From subs at mail.kfcf.org Mon Aug 4 09:54:08 2008 From: subs at mail.kfcf.org (KFCF Subscribers & Friends list) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:54:08 -0700 Subject: [KFCF Friends] KFCF Program Highlights Message-ID: <25F2E297CADB4A0E9C341C56B97F03B4@OFFICE> Monday, August 4, 2008 10:00 am World Music Joanna Manqueros hosts Music of the World, sitting in for Kutay. Sarode player Alam Khan, son of Ali Akbar Khan will perform live from the KPFA studio at 11AM with Javad Bhuta on tabla. Tickets for Marcelo Ledesma, tango show at La Pena 8/7/08. Tickets for Cesaria Evora in SF. 1:00 pm Women's Magazine Ism's: Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism and Looksism. Kate Raphael presents perspectives from the New Jersey 4 on their incredibly long sentences and successful appeals, while Veronica Faisant interviews editor/musician Sabrina Cahpadjiev and writer/fat activist Stephanie Howell about the book, Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction. 3:00 pm Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson Nancy Ellis-Bell ?The Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog.? A one-legged macaw named Peg-Leg, soon renamed Sarah, takes over the lives of author Ellis-Bell and her husband, slowly transforming their house into a bird cage. Listen and laugh about the ups and downs and ups as this cast of characters learns to live together. 8:00 PM Valley Black Talk Mel Sanders and Kimberley Jackson discuss the latest in Local and National Politics. Is City councilwoman Cynthia Sterling about to be recalled? Call ins at 266-8888. Tuesday August 5, 2008 10:00 AM Wasteland of The Free Host Rick Flores with music, interviews and the Thrift Store Record of The Week. Interview with Randy Sharp and Jack Wesley Routh about the songwriting process. Randy, a valley native, has written dozens of major country hit songs. Jack Wesley Routh has played with Johnny Cash and co-penned the Grammy winning "The Connection" with Randy for Emmy Lou Harris. Wednesday August 6, 2008 3:00 PM Stir It Up - Community Alliance An update on the Homelessness issues in Fresno, including the lawsuit and harassment of the homeless. Thursday August 7, 2008 3:00 PM Art Attack Host Janet Flores discusses local arts. Friday August 8, 2008 2:30 PM Ideas on The Edge Host Mike Beevers with author Michael Mann. Mann co-wrote "Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming." The book examines the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 3:00 PM Down in The Valley Host Lloyd Carter. interviews Susana De Anda, co-executive director of the Community Water Center in Visalia and an expert on drinking water problems in rural communities in the southern San Joaquin Valley. He'll also be talking briefly about the governor's latest $9.3 billion water bond proposal. examines local and state water issues. 5:00 PM Sierra Nevada Earth First Radio Marc Somma and Mike Becker host. They will be focusing again on the I-69, The NAFTA superhighway project, the first phase of which is in southern Indiana. They will be interviewing two earth first! activists who have been opposing this project. 7:00 PM Move On Up Devoya Mayo hosts. Four Chicano MCs/ Hip-Hop Musicians: GIANT, JACINTO,BIG DAN, SOMOS. They?re currently recording and building their fan base out of the Bay Area. However, they represent various generations, diverse experiences and parts of California , from San Diego , Salinas to Oakland . They have an unheard, yet world wide sound and have been featured at local hip-hop clubs, live radio freestyle sessions, festivals, community rallies and local open mic?s. They?ve performed alongside many artists, including Clyde Carson, Zion I, Deuce Eclipse, Goapele, Native Gunz, Common Market, Blue Scholars, Rico Pabon, FrontLine , Los Rakas, Ise Lyfe, One Struggle, Fuga and many other well established Bay Area artists. With their 2008 debut Album BRWN BFLO, ?potential to national exposure and success will come?, says Big Dan. ?Our spanglish and world wide music influence will shake this entire music business?, says Giant. Saturday, August 9, 2008 7 PM - 1968 Revolution Rewind Special Rick Flores is filling in for Jim and Annie and will be looking back at 1968 with a Pacifica Archives special "1968- Revolution Rewind" which showcases the powerful artistic contributions made within this year of turmoil: the sounds of Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Melina Mercouri, Sun Ra, Phil Ochs, Abbie Hoffman, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and others. 