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KPFA

KPFA (94.1 FM) is a listener-funded progressive talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, U.S., broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station signed on-the-air April 15, 1949, as the first Pacifica station and remains the flagship station of the Pacifica Radio Network. The aims of the station are to promote cultural diversity, promote pluralistic cultural expression, contribute to a lasting understanding between individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colours. It also promotes freedom of the press and acts as a forum for various viewpoints.

The station's studios are located in Downtown Berkeley and the transmitter site is located in the Berkeley Hills.

History

Launched in 1949, three years after the Pacifica Foundation was created by pacifist Lewis Hill, KPFA became the first station in the Pacifica Radio network and the first listener-supported radio broadcaster in the United States. Previously, non-commercial stations were licensed only to serve educational functions as extensions of high schools, colleges, and universities. This departure into listener-oriented programming brought many detractors as KPFA aired controversial programming. The first interview with anyone from the gay political movement was broadcast by KPFA, as well as Allen Ginsberg's ground-breaking poem Howl in the 1950s. In 1954 the broadcast by a group of marijuana reform advocates extolling the pleasures of cannabis resulted in the tape being impounded by the California Attorney General. In the 1960s KPFA and Pacifica were accused of being controlled by the Communist Party, and several challenges to its license were waged, none of them successful.

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by Eve
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by Samuele Bersani

Cowboy

by: Eve

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How she dish shit
Man, woman, boy and girl got addicted
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E-V is top notch, I had to spot watch
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Fucked the game up
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And it remains us
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Where my thugs at? (WHAT)
Where my niggas gettin stacks?
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Where my hoes at? (WHAT)
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You know where we at
Uh, yo
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Only into big things
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The Legacy of the ’90s at KPFA

Dissident Voice 18 Sep 2024

Longtime KPFA listeners remember 1999 as the year of the Hijacking, the Lockout, and the massive response ... But acolytes of that regime remained, and their proteges are today very much back in control — the gatekeeper clique at KPFA.

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Larry Bensky, a Fixture of Left-Wing Radio, Is Dead at 87

New York Times 03 Jun 2024

A self-described activist-journalist, he was for many years the national affairs correspondent for the community-focused Pacifica network ... .

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Larry Bensky, Veteran KPFA Broadcaster Who Reported on Iran-Contra, Dies at 87

Democracy Now 21 May 2024

Larry Bensky, award-winning reporter and veteran KPFA radio broadcaster, died Sunday at the age of 87 ... In this KPFA clip, Bensky reflects on why he chose the career of journalism.

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Larry Bensky, the signature voice of KPFA news radio, dead at 87

East Bay Times 21 May 2024

The signature voice of left-leaning station KPFA, Bensky was most famous for his live broadcasts of the Iran-Contra hearings of the late 1980s, which won him the prestigious George Polk Award ... “He always wanted KPFA to be better and bigger,” he said.

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Is KPFA Transitioning from Antiwar to Peacewashing?

Dissident Voice 14 Sep 2023

No, they had the right one — KPFA at 94.1 FM ... He came to KPFA in April 2023 ... This was KPFA, founded by Lew Hill, a dedicated pacifist who spent time in prison for his uncompromising beliefs.

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Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker, Bay Area radio staple with KFOG and KPFA and ‘first Buddhist stand-up,’ dies

San Francisco Chronicle 10 Aug 2023

After listening to Bay Area radio staple Wes “Scoop” Nisker, who died recently, “you came away less depressed by the news, more able to take it in,” one of his peers said ... .

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Media Matters’ Evlondo Cooper joins KPFA’s A Rude Awakening to discuss inconsistent and inequitable climate ...

Media Matters 20 Jun 2023

Full Episode here. A Rude Awakening 6-16-23. June 16, 2023. Audio file. Citation From the June 16, 2023, episode of KPFA's "A Rude Awakening". SABRINA JACOBS (HOST, A RUDE AWAKENING) ... Talk to us about it. EVLONDO COOPER (SENIOR RESEARCHER, MEDIA MATTERS).

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How the Seizure of a Radio Station Led to the Seizure of $305,000 from KPFA

Dissident Voice 18 Dec 2022

A few days ago federal marshals seized $305,000 from KPFA, a progressive radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area ... Most of Vernile’s team and backers were at KPFA in California. KPFA’s power elite supported the takeover of WBAI.