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Not much good news at KPFA
While the financial crisis deepens, KPFA gatekeepers move to silence and expel whistleblowers from the Local Station Board....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2022 12:30pm PDT
The Conformity Forge and The Alchemy of Evil
One possible answer may be that governments, the media, the legal system, and the vast majority of the population are firmly embedded in a sociopolitical system that not only does not want anything about it to be questioned, but also actively prevents an awareness from arising in people of a radically different view of the world in which they live. A social paradigm shift is imperative!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2022 10:16am PDT
*Scripted and Fake!
*The following video is completely scripted and "fake!"...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2022 7:06pm PDT
KVHS 90.5FM Under Threat of Closure by MDUSD
Concord's local radio station, KVHS 90.5FM (The Edge) is under treat of closure by the Mount Diablo Unified School District. This radio station is part of local history, having been established in 1964 by Clayton Valley High vice principal Bob Daugherty. A MDUSD staff report claims the station has no education value, and is too expensive to maintain. The station community, and local listeners want to keep their station - which is known as "the voice of the valley"....
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2022 12:48am PDT
UC Using CIA Methods at People's Park
In 1975 The Church Committee discovered Operation Mockingbird a CIA program which attempted to manipulate domestic American news media for propaganda purposes. Almost 50 years later U.C. is using the same technique to destroy Peoples Park....
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2022 2:09pm PDT
Response to Berkeleyside's People's Park Coverage
Peoples Park community is not anti-development; we are fighting climate change and do not support the redlining of our Southside district. UC Berkeley can build on sites that are not historically significant. We are anti-fascists centering on urban ecology, consensus decision-making, and rematriation of this land back to the Ohlone people....
Posted: Sat, Aug 6, 2022 3:15pm PDT
Rescuing Lew Hill’s Pacifica
The real threats to the Pacifica network are the stations that are not self-sustaining, and a National Board that is unable to address the problem.
Each station has to be self-sustaining, and a functional National Board has to be able to take appropriate remedial action when they're not....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2022 6:56am PDT
Saving Lew Hill’s Pacifica Radio
The current Board is unable or unwilling to address the alarming declines in listenership, membership, and donations.
Pacifica should recognize the 6820 to 5471 vote of the members for the New Day Bylaws to help save listener sponsored radio....
Posted: Sat, Jun 25, 2022 7:48am PDT
Dear Matriots
The fire of youth will never be put out. Don’t let them break your spirit. We are only called to plant the seed, to be truth-tellers and story-tellers, to redefine and expand work, to revive our welcoming tradition and decry the tradition of fear....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2022 7:52am PDT
Remembering Listener Sponsored Radio
The problem that Pacifica currently face is that some stations do not have programming to support the station....
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2022 8:15am PDT
Big Tech & Privacy
This article discusses how big tech companies invade the privacy of many of their users, and how they take control of their data....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2022 7:53pm PDT
KPFA journalist in Ethiopia
Ann Garrison, a KPFA journalist, is in Ethiopia...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2022 4:27pm PDT
Ukraine’s Propaganda War: International PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts
Dan Cohen reveals the network of foreign strategists, Washington DC lobbyists, and intelligence-linked media outlets behind Ukraine’s public relations blitz....
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2022 11:25am PDT
WMNF: Diversify your station staff, bring back the news, and reinstate Alvaro Montealegre!
Join the campaign to reinstate Tampa WMNF programmer Alvaro Montealegre...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2022 4:06pm PDT
With “Protectors” like these…. The Fight to Rescue Pacifica from the KPFA Pretenders
Unmasking KPFA "Protectors" attempts to Shock Doctrine Pacifica Foundation's assets into receivership and gain full control over the last remaining independent terrestrial radio network in the US....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2022 1:37am PST
Why It Is More Important Than Ever to Support KPFK & Pacifica
Micael Novick the chair of KPFK talks about the attack on the station and Pacifica....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2022 9:46pm PST
Whistleblower Network on Assange
" If the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still to be worth anything, all politicians in Western liberal democracies must stand up and speak out. Those who - quite rightly - stand behind Alexei Nawalny must also stand up for Julian Assange. The credibility of our rule of law is at stake here. "...
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2021 8:25am PST
Does social media affect our lives?
Female African-American Hip Hop artist, Keldamuzik shared her insight on social media and how it affects lives....
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2021 9:31pm PST
Proposal: How an Historic Pacifist Enterprise Meets its Demise
The Democratic Party & recipients of its affiliated foundations are steadily advancing in the dissolution of its longest-running stable of critics: Pacifica Radio Network. A succession of lawsuits openly intended to relinquish flagship (NY/LA) frequencies, has drawn her bickering factions together for shards of the proceeds -- valued in the many $10s of millions -- of the lapsed anti-war collaborative....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2021 12:31am PST
Putting Facebook & Co. in its place
there has been growing concern in civil society and among policymakers that these practices conflict with users' right to privacy, enable manipulation and disinformation campaigns, and ultimately undermine the principle of a public sphere subject to democratic rules....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2021 4:18am PST