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From the vault: Julio’s holiday special 2008
This week on From The Vault, KPFK Arts In Review host Julio Martinez presents original productions of three holiday classics: O. Henry’s The Gift of The Magi, Dylan Thomas’s, A Child’s Christmas In Wales, and Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus. Julio Martinez began his work at Pacifica in 1967 hosting an improvisation children’s…
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From the Vault: Sickening Societies
This week on From the Vault we look at health care in the United States by listening to the status of health care around the world in a 1976 recording called Sickening Societies. Sickening Societies serves to examine not only the cause of health problems in different regions of the world, but also to illustrate…
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From the Vault 061 : The Lively Air
Very recently here at the Pacifica Radio Archives, we happened across an amazing re-discovery of a truly special program that was previously unknown to any catalog, database, or staffer.\nThe story goes like this. A longtime KPKF programmer, Henry Slucki of Access Unlimited, the Los Angeles radio series concerning the disabled community, came to visit the…
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An Audio-Biography of Helen Caldicott (episode 2 of 12)
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From the Vault 269: Japanese in California 1959
In this edition of From the Vault we present Pacifica Radio’s earliest known recording of Japanese Americans and their families from California talking about life in America. This extraordinary 1959 recording documents stories of family life before the war and how the internment process changed lives forever. Voices include ordinary citizens, teachers, students, lawyers, architects,…
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From the Vault 581: 1968 – 50th Anniversary
This week on From the Vault, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of 1968, a year in which a radical wave crashed across the globe, changing the world and its people politically, socially, and culturally. Wars, marches, elections, assassinations, human rights, civil rights, women’s rights, the explosion of consciousness and creativity – no event took place in…
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From the Vault 571: Dick Gregory
This week on From the Vault we celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights activist, comedian, and former Pacifica Foundation board member Dick Gregory, who died on August 19th, 2017 at the age of 84. Gregory used satire and cool humor as a force for civil rights in the 1960’s, and devoted his life…
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From the Vault 572: Feminist Author and Artist Kate Millett
This week on From the Vault we explore two recordings featuring one of the leading voices of feminism, author and artist Kate Millett, whose body of work in art, literature and activism has been instrumental in shaping second-wave feminism. Millet is probably best known for her doctoral thesis turned 1970 best-selling book Sexual Politics – one of several influential…
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From the Vault 574: The History of Feminism, Part 1
Throughout history, women have suffered many injustices in the workplace, including unequal wages, unsafe work conditions and predatory sexual harassment from male administrators. This week on From the Vault, we’ll hear recordings to help us make sense of some of the Feminist efforts throughout history that have helped drive the changes happening in the present. We…
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From the Vault 575: An Evening of Insurrections with Harry Gamboa, Jr.
This week on From the Vault we present a relatively new addition to our collection, a panel discussion at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles entitled, See What You Mean: An Evening of Insurrections with Harry Gamboa, Jr. This panel was recorded on Saturday, October 28th, 2017 and features several artists that helped expand the role…