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Covid, Racism & Democracy
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The Concert for Cuba. July 18th and 19th

Dear Listeners, The Pacifica Foundation is proud to be a media sponsor for The Concert For Cuba live streamed from Havana on July 18th and 19th on HotHouseGlobal.

This epic event unites 50 of the world's legendary supporters of Cuba's humanitarian efforts during the Covid crisis.

Join Danny Glover, Micheal Moore, Los Van Van, Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa and so many more. More information can be found on https://hothouse.net.

Live stream the video feed on https://www.twitch.tv/hothouseglobal/

News, Articles & Editorials

30 Counties in California Will Now be Required to CLOSE INDOOR OPERATIONS
California Governor Gavin Newsom gives a COVID-19 update as cases continue to rise

— Anyel Z Fields
Attempted Lynching in Indiana. No Arrests? Meet the Survivor: Human Rights Commissioner Vauhxx Booker STORYJULY 13, 2020Watch Full Show
African American human rights commissioner for Monroe County, Vauhxx Booker, says he survived an attempted lynching when a group of white men pinned him against a tree over the Fourth of July weekend.

— Democracy Now!
Thoughts about Life in the Age of COVID-19 on the Occasion of My Daughter's 13th Birthday
What breaks me out of my routine, and brings me to write these observations is that today is the only day in my daughter's life that she will become a teenager. On this occasion, I can't help but consider how much damage this all might be doing to the person I love most in life; and what I can do to better protect her, and provide an adequate environment with everything so dramatically altered.

— Alan Minsky
Massive Black Lives Matter Tribute Mural Unveiled in Hollywood
Five Black artists collaborated on the project: Alexandra Allie Belisle, PeQue Brown, Amanda Ferrell Hale, Noah Humes, and Shplinton. 'It's disgusting and outrageous that there is a need for such a mural in 2020,' Brown said Tuesday.

— Dan Fritz

Community Resources

Strength Thru Unity: Black & Brown Lives Sowing the Seed of Change
Prominent Black and Latino Leaders in the public and private sector who care about social justice in America, who seek change, justice, and an end to racism.

— Anyel Z Fields
Heidi Marston selected as LAHSA Executive Directo
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) Commission unanimously selected Heidi Marston to the position of Executive Director.

— Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)
Introducing the CalMatters College Journalism Network
More than 3 million students. Hundreds of campuses. A state higher education budget of $36 billion. As we’ve heard so often lately, California is a nation-state, and its system of colleges and universities is equally gargantuan.

— Felicia Mello
SUPPLIES SAVE LIVES: LOS ANGELES INITIATIVE DELIVERING UNUSED MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO FRONTLINE MEDICAL PROVIDERS
A group of LA volunteers have set up a national hotline to help during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide medical supplies to the frontline heroes. Supplies Save Lives are a group of volunteers who have set up a text number to collect donations from citizens, businesses and other places that may have a surplus

— Anyel Z. Fields

DEMOCRACY NOW

Democracy Now Newsfeed

Trump's Fox Fave Tucker Carlson Goes Fishing After Lead Writer Resigns over Racist Online Comments
The lead writer for President Trump's favorite Fox News TV show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight" — the most popular cable show in history — has resigned for posting disturbing racist and misogynist messages to an online forum under a pseudonym. Now Tucker Carlson says he's going on vacation, and his advertisement blocks "are a wasteland," says Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, where he documents the relationship between Fox News and the Trump administration.
We Are Not Your Mascots: Washington NFL Team Removes Racist Name After Years of Indigenous Protests
The Washington NFL team, whose name and mascot have been a slur against Native Americans for nearly 90 years, announced Monday it will change its racist name, facing mounting pressure from corporate sponsors. The decision is a hard-fought victory for Indigenous activists who for years have demanded the team remove the R-word from its name. It also comes as the Black Lives Matter movement has forced a reckoning about monuments and tributes to racism around the country. We get response from Amanda Blackhorse, a Navajo activist who has led the fight to change the name and logo of the Washington R-dsk-ns football team.
"Release Is Only Way to Save Lives": Migrant Families Face Separation as COVID Spreads in ICE Jails
As the United States leads the world in coronavirus infections, we go behind the walls of immigrant jails, where infection rates are also soaring, and also look at how thousands more jailed migrant parents may be separated from their children starting Friday. "Release is the only way to save the lives of people in custody," says reporter Jacob Soboroff, who went inside these ICE jails and first witnessed kids in cages in 2018, which he writes about in his new book, "Separated: Inside an American Tragedy."

Rising Up With Sonali

Like Cities, Public Schools Are Overpoliced
FEATURING JUDITH BROWNE DIANIS – The Los Angeles Unified School District on Tuesday failed to come to agreement on a proposal to slash police funding in public schools by 90%. The proposal, brought by board member Monica Garcia laid out a 50% cut for next year, followed by a 75% cut the year after, and...
Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment
FEATURING ERIN HATTON – The National Archives recently announced it had found an original hand-written military order dated June 19th, 1865 that read, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, ‘all slaves are free.’” It went on to state, “This involves an absolute...
Headlines: July 13, 2020
The Washington Post documented that President Donald Trump has officially surpassed 20,000 documented lies or misstatements in his tenure as President. Trump passed the milestone on July 9th. The paper found that Trump had upped his pace of lying with 10,000 lies or 12 lies per day in the first 27 months of his presidency,...