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URL: From subs at mail.kfcf.org Tue Aug 12 10:47:17 2008 From: subs at mail.kfcf.org (KFCF Subscribers & Friends list) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:47:17 -0700 Subject: [KFCF Friends] KFCF Program Highlights Message-ID: <1BE746325A95459DB45F3DD1F68191C5@OFFICE> Upcoming KFCF Program Highlights Tuesday August 12 10:00 AM Wasteland of the Free Host Rick Flores interviews Randy Sharp and Jack Wesley Routh about the songwriting process and their experiences in Music City USA. Also, other musicians and their music emanating from Nashville will be featured. Plus, a special tribute to the late Isaac Hayes! 7:00 PM Nuestro Foro - Eduardo Stanley hosts. 1.) ALPAUGH. The fight for water. That day, the local water board will vote for (or against) the hike on water rates for this small community of about 900 people ,mostly farm workers. 2) ARREST (Pro-immigrant activist arrested at the border last week) and 3) WOMEN, a project to empower young women in the Visalia area. 8:00 pm Saroyan Radio Series The KFCF series Saroyan on Radio continues on Tuesday, August 12 at 8:00 pm with a salute to the William Saroyan Centennial Prize winning writers. This program is part of a seven-month radio series celebrating the 100th year of Saroyan's birth. The contest is a brainchild of the William Saroyan Society, a local group preserving his legacy and the San Joaquin Valley Writer's Project. In past years they sponsored an annual writing competition for youth. This year, because of the special attention paid to Saroyan, they created the William Saroyan Centennial Prize, an international competition for serious adult writers which attracted sixty-five entries in the categories of short fiction, creative nonfiction and one-act play. The writing was judged by a distinguished panel of local writers and teachers. This program is a reading of the winning writers' entries: Learning the Alphabet by Bethany Chaney, Floating Away by Elizabeth Edelglass, and Testosterone by Hal Ackerman. The readings are performed by Megan Bohigian, Paula Fansler and Skip Sargenti. The second hour of the program features a reprise of a previous offering, a rare recording of William Saroyan talking in his own tape recorder at home and telling stories about his life, his musings and his thoughts about Fresno. This program and Saroyan on Radio series is produced by Vic Bedoian. Wednesday August 13 3:00 PM Stir It Up - Center for Non-Violence Richard Stone will have as his guest Mor Chang, who will discuss Hmong and Laotian issues in the community. 10:00 pm Sing Out! Live, in-studio performance by young jazz vibist-composer Sam Goldsmith and his band. Thursday August 14 1:00 PM If You Love This Planet Helen Caldicott hosts. Arjun Makhijani is President and Senior Engineer at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Maryland. In this episode Arjun Makhijani discusses his extraordinary publication, Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, produced in 2007. The roadmap is the first analysis of a transition to a U.S. economy based completely on renewable energy, without any use of fossil fuels or nuclear power. This episode also includes an excerpt from a lecture given by Dr Caldicott in Brisbane, Australia 2007. Friday August 15 3:00 PM Down on The Farm Today's show focuses on the local part of Slow Food Nation, most of which takes place in San Francisco. SFN is billed as the "Woodstock" of American food traditions and will feature many of our local organic producers. www.slowfoodnation.org Today organic stone fruit farmers, Fran and Ted Lowen of Blossom Bluff Orchards, Kingsburg, who will be featured in the SFN marketplace in San Francisco civic center with their heirloom Elephant Heart plums. Joel Salatin Grass Farmer-Author, Polyface Farm, Swope, Virginia Salatin's "farm of many faces" is richly profiled in Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma as "one of the most productive and influential alternative farms in America." Acclaimed author and pastoralist, Salatin's passion for humanity's ancient engagement with grass argues its current relevance to your health and our species' continued success on the planet. For more information call: 209-874-1309 or 559-706-9552 Monday, September 1, 2008 . 