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KPFK Radio 90.7 FM - The Hutchinson Report
SATURDAY  OCTOBER 31 9:00 AM PST

The Hutchinson Report Countdown to the Big Show 2 Hour Pre-Election Special Commentary, Clips, All Major Presidential and Local Office Candidates Invited Open Phones 818-985-5735
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  • The Future of the KPFK 6 PM News

    To continue our service in Southern California with Pacifica quality news, we will be adding news from...

    — Anyel Z Fields

  • KPFK Facing Extinction

    After 61 years of independent and community-based media, if our financial circumstances continue to slide into the abyss of uncertainty, we may have to think of the unthinkable; we might be forced to shut down.

    — Anyel Z Fields

  • How They’ve Wanted to Stop Us

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Community Resources

  • STRENGTH THRU UNITY: Multicultural Election Special

    Unlike any other election, minorities, immigrants, women, and the nation as a whole will pay a heavy price if Donald Trump is reelected as president. Beyond Trump’s racist attacks, people of color are dying needlessly from Trump's lack of a response to COVID19 and support of white extremists.

    — Anyel Z Fields

  • The Invisible Pandemic: Care During COVID-19

    This Political Freshers’ Week, the Women’s Campaign, and Justice 4 Workers Cambridge have teamed up with Global Women’s Strike to discuss one of the most pressing issues of our current times: the crisis of care. Join tonight Wednesday, October 21, 2020, at 10-11:30 AM

    — Margaret Prescod

  • STRENGTH THRU UNITY: YOU HAVE THE POWER

    Host David Ono veteran anchor of ABC 7 in Los Angeles and guests Marc Morial, President, and CEO of the National Urban League; Hector Sanchez Barba, CEO of Mi Familia Vota, Tamlyn Tomita, and Japanese-American actress discuss the upcoming election.

    — Anyel Z Fields

  • Voting Is Power Unleashed!

    We only have 50 days until Election Day. People would not be spending ungodly sums of money to stop us from voting if our vote was not powerful.

    — Margaret Prescod

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  • Pandemic Poverty: The CARES Act Kept Millions from Going Hungry. Why Won't the Senate Renew It?

    The massive $2 trillion CARES Act — which sent households one-time payments and boosted unemployment checks with an additional $600 a week through July — helped keep millions afloat, but more than 8 million people have been forced into poverty since the aid ended. "The relief was temporary, and much of it has now expired, so now we're seeing poverty rise again," says Megan Curran, a researcher at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. "We know that families can be protected again, but it does require action at the federal level."

  • Is Republican Attack on Social Media Giants Part of an Effort to Invalidate Election Results?

    Lawmakers grilled the chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter just days before Election Day on how they moderate hate speech, extremist content and election disinformation, including tweets from President Trump. Republicans have long accused Big Tech platforms of censoring conservative views, but tech policy expert Ramesh Srinivasan says the argument is shaped around talking points that are aimed at invalidating election results. "What we see coming from the Republicans is this argument that lacks any evidence, frankly, that there are systematic biases in terms of censorship, as well as algorithmic biases that skew against conservative talking points," says Srinivasan, a professor at UCLA, where he also directs the Digital Cultures Lab. "In fact, in reality, the opposite is exactly what is true."

  • Facebook Choked Traffic to Mother Jones & Other Sites While Amplifying Right-Wing Misinformation

    Big Tech CEOs were grilled Wednesday about how they moderate election disinformation and extremist content, and were accused by Republicans of censoring conservatives. Overlooked were reports that Facebook designed changes to its news feed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of left-leaning news sites like Mother Jones. Mother Jones editors wrote in 2019 that the site had seen a sharp decline in its Facebook audience, which translated to a loss of around $600,000 over 18 months. "The fact that we are trying to do everything we can to get the truth out and Facebook is deliberately sabotaging our readership is so disturbing, at the same time that Facebook is spreading all of this dangerous information by conservatives, by President Trump," responds Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones magazine, who has been reporting extensively on the 2020 election.