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Sojourner Truth Headlines

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

July 13, 2020 - Corey Brettschneider | Shannon Bennett | David Glass
Trump's Pardon of Roger Stone is Unconstitutional | Trump Defames Dr. Fauci While Offering Medical Advice From a Talk Show Host | The Owner of the Washington Redskins Bows to Financial, Not Moral Pressure backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 12, 2020 - Adam Klasfeld | Cas Mudde | Nina Jankowicz
Did the Dirty Trickster of The Mob Boss-in-Chief Threaten to Rat Him Out If he Goes to Jail? | The Global Growth of the Extreme Right and the Radical Right | Why the West is Losing the Information War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 9, 2020 - David Cay Johnston | Leah Litman | Joseph Nye
SCOTUS Hands Trump a Victory Even Though he is Whining That it's Not Fair | Trump and Roberts are the Winners While the American Public is the Loser | In Extinguishing the Voice of America, We Lose Our Best "Soft Power" Asset backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

From the General Manager

We're Trying Something New
Community media, news, services, and journalism are all cornerstones of our democracy and are more critical than ever. Many community organizations, publications, and independent media companies will become casualties of the pandemic. Our world has changed profoundly and KPFK is adapting to it, so we can still be here for you.

— Anyel Z Fields
You're Invited: Where Does KPFK Go From Here?
Tomorrow at 7 PM, KPFK General Manager will be hosting a conversation about KPFK, its place in Southern California, and its future.

— Anyel Z Fields
There Is No Replacement For An Activist State
We are watching how our long battle in bringing a progressive vision to our democracy is finally beginning to take hold. We were here long before Bernie Sanders and the New York Times shifted the conversation from liberal to progressive thinking.

— Anyel Z Fields

Strength Thru Unity

WATCH A REPLAY OF THE EVENT HERE-

“Strength Thru Unity”: Black & Brown Lives Sowing the Seed of Change
“Strength Thru Unity”: Black & Brown Lives Sowing the Seed of Change WHO: Prominent Black and Latino Leaders in the public and private sector who care about social justice in America, who seek change, justice and an end to racism. WHAT: Live stream program called “Strength Thru Unity”: Black & Brown Lives Sowing the Seed of Change will take place to foster, inspire and help develop collaborations between Latinos and African Americans for social justice. Panelists include Dr. Benjamin Chavis, organizer of the Million Man March; Dolores Huerta, Dolores Huerta Foundation, Lydia Camarillo, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project; Eva Plaza, esq., former HUD Under Secretary, Fair Housing; Margret Prescod of KPFK-FM and Gilbert Vasquez, chairman of the LA Latino Chamber of Commerce and moderated by Gabriela Teissier, anchor of KMEX-Univision. During “Strength Thru Unity” viewers will be able to ask questions, share experiences and offer solutions. WHY: We must not let the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Roshard Brooks, Andres Guardado and hundreds of other minorities go unstopped. Now is the time, Black & Latinos need to come together to improve the lives of all people of color. “Strength Thru Unity” is communications for social justice, presented by the US Guatemala Chamber of Commerce, the Los Angeles Latino Chamber of Commerce, the National Newspapers Publisher’s Association and the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Strength Thru Unity is a LAVA production and KPFK-FM is the official media partner.
Posted by Su Voto Es Su Voz SVREP.org on Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Prominent Black and Latino Leaders in the public and private sector who care about social justice in America, who seek change, justice, and an end to racism.

The program called “Strength Thru Unity”: Black & Brown Lives Sowing the Seed of Change took place to foster, inspire, and help develop collaborations between Latinos and African Americans for social justice. Panelists include Dr. Benjamin Chavis, organizer of the Million Man March; Dolores Huerta, Dolores Huerta Foundation, Lydia Camarillo, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project; Eva Plaza, esq., former HUD Under Secretary, Fair Housing; Margret Prescod of KPFK-FM and Gilbert Vasquez, chairman of the LA Latino Chamber of Commerce and moderated by Gabriela Teissier, anchor of KMEX-Univision. During “Strength Thru Unity” viewers were able to ask questions, share experiences, and offer solutions.

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Live KPFK Events - Special Notice

For those that pledged for special events during the last fund drive, many have been rescheduled due to the Covid epidemic. Here are some updates:

Hello Chris Howard here. Our live event the Mind Coach Certification Training will be rescheduled though attempting to find the best dates and the hotels are uncertain when they will be open as well. So in the meantime they have full access to the online 20 video course, and as soon as we have the new date we will let you know!
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From Matt Brauning:

Our NLP event from April 4th and 5th will be rescheduled for late summer/early fall, TBD government sanctions of course.
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1. Thumb drives with all digital courses
2. Access to all digital products through a membership site.
3. Bonus live virtual workshop via zoom (on original dates so they can still learn!)
EVERYONE WILL STILL HAVE A TICKET TO THE LIVE EVENT LATER IN THE YEAR.
This way they all get what was originally promised, PLUS the live zoom training.

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From Lisa Gold:
My live event "How to Make Money in Commercials for Real People" was scheduled on March 28th and has been postponed to May 30th, 2020. I have reached out to everyone on the list that was given to me via email 3 times, but still have 21 unconfirmed that they received the message. They can reach me at Lisa@actoutsidethebox.com or 818-740-8044.

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