Armed w/ Military-Grade Weapons, Missouri Police Crack Down on Protests over Michael Brown Shootin; Worse Than Tiananmen? 1st Anniversary of Egyptian Army Killings of 800+ Anti-Coup Protesters; New Family Detention Centers Hold Immigrant Women and Children Without Bond as Asylum Claims Pend. HeadlinesAugust 14, 2014 Israel, Hamas Agree to 5-Day Ceasefire Extension U.S.: Siege … Continued
Armed w/ Military-Grade Weapons, Missouri Police Crack Down on Protests over Michael Brown Shootin; Worse Than Tiananmen? 1st Anniversary of Egyptian Army Killings of 800+ Anti-Coup Protesters; New Family Detention Centers Hold Immigrant Women and Children Without Bond as Asylum Claims Pend. HeadlinesAugust 14, 2014 Israel, Hamas Agree to 5-Day Ceasefire Extension U.S.: Siege … Continued
[Approved] KPFA Local Station Board Regular in-person meeting August 9, 2014 11am-4pm SEIU 1021, 155 Myrtle St., Oakland, CA map Present: Craig Alderson, Mal Burnstein, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Paula Erkkila, José Luis Fuentes, David Gans, Kate Gowen, Janet Kobren, Jack Kurzweil, Joy Moore, Andrea Prichett, Lewis Sawyer, Franklin Sterling, Ramsés Teón-Nichols*, Carole Travis, David Welsh, Barbara … Continued
Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Boston. On this edition, producer Aaron Mendelson followed ex-prisoner Kevin Tindall on his journey out of prison. Special thanks to Claire Schoen and the University of California Berkeley, School of Journalism. Featuring: Gordon … Continued
The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. And the potential environmental consequences have brought together citizens from across borders, to fight its rippling effects. On this two part special, we experience the growing resistance to the tarsands. Fighting Goliath… produced by Barbara Bernstein. Special thanks to Claire Schoen, Atava Garcia Swiecicki, … Continued
The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. And the potential environmental consequences have brought together citizens from across borders, to fight its rippling effects. On this two part special, we experience the growing resistance to the tarsands. Fighting Goliath… produced by Barbara Bernstein. Special thanks to Claire Schoen, Atava Garcia Swiecicki, … Continued
A look at the headquarters of U.S. empire — based not in a city, but the leafy suburbs of Northern Virginia — with Andrew Friedman, author of “Covert Capital”. For more information go to againstthegrain.org
[Approved] KPFA Local Station Board Regular in-person meeting July 12, 2014 11am-4pm North Berkeley Senior Center 1901 Hearst Ave., Berkeley, CA map Present: Craig Alderson, Mal Burnstein, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Paula Erkkila, José Luis Fuentes*, David Gans, Mark Hernandez, Cynthia Johnson, Janet Kobren, David Landau, Joy Moore, Lewis Sawyer, Franklin Sterling, Ramsés Teón-Nichols*, Carole Travis, … Continued
A special program in honor of the 4th of July and American Independence. We will examine the history of American Free Thought and the importance of Freedom of Inquiry to American Society. Our guests include: Roderick Bradford producer of the four-hour documentary American Freethought, covering the history of censorship and secularism in the US. Joining … Continued
Guests: Marie Levin of California Families Against Solitary Confinement, John Curl the author of “For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America,” board member of the Network of Bay Area Cooperatives, a member of Heartwood Cooperative Woodshop, and the author of the novel, “The Co-op Conspiracy,” and … Continued
