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KUSF in Exile DJ Carolyn announces new non-profit radio corporation (audio/mpeg 7.5MB) Hear DJ Carolyn announce the formation of a non-profit corporation, which will allow KUSF to braodcast as a non-commercial radio station when they get access to...
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2012 8:20pm PDT
FCC approves sale of KUSF 90.3FM in corrupt "back room" deal (audio/mpeg 34.2MB) Close to a year and a half after appealing the questionable sale and shutdown, with submission of voluminous legal documents, the FCC simply approved the deal between the rule-breaking parties without any inclusion of KUSF attorneys. KUSF has 30 days to appeal and will. After a big station meeting two weeks ago, DJ Rubble interviewed KUSF In Exile DJ Irwin Swirnoff, who expresses the station’s outrage and resolve. Irwin presents the legal decision, activist strategies, and continuing int...
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2012 8:07pm PDT
National Nurses United Director RoseAnn DeMoro was interviewed by Bill Moyers in May: (audio/mpeg 20.8MB) Video...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2012 8:58am PDT
Suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi: What He Stands For (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) On 06.16.2012, three days before the 06.19.2012 San Francisco Ethics Commission hearing regarding Mayor Ed Lee's suspension of progressive San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, KPFA spoke to Sheriff Mirkarimi about what he stands for, about his highly visible and vocal grassroots support at the Ethics Commission, and about the consequences, if the Board of Supervisors votes to permanently remove him from office....
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 12:50pm PDT
Full audio of rally (audio/mpeg 26.0MB) (audio 1:13:18)
Note that the audio quality is a spotty at points early on when only a bullhorn was used by speakers but markedly improves at about thirteen...
Posted: Sun, Jun 17, 2012 2:08pm PDT
LA DA's race: Jackie Lacey and the future of criminal justice (audio/mpeg 1.2MB) Governor Jerry Brown made robo calls in support of LA City Attorney Carmen Trutanich in the June 5, 2012 primary election to determine who will next head the Los Angeles District Attorney's office, but to no avail. Trutanich, the perceived frontrunner, was eliminated by a third place, 22% finish in the new "top two" run-off system. LA's Chief Deputy District Attorney Jackie Lacey won 32% and will now face Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson, who won 24%, in November's run-off system. The...
Posted: Mon, Jun 11, 2012 3:08pm PDT
Justice in San Francisco? KPFA's Steve Zeltzer on Ed Lee and Ross Mirkarimi (audio/mpeg 587.3KB) KPFA labor reporter Steve Zeltzer included these remarks on San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's suspension of elected Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, contrasting it to Lee's tolerance of labor abuse, election abuse, and abuse of office by city insiders who backed his rise from City Administrator to Mayor....
Posted: Fri, Jun 1, 2012 10:33am PDT
KPFA News: Laura Wells on the Green Party Presidential Debate (audio/mpeg 1.0MB) KPFA News spoke to Green Party activist Laura Wells, former candidate for State Controller and Governor, on the eve of the Green Party presidential debate between Dr. Jill Stein and comedienne Roseanne Barr at San Francisco's Victoria Theatre....
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2012 9:49am PDT
Examining What We’ve Lost: Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America (audio/mpeg 28.1MB) (audio 1:21:47)
Over the past 10 years, we have seen our civil rights and liberties eroded by fear-mongering elected officials, intelligence and law enforce...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:27am PDT
Interacting with the Police: Your Rights (audio/mpeg 31.4MB) (audio 1:32:31)
Learn practical tips on dealing with the police while walking down the street, driving, or simply being stopped for questioning. What you do ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:27am PDT
Estamos Unidos Tour (Principalmente en Español) (audio/mpeg 26.5MB) (audio 1:17:10)
El 25 de abril de 2012, los EE.UU. Corte Suprema escuchará los argumentos sobre la SB 1070 de Arizona. En junio, el Tribunal emitirá su deci...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:27am PDT
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
Secretary of State Bowen illegally excludes Socialist Candidates from Peace (audio/mpeg 6.3MB) Rubble interviews Toni Mendicino, media spokesperson for the Freedom Socialist Party’s Presidential candidates. She discusses Debra Bowen’s brazen, illegal action in excluding two of the four Peace and Freedom Party Presidential Candidates submitted from the primary ballot. Only a lawyer in her face with legal paperwork induced her to back off - at least with one of the candidates - a fight she could neither justify or win. (7 minutes)....
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 8:29pm PDT
Interview with Socialist-Feminist Presidential Candidate Stephen Durham (audio/mpeg 28.6MB) Rubble interviews Freedom Socialist Party Presidential candidate Stephen Durham, who is running for President and vying for the Peace and Freedom Party nomination in the California primary. Durham was in San Francisco as part of a whistle stop tour he terms the “un-millionaire” campaign. (31 minutes)....
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 7:49pm PDT
Rubin v. Bowen: Third-Party Challenge to Unconstitutional Prop 14 (audio/mpeg 10.3MB) Yesterday, KPFA Radio’s The Morning Mix spoke with representatives from California’s third-parties about their legal challenge to Proposition 14, Rubin v. Bowen, which created the new statewide ‘Top Two’ electoral system. Under this system, the rigged de facto two-party system has now been virtually codified in California. Given the obscene amounts of corporate funding expended by the pro-1% Democrat and Republican parties, third-party voters are, essentially, disenfranchised under this cle...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 3:18am PDT
Redemption or Retribution? Ross Mirkarimi and the Hennessey Legacy (audio/mpeg 1.7MB) Former San Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennessey created a redemptive rather than retributive justice model, which is now at stake in the struggle over whether the candidate he endorsed, Ross Mirkarimi, will keep the job he retired from....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2012 12:51pm PDT
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi on challenging foreclosure evictions (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) Occupy has encouraged local legislators and public officials to challenge the legality of foreclosure evictions, and to propose alternatives to existing laws and financial institutions. On 02.25.2012, KPFA spoke to San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi about how he is pushing the limits of his authority, as are San Francisco City Assessor Phil Ting and Supervisor John Avalos....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 12:08pm PST
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee can't remember certifying fraudulent contractor (audio/mpeg 1.6MB) On Friday, 02.17.2012, after a jury delivered its verdict in a San Francisco Superior Court trial, Fog City Journal Editor Luke Thomas wrote that the minimal immediate consequences of the jury's verdict "belied the more politically significant accusations made through depositions in the case, that Mayor Ed Lee and former Mayor Willie Brown overrode City staff to give contracts to a fraudulent yet politically connected company, GCSI."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2012 5:01pm PST
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