KPFA Special Broadcast – April 21, 2007
As the San Francisco Film Festival celebrates their 50th year, and as we celebrate KPFA’s 58th birthday, we bring you archival interviews and speeches from our archives.
Special Broadcast
KPFA Special Broadcast – April 21, 2007
We celebrate our 58th anniversary with a presentation from The Pacifica Radio Archives as we also salute Kurt Vonnegut by presenting a talk by Vonnegut in 1970 to New York University students. We also present an excerpt of Slaughterhouse Five as read by actor Donald Southerland in 1970. Kurt Vonnegut was born November 11, 1922 … Continued
KPFA Special Broadcast – April 19, 2007
KPFA airs live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ testimony in front of the US Senate. With Larry Bensky and guest experts.
KPFA Special Broadcast – April 19, 2007
KPFA airs live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ testimony in front of the US Senate. With Larry Bensky and guest experts.
KPFA Special Broadcast – April 19, 2007
KPFA airs live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ testimony in front of the US Senate. With Larry Bensky and guest experts.
KPFA Special Broadcast – April 17, 2007
KPFA airs a special broadcast on gun violence, in the wake of the largest shooting in US history at Virginia Tech, hosted by Larry Bensky. (The Gonzales Senate Hearing has been postponed.)
KPFA Special Broadcast – April 14, 2007
Organizers are calling Step it Up 2007 the largest day of action on global warming in the history of the United States. In New York, participants will outline a new high tide mark with their bodies. In Berkeley, they’ll have a bicycle rally. In San Francisco, a clean-car expo. And when the dust settles, they’ll … Continued
KPFA Special Broadcast – April 14, 2007
In this last episode, titled "The Future of California Farmworkers," producer Rachel Ann Goodman asks what does it mean that the vast majority of California farm workers are illegal immigrants? As border control efforts close off the pipeline for workers, who grows the crops? Will a guest worker program be any different from the Bracero … Continued
KPFA Special Broadcast – April 7, 2007
We continue to celebrate Cesar Chavez’ birthday anniversary with a Pacifica Archives treasure. In this 1968 speech, Cesar Chavez describes the work of the United Farm Workers in California and the power of unions.
KPFA Special Broadcast – April 7, 2007
The Bracero program was a guest worker program which allowed growers to bring workers under contract as field laborers for a specified time. Ignacio Gomez Rodriguez was a Bracero in the 1950’s and talks about how his view of America changed after he got to Salinas, and why he’s seeking money still owed to him. … Continued