Jul 24 2009
We’ll spend the hour with veteran KPFK programmers and staff members looking back at the history and evolution of this very radio station, 50 years after it first went on the air. And we’ll take your calls. Join Sonali Kolhatkar, along with Uncle Ruthie, Roy Tuckman, and Terry Guy, on Uprising, this Monday at 8 am.
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Jul 23 2009
Tune in for a very special 50th anniversary show produced by the Pacifica Radio Archives on Friday July 24th 2009. …
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Jul 23 2009
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is set to announce his second return attempt to his country despite threats of an immediate arrest by the interim opposition government of Roberto Micheletti. Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War came after Zelaya angered Congress with a push for constitutional changes to allow presidential re-election. In office since 2006, Zelaya …
Jul 23 2009
Jul 23 2009
A popular vegan/vegetarian-friendly Mexican café and art gallery on historic Olvera Street in downtown los angeles recently received notice of eviction. Casa De Sousa, famous for its coffee and chocolate, has been on LA’s oldest street for more than 60 years and the Sousa family has a history in the founding of the street that attracts thousands of tourists …
Jul 23 2009
Thoreau’s Night in Jail
Back in the day on June 23th, 1846, philosopher poet Henry David Thoreau spent the night in jail for refusing to pay his poll taxes. The acclaimed author of “Walden” did so in protest of the U.S. – Mexican War which had started months earlier. As an opponent of slavery, which many abolitionists saw …
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Jul 23 2009
“In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.” — Marianne Williamson …
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Jul 22 2009
We’ll have a conversation with the most progressive candidate for president in Afghanistan: Dr. Ramazan Bashardost. And we’ll get an update from Honduras where the coup that overthrew Manuel Zelaya is still in place. And we’ll hear about a local family whose café and art gallery on Olvera Street is being evicted, after offering a space to the community for decades. …
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Jul 22 2009
President Obama is focusing all of his efforts on health care reform these days with nearly daily remarks to the press and the public. Today he will hold a press-conference on the subject followed by a townhall meeting in Cleveland, Ohio tomorrow. But the President is losing the support of members of his own party. A Washington Post article …
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Jul 22 2009
The Obama administration broke with its predecessor last week when it filed a new legal brief in an asylum case for a survivor of domestic violence. Opening a narrow pathway, the shift in immigration law stated that battered women may be eligible for entry into the United States if their particular case illustrates that the abuse took place in a …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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