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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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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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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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Which Way KPFK?

The listener and staff elections for delegates on the local (and thereby national) boards of Pacifica radio stations, including KPFK here in Southern California, are underway. You needed to have become a member by June 30 to vote. This is a critical election over the future direction of KPFK and the Pacifica Foundation. A faction within the governance that has been involved in previous efforts to split up the foundation, order it [...]

By |2023-07-08T17:16:12-05:00July 8th, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Commentary, Elections, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Politics, Public Radio, Reproductive Rights, Social Media|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: I Make Promises Before I Dream

I Make Promises Before I Dream [excerpt] © 2021 by Tongo Eisen-Martin   No unclaimed, cremated mothers this year Nor collateral white skin   No mothers folding clothes to a corporate park preamble No sons singing under the bright lights of a lumber yard   Quantum reaganomics and the tap steps of turning on a friend   New York trophy parts among the limbs of decent people   Being an enraged artist [...]

By |2023-07-08T17:11:23-05:00July 8th, 2023|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Black liberation, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Events, Free Speech, Human Rights, Movements, Pacifica/KPFK, Poetry Corner, Prisons, Tongo Eisen-Martin|0 Comments
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Delegate Election Process, Strategic Planning at KPFK

Delegate Election Process Underway at KPFK Under a court mandate to hold elections for listener and staff delegates at all five of its stations, Pacifica Foundation has belatedly gotten underway with the member elections that should have been held last year. The National Election Supervisor, Renee Peñaloza, has issued promotional announcements that will begin airing on all stations, including in English and Spanish on KPFK starting June 1. The timeline in place [...]

By |2023-06-02T18:40:41-05:00June 2nd, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Contests, Editorial, Events, Independent Media, Non-violence, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace Vigils, Public Radio|0 Comments
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PDF of June 2023 print edition of Change Links

By |2023-06-02T18:38:54-05:00June 2nd, 2023|Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black liberation, Brazil, Calendar, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Climate Change, Cuba, Ecology, Economy, Elections, Film & Documentaries, Films, Homelessness, Independent Journalism, Labor, Latin America, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Mexico, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Poetry Corner, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Reviews, Russia, Socialism, Unity, Venezuela, Voting, War|0 Comments
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In Memoriam: KPFK’s Roy of Hollywood

Roy of Hollywood Tuckman, KPFK late night host, passes away Roy Tuckman, AKA Roy of Hollywood, hosted KPFK's overnight "Something's Happening" program from midnight to 6 AM for 50 of the station's 64 years on the air, with a mix of spirituality, alternative health care, old time radio and political analysis and commentary. In his 80s, Roy passed away late in April in the company of his wife "Lady Di" Diane Schmidt [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:26:11-05:00April 29th, 2023|Arts, Free Speech, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Los Angeles, Pacifica/KPFK, Public Radio|0 Comments
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VIRTUAL NATIONAL TOWN HALL: What Next, Pacifica?

by PacificaFightback.com Via Zoom Sat. Mar 25, 3pm PT Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrf-iqqjMoH93vA-cBkWNRlMdoAPRhn2c- After you register you will receive a link by email. Keeping Pacifica Open to All of Us If you want to run to become a Delegate at your station, or work on a campaign for delegates committed to reviving a mission-driven, democratic, transparent and accountable Pacifica, get in touch with us now at: pacificafightback@gmail.com An era of war, growing economic [...]

By |2023-03-11T23:31:26-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Democracy, Elections, Events, Fund Drives, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Internet, Internet, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Non-violence, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, People, Politics, Poverty, Public Radio, Social Media, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Lawrence Phillip Reyes, Presente!

In Memoriam July 7, 1958 - December 31, 2022   Lawrence Reyes, Boricua independentista, revolutionary internationalist, father, labor organizer, mental health social worker, practitioner of the "Red Road" of Indigenous traditional spiritual practice, KPFK Local Station Board listener delegate and Pacifica National Board director, passed away December 31 due to complications of diabetes. His death is an incalculable loss to all who knew his warmth, heart, dedication and passion personally and to [...]

By |2023-02-02T19:49:04-05:00February 2nd, 2023|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Disability issues, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Historical, In Memoriam, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, Obituary, Pacifica/KPFK, People, Politics, Poverty, Prisons, Public Radio, Puerto Rico, War|0 Comments
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MEMOIR FROM A LONG TIME VOLUNTEER AT PACIFICA FOUNDATION-KPFK 90.7 FM

WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING at PACIFICA RADIO TODAY ? by Bella De Soto Pacifica Radio is possibly the last Non-Commercial Broadcasting Radio Bastion on the FM dial! I first joined Pacifica-KPFK 90.7 FM Radio Station in 1995, when I sent my $25.00 annual membership subscription check. Since then, I have been involved as a volunteer with KPFK through different committees of the LSB-Local Station Board.  But these LSB Committees were not [...]

By |2023-02-02T19:47:15-05:00February 2nd, 2023|Anti-Racism/Racism, Bella De Soto, Commentary, Free Speech, Historical, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Protests and Rallies, Public Radio, Socialism, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Dynamic New Programming, Newscast on KPFK 90.7 Pacifica Radio

KPFK, listener-sponsored Pacifica community radio for Los Angeles and all of Southern California, is refreshing its programming schedule, adding new more radical, community-based, solution-oriented programming, and launching a locally produced newscast for the first time in over a decade. Anti-racist, anti-war, and anti-capitalist viewpoints are taking center stage in a new morning mix radio magazine. The station is bringing back some other important voices from communities of color that have been missing [...]

By |2022-12-03T21:00:46-05:00December 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Calendar, California, Democracy, Environment, Environmentalism, Events, Free Speech, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Public Radio, Socialism, Solidarity, Surveillance, Volunteer|0 Comments
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