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09/21/2026

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09/21/2026

WRFG in the Community- WRFG is proud to be a sponsor of the Official Collard Green Cultural Festival,

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We are proud to have WRFG 89.3 FM supporting the 17th Annual Original Collard Greens Cultural Festival! 💚

WRFG is an independent community radio station broadcasting from Little 5 Points (L5P) in Atlanta, bringing listeners progressive information and carefully selected quality music.

This year, WRFG will be onsite with an awesome booth, so make sure you stop by and connect with the WRFG team! 🙌🏾

And that’s not all! We are excited to have WRFG’s very own Baba Wanique Shabazz serving as the Master of Ceremonies for BOTH days of the festival! 🎤

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📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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09/20/2026

The WRFG Fall Fund Drive begins at midnight and ends on October 11th. Please support your station for Progressive News and Information and Handpicked Quality Music by making a donation at WRFG.ORG/Donate or by calling the studio at 404-523-8989

09/18/2026

Democracy Now! (Friday, September 18, 2026) As world leaders prepare to head to New York for the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week, Democracy Now! speaks with Amitabh Behar, executive director of Oxfam International. “We live in a very different world from 1945,” when the U.N. was formed, says Behar. “You cannot continue with the veto power.” And with António Guterres soon stepping down, Behar stresses that the United Nations’ next secretary-general must be a woman — “a fundamental shift we need to make.”

He also argues that while the world is “torn apart” by inequality, “there are real possibilities of change.” Behar cites the G20’s International Panel on Inequality and “movements across the world” aimed at “changing regimes,” including in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and India.

Watch the video or read the transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/18/amitabh_behar_unga

Listen to Democracy Now! weekdays from 5:00 to 6:00 PM Eastern 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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09/17/2026

Democracy Now! (Thursday, September 17, 2026) Amid growing concerns over food safety in the United States, President Donald Trump last month authorized the duty-free importation of 660 million pounds of cheap beef trimmings that will get mixed in with other cuts to make ground beef. Imported beef and pork were once labeled with their country of origin, but Congress voted in 2015 to end that requirement, so customers at the grocery store will have no way to identify this “mystery meat,” which is coming mostly from Brazil.

President Trump’s proclamation in August came just a day after he met in the White House with Joesley Batista, whose family controls the Brazilian company JBS, the largest beef producer in the world. JBS is notorious for food safety violations and admitted in 2017 to bribing thousands of Brazilian officials for favorable treatment.

“It smells like a pretty corrupt deal,” says investigative journalist Eric Schlosser. He says Trump’s move is “basically screwing over American ranchers,” and the imported beef is “some of the meat most likely to be contaminated.”

Schlosser is author of the landmark book Fast Food Nation, published in 2001. He says that in the 25 years since then, the United States has developed “two food systems.” While affluent and well-educated people increasingly favor sustainable, organic foods and care deeply about how food is grown and consumed, working people and the poor are relegated to the “fast-food industrial system” of cheap, mass-produced food of dubious safety.

Watch the video or read the transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/17/mystery_meat

Listen to Democracy Now! weekdays from 5:00 to 6:00 PM Eastern 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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09/17/2026

09/15/2026

Democracy Now! (Tuesday, September 15, 2026) Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. The rise of modern-day fascism is “not simply a rerun,” explains Klein. “We don’t believe that history repeats on a loop. We believe that we’re in something more like a sequel, where the logics of fascism, which are the logics of dehumanization, of othering, of racial supremacy and hierarchy, are now being applied in a time of global existential crisis.” In response, says Taylor, the growing movement seeking to resist this fatalistic vision “fundamentally needs to be grounded in a desire to stay here on Earth, to commit to this place.”

Watch the video or read the transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/15/klein_taylor_end_times_fascism

Listen to Democracy Now! weekdays from 5:00 to 6:00 PM Eastern 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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09/14/2026

The WRFG Fall fund drive begins in one week. This is our last fund drive of the year and we need your help to keep independent media on the air. You can donate at wrfg.org/donate or call in studio at 404-523- 8989.

09/14/2026

Democracy Now! (Monday, September 14, 2026) The film NAZA, which documents the Israeli military’s use of secret AI-powered systems to deliberately and systematically target and massacre civilians in Gaza, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday. The film was directed by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and filmmaker Rachel Szor, both of whom won an Oscar for the documentary No Other Land in 2025 along with Palestinian co-directors Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal. NAZA was shot in secret on rooftops in Tel Aviv over three years and builds on testimony from Israeli military and intelligence sources who spoke on the condition their identities be concealed. The film’s title refers to an acronym used by the Israeli military as a shorthand for civilian killings in Gaza.

The film’s reception in Venice, where it received a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation, was met with angry backlash from Israel’s government as Culture Minister Miki Zohar threatened to revoke Abraham and Szor’s Israeli citizenship.

Watch the video or read the transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/14/naza_film

Listen to Democracy Now! weekdays from 5:00 to 6:00 PM Eastern 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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