Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble The KPFA cauldron continues to bubble away, and as the heat rises in Berkeley it may be the people of the Central Valley who get burned. [...] Continue Reading
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Progressive News Briefs
Fresno Police Officers Beat Homeless Man In February 2009, Fresno police officers Jeff Gross and Scott Payn were caught on videotape beating Glen Beaty. Beaty, who was homeless at the time, had been [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
{Editor’s note: We received a lot of letters to the editor in response to the December story we ran about the conflict at KPFA and how it will affect KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno. Below are some of those [...] Continue Reading
POETRY CORNER
Edited by Richard Stone This month’s poem is written by JON WELSH, a friend of Alfonso C. Hernandez who is in turn a friend of The Alliance affiliated with the Porterville Unitarian Universalist [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron
Living in an America I No Longer Recognize I have been feeling for some time that I am living in an increasingly unfamiliar nation. It has reached the point that some days I look in the mirror in my [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
Agent of Change or of the Government?? By Ernesto Saavedra “Mr. Moderator, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can’t believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don’t [...] Continue Reading
What the *%&@ Is Going on at KPFA?
Pacifica Removes Morning Show, Fires Hosts Talking about KPFA is a little like asking someone, “So, what’s up in the Balkans and why are these people fighting?”—Conn Hallinan What if you turned on [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Having a newspaper to communicate the stories about what is going on in this community is an essential foundation if we are going to make changes that bring about peace, social and economic justice. [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Remembering George “Elfie” Ballis I just got to the mailbox yesterday and saw the final result of the feature article you did on George. It is a relief to have the scope of his/our work [...] Continue Reading
How Corporate America Is Pushing Us All Off a Cliff
When someone talks about pushing you off a cliff, it’s just human nature to be curious about them. Who are these people, you wonder, and why would they want to do such a thing? That’s what I was [...] Continue Reading
Video Remix Festival in January
“Oil and War” will be the theme of a first-of-its-kind Critical Remix Festival. The festival and gallery opening will take place January 6, 2011, at 5 p.m. at Gallery 25 (660 Van Ness Ave.) in [...] Continue Reading
From the Communications Side
There are foreboding winds stirring in the electronic media world: A virtual battle of titans approaches as the major telecommunications, data and video providers determine the future flow and [...] Continue Reading