2pm-4pm . Bernell & Flora Snider Music Recital Hall - California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California Tickets must be purchased in advance . $20 general, $10 student At: www.brownpapertickets.com Joel will be joined in the presentation by Jerry Brunetti, Martin's Creek, Pennsylvania, educator, consultant and authority on correlations between soil, plant, animal and human nutrition 7:00 PM Move on Up Devoya Mayo hosts. Kris Clarke( FSU Prof) focus global activism and her return to the USA after 25 years in Europe August 25- August 29 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Democratic National Convention Pacifica Radio analysis and coverage of the Democratic National Convention. Coverage that the mainstream media misses or ignores. The DNC is being produced by Eileen Javar and anchored by Aimee Allison & Mitch Jeserich, with Larry Bensky hosting from the balcony. Friday August 29, 2008 3:00 PM Pakistan Now - Host Dan Yaseen with Robert Jensen an author and a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy politics, gender and race have appeared in papers around the country. He is also involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and U.S. economic policies. He recently returned from Pakistan where he taught a summer class at International Islamic University in Islamabad. Sept 1- Sept 4 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Republican National Convention. Coverage that looks beyond the podium and the bunting. The RNC is being produced by Brian Edwards-Tiekert and anchored by Sonali Kolhatkar & Mitch Jeserich, with Larry Bensky hosting from the balcony. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From subs at mail.kfcf.org Mon Aug 18 18:36:40 2008 From: subs at mail.kfcf.org (KFCF Subscribers & Friends list) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:36:40 -0700 Subject: [KFCF Friends] KFCF Upcoming Program Highlights Message-ID: We've got some more great programming coming up. This list is updated daily at www.kfcf.org . We hope to have an exciting announcement in a few days about our guest speaker for the Fresno Free College Foundation Annual Banquet. We're just waiting for a few details to "finalize". Mark your calendar for Sunday evening October 26th, 2008. And now the listings .. -Rych Upcoming KFCF Program Highlights Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:00 am - The Morning Show - Craig Holman, government ethics lobbyist for Public Citizen, discusses funding for both the Democratic and Republican conventions. Next a discussion of "Why Soldiers Rape: The Culture of Misogyny and illegal Occupation Fuel Sexual Violence in the Military" with Helen Benedict, who wrote about it for In These Times. In the second hour Andrew Bacevich, whose son died in Iraq, talks about his book, "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism". Wrapping up the program, contracting out the CIA with author Tim Shorrock 10:00 a.m. Wasteland of the Free - Travel back in time with host Rick Flores as we explore the music of 1958. Plus, a tribute to rhythm and blues architect and Atlantic Records pioneer, the late Jerry Wexler. 2:00 pm - Exploration - Michu Kaku hosts. Guest 1: Dr. Robert Callum, author of the Unnatural History of the Sea. Are we witnessing the end-game of the oceans? Guest 2: Dr. Oliver Sachs, author of Musicophilia? Why do we like music? Friday August 22, 2008 5:00 PM Street Heat -The Street Heat show will include an interview with a representative from the United Farm Workers union. The UFW is holding their 18th Constitutional Convention in Fresno this weekend. Pam Whalen is the host. August 22 thru August 24 - The United Farm Workers? 18th Constitutional Convention. Convention delegates elect UFW leaders, debate resolutions and make decisions that will shape the course of the UFW for the next four years. The theme is "Organizaci?n es la Soluci?n." They are anticipating this will be one of the most exciting conventions in our history. The UFW will be celebrating victories such as: D?Arrigo, one of the largest vegetable growers in the country who employs 1,800 workers in the Salinas Valley; and our first contract in Oregon with Three Mile Canyon Farms, America?s largest dairy employing more than 350 year-round dairy workers; a contract with Charles Krug Mondavi and an end to the boycott of their wines; and much more. For more information, see: www.ufw.org Sunday August 24, 2008 7:30 - 9 p.m Act One:Shadowlands William Nicholson?s Tony nominated stage adaptation of his award-winning BBC Teleplay relates the story of shy Oxford don and children?s author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham. SHADOWLANDS shows how love, and the risk of loss, transformed this great man?s relationships, even with God. Starring Martin Jarvis and W. Morgan Sheppard. 