I wanted to post this as a comment in Al Rodgers' Sunday Talk diary, but kept messing up, so that all I did was lost and I had to start over again. Six times already. Figured I might have more luck saving it here. This has previously been published as a link on Sunday Talk. I will do my best to get it back on to Al's diary next time, since he started all this.
A few weeks ago, simultaneous contrast made a comment to this referring to KPFA, the Berkely CA sister station of KPFK.
I thought I would expand his comment to include all the Pacifica network stations.
The programming on each station is not the same, and tends to feature a lot of local issue coverage. But many programs, such as Democracy Now! Are shared by all the network stations. Be sure to check them out if there is one near you.
KPFA (94.1 FM in Berkeley),
KPFK (90.7 FM in Los Angeles),
KPFT (90.1 FM in Houston),
WBAI (99.5 FM in New York) and
WPFW (89.3 FM in Washington DC)
All have links to listen online if you like. Programming differs between the stations, although many of the shows are shared across the network. All, except for WPWF in DC also have archives of streams and/or downloads of program material. If anybody out there knows about an archive for WPFW, please let us know, and we will include it in the future.
All of these shows are available for streaming online during the broadcast at KPFK. If you are brave (this link is a little bit slow, but opens up a treasure trove on a wide variety of topics) here is the page for the Audio Archives for KPFK . Shows are available as either streams and/or mp3 downloads. Pick a progressive topic, and it is probably represented somewhere on this page.
From Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman (broadcast daily at 9:00 am PST, 1 hour long,) for the past week:
Please note that all of these program notes are taken from Democracy Now! Web sites
Friday, March 30th, 2007
* Headlines for March 30, 2007
* Los Titulares de Hoy: Democracy Now!'s daily news summary translated into Spanish
∑ Understanding How Good People Turn Evil: Renowned Psychologist Philip Zimbardo On his Landmark Stanford Prison Experiment, Abu Ghraib and More
Catch this one if you can. Zimbardo has been doing the talk circuit lately to pitch his new book The Lucifer Effect which describes the Stanford Prison Experiment done in 1971 which placed volunteer college students on both sides of an Abu-Ghraib type prison situation, and the monstrousness that evolved. Kind of makes you see how things went so wrong in the Iraqi prison. The Democracy Now! Segment features a lot of the original film records of the experiment.
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
* Headlines for March 29, 2007
* Los Titulares de Hoy: Democracy Now!'s daily news summary translated into Spanish
* Larry Kramer on the 20th Anniversary of ACT UP, the Government's Failure to Prevent the AIDS Crisis and the State of Gay Activism Today
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
* Headlines for March 28, 2007
* Los Titulares de Hoy: Democracy Now!'s daily news summary translated into Spanish
* "This Isn't American Idol, We're Choosing the President of the United States" - Kucinich on Corporate Media Campaign Coverage
* Andre Schiffrin on 50 Years in Publishing World, From Corporate Consolidation to Founding Independent Non-Profit
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
* Headlines for March 27, 2007
* Los Titulares de Hoy: Democracy Now!'s daily news summary translated into Spanish
* David Hicks Becomes First Guantanamo Prisoner to Plead Guilty
* Iran Continues to Hold 15 Captured British Sailors
* Report: U.S. Sponsoring Kurdish Guerilla Attacks Inside Iran
* Over 240 Arrested Since "Occupation Project" Launched to Call on Congress to End War Funding
Monday, March 26th, 2007
* Headlines for March 26, 2007
* Los Titulares de Hoy: Democracy Now!'s daily news summary translated into Spanish
* Report: NYPD Conducted Extensive National, International Spy Campaign on Protesters Before GOP Convention
* NYPD Debates Civil Liberties Attorney Over Police Spying of Protesters
As always, links are available for downloading the mp3 file of each show (works well with iPods), or it can be listened to as a stream. In many cases, a written transcript is available at each day’s link.
FAIR’s Counterspin (broadcast on KPFK Sundays, 1:30-2:00 pm PST)
Counterspin (3/30/07-4/5/07)
Erik Leaver on Iraq bills, Mike Farrell on 'Just Call Me Mike'
This week on CounterSpin: what are advocates of peace to make of the war spending bill that's just made its way through the Senate? Press accounts call it a "withdrawal bill" and a "forceful rebuke" to Bush's war policy. Is that how it looks close up? We'll hear from Erik Leaver, of the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy In Focus on that story.
— Iraq Supplemental Analysis Erik Leaver (Institute for Policy Studies, 3/14/07)
Also on the show:
Actor Mike Farrell has devoted himself to serious fights for social justice, working against the death penalty, Reagan-era foreign policy in Central America, and the war in Iraq. His celebrity status has attracted media attention to these issues, the good and the not-so-good. We'll talk to Farrell about his new book Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist.
— Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist by Mike Farrell
Ian Masters’ Background Briefing
Graeme Fuller on the troubled state of affairs in the Middle East. Mr. Fuller is the former Vice-Chair of the National Intelligence Council of the Central Intelligence Agency and a former consultant for the RAND Corporation. He has lived for more than twenty years in the Middle East and is the author of a number of books on the region, including "The Center of the Universe: the Geopolitics of Iran;" "The Democracy Trap: Perils of the Post-Cold War World;" "A Sense of Siege: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West," "The Arab Shi'a: the Forgotten Muslims," and "The Future of Political Islam." Fuller stated before the war that Bush's purported remaking of Iraq as a democratic state was remote, unrealistic and would be very disruptive throughout the Middle East.
Dawn Johnson on the recent scandal regarding the seemingly political firing of 8 US Attorneys and the separation of powers issues prompted by President Bush's conditional refusal to cooperate with the United States Congress. Professor Johnson joined the faculty in of Indiana University School of Law in 1998, following a distinguished career in Washington, D.C. She began her career after graduating from Yale Law School as Staff Counsel Fellow of the ACLU, and then was five years as legal director of the NARAL. Professor Johnsen then, during the Clinton administration, served as a deputy assistant attorney general and then the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, where she advised the attorney general, the White House counsel, and the general counsels of all the executive departments and agencies. Her current courses include Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, and a Seminar in the Separation of Powers.
Mayor Rocky Anderson on his advocacy of progressive issues and causes in a very conservative political context. Mayor Anderson has won national attention as the liberal progressive Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, which is, by some accounts, the most conservative state in the US. In a state which supports President Bush more than any other, Mayor Anderson, now in his second term, has cited the President as a war criminal and called emphatically for his impeachment. Although widely acknowleded as an outstanding mayor in his leadership and advocacy for the people of Salt Lake, he has made signature issues of global warming, genocide in Darfur, gay and lesbian rights, the war in Iraq and the impeachment of George W. Bush. Recently, he has said, "there's a real resistance to change and an almost pathological devotion to leaders simply because they're leaders. There's a dangerous culture of obedience throughout much of the country that's worse in Utah than anywhere." After leaving office as Mayor, Rocky Anderson says he wants to devote the rest of his life to grass-roots organizing involving human rights and global warming."
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and Live From the Left Coast) (broadcast Sundays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PST).
Goria Steinem on the state of the nation and the world six years into the Bush administration. Ms. Steinem remains the United States' most influential, eloquent and revered feminist more than three decades after founding Ms. magazine. A devoted activist and writer, Steinem continues, as she has for more than thirty-five years, to travel nationally and internationally and speak, as one of America's genuine public intellectuals, with reason and articulation about gender, racial, and other civil inequity issues. She is the author of numerous books, some of them classics, including "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions," "Revolution from Within" and "Moving Beyond Words." Her latest book is "Doing Sixty and Seventy" and she has recently announced an effort with Jane Fonda to create a radio network for women.
Jeremy Scahill on the disturbing rise of a private mercenary army, with right wing affiliations, in the United States. Mr. Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now! and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. He is the author of the just-published Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, from Nation Books. In this book Scahill reports on the Bush Administration's radical privatization of the US military operations, int the form of Blackwater USA, which he as described as a Praetorian Guard for the Bush administration.
Again, please go to Ian’s websites for links to the streams and mp3 downloads.
Another show I would like to recommend, again from KPFK is a program entitled Middle East in Focus hosted by Don Bustany and broadcast at 90.7 FM in the LA area or 98.7 FM in the Santa Barbara area, as well as online at KPFK.org on Wednesday evenings from 8-9 pm. A link to download or stream the most recent program can be found on the KPFK Audio Archive page. Just scroll down until you find the March 21 program, or any other Wednesday you want. So far, I haven’t located any program listings, but will put them up as soon as I can. I know FOX claims to be "fair and balanced", but this program shows exactly how that should be done. Don runs a program that is FAIR, and presents voices from both the Arab and Israeli side, to show the possibilities for peace in the Middle East, as well as the injustice that occurs there. Well worth a listen to.
The program aired on Wednesday, March 28 featured a discussion with Anthony Lowenstein http://antonyloewenstein.com/... on his latest book My Israel Question.
The second part of the show featured some live reporting from Iran by Ali Jafari (not sure I got the spelling correct) on the current situation.
Finally, there is an interview with S. Brian Willson. Be sure to click through the first page to read his summary of the common themes of his work. From Wikipedia
In 1987, while engaged in a protest of U.S. weapons to Central America, an action publicized in advance, Willson and other members of a Veterans Peace Action Team were blocking the train tracks at the Concord, California Naval Weapons Station. Due to a government policy decision, the train refused to stop, and the veterans were injured when the train did not slow down as they expected. Willson was hit, run over, and nearly died. Ultimately, he survived but lost both legs below the knee while suffering a severe skull fracture with loss of his right frontal lobe, among other injuries.
And check out Kossack Ava Lou’s appearance on CNN.
My apologies, but I won’t be able to post this next week, due to other obligations,( i.e. I am going fishing!) but I’ll include a double-dip the next week.