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[beginningspod]

It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to journalist and political writer Doug Henwood. Originally from Teaneck, New Jersey, Doug has been writing publicly about politics since he started his newsletter Left Business Observer, which ran from 1986 until 2013. He's also written for Harper's, The Village Voice, Jacobin and is a contributing editor at The Nation. In addition, Doug has written four books: State of the U.S.A. Atlas, Wall Street, After the New Economy and My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency. Currently, he hosts the weekly KPFA Berkeley radio show and podcast Behind the News.

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[remembertheplunge]

We cannot unsee what we have already seen--the 1980's

April 28, 1988

It’s now a Thursday—

Some post scripts from somewhere in the “last” night and from yesterday by Judge David Vander Wall “The 1970’s don’t seem that long ago. The 80’s are just passing me by…” DA Mike  Stone replied “The 70’s weren’t worth anything anyway.”

I watched last evening “a A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyer. The 1920’s" :

Flappers and fun flanked by Fraud and Famine. Poo Poe Pee Do! The truth was that the poor (in the 20’s) didn’t realize they were poor until long after they weren’t!. They had a general feel of contentment despite their financial situation.

What about us in the 1980's? In the KPFA Radio Folio program guide,Life in 1968 is compared with life in 1988. The 80’s were condemned as the 1950’s relived. 1988 Yuppies are the men in charcoal grey suits. Ahhhh! But, what bridged the years is the depth of awareness setting in. We cannot unsee what has been seen. We close only to heal and tp grow internally. The individual reform we know is the only true change. Only true “life” takes place on an individual basis. More and more we learn "..oh..when I had the Mercedes and miserable marriage I was poor. Now, I am…,Me!" 

To me, 1980 or 1981 were just about like 1988 in terms of styles, attitudes, money, etc. Pretty much the same. Music hasn’t changed much. Nothing has really. And yet, imperceptibly, everything has irrevocably changed, improved. Come a bit more into its own. 

Only you, the future, may be able to give it perspective. What, if anything, do the 80’s mean to you? Don’t forget us. We are a part of your past and thus a part of you.

I offer up this diary entry to you as a revelation of one person- traveler’s time notes written during  his time-space journey.

End of entry

Notes: 9/21/2024

I love the fact taht I included the line “We cannot unsee what has been seen” in the above 1988 entry. 

That has been my fight song passing through these turbulent times where the Republican Right is attempting to cancel our collective progressive progress. They can ban and burn our books and the Supreme Court can strip us of our rights. But. We have seen. We know. We will continue to live our lives and assert our  values despite and because of their orders. We have seen. We will act. We have agency.

I also think that it’s interesting that I said in the above entry that there was not much difference between life in 1980 or 81 and life in 1988. In 1980, I was not yet a. Lawyer, I was way in the closet and Aids was not yet publicly known about. By 1988, HIV  had been  known about for 7 years in which time it decimated many lives. In 1986, I began working as a volunteer helping men with Aids through their illness and death. I had been a lawyer for 7 years by 1988 .I had been emersed in the heavens and hells of criminal law defense. I had married in 1982 a woman who I left in 1984 as I began to emerge as a gay man. By 1988, I was fully out. So, actually I was a much more evolved person in 1988 than I had been in 1980. But, maybe because the evolution took place slowly over  years, I wrote about the decade as if very little had happen.

Judge Van Der Wall was a judge in Modesto California. I spent my 40th birthday in a murder trial in his court. His clerk, Linda, gave me a happy birthday cup cake that birthday morning in court! They have both since died. I just thought Judge Van Der Wall and Mike Stone’s  take on the 70’s and 80’s was interesting. Time was  just passing them by. Have you noticed the no one now in the mid 2020’s ever talks about the 20’s? I mean the 2020’s. We are living it . We can’t see it This now has no name . It just  is. But, I imagine in 20 years, they will be screaming about “The Outrageous 20’s!"

Flappers were the early forerunners of the women’s empowerment movement. They wore shorter dresses than their predecessors had and advanced women’s rights through word and action. 

Bill Moyers was a Public TV host. He did stories on interesting people and events past and present.

Per Oxford Languages Dictionary, a Yuppie was "a young person with a well-paid job and a fashionable lifestyle."

[sharperthewriter]

Good evening, everyone.

The nominating period for the 17th Annual Kim Possible Fannies Awards (for the 2021 stories) is finally up. More info about it is in the link above.

It is open from October 1, 2023 to November 1, 2023 at 11:59pm central US time.

[weantuniverse]

From KPFA Folio, 1972.

[lboogie1906]

Dr. Clayborne Carson (born June 15, 1944) is an academic who is a professor of history at Stanford University. He has directed the Martin Luther King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Martin Luther King Jr.

He was born in Buffalo; the son of Clayborne and Louise Carson. He attended the University of New Mexico. He met Stokely Carmichael. Carmichael convinced him to attend the March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom as a member of SNCC.

He transferred to UCLA became more active and continued with SNCC. He changed his field of study from Computer Programming to American History. He earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D. He was involved with anti-Vietnam War protests.

He has taught and lectured in Britain, France, China, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and throughout the US. He teaches and lectures about Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, SNCC, the Black Panther Party, and other subjects related to the Black struggle and civil rights. He has been a frequent guest on Pacifica Radio station KPFA and has appeared on programs like Fresh Air, the Tavis Smiley Show, the Charlie Rose Show, Good Morning America, and the CBS Evening News. He is a member of the global council of the California International Law Center at the UC Davis School of Law. He is a member of several professional organizations including the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Social Science History Association, the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, and the Southern Historical Association.

He has written several books and articles and has made contributions to many more as well as documentaries and interviews. His first book In Struggle: and the Black Awakening of the 1960s was awarded the Fredrick Jackson Turner Award. He was the Historical Adviser for the film Freedom on My Mind, which was nominated for an Oscar.

He was nominated by President Biden to serve as a member of the newly formed Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.

He married Susan Ann Beyer (1967). She was the managing editor of the King Papers Project. They have a daughter and a son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[rotationalsymmetry]

I want to listen to KPFA more but right now it's on Gaza and there is a limit to how much I can hear about children starving -- and, the argument is, being deliberately starved not as an incidental effect of the war but as a tactic -- at one go.

I have nothing. I don't know what to say.

[dominateeye]

Non-profit community radio needs your support!

Hi, I'm Andrew Ferguson, co-host of Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig, a political talk show on 90.1 FM HD2 KPFT Houston. KPFT is part of the Pacifica Foundation, a network of non-profit community radio stations around the US. Pacifica stations serve the communities they're in by allowing local folks a voice that they often don't get from mainstream, for-profit media. We help counter corporate media's drumbeat of war and exploitation by amplifying the voices of the people and communities most impacted and most concerned by it, and we play some damn good music while we're at it.

But like all things under capitalism, it takes money to keep serving our communities. Pacifica stations need your support now more than ever. If you appreciate media that serves the working class instead of the rich, or if you've ever heard a program you've liked on your local Pacifica station-- KPFA in Berkeley, KPFK in Los Angeles, KPFT in Houston, WBAI in New York, WPFW in D.C., or any of our affiliate stations-- and you have the means, I would greatly appreciate if you could donate to any of our stations to help keep every one of them on the air.

For me personally, my work at KPFT has been essential in helping me feel useful in the fight for a fairer world and keeping me going through my job search. I want to help make sure that KPFT is there to help other people get the same sense of purpose for years to come. That's why I'm writing this post, and why I'm hoping you'll be able to donate to KPFT or any other Pacifica station. If you can, making a sustaining donation can help provide a station's volunteers with a sense of stability and a bit of breathing room.

Even if you can't donate, I and every other Pacifica programmer would greatly appreciate if you would tune in to KPFT or your local station to hear the words of your neighbors and connect with your community. Thank you for your time.

[earcandle]

ECP0926 The Kucinich Series: Tape 2 of 5 122107

Ear Candle Productions brought our cameras to the "Peace Train" Kick-Off Rally for the Dennis Kucinich for President campaign, with numerous special guests at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco CA on December 21, 2007. At this time, we were in the midst of two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, enduring the last days of the Bush administration. The country was looking for a change.

Camera 2, Tape 2 continued with Dennis Bernstein of KPFA introducing the speakers. Author and political scientist Michael Parenti spoke, followed by Dennis Kucinich's scheduler and assistant Amy Vossbrinck, who also set up a videotaped greeting by candidate Kucinich himself. Next, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink spoke, and the tape concluded with attorney and cofounder of the Iraq Moratorium, Bill Simpich.

Ear Candle Productions is a small music label, video production, and eLearning website. We also have a free, 24/7 global Ear Candle Radio program designed to bring creative ideas to the worldwide public at large.

The owners of Ear Candle Productions are the creatives, John Bassham (AKA J Neo Marvin) and Debra Nicholson Bassham (AKA Davis Jones). We live in San Francisco. Come visit our website, check out our YT, Bandcamp, Ear Candle Radio, Internet Archive, and other pages at https://earcandleproductions.com

[insurgentepress]

Denuncian futbolistas condiciones denigrantes para jugar en Liga Femenil de Corea

Un informe publicado por @FIFPro reveló que una jugadora surcoreana tuvo que ser hospitalizada por agotamiento por calor; además: "No hay pantallas de privacidad así que estamos expuestas en ropa interior", dice una jugadora.

Agencias/Ciudad de México.- La Asociación Coreana de Futbolistas Profesionales (KPFA) ha expresado su honda preocupación por las deplorables condiciones que han tenido que soportar las futbolistas en el mayor torneo de futbol femenino del país. El Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino está organizado por la Asociación Coreana de Fútbol y tiene como sedes la Federación Coreana de Fútbol Femenino…

[iwantjobs]

7/6/2024: Trang as an exercising and stretching guru at 51.22 years old in good lighting doing her physical therapy to crush out back pain daily at night to reduce the pain in order to sleep well (no pills necessary). Also, Trang's new invention of stretching out side-shoulder fat by laying down: Push, tug in, or insert your upper arms into back of shoulder blades and lay there as a depressed, exhausted, or disabled-on-bed human all day long. Night. Off to listen to moderate-left NPR with BBC radio at late night, radical left KPFA because there's little commercials because my neck and head pain at night can't deal with loud screaming people, and Vietnamese radio to learn Vietnamese again to prepare going back where I belong (if it's not too gay), and sometimes radical right and Jesus radio if my arthritis are not too weak to change channels and switching from AM to FM. My old exhausted from suing and anger eyes can't watch tv at night anymore, and my arthritis can't flick the channels anymore, us all the loudness in commercials drive my mental illness mad so I turn to radio to keep me entertained during lonely night and even doing research about the world. As an invalid and a mental l, at night, the radio serves as my boyfriend and going out everywhere. Wish I know if these tricks to trick my brain to go out to search for love, then I would have hady PHS by now, excellent English, a condo, and a job. There's no such thing as love for me for all men turn gays without women. Pathetic.

[petnews2day]

City Cat Radio - June 19, 2024 | KPFA

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/dZymj

City Cat Radio - June 19, 2024 | KPFA

City Cat Radio, the weekly radio program of Oakland’s own DJ/Producer/Engineer DJ HENROC, is designed to celebrate plain old good music including Soul, Roots, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, Afro Beat, Funk, House and Underground Hip Hop. For nearly 25yrs, DJ HENROC has played at some the world’s premier venues and has collected music from all musical […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/dZymj #CatsNews

[remembertheplunge]

8/25/24.

This is a T shirt I got for making a financial pledge to KPFA. KPFA is listener sponsored. I probably got the T shirt in the late 1990’s. The T shirt symbolized the Radio Show “Across the Great Divide”.

[sgokie2024]

“Was it right having made the atom bomb, to then drop it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?“— question asked to Bertrand Russell

Russell's answer: “No! Oh, no. That was a dastardly and most wanton piece of cruelty. The Japanese were beaten by that point and they were going to surrender quite soon. There is no point whatever dropping the first bomb, and when you dropped the first there is still less point in dropping the second. Both were wanton acts of great cruelty. The Americans had made this "wonderful weapon" and they wanted to show it off and it if killed some hundreds of thousands of people, well, they thought that was only a detail.“

— Bertrand Russell, On Nuclear Morality KPFA Interview with Mike Tigar (1962)

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Background: Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Almost eighty years later, substantial debate continues to exist over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• Supporters of the bombings generally assert they directly caused the Japanese surrender, preventing massive casualties on both sides in the planned invasion of Japan. Critics often view this position as a myth and part of a post-war “American patriotic orthodoxy“. Supporters argue that had the war continued, so would the military and civilian casualties not only on the Japanese home islands, but also throughout the Pacific, from Formosa to mainland China, Vietnam, Burma and the Dutch East Indies. These supporters hold The Bomb liberated thousands of Allied prisoners of war and millions of civilian laborers working in harsh conditions under a forced mobilization.

• Opponents argue that war-weary Japan would likely have surrendered soon, months or even weeks later, regardless of the atomic bombings on account of the near total collapse of the economy; the lack of food, and industrial materials; threat of internal revolution; and the general question of surrender debated by the Imperial Japanese command earlier that year. However, others find surrender highly unlikely and argue that Japan would have put up a spirited resistance of perhaps several years. Other critics believe Japan was specifically motivated to surrender by the Soviet Union's invasion of Manchuria and other Japanese-held areas (Imperial Japan greatly feared communism seeing Soviet occupation as “Japanese cultural death“ and if captured by Stalin “the emperor's certain execution“). Other critics compromise and hold the second atomic bombing on Nagasaki “totally unnecessary“ and find Hiroshima “an unfortunate consequence of total war“.

However, most historians agree that the ultimate decision to surrender rested with the emperor alone, who was probably influenced by a combination of all these factors, but primarily with the continued starvation of the Japanese people and the great fear of Soviet occupation. Over the course of time, these different arguments have gained and lost support as new evidence has become available and as new studies have been completed.

In summary, supporters of the bombings generally assert that they caused the Japanese surrender, preventing massive casualties on both sides in the planned invasion of Japan: Kyūshū was to be invaded in November 1945 and Honshū only four months later. Those who oppose the bombings argue it was militarily unnecessary and so inherently immoral, a war crime, or a form of state terrorism for which no one has ever, or will be convicted.

Image: Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph of a mother and child in the radioactive wasteland of 1945 Hiroshima.

[ligiaonwlz]

Friday 4/12 a colleague and friend in the disability Justice movement, Connie Arnold was interviewed by Adrienne Lauby on Pushing Limits at 94.1 FM KPFA. (Interview starts at 7:50 the link is below)

The interview was about the shortage of the shortage of in-home care, in action by our leaders, inadequate pay scales, and the consequences of all of it on the disabled the interview is very honest, accurate, and very real for many of us. I can't say that I've never felt hopeless with no way out because of this situation. It's something that many of us struggle with. Connie has actually talked with me during these times. Thank you Connie! Please listen and share, please create more awareness around this issue that hurts our community...

https://kpfa.org/

https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=421201

If you are in a tough spot and feel hopeless, I know it won't solve all of the issues, but please either call 988 or seek help from The following places...

https://www.smchealth.org/suicide-prevention

https://star-vista.org/programs/crisis-center/

(ID: 94.1 KPFA on the right there is an image of a person yelling into a microphone with music notes on the right)

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El viernes 12 de abril, Connie Arnold, colega y amiga del movimiento por la justicia de las personas con discapacidad, fue entrevistada por Adrienne Lauby en Pushing Limits en 94.1 FM KPFA. (La entrevista comienza a las 7:50 el enlace está debajo)

La entrevista fue sobre la escasez de atención domiciliaria, las acciones de nuestros líderes, las escalas salariales inadecuadas y las consecuencias de todo esto para las personas discapacitadas. La entrevista es muy honesta, precisa y muy real para muchos de nosotros. No puedo decir que nunca me haya sentido desesperada y sin salida debido a esta situación, es algo con lo que muchos de nosotros luchamos. De hecho, Connie ha hablado conmigo durante estos momentos. ¡Gracias Connie! Por favor escuche y comparta, para tener más conciencia sobre este tema que daña a nuestra comunidad...

https://kpfa.org/

https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=421201

Si se encuentra en una situación y se siente desesperado, sé que no resolverá todos los problemas, pero llame al 988 o busque ayuda en los siguientes lugares...

https://www.smchealth.org/suicide-prevention

https://star-vista.org/programs/crisis-center/

(D: 94.1 KPFA a la derecha hay una imagen de una persona gritando ante un micrófono con notas musicales a la derecha)

[rebeleden]

Nazis in America: Mae Brussell and Mama O'Shea (KPFA, 1977?)

STOP NAZI INSURRECTIONIST KKKILLER KKKLOWN DT

STOP VANILLA ISIS