{"id":10462,"date":"2009-10-20T09:36:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2009-10-20T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:08:26","slug":"social-justice-rocker-michael-franti-reaches-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/10\/20\/social-justice-rocker-michael-franti-reaches-new-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Rocker Michael Franti Reaches New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-102009\/2009_10_20_franti.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-102009\/2009_10_20_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/homegrownmusic.net\/files\/siteimages\/Robie\/all_rebel_rockers_cover_300.gif\" alt=\"all rebel rockers\" \/>The Bay-area based musician and poet Michael Franti is long known to Pacifica listeners. Over his 20 year career, Franti and his band Spearhead, have provided a fitting sound track to peace and social justice movements with their songs like <em>Bomb the World<\/em> and <em>Listener Supported<\/em>. Franti&#8217;s annual music festival Power to the Peaceful, has attracted tens of thousands of people each year, and his recent film called I Know I&#8217;m Not Alone, about conflict in the Middle East earned high acclaim. Choosing to record with his own independent label has allowed Franti the freedom to explore a variety of genres, and blend rock, hip-hop, reggae, bossa nova, and funk traditions. His newest album released last year called All Rebel Rockers was recorded mostly in Jamaica. But earlier this year some commercial rock stations discovered Franti&#8217;s song Say Hey, off the album and began including it in their playlists. Franti&#8217;s popularity skyrocketed and the song reached number 1 status on iTunes and various top 40 lists. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Michael Franti, musician, poet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Universal Republic Music for donating CDs to KPFK!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bay-area based musician and poet Michael Franti is long known to Pacifica listeners. Over his 20 year career, Franti and his band Spearhead, have provided a fitting sound track to peace and social justice movements with their songs like Bomb the World and Listener Supported. Franti&#8217;s annual music festival Power to the Peaceful, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}