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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 577: W.E.B. Dubois: 100 Years of The Souls of Black Folk (Part One)
This week on From the Vault, we kick off 2018 Black History Month by featuring rare recordings of one of America’s greatest intellectuals, W.E.B. DuBois. In 2003, The Pacifica Radio Archives celebrated the 100 year anniversary of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B DuBois with a two hour special tribute narrated…
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From the Vault 578: W.E.B. Dubois: 100 Years of The Souls of Black Folk (Part One)
This week on From the Vault, we continue our celebration of 2018 Black History Month by featuring rare recordings of one of America’s greatest intellectuals, W.E.B. DuBois. In 2003, The Pacifica Radio Archives celebrated the 100 year anniversary of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B DuBois with a two hour special…
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From the Vault 579: East Los Angeles Walkouts 1968 – 50th Anniversary
On February 14, 2018, one of the deadliest school shootings in United States history took place at Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland Florida. Since then, high school students have led the resurging conversation on gun control. The history of high school student activism in America can be traced to high school students of mostly…
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From the Vault 580: Dolores Huerta’s 88th Birthday Celebration
This week on From the Vault we celebrate the 88th birthday of Dolores Huerta, who became a public figure in the mid-1960’s when she cofounded the United Farm Workers Union with Cesar Chavez. Today Dolores heads the Dolores Huerta Foundation, where she continues to fight for equality and justice for underrepresented communities. Dan Guerrero, host of the…
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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…