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Fall Fund Drive

KPFK's October on-air membership and fund-raising drive is underway.

Your support is critical to keeping community-oriented, people-powered radio on the air!

Call to support free speech and freedom of cultural expression, your favorite music, arts, or public affairs programming and locally-produced news: 818-985-5735 press option 2 or click here.

Democracy Now Newsfeed

  • Naomi Klein on 2024 Election, Trump/Musk Misinformation & the "Real Conspiracy" of Money & Power

    We continue our conversation with the acclaimed author, journalist and activist Naomi Klein, who says Vice President Kamala Harris is “running an extremely high-risk, dangerous campaign” for the White House and “trying to win without the base.” Klein faults Harris for largely ignoring progressives she needs to turn out on November 5 as she courts Republicans, even as Donald Trump’s authoritarianism threatens the lives of millions. “She’s told us we’re irrelevant, and Trump is telling us that he’s going to round us up,” says Klein.

  • Naomi Klein: Israel Has Weaponized October 7 Trauma to Justify Its Genocide in Gaza

    More than a year since Israel launched its war on Gaza in response to the October 7 attack, we speak with the award-winning author, journalist and activist Naomi Klein, who says a “trauma industry” has emerged to keep Israeli society permanently in crisis in order to justify the country’s expansionist wars and human rights abuses. “Though the Israeli government likes to frame everything that is happening now as a response to October 7, this is a preexisting agenda,” says Klein, whose latest essay for The Guardian explores how Israel “has made trauma a weapon of war.”

KPFK's Rebel Alliance News

KPFK's Rebel Alliance News is our nightly weekday English-language locally produced newscast, your uncensored source of progressive news, information and commentary, with international, national, state-wide and local coverage. Interim news director Ziri Rideaux has recruited a team of unpaid newsgatherers, reporters, commentators and anchors to cover local, state, national and international news, including Angela Birdsong, Jack Kennedy, Polina Vasiliev, Ann Garrison, Don DeBar, Dan Nowman, Marcy Winograd and others. We are looking for more beat reporters and volunteer stringers from OC, San Diego, and covering local government, housing and policing issues in Southern California including LA City and County and other municipalities. Email news@kpfk.org

Programming Highlights

          The BradBlog

The BradBlog

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Rising Up with Sonali  

 

 

 



Sonali Kolhatkar can be heard Tuesdays at 3:00 PM on KPFK. Rising Up with Sonali is now a project of Yes! where she is an editor.

Rising Up With Sonali, presented by Yes! Magazine

Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod

Currently heard Tuesdays at 7am on KPFK
Archives of the program can be found HERE
Sojourner Truth w Margaret Prescod

Somethings Happening honoring Roy Of Hollywood

Somethings Happening is KPFK's long-running overnight program midnight to 6:00 AM Tuesday-Friday with segments of holistic health, meditation, psychology, philosophy, political economy, science fiction and fact, old radio and more, created and long curated by the late Roy of Hollywood, Roy Tuckman. KPFK has been maintaining it since he passed in his honor and memory and in the framework and format he developed and evolved over the decades, which continues to evolve.

Monday overnight to Tuesday features political economy, including Le Show, with Harry Shearer now on at midnight with real-life absurdities from the headlines. Equal Rights and Justice from WBAI also airs at 3:00 AM in that early morning. 

Tuesday overnight to Wednesday is holistic health, with Street Sankofa with Dr. Ife Jie, dealing with mental liberation as HipHop artivist and scholar, Herbal Highway from sister station KPFA, Food Sleuth Radio from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Whole Mother about pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing from sister station KPFT.

Wednesday overnight to Thursday features an anti-fascist focus, with programming from David Emory's "For the Record," the Grayzone Radio from Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate', also developed for radio on KPFK's initiative, Final Straw Radio from young anti-authoritarians from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Out-FM from sister station WBAI in New York.

Thursday overnight to Friday focuses on philosophy, psychology and consciousness/enlightenment, with Alan Watts,  The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein from the Pacifica affiliates unit, an old radio break with drama, mystery, science fiction and comedy, and at 3:00 AM, Caroline Casey, the Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA in Berkeley, a long-running feature on Something's Happening. We have also been running occasional lectures from the "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps" from Kings College in London.

Each hour is separately posted on the station's archives for easy listening - Somethings Happening A hours 1-3, and Somethings Happening B hours 1-3 each overnight. Check it out! Dynamite radio for night people also available 24-7 on kpfk.org (for listening, not download).

