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Cat City Now Playing In Los Angeles Laemmle Theaters Tuesday May 8- Saturday May 11 2024
Holly Near In Concert Thursday June 13, 2024 At The Theatricum Botanicum 7:30pm
GIPSY KINGS Featuring Tonino Baliardo "Generation Tour" Thursday May 16, 2024 Oxnard Performing Arts & Convention Center
Book Soup & KPFK Radio Present Serj Tankian Friday May 24th 2024 At Book Soup 6pm
14th Annual California Roots Music and Arts Festival Friday May 24 -Sunday May 26th 2024 Monterey County Fairgrounds
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum 2024 Repertory Season June 1 - October 20 2024 Celebrating 50 + Years Of Magic @ Theatricum
Todd Rundgren LIVE At The Saban Theatre Thurs. June 20th Libbey Bowl Sun. June 23rd 2024 ME/WE Tour
Tuesday 5/14/24, 9:00pm Pacific -
Wednesday 5/15/24, 9:00pm Pacific 24 hrs.
On the 76th anniversary of the ongoing Palestinian Nakbah and resistance to Israeli apartheid and occupation, Radio Free Palestine will launch at Midnight Eastern time on dozens of stations across North America to air 24 hours of programming from radio stations and producers across 5 continents, hosted by our
There will be separate streams in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.
Live on KPFK 90.7 FM, https://www.kpfk.org
Our overnight and all-day presentation will be in English, and will include discussions, speeches, music, poetry, news updates, and the voices of students currently or previously participating in encampments. That’s Radio Free Palestine beginning live here on KPFK at 9:00 PM Tuesday May 14 (midnight Wednesday on the east coast). This is radio for resistance and solidarity! Tune in and spread the word.
Programming will include contributions from programmers on KPFK, including Middle East in Focus with Estee Chandler of JVP LA and Nagwa Ibrahim, Radio Intifada from the SWANA Region radio collective, and Out-FM, which we carry as part of Somethings Happening.
KPFK's ability to serve the community and the cause of free speech & cultural expression, peace and justice, depends on your input and involvement. Please click here to take our listener survey!
Launch May 15
- PSAs on-air at all stations (reminding members of the election cycle)
- Obtain preliminary membership lists (staff and listener)
- Send out e-campaign to all who were members during the last cycle - encourage renewal and participation
- Recruit volunteers for fair campaign monitoring of airwaves (Fair Campaign Monitors)
- Secure ballot vendor
- Update website with new timeline
- Update Fair Campaign Provisions - share with all staff on file
- Begin internal vetting of staff lists together with the staff themselves and management at each station
June 1 - Nominations phase launch
- PSAs on-air at all stations (candidate nomination PSA, nominator instructions PSA and record date PSA)
- Candidate package facilitation
- Nominator facilitation
- Send out 2nd e-campaign to all who were members during the last cycle - encourage renewal and participation
- Fair campaign Provisions take effect - Fair Campaign Monitors to begin
June 30 - Record Date - Nominations close
- Candidate packages to be completed and submitted no later than 12 midnight ET
- Extension at stations where necessary for up to one additional week. No extension of the Record date.
July 7
- Raw membership lists to be submitted to NES
July 15
- Candidate vetted list to be posted
July 15-July 31st
- NES to coordinate with management - listener member forums at each station
- NES to clean membership lists, develop ballot materials
August 1
- Finalized membership lists, candidate materials, ballot materials to be submitted to vendor
August 15 - Voting phase opens
- ballots go out (email, SMS) and reminders at weekly intervals
- listener forum schedule posted
- phone line opens for members who do not have access to the internet or who need special assistance eg for paper ballot or for telephone casting of vote).
- Ballot request system in place.
August 15 - Sept 30
- Various PSAs and ecampaigns to encourage participation across the network.
Sept 30 - Ballot phase closes
- Extension of up to 7 days if necessary (additional cost to vendor and NES)
October 15 - Certification of results
Nov 1st - NES FINAL REPORT
National Election Supervisor Renee Peñaloza can be reached at nes@pacifica.org
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2023 REPORT
KPFK’s Online Public File
KPFK, under a policy adopted by the Pacifica National Board, is now accepting underwriting from local businesses, community organizations, and other non-profits, that are aligned with Pacifica’s Mission Statement. Underwriters will receive weekly on-air announcements acknowledging their support for KPFK, listing on a dedicated page on our website, and a rotated listing in KPFK’s weekly Dispatch newsletter emailed to over 18,000 of our listeners. KPFK has the strongest broadcast signal in Southern California, with listeners from Santa Barbara to San Diego to the greater Palm Springs area, and online at KPFK.org. We are listener-sponsored, commercial-free Pacifica Radio for all of Southern California.
For more details about how you can become an underwriter of KPFK, email mnovick@kpfk.org with your contact info and "Underwriting" in the subject line or click this link to fill out the preliminary contact form: https://kpfk.org/community-underwriting-intake-form
We will send you more information about the program and what it offers.
