Killing of 2nd Minneapolis Resident Provokes Nationwide Outrage and More Protests; The World Revolts Against Trump’s Irrational, Deadly Foreign and Domestic Policy; Gulf Coast Residents Live in ‘Ground Zero’ of U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry’s Sacrifice Zone

Bob Avakian: God-Damn the Trump/MAGA Fascists, Every One! And God-Damn Everyone Who Tells Us to “Get Along” And “Play Nice” With These Fascists! Then, excerpts from a recent program with Dr. Adam Hamawy, a doctor just back from Gaza. Bob Avakian from “Revolution and Religion: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion,” a dialogue with Cornel West. Sunsara Taylor and Annie Day on the National Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere.

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If you listened to last week’s Sea Change Radio, then you’ve already learned a little something about congressional hopeful Saikat Chakrabarti. Otherwise, you may not have ever heard of the guy. He’s running to fill Nancy Pelosi’s soon-to-be vacated congressional seat here in San Francisco. In this second half of our discussion, listeners will hear about several ways that Chakrabarti and Pelosi differ (beyond their respective levels of name recognition). We look at several of Chakrabarti’s exciting ideas, including ways tech could actually help remedy inequality (rather than widening income and wealth gaps), elements of the Green New Deal that could help curb profligate energy use by data centers, and the notion of banning stock trading among members of Congress.

Carney's middle-muddle moment at Davos: Trapped between "hegemons," PM decides to build an army to fight Russians. Go figure.

EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca Trip Hop Radio is a sonic escape into a world of dreamy beats and introspective melodies, featuring an eclectic blend of trip hop, chillout, and downtempo grooves. Updated weekly. TRACKLIST 01. Alpha - Sometime Later 02. Massive Attack - Protection 03. Amon Tobin - Day Trip 04. Portishead - Roads 05. Sean Savage - The Marquee Mile 06. Gidge - Lit 07. Coldcut - Only Heaven ft. Roots Manuva 08. Delerium - Blue Fires ft. Mim Page 09. Gruve Collective - Hopeless Hope 10. Lamar Ensemble - Stealthy

EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca The Mix Sessions is a journey through hypnotic rhythms and soulful deep house groove. Featuring slush, atmospheric textures. TRACKLIST 01. Sean Savage - La Musique 02. Gruve Collective - 4 A.M. 03. Art Alfie - Soft Spoken 04. Dustin Nantais - Further 05. Matt Prehn - Beatsbaby 06. Snad - Home Away From Home 07. Demuir - Luvin' To Nothing 08. Nick Holder - Forever In A Daze 09. Din Jay - Hot For You 10. Alex Ranerro - Enigma

EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca Trip Hop Radio is a sonic escape into a world of dreamy beats and introspective melodies, featuring an eclectic blend of trip hop, chillout, and downtempo grooves. Updated weekly. TRACKLIST 01. Alpha - Sometime Later 02. Massive Attack - Protection 03. Amon Tobin - Day Trip 04. Portishead - Roads 05. Sean Savage - The Marquee Mile 06. Gidge - Lit 07. Coldcut - Only Heaven ft. Roots Manuva 08. Delerium - Blue Fires ft. Mim Page 09. Gruve Collective - Hopeless Hope 10. Lamar Ensemble - Stealthy

The son of Iowa lesbians runs for the U.S. Senate; this week’s “Rainbow Rewind” celebrates iconic birthdays and a pivotal event in January; the Trump administration scraps EEOC guidance on anti-queer workplace harassment, McBride leads U.S. House Democrats' successful fight against anti-trans Republican funding riders, an infamous Texas federal judge equates drag with blackface, Tucson Pride ends a 49-year run as Arizona’s oldest such celebration, and “Heated Rivalry” carries a torch for Italy’s Winter Olympics. All that and more this week when you find “This Way Out”.

After 15 years of widespread struggle against it, South Africa's Traditional Courts Bill has now been signed into law. It gives unbounded power including discrimination against women, to so-called traditional chiefs in the rural areas, and is considered a distortion of community-based dispute resolution traditions. One of the key opposition leaders, Sizani Ngubane, founder of the Rural Women's Movement, died before the bill was re-introduced again and signed into law. Other speakers: Nolundi Luwaya, Researcher at the Law, Race and Gender Unit at the University of Cape Town [now director of the Land and Accountability Research Centre]; Aninka Claassens, Chief Researcher, Land and Accountability Research Centre, University of Cape Town; Mnisi Weeks, Associate Professor in Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) [She previously worked in the Rural Womens Action Research Programme at UCT]; Patrick Mashego, community leader, Limpopo province, South Africa. 

Forget conspiracy. Contrails are real and dangerous to the climate - from Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology, Dr. Daniel Johansson. While thousands died of heat in Europe in 2003, a marine heat wave ripped the North Atlantic. Changes to marine life remain today. From Germany, Dr. Karl-Michael Werner, of the Thunen Institute of Sea Fisheries in Bremerhaven. The Pillars of Wealth remain oblivious at Davos. Full speed ahead, fossil fuel for a hot militarized world.

Activist-Filmmaker Abby Martin draws the connections between environment, imperialism, and war: the crises are converging quickly - collective action is needed to survive.

