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10/02/2025

Democracy Now! (Thursday, October 2, 2025) We speak with the acclaimed filmmakers Raoul Peck and Alex Gibney about their latest documentary, Orwell: 2+2=5, which explores the life and career of George Orwell and why his political writing remains relevant today.

“We are living again and again — not only in the United States, but in many other countries, including in Europe, in Latin America, in Africa — the same playbook playing again and again,” says Peck, who directed the film.

Gibney, a producer on the film, says Donald Trump perfectly illustrates the “assault on common sense” that is part of any authoritarian system. “What you instinctively know to be true is upended by the authoritarian leader, so that everything flows from him,” says Gibney. “He just invents things on the spot, but he expects them to be revered as true.”

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Listen to Democracy Now! weekdays at 5:00 p.m. on WRFG 89.3FM and WRFG.ORG. We're Atlanta's independent community radio station for progressive information and handpicked quality music.

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10/02/2025

WRFG is delighted to be the official radio station for the 2025 Little 5 Points Halloween Festival and Paraade. On Saturday, October 18, you can meet some of your favorite WRFG airshfters and score great WRFG swag when you visit our table at the Little 5 Points Community Center.
Then at high noon on Sunday, October 19, WRFG will roll in the L5P Halloween Parade. It's the third largest Halloween Parade in the U.S., right behind Greenwich Village and Hollywood.
Progressive media is under fire! Please do your part by making a contribution during our Fall Drive. It starts this Monday morning at midnight. Please call 404-523-8989 to give during your favorite show. You'll find multiple other ways to give at WRFG.ORG.
No matter how you give, we thank you for supporting WRFG, your independent community radio station for progressive information and handpicked quality music since 1973.

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09/30/2025

WRFG is in our 2nd week of the 2025 Fall Fund Drive.

As of last nights count, we have passed the $16k mark on our way to our $50k goal.

If we achieve this goal, it will be the first time we have successfully met all Fund Drive goals in a single year. It’s an ambitious, but achievable goal.

You can show your support for WRFG, Atlanta’s only independent non-commercial progressive community radio station, by making a donation today. You can always visit the website at wrfg.org/donate or you can call in to the studio to make your donation action with one of our volunteer Airshifters during their program.

Tonight is a special 5th Tuesday, which means Jules is back in the studio for another installment of Americana Pie. 🥧 Give her a call and let her know how much you appreciate the mindful curations of independent Americana artists and those established singer songwriters we love. 📞 : 404-523-8978

09/30/2025

Democracy Now! (Tuesday, September 30, 2025) After a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip on Monday that aims to end Israel’s war on Gaza, free the remaining Israeli hostages and remove Hamas from power. Netanyahu expressed support for the deal, but he has already backed away from key elements, including a call for Israel to eventually pull its troops out of Gaza. Hamas has not responded yet to the deal. As part of his 20-point peace plan, Trump announced the establishment of an international transitional governing body called the “Board of Peace,” which Trump would head.

Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu says the deal is “certainly not a plan that is going to end the genocide. What they’re simply attempting to do is repackage it.” Buttu also notes that while Trump met with Netanyahu before announcing the plan, Palestinians were not consulted. Buttu asks, “Why is it that Palestinians have been forced to negotiate an end to their genocide?”

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Listen to Democracy Now! weekdays at 5:00 p.m. on WRFG 89.3FM and WRFG.ORG. We're Atlanta's independent community radio station for progressive information and handpicked quality music.

To learn how you can support WRFG's mission, please go to WRFG.ORG.

09/29/2025

Tune in NOW to WRFG 89.3FM and Streaming at WRFG.ORG for Voices from the Spectrum with April Taylor featuring a conversation with the host of Jazz Forum: Phases with Tawhiyda Tupak-El.

09/28/2025

WRFG Airshifters from African Experience Worldwide, Rockers International and Radio Tambor in the WRFG studio accepting Fall Fund Drive donations. Support independent community radio by making a donation at www.wrfg.org/donate ! Help us keep WRFG strong and independent!

09/27/2025

This is the first weekend of the WRFG Fall Fund Drive. Please show some love by calling in and making a contribution during your favorite WRFG program.

Our number is 404-523-8989.

Please give us a buzz.

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Tomorrow on Plain Old Horizons on WRFG-FM: Alison Valk is at the sound board for tomorrow's show. Alison understands the Plain Old Horizons way of doing a musical variety show so expect the unexpected song.
Mighty Joe Hamm and I have the earlier My Own House Americana show on WRFG-FM following Route 66 with John Askins, which is always entertaining. You could spend a little time with us tomorrow morning. I don't think that you'll be disappointed.

09/26/2025

Curtis Byrd is in the studio tonight for Byrdland Jazz Café from 10pm to midnight. You can show your support for Curtis and other volunteer Airshifters on our Jazz Forum programs by making a financial contribution during our Fall Fund Drive.

You can call into the studio, where our hosts are live broadcasting, at 404-523-8989, or visit our website at wrfg.org/donate.

09/26/2025

Democracy Now! (Friday, September 26, 2025) President Donald Trump is escalating his attack on progressive groups following the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and a deadly shooting that targeted an immigration jail in Dallas. White House officials have repeatedly blamed Democrats and left-wing groups for contributing to political violence, but investigative reporter Ken Klippenstein says the motivations of people who commit such acts are often more complicated.

Klippenstein has reported on the backgrounds of Kirk’s accused killer and the gunman who targeted the Dallas ICE facility, and says friends described both young men as somewhat isolated and largely uninterested in partisan politics. “That was perhaps the most normal thing about these two shooters, that they were disengaged with politics,” he says.

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Listen to Democracy Now! weekdays at 5:00 p.m. on WRFG 89.3FM and WRFG.ORG. We're Atlanta's independent community radio station for progressive information and handpicked quality music.

To learn how you can support WRFG's mission, please go to WRFG.ORG.

09/25/2025

Steve K is playing the blues and taking your contributions from now until 10:00 AM!

Please give Steve a call at 404-523-8989 and support YOUR independent community radio station during our Fall Fund Drive.

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Any way you choose, your dollars help keep WRFG alive and free, just we have been since 1973!

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