Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 08-06-24

12 AM
Creative FRONTLINE
Blowout at Platform A
Hawaiian descent surfer David Puu recalls his childhood in Santa Barbara and the birth of one front in the environmental movement, with GOO - Get Oil Out - after the blowout of an oceanic oil drilling platform off Santa Barbara polluted the sea and the beaches

12:30 AM
2024 Talks
Pacifica's national electoral news headlines for August 6

12:35 AM
General Manager and program curator Michael Novick launches KPFK's summer on-air member drive with an appeal for sustaining memberships and donations, outreach and a set of program notes regarding this week's special marathon reading of To Hell and Back - The Last Train from Hiroshima. The first two chapters will air later this morning and more chapters each night the rest of this week commemorating the atomic bombing by the US of Hiroshima August 6, 1945, and of Nagasaki three days later on August 9, 1945.

1:00 AM
Le Show with Harry Shearer

2:00 AM
Project Censored
Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week's show. In the first half-hour, we hear the story of a Texas prison inmate, Jeremy Busby, his struggle to publicize the abuses that go on behind the walls, and the prison authorities' efforts to suppress his work and retaliate against him. Also in the segment, the significance of prison journalism in the overall battle for press freedom.
In the second half of the program, the latest about Palestine, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the International Criminal Court (ICC). A legal expert examines the recent ICJ opinion on the illegality of the Israeli occupation, as well as the ICC's possible issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Jeremy Busby, inmate #00881193 in the Texas prison system, is a journalist who covers prison life from the inside. His writing can be found at freedom.press and other outlets. His web site is www.joinjeremy.org
Seth Stern is Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (www.freedom.press)
Hassan Ben Imran is a member of the governing council of Law for Palestine (www.law4palestine.org) and a researcher in law at the University of Galway in Ireland.
Resources on Incarceration:
www.securustech.net
prisonjournalismproject.org
themarshallproject.org

3:00 AM
Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg of sister stations WBAI and WPFW
Palestine is on the agenda, in a discussion with Jeff Halper

4-6:00 AM
To Hell and Back - The Last Train from Hiroshima
The first two chapters of the book-length account of the US A-bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.








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