One of my heroes has sadly passed away as of Saturday January 24 2026 at the age of 92. A progressive historian, author and scholar with uncompromising principles whom I was honoured to know personally. Rest in power Dr Michael Parenti!

1. Eighties - MotionPlus 2. Illusion Of Self - Verb T & Vic Grimes feat. Farma G and BVA 3. Bring Back John Williams - dela 4. Like Ah First - Moka Only 5. Writings on the Wall - Señor Kaos & Illastrate feat. Supastition and 4-Ize 6. Straight from the Gutter - Godfather Don & Jazz Spastiks 7. Company - Edo. G & Parental 8. Hypophora - Abstract Minded feat. John Forte 9. Family Business - Fugees feat. John Forte and Omega 10. Sky Is Like - Skyzoo 11. Solar Panels - Tablet*tph 12. Hakata Station - Freddie Joachim feat. Nahokimama 13. Samda Pt. 2 - Midan feat. Jazzbois 14. Society Of NIMH - Sankofa & Uncle Fester feat. Denz, JON?DOE, Memphis 15. Reigns and AthenA 16. Silhouettes - Citero 17. Grand - Crotona & Silent Someone (cuts by DJ JS-1) 18. Reign of Truth - Dj Unknown feat. Iomos and King Jus 19. Marginal Gains - Ill Conscious, Alcynoos and Parental 20. The Answer - KLIM Beats 21. His Master Plan - Taylor Made It

This week's show has some old favourites such as the King Cole Trio, The Mills Brothers and The Harmonizing Four with recordings I haven't played before, George Jones gives us an example of great songwriting (and singing), Pat Johnson unleashes a new rockabilly-styled single with a message and more of the usual mix of blues, country and gospel not found anywhere else. Backbeat is also available in a 56 and 58 minute versions in three separate files if you want breaks. I am happy to provide custom station IDs, promos and liners. Email Lorne@Backbeatradio.com or visit www.backbeatradio.com for more information.

What we are witnessing today is a moment many anticipated, and one that others are only now beginning to grasp. Gaza, in the eyes of powerful political and financial actors, is being treated less like a home for two million people and more like a prize handed to the highest bidder. The narrative emerging from the Trump circle, echoed by the wealthy investors around him, frames Gaza as a future development project. According to the plan associated with Jared Kushner, reconstruction will begin soon, not for the people who lived through the devastation, but for those who see opportunity in the ruins. Kushner’s proposal imagines a thirty‑day timeline in which peace will supposedly become visible between Israel and the Palestinians. It is presented with remarkable confidence, as though decades of occupation, displacement, trauma, and unresolved injustice can be swept aside with investment portfolios and construction contracts. One is left wondering what world this vision belongs to, because it bears little resemblance to the world Palestinians inhabit, or the world observers see unfolding on the ground. So let us return to Gaza itself, to the people, the land, and the reality shaped by war, siege, and unimaginable loss. In the future imagined by these investors, Gaza becomes a kind of paradise, a fresh economic frontier, a blank slate ready for luxury development and international capital. But this imagined paradise is not for the Palestinians who lived there. As many have noted, the plan does not envision their return. The people whose homes were destroyed, whose families were displaced, whose lives were uprooted, are not part of the blueprint. This raises a profound question. If Gaza is rebuilt without its people, and if the land is handed over to outside investors who will govern it, what exactly are we looking at? Some have asked whether this represents a new form of colonialism, one wrapped in the language of development and peace. It is a question worth considering, because the implications are enormous. Critics describe the structure of the plan in stark terms. United States taxpayer money flows to Israel. Israel uses that support to wage war in Gaza. Gaza is destroyed. Palestinians are killed or displaced. And then, once the land is emptied, investors step in to rebuild a Gaza without Palestinians. A Gaza redesigned for profit, not for the people who lived there for generations. This is what is being presented to the world as a peace plan. Even Netanyahu is not happy that the envisioned Gaza would not be under his government’s control. When even political leaders closely aligned with the project raise concerns, it reveals something about the scale and ambition of what is being proposed. Today, we bring you a conversation that cuts through the slogans, the marketing, and the political theater. It is a discussion between two of the most incisive voices on these issues, Norman Finkelstein and Chris Hedges. Their conversation on The Chris Hedges Report, titled “Deconstructing Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza,” examines the assumptions, the power dynamics, and the consequences embedded in this proposal. Finkelstein, known for his historical analysis and his critique of policy, explores how the plan disregards international law, erases Palestinian rights, and reframes occupation as a benevolent project. Hedges, drawing on his background in war reporting and political commentary, pushes the conversation further, looking at how narratives of peace are often used to mask systems of domination and dispossession. Together, they break down the core elements of this so‑called peace plan, revealing the economic motives, political calculations, and overlooked human cost. They show how language flips aggressors into victims, how destruction is sold as opportunity, and how those who suffer most are pushed out of the discussion.

I am guest-hosting WRIR's Cause and Effect Show today. It is one of my favorites to host and to listen to. Each week the host selects an artist than digs deep into the bands and artists that influenced the featured performer and in turns the bands and artists they influenced. Stream the show every Saturday from 1 PM to 3 PM @ www.wrir.org.