Uprising Launches it's Weekdend Edition! -- Click here to listen.

In addition to the popular Los Angeles based daily show, Uprising produces an hour long show once a week, consisting of the best of our national and international programming. The weekend edition is a perfect Saturday morning public affairs show available for community stations nationwide, absolutely free. Regular features include: "The Black Commentator", "Empire Notes" with Rahul Mahajan, and "Sonali's Subversive Thought for the Day".

Whether you are a prospective Program Manager looking for public affairs programming, or a listener, you can now hear an audio stream of Uprising's weekly shows. Click here to listen.

If you are a listener of a Pacifica affiliated community station, you can request Uprising, available to your station for free through Pacifica's Audioport.

Find out if your local radio station is a Pacifica Affiliate.

If your station is not currently affiliated with Pacifica, contact the Affiliate Stations Coordinator, Ursula Ruedenberg at 510 812 7989, or ursula@pacifica.org.

What people are saying about Uprising:

• "Sonali Kolhatkar has rapidly established herself as one of the country's premier voices in community radio. 'Uprising' has a large and growing audience that appreciates Ms. Kolhatkar's understanding of complex local, national and international issues. Her knowledge, breath of interests, humor and quick and easy manner make 'Uprising' a listening must. Whether as a guest or a listener whenever I am in SoCal I get up for 'Uprising.'" --David Barsamian, host of Alternative Radio

• "I can't emphasize enough what a great addition Uprising is to our weekend schedule. We have a heavy public affairs schedule on weekend mornings, and Uprising serves as a centerpiece because of its newness. I'm happy to run it twice, as we have been for awhile... Uprising's weekend show should be heard by more." --Leigh Robartes, KRFP Radio Free Moscow

• "’Uprising’ is an intelligent, thought provoking, audience participatory show that I find more engaging than the shouting or pedantic rantings of other talk shows." --Randi Zimmerman, WMNF Tampa, headlines producer for Free Speech Radio News.

• "I want to appreciate your good work in bringing about robust debates in the left. . . . I hope that you will have more of programs such as this because I feel this is the one of the better ways to make the left shape up. And also to have the understanding and acceptance that there could be an array of different opinions in the left. For example, I find it extremely naive that some of the listeners would object to watching Michael Moore critically . . ." --Ahmad

• "just so there's no doubt, i meant what i said about you two [Sonali and Thatcher] being very prepared and asking excellent questions." --John Barry, author of "The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History"

• "I've been listening to your show for last 2 years and I must say, it's been a pleasure to listen to your commentaries. You are a great host and you articulate your points very well. In these days of "woosy" journalism (pep talk and dog-and-pony shows), it's good to see some real journalism with guts and courage." -- Salim Patel

• "Thank you Sonali and the Uprising radio crew for the interview this morning with Dr Mahmoud Mamdani. This is one of the clearest elucidations on what is taking place in our world." -- Tarech R.

• "I really enjoyed the interview with Mahmood Mamdani. Thanks for dedicating so much time with him. His analysis and wide ranging discussion and analysis was fascinating. I know you probably get lots of compliments, but your show is a must listen for me. You deserve particular praise for the way you provide listeners the opportunity to hear a variety of viewpoints on issues. Even when the spokespersons speak from vantage points surely unpopular with most KPFK listeners, you politely allow them to express their views in an unimpeded manner. Also, I admire how effectively you referee the discussions when the guests become passionate about their opinions. So professional and different than the usual shouting down or ridiculing of opposing viewpoints that we hear on so much of the media." -- Norm C., Camarillo

• "i just wanted to send you a little note to tell you that i listen to your show every day and i love it. in fact, the more i learn about you and your activism, the more i love you!" -- evan s.

• "Love Uprising! I should have written sooner, but better late than never. On today's segment about the WalMonster, you read a list of places not in USA that are in danger. Swansea was one of them, but it is in Wales (Cymru in Welsh), not England. I have very dear friends who live there, in fact, one of them listens to KPFK online." -- Marjory Z.

