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SUPPORT KPFK COMMUNITY RADIO

SUPPORT KPFK COMMUNITY RADIO during its Fall member drive Oct  3-31 by Michael Novick, interim General Manager Listener-sponsored free speech Pacifica community radio for Southern California is running an on-air membership and funding drive in October. The station has cut its expenses dramatically, eliminating almost all paid management, and with the quasi-retirement of Margaret Prescod and the death of Roy of Hollywood, no longer has any paid programmers. But the station has [...]

By |2023-10-01T00:32:48-05:00October 1st, 2023|Activism, Fund Drives, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio|0 Comments
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No Place for Old Men

No Place for Old Men ©2023 by Mumia Abu-Jamal Quite recently during the height of the ravaging COVID-19 crisis, an American health care agency announced a series of projects and programs designed to ease human suffering and indeed to advocate for the abolition of the systems of mass incarceration. The American Public Health Association, known as APHA, watching the harrowing number of deaths in prisons, is determined that the age of abolition [...]

By |2023-10-01T00:29:52-05:00October 1st, 2023|Activism, Aging, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, Disability issues, Health, Human Rights, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prisons|0 Comments
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Australian MPs Urge Dropping of Charges Against Julian Assange

As reported by Esther Iverem of WPFW’s On the Ground program, which recently aired on KPFK as part of the overnight Something’s Happening program, six Australian Members of Parliament, from various parties and independents, came to Washington DC to urge the Biden administration to drop its charges against Julian Assange and the US government efforts to win his extradition to and trial in the US on Espionage Act charges for his work [...]

By |2023-10-01T00:25:24-05:00October 1st, 2023|Activism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, National Security, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Prisons|0 Comments
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Constant Lockdowns Are Having a Devastating Effect on Leonard Peltier’s Health, Cousin Says

Constant Lockdowns Are Having a Devastating Effect on Peltier’s Health, Cousin Says Excerpts from TruthOut   Paulette D’Auteuil-Robideau, Peltier’s cousin, lives in Gainesville, Florida, not far from Coleman. She serves on the board of the new Leonard Peltier Ad Hoc Committee, as well as of the Jericho Movement to Free All Political Prisoners. D’Auteuil-Robideau has traveled across the world to talk to audiences about Peltier and the plight of political prisoners, the [...]

By |2023-10-01T00:22:22-05:00October 1st, 2023|Activism, Aging, Anti-Racism/Racism, COVID-19, Health, Healthcare, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Prisons, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Global Leaders Plead for Peace in Ukraine at UN

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As it did last year, the 2023 United Nations General Assembly has been debating what role the United Nations and its members should play in the crisis in Ukraine. The United States and its allies still insist that the UN Charter requires countries to take Ukraine’s side in the conflict, “for as long as it takes” to restore Ukraine’s pre-2014 internationally recognized borders. They [...]

By |2023-10-01T00:21:29-05:00October 1st, 2023|Columbia, Latin America, Medea Benjamin, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Palestine, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Ukraine, United Nations, War|0 Comments
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A.I.’s Dirty Secret: It’s Powered by Digital Sweatshops

Millions of human workers in digital sweatshops power Artificial Intelligence by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA The current strikes by screen-writers and actors in the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have focused attention on the use of AI-- "Artificial Intelligence" using large language models by big corporations -- to try to automate creative jobs and other work, through the use of computers that can simulate voices, generate designs, and produce meaningful literary and analytical texts. [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:38:44-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Anti-capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, Big Business, China, Economy, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Philippines, Tech|0 Comments
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Advertisement: Grassroots Community Radio Coalition Endorsements @ KPFK

-advertisement- Grassroots Community Radio Coalition Endorsements for KPFK Listener and Staff Delegates 2023 LISTENER CANDIDATES IN PREFERENCE ORDER: Aryana Gladney (former LSB, African National Women’s org); Kelly Flores (CAB, UTLA, Assoc. of Raza Educators); Rachel Bruhnke (Harbor Peace Coal.); Jack Neff (environment activist, GCRC); Charlie Wilken (UTLA, network admin); Rizo Saverio (concerned listener, Brasilena); Ralph Hawkins (fmr LSB sec’y, college radio General Manager); Doug Barnett (KPFK operations volunteer, fmr LSB sec’y); Soni [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:36:46-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Elections, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Movements, Pacifica/KPFK, Politics, Public Radio, Solidarity, Voting|0 Comments
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Corruption Rules the Los Angeles Civic Scene

by NOlympicsLA Coalition To coincide with today's arraignment of LA Councilmember Curren Price (postponed until October) and the sentencing hearing of former County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas (3.5 years in prison to begin one week after his birthday), NOlympics LA is releasing our Olympic Corruption Dashboard — a dynamic tool for tracking the extensive cases of corruption and conflicts of interest tied to LA 2028 and other Olympic Games. See it here: https://nolympicsla.com/olympic-corruption-dashboard/ [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:35:28-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Beyond Capitalism, Commentary, Elections, Gentrification/Displacement, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, News, Politics|0 Comments
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Guatemalans Voted to End 69 years of corrupt rule – Will the US Accept it?

by Grahame Russell, © 2023 Truthout. [Excerpt] https://truthout.org/articles/guatemalans-voted-to-end-69-years-of-corrupt-rule-will-us-canada-accept-it/ On August 20, 2023, the Semilla Party’s Bernardo Arévalo and Karin Herrera were elected president and vice president of Guatemala. This election will bring a formal end to 69 years of anti-democratic, military-backed, corrupt, “open-for-global-business” governments [since a 1954-US-backed coup--Ed.], when the transition of power takes place on January 14, 2024. “The Supreme Electoral Tribunal has recognized the results and what the people have [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:34:50-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Elections, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, News|0 Comments
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Ecuador National Referendum Ends Oil Exploitation in the Amazon

Ecuador: National Referendum Ending Oil Exploitation in the Amazon is Victorious By Santiago Rosero on August 21, 2023 While most of the focus was on the general elections in Ecuador, a national referendum was held on oil exploitation in the Amazon. In addition, in a regional referendum the inhabitants of Quito voted on mining. In both cases, the vote to stop exploitation triumphed. The long struggle to save Yasuní Biosphere Reserve reached [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:34:14-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, Elections, Energy, Environment, Environmentalism, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Latin America, Movements, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Medical Proof of Black Mold at Women’s Huron Valley Prison in Michigan

Medical Proof of Black Mold at WHV by Naykima Hill 08/15/23 https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/medical-proof-of-black-mold-at-whv/ My name is Naykima Hill, and I’m calling in regards to a few issues. But one I’m gonna deal with today is about my best friend Krystal Clark. When I called the radio station the first time, it was about our health and our maintain- the maintaining us here at Huron Valley Prison for women. I was telling you about [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:33:39-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Commentary, Disability issues, Feminism, Health, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Prisons|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: 80’s Sur Gaye, California

80's Sur Gaye, California © 2022 by Melisa Puga [Excerpt] I am from hot concrete and graffiti walls. A place where the taquerias, liquor stores and botanicas abound along with melanin and generational trauma. I am from The City of Azaleas. A place where electrical transmission towers line the way down Southern Ave to the LA River made of concrete. Not a lot of nature for a place that adopted a flower [...]

By |2023-09-03T16:32:20-05:00September 3rd, 2023|Anti-Racism/Racism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Gentrification/Displacement, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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