Oct 09 2012
Check out The Anti-Job, an LA band!
We played their song “Rain Dance Part 1” on today’s show.
Listen to their music!
Check out their website!
Watch their music video:
Uprising’s Music Curator is Chris Bennett
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 ……
... more Announcements, Speaker Series
|
You guys are awesome! Can’t wait to see you live again!
wow these guys remind me a lot of my band, fleetwood mac. hey by the way fleetwood mac is releasing a new live dvd soon. like our fleetwood mac facebook page for updates!
…I was cut off in mid sentence; as I was saying, why is fracking an issue that needs more KPFK attention? Apart from the environmental racism aspect that applies to the Inglewood case, it is widely seen as something in the East and not EVERYWHERE, and certainly not in reluated CA–yet with the huge shale beds and so on, it is a growing target under the radar. The NY Times says there are 20,000 fractivists just in NY State. It is a huge and growing social movement that is adept at linking information and people in complex webs of activism, a model that CA could very much use –at least to assess how bad it actually is in the sunny state, and what risks are there for air, water, and land pollution, and what is being done with the contaminated water (usually including salt brine, unspecified chemicals, and often radioactive heavy metals from deep in the earth). If KPFK is interested in building social movements like Occupy, this is now going on in rural America, dividing communities, manipulating land owners and politicians, and becoming one of the great under reported battlegrounds between corporate and poor America. Now in the Navajo reservation they are planning to start Uranium fracking (Crown Point, AZ, in the main reservation region near the Four Corners), and there are already protests and evidence of manipulation of tribal officials. But this is just the extreme “cutting edge” of an energy hunting onslaught willing to sacrifice water tables, basic public health and land itself for a short term postponement of shifting to alternatives for big profits–and doing it in areas where in the depths of the recession the poor, the rural, the economically fragile are vulnerable to their pitch of promised profits. On the other hand, the networked social movement against it is a model of organizing that may have much more impact and staying power than OWS. So I encourage more programming on the subject. Have a frack-free day.