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Sun, Jan 21, 2024 - 12:00PM

Celebration of Peter Schickele

Everything Old is New Again

Sun, Jan 21, 2024 - 10:00PM

A Round-Up of Album Releases from 2023!

Law and Disorder

Mon, Jan 22, 2024 - 11:00AM

Law and Disorder January 22, 2024

From The Soundboard

Tue, Jan 23, 2024 - 12:00AM

Archbishop Desmond Tutu & Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Arts Express

Wed, Jan 24, 2024 - 9:00PM

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Driving Forces

Thu, Jan 25, 2024 - 5:00PM

Rep. Dan Goldman, Mondaire Jones

Everything Old is New Again - Again!

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 - 6:00AM

A Roundup of Album Releases of 2023!

WBAI News Special

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 - 12:00PM

So. Africa v. Israel

City Watch

Sun, Jan 28, 2024 - 8:00AM

CM Sandy Nurse, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg

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John Pilger, investigative journalist, war correspondent, filmmaker has died (01/01/2024) John Pilger, the Australian-born investigative journalist, war correspondent, author and filmmaker has...

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...

Meetings

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Open to the public, Sunday, January 21, 2024, 1:00 PM ET at Teleconference

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Note to Listeners

Note to Listeners Ralph Poynter Presente! (12/26/2023) RALPH POYNTER, a fearless, revolutionary warrior, longtime activist, fighter for Black rights, Political Prisoners and human...

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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...