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Join Us this Tuesday! The Pacifica Radio Archives National Broadcast

Please join the Pacifica Radio Archives for our annual National Broadcast & Fundraising GALA Tuesday November 10 from 6am-9pm PST and 9am-midnight EST. This will be heard on your Favorite Pacifica Station
KPFK 90.7 FM – Los Angeles, KPFA 94.1 FM – Berkeley, KPFT 90.1 FM – Houston, WPFW 89.3 FM – Washington DC, and WBAI 99.5 FM – New York

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myemail.constantcontact.com Voices that Change the World Join us as we celebrate the historic Pacifica Radio Archives! Voices that Change the World Tuesday 11/10/2020 6AM-9PM PST "I had decided that I had to know once and for a

Support the Pacifica Radio Archives online now or tune in this Tuesday April 7, from 6am-9p PST as we present The Pacifica Radio Archives Day for Health and Community, a National Day to Celebrate Pacifica’s commitment to our Community’s Health and Well-Being.

Tune in and hear from the best Healthcare Professionals including several from the World Renowned Mayo Clinic, hosted by your favorite Pacifica hosts Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Margaret Prescod of Sojourner Truth Radio and Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar.
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Tune in this Tuesday April 7 to the Pacifica Radio Archives Day for Health and Community, a National Day to Celebrate Pacifica’s commitment to our Community’s Health and Well-Being.

You will be hearing from the leading experts from the Mayo Clinic, leading Healthcare professionals, and your favorite Pacifica hosts Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Margaret Prescod of Sojourner Truth Radio, Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar and as we try to make sense of this Healthcare crisis.

We will ALL get through this crisis TOGETHER by learning from our history and being informed from our best current Healthcare professionals. Heard on ALL 5 Pacifica Stations KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, KPFA Radio, WBAI 99.5 FM New York, WPFW, 90.1 FM KPFT Houston beginning 6am PST 9am EST

2019 Pacfica Radio Archives Margaret Prescod

If you missed our 1 day Broadcast fundraiser... take a listen to this hour hosted by KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara host Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod. Margaret played a few audio recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Reverend Ralph Abernathy to showcase the many wonderful and powerful voices in Pacifica's collection.
You can still make your $250.00 tax deductible donation on our secure online website www.PacificaRadioArchives.org

soundcloud.com Sojourner Truth host Margaret Prescod joins Pacifica Archives Director Mark Torres on this National Broadcast day to raise funds for the 65,000 radio archives Collection. This collection contains th

Please consider giving to the Pacifica Radio Archives this Holiday giving season..!! Listen to Our Live National Broadcast Tuesday December 3, 201 from 6am-9pm PST (9am-midnight EST) and donate to help save the greatest collection of Community Radio Recordings in the United States.
Whether it's Cyber Monday or giving Tuesday go to www.SupportPRA.org to donate and we will send you the greatest gift you can receive this holiday season The Gift of Knowledge and History. Bob Dylan, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Fannie Lou Hamer, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Maya Angelou, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez and so many more. over 1200 hours of unique Pacifica Recordings going back to 1949.

Please consider giving to the Pacifica Radio Archives this Holiday giving season..!! Listen to Our Live National Broadcast Tuesday December 3, 201 from 6am-9pm PST (9am-midnight EST) and donate to help save the greatest collection of Community Radio Recordings in the United States.
Whether it's Cyber Monday or giving Tuesday go to www.SupportPRA.org to donate and we will send you the greatest gift you can receive this holiday season The Gift of Knowledge and History. Bob Dylan, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Fannie Lou Hamer, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Maya Angelou, dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez and so many more. over 1200 hours of unique Pacifica Recordings going back to 1949.

KPFK Radio Celebrates 60 Years of Indie Radio

I've been working here for a lifetime and I'm just scratching the surface of these audio gems. I'm working on a giant project to digitize the remaining 50,000k programs. Donate now to help preserve more of this historic collection..!! PacificaRadioArchivesDOTorg

spectrumnews1.com Library of Congress considers it an important collection.

Love ❤️ to all our Family and Friends

Ballad Of Pete Seeger Part 1

Happy 100th Birthday Pete..!!!

soundcloud.com May 3 2019 marks the 100th birthday of one of Americans most prolific folk singer songwriters and Humanitarian, Pete Seeger. In honor of the Centenial Celebration the Pacifica Radio Archives is presen

The Pacifica Radio Archives National Broadcast and Fundraiser Tuesday November 13, 2018 6am-9pm PST

[11/13/18]   Big Fundraiser Tuesday November 13, 2018 6am-9pm PST www.PacificaRadioArchives.org

Pacifica Radio Archives Promo Short

The Pacifica Radio Archives is currently holding our 1 day National Broadcast NOW..!! Tuesday November 14, 2017.Please call 1 800-735-0230 and pledge to help us continue our work to digitize and preserve the remaining reels in our collection. Please SHARE THIS with ALL your friends..!! thank you..!!

In 2012, The Pacifica Radio Archives produced a short film to promote the unique audio collection of Community Radio recordings that covers 1949 to the present.

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Rosa Parks, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Just a few of the voices you will here on the The Pacifica Radio Archives Annual National Broadcast and fundraiser THIS Tuesday November 14 from 6am -9pm. Please tune in to KPFK 90.7FM or your local Pacífica Station and help us preserve the greatest Community Radio collection in the World. #bobdylan #jimihendrix #rosaparks #jamesbaldwin #mayaangelou #drmartinlutherkingjr

FTV 0571 Dick Gregory 2017

The Pacifica Radio Archives salutes Dick Gregory on this edition of from the Vault. Dick Gregory, Comedian, Civil Rights activist and Humanitarian who died today August 19 at the age of 84. The challenge of creating humor out of something as bleak and tragic as racism in America, fell into the hands of a young man from Chicago with an acerbic wit and a charismatic presence. Dick Gregory, a longtime Pacifica radio personality, supporter and board member, became one of the first African American comedians to successfully deal with Race to both White and Black audiences. And he confronted Race and Class head on.

soundcloud.com On this edition of from the Vault we celebrate the life of Dick Gregory, Comedian, Civil Rights activist and Humanitarian who died today August 19 at the age of 84. The challenge of creating humor out

Leonard Cohen speaks in 1974 on the wild and winding paths of the creative process

Thank you Eric Alper for profiling Pacifica's 1974 Leonard Cohen interview. Pacifica's interview is important for several reasons: 1. Pacifica Radio WBAI host Judy Collins invites Cohen to his first live performance at a WBAI benefit.. I have Judy telling the story. 2. WBAI host Kathleen Kendel asks Leonard Cohen to recite some of his earliest poems... Leonard says that he doesn't have those early book of poems on him.. Kathleen says i do... and hands him the book to read... so he reads a few early poems. 3. PBS's Blank on Blank production company created an animated short from Leonard Cohen's story on the creation of his song Sister's of Mercy. There are probably many more reasons... but check out the Eric Alper recent post of Pacifica's Leonard Cohen recording. Leonard Cohen

thatericalper.com Pacifica Radio has an incredible interview with Leonard Cohen from December 4, 1974. That year, Cohen would meet an important young musician and producer John Lissauer that produced Cohen’s l…

John Coltrane Wants to Be 'Force for Good' in Rare Interview

It's hard to believe this animated short of our rare 1966 John Coltrane interview by Blank on Blank was featured in Rolling Stone Magazine. It changed the anonymity of the Pacifica Radio Archive Collection forever. Because of this production and reviews like this, our audio is now heard in over 105 countries around the world and we have been listened by over 100,000 individuals. Our audio is on track to be listened to by over 50,000 individuals this year alone. And the number 1 listen is still Pacifica's unique recording of John Coltrane. #rollingstoneMagazine #homeofbenfongtorres #homeofhunterSThompson

www.rollingstone.com "I think music is an instrument," jazz legend says in animated interview. "It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people"

John Coltrane Wants to Be 'Force for Good' in Rare Interview

The Pacifica Radio Archive's has just gone over 100,000 listens on our soundcloud page. The single most popular program listened in over 105 countries around the world is our very rare John Coltrane 1966 Interview. It doesn't hurt that a PBS funded Blank on Blank Animated Series did an animated short using the Pacifica Radio Archives' recording. This has caught the attention of a lot of media including this article by the The Rolling Stone Magazine

rollingstone.com John Coltrane reflects on life and music in a rare interview that PBS has animated.

Donald Byrd and the Art of Education | NEA

The National Endowment for the Arts just referenced the very excellent interview of jazz Legend Donald Byrd by James Graves of Night Journey. The Pacifica Radio Archives collection is a Treasure..!! Protect the NEA and The Pacifica Radio Archives..!!!

arts.gov Well, my uncle was a drummer and I started playing drums, but it didn't make no music to me, and I said, "Man, I can't use this." And so I wanted to play trumpet.

Alfred Hitchcock on Dead Bodies

The Pacifica Radio Archive's is happy to announce the launch of the latest Blank on Blank Animated Short featuring our 1957 Interview with The Master of Suspense... Alfred Hitchcock. This interview was conducted by KPFA producer Colin Edwards on the set of "From Among The Dead" starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Paramount executives were giving Hitchcock a hard time about have Dead in the title so after this interview He rnamed the film Vertigo... ENJOY..!!! Alfred Hitchcock

"If I did a story or a musical about Cinderella, they would be waiting for the body to turn up" - Alfred Hitchcock in 1957 Interview by Colin Edwards from th...

Listen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Gwendolyn Brooks and Betty White read stories out loud

Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) just referenced The Pacifica Radio Archive's 1964 recording of Poet Gwendolyn Brooks reading her outstanding and insightful and one of my favorite poems "We Real Cool". Gwendolyn Brooks wrote and read on this occasion her forward to the "New Negro Poets U.S.A." anthology (ed. Langston Hughes, 1963). Brooks was the first African American writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize, and she was the poet laureate of the state of Illinois. Boom..!! #Respect Minnesota Public Radio

mprnews.org Today is World Read Aloud Day. To celebrate, listen to some classic literature and children's books read by familiar voices: Al Gore, Flannery O'Connor and more.

