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FTV 196 Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Part Two
This week on From the Vault we continue our celebration of Black History month by presenting the second part of our newest acquisition, a celebrity reading of Ralph Ellison’s landmark novel Invisible Man, produced for radio in 1995 by Roy Hurst and Gloria Mashunga Roberts. This radio reading breathes new life into the first and only novel published during the life of Ralph Ellison, not only blending celebrity readers such as Lawrence Fishburne, Alfree Woodard, Roscoe Lee Browne, Levar Burton, and Wynton Marsallis, but also utilizing the voice of the average invisible man. This week’s reading is by the late Roscoe Lee Browne.
First, though, we will feature a 1958 reading by Langston Hughes, and hear an insightful and intimate peak into the personal life of one of America’s great poets, novelists, and playwrights.
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FTV 195 Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Part One
This week on From the Vault we kick off our celebration of Black History month by presenting the first part of our newest acquisition, a celebrity reading of Ralph Ellison’s landmark novel, Invisible Man. Pacifica Radio Archives is excited and proud to present the first installment of a 48 part community radio reading of Invisible Man, produced in 1995 by Roy Hurst and Gloria Mashunga Roberts. This radio reading breathes new life into the first and only novel published during the life of Ralph Ellison, not only blending celebrity readers such as Lawrence Fishburne, Alfree Woodard, Roscoe Lee Browne, Levar Burton, and Wynton Marsallis, but also utilizing the voice of the average invisible man.
We’ll also feature one of the recently restored Black History recordings of James Baldwin, courtesy of the American Archive Pilot Project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This previously unheard speech by James Baldwin was recorded at the Second Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1963.
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Help Out with Programming at KPFT
KPFT is seeking listeners to help out with a new committee that will report its findings to station management about the quality of programming and ways of improving programming.
Contact Ernesto Aguilar [pd@kpft.org] to get involved.
January 2010 PNB Meeting Agenda
The Open Session January 29, 2010 starts at 5 pm Eastern Time (4 pm Central Time, 2pm Pacific Time). The Open meeting on Saturday will start at approximately 9 AM and on Sunday it will start at approximately 11 AM Eastern Time. There will be 1 hour lunch and dinner breaks at 1 pm and 6 pm on Saturday, and 1 pm on Sunday, unless otherwise decided.)
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FTV 194 Haiti
This week on From the Vault we present historical recordings on Haiti, where on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck that was centered very close to Port-au-Prince, the capitol city that now lies in ruins. Our first selection is from a recording of Jean-Bertrand Aristide from 1990, being interviewed just months before his election as President of Haiti. Then we feature a voodoo ceremony recorded with special permission by Pacifica producer Verna Gilles in 1975. Finally, KPFK host Margaret Prescod outlines the ousting of Aristide in 2004 on a special edition of the Sojourner Truth radio program.
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PNB Passes Fiscal Accountability Policy
[from the ED and CFO, as cited by R. Paul Martin]
The National Office would create 6 Station Revenue Accounts: one for each of the five stations and one for the archives in the cities where they are located. Both the National Office and designated station personnel could monitor their respective accounts, e.g., WBAI and National Office could monitor the WBAI Revenue Account, the Archives and National Office could monitor the Archives Revenue Account, etc. Only the National Office could transfer funds out of these Revenue Accounts.
FTV 193 John Cage
This week on From The Vault we profile one of the great innovative thinkers and visionary geniuses of the 20th Century…. and the man who helped create the field of modern music: John Cage.
We invited KPFK Los Angeles’ Global Village music host and admirer of John Cage’s life and work John Schneider to help us navigate through some of the remarkable Cage recordings contained in the Pacifica Radio Archives, including the only known recording of his “45 minutes for a Speaker” performance. Schneider also introduces The Pacifica Radio Archive’s recording of John Cage speaking about his collaborations with artists such as Robert Rauschenberg (recorded in 1965 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), and John Cage and Morton Feldman from a 1966 conversation recorded on Pacifica Radio’s New York Station WBAI.
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FTV 192 Immigration and Labor Panel, 1982
This week on From the Vault Pacifica Radio Archives is proud to present a historic panel discussion on comprehensive immigration reform legislation. In 1982, KPFA Producer Richard Gonzalez assembled three diverse panel members to discuss the historical, emotional and legal issues raised by immigration reform: Joaquin Avila, then-President and Lead Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund; Elizabeth Martinez, a Chicana feminist best known for work, “500 years of Chicano History in Pictures;” and Ignacio de la Fuente of the International Molders and Allied Workers Union, Local 164. The panel was moderated by Armando Valdez, the Director of the Center for Chicano Research at Stanford University.
