Interference to KPFK from a Tijuana station on 90.7 FM KPFK has been getting reports of interference on our frequency at 90.7 FM from a station in Mexico. We are working diligently to resolve this as quickly as possible. If you are experiencing interference on KPFK please report the interference by sending a letter to: KPFK - Station Interference 3729 Cahuenga Blvd. West, North Hollywood, CA 91604 or email Bob Conger at bconger@kpfk.org Please specify: Day Date Time Exact Location (street, address, intersection, fwy, fwy exit, etc) Your reports will help us pinpoint problem areas. All reports of interference will be sent to our FCC attorney and the Pacifica consulting engineer who will file a formal complaint with the Federal Communication Commission for KPFK. Thank you for your continued support! KPFK can now be heard in Northern San Diego County on 93.7 FM from Rancho Bernardo on a low power translator just like the one we have in Santa Barbara.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KPFK Pacifica Radio 90.7FM Los Angeles

www.KPFK.org

 

July 9, 2010

 

Los Angeles Radio Station KPFK 90.7 FM to

Debut Arizona Protest Song

 

“Immigrants don’t steal jobs, they build nations.”

 

“Immigrants don’t steal jobs, they build nations,” says Casillas, also known as "el XC-cano", producer of the hottest protest song to hit the radio waves in recent history. Casillas teams up with Zul of the seminal Latino rap group Aztlan Nation, Jesus Malverde for a project that reaches out to the immigrants of America, while calling out the Politicians responsible or influential in writing Senate Bill 1070, the controversial anti-immigrant bill recently signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.

 

The song, “Arizona Gonna Git Knocked Out!”, scheduled for its worldwide premiere this Friday on Los Angeles radio station KPFK 90.7 FM, is poised to become an anthem for the “Boycott Arizona” movement. With its driving drum line, Latin percussion and inspiring lyrics the song puts a definite Latino twist on the original inspiration, “Mama Said Knock You Out” by Rap legend LL Cool J.

 

"We wanted to put something out in Spanglish," Casillas says, " while it's still legal here in Cali, so we called up (Spanish language hip hop artist) ‘Malverde.” Malverde delivers a smoothly crafted verse calling out, in his unique style, the anger and frustration felt by the Raza community in Arizona and in the rest of the country resulting from the Arizona controversy.

 

Casillas recalls that, "recently while stuck in an LA traffic jam, LL's "Mama said Knock You Out" came on the radio, and having been following the politics unfolding in Arizona, I found myself singing…"don't call me a wetback…” Replacing the famous opening line from LL Cool J’s original “Don’t call it a comeback… I've been here for years" and thought, hmmm...? I called Zul and the next thing you know we’re in the studio recording.”

 

“The attitude that these elected officials in Arizona are operating out of is from another era, that’s why we used samples (in the song) of the Frito Bandito as a way to reference the stereotypes that these officials are influenced by.” 

 

The Frito’s Corn Chip mascot was the Frito Bandito (from the Frito’s Corn Chips commercials of the 60's and 70's), a cartoon Mexican bandit who would threaten or steal in order to get Frito’s Corn Chips from his victims. The ad campaign was ultimately shut down by public outcry and the efforts of the "National Mexican-American Anti Defamation Committee.

 

Casillas adds, “We’re not sure about LL Cool J’s stand on immigration but we’d like to hope he’d give our project his blessings because we’ve got to stop this anti-immigration hysteria from ‘Going Back to Cali’!!! "

 

The song also features Dave Shul's world class guitar grooves from "Michael Franti's Spearhead" group and DJ Boxy Dee.

 

“Arizona Gonna Git Knocked Out!” will have its worldwide debut during the “Pocho Hour of Power” to be broadcast from KPFK 90.7 FM 4PM-5PM on Friday July 9^th 2010. The show is streamed live

at http://www.kpfk.org/listen-live.html and for more information on the Pocho Hour of Power program,

visit http://www.kpfk.org/programs/91-pocho.html

 

KPFK Radio and the Pacifica Radio Network began 60 years ago at Berkeley’s KPFA. Pacifica Radio’s Mission states that the network “shall contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors; to gather and disseminate information on the causes of conflict between any and all of such groups; and through any and all means compatible with the purposes of this corporation to promote the study of political and economic problems and of the causes of religious, philosophical and racial antagonisms.” KPFK Radio is heard throughout Southern California at 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara and worldwide at www.KPFK.org.

 

 

MEDIA CONTACTS:

 

Xaime Casillas

(310) 386 7598

 

Alan Minsky

KPFK interim Program Director

aminsky@kpfk.org

(818) 749-9497

 

 

 

Carry It On! Great American moments in word and song adapted and directed by Ellen Geer A Benefit for KPFK & Theatricum Botanicum Tickets @ $25, $30 18 & Under Free Friday, July 16 at 8pm The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Bl Topanga CA 90290 (midway between Pacific Coast Highway and the Ventura Freeway)

