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Upcoming Programs

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Radio Free Eireann

Sun, Dec 24, 2023 - 11:00AM

Saint Malachy McCourt on "Chrristmas is a sad season "

WBAI Playhouse

Sun, Dec 24, 2023 - 12:00PM

The Assembled Parties by Richard Greenberg

CODEPINK Radio

Sun, Dec 24, 2023 - 2:00PM

Beyond the Cold War: Feminist Foreign Policy

WBAI News Roundup

Sun, Dec 24, 2023 - 6:00PM

Leonard Lopate at Large

Sun, Dec 24, 2023 - 7:00PM

Sandro Galea on Within Reason

Everything Old is New Again

Sun, Dec 24, 2023 - 10:00PM

Our Annual All Holiday Broadcast

Democracy Now!

Mon, Dec 25, 2023 - 8:00AM

DN Celebrates Yip Harburg

From The Soundboard

Tue, Dec 26, 2023 - 12:00AM

Jerusalem in My Heart

Cat Radio Cafe

Tue, Dec 26, 2023 - 9:00PM

Lorraine Feather & Eddie Arkin: A LONG COLLABORATION

What's Going On! Wednesday

Wed, Dec 27, 2023 - 7:00AM

with Linda Sarsour

News

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City threatens Community Composting; Activists Fight Back (12/04/2023)  ...  

WBAI News Roundup (12/03/2023)  Truce crumbles and Israel resumes bombingJewish Voices for Peace disrupts fundraiser by Friends of the Israeli...  

The Horror, The Horror (11/11/2023)  I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service watching a live feed from Gaza City. The Al Jazeera reporter in northern...  

Gaza Disconnected (10/30/2023)  On Friday, Gaza was completely disconnected from the outside world after all communications were cut off. There was a total...  

UN says Israel wants 1.1 million Gazans moved south (10/13/2023)  Sirens warning of incoming rocket fire blared in Israeli communities near the Gaza border early on Friday.Israel carried...  

Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them (10/09/2023)  The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians,...  

Israeli forces clash with Hamas gunmen after hundreds killed (10/08/2023)  sraeli forces clashed with gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday, 24 hours after the militants launched...  

Palestinian resistance in Gaza launches historic surprise attack against Israel (10/07/2023)  In a major turn of events, Hamas fighters in the early morning of October 7 launched a surprise offensive called “Operation...  

Writers union reaches tentative deal with Hollywood studios to end historic strike (09/25/2023)  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The union representing screenwriters reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to end...  

Meetings

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WBAI Outreach and Fundraising Task Force
Open to the public, Monday, January 8, 2024, 7:00 PM ET at Teleconference
- Tuesday, December 5, 2023

WBAI Local Station Board
Open to the public, Wednesday, January 10, 2024, 7:00 PM ET at Teleconference
- Monday, December 18, 2023


Note to Listeners

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Note to Listeners Are you listening to WBAI Radio (12/14/2023)  If you appreciate WBAI, then please make a contribution to keep the station alive.  You can do this by becoming a BAI Buddy,...  

Note to Listeners Emergency Transmitter repair Dec 12th (12/12/2023)  Dear Listeners, WBAI will be off the air from 8am to noon at 99.5 FM, our terrestrial radio home for emergency repair at the site...  

Note to Listeners From WBAI's Program Director (12/03/2023)  Dear Listeners, I hope you are doing well as December is settling in. We are grateful that you listen to WBAI and very much...  

Note to Listeners Johanna Fernandez: Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (10/13/2023)  Structures of settler colonial domination in Israel and in the United States from Johanna...