From subs at mail.kfcf.org Thu Oct 2 12:55:33 2008 From: subs at mail.kfcf.org (KFCF Subscribers & Friends list) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:55:33 -0700 Subject: [KFCF Friends] KFCF Election Special Message-ID: <1E15459127B745D9A32BCA12C4AF8679@OFFICE> Monday October 6 ,2008 8:00 PM - VALLEY BLACK TALK RADIO SHOW -WEST FRESNO SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES FORUM - Did you know there are (7) seven candidates running for the school board of West Fresno ? Listen to the candidates tell you why you should vote for them to represent the community supporting our children. Hear who has the best plan to recapture local control of the District. Let them share their plan for allowing the community to play a greater role in educating our children. As listeners, you will also be able to call in and ask ANY question of the candidates that you feel will help you make an informed voting decision for the candidate of your choice. Listen in as co-host Kimberly Jackson joins panelists former City Manager Jim Aldridge and Reverend Floyd Harris Jr. to interview the candidates. The number to call is (559)266-8888. The candidates are Barbara Ann Hunt , Lula C. Tucker , James Tucker , Henry A. Hendrix , Mel Sanders , Peaches A. Coleman ,and Va Yang They are running for three available seats. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From subs at mail.kfcf.org Wed Oct 8 17:04:43 2008 From: subs at mail.kfcf.org (KFCF Subscribers & Friends list) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:04:43 -0700 Subject: [KFCF Friends] Mark your calendars - KFCF/ Fresno Free College Foundation events Message-ID: KFCF at Harvest and Peace Festival This Weekend KFCF will have a booth at the Intermountain Nursery's 16th Annual Harvest and Peace Festival this weekend, October 11th and 12th. We'll have T-shirts, caps, etc and the NEW , ever so exciting KFCF Bumper Stickers. Intermountain Nursery 30443 N. Auberry Rd. Prather, CA 93651-9600 559-855-3113 Fax: 559-855-8809 (Friant Road just west of the Auberry turnoff)) Music - Art - Food - Crafts - Plants - Info Saturday Oct. 11th 10 AM - 5 PM Sunday Oct 12 10 AM - 4 PM Saturday:Amber Cross & Friends ; Raging Grannies ;Nada Brahma & Belly Dancers ; The Trespassers Sunday: Corky Scott ; Lance Canales Trio ; Glen Delpit ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- FORMER UN WEAPONS INSPECTOR SCOTT RITTER TO SPEAK IN CLOVIS ON THE HUMAN COSTS OF WAR What: U.S. Tour of Duty: Operation Thanks When: October 24, 2008 at 8:00 PM Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, 2672 E. Alluvial Avenue, Clovis, CA 93611 Join former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter and Gold Star Mom Nadia McCaffrey for a lively, indispensable discussion about the "War on Terror" and the psychological toll it has taken on the troops and their families. This event will launch U.S. Tour of Duty: Operation Thanks, a campaign aimed at ensuring that the mental health needs of servicemembers who fought or who expect to fight in Iraq and/or Afghanistan are met. The suggested donation is $10. All proceeds will benefit U.S. Tour of Duty and Veterans Village. This event is co-sponsored by KFCF-FM 88.1, Peace Fresno, Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno Social Justice Committee, Fresno Center for Nonviolence, U.S. Tour of Duty, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Veterans Village. For more information or to purchase advance tickets, please visit https://www.brownpapertickets.com or call 800.838.3006. VETERANS VILLAGE promotes mental and holistic wellness and palliative care for veterans returning from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially those suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), by providing a free live-in retreat village wherein with the help of trained professional staff and volunteers, veterans find inner healing and an eventual re-entry into society. http://www.veteransvillage.org U.S. TOUR OF DUTY promotes dialogue about civic issues by organizing public forums, developing media strategies and producing audio/video content. http://www.ustourofduty.org SCOTT RITTER, author of Target Iran, Waging Peace and Iraq Confidential, was one of UNSCOM's most senior weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, after having served for eight years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. As a Marine, he conducted arms inspections in the former Soviet Union, and provided analysis of Iraq's missile capacity to General Schwarzkopf in the 1991 Gulf War. Nation Books is the publisher of "Target Iran," "Iraq Confidential," and "Waging Peace." "The most important thing to know about Scott Ritter is that he was right." - Seymour Hersh http://www.scottritter.us NADIA McCAFFREY is the founder of Veterans Village. When her son, Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey, died on June 22, 2004 in Iraq, Nadia began to focus much of her work on promoting peace and justice and reaching out to parents that have lost loved ones in the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Nadia received international attention as the "mother who defied the Bush Administration" when she asked the media to be present at the airport to photograph her son's flag-draped coffin. In addition, Nadia went on Global Exchange's trip to the Jordan and Iraq border at the start of 2005 with the Families for Peace delegation which delivered over $650,000 of medical and humanitarian aid for the thousands of refugees, mostly women and children, made homeless by the U.S. attack on Falluja. http://www.veteransvillage.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- DAVEY D OF KPFA's HARD KNOCK RADIO COMING TO FRESNO Davey D of KPFA's Hard Knock Radio is coming to Fresno on October 25th and 26th. Davey D. will appear at a free event at California State University, Fresno on Saturday October 25th from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM. He will talk about "Hip Hop: The Ups and Down The Ins and Outs (Hip-Hop History and How To's). Davey D is a noted Hip-Hop Historian, Journalist and Social Activist. The event will be at The Peters Educational Auditorium at the Student Recreation Center. Admission and Parking are Free. (NE Corner of Woodrow and Shaw Aves.) Co-sponsored by Black Students United, Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute , the Uprooting Racism Project and more... --------------------------------------------- On Sunday October 26th he will be the guest at The Fresno Free College Foundation's 40th Annual Banquet with music by Lance Canales Help FFCF celebrate its 40th Anniversary Sunday, October 26th at "Love & Garlic" 5351 N. Diana Street , Fresno , CA (off Barstow , 1 block East of Blackstone) Tickets are $40 per person in advance ($45 at the door) for a Dinner Buffet that includes tri-tip, chicken kabobs, pumpkin ravioli, grilled vegetables, rice pilaf, garden salad, beverages and dessert. No host bar begins at 5:30 with music by Lance Canales, and Dinner begins at 6:00 , with our guest speaker beginning at 7:00. Following the speaker, FFCF will present its annual Free Speech Award. 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Then a debate on Proposition 6, the Safe Neighborhoods Act aka The Runner Initiative. In the second hour Frank Wilczek, Prof. of Physics, MIT, discusses his book, "Lightness of Being: Mass, Either, and the Unification of Forces". Wrapping up the program a conversation with Antonia Juhasz, author of "The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry - and What We Must Do to Stop It". 10 a.m. to noon Wasteland of the Free - 1We're sailing off on this week's offering as Rick Flores takes a musical journey through various genres featuring adventurous songs and tunes related to travel and exploration. Roll over Columbus!! 8:00 PM Saroyan Radio Specials - Tonight, Ed Hagopian, one of Saroyan's closest friends, first in Paris, then Fresno. In this fascinating portrait he recalls Saroyan , the friend, the writer, Paris bon-vivant, luminary, and the character as few else could. Wed, Oct 15,2008 5:00 - 8:00 pm Presidential Debate Broadcast - Live broadcast of the final presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama at Hofstra University, anchored by Mitch Jeserich. Thurs. Oct. 16:. 2008 1:00 PM Alternative Radio - David Barsamian hosts. Tom Hayden on Movements and Machiavellians 2:00 pm The Visionary Activist - Biomimicry: Caroline welcomes the return of Janine Benyus, natural sciences writer author of "Biomimicry". Janine's work reminds us that for every toxic insult we humans have imposed upon our home planet, there is an ingenious reverent collaborative solution that makes us weep and bark with delight. (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that models a prairie, businesses that run like redwood forests). Let's revel in the vortex of rude empire's economic collapse , from which a polite sane cooperative economy arises. 7:00 PM Apex Express - October is Filipino history month! Apex celebrates API arts and culture this week from a woman's perspective. Join us as we speak with Filipina writer, Ruby Veridiano-Ching about her upcoming new book, "Miss Universe", which offers a fresh and distinctly female voice that demands truth in a world convoluted and distorted by popular media hype. We also speak with fellow Filipina spoken word artist Aimee Suzara about her newly released poetry chapbook, "the space between". Finally, we will be joined live by Balinese dancer and musician, Kompiang Metri-Davies from Richmond's first Balinese dance and music ensemble, Gadung Kasturi on keeping traditional culture alive in an urban environment. Friday July 17, 2008 1:30 pm Making Contact Live From Main Street Ohio: Will Your Vote Count? On this edition, we go to Ohio, the scene of election day chaos in 2004. Long lines, a shortage of voting machines, voter challenges, and unprocessed registrations led some members of Congress to challenge the validity of the presidential election. This time around, Ohio is again a crucial swing state, and it remains to be seen whether changes in voting laws there and in other states will make the process better or worse for citizens who want to cast their votes. Hosted by GRIT TV personality Laura Flanders, produced by The Media Consortium, and adapted for radio by Making Contact. 2:30 PM Ideas on The Edge - Mike Beevers interviews Andrew J. Bacevich ,a professor of history and international relations at Boston University. His new book is "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism." Sunday Oct 19, 2008 7:30 pm- Act One Radio Spinning Into Butter: What happens when conflicting emotions inhabit the same space? When a new vocabulary is devised to disguise the same old thoughts? In this barbed satire of political correctness, Rebecca Gilman's provocative characters spin a web of their own, revealing the latent racism that may lurk beneath the porcelain veneer of a liberated conscience. Starring Jordan Baker, Kevin Kilner, and Charles Kimbrough Written by Rebecca Gilman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 16597 bytes Desc: not available URL: From subs at mail.kfcf.org Wed Oct 22 18:00:57 2008 From: subs at mail.kfcf.org (KFCF Subscribers & Friends list) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:00:57 -0700 Subject: [KFCF Friends] Fresno Free College Foundation 40th Anniversary Banquet Message-ID: <0B08093B0FA6423499B5F5D87A7F1FB2@OFFICE> FRESNO FREE COLLEGE FOUNDATION 40th ANNIVERSARY BANQUET The Fresno Free College Foundation owns and operates KFCF-FM , 88.1 MHz. This year we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Foundation. The Foundation will be having our Annual Banquet this Sunday, October 26th, and our special guest is Davey D., the media activist and journalist who hosts KPFA's Hard Knock Radio. Davey D also was featured in Pacifica Radio's Unconventional Coverage, which covered the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this year. He also has extensively covered issues like New Orleans and Katrina, media consolidation, and prison issues. He will be speaking on the issue of Media Consolidation at our banquet. In 2000 Davey D was nominated by the Bay Area's City Flight magazine as one of the Bay Area's Most Influential African Americans. In 2001, Davey D was voted by the East Bay Express Newspaper as the Best On Air Personality in the Bay Area. The daily radio show he co-hosts, Hard Knock Radio was voted Best Radio Show in the Bay Area Davey D is originally from the Bronx and now a native of California. He graduated from UC Berkeley. Davey D also pens a Hip Hop/Political column for the San Jose Mercury News. Davey D also hosts a weekly Hip Hop/Political TV talk show on Oakland's Soul Beat television... Davey D sits on the advisory board for civic organizations like Black Youth Vote as well as Rock the Vote. Davey D was also the guest curator for the Rock N-Roll Hall of Fame Hip Hop Nation Exhibit when it came to San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center in June of 2001. We will also be having music by Lance Canales, a local musician and we will be honoring the winners of the Foundations' 2008 Free Speech Awards. Tickets are still available by calling (559)233-2221 or by going to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/42725 . Please order tickets or call and make a reservation ASAP, so we can give the caterer an accurate count. There will be a limited number of tickets available "at the door". Sunday, October 26th at "Love & Garlic" 5351 N. Diana Street , Fresno , CA (off Barstow , 1 block East of Blackstone) Tickets are $40 per person in advance ($45 at the door) for a Dinner Buffet that includes tri-tip, chicken kabobs, pumpkin ravioli, grilled vegetables, rice pilaf, garden salad, beverages and dessert. No host bar begins at 5:30 with music by Lance Canales, and Dinner begins at 6:00 , with our guest speaker beginning at 7:00. Following the speaker, FFCF will present its annual Free Speech Award. Order Banquet tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/42725 If you'd like to attend "Speaker Only" : http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/42740 PLEASE JOIN US! Rychard Withers Executive Director Fresno Free College Foundation / KFCF-FM PO Box 4364 Fresno, CA 93744 (559)233-2221 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From subs at mail.kfcf.org Thu Oct 30 11:51:07 2008 From: subs at mail.kfcf.org (KFCF Subscribers & Friends list) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:51:07 -0700 Subject: [KFCF Friends] KFCF Election Coverage and Program Highlights Message-ID: <32A1FAB35C5E4086922B99636C0B1588@OFFICE> We've got a lot of great election coverage coming up, plus some great radio specials. Check out the KFCF web page at www.kfcf.org for regular updates. Thursday October 30, 2008 1:00 PM Alternative Radio - Noam Chomsky "Wars Bailouts and Elections" 2:00 PM Visionary Activist - Coyote Network News Halloween Election Coverage Caroline convenes the Ouji Board of Directors for Inauguration Augury with long-time fellow Trickster David Grimes reporting from Alaska, that we may track the patterns and align with the liveliest evolutionary possibilities available. Friday Oct. 31, 2008 3:00 PM Pakistan Now - Dan Yaseen hosts, talking to Junaid Ahmad about Pakistani, American activist, grad student at William and Mary College about Pakistan. Sunday Nov. 2 , 2008 7:00 PM Apex Express - Muslim Chaplain James Yee talks about his role as a delegate and as an Obama supporter. And, Pakistan is the backdrop for the film Kala Pul, part of the 3rd Eye Film Festival. Also, a former councilman talks about why he supports civil rights by opposing a proposed amendment. 7:30 - 9 PM Act One - "This Town" by Sidney Blumenthal Political journalist and former Presidential advisor Sidney Blumenthal takes us inside the Washington Press Corps, who yawn when they hear about peace treaties, but snap to attention at the chance to uncover a little dirt on the First Dog! Cast: Richard Kind, Gates McFadden, John Randolph and John Vichery. 9 - 10 PM Joe Frank - "Justine" Monday Nov 3, 2008 10:00 AM - 12 Noon - Election Special - KPFA Election Special. hosted by Mitch Jeserich and produced by Max Pringle Tuesday Nov. 4, 2008 10:00 AM - 12 Noon - Election Special - KPFA Election Special. hosted by Mitch Jeserich and produced by Max Pringle 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Democracy Now! Election Special. Democracy Now! will be doing a special five-hour broadcast on November 4th from 4:00PM-9:00 PM to bring you the 2008 election results as they come in. The program will include live coverage of the results as the polls close, on-the-ground reports from across the country, reactions from across the globe, and running in-depth analysis and commentary from a wide range of guests you won't get anywhere else. 9:00 PM - 12 Mid - KPFA/ KFCF Special Election coverage. News, pundits, politicians of ALL stripes from KPFA and from the local KFCF studios. Coverage and updates from KPFA produced by Brian Edwards-Tiegart. The Best coverage and most in-depth coverage election Night in the Central Valley is on KFCF 88.1 FM Interviews with the major winners and losers on election Night from all five Central Valley Counties from Merced to Tulare All Major Races including but not limited to Fresno Mayor , Madera School Board , Merced Supervisor , Hanford City Council , Fresno Unified School Board , West Fresno School Board , and Measure L In depth analysis of the future of the Nation's Political Parties, National Reporting from the Pacifica Network with local segments hosted By Marc Scalzo Produced By Rych Withers In the Studio Guests : Republicans :Fred Vanderhoff - Former Chair of Republican Central Committee. John Gist - Former Congressional Candidate 19th district and member of Republican Central Committee Peace and Freedom Party : John Crockford Spokesman for Ralph Nader Green Party :TBA Democratic Party: Steve Haze - Former Congressional Candidate and Chair of Fresno Democratic Central Committee and Marc Scalzo - Former Mayor of Madera and former Candidate for California Assembly Libertarian Party : John Zwickel -Secretary /Treasure of the Fresno Libertarian Central Committee and spokesman for Bob Barr Reporting from Nevada: Bill Fjellbo vice Chair of Madera Democratic Central Committee and Political chair Sierra Club Tehipitee Chapter Reporting from Tulare County : Catherine Balbas SEIU Organizer; Robert Blazer :Barbara Waldron Chair of the Tulare County Democratic Central Committee Reporting From Kings County: Andy Mattos; Robyn Mattos - Candidate for Hanford City Council Reporting from Madera County ; Madera Mayor Sam Armentrout (Republican) and Interviews with Newly elected local officials Wednesday Nov. 5, 2008 6:00 AM Democracy Now! On November 5th, the morning after, Democracy Now! expands to a two-hour broadcast from 08:00AM-10:00AM ET to provide complete coverage of the election outcome. 10:00 AM - 12 Noon - Election Special - KPFA Election Special. hosted by Mitch Jeserich and produced by Max Pringle Friday , November 7, 2008 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - KFCF Special On October 24th KFCF and a coalition of local groups hosted the "Tour of Duty: Operation Thanks" event in Fresno with Nadia McCaffery, founder of Veteran's Village, a place for returning Veterans with PTSD; and with Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq. We present their speeches. You'll find Ritter to be an interesting speaker. He hates war, but believes in a strong military. He thinks the current administration is wrong to be in Iraq, but that the American people have let down their country by not knowing and defending the U.S. Constitution Saturday, November 8, 2008 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM Jazz with Jim....America's world music...I love to play the popular tunes that were written in the 1930's thru the 1950's, up dated by today's artists, and i like to say, "No one has written music like that since then!" Then I go thru the stations collection of jazz and I realize I am dead wrong! Tonight we will focus on music written after my "golden age." A little different, but still the "popular song." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 52242 bytes Desc: not available URL: