For Sale: Unpacking the Trump Peace & Minerals Deal" with our own Katea Stitt & Maurice Carney, ED for Friends of the Congo? Watch the video here.

https://www.youtube.com/live/3vCCWoDsu7o?si=vqHIPK1BW2MA1pkz

Join us Live on WPFW radio station as we unpack the Peace & Minerals Deal that is occurring in Africa between Trump, Tshisekedi and Kagame.🎙️ New to streami...

12/04/2025

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour: Singer–songwriter and longtime movement troubadour David Rovics joins us to talk about his unlikely collaboration with an AI persona he calls Ai Tsuno, which has already produced nearly 40 songs in a stunning range of styles. We dig into what it means to “vibe code” music, how expertise and craft still matter in avoiding “AI slop,” why this technology threatens the jobs of working musicians, and why Rovics believes we’ll need something like universal basic income as AI transforms whole professions. Along the way, we hear clips from new labor anthems including No Contract, No Coffee and In the Age of AI.

Then we travel back to December 3, 1946, when Oakland workers shut down their city in a historic general strike. Drawing on accounts from Stan Weir, we tell the story of how one unlikely pop hit—“Pistol Packin’ Mama,” by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters—blared from jukeboxes dragged onto the sidewalks, becoming the unofficial soundtrack of the uprising and reminding us how popular culture and class struggle collide in surprising ways.

We close with a joyful preview of the DC Labor Chorus’ annual Favorite and Sacred Songs concert (Sat., Dec. 6, free; RSVP here). We feature a powerful medley including “None of Us Are Free,” “We Did Not Come This Far” and a union-flavored holiday wish for justice and good contracts—a taste of the spirit, harmony, and solidarity waiting for audiences this weekend.

Broadcast on December 4, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and stations across the country on the Pacifica network.

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; editing by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock, engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

12/04/2025

CODEPINK Radio: Right to Refuse: In this episode of CODEPINK RADIO, hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin lead off with "Empire on the Rocks" to discuss congressional investigations into Trump's illegal attacks on Venezuela. In the second half, Marcy interviews Marjorie Cohn, international legal scholar on the military's right to refuse illegal orders.

Thursdays at 11am on WPFW.

Listen in the DMV at 89.3 FM and worldwide at wpfwfm.org, the WPFW app, and most streaming devices.

12/03/2025

Katea Stitt is sending sonic love to our beloved Jimmy Cliff and the people of Jamaica as they recover from Hurricane Melissa this morning, 5-8am EST on WPFW’s Morning Brew Beyond Borders edition at wpfwfm.org or on the app! joins at 7:30am to talk all things Jimmy Cliff and Jamaica!

12/03/2025

Listen to AfricaNow! December 3, 1PM (U.S. Eastern), on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or at www.wpfwfm.org featuring Guinea-Bissau: Coup or Staged Coup?  Joining AfricaNow! to dissect and contextualize the situation in Guinea-Bissau is Imani Na Umoja, Member of the Political Bureau and National Secretariat of the African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), and Steering Committee Member of Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) U.S. Out of Africa Network.  On November 26 people in Guinea-Bissau woke up to hear that there had been a coup in their country.  Many within the country and beyond have questioned whether it was actually a military coup.  But rather it was a plan by the incumbent President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and forces allied with him, to prevent the official release of the November 23 presidential election.     

Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW.  Donate online: visit https://pledge.wpfwfm.org/index.php and then on Step 1: Contribution scroll down to AfricaNow! to make your donation to the show. You can also text to donate by simply texting WPFWFM (not case sensitive) to 801801 and then follow the instructions. Or on our CashApp, which is $WPFWFM write it is for AfricaNow! and include your email address. Thank you

12/02/2025

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Among the many things that PFW listeners love about the service we provide to the community is that we are able to speak truth to--

and ABOUT--power.

We've been able to do this for 40 years, keeping our integrity as a station and as the people who keep the station going solely because we are listener-supported.

Our model leaves no room for state or corporate influences to co-opt the message.

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It's broadcasting from the community, to the community.
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Together we'll keep the beacon of Jazz & Justice burning bright into the future.

12/02/2025

Wednesday, December 3, 11 am-12 pm, ET
on We the People; WPFW 89.3FM, wpfwfm.org
Live streamed and archived

The U.S. Constitution: Anti-Democratic?
Does It Fuel Authoritarism?

Guest: Clarence Lusane is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Affairs program at Howard University. For more than 40 years and in more than 75 countries, he has written about, studied, and been active in national and international human rights, anti-racism politics, Diaspora engagements, U.S. foreign policy, democracy building, and various social justice issues.

Dr. Lusane is an international expert and observer with European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance. Among his many books are: The Black History of the White House, and his latest, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman Vs. Andrew Jackson and the Future of American Democracy.

Please tune in & support WPFW, your jazz & justice radio station. You can now listen to the show's podcast on our website or various social media apps/platforms. 

There are at least three ways you can donate to WPFW:

Give online in support of this show and the station please use the following link: https://www.wpfwfm.org and clicking the big red 'Donate' button be sure to indicate We the People in your selection.

You can also text to donate by simply texting  (not case sensitive) to 801801 and then follow the instructions. Or, yWPFWFMou can use Cash App with $WPFWFM, type in this show's title (We the People). 

And please tell a friend about the show! Thanks.

WPFW 89.3FM - Pacifica Foundation radio - Washington, D.C., building a better world one broadcast at a time by serving the collective need and imagination of the community.

12/02/2025

Wednesday, December 3, 11 am-12 pm, ET
on We the People; WPFW 89.3FM, wpfwfm.org
Live streamed and archived

The U.S. Constitution: Anti-Democratic?
Does It Fuel Authoritarism?

Guest: Clarence Lusane is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Affairs program at Howard University. For more than 40 years and in more than 75 countries, he has written about, studied, and been active in national and international human rights, anti-racism politics, Diaspora engagements, U.S. foreign policy, democracy building, and various social justice issues.

Dr. Lusane is an international expert and observer with European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance. Among his many books are: The Black History of the White House, and his latest, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman Vs. Andrew Jackson and the Future of American Democracy.

Please tune in & support WPFW, your jazz & justice radio station. You can now listen to the show's podcast on our website or various social media apps/platforms.

There are at least three ways you can donate to WPFW:

Give online in support of this show and the station please use the following link: https://www.wpfwfm.org and clicking the big red 'Donate' button be sure to indicate We the People in your selection.

You can also text to donate by simply texting (not case sensitive) to 801801 and then follow the instructions. Or, yWPFWFMou can use Cash App with $WPFWFM, type in this show's title (We the People).

And please tell a friend about the show! Thanks.

WPFW 89.3FM - Pacifica Foundation radio - Washington, D.C., building a better world one broadcast at a time by serving the collective need and imagination of the community.