Listeners heard the KPFT special around the country, including during WBAI’s Wakeup Call yesterday. And now we’re getting requests for copies, so I wanted to share the program. For those of you seeking it, here is a copy of the Cinco de Mayo special as today’s podcast of the day.
Although the date is not covered [...]
NFCB is going well. Lots of great sessions and people as well. Today, I’m covering Bob McChesney on the Don Imus controversy.
The controversy over Don Imus’ racist remarks goes far beyond one bigoted commentator. But getting rid of Imus won’t fix the media problem.
Most of our TV and radio stations are owned by giant [...]
EarthCare is a new two-minute segment available to stations, and airs on KPFT weekdays after Open Journal. The program’s purpose is to educate the public on solutions for a cleaner, healthier environment, and more sustainable ways of living and doing business. EarthCare offers a positive perspectives with viable solutions to environmental problems and ways citizens [...]
Stephen Dunifer is the founder of Free Radio Berkeley, an unlicensed micropower pirate radio station, was involved in a protracted legal case with the Federal Communications Commission in the mid-1990s The collective was eventually acquitted of all charges, marking a major victory for micropower radio. FRB eventually stopped broadcasting and turned all its resources to [...]
Assignment Zero is a web-based extension of this idea, where journalists collaborate with community members to create news. If you’re interested in learning a bit about the journalism business or the mechanics of building stories, Assignment Zero is a great place to start. Complete with guides, glossaries and a new approach to newsgathering, it’s a [...]
This weekend, Pacifica recorded protests in Washington, DC. The Iraq Pentagon Rally was among many national events called to stop the war. You likely caught a few of the voices on the KPFT News program yesterday, but there were many great speakers, including these. In order, they are. CoCo Magellanes, Mexico Solidarity Network; Larry Homes, [...]
There are only a handful of great audio archiving repositories in the United States. Our own Pacifica Radio Archives is one, but San Francisco’s Freedom Archives is a distinct one as well. Led by former political prisoner and activist Claude Marks, the Freedom Archives houses, by far, some of the most revolutionary recordings available. Whether [...]
Local blog The Rap Up is probably the worst kept secret on the web. While a few blogs out there bring you a potent mix of hip-hop/urban music and politics, The Rap Up’s Houston pedigree puts it in unique company (along with KPFT programmer Matt Sonzala’s HoustonSoReal blog).The unique localism, in fact, is what makes [...]
This Thursday is International Women’s Day, and my feature for you is a segment from one of the most popular recordings we’ve played recently.
Historian and author Paula Giddings gave a talk at the African-American Women Scholars Conference in 1992, in which she presents a biographical sketch of Ida B. Wells, an African-American woman who began [...]
Hip Hop Politics is Akil Head’s homage to hip-hop music, tech, culture and politics. Hip-hop tech? Yes, tech. Given how important issues like the digital divide are for many communities, Akil’s willingness to talk technology with a hip-hop community that might not otherwise get that exposure is laudable. Another remarkable thing about the site is [...]
One of the big search requests here is for audio. Stands to reason a radio blog with have audio, right? Starting this week, I’m adding occasional audio. Our first feature is from the Pacifica Radio Archives.
“Revolution for Breakfast” is part of a three-CD Black Panther Box Set 3 CD (Archive Number: PZ0703a-c) and features some [...]
I am unabashedly a fan of sites that can find a way to present culture and politics in a way that it evocative and dynamic. For today’s pick of great websites, Latina Lista, fits that to a tee. Go check it out. Don’t worry. I’ll still be here. You can even come back and read [...]
This week’s recommendation for listeners is Liza Sabater’s impressive site, culturekitchen. Part political commentary, part sociologist’s dream, culturekitchen is what Common Dreams could’ve been before it became such a Democratic Party shill. A little attitude, a lot of scholarship, a good dose of humor and plenty of enlightening stuff. I enjoy culturekitchen because I get [...]
June 25 marked the kickoff of Pacifica’s election season. And today’s choice is KPFT’s election site, from which aspiring candidates may run for our board of directors.This is a unique moment for all five radio stations; Pacifica’s bylaws state that listeners who either pledge or volunteer at its stations may run for and sit on [...]
This week, open-source software took on Microsoft this week with a new ad campaign. For the new visibility, and because it’s pretty good stuff, OpenOffice is the pick this week.
Despite recent criticism, OpenOffice is enjoying a wave of good tidings, thanks to its ability to open and save Microsoft Office document formats. If you don’t [...]
KPFT’s youth program gets plenty of young people interested in journalism or other media jobs. Without fail, those seeking to get into a good journalism school ask me where the best is.
And, without fail, I answer one schol first: Columbia.
Columbia University is legendary among journalism schools for its unwavering focus on facts and inquiry as [...]
Alternative Press Review is one of those publications that simply defies description. It helped define a genre for which magazines like Utne Reader profit handsomely from, though one could persuasively argue that it has often been inconsistent, whiny and tends to be a vehicle of its editors (whose all-male crew most certainly make liberal use [...]
Today for KPFT listeners comes from a guy I would like to think is a local music myth and legend. I say this, of course, because I’ve known Mike Switzer since my early loudmouth days at the University of Houston. Even back then, Mike was a [...]
Urban Unrest is a blog on new and old media, media justice, race, culture, politics and society and is hosted by Ernesto Aguilar, currently program director at Pacifica Radio KPFT in Houston.
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