26 Best Bay Area Activist Podcasts

1. Hella Black Podcast

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Hella Black Podcast is brought to you by Delency Parham and Abbas Muntaqim. Over the next 12 weeks we are happy to bring ya'll a limited series called Tales of The Town, which is a podcast about nearly 100 years of Black Oakland history! You can follow us on Twitter and IG @HellaBlackPod and support us on https://www.patreon.com/HellaBlackPod. We hope you all enjoy the show!!MORE Hosts Delency Parham, Abbas Muntaqim
Producer/Network Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham
Email ****@hellablackpod.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 1KFacebook 314.1KTwitter 232.4KInstagram 329.6K Avg Length 59 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Upstream

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Conversations and audio documentaries exploring a wide variety of themes pertaining to economics and politics, hosted by Della Z Duncan and Robert R. Raymond
Hosts Della Z Duncan, Robert R. Raymond
Producer/Network Upstream
Email ****@upstreampodcast.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Vijay Prashad, Manda Scott +8 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 2.9KTwitter 7.4KInstagram 238.8K Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. Uncuffed

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Uncuffed empowers people in California prisons to tell their own stories. The award-winning collaboration between incarcerated student producers and professional journalists shines light on the human experience of people before, during, and after their prison terms. The new Season 4 is hosted by formerly incarcerated producer Greg Eskridge.https://www.WeAreUncuffed.orgMORE Host Greg Eskridge
Producer/Network KALW
Email ****@kalw.org
Location San Francisco, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 233Facebook 1.8KTwitter 1KInstagram 8.6K Avg Length 24 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

4. KPFA - Making Contact

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Covering the movements, the issues, and the people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang.MORE Hosts Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, Lucy Kang
Producer/Network KPFA
Email ****@radioproject.org
Location Berkeley, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 8Facebook 5KInstagram 7.3K Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

5. KPFA - Flashpoints

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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.MORE Host Dennis J. Bernstein
Producer/Network KPFA
Email ****@gmail.com
Location Berkeley, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Kathy Kelly, Yves Engler +4 more
Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 76Facebook 22.3KTwitter 1.6KInstagram 7.3K Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. KPFA - UpFront

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at ****@kpfa.org.Theme Music: Turn It Up by Digital Primitives, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.MORE Producer/Network KPFA
Email ****@kpfa.org
Location San Francisco, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Steve Phillips, Vanessa Díaz +10 more
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 55Facebook 5KTwitter 2KInstagram 7.3K Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks

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Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive — all through an Oakland-based abolitionist lens that centers Black experience, movement-building and art. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss.—-Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=pageGet in touch: ****@kpfa.orgFollow us on socials @LawAndDis:https://twitter.com/LawAndDis;https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/MORE Host Cat Brooks
Producer/Network KPFA
Email ****@justiceteams.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Gustavo Arellano, John Nichols +7 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 34 Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

8. Civic

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Civic is the flagship audio program from the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit news institution, covering important local issues and the unique experiences of living and working in San Francisco. The radio program airs Tuesdays and Thursdays on KSFP -LP 102.5 FM in San Francisco.MORE Producer/Network San Francisco Public Press & KSFP, Mel Baker
Email ****@sfpublicpress.org
Location San Francisco, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Jason McDaniel, Jeremy Lee
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 32Facebook 12.3KTwitter 653Instagram 2.7K Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. KPFA - APEX Express

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Apex Express is a proud collective member of AACRE, Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality. AACRE focuses on long-term movement building, capacity infrastructure, and leadership support for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders committed to social justice.MORE Host Miko Lee
Producer/Network KPFA
Email ****@kpfa.org
Location Berkeley, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10Facebook 22.3KInstagram 7.3K Avg Length 59 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

10. KPFA - Bay Native Circle

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The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today's Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.MORE Hosts Janeen Antoine, Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril
Producer/Network KPFA
Email ****@mac.com
Location Berkeley, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 9Instagram 7.3K Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. Prison Focus Radio

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Prison Focus Radio and Liberate the Caged Voices are projects of California Prison Focus. We intentionally and purposefully center New Afrikan Political Prisoners who organized the Historic California Hunger Strikes, authored the Agreement to End Hostilities, and developed Black August Memorial/Black August Resistance. These New Afrikans survived decades of torture in solitary confinement in Pelican Bay and Corcoran state prisons—euphemistically called 'security housing units' (SHUs)— meant to break their revolutionary minds...MORE Host Nube Brown
Producer/Network California Prison Focus
Email ****@prisons.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 6 Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

12. Brave in the Bay - Indivisible Mid-Peninsula's Podcast

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Indivisible Mid-Peninsula is a grassroots, action-driven community empowering people to strengthen democracy, advance social justice, and stand up against injustice and cruelty—together.
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13. KPFA - Project Censored

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The Project Censored Show is a weekly public affairs program that airs Fridays from 1-2 P.M. Pacific time on KPFA Pacifica Radio. The program is an extension of the work Project Censored began in 1976 celebrating independent journalism while fighting media censorship and supporting a truly free press. The program focuses on The News That Didn't Make the News...MORE Hosts Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips
Producer/Network KPFA
Email ****@projectcensored.org
Location Berkeley, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 23Facebook 55.5KInstagram 7.3K Avg Length 55 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