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FTV 191 From the Vault on the BBC
For over two years, the same material used in our weekly From the Vault has also been featured on the BBC Radio 5 Live Up All Night program, allowing us to share Pacifica Radio Archives’ rich and diverse history with a UK audience. With this international outreach, we have shared many global voices and highlighted the political temperature of the time, with artist, activists, politicians, and those who would be otherwise unheard. Our BBC audience has been treated to the musing of comics such as Richard Pryor following the Attica Prison rebellion, and the late George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words.” They’ve been exposed to an alternative view of the Democratic National Convention riots back in 1968, and to the people who hit the road taking part in the Poor People’s Campaign. They’ve heard, too, the authentic voices of Noam Chomsky, Audre Lorde, Studs Terkel, Les Paul, and Che Guevara to name a few. In this episode of From the Vault we look back on some of the programs produced for the BBC, featuring this amazing tapestry of audio held within the Pacifica Radio Archives.
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FTV 190 Julio’s Holiday Special: All is Calm
This week on From The Vault, KPFK Arts In Review host Julio Martinez presents original productions of several holiday classics: O. Henry’s The Gift of The Magi, Dylan Thomas’s, A Child’s Christmas In Wales, Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus by newspaper editor Francis Church, and All is Calm: The Story of Silent Night.
These Christmas tales are produced by Julio Martinez and performed by the KPFK Arts In Review Repertory Players.
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FTV 189 Dustin Hoffman
This week on From The Vault we take a trip back to 1970 and listen to a conversation with the actor Dustin Hoffman. Most people have a sense of who Dustin Hoffman is both on film and as an advocate for the acting profession.
In 1970, when this conversation was recorded, He was receiving accolades for his work, including his 1967 breakthrough performance in Mike Nichols’ The Graduate, John and Mary with Mia Farrow (1969), and his iconic role as “Ratso Rizzo” in Midnight Cowboy. His film Little Big Man was in theaters and he had already signed on to be the lead in Sam Peckinpah’s current project Straw Dogs.
What we love about this recording is its informality. It isn’t about selling a film… it’s not part of a film press junket… but simple conversation about the craft and experience of acting. In addition to talking about the cinematic art form, being a Pacifica station, the conversation always includes the politics of times… which in 1970 included the Vietnam War, the Kent State killings, the youth movement in general and the role of social/political movements such as the Young Lords and The Black Panthers. Hoffman also comments on the Black Panther Party and Young Lords, who designed breakfast programs and education and health centers to help their community.
Dustin Hoffman and his wife survived living next door to a Weather Underground stronghold in Greenwich Village. On March 6, 1970, just before this interview, The Weather Underground members were assembling bombs when they accidentally set them off killing 4 and completely destroying the townhouse.
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Local Community Radio Act Passes, Help Needed
Our friends at the Prometheus Radio Project report that today the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Local Community Radio Act with a voice vote.
Now all eyes are on the Senate. Prometheus says you can call your Senators this week and ask them to get the Local Community Radio Act (S592) on the Senate agenda.
“Once we pass the bill, we can light up the country with real local media – bringing community news, independent music, and local perspectives to the public airwaves,” Prometheus says.
December 2009 Pacifica National Board Teleconference
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Friday, December 11, 2009 and Sunday, December 13, 2009)
FTV 188 Noam Chomsky
This week on From The Vault we celebrate “The Smartest Man in the World”, Noam Chomsky, presenting the Pacifica Radio Archive’s earliest recording of Noam Chomsky – at a 1968 Draft Resistance teach-in – where Chomsky presents the United States interest in Vietnam.
Then, we’ll listen as Chomsky sits down in 1981 with KPFA Berkeley host Phillip Maldari to make sense of the Camp David Peace Accords signed by Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menacham Begin of Israel, witnessed by President Jimmy Carter.
Moving on, we hear a March 1992 recording of Noam Chomsky participated in a Creeping Fascism Forum produced by Pacifica Station WBAI in New York.
We end this episode with a recording from June 2009, where Chomsky weighs in on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India before contemplating the threat of global warming.
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FTV 187 WTO Remembered
This week on From The Vault we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of “The Battle in Seattle”, the grassroots effort by ordinary Citizens that shut down the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference despite a last minute personal visit by President Bill Clinton to salvage the Conference.
Pacifica Radio Archive’s Senior Producer was in Seattle that week working with Marc Cooper and John Nichols of Radio Nation, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, and Jim Hightower on their respective daily radio shows.
This program presents the very best of these recordings:
- Ralph Nader debating Undersecretary of Commerce David Aaron in Seattle’s newly opened Town Hall Community Center.
- Director General of the World Trade Organization Mike Moore with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney Responding.
- Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone
- Brian McWilliams, Longshoreman’s Union President announcing the shutting down of all west-coast ports
- Radio Nation hosts Marc Cooper and John Nichols on the streets as the most amazing demonstrations shut down The WTO meetings and Downtown Seattle.
- Actuality of chants, police reaction, beatings, tear gassing, and resistance.
- Comments from the wide spectrum of protesters from union members, teachers, environmentalists, and regular concerned citizens who descended on Seattle that week.
- Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich
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