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Pacifica Radio Archives, and The Big Buy

As we continue our fund drive, we turn next to the Pacifica Radio Archives – considered by historians and scholars to be one of the oldest and most important audio collections in the world. It houses some of the most important audio moments in the history of the United States, and voices of historical figures like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Cesar Chavez, June Jordan, Lena Horne, Rosa Parks, W.E.B. DuBois, Fannie Lou Hamer, and many more.

Today we want to offer listeners a chance to support KPFK through the Pacifica Radio Archives. For a $50 donation, you can choose any CD from the vast collection of the Archives.

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Earlier this month, former House Majority Leader and Texas Republican Tom Delay left Congress amidst a myriad …

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Dreams of Sparrows, Back from Iraq, Sir! No Sir!

Co-Host: RiKu Matsuda, host of Morning Review Thursday Edition

Just hours before President Bush’s surprise visit to Iraq last week, the US Ambassador in Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, sent a secret cable to Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, reporting a grim picture of Iraq. The cable was reprinted by the Washington Post, and cited women being under increasing pressure to dress “modestly,” and that “ethnic cleansing” is going on “in almost every Iraqi” province. The cable also relates how Iraqi employees returning to their homes, face sweltering neighborhoods without regular electricity, unending lines for gasoline, and families torn apart by religious and ethnic tensions. Meanwhile, one of Saddam Hussein’s chief defence lawyers was abducted, tortured and murdered yesterday. Khamis al-Obaidi is the eighth person associated with the …

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2 Hour Special – Granito De Arena, and the Mexican OC

In the days leading up to the Mexican Presidential elections, tens of thousands of workers are planning a 24 hour strike on June 28th. The workers’ unions represent Mexican miners, university employees and telephone workers who are protesting alleged government interference in union affairs. Meanwhile striking teachers have closed schools in several Mexican states. Worst hit is the southern state of Oaxaca, where teachers are demanding pay rises and want the state governor to resign. According to Indymedia, the teachers had been camping in a tent city for 23 days when 3,000 state police, armed with riot shields and clubs tore apart the camp. Over the 6 hour police intervention, three people were reported to have been killed, two women and one …

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2 Hour Special – Eduardo Galeano on “Voices of Time : A Life in Stories”

Eduardo Galeano is a world renowned Uruguayan journalist and writer whose books have been published into many languages. During the 1973 military coup in Uruguay, Galeano was imprisoned and later was forced to flee. He settled in Argentina where he founded the cultural magazine, Crisis. In 1976, when the Videla regime took power in Argentina in a bloody military coup, Galeano’s name was added to the lists of the death squads, and he fled again; this time to Spain, where he wrote his famous trilogy: Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire). He is best known for his book, Las venas abiertas de América Latina (The Open Veins of Latin America), which is a powerful indictment of the exploitation of …

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South Central Farm, Fair Trade, and the Color of Wealth

GUEST: Tezozomoc, elected representative of the South Central Farmers

It was just a week ago today that farmers and their supporters were forcibly evicted off the 14 acre community garden by LA police and sheriffs. Despite months of negotiations with the developer, Ralph Horowitz to buy the land, the farmers have now been separated from their plots of land. Bulldozers have destroyed parts of the farm and there have been nightly vigils outside the farm.

There are nightly vigils at 7 pm in front of the farm at 41st Street and Alameda. For more information, visit www.southcentralfarmers.org.

GUEST: Eric Clark, Board President of Ten Thousand Villages

Ten Thousand Villages recently opened in Pasadena at 496 South Lake Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101. For more information, call 626-229-9892 or visit www.tenthousandvillages.com.

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Bush Crimes, and the Christian Right

GUESTS: Harry Belafonte, Dahr Jamail, Janis Karpinsky, Faiza Al Araji, Malalai Joya, Chris Hedges

The International Commission of Inquiry On Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration, was held several months ago on US college campuses all over the country. It was entitled “Speaking the Unspeakable,” and charged the Bush administration with initiating wars of aggression, torture and indefinite detention, attacks on the Global Environment and Public Health, and the failure to protect Americans from Hurricane Katrina. Among those testifying at the Bush Crimes Commission were Harry Belafonte, Janis Karpinsky, C. Clark Kissenger, Daphne Wysham, Dahr Jamail, Scott Ritter, and many more.

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This week on Uprising —

* A special one-hour program on the South Central Farm in Los Angeles – lessons in human rights, immigrant rights, ecological sustainability, and activism. We’ll hear from farmers, organizers, local reporters, and more.

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GUESTS: Fernando Flores, Rosa Romero, Alberto Taltoa, members of the South Central Farmers Support Committee, Aura Bogado, Anchor of Free Speech Radio News, Daniel Hernandez, LA Weekly Reporters, Peter Camejo, Green Party Candidate for Vice President (2004).

After weeks of …

“What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a light flashing when a hit is scored? What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? You have to weep for this country.” – Noam Chomsky on the U.S. war against Vietnam

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Imperial Grand Strategy and Soldiers’ Resistance

GUESTS: Noam Chomsky, political analyst, linguist, writer, David Zeiger, film maker

The deaths of US soldiers in Iraq since the invasion in 2003 have reached 2,500 this week. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow dismissed the marker saying, “It’s a number,” White House press secretary Tony Snow told reporters at the White House on Thursday. The Pentagon provided no details on the nature of the 2,500th death. Nevertheless, reaching the marker shined a new spotlight on the continuing violence in Iraq. Bush just returned from a surprise visit to Baghdad determined to turn the tide against the war at home. But the war in Iraq is just a part of Bush’s Imperial Grand Strategy.

“As with the movement to end the war on Vietnam, we will have to fight on many fronts: supporting counter-recruitment, confronting government and military officials about the human costs of this war and the lies they use to justify it, exposing war profiteers, encouraging and protecting soldiers who speak out and who resist their orders or service, working with veteran groups such as Iraq Veterans Against the War and military families’ groups like Gold Star Families for Peace, and all along arguing patiently yet urgently with everyone around us that we need to end the occupation now.” – Anthony Arnove