Pacifica National Specials
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 15 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsNational Programming from the Pacifica Foundation
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Pacifica Radio Turns Sixty
April 14, 2009 07:44 - 58 minutes - 17.1 MBOn April 15th, 1949, Pacifica station KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley went on the air, introducing public sponsored community radio to America, and cementing its place in history as the steadfast anchor of the Pacifica Radio Network. Founded by Lewis Hill - a Quaker, World War II conscientious objector, and former commercial radio news broadcaster - Pacifica Radio was a new concept for listeners. It was to be supported solely by listener-sponsors, owing nothing to corporate interests or advertisers,...
TUC Radio Presents Dr. Hermann Ott and Mary Anne Hitt
March 23, 2008 08:01 - 29 minutes - 6.7 MBIn September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a Teach in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil and global resource depletion & extinction. Several Panel meetings addressed the many false solutions to the climate crisis that may be accelerating the danger rather than alleviating it. Coal for example is now promoted as a substitute for oil and promises for the capture of the carbon are made that are not yet possible with current technologies and may never be available...
IVAW Winter Soldier Day 2 Highlights Part I
March 18, 2008 00:51 - 1 hour - 16.2 MBAimee Allison and Aaron Glantz, co-anchors; Esther Manilla, producer; Jon Almeleh and Michael Yoshida, engineers; Naji Mujahid, editor; Sasha Lilley, project exec producer and highlights producer.
IVAW Winter Soldier Day 2 Highlights Part II
March 18, 2008 00:49 - 50 minutes - 12 MBAimee Allison and Aaron Glantz, co-anchors; Esther Manilla, producer; Jon Almeleh and Michael Yoshida, engineers; Naji Mujahid, editor; Sasha Lilley, project exec producer and highlights producer.
IVAW Winter Soldier Day 1 Highlights
March 17, 2008 18:32 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBAimee Allison and Aaron Glantz, co-anchors; Esther Manilla, producer; Jon Almeleh and Michael Yoshida, engineers; Sasha Lilley, project exec producer; Eric Klein, highlights producer/editor; archival audio from Pacifica Radio Archives.
From the Vault 93 - The Power of African American Women
February 19, 2008 21:56 - 59 minutes - 13.6 MBThis week’s From the Vault, hosted by KPFK’s Margaret Prescod, showcases restored recordings of women who have given their voices, time, and energy to civil and human rights — proud women who have stood against racism and sexism, whose battlefield was grounded in America’s civil rights movement. In this episode, we honor Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Lorraine Hansberry by hearing them, remembering them, thanking them for all they have taught us, and acknowledging that their hard work chan...
A Passel Of Pomp & A Circus Of Circumstance - Part II
February 16, 2008 20:02 - 58 minutes - 13.3 MBPart 2 picks up at the Circus 1972 RNC in Miami. KPFK producer Mike Hodel called it "A Passel Of Pomp & A Circus Of Circumstance". Coverage continues through the Shadow Convention in 2000.
A Passel Of Pomp & A Circus Of Circumstance - Part I
February 15, 2008 03:12 - 59 minutes - 13.4 MBIn Part 1 we begin with recordings from the 1936 DNC with Franklin D. Roosevelt and feature outstanding material such as Senator John F. Kennedy's 1956 DNC Keynote Address to the Mississippi Freedom Party's effort to challenge the Democrats in 1964 to the now historic chaos of the 1968 DNC in Chicago.
TUC Radio: Confronting the Global Triple Crisis
February 14, 2008 08:42 - 54 minutes - 12.6 MBVandana Shiva had just witnessed the arctic melt on Greenland and speaks eloquently about the destructive forces of globalization that are driving the ecological crisis. She also sheds light on the effects of rapid economic growth in her home country, India. Maude Barlow has completed a new book, entitled: Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water. She explains how we are losing water through pollution, over-pumping and displacement while the demands...
TUC Radio Presents Peter Dale Scott
February 08, 2008 06:32 - 53 minutes - 12.3 MBPeter Dale Scott speaks about his new book, The Road to 9-11, Wealth, Empire and the Future of America, at Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s bookstore, City Lights. September 2007.
TUC Radio Presents Michael Parenti: Lies, War, And Empire
January 30, 2008 00:13 - 54 minutes - 12.9 MBIn this 2007 talk for Antioch College in Seattle Parenti raises the intriguing question of how we arrive at a valid analysis of our social reality – given that so many lies are told to confuse us. In Part one of this talk Parenti speaks about lies, dissent, and how we arrive at the truth of our situation and still retain our sanity. In the second half of his talk Parenti raises the question whether the Iraq war was not a failure but a success for some parts of the empire – and why. Michael...
Against the Grain - 12 April 2006
August 08, 2007 17:21 - 54 minutes - 13.1 MBKPFA historian Matthew Lasar discusses his latest book, Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio's Civil War.
From the Vault 1 - Pacifica's 57th Anniversary
August 08, 2007 03:59 - 59 minutes - 13.7 MBOn this series premiere of From the Vault, we’re celebrating the 57th anniversary of the legendary community radio network Lewis Hill founded in 1949. But instead of a typical collage of all the great clips from Pacifica’s past, we’re looking specifically at the two people who most defined the network. The first, of course, is Lewis Hill: pacifist, conscientious objector, and Pacifica’s original visionary. The second is Elsa Knight Thompson: one of the first women radio broadcasters, an award...