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Socialism 2009, Building a New Left for a New Era, San Francisco, 7/2-7/5/09: audio (audio/mpeg 30.9MB) The International Socialist Organization held their first West Coast conference in San Francisco July 2nd through 5th. The "Socialism 2009: Building a New Left for a New Era" conference was split between the Women's Building on 18th and the ISO offices on Capp. Close to 800 people attended attended at least one session over the four-day conference, with most attending numerous. A similar conference has been held annually in Chicago for years. Chicago's 2009 conference was held in June.
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Posted: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 10:04am PDT
Update: SF Public Access TV 
San Francisco's Public Access TV will get a new managing entity in Fall 2009....
Posted: Sat, Jul 4, 2009 11:52am PDT
Subscribe and vote to reclaim KPFA 
Want to make changes at KPFA Radio? There’ll be an opportunity later this year, but you’ll need to act soon to play a part....
Posted: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 6:51pm PDT
Beyond Chron Writer Enters District 10 Race Wednesday, July 1, 2009 : Eric “Doc” Smith, Beyond Chron’s Arts & Entertainment columnist for the past five years, filed to run yesterday for the Board of Supervisors in District 10 - in the race to succeed Sophie Maxwell. Originally from Washington D.C., Smith has made his mark in the District (which includes Potrero Hill, Bayview and Hunters Point) as an outspoken advocate for green jobs and environmental justice....
Posted: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 8:23am PDT
When Cops Attack Online Originally From New America Media
Sunday, June 28, 2009 :When a police union recently used blogs and the YouTube to attack someone they deemed a troublemaker, Silicon Valley was abuzz. But should they resort to new media to settle community level disputes, wonders Raj Jayadev, director of Silicon Valley De-Bug....
Posted: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 6:57am PDT
Media Alliance Protests Hate Speech, Sponsors Film Screening 
Media Alliance and Common Cause held a small rally against hate speech at the 16th and Mission BART station in San Francisco’s Mission District on Sunday, June 28, before a screening of “Broadcast Blues” at the Victoria Theater nearby. The film is a scathing critique of radio, television and the FCC in an age of media consolidation....
Posted: Sun, Jun 28, 2009 8:31pm PDT
Grassroots Groups Tell FCC: Stop Hate Radio! At 3:00 PM on Sunday June 28, the Hispanic/Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition, Media Alliance, and California Common Cause will mount a picket outside the San Francisco premiere of Broadcast Blues at the Victoria Theater at 16th and Mission. The message is clear: Tell the FCC to schedule hearings on hate radio. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the federal agency which oversees broadcasters....
Posted: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 4:40pm PDT
The prison blog of Bernie Ward When I lived in the radio range of KGO, I sometimes listened to the Bernie Ward program at midnight. Last year, he was sent to prison for possession of child pornography. While this is a highly touchy subject, I held a private perspective of generally believing his excuse that he had been trying to learn about online networks of pedophiles in order to see if he could find some repressed priests (before having a family with several kids, he had studied for the priesthood, and has written exten...
Posted: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 7:17pm PDT
Chronicle’s Unfair Hit on Kamala Harris Wednesday, June 24, 2009 : The San Francisco Chronicle was not content criticizing San Francisco District Attorney and Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris for operating a jobs program for undocumented immigrants who had committed crimes; the paper’s website linked the article to a press release by right-wing Republican Senator Tom Harman, who is running against Harris for Attorney General....
Posted: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 7:02am PDT
The Campaign Against the Daily Planet A few East Bay individuals are threatening to bankrupt the Berkeley Daily Planet unless it stops publishing criticisms of Israel’s policies and actions—opinions and ideas they brand “anti-Semitic.”...
Posted: Sat, Jun 20, 2009 4:12pm PDT
KPFA's Labor Reporter Censors SEIU Unite-Here Story 
While the split in the SEIU and it's raid on Unite Here is a local and national story including the take-over of UHW, KPFA Labor reporter David Bacon who does a weekly 30 minute show on the morning show continues to ignore the story. Even Democracy Now is covering this story but no report from Bacon. Maybe he is afraid of offending people he works for?...
Posted: Fri, Jun 19, 2009 10:00am PDT
New Leadership in Pacifica Radio Pacifica radio has new leadership--people who are attempting to deal with a serious financial crisis which was building for years....
Posted: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 11:14am PDT
La Onda Bajita Productions: Voxpopuli (audio/mpeg 53.5MB) La Onda Bajita presents:Voxpopuli with interviews from Bladimir in Oaxaca, Al Rojas from Woodland about the shooting of Luis Rodriguez, also a collaboration with Manuel Ortiz from ALianza news all in spanish information....
Posted: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 10:34pm PDT
La Onda Bajita Productions (audio/mpeg 22.6MB) La Onda Bajita Productions presents Educational Challenges, listent o an interview with Sean Ley from the hungry4ed strike in LA, and to an interview with Alejandra from Students Informing Now(S.I.N) from UCSCs recent hunger strike to budget cuts being proposed...
Posted: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 6:12pm PDT
La Onda Bajita Productions (audio/mpeg 21.7MB) La onda bajita Productions presents OFF THE CHAIN. With an interview with Lindsay Colmi, and live call ins about the Abortion issue....
Posted: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 4:42pm PDT
SF Bay View Newspaper releases new articles Check out the new articles!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 9:35pm PDT
6/18 SF Community Access Meeting: A Vision For San Francisco Community Access The newly established San Francisco Media Center will be having a public meeting about the crisis at the San Francisco community access station and how to rebuild community access and also build a San Francisco Media Center....
Posted: Thu, Jun 11, 2009 3:28pm PDT
Berkeley Community Public Access Channel Hijacked! A public access channel is for the residents of the city to have an uncensored and free channel that will air tapes that they make themselves or like to sponsor so that others of their fellow citizens can be exposed to the content. Such a channel is the residents’ artistic, cultural, and political outlet, their soap box. This article explores the philosophy of public access and the current move in California to shut the public access down. But we will also explore the new rules at Berkeley...
Posted: Wed, Jun 10, 2009 1:08pm PDT
La Onda Bajita Archives being Kept from the Public@kpfa.org La onda bajita is being prohibited to have their archives in public access due to FCC policy implementation at kpfa a year ago that only applies to music programs, and has only been getting two archives for fourteen days on kpfa.org even though they are a Arts and Cultural affairs program. While multiple archives of all other Arts programs are still made public, and all their archives are still saved, While la onda bajita has been kept from the public for over a year now....
Posted: Wed, Jun 10, 2009 12:39pm PDT
More Strange Fruit – The SF Chronicle and the SF8 Strange Fruit That Has Rotted Has A Bad Smell...
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 7:08pm PDT
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