There may have been some confusion with the bbc series the black museum. Kpfa will cease broadcasting guns and butter effective immediately. Several readers have commented that the black mass, was produced by kpfa, berkeley, ca, in the early 60s, and was an effective horror story. Jack suggested the idea to erik bauersfeld, who taught aesthetics. More than 200 employees and supporters of kpfa fm rallied outside the stations berkeley office yesterday to draw attention to a contentious weekend meeting in houston of the board of directors of. Kpfa spoke with west about his new book black prophetic fire and his planned activism in ferguson, mo. Weve received an avalanche of negative calls and emails from listeners about your uncritically airing of views by a holocaust denier, climate denial and casting the parkland mass shooting survivors as crisis actors. Y esterday i learned that richard dawkins was deplatformed from a speaking event at liberal radio station kpfa in the town of berkeley, where he was scheduled to talk about his new book, science in the soul. Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, sarah haley uncovers how black women were imprisoned and brutalized in the late 19th century and early 20th.
The black mass the witch of the willows january 29, 1964. Kpfa airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. With the advent of the capture of whitey bulger by the fbi in june of 2011, dick lehr and gerard oneills book, black mass. Professor michelle alexanders new book the new jim crow is a monumental, well researched piece of work that presents documented facts in down to earth english about the mass incarceration of black people within the united states national concentration camp system. Published first in latin under the title missale romanum, the text is then translated and, once approved by a recognitio by the vatican congregation for divine worship and the discipline of the sacraments, is published in modern languages for use in. We need the media to be able to air all views, even if they dont agree with them, otherwise they lose the only function and tradition of which they can be proud. Anyone who has read his book god delusion knows there are installments one could parse from the book where he. In response to the mass purge of programmers, the leadership of save kpfa started a new organization, take back kpfa.
Culture, politics and nature from oakland, berkeley and other towns throughout alameda and contra costa counties. As soul and jazz stations went off the air one by one, there was still emmit powell and his saturday morning gospel show on kpfafm in berkeley. Jul 26, 2017 a principled and reasonable letter, mick. Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
Its readers urged me to expand it into a book, and so in 1994 i extended a concert gig in canada into a research trip across the us. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that. The black mass was a horrorsupernatural anthology produced by kpfa us which was the result of a successful collaboration between erik bauersfeld producer, director, adaptor, actor and john whiting production director, both at. Hello birmingham 1999 by ani difranco snip second segment of the broadcast consisted of a discussion with kenn burrows about a speaker series at san francisco state university called gandhiking season for nonviolence. It was previously published in the san francisco bay view newspaper. Johnny depp, dakota johnson, and luke ryan in black mass 2015. Bauersfeld was the director of drama and literature at kpfa from 1966 to. Mass incarceration of the black community prison activist. The noted author and activist delivered the keynote address at saint marys. Kpfa cancels richard dawkins speech because of his tweets. Genocide included hutus massacred by kagame forces. The broad mass mobilizations in defense of free speech and kpfa demonstrate the great potential for a winning fight to preserve and expand listenersponsored radio in. Award for an especially notable book the eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of michael brown in ferguson. Mar 04, 2017 the black mass was a horrorfantasy radio drama produced by erik bauersfeld, a leading american radio dramatist of the posttelevision era.
The station signed ontheair april 15, 1949, as the first. The kpfa was the first station to broadcast a radio show specializing in space music, with the debut of stephen hill and anna turners music from the hearts of space in 1973. The black mass was a horrorfantasy radio drama produced by erik bauersfeld. I suppose kpfa are afraid their wellinsured windows will be smashed by the black block if they are seen to promote wrongthink.
Abebooks, an amazon company, offers millions of new, used, and outofprint books. Jason ng is hong kongbased attorney who heads the progressive lawyers group. Kpfa news broadcasts news headlines throughout the day at 5. The victims at the kagera river were actually hutus rather than tutsis. Death of halpin frayser ambrose bierce may 20, 1964. The programs are as long as the text requires and vary in length. Lewis hill and the origins of listenersponsored radio in america. Culture critic jennifer stones commentary on social justice as reflected in film, television, theatre and mass media. Black mass was born in 1963, the brainchild of jack nessel, who was the. D, assistant professor of africanamerican studies at princeton university and the author of the new book. In 1990 i was asked to write a monograph about kpfas early history for a danish scholarly journal.
Kpfa s chana karen wilsons interviews her mother, gloria wilson. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar keeangayamahtta taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and black unemployment. Kpfas chana karen wilsons interviews her mother, gloria wilson. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the black mass. Kpfa cancels richard dawkins speech because of his tweets about islam submitted 2 years ago by bhill68. At one point in the new jim crow, professor alexander presents evidence that more black people are enslaved. The black lives matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists.
The broad mass mobilizations in defense of free speech and kpfa demonstrate the great potential for a winning fight to preserve and expand listenersponsored radio in the bay area and nationally and to return all fired staff. Podcast available on itunes educator, author and workship facilitator jane elliott, in conversation with host veronica faisant, continues to pull back the layers of denial and misconception regarding racism in america. Kendi, whose provocative new book is titled, how to be an antiracist, says the notion that black people cant be racist is tainted by racism itself. If you missed mondays show you can always donate and choose a gift online at. Africanamerican males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Alicia garza on the first black census and galvanizing. The roman missal is the book containing the prescribed prayers, chants, and instructions for the celebration of mass in the roman catholic church. Gender, punishment and the making of jim crow modernity. The black mass old time radio otr series 19631967 mp3. Wbais nowformer program director, who seems more interested in hawking miracle cures than political analysis, dropped it 2010, but it lives on at kpfa thursdays at noon, pacific time. The plight of political prisoners in iran the impact of.
More than 200 employees and supporters of kpfafm rallied outside the stations berkeley office yesterday to draw attention to a contentious weekend meeting in houston of the board of directors of. In the united states today, one in every thirtyone adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven african. The noted author and activist delivered the keynote address at. Jan 09, 2017 in 1990 i was asked to write a monograph about kpfas early history for a danish scholarly journal. The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police. A program that investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Bauersfelds black mass productions were an influence on writerproducer thomas lopez zbs, who noted, in the 1960s, i was inspired by someone at kpfa in berkeley, eric bauersfeld. Listen to the interview and speech west delivered at saint marys. The black mass was a horrorfantasy radio drama produced by erik. Follow the money, from obama to trump black agenda report. Jun, 2018 reading follow the money, radio voices for peace and justice, an anthology of 20092016 kpfa flashpoints interviews, would probably discomfit him because its full of tragedy. The source was the original 7 inch reels and quality is excellent. Out of the more than 11 million black adult males in the u.
Mike argues that the political economic evolution of the south has been the key to determining the peculiar nature of american politics. Bartleby the scrivener herman melville date the boarded window ambrose bierce february 12, 1964. After mass listener support rescued kpfa and pacifica from a selfappointed pacifica national board pnb that was planning to sell kpfa or one of the other stations and take the community out of the network, new. Winner of the 2016 lannan cultural freedom award for an especially notable book. Winner of the 2016 lannan cultural freedom award for an especially notable book the eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of michael brown in ferguson, missouri and eric garner in new york city have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against black people and punctured the illusion of. Jack suggested the idea to erik bauersfeld who died in 2016 and suggested that john whiting collaborate with erik. The hourlong newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6. After mass listener support rescued kpfa and pacifica from a self appointed pacifica national board pnb that was planning to sell kpfa or one of the other stations and take the community out of the network, new democratic bylaws were written and adopted. The bbc was compulsorily supported by a governmentimposed license system. Weve reached critical mass of idiots where they outnumber and outvote intelligence.
Genocide included hutus massacred by kagame forces by ann garrison this following is the transcript of a broadcast on pacifica radio station kpfa. Bonnie, kpfa will cease broadcasting guns and butter effective immediately. Another fine syndicated horror program, on a par with murder at midnight. Kpfa interviews cornel west at smc by stmarysmedia st marys. The book tells the story of the trial that pepper won on behalf of the king family in 1999 in a memphis court where a jury of 6 black and 6 white jurors unanimously found loyd jowers and unnamed government conspirators guilty of murdering martin luther king. Doug henwood began doing behind the news on wbai, new york, in 1995. The black mass was a horrorfantasy radio drama produced by erik bauersfeld, a leading american radio dramatist of the posttelevision era. Thousands rally to defend kpfa radio socialist action.
This is a first hand account of how whitey bulger, and steve flemmi became part of the fbi as informants, and in turn the fbi became informants for. Kpfa interviews cornel west at smc by stmarysmedia st. The organizers cancelled his talk because of his comments on islam which they categorized as abusive speech. Photographer karen krogh on resilience and healing from mass shootings. This week on kpfa radios womens magazine we hear a recent talk by professor sarah haley about her new groundbreaking book no mercy here.