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  • Stay Tuned: Live Election Day Coverage on Rising Up With Sonali

    Rising Up With Sonali will be broadcasting a live Election 2020 streaming video special show onTuesday November 3rd from 3-5 pm PST (6-8 pm EST). The livestream will be available through our Vimeo Channel and will be posted to our website www.RisingUpWithSonali.com. Confirmed guests include Nation Magazine writer Sasha Abramsky, Zahra Billoo of CAIR, Judith...

  • Support KPFK, the station that makes Rising Up With Sonali possible

    Support KPFK, the intrepid public radio station based in Los Angeles that makes this show possible and available on dozens of television and radio stations nationwide. Go to www.kpfk.org/RUWithSonali, click the DONATE button and pledge either $75 for Sonali’s handmade mask, or $50 for a Rising Up With Sonali tote bag. DONE: VIRTUAL EVENT: Election...

  • Police Killing of Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia Sparks Anger

    FEATURING CHENJERAI KUMANYIKA – The city of Philadelphia is reeling from yet another police shooting as mass protests have sprung up in the wake of the videotaped killing of Walter Wallace Jr. The young Black man was gunned down in broad daylight in the middle of the street by officers who were several feet away...

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  • 'Green News Report' - October 29, 2020

    IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Hurricane Zeta slams into Louisiana, its fifth storm in a single season; Logging begins in pristine Tongass National Forest; China vaults ahead of U.S. on international climate pledge; PLUS: The case for court reform to protect climate legislation... All that and more in today's Green News Report! PLEASE CLICK HERE TO HELP [...]

  • Preparing to Play the SCOTUS Trump Cards: 'BradCast' 10/28/2020

    On today's BradCast: It was a very very bad day for Donald J. Trump and for his odds of winning re-election. At least on paper. Don't get too excited just yet. (But please do vote, ASAP, if you have not done so already! And if you're voting by mail-in ballot, do not mail it in! [...]

  • Dear Dems: Time to Unrig the Court (If They Don't Rig the Election First): 'BradCast' 10/27/2020

    Not long after we got off air from yesterday's BradCast, Senate Republicans kept their promise of breaking their previous promise that they would never ever ever --- because it would just be plain wrong and an insult to the voters! --- seat a new Supreme Court Justice during a Presidential election year. Their original promise [...]

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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

  • October 28, 2020 - Elie Honig | Richard John | David Dayen

    Kavanaugh's Partisanship Towards Election Vote Count Raises Alarms | The Post Office Can No Longer Deliver Ballots on Time | Grandstanding at Senate Hearing on Section 230 of Communications Decency Act backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

  • October 27, 2020 - Nancy MacLean | Seth Abramson

    Could a Reactionary Majority on the Supreme Court Take America Back to the Gilded Age? | Amid the Piles of Evidence, Why Has Trump's Criminality and Treachery Not Been Proven? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

  • October 26, 2020 - Anne Nelson | Dr. Angela Rasmussen | Max Hoffman

    How Dark Money Put Barrett and Her Predecessors on Our Highest Court | As We Intrude on Nature With Ecological Disruption, Expect More Pandemics | Erdogan's Son-in-law's Drones Tip the Balance in the War Over Nagorno-Karabakh backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Strength Thru Unity - Election Special

Watch the conference Here now or listen on the air, Friday, October 30th from 5:00 - 6:00 PM PST on KPFK 90.7fm


Multicultural Election Special To Stream Live & Air on KPFK FM 90.7

The news social justice program, Strength Thru Unity (STU), will focus on the upcoming presidential election. This is a critical election for all Americans, especially minority communities. STU’s guests include filmmaker Gilda Brasch, Genesis Heart artist/activist, Ivette Zamaro, publisher of La Revista, Nancy Yap, Executive Director of the Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE) and moderated by Gabriela Teissier, lead anchor for KMEX Univison.

Unlike any other election, minorities, immigrants, women and the nation as a whole will pay a heavy price if Donald Trump is reelected as president. Beyond Trump’s racist attacks, people of color are dying needlessly from Trump's lack of a response to COVID19 and support of white extremists.

Strength Thru Unity will live stream on Wednesday, October 28th from 1:00 - 2:00 PM PST and can be seen live on KPFK.org Strength Thru Unity will also be edited for public radio broadcast on Friday, October 30th from 5:00 - 6:00 PM PST on KPFK 90.7

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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.
We have sent thumb drives to the station already.
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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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