Pacifica National Specials

On April 15th, 1949, Pacifica station KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley went on the air, introducing public sponsored community radio to America, and cementing its place in history as the steadfast anchor of the Pacifica Radio Network. Founded by Lewis Hill - a Quaker, World War II conscientious objector, and former commercial radio news broadcaster - Pacifica Radio was a new concept for li

In September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a Teach in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil and global resource depletion & extinction. Several Panel meetings addressed the many false solutions to the climate crisis that may be accelerating the danger rather than alleviating it. Coal for example is now promoted as a substitute for oil and promises for t

Aimee Allison and Aaron Glantz, co-anchors; Esther Manilla, producer; Jon Almeleh and Michael Yoshida, engineers; Naji Mujahid, editor; Sasha Lilley, project exec producer and highlights producer.

Aimee Allison and Aaron Glantz, co-anchors; Esther Manilla, producer; Jon Almeleh and Michael Yoshida, engineers; Naji Mujahid, editor; Sasha Lilley, project exec producer and highlights producer.

Aimee Allison and Aaron Glantz, co-anchors; Esther Manilla, producer; Jon Almeleh and Michael Yoshida, engineers; Sasha Lilley, project exec producer; Eric Klein, highlights producer/editor; archival audio from Pacifica Radio Archives.

This week’s From the Vault, hosted by KPFK’s Margaret Prescod, showcases restored recordings of women who have given their voices, time, and energy to civil and human rights — proud women who have stood against racism and sexism, whose battlefield was grounded in America’s civil rights movement. In this episode, we honor Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Lorraine Hansberry

Part 2 picks up at the Circus 1972 RNC in Miami. KPFK producer Mike Hodel called it "A Passel Of Pomp & A Circus Of Circumstance". Coverage continues through the Shadow Convention in 2000.

In Part 1 we begin with recordings from the 1936 DNC with Franklin D. Roosevelt and feature outstanding material such as Senator John F. Kennedy's 1956 DNC Keynote Address to the Mississippi Freedom Party's effort to challenge the Democrats in 1964 to the now historic chaos of the 1968 DNC in Chicago.

Vandana Shiva had just witnessed the arctic melt on Greenland and speaks eloquently about the destructive forces of globalization that are driving the ecological crisis. She also sheds light on the effects of rapid economic growth in her home country, India. Maude Barlow has completed a new book, entitled: Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right t

Peter Dale Scott speaks about his new book, The Road to 9-11, Wealth, Empire and the Future of America, at Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s bookstore, City Lights. September 2007.