Pacifica Radio Highlights

Pacifica Radio highlights for the week.

Via Ruth's most recent Public Radio Report:


KPFA's Sunday Salon will cover the following this Sunday (9:00 a.m. Pacific time, 11:00 a.m. Central, and noon Eastern time) :

First HourIn our first hour...
Imagine being one of several dozen women incarcerated with thousands of men. Harassment, humiliation, and in many cases, rape, are all a part of the daily routine. So is being called "sir." Outside of prison, transgender folks often face a hurtful lack of understanding; inside prison, that lackof understanding can be life-threatening...
Attorney Alex Lee of the Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project joins us, and others, to be confirmed.
Second HourIn our second hour...
Its been 100 years since the 1906 Earthquake. And 1989 -- when the last big one hit the Bay Area -- isn't recent history, either. Time to dust off your earthquake-preparedness savvy...
Our guests Ana-Marie Jones of Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters, Kiska Icard of the San Francisco SPCA, and others will remind you how to get yourself, your home, and your family -- including its non-human members -- ready for a rumbler.
Listen to past shows, get contact and reference info for guests, see announcements of upcoming programs, and more at: SundaySalon.org.

Sandra Lupien of KPFA's The Morning Show will fill in for Mr. Bensky as this Sunday's host.

KPFA is celebrating its 57th year and also on KPFA today (time given is Pacific):


6:30 pm
Radio Chronicles
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Radio Chronicles brings "Camp KPFA".
A look back at the KPFA-FM lock-out by Pacifica Radio, which took place July l5, 1999, inciting arrests, protests, and a nationwide campaign to save independent media and the country's most unique free speech radio station. First person accounts from the radio listener activists who barricaded themselves to KPFA's doors, and lived in the streets throughout those lock-out days.

On WBAI today (time given is Eastern):

6:30-7:00 pm: Equal Time for Freethought
Easter Day Special--Suffering, Salvation, Sexuality, & Spring: Or, are we the only ones who think the image of Jesus crucified, naked, tortured, and dripping with blood, is bursting with sadomasochistic overtures?
At this time of year it's common to see depictions of the brutal suffering of Jesus on the cross presented as a holy and glorious moment for humankind.
Yet the torment of Christ as an expression of God's love enabling humankind to be "cleansed of its sin" and "saved" is merely the official meaning of the brutal story that is primary to Western culture.
Passover which also takes place at this time of year also offers it's own share of blood and violence which is also presented as the expression of a loving God's plan.
To what extent might religious and spiritual traditions that glorify suffering and denial of our physical needs result in generalized violence and cruelty in our society?
Is there a relationship between the violence in faith based practices and people's unacknowledged psycho-sexual desires?
Might there be better ways to address such needs than to simply deny that they exist?
To help us examine this question we will have joining us Ms. Dorothy Hayden, a trained social worker, psychoanalyst and a practicing psychotherapist here in Manhattan, whose advice column "Black Leather Couch" appeared in the New York S&M scene's publication "Prometheus Magazine."
Also, back by popular demand, we will replay the classic showdown between the Easter Bunny and Jesus Christ himself!
So, tune in, pay it forward, and question everything with Equal Time for Freethought, Sunday at 6:00pm, on WBAI - 99.5 FM - streaming live at www.wbai.org.
Barry F. Seidman
Exec. Producer: Equal Time for Freethought
www.njhn.org/etff.html

Throughout this week (Monday through Friday), KPFT offers the following on Open Journal (airs at noon Central time):

April 17
Local Station Board Report
April 18
Hep C Show
April 19
Building Environmental Community
With Reginald Adams
April 20
Waking Up from the American Dream
Sustainability Issues with Flora Yeh
April 21
Religious Voices for Peace and Justice
With Herb Rothschild

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