14. The Brightline Podcast

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From Brightline Defense Project, this podcast explores local environmental justice (EJ) issues in the Bay Area, highlighting the work of activists, decision-makers, and community-based organizations like ours. Artwork created by Ellen Miller (@ellendrawslaws)MORE Producer/Network Brightline Defense
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 16 Avg Length 11 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

15. Organize the Rich Radio

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Nerding out about the theory and practice of organizing the rich towards justice. We share both interviews from Organize the Rich as well as season 1 of the podcast Movement Money with Allison Budschalow and Michael Gast. Organize the Rich Radio is produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions . Subscribe to the Organize the Rich Substack at https://organizetherich.substack.com/ Check out the linktree at https://linktr.ee/organizetherichMORE Recent Guest Sharon Chen
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

16. Everyday Climate Champions

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Inspiring conversations with our San Francisco Bay Area neighbors, as they act on home, work, school, community, or policy levels to put real climate solutions into action. Both educational and inspirational, each 15-minute episode supports everyone, everywhere, in becoming a climate champion. Let's shift to the 21st-century 'new normal' of climate-friendly living! Transcripts always included. 'Subscribe' to hear about new releases.MORE Producer/Network Everyday Climate Champions
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 14 Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

17. For Land & Life: The Oakland Institute Podcast

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As a leading policy think tank, the Oakland Institute is bringing fresh ideas and bold action to the most pressing social, economic, and environmental issues of our time.
Host Andy Currier
Producer/Network The Oakland Institute
Email ****@oaklandinstitute.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10 Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

18. Street Speak

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Brought to you by the staff of the Street Sheet, the nation's oldest newspaper bringing you the word on the street about homelessness and poverty directly from those who live it. We answer your burning questions about homelessness in San Francisco because we know that homeless people themselves are the experts when it comes to ending poverty.MORE Producer/Network Street Speak
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

19. Town Politics

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Are you hella tired of seeing the intentional negative news about Oakland? Are you trying to make sense of what's really happening in our community? Oakland Rising Action is bringing together local journalists, activists, community leaders, life and longtime residents together to create Town Politics -- A podcast for the Town. In this podcast we will uplift the solutions our community is championing while exposing the far right agenda and the people behind the dark money in our politics.This is the place to begin to get involved in the movement. Come find your political home!MORE Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

20. Oakland Socialist » pod casts

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capitalism, workers struggles and socialism
Producer/Network John Reimann
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

21. Radical Imagination

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Racism, toxic inequality, persistent poverty, climate change: these are big serious problems, and if you believe they require big audacious solutions, then this is the podcast for you. Hosted by Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder-in-Residence at PolicyLink, Radical Imagination focuses on radical solutions to our society's most pressing problems. It features conversations with thinkers and changemakers from multiple fields working to deliver equity wins at scale.Tune in to Radical Imagination, for stories and solutions that are fueling change.MORE Host Angela Glover Blackwell
Email ****@policylink.org
Location Oakland, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 192Twitter 7.3K Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2019 Get Email Contact

22. tbh: by, about, and for teenagers

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How are teens and teachers using or abusing ChatGPT at school? How can youth empower themselves mentally to become effective and optimistic climate activists? How did one Bay Area high school cope with the fentanyl-lacing death of a senior? Why are teenagers so passionate about demonstrating and protesting but not voting, and what can we do to change that? San Francisco Bay Area teens tell their stories on these subjects, and more, on KALW Public Media's award-winning tbh podcast.MORE Producer/Network KALW
Email ****@kalw.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 29 Avg Length 15 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

23. ImmigrAsians

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The ImmigrAsians Podcast uplifts the stories of currently and formerly undocumented Asian immigrants living in the United States. Led by and for the undocumented immigrant community, our mission is to empower Asian undocumented immigrants through storytelling. We envision a society where people have a platform to share their stories to inspire and connect with others to make a positive change in the world.The show is hosted by Ju Hong - a Korean immigrant rights activist living in the San Francisco Bay AreaMORE Producer/Network Ju Hong
Email ****@gmail.com
Location San Francisco, California, United States
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 17 Avg Length 54 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

24. The Real Work

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The Real Work is a 6-episode audio miniseries exploring transformative justice as a tool for preventing, addressing, and healing harm in Bay Area theater and beyond. Over the course of one year, nearly thirty local theater makers gathered monthly to learn together about transformative justice, under the facilitation of Mia Mingus, co-founder of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective...MORE Producer/Network We Rise Production
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 65 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

25. Sunrise Bay Radio

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Welcome to Sunrise Bay Radio broadcasting the decade of the Green New Deal from the occupied territory of the Ohlone people in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are a team of climate activists from Sunrise Movement's Bay Area hub talking about the intersections of the climate crisis with every part of our society and how you can get involved in averting climate catastrophe. Every month, join our hosts Maritte and Richard and our team of correspondents, as we speak with experts, tell stories of real people affected by climate change, and fight for a livable future.MORE Producer/Network Sunrise Bay Area
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 26 Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

26. BAY4J Podcast Series

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Our podcast aims to educate the common teenager on different movements and injustices all around the world. These episodes feature many activists and professors from the Bay Area, and will hopefully increase your drive in advocacy. Brought to you by Bay Area Youth For Justice, a Bay Area non-profit that strives to uplift community voices by providing a platform for projects and education. Visit bay4j.com for more information.MORE Producer/Network Bay Area Youth For Justice
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Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact