Radio Pacific - A New Show From KALW San Francisco

The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Kitchen Sisters are excited to share the first episode of Radio Pacific, a new monthly show from KALW in San Francisco that takes a deep and creative look at the issues facing California and the rest of our country today. The hour-long, monthly program features journalists, writers, and documentarians who are grappling with life in the country’s most populous and diverse state.

In this first episode, California legal scholar Kevin R. Johnson puts the first months of Trump’s administration in perspective and helps us understand California’s unique and disturbing role in the country’s immigration history.

Then we look into “Rapid Response Hotlines.” These community-run, 24/7 lines keep tabs on ICE activity in their neighborhoods, and dispatch legal assistance to those who need it. To understand how they work, we sit down with filmmaker Paloma Martinez, whose beautiful short documentary “Enforcement Hours” follows the San Francisco Rapid Response Hotline during President Trump’s first term.

We’re joined by Finn Palamaro, a staff member at the non-profit Mission Action and the lead organizer of the hotline today.

Special thanks to:
KALW - San Francisco
Host and Executive Producer: Eli Cohen
Editor: Ben Trefny.
Composer: Kirk Pearson
Sound Designer: Dogbotic Studios

The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Hall. The show is part of PRX's Radiotopia.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia. Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters present. From PRX. We're the Kitron Sisters, Davia Nelson, and Nikki Silva.
0:12.0	Hey, pst, you didn't hear this from me, but normal gossip is back for its eighth season. Join new host Rachel Hampton as she shares the juiciest gossip from the real world.
0:23.8	Each episode, she's joined by a special guest, and you might even recognize a couple
0:27.4	this season from the Radiotopia universe.
0:30.1	Normal Gossip, named one of the best podcasts of 2024 by Time Magazine and Vulture,
0:35.8	is out now on all your favorite podcast platforms.
0:39.1	New episodes starting April 9th.
0:41.5	And this September, Normal Gossip is going on tour.
0:44.6	For more information, check out normal gossip live.com.
0:52.8	The Kitchen Sisters are excited to share with you a brand new show from KALW, San Francisco.
0:59.3	It's called Radio Pacific, created by independent producer Eli Cohen.
1:04.5	I love that there are brand new shows coming out when free speech is under such attack.
1:09.7	It's coming out monthly, taking a deep look at the
1:12.6	issues we're facing, calling in the experts and the artists and the historians and the scientists
1:18.4	and the librarians, the protectors of the free flow of information and ideas. This first episode
1:24.8	of Radio Pacific addresses immigration with scholar Kevin R. Johnson and through the art of filmmaker Paloma Martinez and her film about the San Francisco Rapid Response Hotline.
1:42.0	You're tuned in to radio Pacific.
1:45.0	California has been long considered to be a sanctuary for all, but a group of Republican lawmakers believe certain laws protecting these communities have gone too far.
1:55.0	Cities across the Bay Area, like San Francisco and San Jose, limit local police from working with immigration enforcement.
2:03.0	The battle lines are being drawn in real time. California is not backing down on sanctuary policies
2:08.7	for immigrants, even as federal crackdowns are looming. It's May 2025 and the second Trump
2:14.6	administration is showing they will try anything to carry out his historic
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