Al Jarreau Julio Martinez KPFK 1968 A Day In The Life

One Day in November of 1968 Al Jarreau and Julio Martinez on guitar recorded several songs in KPFK's Studio A. To salute the loss of an original... Here is one of those songs courtesy of Julio Martinez host of KPFK's Arts in Review. The entire session is housed in the Pacifica Radio Archives. Rest in Peace Al Jarreau.

soundcloud.com In November of 1968, Al Jarreau and Julio Martinez stepped into the KPFK's Studio A to record several songs before a big showcase at The Sunset Strip's famous Dino's Lodge of Dean Martin Celebrity fam

Elizabeth Warren, we feel your pain

CNN just referenced The Pacifica Radio Archive's historic 1956 interview with Rosa Parks talking about her bus boycott action in an article about the attempted silence of Senator Elizabeth Warren BOOM #respect

cnn.com Elizabeth Warren's response to being silenced in the Senate is a reminder confidence is a skill -- one women everywhere embrace, says Mel Robbins.

WGBH

One of the premiere public broadcasting stations from Boston Massachusetts WGBH showing love for the Pacifica Radio Archive's collection by sharing this Current Magazine story... BOOM..!! #Respect

"In one 1962 interview from the Pacifica Radio Archives, civil rights icon Rosa Parks discusses why she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955."

Learn more about American Archive of Public Broadcasting's collection of radio and video on the history of protesting in America. via Current.org

Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost NYU Lecture on What It Takes to Be a Writer, Animated

Pacifica Radio has always given space to writers who often times are at the vanguard of human thought. On November 8, 1970 Pacifica Radio recorded Kurt Vonnegut guest lecturing in a New York University classroom. The wonderful Blank on Blank animated series created an animated short from their favorite Vonnegut soundbites all of this is referenced in this article by Brain Pickings

brainpickings.org “Nothing means anything — except the artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole, though no such holes exist.”

FTV 0555 Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Tribute 1967 & 1968

The Pacifica Radio Archives pays tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with 2 speeches from 1967 and 1968 when he was evolving his work away from race and made his message more about class.

soundcloud.com On this week’s From The Vault, We Celebrate the Life and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with 2 speeches near the end of his life that rarely get any notice. By 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King’s stra

Dustin Hoffman 1971 Interview on Duplicity and Famosity

The wonderful Blank on Blank animated short series did a segment on Pacifica's 1971 interview with Dustin Hoffman. I thought they were going to use Pacifica's 1967 interview with Hoffman and Director Mike Nichols on the set of The Graduate, but this 1971 interview is insightful and wonderful in it's own way... Hoffman had already also shot Midnight Cowboy, survived a Weather Underground bombing in next to his New York City flat. He had a lot to say about Life and the craft of acting.... enjoy...

blankonblank.org Watch a vintage interview with actor Dustin Hoffman on duplicity, famosity, sex, drugs, and youth in this new animated film short.

Hear a Great 4-Hour Radio Documentary on the Life & Music of Jimi Hendrix: Features Rare Recordings & Interviews

Bloggers keep blogging about the Pacifica Radio Archives collection....

moorbey.wordpress.com The legacy of Jimi Hendrix’s estate has been in conflict in recent years. Since his father’s death in 2002, his siblings have squabbled over his money and battled unlicensed and bootleg venders. Bu…

Hear a Great 4-Hour Radio Documentary on the Life & Music of Jimi Hendrix: Features Rare Recordings & Interviews

The Pacifica Radio Archives holds a National Treasure of recordings going back to 1949. Here is a review of Pacifica's 4-part documentary on Jimi Hendrix and links to listen to it... Love and Peace to All. Enjoy.

openculture.com The legacy of Jimi Hendrix’s estate has been in conflict in recent years. Since his father’s death in 2002, his siblings have squabbled over his money and battled unlicensed and bootleg venders.

Hear A Young Bob Dylan Sing 11 Songs and Tell Tall Tales on a 1962 Radio Show

Another nice write up on Pacifica's 1962 Bob Dylan recording when he was 20 years old, BEFORE the release of his debut self titled release....

openculture.com In February of 1962, less than a month before the release of his debut album, an obscure young folk singer named Bob Dylan recorded some songs and an interview for a local New York City radio show called Folksinger's Choice.

A Complete Reading of George Orwell’s 1984: Aired on Pacifica Radio, 1975

The Pacifica Radio Archives just finished uploading the complete 1975 reading of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighy-Four. by Charles Morgan and voiceover genius June Foray. Open Culture online forum presented an outstanding review of the series. Enjoy..!!

openculture.com 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Thus, with one of the best-known opening sentences in all English literature, begins George Orwell's 1984, the novel that even 67 years after its publication remains perhaps the most oft-referenced vision of totalitarianism'...

Listen to a Suffragist Recall Marching on the White House in 1913

Women will continue to play an increasingly important role in the development of civil society... Here is a Time magazine article referencing our Pacifica Radio recording of Isola Dodic, who reflected on her march on the White House with other Suffragists to demand the right to vote in 1913. Powerful Women making change.

time.com On International Women's Day, hear from a woman who fought for the right to vote