Boots Riley on Power, Propaganda and Building a New World PT. 1

KPFA - Hard Knock Radio · Sep 17, 2026 · 59m

There are moments when the political landscape shifts so dramatically that ideas once dismissed as too radical suddenly don’t sound so radical anymore. On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with filmmaker, musician and longtime political provocateur Boots Riley to examine whether we are living through one of those moments. From rising economic pressure and labor organizing to war, propaganda and growing distrust of traditional political institutions, Riley argued that today’s turmoil is not simply a collection of separate crises. Instead, he sees long-standing contradictions becoming…