• "On Monday one of our members, Judge Yosh Yamanaka, heard your broadcast with author Daniel Barenblatt and his release of "A Plague Upon Humanity: Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operations". We are genuinely very appreciative of your efforts to highlight this most tragic issue. Most people do not realize the scale of the carnage. As well as the fact that people are still dying to this day from these biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction. On behalf of ALPHA-LA we thank you for bringing to light so many important issues." -- Eddie C.

KPFK’s Popular Radio Program, Uprising, to Begin Syndication --the daily Los Angeles program will release a weekly version

North Hollywood, CA -- With new voices, a fresh perspective, and a broader news cycle, Uprising announces the beginning of a weekly version for weekend broadcast, containing the best material from the daily morning drive-time public affairs show in Los Angeles. Uprising is produced at Pacifica Station KPFK by Thatcher Collins (director) and Sonali Kolhatkar (host). Like a news magazine, Uprising aims to bring long-run context, background, history, and debate to enrich current events. Uprising focuses on the issues of immigration, sexism and violence against women, international trade, activism, climate change, racism, indigenous rights, and artistic expression. We aim to give voice to debates, discussions, and disputes among progressives, covering the range from strategy and vision to praxis and ideology. Uprising also broadcasts audio comments from listeners who leave messages at our comment line (x515).

Every week, we feature two commentaries, one from veteran radio commentator, Glen Ford of BlackCommentator.com, bringing us “political dialogue that is absolutely essential to the creation of movements for social change” from a black perspective. The other commentary comes from Rahul Mahajan of the blog empirenotes.org, and author of "Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond." For more information, visit: www.blackcommentator.com, www.empirenotes.org

The national version of Uprising is designed to be aired anytime during the weekend, Friday through Sunday, when public affairs options are thin. It will be released every Friday before 2pm, PST, available on Pacifica’s audioport.org, and eventually via FTP. Uprising will be pre-packaged for 59 minutes, tracked for convenience, and contain at least 2 minutes of break music for station IDs and promos.

* College and community radio stations are free to air Uprising for non-profit use.

* Attached is a document with technical information helpful to board operators and programmers.

You can listen to our live daily program from 8am - 9am PST here: http://www.kpfk.org/listenlive.html

Sample programs:

• An in-depth look at the genocide in Sudan, from eyewitness accounts to the history of racism in North Africa -- Click here to download or listen.
• A discussion and debate about the place of progressive candidates - and the political consequences - in the US election -- Click here to download or listen.
• Walden Bello on the Philippines pullout of Iraq, the International Court of Justice Condemns the Israeli wall, the Boston Social Forum, Pablo Neruda’s 100th birthday, and more -- Click here to download or listen.
• Hepatitis C in US prisons, Border Patrol raid immigrant communities, a gang rape mistrial, Iraqi sovereignty and the handover of Saddam Hussein -- Click here to download or listen.

We welcome and encourage your comments, feedback, criticisms, and rants (see contact info above).

Sonali Kolhatkar is a South-Asian immigrant born and raised in Dubai with a background in astrophysics; she covered the World Social Forum from Brazil and from India; she is co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission and is currently working on her first book that will examine US foreign policy in Afghanistan. Thatcher Collins started filing news reports for Free Speech Radio News and Indymedia in 2000 from Prague and Vancouver, beginning his focus on Canadian politics and on international trade (including reporting from Qatar and Cancún); his background is in mathematics, middle east studies, and historiography.

The most efficient way to contact the Uprising crew is to email us at the following address (please re-type it into your email message): uprising at kpfk dot org. You can also comment on the show by calling us at 818-985-2711 x 515. To order copies of Uprising, call the Pacifica Radio Archives at 1800-735-0230, or visit them online at www.pacificaradioarchives.org. Be sure and have the date of the program before ordering.