Adele Abrams, aka "The Safety Lawyer," covers OSHA, MSHA, and a little bit of rock and roll. Adele started as the sole female DJ at Maryland’s WHFS-FM, one of the country’s founding progressive radio stations, and is featured (with Phil) in the recent documentary movie, Feast your Ears: The Story of WHFS. Adele is now a leading employment safety attorney, advocate, author and a member of multiple state bars and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court.
Oscar-winning Actor/Director/Writer/Musician/Activist Tim Robbins ("Shawshank Redemption") joins host Donna Walker to talk about his latest play "Topsy Turvy: A Musical Greek Vaudeville") now running at the Actors Gang through June 8. When the unity of a Greek Chorus is shattered by a mysterious illness, mere mortals want answers and intervention from the Gods.
Amid an intensifying crackdown on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, we speak to the author of the new book Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition about U.S. immigration policy under the Biden administration. Author Silky Shah is the executive director of Detention Watch Network and a longtime immigration rights advocate whose new book aims to “debunk the idea that immigration is a public safety issue,” in the face of narratives, from both the Republican and Democrat political establishments, of criminality and deterrence. Despite Biden’s campaign promises to reform the immigration system, his administration has “ceded more and more ground to the Republicans and moved the whole conversation to the right,” Shah says. “Legalization isn’t even on the table.” Shah discusses how the immigrant rights’ movement uses the language of abolition to build connections with other social movements fighting oppression, from mass incarceration to police brutality. “These systems aren’t separate. … We have to call for abolition of the whole system and understand those things together.”
As student protests around the world call for their educational institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel, we speak to the Reverend Dr. Serene Jones, the president of Union Theological Seminary, an ecumenical seminary affiliated with Columbia University that is one of the first schools to begin divesting from companies that “profit from war in Palestine/Israel.” Jones says divestment is an extension of Union’s “long policy of trying our best to bring our values, our core mission and our conscience to bear on how we invest our money,” and credits student activists with pushing the administration to action. Jones criticizes Columbia’s decision to arrest student protesters with a “police takeover” and “violent decampment,” in contrast to Union’s approach to student political expression. “We support students learning what it means to find their voice and speak out for justice and freedom,” she says.
KPFK's Rebel Alliance News is our nightly weekday English-language locally produced newscast, your uncensored source of progressive news, information and commentary, with international, national, state-wide and local coverage. Interim news director Ziri Rideaux has recruited a team of unpaid newsgatherers, reporters, commentators and anchors to cover local, state, national and international news, including Angela Birdsong, Jack Kennedy, Polina Vasiliev, Ann Garrison, Don DeBar, Dan Nowman, Marcy Winograd and others. We are looking for more beat reporters and volunteer stringers from OC, San Diego, and covering local government, housing and policing issues in Southern California including LA City and County and other municipalities. Email news@kpfk.org
Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Canada's fire season erupts, forcing evacuations, as wildfire smoke chokes U.S. Upper Midwest; Record-breaking increase in carbon dioxide levels in the world's atmosphere; PLUS: Michigan is newest state to sue Big Oil for mounting climate damages... All that and more in today's [...]
We've got a whole lotta Trump accountability news (and some for one high-ranking Democrat as well) since we last spoke to you on The BradCast last week. We'll get you up to speed on all of that today, but not before getting caught up on a crazy recount situation out here in the Golden State [...]
The same day that UCLA student activists were reeling from their Free Gaza encampment being attacked by pro-Israel supporters and police officers, students at California State University of Los Angeles (Cal State LA) were busy setting up their brand new campus protest.
Students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are returning to their campuses after a week of violent attacks aimed at a student encampment set up to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Currently heard Tuesdays at 7am on KPFK Archives of the program can be found HERE |
Soemthing's Happening is KPFK's long-running overnight program midnight to 6:00 AM Tuesday-Friday with segments of holistic health, meditation, psychology, philosophy, political economy, science fiction and fact, old radio and more, created and long curated by the late Roy of Hollywood, Roy Tuckman, and KPFK has been maintaining it since he passed in the framework and format he developed and evolved over the decades.
Monday overnight to Tuesday features political economy, including a new segment developed exclusively for radio for KPFK by filmmaker Robert Lundahl and producer Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone, about indigenous land and water protection in the face of extractivism industries. Extended video versions are available on YouTube. Equal Rights and Justice from WBAI also airs in that early morning.
Tuesday overnight to Wednesday is holistic health, with About Health and Herbal Highway from sister station KPFA, Grassroots (formerly Green Street News) and Food Sleuth Radio from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Whole Mother about pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing from sister station KPFT.
Wednesday overnight to Thursday features anti-fascist programming from David Emory with "For the Record," the Grayzone Radio from Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate, also developed for radio on KPFK's initiative, Final Straw Radio from young anti-authoritarians from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Out-FM from sister station WBAI in New York.
