Building Bridges & Housing Notebook Special
with Mimi Rosenberg, Ken Nash, Scott Sommer
over WBAI radio, 99.5 FM
Mon., August 7, 2017, 7 – 10 pm EST
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A Building Bridges Housing Notebook Special 7 - 10PM EST
Voices that Change the World -
Selections from the Pacifica's Flash Drive
64 gb USB drive / approximately 1000 hours
Wrap your ears around the largest and most comprehensive collection of
historic audio ever compiled by Pacifica Radio Archives, now available for
the very first time on a single USB memory drive. With nearly one thousand
hours of meticulously curated audio, covering dozens and dozens of topics,
listening will find you inspired, challenged, entertained, and educated - the
true fulfillment of Pacifica Radio's Mission Statement!
From the Vault, Volumes 1-6
Explore over 500 one-hour radio documentaries hand-crafted from the
exquisite audio preserved at Pacifica Radio Archives - immerse yourself in
sounds covering some of the most important events of the last fifty years,
featuring voices of some of history's most controversial figures, like Noam
Chomsky, Ray Bradbury, Alice Walker, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan,
Adrienne Rich, and hundreds more.
Sixty Five Years, Sixty Five Voices
Each recording in this compilation was chosen for Pacifica's 65th Anniversary
because it uniquely exemplifies the quintessential Pacifica sound. The result
is a well-rounded and rich tapestry of the history of Pacifica Radio through the
voices of Gore Vidal, Langston Hughes, Bernardo Bertolucci, Elsa Knight
Thompson, Jessica Mitford, Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Murray
Bookchin, Lena Horne, plus dozens more.
Black History
The Pacifica Radio Archives proudly presents its comprehensive collection
of Black voices in celebration of Black History - with studies of Black Power,
the Black Panthers, Blacks in Hollywood, Black Poets, and Black Authors;
you'll hear from Huey Newton, Rosa Parks, Paul Robeson, Nelson Mandela,
Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and many more.
Women's History
Showcasing Women's History through restored audio recordings dating
back to the earliest days of community radio broadcasting in 1949, these
recordings have been professionally preserved and digitized through grants
and listener donations. Included in the collection are Pauline Kael, Emma
Goodman, Alice Walker, Helen Caldicott, Lily Tomlin, Bette Davis, and
many more.
AudioBooks
Pacifica Radio's vibrant tradition of non-traditional on-air book readings
wove its way through the last six decades with gusto. Relax, and visit to a
different reality with readings of literary classics like Tolstoy's War and
Peace, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, George Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's
Notes from Underground, Jaime de Angulo's Indian Tales, and Noel
Langley's children's classic, In the Land of Green Ginger.
Grammy Restored Recordings
In 2013 the Pacifica Radio Archives received a grant from the GRAMMY
Foundation to preserve two series of music and theater programs that aired
on WBAI-FM, Pacifica's NYC affiliate station, back in the 1960s and 1970s:
The Free Music Store and the Mind's Eye Theatre. These two series are
exemplary of WBAI's history of cutting-edge cultural programming, and
feature performances by Janos Starker, Dave van Ronk, Julia Mendina,
John Hammond, and over a dozen plays including Romeo and Juliet, The
Starr Pitt, and Inquest at Christiana, to name just a few.
Pacifica and Politics
These recordings showcase the quality and breadth of Pacifica' s coverage
of all things political, with classic topics covering Watergate, the Vietnam
War, the American Indian Movement, gang politics, and race relations
through the voices of Fidel Castro, Russell Means, Molly Ivans, Mort Sahl,
Philip Agee, Dick Gregory, and so many more.
Radio Arts
Pacifica's diverse history has always included as a cornerstone
unabashed and enthusiastic support for art in all forms, with a penchant
for the controversial. The Radio Arts collection celebrates that amazing
broadcast history with recordings form artists like Gary Snyder, Edith
Piaf, Suni Paz, Vincent Harding, Judy Chicago, Toni Morrison, Ed Asner,
Julius Lester, Rosalyn Drexler, Phil Ochs, Jerry Stiller, and plenty more.
Student Free Speech Movement
Pacifica was front and center for one of the most important pivot points
of the Civil Liberties movement - the student protest on the UC Berkely
during the 1964-65 academic year. Travel back to this politically charge
place in time with the l ikes of Joan Baez, Mario Savio, Bettina Aptheker,
student organizers, plus fantastic 'on the street' actuality from campus
and beyond.
Religious Studies
Pacifica Radio has always welcomed beliefs of all kinds to its airwaves,
and through the decades has amassed an impressive body of audio that
covers alternative views of theology, issues concerning religions of all
kinds, and historical perspectives on the origins of religion. We'll hear
from religious thinkers such as Alan Watts, Madalyn Murray O'Hair,
Russell Means, D.T. Sozuki, and Blase Bonpane.
Exploration with Dr. Michio Kaku
Pacifica Radio's flagship science program, hosted by theoretical
physicist (and sci-pop-culture phenom) Dr. Michio Kaku, remains one
of the longest running radio science programs in the world. Heard
weekly on Pacifica Radio and across the globe, topics include
bio-technology ethics, cosmos and physics, environmental issues,
and science's contributions to both war and peace. Regular guests
include Brian Greene, Ray Kurzweil, Lisa Randal, Neil deGrasse
Tyson, David Archer, and Peter Ward.
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