KZFR News & Public Affairs Programs

10/29/2025

Tonight 6-7pm! On The Real Issue on KZFR Radio 90.1FM my guests are Maitreya Badami, Sue Hilderbrand (herself!) and MaryKay Benson. Our topics will range from immigration, to Prop 50, to the unhoused and food insecurity. This is OUR Community radio station doing the work of information sharing and community building. Please listen and donate during our Defending Community Radio appeal at KZFR 90.1 FM The phone number is 530-895-0131. We need your support.

10/09/2025

Our new coHost Doni Leigh is hosting the Peace and Justice Program tomorrow (Friday) Noon to One on your Community Radio station, KZFR.org/ 90.1FM. Her guest is LeAnn Jenswold, founder and captain of the 600 people strong ReSisters group in Chico. In this lead up to the NO KINGS pop up, march and festival on Saturday (10/18) listen in to a couple of dynamic women organizers. Photo credit- Leslie Layton.

10/02/2025

Natalie Hanson is tackling many issues of the Peace and Justice Program this Friday at noon on KZFR.org/90.1FM She'll discuss the s*x abuse scandal involving the fired Chico PD officer, then for much of the program discussing the human impacts of ICE detentions and detention center conditions on domestic violence survivors and local workers. Finally, she'll discuss the Chico City Council's exploring other locations and partners to manage alternative campsites for unhoused people as required under the current legal settlement.

09/30/2025

Robert Suberi is a first generation son of Jewish Palestinian immigrants whose roots are in Yemen. He has family in Israel and has traveled to visit them frequently over the past 60 years. He's a Vietnam war veteran and president of the local chapter of Veterans For Peace in St. Louis. He's travelled almost yearly to the Palestinian villages of Masafer Yatta and he was kidnapped off the Handala Gaza Aid Flotilla boat last year by the IDF. We're going to discuss this horrible "peace plan" T and Bibi came up with as well as conditions in the West Bank on the Real Issue show on Wednesday, 6pm on KZFR.org/90.1FM substitute hosted by Chris Nelson.

09/24/2025

This Friday, Chris Nelson hosts the Peace and Justice Program and is very excited to have two wonderful guests- David Vine, an expert on US military bases around the world and author of most recently, The United States of War. And at 12:45, Brenda Perez, the executive director of the Humboldt based Centro del Pueblo. Please listen Friday, 9/26, noon to one pm on www.kzfr.org or on your radio at 90.1FM.

09/18/2025

Eran Zelnik hosts the Peace and Justice Program on KZFR (90.1FM) tomorrow (9/19) at Noon. His guest, Dr. Najm Yousefi is a colleague and they will be discussing Iran and Israel-Palestine. Dr. Yousefi teaches a variety of courses in history of the Middle East, Islamic history, and history of science. This kind of long form discussion is something you won't hear anywhere else other than KZFR and will be really informative. You can also listen in the archives for two weeks.

09/11/2025

Angela McLaughlin hosts the Peace and Justice Program on Friday, 9/12. Her guest is Ryan Libre. He has had a long relationship of solidarity with the Kachin people in what is now Burma. His stories will shed light on a little known people with a long history of repression and survival. 90.1FM, www.kzfr.org Noon to One!

09/03/2025

Natalie Hanson will Host the Peace and Justice Program on Friday, 9/5, Noon to One pm on KZFR.org, 90.1FM. She'll be talking about the last month of news, of which there is plenty. She'll be focusing particularly on the following articles’ topics and why they matter for public discourse and pushback to regressive policies in Chico -
https://chicosol.org/.../chico-demonstrators-join.../
https://chicosol.org/.../lamalfa-faces-a-rowdy-irritable.../
https://chicosol.org/.../a-somber-vigil-for-the-disappeared/
https://chicosol.org/2025/07/31/pressure-on-media-grows/
https://chicosol.org/.../public-media-funding-cutback.../
https://chicosol.org/.../as-medicaid-turns-60-rollbacks.../

As Medicaid turns 60, the U.S. faces the largest federal health care subsidy rollback in its history. The One Big Beautiful Act, signed by President Trump last July 4, slashes federal Medicaid spending by 15%. Over the next decade, it will eliminate over $1 trillion from federal health care and foo...

08/28/2025

The Peace and Justice Program on KZFR 90.1FM this Friday, 8/29, from 12-1 will feature Host Robert Jones interviewing Patrick Newman, Chico Friends of the Street, about the issues faced by unhoused humans of our community. Hope you will listen in live on radio, streaming or with the archive.

08/15/2025

Eran Zelnik hosts the Peace and Justice Program on Friday, 8/15, Noon to One on KZFR.org, 90.1FM. His guest is Dana Williams, a Sociology professor at Chico State. They will be discussing socialism and anarchism. 'Will be an important discussion.

08/01/2025

The Peace and Justice Program will be a rebroadcast of Natalie Hanson's important show from last month that got cut off mid-way. If you want to hear the whole thing listen at Noon tomorrow (Friday, 8/1) on KZFR.org "listen" tab or on your radio at 90.1FM.

07/24/2025

Angela McLaughlin hosts the Peace and Justice Program on www.kzfr.org (90.1FM) on Friday, 7/25 at Noon. Her guests are Sheila McQuaid and Addie Walsh from 530 Food Network and an activist with Nor Cal NorCal Resist Chico. We hope you will share this post, listen live or listen in the KZFR archives.