6:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Fridays
The Pacifica Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM. KPFA News broadcasts news headlines throughout the day at 5:55, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and 4:00. Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
With 600 thousand acres of Southern California blackened in the state’s worst fire in recent history, Congress moves to approve a measure to allow incrased logging in federal forests. Environmental groups say the bill would not have prevented the devastating fires. Congressional negoetiators reject a plan to require repayment of half of the aid package … Continued
Under fire from Senate Democrats, Federal Appeals Court nominee Janice Brown defends her stance as a California Supreme Court Justice who has criticized abortion rights and affirmative action. Governor-Elect Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his first official visit to the state capitol where he names a woman who served as an aide to former Republican Governor Pete … Continued
A look at the state of welfare in the US in the midst of recession with Frances Fox Piven. Salvatore Engel-DiMauro speaks about the International Monetary Fund's massive bailout of the Hungarian economy. And Patrick Bond talks about how the economic crisis has affected South Africa and the Global South.
Films about Ho Chi Minh and about the Ottoman Empire and its impact on the Middle East are part of a never-before-featured set of 31 documentaries produced in conjunction with The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones.