Details Here

This evening carries us through different eras to experience our nation’s struggles and victories through the eyes of those who lived them: heroes, lovers, rebels and rapscallions. Sing along and learn more about the poets, leaders, workers and activists – Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Mother Jones and many more -- who, despite trials and set-backs, bravely persevered in their quest to make our nation stronger and better.  Kick back under the stars at Theatricum and enjoy powerful tributes to people who have shaped the history of the world, our nation and our music. On Friday, July 16 at 8 pm, James Cromwell, Amy Madigan, Michael O'Neill, Jordan Belfi and Christina Pickles headline a performance of CARRY IT ON, a benefit for Theatricum Botanicum and KPFK!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KPFK Pacifica Radio 90.7FM Los Angeles

www.KPFK.org

June 9, 2010

 

“The People’s Game” Kicks off

on Pacifica Radio KPFK

 

Daily World Cup Soccer Show Begins on Wednesday, June 9^th

on KPFK Radio 90.7 FM Los Angeles

 

KPFK, Southern California’s original public radio station, inaugurates its World Cup Soccer coverage on Wednesday June 9, 2010 at 8:30pm. The People’s Game will be produced daily from June 9 until the tournament ends on July 11; it will be available by 5pm (PST) on www.kpfk.org via on-demand streaming and podcast.

 

The People’s Game is the most ambitious World Cup soccer program available in American media, providing expert commentary on the tournament’s games plus entertaining and incisive analysis of the world’s most popular cultural spectacle. Every one of the tournaments 32 teams has at least one correspondent, most of whom are leading soccer analysts in their country, though some are renown authors and entertainers – all are fans of the global game.

 

KPFK interim Program Director Alan Minsky, who is the show’s Executive Producer and one of its co-hosts, says this show stands head and shoulders above the major American media’s World Cup coverage: “I grew up partly in Italy and England where, like most kids, I lived and breathed soccer. While American soccer coverage on TV and radio has improved in recent years it still pales in comparison to the passion and intelligence found across the rest of the world. On The People’s Game we’re going to find the best voices from the entire world and deliver them to American ears.”

 

The People’s Game will also focus on the political, economic, and cultural subtexts of the tournament and the sport of soccer. The first half of every show will concentrate on the games on the field, but the second half will feature in-depth discussions on these broader contexts, using the global spectacle of the World Cup as a lens through which to view our times.

 

The People’s Game has a roundtable of hosts. Besides Minsky, the hosts are Jennifer Doyle, creator of the blog From a Left Wing; Pablo Miralles, producer/director of the documentary film Gringos at the Gate (about the USA v. Mexico soccer rivalry); Nick Green, journalist with the Daily Breeze and author of the blog 100% Soccer; and Omar Varela, an independent journalist and expert on Latin American soccer.

 

Co-host Jennifer Doyle reflected on a unique project for American sports coverage: “We not only bring a distinct perspective to the sport's big stories, we give voice to the side of the game often hidden by the headlines - the contexts for understanding the game locally and globally, the views of ordinary fans leading extraordinary lives, forgotten games and suppressed histories.”

 

Co-host Pablo Miralles notes why the World Cup is perhaps the best single event at which to take the temperature of humanity: “Soccer/fútbol is one of the few truly global languages. It allows people from diverse cultures, classes and generations to come together to enjoy the simple and beautiful game.”

 

The People’s Game also has its own website www.thepeoplesgame.org where all the radio shows will be available, along with special extended interviews, and articles by the show’s hosts, correspondents, and guests.

 

KPFK is also producing a daily Spanish-language World Cup soccer show called Fútbol°Popular, which commences on the same day, Wednesday the 9^th at 9pm and is co-hosted by veteran sports journalist


Ricardo Gómez, local soccer organizer Raúl Macias, and Spanish partisan Tony Presido.

 

KPFK is listener-supported Pacifica Radio for Southern California, heard at 90.7 FM in Los Angeles,

98.7 FM in Santa Barbara and streaming live at ww.KPFK.org.

 

 

MEDIA CONTACT

Alan Minsky

KPFK interim Program Director

Co-host, The People’s Game

aminsky@kpfk.org

(818) 749-9497

 

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SOUTH OF THE BORDER Oliver Stone's New Motion Picture

In South of the Border, Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner  (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Néstor Kirchner,  Fernando Lugo  (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.

KPFK Interim Program Director’s Response to the article “Sparring over what KPFK should be” by James Rainey. L. A. Times on March 27, 2010

I was grateful to see Jim Rainey acknowledge the tremendous potential of KPFK Radio in his recent article on the station.  KPFK/Pacifica Radio is certainly unique: committed to real free speech and social justice, the station is absolutely free from any corporate, business, or big-money influence -- an exemplary model of democratic discourse.  In this regard, it is unrivaled amongst significant media outlets in America.  And, as the Founding Fathers themselves understood, real democracy is brilliantly untidy.

 

Members of the KPFK Staff, Volunteers and Friends take to the Streets in a Photo Montage of the Hollywood, Answer L.A..org Anti-War March and Rally March 20, 2010 KPFK was a Media Sponsor. The March was lead by activist Ron Kovic (Portrayed in the Film: Born on The Fourth of July). Photos by SANCHEZ in MONTEBELLO and MISTRESS CHARELL.

Feb 19, 2010 Effective Immediately Until further notice, KPFK will no longer host online archives of Music Programming. This includes on-demand archival streams, downloadable archives and podcasts. This is being done due to licensing issues. We regret having to suspend this valuable resource at this time. We hope to resume this service as soon as possible - KPFK Management note: our live online stream will continue to run as usual