9 - 10 p.m. Joe Frank - Bitter Pill Larry's gives his mother the birthday gift of a family photograph with her husband air-brushed out. Joe's tells the story of a child prodigy friend. Larry and Joe debate the merits of their respective neighborhood country clubs. Maude tells the story of her wild youth. At her birthday, Larry recites "The Runaway Bunny" to his mother. Joe speaks of his mother's "imperial" cat, Prince, and describes events leading to his execution. August 25-28th 5 PM - 9 PM Live Coverage of the Democratic Convention - This year?s Democratic Convention is poised to change some old convention traditions. In addition to nominating the first African-American for President from a major party, the Democrats will feature ?America?s Town Hall? Q&A sessions during the convention nights and a Thursday night acceptance speech by Barack Obama at Mile High Stadium. Obama?s candidacy has mobilized more young voters for the Democrats than any other recent election. But not everyone shares the enthusiasm for the Democrats this year - major protests are being planned in Downtown Denver for Convention week. We?ll have veteran Pacifica host Larry Bensky in the balcony of the convention hall, as well as a slew of interesting guests to provide perspective and analysis. And in collaboration with KGNU and other affiliates, we?ll have reporters in the streets to cover other voices around the convention. August 25-29 Democratic National Convention Coverage will also include a special 2-hour edition of Democracy Now! from 6-8 AM, followed by a one hour edition of The Morning Show, originating in part at the convention . Then at 9 a repeat of hour two of Democracy Now!. And we'll have coverage from 4 to 5 PM from Davey D! and the Hard Knock Radio team from the convention. Friday August 29, 2008 5:00 am Early Morning Music - In the second of a series on Swedish Jazz, Eddy Pay features the Bohuslan Big Band with music composed and arranged by pianist Lars Jansson 3:00 PM Pakistan Now - Host Dan Yaseen with Robert Jensen an author and a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy politics, gender and race have appeared in papers around the country. He is also involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and U.S. economic policies. He recently returned from Pakistan where he taught a summer class at International Islamic University in Islamabad. 5:00 pm- Progressive Parenting - Progressive Parenting is proud to have the founders of Attachment Parenting International on the show. Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson will be answering questions regarding Attachment Parenting. Email us any questions you have regarding this topic and we will discuss the top ten. You can find us at www.myspace.com/progressiveparenting or mommymatters at sbcglobal.net Guests: Barbara Nicholson, MEd - API Founder & President of the Board of Directors of API - Barbara Nicholson holds a master's degree in Education, specializing in learning disabilities. She has volunteered for over 20 years with La Leche League International, an educational and support organization for breastfeeding mothers. She is also trained as a facilitator in the Nurturing Parenting Program. Ms. Nicholson co-founded Attachment Parenting International in 1994 and serves as the President of the Board of Directors. She has spoken to a variety of groups -- including parent educators, psychology students, conference attendees, and juvenile probation officers -- about parenting as a prevention model for societal violence. Ms. Nicholson continues to work closely with API on fundraising and has served on the development committee for the Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) Program at Vanderbilt University. Barbara is the mother of four adult sons and resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Lysa Parker, MS, CFLE - API Founder & Director Emeritus ParentsLifeLine.com Lysa Parker has a master's degree in Human Development and Family Studies, is a Certified Family Life Educator (C.F.L.E.), and