SoundOnSight

SoundOnSight

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SoundOnSight is a community news program focused on how every day people are being effected by current changes in government and society. Cut through a frenetic news cycle and you see communities left behind, forced to adapt, and struggling to understand how their world is changing. We hear from them and more. A collaboration between American Community Media and HydeFM radio. Based in San Francisco, CA.

FEB 5

012 - Ali Jamalian and New Cannabis Regulation

Under a new executive order, marijuana will go from a Schedule controlled substance - the strictest category under the Controlled Substances Act - to Schedule III. The new categorization recognizes a drug's medical use and carries lower regulatory burdens. We talked to Sunset Connect founder Ali Jamlian about the potential reclassification and what it means for the future of both his company and the cannabis industry at large.

20 min
JAN 21

011 - TPS Holder Jhony Silva and the Limbo of Citizenship

Thirty-year-old Jhony Silva says his entire life in the United States has been political. Born in Honduras but raised in the Bay Area, he is one of the more than 1.3 million people in the country with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Silva welcomed a court ruling in late December blocking the Trump Administration’s efforts to end TPS for certain countries, but says his state of limbo is still far from ending.

21 min
12/24/2025

010 - Community Response at the SF Immigration Court

Bay Area activists have been on the corner of 100 Montgomery street almost daily since federal ICE agents began arresting immigrants at their hearings in the SF Immigration Court. They've been critical of Mayor Daniel Lurie for what they see as the city’s refusal to challenge the federal government and more actively defend its residents. Back in October, when President Trump nearly deployed federal troops to the Bay Area to support the immigration crackdown, Daniel Lurie apparently talked down Trump in an 11th hour phone call. His privacy around the details of the call have led to a committee of city commissioners now saying he violated state public-records law. Since that call, the mass layoff of judges has continued at the SF Immigration Court. The backlogged court that started the year with 21 judges is now down to just 4. Beyond seeking to deter ICE operations, activists at 100 Montgomery Street are offering support to immigrants going into their hearings – mainly, by accompanying them into the courtroom. We talked to Cebollin, who almost every day for the last few months, has been on the street outside the courtroom.

26 min
11/26/2025

009 - Arms Embargo Demands at the Port of Oakland

Activists and labor unions in Oakland are escalating demands for local officials to end the shipment of cargo bound for Israel, saying they are willing to call for a general strike and walk off the job if demands are not met.

11 min
11/12/2025

008 - The Sound and Feel of Bay Area Underground Music

It seems like every event has to have a corporate sponsor in the Bay Area these days…or be backed by the city, or some one-syllable tech firm. It’s tedious. It’s stifling. For the disaffected, an underground alternative naturally endures. You have internet radio stations like this one, HydeFM, along with an ecosystem of crews setting up events. No Bias is an independent media project, party series, and record label running out of Oakland since 2020. If you’ve gone to a renegade rave or seen a techno DJ lately, odds are their smiley face logo was somewhere on the flyer. We talk with the project’s founder, musician and DJ Tal Robinson, about what moves him and the local scene.

26 min
11/12/2025

007 - Ed. Department Cuts Funding for Minority Serving Institutions

The Education Department says MSI programs “discriminate by conferring government benefits exclusively to institutions that meet racial or ethnic quotas.” However, higher education advocates say that the programs are not discriminatory at all, but rather corrective of lingering racial inequity in education. At Laney College in Oakland, one group that Asian immigrants relied on is being forced to shutter.

17 min
11/12/2025

006 - Federal and Local Pressures Cause SF Small Businesses to Organize

Fluctuating tariffs on every import, along with outdated city ordinances and permitting requirements, threaten the ecosystem of corner stores and family grocers that pin the city together. The Neighborhood Business Alliance and the Arab American Grocers Association are responding by organizing small businesses on multiple fronts. First – reviving the practice of group purchasing imports.

26 min
11/12/2025

005 - Nostalgia, Community, and Middle Eastern Culture's Growing Popularity

From food to music to fashion – Arabic and Middle Eastern culture is having a moment. Women-founded and led Mother Armenia is one of the groups pushing that wave in the Bay Area, highlighting Southwest Asian/North African arts and culture through parties, exhibitions, and educational events. We talk about what’s driving the culture in this moment, and the role of nostalgia in diaspora communities.

23 min

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SoundOnSight is a community news program focused on how every day people are being effected by current changes in government and society. Cut through a frenetic news cycle and you see communities left behind, forced to adapt, and struggling to understand how their world is changing. We hear from them and more. A collaboration between American Community Media and HydeFM radio. Based in San Francisco, CA.

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SoundOnSight
Years Active

2025 - 2026
Episodes

13
Rating

Clean
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