 

KPFK Needs Your Input to Grow, Improve & Better Serve the Community - Take Our Survey Now!

KPFK's ability to serve the community and the cause of free speech & cultural expression, peace and justice, depends on your input and involvement. Please click here to take our listener survey!

If you can volunteer for assisting in social media promotion and marketing, video production and editing, or news gathering and beat reporting for KPFK, fill out this form to apply.

 

KPFK's Community Underwriting Information and Intake Form

KPFK, under a policy adopted by the Pacifica National Board, is now accepting underwriting from local businesses, community organizations, and other non-profits, that are aligned with Pacifica’s Mission Statement. Underwriters will receive weekly on-air announcements acknowledging their support for KPFK, listing on a dedicated page on our website, and a rotated listing in KPFK’s weekly Dispatch newsletter emailed to over 17,000 of our listeners. KPFK has the strongest broadcast signal in Southern California, with listeners from Santa Barbara to San Diego to the greater Palm Springs area, and online at KPFK.org. We are listener-sponsored, commercial-free Pacifica Radio for all of Southern California.

For more details about how you can become an underwriter of KPFK, email mnovick@kpfk.org with your contact info and "Underwriting" in the subject line or click this link to fill out the preliminary contact form: https://kpfk.org/community-underwriting-intake-form

We will send you more information about the program and what it offers.

News from KPFK and Pacifica

Fall Refresher Programming Changes on KPFK
Not many leaves change color in the autumn in Southern California, and this fall seems to hold a change from El Nino climate conditions to La Nina. But KPFK is continuing to refresh our programming to better meet community needs.
     Voices from the Frontlines decided to take a break from regular weekly programming on Friday mornings at 7:00 AM, and The Constituency, a public affairs interview program focusing on how local government is dealing with houselessness and other issues has moved into that time slot, expanding to an hour in the process. Its place on Tuesdays at 2:30 PM will be taken for now by Green Street, which has been running as part of Something's Happening overnight -- it focuses on environmental health and justice.

     Vic Gerami is back on the morning schedule with The Blunt Post with Vic, on the first, second and fifth Thursdays of the month at 7:00 AM.
Vic is currently at a conference in Armenia and will be coming back with some important content. Rootwork with Thandisizwe Chimurenga continues on the 3rd & 4th Thursdays of the month at 7:00 AM. Dr. Ife Jie, who was in that time period with Street Sankofa, has moved to Tuesday midnight overnight to Wednesday as part of Something's Happening. You can check it out on the archives if you are not a night person.

      Creative Frontline, a program focusing on Indigenous land and water protection, sovereignty and anti-extractivism, land and water protection will also be moving up from Something's Happening to Mondays at 4 PM to strengthen and extend our environmental strip at that hour, including Be a Better Relative (Eagle and the Condor), XR Now!  from Extinction Rebellion L.A., and EcoJustice Radio
 
Le Show with Harry Shearer, which has been running at 1:00 AM Tuesdays, will move up to midnight, and CodePINK, which had been running
at 4 PM on Mondays, the slot Creative Frontline is moving to, will switch to Somethings Happening at 1:00 AM Tuesdays after Le Show.

     Saturday morning at 9:00 AM, On the Ground, voices of resistance from the nation's capital with Esther Iverem from our sister station WPFW in Washington DC has joined our lineup.
   BENEFIT FILM SCREENING FOR KPFK OCT. 30, 6:30 pm
"REIMAGINING SAFETY" plus a panel with filmmaker, activists and KPFK staff
Delegate Elections for 2024 -- Quorum reached, Delegates elected!

The following candidates have been elected as delegates and will be seated on the KPFK Local Station Board at the December meeting:

LISTENER DELEGATES:

Nikki Haun, Carlos Zavala, Christina Avalos, Adam Wolman, Nancy Niparko, MD, Chipasha Luchembe, Jack Neff, Marisol Bielma, Ian Johnston

STAFF DELEGATES:

Ninel Centeno, Jeanine Rohn, Myla Reson

NEWLY ELECTED DELEGATES WILL BE SEATED IN DECEMBER ON THE LOCAL STATION BOARD. You can email the LSB members at LSB@kpfk.org

2024 ANNUAL EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT
Pacifica Foundation Inc.
Station: KPFK 
Community of License: Los Angeles, CA 
Reporting Period: July 22nd 2023–July 21st 2024

Click here for 2024 EEO Report
KPFK’s Online Public File

Pacifica designated agent to receive notice of claimed infringements:

 

