Today on Flashpoints, we continue our drumbeat coverage of the situation in Haiti as the violent, US-backed coup surges into another week. We hear the words of a twelve year-old Haitian girl in hiding from the death squads; Flashpoints correspondent Kevin Pina returns with an on-the- ground report; We go to the Central African Republic … Continued
Covers issues facing working people and the trade union movement from education, healthcare, housing, the environment and public workers. It also examines the role of international labor and the US trade union movement.
Counterspin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).
Against the Grain is a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. We’re based at the studios of Pacifica station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California. ATG focuses on meaty … Continued
Covers issues facing working people and the trade union movement from education, healthcare, housing, the environment and public workers. It also examines the role of international labor and the US trade union movement.
Against the Grain is a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. We’re based at the studios of Pacifica station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California. ATG focuses on meaty … Continued
There is good news and bad news in the results of our year-end fund drive. The bad news first: We didn’t make our goal during our 2-week campaign, and for a very good reason – we were executing our mission. As you all know KPFA did an excellent job of covering the unexpected local and … Continued
The next meeting of the KPFA Local Station Board will be January 24, 2015 11am-4pm North Berkeley Senior Center 1901 Hearst Ave., Berkeley, CA map This meeting will include the election of representatives to the Pacifica National Board. The location and full agenda will be posted by Wednesday, Jan. 21. You may sign up to … Continued
Victor Prickard, author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy. Nayomi Munaweera, author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, on the Sri Lankan elections. More about America’s Battle for Media Democracy: How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? … Continued
“The song has ended but the melody lingers on”—Irving Berlin When I heard the news of Ella Fitzgerald’s death, I took it very hard. I knew it signaled more than the end of the greatest jazz singer of all time, whose remarkable career spanned six decades and whose incomparable body of work is not humanly … Continued
