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KPFA 68 And Today-Morning Show, Calendar Censor SF State Strike While KQED Covers It
In 1968 KPFA played an important role in covering and supporting the San Francisco State Strike for open admissions and also for the establishment of an ethnic studies department. Today under the "Concerned Listeners" supported management instead of KPFA covering it in the daily programs with the exception of Flashpoints, it was not covered. KQED Forum which is the most listened to program on KQED forum did do a one hour program.
The "Concerned Listeners" supported management apparently did not have the time or inclination to cover the nationally significant San Francisco State strike during most of their daily programs including the Morning Show and the noon shows.
The management and morning show staff knew about the 68' commemoration events for many weeks before 10/29/2008 but were apparently unable to present programs on the struggle and put the strike commemoration on the calendar website.
This inability and/or refusal to cover this strike commemoration with significant and serious coverage shows the real nature of this management. While it can spend a lot of efforts on new locks on the station and is quite willing to call the cops on the staff they are unwilling to cover struggles that took place 40 years ago and were supported by the same station.
Even KQED and the major tv and news media took the strike seriously and did coverage of it.
This non-coverage by KPFA in it's main daily programs with the exception of Flashpoints is a statement of the real character of this management and the "concerned listeners" grouping which backs this crew.
San Francisco State Strike - 40th Anniversary
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R810301000
San Francisco State Strike - 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago, students at San Francisco State went on strike to protest the lack of minority representation on campus. The violent strike transformed the university and inspired similar actions around the country. We'll examine the legacy of the strike with several of the participants.
Download audio (MP3)
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
Eric Solomon, professor emeritus of English at San Francisco State University
John Bunzel, senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution
Laureen Chew, associate dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University
http://www.kpfa.org/highlights/?airdate=2008-10-29
KPFA 94.1 FM (24k mp3)
KPFB 89.3 FM (16k mp3)
KPFA ogg vorbis (stereo)
iTunes Radio: Public/Eclectic
Comcast Digital 967
Program Highlights for Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
>
The Morning Show
7:00 am
A new report from The Chauncey Bailey Project about Oakland Police and their failure to prosecute the case. David Bacon, Labor Correspondent, reports on the impacts of the economic down turn on Mexico and China. In the second hour a conversation with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, retired, who served as Chief of Staff under former
Secretary of State Collin Powell, about National Security and the Presidential Race. Wrapping up the program a debate on Proposition 5: Rehab Instead of Prison for Nonviolent Drug Crimes.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Against the Grain
12:00 pm
The acclaimed author and historian Mike Davis has written recently about the current economic meltdown, the US-Mexico border, and the political reaction to climate change.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Guns and Butter
1:00 pm
"Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election" with Mark Crispin Miller.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Bay Native Circle
2:00 pm
Bay Native Circle host Lakota Harden features an interview with Beatriz Reyes of "Cuau Tonal" group about upcoming Dia de los Muertos celebrations and Gerardo Loera of "Teocali Tlanazi Mexica" will talk about the Native American Church local group and a Religious Rights violation case.
Music by:
Jeremy Good Feather - 35 Miles
Calvin Magpie Sr. -Native Church songs
Indigenous - All I want to see
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley
3:00 pm
Steve Dalachinsky, part two.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Flashpoints
5:00 pm
New information ties Obama's finance chair Penny Pritzker directly to the Sub-Prime meltdown on Wall Street; also, Catherine Austin Fitts with an update on the Wall Street meltdown and a new vision for financial permaculture; Israeli occupation soldiers shoot a Palestinian farmer in the West Bank, three years after his son was killed by the same military; and the Knight Report.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
7:00 pm
Muslim Chaplain James Yee talks about his role as a delegate and as an Obama supporter. And, Pakistan is the backdrop for the film Kala Pul, part of the 3rd Eye Film Festival. Also, a former councilman talks about why he supports civil rights by opposing a proposed amendment.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Sing Out!
10:00 pm
With Larry Kelp.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
The management and morning show staff knew about the 68' commemoration events for many weeks before 10/29/2008 but were apparently unable to present programs on the struggle and put the strike commemoration on the calendar website.
This inability and/or refusal to cover this strike commemoration with significant and serious coverage shows the real nature of this management. While it can spend a lot of efforts on new locks on the station and is quite willing to call the cops on the staff they are unwilling to cover struggles that took place 40 years ago and were supported by the same station.
Even KQED and the major tv and news media took the strike seriously and did coverage of it.
This non-coverage by KPFA in it's main daily programs with the exception of Flashpoints is a statement of the real character of this management and the "concerned listeners" grouping which backs this crew.