KPFK LSB, CAB, & PNB Info and Committee Schedule

CLICK HERE FOR KPFK LOCAL STATION BOARD INFORMATION AND NEWS

Members and Officers of the Local Station Board, 2024

Rodrigo Argueta Vargas

Christina Avalos

Doug Barnett

Veronica Becerra

Mike Bressler

Tatanka Bricca, Chair

Rachel Bruhnke

John Cromshow

Ace Estwick

Vic Gerami

Aryana Gladney

Jan Goodman, listener director

Wendell Handy

Nikki Haun, Vice chair

Michael Heiss

Sue Cohen-Johnson

Evelia Jones, listener director

Oye Oyeyipo

Robert Payne

Nancy Pearlman

Myla Reson, staff director

Oscar Ulloa

Harvey Wasserman, listener director

Carlos Zavala

Ex officio, non-voting: Michael Novick, interim General manager

Secretary: Position open - email LSB@kpfk.org if interested - you need not be a member of the LSB to serve in this position.

Treasurer: Steven Meeks (serves ex officio on PNB's National Finance Committee)

Pacifica National Board and Local Station Board meetings, as well as those of their committees can be found here:

 

Pacifica Foundation Info can be found on the foundation's website at www.pacifica.org.

The Pacifica National Board (PNB) can be reached by email at PNB@pacifica.org.

The Local Station Board (LSB) can be reached by email at LSB@kpfk.org.

Information about governance meetings can be found at https://kpftx.org

PNB Directors' Reports are now on a blog - click on blogs on the top navigation menu above.

 

Thanks to everyone for pledging support for the station during the drive.
Your support of KPFK helps make special broadcasts like this possible. Please consider utilizing the number of other ways you can support KPFK through a Donor Advisory FundStocks or Mutual Funds, Charitable IRALeaving A Bequest or Vehicle Donation, and you can pledge for select gifts you've heard mentioned during the current fund drive HERE.

If you prefer, you can make checks or money orders payable to "KPFK" and mail them to:

KPFK, PO Box 748419,  Los Angeles CA 90074-8419

Jobs at KPFK and Pacifica

KPFA Radio Berkeley - UpFront Producer Sought -

UpFront is a mostly-live morning public affairs show that delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through engaging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. We broadcast Monday to Friday from 7 to 8 am on 94.1 FM and at kpfa.org. This producer will have primary responsibility for setting up most days’ shows, with help from the show’s host and interns. More info here

KPFK is seeking to fill several pro bono (unpaid) interim management and coordinator positions.

These include:

interim unpaid development director to form and guide a development task force to raise funds for the station;

interim unpaid social media marketing manager to coordinate social media promotion efforts at and by the station;

interim unpaid volunteer coordinator to recruit and supervise volunteers for diverse tasks at the station.

Those interested in applying for these unpaid interim positions, please contact interim GM Michael Novick at gm@kpfk.org.

Pacifica Foundation Radio seeks an experienced leader for the position of
General Manager of its Los Angeles station, KPFK 90.7 FM 
For more information and to apply, click
HERE or see http://pacifica.org/jobs_kpfk.php

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    Sojourner Truth brings you news and views on local, national, and international policies and stories that affect us all.

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    Democracy Now! goes beyond the rhetoric and party politics offered by the mainstream media. Instead, it highlights grassroots efforts to enhance and ignite democracy in the U.S.

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    Nation's #1 progressive talk radio host on topics from psychiatry to culture to ecology to politics.

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    We look at the inside workings of Capitol Hill while also covering what happens at the state legislative level and on the streets. Basically the struggle between "austerity measures" and public programs

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  • Sojourner Truth wMargaret Prescod

    7:00am - 8:00am

    Sojourner Truth brings you news and views on local, national, and international policies and stories that affect us all.

  • Democracy Now!

    8:00am - 9:00am

    Democracy Now! goes beyond the rhetoric and party politics offered by the mainstream media. Instead, it highlights grassroots efforts to enhance and ignite democracy in the U.S.

  • Thom Hartmann

    9:00am - 10:00am

    Nation's #1 progressive talk radio host on topics from psychiatry to culture to ecology to politics.

  • Letters & Politics wMitch Jeserich

    10:00am - 11:00am

    We look at the inside workings of Capitol Hill while also covering what happens at the state legislative level and on the streets. Basically the struggle between "austerity measures" and public programs

  • Global Village Tuesdays w/Gary Baca

    11:00am - 1:00pm

    "Music from around the world and around the block"

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