KZFR News & Public Affairs Programs

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.

07/18/2025

Today (7/18) at NOON!
Peace and Social Justice Show, KZFR 90.1FM, 90.1FM
The Social Destructiveness of AI
Philosopher Robert Jones welcomes fellow philosophers Peter S. Fosl, Troy Jollimore, and John Sanbonmatsu for a discussion of the social destructiveness of artificial intelligence.

07/10/2025

The Peace and Justice Program on Friday, July 11th Noon-One will focus on the issues of Evil and Good and our preconceptions, especially about Evil. This is based on Hannah Arendt's idea of the Banality of Evil, except the book we'll be discussing is with her student Elizabeth Minnich and the book is The Evil of Banality, On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking. (On your Community Radio station www.kzfr.org where it streams or 90.1FM)

07/02/2025

Natalie Hanson hosts the Peace and Justice Program (www.kzfr.org or 90.1FM) on Friday, July 4th at Noon. Her guest is Butte College's public relations officer Christian Gutierrez - the topic is how our California colleges are rising to the moment advising students on how they can seek a college education, despite the federal government's aggressive actions to detain and deport people at locations all across the state.