Thursday overnight to Friday focuses on philosophy, psychology and consciousness/enlightenment, with Alan Watts, an old radio break, episodes from Sounds True - Insights from the Edge with Tami Simon, The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and at 3:00 AM, Caroline Casey the Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA in Berkeley, a long-running feature on Something's Happening. We have also been running lectures from the "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps" from Kings College in London.
Each hour is separately posted on the stations archives for easy listening - Something's Happening A hours 1-3, and Something's Happening B hours 1-3 each overnight. Check it out! Dynamite radio for night people also available 24-7 on kpfk.org (for listening, not download).
Dam removal on California's rivers is a highly visible and inspiring recognition of the benefits of natural services provided by healthy ecosystems.
Tracker picks up where we left off last week looking at the removal of the dam on the Matilija River in Ventura County, as she reviews and reports on the progress of LA River rewilding.
We discuss the role of tribal communities and efforts led by women to restore and rebalance, in light of Governor Newsom's recent announcement supporting removal of three additional dams in the state alongside ongoing efforts to free the Klamath.
Extended video version here, with awesome overhead footage from drones.
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Members and Officers of the Local Station Board, 2024
Rodrigo Argueta Vargas
Christina Avalos
Doug Barnett
Veronica Becerra
Mike Bressler
Tatanka Bricca, Chair
Rachel Bruhnke
John Cromshow
Ace Estwick
Vic Gerami
Aryana Gladney
Jan Goodman, listener director
Wendell Handy
Nikki Haun, Vice chair
Michael Heiss
Sue Cohen-Johnson
Evelia Jones, listener director
Oye Oyeyipo
Robert Payne
Nancy Pearlman
Myla Reson, staff director
Oscar Ulloa
Harvey Wasserman, listener director
Carlos Zavala
Ex officio, non-voting: Michael Novick, interim General manager
Secretary: Leslie Dione Emge
Treasurer: Steven Meeks (serves ex officio on PNB's National Finance Committee)
Pacifica National Board and Local Station Board meetings, as well as those of their committees can be found here:
Pacifica Foundation Info can be found on the foundation's website at www.pacifica.org.
The Pacifica National Board (PNB) can be reached by email at PNB@pacifica.org.
The Local Station Board (LSB) can be reached by email at LSB@kpfk.org.
Information about governance meetings can be found at https://kpftx.org
PNB Directors' Reports are now on a blog - click on blogs on the top navigation menu above.
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KPFA Radio Berkeley - UpFront Producer Sought -
UpFront is a mostly-live morning public affairs show that delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through engaging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. We broadcast Monday to Friday from 7 to 8 am on 94.1 FM and at kpfa.org. This producer will have primary responsibility for setting up most days’ shows, with help from the show’s host and interns. More info here
KPFK is seeking to fill several pro bono (unpaid) interim management and coordinator positions. These include:
interim unpaid development director to form and guide a development task force to raise funds for the station;
interim unpaid social media marketing manager to coordinate social media promotion efforts at and by the station;
interim unpaid volunteer coordinator to recruit and supervise volunteers for diverse tasks at the station.
Those interested in applying for these unpaid interim positions, please contact interim GM Michael Novick at gm@kpfk.org.
Pacifica Foundation Radio seeks an experienced leader for the position of General Manager of its Los Angeles station, KPFK 90.7 FM For more information and to apply, click HERE or see http://pacifica.org/jobs_kpfk.php |
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Free-form, comedy/talk podcast co-hosted by Phil Proctor and Ted Bonnitt, featuring special guests and Hollywood stars in fun and deep conversations.
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11:00am - 1:00pm
"Music from around the world and around the block"
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Free-form, comedy/talk podcast co-hosted by Phil Proctor and Ted Bonnitt, featuring special guests and Hollywood stars in fun and deep conversations.
2:00pm - 2:30pm
A weekly half-hour literary arts discussion and reading program featuring guest authors of contemporary fiction and nonfiction, poetry and memoir, and occasional political or cultural criticism.
2:30pm - 3:00pm
A new local public affairs interview program with Augusta Johnson and Keith Johnson (no relation), featuring coverage of pressing civic issues in Los Angeles and Southern California around housing, houselessness and other concerns.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Monthly reports from management and governance with an opportunity for listeners to call in questions and comments
Gipsy Kings "Generation Tour" Live At The Oxnard Performing Arts Center Thursday May 16, 2024 Featuring Tonino Baliardo
at Oxnard Performing Arts CenterMulticultural Fair Friday May 17, 2024 4-8pm Presented by YWCA-SGV’s Racial & Social Justice Taskforce.
at YWCA SGV HeadquartersNigeria's Most Wanted Tour: Shallipopi & ODUMODUBLVCK Saturday May 18, 2024 Live At The Wiltern 8pm (doors open at 7pm)
at Wiltern TheatreDisney’s The Lion King 30th Anniversary – A Live-to-Film Concert Event Friday May 24th and Saturday May 25th 2024 Live at the Hollywood Bowl 8pm (both nights)...
at Hollywood BowlSunny intervals
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