is a trained facilitator for the Nurturing Parenting Program. Ms. Parker is the co-founder of API and served as the Executive Director from 1994 to 2007. She managed program development and public relations and continues to speak to various groups and conferences about parenting as a prevention model for societal violence. With a bachelor's degree in Education, specializing in special education, she taught in California, Tennessee, and Alabama during her 20-year career, working with children with multiple handicaps and/or learning disabilities. Other experience includes several years of volunteer work with La Leche League International, a nonprofit organization that provides breastfeeding education and support, and as an API Support Group Leader. She is the mother of two adult sons and an adult stepdaughter and grandmother to twin grandsons. She lives with her husband in Madison, Alabama. Lysa Parker is available for private consultations, personal parent coaching sessions, workshops, and speaking engagements. Visit her web site to learn more! for more info go to www.attachmentparenting.org Sept 1 -4 5 PM - 9 PM Live Coverage of The Republican Convention - This year?s Republican Convention may be more traditional in tone, but interesting nonetheless. The Republican alliance of religious conservatives, military boosters, and free marketeers forged by Ronald Reagan appears more fractured than ever. Many Republican Party insiders are dour, but John McCain continues to remain competitive in national polls. During convention week, St. Paul and Minneapolis will also play host to Ron Paul?s shadow convention, a peace conference, and a series of street demonstrations. We?ll have veteran Pacifica host Larry Bensky in the balcony of the convention hall, as well as a slew of interesting guests to provide perspective and analysis. And in collaboration with KFAI and other affiliates, we?ll have reporters in the streets and at the shadow conventions to cover other voices around the convention. Sept 1-5 Republican National Convention Coverage will also include a special 2-hour edition of Democracy Now! from 6-8 AM, followed by a one hour edition of The Morning Show, originating in part at the convention . Then at 9 a repeat of hour two of Democracy Now!. And we'll have coverage from 4 to 5 PM from Davey D! and the Hard Knock Radio team from the convention. September 9, 2008 8:00 pm -Saroyan Radio Project -The Saroyan Radio series continues on September 9 with Saroyan in Hollywood. A fascinating two-hour interview with Hank Saroyan by Nuria Ibars, originally broadcast in 2005. Hank is William Saroyan's nephew and a long-time writer and producer in film and television. They had a close family and working relationship with the great writer and talks intimately about Uncle Bill's life and work. The program includes segments of spoken word recordings of Bill reading from his work. Series producer Vic Bedoian. September 10, 2008 3:00 PM Stir It Up - Guest: Tariq Ali , who will be in Fresno on September 28th at The Islamic Cultural Center from 4 to 6 PM. KFCF is a co-sponsor. Additional info at www.kfcf.org September 12, 2008 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm -- "jazz with jim"... Jim Compton Schmidt on his "classics in jazz" program will be clearing out the "in box" of music received this summer that he was not able to play 'cause he was off having fun.! He is soooo glad to be back and to be back on the air. Jim sends out a big thanks to rick flores for covering his program in both July and august. There have been a number of new artists in the jazz field who have stepped forward and taken on the challenges of the popular music field of the 1930's thu the 1950's...Jim will be playing out of those recently received offerings. Please tune in and plan to roll back the rug to "dance to the bands". ---------------------------------------------------- This list is maintained and operated by KFCF and The Fresno Free College Foundation PO Box 4364 Fresno CA 93744 In a survey, pledge form or other contact with KFCF/KPFA you indicated you'd like to receive e-mail about KFCF events. If you feel you were subscribed in error, please go to: http://mail.kfcf.org/mailman/listinfo/subs/ to unsubscribe. Or send an e-mail request to office at kfcf dot org and we'll do it for you. FRESNO FREE COLLEGE FOUNDATION PO BOX 4364 FRESNO, CA 93744 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: