Pacifica Radio at 60: KPFA Remains a Sanctuary of Dissent Six Decades After Its Founding

KPFA founder Lewis Hill Courtesy of KPFA Archives

Pacifica Radio at 60: KPFA Remains a Sanctuary of Dissent Six Decades After Its Founding

Democracy Now | Apr 15, 2009 | Amy Goodman, Veronica Selver, Sharon Wood, narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker

Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of Pacifica Radio. On April 15th, 1949 at 3:00 p.m., a charismatic conscientious objector named Lewis Hill sat before a microphone and said, “This is KPFA Berkeley.” With that, KPFA went on the air, and the first listener-supported radio station in the United States was born. Pacifica Radio is the oldest independent media network in the United States, and its sixtieth birthday comes as a deepening crisis engulfs mainstream media. To commemorate the sixtieth a read more

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Union Is Caught Up in Illinois Bribe Case

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New York Times, By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: December 11, 2008

The Service Employees International Union has long boasted that it is on the cutting edge of the labor movement. But the union found itself badly embarrassed this week when it was named in the federal criminal complaint charging Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois with maneuvering to secure financial gain from the appointment of the state’s next senator.

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Thousands Evacuated, More Than 100 Homes Burned in Montecito Wildfire

A firefighter works to contain a wild fire in Santa Barbara, California November 14, 2008. A huge wildfire fanned by strong winds destroyed at least 70 multimillion-dollar homes in the celebrity enclave of Montecito, northwest of Los Angeles, officials said. (Photo from Reuters Pictures)

Updated 9:51 AM PST, Fri, Nov 14, 2008

Firefighters and a squadron of aircraft launched a daylight attack Friday to push back a wind-whipped wildfire that destroyed ‘well over 100 homes’ in Montecito. The fire forced thousands to evacuate their homes in the longtime celebrity hideaway, fire officials said.

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Regulators shut banks in Texas, California

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Nov. 9, 2008 By MARCY GORDON,

WASHINGTON (AP) – Regulators shut down Houston-based Franklin Bank and Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles on Friday, bringing the number of failures of federally insured banks this year to 19.

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Bush officials moving fast to cut environmental protections

The awe-inspiring site of the Grand Canyon. (Photo courtesy Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and more mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia

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Ruling May Impede Thousands of Ohio Voters

Experts say a federal order in an election-law suit could result in the casting of more provisional ballots. Jennifer Brunner, Ohio’s secretary of state, has fought the suit. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

By IAN URBINA Published: October 15, 2008 More than 200,000 registered Ohio voters may be blocked from casting regular ballots on Election Day because of a federal appeals court decision on Tuesday requiring the disclosure of lists of voters whose names did not match those on government databases, state election officials and voting experts said.

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