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What’s Going on At Pacifica Radio?

by Free Speech Radio & Fair Elections Coalition https://www.mightycause.com/story/FSFE DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Pacifica Foundation, Inc. communication nor an official communication of any of the five Pacifica Foundation, Inc. Radio Stations (KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, WBAI, WPFW). Opinions and facts alleged belong to the author(s) only and should NOT be assumed to be true or to reflect the editorial stance or policy of the Pacifica Foundation, Inc., or any of the [...]

By |2026-08-01T18:37:31-05:00August 1st, 2026|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black liberation, Commentary, Disability issues, Elections, Events, Free Speech, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Internet, Journalists, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio, Social Media|0 Comments
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Normalizing Troops in US Streets

© by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/normalizing-troops-in-u-s-streets/ People always criticize the Congress, at least the Republicans in Congress for being too supine, and too prostrative when it comes to the president. Well, I don't think it's fair to charge just one branch of the government. We live in a country where the Supreme Court, which is the highest judicial power in the US, essentially gave unlimited power and immunity to the president on the [...]

By |2026-02-26T23:42:30-05:00February 26th, 2026|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Commentary, Democracy, Donald Trump, Fascism, Free Speech, ICE, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Journalists, Justice/Injustice, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News, Political Prisoners, Politics, Repression|0 Comments
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The Death of Pensions

©July 2025 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/the-death-of-pensions/ With the judicial seal of approval of the United Airlines plan to ditch its pensions, comes another battle in the long war of capital against labor. By this attack on those who have spent their lives making the fortunes of United, the business community opens yet another front in their rapacious war to gain more and more profits. Now, thousands of disenfranchised workers must turn to [...]

By |2025-08-01T21:33:39-05:00August 1st, 2025|Aging, Anti-capitalism, Banks, Economy, Jails, Journalists, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Political Prisoners, Prisons, Wall Street|0 Comments
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THE IDA B. WELLS MEDIA DEFENSE COALITION

An invitation to join. . . THE IDA B. WELLS MEDIA DEFENSE COALITION As an ad hoc group of Pacifica program producers and other community media advocates, we have been meeting via Zoom for several months to talk through current events and take meaningful collective action against the destructive forces around us. The Trump Administration has targeted media platforms where liberal and progressive voices share information (newspapers, radio, television, college, and the [...]

By |2025-07-06T23:58:45-05:00July 6th, 2025|Activism, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Journalists, Mumia Abu-Jamal, NPR, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio, Repression, Social Media, Solidarity, Whistleblowers|0 Comments
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LAPD violence against protesters, journalists, could cost millions

https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/police-violence-against-protesters-journalists-cost-la/ Attorneys describe it as some of the worst such violence they have seen, much against journalists. The Los Angeles Press Club is suing the city. Excerpt: The LA Press Club documented at least 50 incidents of alleged police misconduct that led to injuries to reporters in LA since June 6, including at least five journalists being struck by 40mm less-lethal rounds, and journalists being charged at by mounted police. Jeremy Cuenca, a reporter [...]

By |2025-07-06T23:47:01-05:00July 6th, 2025|Activism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Immigration, Independent Journalism, Journalists, News, Police Brutality, Protests and Rallies|0 Comments
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Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation

Story by Hossam Shabat, murdered by Israel shortly after filing this story to Drop Site news BEIT HANOUN, GAZA—The night was dark and cautiously quiet. Everyone fell into an anxious sleep. But the tranquility was quickly shattered by deafening screams. As the bombs rained down, the wails of neighbors announced the first moments of the resumption of Israel’s military campaign. Beit Hanoun was plunged into panic and terror. Cries of distress rose [...]

By |2025-03-29T12:45:55-05:00March 29th, 2025|Events, Human Rights, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Israel and Palestine, Journalists, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Reports, Solidarity, War, Writers|0 Comments
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One Struggle, Many Fronts!

One Struggle, Many Fronts - Uniting the Many to Defeat the Few! by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org Just over a month in power, the Trump-Vance-Musk regime and its acolytes and minions are continuing their rapid-fire and relentless assaults on labor, immigrants, Black, Indigenous, Raza, and Asian-Pacific Islander people, women, LGBTQIA+ people, public health, education, freedom of speech and the press, the environment, and international solidarity, while encouraging other fascist [...]

By |2025-03-01T02:39:23-05:00March 1st, 2025|Abortion, Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Ecology, Education, Environmentalism, Fascism, Health, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous Nations, Journalists, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Police, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Public Radio, Repression, Reproductive Rights, Socialism, Solidarity, Unity, War|0 Comments
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Letter to the Editor: Violations of Democracy, Transparency at Pacifica

The International community faces the loss of a critical media stronghold of free speech. The Pacifica Foundation, Inc. is a non-commercial, educational radio broadcasting network comprising five FCC licensed FM radio stations.  It began in 1949 as a registered California non-profit for public good, providing a uniquely independent platform for news, education and the arts.  Its origin as a pacifist organization promoting peace can be found at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/pacifica-radio In recent years Pacifica [...]

By |2025-03-01T02:36:28-05:00March 1st, 2025|Abolition, Activism, Anti-capitalism, California, Economy, Free Speech, Fund Drives, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Journalists, Labor, Letters to the Editor, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Politics, Public Radio, Public Transit, Repression|0 Comments
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Counterpoint: No Peace with the GOP or Dems!

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles I agree with Steve Edinger about the warmongering and imperialist nature of the Democratic Party, the Biden-Harris administration, and the Harris-Walz campaign, and the threat Democratic Party forces pose to Pacifica. But to see the Republican Party, or figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene as legitimate opponents of war or intervention, or worthy of our support, is a dangerous illusion. As Steve himself acknowledges, only 21 [...]

By |2024-11-30T20:55:21-05:00November 30th, 2024|Activism, Alex Caputo-Pearl, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arlene Inouye, Banks, Bernie Sanders, Betty Forrester, Black liberation, California, Carlos Quintanilla, Cecily Myart-Cruz, Charles Fredricks, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Climate Change, Colleen Schwab, Commentary, Daniel Barnhart, Democracy, Education, Elections, Environmentalism, Fascism, France, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Journalists, Juan Ramirez, Justice/Injustice, Kamala Harris, Labor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Mark Lipman, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, National Security, News, Obama, Palestine, Palestinian, Paul Cleveland, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, People, Police Brutality, Politics, Poverty, Prisons, Puerto Rico, Robert Reich, Ron Scherer, Sue Sturgis|0 Comments
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Free and Equal Elections Independent Presidential Debate Airs on KPFK

In a bold but years-belated move, Pacifica Foundation radio station KPFK-90.7 FM, finally conducted a participatory live event of the October 23, 2024 Third Party Presidential Debates, produced and sponsored by “Free & Equal.org”. Pacifica Foundation's national radio network, boasts a mission statement and bylaws that promote support for all voices to be heard and global conflict resolution toward a peaceful planet. Sadly however, words can be real on paper to be [...]

By |2024-11-01T19:28:20-05:00November 1st, 2024|Bella De Soto, Constitution, Donald Trump, Elections, Events, Free Speech, Independent Media, Journalists, Kamala Harris, Pacifica/KPFK, Politics, Public Radio, Social Media, Socialism, Voting|0 Comments
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Partial Victory for Uhuru Three: Mumia Abu-Jamal

Partial Victory For Uhuru © 09/2024 by Mumia Abu-Jamal The proposed political frame up of leaders and supporters of the African Peoples Socialist Party, perhaps best known as the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, has ended with a federal jury rejecting the government’s biggest charge. Several members and supporters were charged as operators in support of a foreign government, that government being Russia. With the jury’s rejection of that main charge, [...]

By |2024-10-06T03:21:36-05:00October 6th, 2024|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Commentary, Fascism, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Journalists, Julian Assange, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News, Palestine, Peace, Political Prisoners, Politics, Prisons, Repression, Solidarity, Ukraine|0 Comments
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Happy 100th Birthday, James Baldwin

by Nia Asante   ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. That would have been his age this year. One of the most prolific & brilliant literary geniuses of his time. No matter if it was a novel, an essay, stage play, lecture at an Ivy league school or a television interview... Once you encountered his work, you were stunned if not blown away by his exquisite consciousness. Monsieur James Arthur Baldwin, born August 2, [...]

By |2024-10-06T03:20:36-05:00October 6th, 2024|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, France, Free Speech, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, Humanism & FreeThought, Journalists, LGBTQ+, Movements, Nia Asante|0 Comments
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