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12/14/2025

ToHeal DC -Monday at 10am- 89.3 FM & wpfwfm.org

A Century of Labor History w the 

BROTHERHOOD & SISTERHOOD of Sleeping Car Porters!

12/13/2025

12/11/2025

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.

If you cannot attend in person, feel free to join us on Zoom.

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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!

12/10/2025

Listen to AfricaNow! December 10, 1PM (U.S. Eastern), on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or at www.wpfwfm.org features Unpacking the DR Congo-Rwanda-U.S. Accords with Kambale Musavuli, Analyst, at the Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa.  Journalist Akilimali Chomachoma in Kinshasa provides an update on the current situation in the DRC.

Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW during our end of the year pledge drive December 14 to 20, 2025.  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.

12/07/2025

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.