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Know Your Rights: Free Speech, Protests & Demonstrations in California (audio/mpeg 27.1MB)
(audio 1:19:04)
This workshop will provide an overview of what constitutes protected speech, the difference between public and private realms of assembly, a...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:27am PDT
You Don’t Shed Your Rights At the Schoolhouse Gate (audio/mpeg 28.0MB)
(audio 1:21:24)
In 1969 the United States Supreme Court ruled, “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional right to ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:27am PDT
Breakfast Plenary on work being done to establish & defend civil rights in California toda (audio/mpeg 20.5MB)
(audio 59:50)
Breakfast Plenary, including a greeting from Mickey Welsh, Board Chair, ACLU of Northern California; a welcome from Hector Villagra, Executive...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:27am PDT
Interview with Michelle (audio/mpeg 2.7MB)
Interview with Michelle, age 15....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2012 3:38pm PDT
ACT UP's Legacy -- Panel in SF Recalls Queer AIDS Activism (audio/mpeg 10.0MB)
On Saturday, March 24, long-time AIDS activists joined younger LGBTQ folks from Occupy SF for a panel discussion on the legacy of ACT UP. The panel was held on the 25th anniversary of ACT UP New York. Audio 21:49...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 12:32pm PDT
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012): Alice Walker & Frances Goldin on the Life of the Legendary Poet (audio/mpeg 2.2MB)
(12:53 minutes)...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 11:57am PDT
Uganda's Anti-gay distraction is back (audio/mpeg 988.9KB)
11.02.2011 - Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill has long distracted the world from the human rights abuses of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, in both Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. And, now it's back, yet again, as the country experiences a resurgence in protest against the soaring cost of basic necessities and the Museveni government's corruption in deals with Western corporations to extract Uganda's vast oil reserves. KPFA reported on 10.30.2011. Audio archive: 3 minutes....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 3:10pm PDT
8th Annual San Francisco Trans March - celebration in Dolores Park (part 2) (audio/mpeg 72.8MB)
Hear the last half of the Trans March celebration, culminating with the keynote address by Felicia Flames. (79 minutes)...
Posted: Tue, Jul 5, 2011 9:06pm PDT
8th Annual San Francisco Trans March - celebration in Dolores Park (audio/mpeg 144.4MB)
Hear audio from the Trans March celebration in Dolores Park on Friday, June 24. This year’s theme is the 45th Anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, a defining event for transgender rights. Felicia Flames, one of the “screaming queens” who participated in the riots, gives a keynote address to a crowd of thousands at the end of the four hour celebration before the march. Hear DJ’s, speakers, community announcements, local politicians, and some excellent live musical performances. ...
Posted: Tue, Jul 5, 2011 8:55pm PDT
Audio: 4th Annual Watsonville Pride March, August 28th 2011 (audio/mpeg 29.9MB)
Agusto Cesar Sandino Segundo of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Maria Luisa Perez and Nahaum Rivera about upcoming plans for South Santa Cruz County and Salinas Valley Pride Celebrations coming up in August and September. The file is 32 mins long and a 30 MB MP3 format file....
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 11:11pm PDT
KPFA News: Melanie Nathan on Slain Ugandan LGBT Activist David Kato (audio/mpeg 6.1MB)
International LGBT rights activist and LezGetReal Editor and Contributor Melanie Nathan spoke to KPFA Weekend News and AfrobeatRadio.net about slain Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato and international human rights organizing, on 02.05.2011....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 7:46pm PST
KPFA News on the Murder of Ugandan LGBT Activist David Kato (audio/mpeg 4.3MB)
On January 29, 2010, Moses Mworeko, a gay Ugandan asylum seeker in San Francisco, came to KPFA to speak to the murder of Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato Kisule....
Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 7:57pm PST
KPFA News on gay rights, Uganda to San Francisco, 32 years after Milk's assassination (audio/mpeg 11.1MB)
On the eve of the 32 anniversary of the Milk assassination, and the annual candlelight march, KPFA Radio News interviewed gay activist and asylum seeker Moses Mroweko and longtime San Francisco gay activist and writer Tommi Avicolla Mecca....
Posted: Sat, Nov 27, 2010 1:18pm PST
UN removes LGBT from list to be specially protected from unlawful execution (audio/mpeg 5.8MB)
The UN General Assembly, by a 79 to 70 vote, on Wednesday, 11.19, seems to have condoned gay genocide, by removing LGBT from a list of vulnerable populations deserving special protection from extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary execution. The list had existed for 10 years, so this is a very singular political statement....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2010 5:20pm PST
KPFA News: The Return of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, a.k.a., Hang-the-Gays Bill (audio/mpeg 5.0MB)
Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Act is otherwise known as the Hang-the-Gays Bill because it would add the death penalty to prison sentences of 14 years to life that already exist in Ugandan law criminalizing homosexual acts. The bill engaged more Western press than any news story from Africa in 2009 and 2010, despite Obama's visit to Ghana, civil war in Somalia, a coup d'état in Niger, the UN report on genocide in Congo, and, intensifying competition between China and the West, led by ...
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2010 2:48am PST
KPFA News: The Return of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, a.k.a., Hang-the-Gays Bill (audio/mpeg 5.0MB)
KPFA Weekend News, 11.07.2010: Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Act is otherwise known as the Hang-the-Gays Bill because it would add the death penalty to prison sentences of 14 years to life that already exist in Ugandan law criminalizing homosexual acts. The bill engaged more Western press than any news story from Africa in 2009 and 2010, despite Obama's visit to Ghana, civil war in Somalia, a coup d'état in Niger, the UN report on genocide in Congo, and, intensifying competition bet...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2010 7:18pm PST
KPFA News: The Return of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, a.k.a., Hang-the-Gays Bill (audio/mpeg 5.0MB)
KPFA Weekend News, 11.07.2010: Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Act is otherwise known as the Hang-the-Gays Bill because it would add the death penalty to prison sentences of 14 years to life that already exist in Ugandan law criminalizing homosexual acts. The bill engaged more Western press than any news story from Africa in 2009 and 2010, despite Obama's visit to Ghana, civil war in Somalia, a coup d'état in Niger, the UN report on genocide in Congo, and, intensifying competition bet...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2010 6:08pm PST
Beyond Gay Marriage, a look at the mainstreaming of the Gay Movement (audio/mpeg 33.5MB)
"Beyond Gay Marriage" is a 58 minute public affairs radio documentary that examines the Gay Marriage movement and the mainstreaming of Queer politics. This documentary was produced by freelance radio producer Lisa Dettmer with assitance by Elena Botkin- Levy....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 10:08pm PDT
Familial Homophobia and the Demand for Gay Marriage (audio/mpeg 7.5MB)
Interview with Sarah Schulman, author of Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences. Audio: 16:16...
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2010 2:53pm PDT