San Francisco State Strike - 40th Anniversary
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R810301000
San Francisco State Strike - 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago, students at San Francisco State went on strike to protest the lack of minority representation on campus. The violent strike transformed the university and inspired similar actions around the country. We'll examine the legacy of the strike with several of the participants.
Download audio (MP3)
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
Eric Solomon, professor emeritus of English at San Francisco State University
John Bunzel, senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution
Laureen Chew, associate dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University
http://www.kpfa.org/highlights/?airdate=2008-10-29
KPFA 94.1 FM (24k mp3)
KPFB 89.3 FM (16k mp3)
KPFA ogg vorbis (stereo)
iTunes Radio: Public/Eclectic
Comcast Digital 967
Program Highlights for Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
>
The Morning Show
7:00 am
A new report from The Chauncey Bailey Project about Oakland Police and their failure to prosecute the case. David Bacon, Labor Correspondent, reports on the impacts of the economic down turn on Mexico and China. In the second hour a conversation with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, retired, who served as Chief of Staff under former
Secretary of State Collin Powell, about National Security and the Presidential Race. Wrapping up the program a debate on Proposition 5: Rehab Instead of Prison for Nonviolent Drug Crimes.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Against the Grain
12:00 pm
The acclaimed author and historian Mike Davis has written recently about the current economic meltdown, the US-Mexico border, and the political reaction to climate change.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Guns and Butter
1:00 pm
"Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election" with Mark Crispin Miller.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Bay Native Circle
2:00 pm
Bay Native Circle host Lakota Harden features an interview with Beatriz Reyes of "Cuau Tonal" group about upcoming Dia de los Muertos celebrations and Gerardo Loera of "Teocali Tlanazi Mexica" will talk about the Native American Church local group and a Religious Rights violation case.
Music by:
Jeremy Good Feather - 35 Miles
Calvin Magpie Sr. -Native Church songs
Indigenous - All I want to see
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley
3:00 pm
Steve Dalachinsky, part two.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Flashpoints
5:00 pm
New information ties Obama's finance chair Penny Pritzker directly to the Sub-Prime meltdown on Wall Street; also, Catherine Austin Fitts with an update on the Wall Street meltdown and a new vision for financial permaculture; Israeli occupation soldiers shoot a Palestinian farmer in the West Bank, three years after his son was killed by the same military; and the Knight Report.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
7:00 pm
Muslim Chaplain James Yee talks about his role as a delegate and as an Obama supporter. And, Pakistan is the backdrop for the film Kala Pul, part of the 3rd Eye Film Festival. Also, a former councilman talks about why he supports civil rights by opposing a proposed amendment.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
Sing Out!
10:00 pm
With Larry Kelp.
This program is archived: Listen Now!
For more information:
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R810301000
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As a matter of fact KPFA news did a rather lengthy story on the anniversary, which ran again on the Morning show the following day.
The fact is that KPFA played a key role in publicizing the San Francisco State strike in 1968. Today despite a budget of $4.5 million it had no time to cover the conference live and had none of the organizers and participants on live. With today's present technology this would not have been a major endeavor if the station management was interested. KPFA covers many concerts and other musical events but an event that changed history in the bay area through the establishment of the first Ethnic Studies Department which spread nationally obviously did not rate the importance the concerts do. This lack of serious coverage by the "Concerned Listeners" grouping who run the station was in fact noticed publicly at the commemoration events.
Having the morning show rerun a story on the KPFA news show while better than nothing is not serious coverage. ABC 7, CBS 5, the SF Chronicle and KQED also had coverage. Unlike in 1968 the event would have been extensively covered and this could have been done live but not with the present management in control. They are busy doing other things.
As usual the entrenched staffers and Concerned Listeners supporters in management always have an excuse about why they can't do what they should be doing.
They then wonder why the listenership is dropping as well as support for the station. This is another concrete example of the reason that more and more listeners are turning away from KPFA. KPFA management and the "Concerned Listeners" have other priorities.
Having the morning show rerun a story on the KPFA news show while better than nothing is not serious coverage. ABC 7, CBS 5, the SF Chronicle and KQED also had coverage. Unlike in 1968 the event would have been extensively covered and this could have been done live but not with the present management in control. They are busy doing other things.
As usual the entrenched staffers and Concerned Listeners supporters in management always have an excuse about why they can't do what they should be doing.
They then wonder why the listenership is dropping as well as support for the station. This is another concrete example of the reason that more and more listeners are turning away from KPFA. KPFA management and the "Concerned Listeners" have other priorities.
that the station didn't have wall-to-wall coverage of this event might have something to do with the fact that there is an election going on at the National, state and local levels with many important races and ballot initiatives that need more immediate attention than the commemoration of a 40 year old event.
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