KPFA GM McCoy & KPFA IPM Cartwright Put Bensky Back On The Air Corporate managers Quincy McCoy & Kevin Cartwright at KPFA put Larry Bensky back on the air...
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:23AM
Trust in Our Institutions If you can't trust your government to deliver clean drinkable water, what does that say about your trust in other government institutions....
Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2018 7:48AM
Radio in Petaluma: The “End” of Radio Our group's findings while investigating Radio listener rates in Petaluma....
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:47PM
Radio in the Age of the Internet Is there hope for the radio industry in today's connected world?...
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:08PM
Oprah's Animal Rights Consciousness Needs Improvement Please ask Oprah Winfrey to stop advertising meat and dairy....
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:06AM
Statement from Cat Brooks for Oakland Mayor Campaign: Every Vote Matters We are thankful for the thousands of Oaklanders for their faith in the People’s Campaign. Today we learned that there are still approximately 209,943 Vote By Mail (VBM) ballots outstanding county-wide along with 43,090 provisional and 1,827 conditional ballots....
Posted: Thu Nov 8, 2018 11:56AM
Death by Facebook Brazil has elected Jair Bolsonaro President, a man who praises torture, says he'll end all activism and threatens to kill 30,000 leftists. How could this insanity happen?!?!
Facebook....
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:07AM
Be wary of large-scale disinformation campaign regarding Nicaragua Various programs on KPFA and also regime-change minded liberals in the once-alternative media are amplifying the voices of self-anointed spokespersons for astro-turf protesters in Nicaragua who advocate for a violent coup. It's a scam with potentially massive death and other devastating consequences....
Posted: Sat Sep 1, 2018 10:35AM
First Amendment Rights Under Attack Popular platforms, websites, and a radio show were arbitrarily removed from the internet and airwaves in August of 2018 – an attack on the First Amendment rights of us all. If only “approved-of” content will be allowed to remain online or spoken over the airwaves, what sort of society are we becoming?...
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:12AM
Illegal Copyright Infringement by InvisionFree.Com and Taptalk.Com Invisionfree.com of Bowie Maryland, without notifying the millions who had free websites through it, sold itself to Tapatalk of Santa Monica to a man calling himself Winter Wong of Santa Monica (address below) He has demanded payment for what were free sites. He has deleted content as well as
changing content in violation of copyright laws. Some groups and individuals are considering a class action and individual lawsuits against Tapatalk for its
criminal behavior. Neither InvisionFree nor Ta...
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 12:21PM
KPFA Management Abandoning The Station's Principles The KPFA of 2018, however, seems all-too aligned with national security state messaging, with its constant parroting of corporate media’s evidence-free “Russia meddled” narrative and, with occasional exceptions, no recognition of the grotesque but almost completely unexamined and outsized influence of the state of Israel over US politics.
The unhealthy hierarchical structure of the station—well protected and benefited paid staff versus a majority of unprotected unpaid staff—also falls into th...
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:26PM
Berkeley Community Media 48 Hour Filmmaker Challenge! Berkeley Community Media (BCM) and La Peña Cultural Center present the 8th Annual BCM Summer Shorts Movie Jam: 48 Hour Filmmaker Challenge.
SCREENING AT LA PEÑA CULTURAL CENTER
Sunday, September 2nd at 7pm (3105 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley.)
Teams who successfully complete the challenge will screen their films in front of a live audience. Audience admission is $10 in advance and $15 at the door....
Posted: Thu Aug 9, 2018 5:44PM
KPFA Management Remove "Guns And Butter” After Bad Fund Drive KPFA management has cancelled the "Guns and Butter" show after a bad fund drive and complaints from funders....
Posted: Thu Aug 9, 2018 12:44PM
Note to the anti-fascist protesters on today's 8-5-18 event My take on events, culminating in my assault by protestors and the smashing and stealing of my camera....
Posted: Sun Aug 5, 2018 3:45PM
One Cup Of Toxic Brew: Side Effects Of Coffee Coffee is correlated to pancreatic cancer, causes frequent urination, speeds up heartbeat, harms optic nerves, is a factor in placental abruptions, makes people angry in traffic etc. Coffee's dixoypurine is addictive. The acrylamide created by roasting is carcinogenic. It acidifies the body causing ulcers. Nevertheless Tara Narula on CBS Morning News shilled for coffee industry related studies alleging up to 8 cupsof coffee a day are good for a person....
Posted: Tue Jul 3, 2018 6:00AM
China's 6.9% Growth: The Superiority of the Plan China has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in only three decades thanks to the opening of the economy. In 1978, 90% of the 800 million Chinese lived below the absolute poverty line of $1.90 a day. Today, forty years later, there are 'only' 43 million, three percent of the population of 1.4 billion. Blue skies in Peking! The hourly wage has tripled since 2006 from $1.20 to $3.60....
Posted: Tue May 8, 2018 6:19AM
Are phone applications taking over our lives? High usage of phone applications are changing the perception of face-to-face interactions....
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 2:08PM
The Shortwave Report 04/13/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 3:54PM
KZYX in Philo, California experiencing various kinds of covert action? A few nights ago, I tried calling one of my favorite independent radio stations as I had done for years before. I was on a landline. I got through alright, but then something happened that I had never experienced: my voice sounded clear on my end, but on the radio's end, it came across all garbled and missing words. Was this merely "rain in the phone lines" as the DJ thought? Or some kind of jamming technique being directed at independent radio?...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:50PM