Dear Listener,
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the day that has come to be known as 9/11, KKFI provides some very rich programming this week, that helps us gain perspective on the past ten years and where it is leading us from here. I don't mean to gloss over the loss of 3000 American lives that day, nor the 9/11 and a half's worth of American lives that were sacrificed in Iraq, for which 9/11 was offered as an excuse, nor the loss of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives that were lost, nor the millions of Iraqis that were converted to refugees, but I think its important to reflect on where KKFI has been in the mix over the past decade.
When every other broadcast outlet in town was stenographing the Buschco claims of WMDS, KKFI was questioning, questioning, questioning. Not only on Democracy Now!, but on many of our other fine programs as well. Perhaps a more succinct way to put it: If every broadcast outlet in the land, followed KKFI's (and other community radio station's) lead, those thousands of troops that we supported to death might still be alive. This is the prime reason that I dedicate my life to KKFI and community broadcasting, it is indeed a matter of life and death.
TUESDAY
- 9am Tuesday morning on If You Love This Planet, Dr Helen Caldicott gets an update on the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan from Arnie Gundersen, a consultant with Fairewinds Associates in the US. We also hear from Japanese nuclear activist, Aileen Mioko Smith.
- 6pm Tuesday on Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer will talk to Sierra Club Water Sentinels Director Scott Dye about Bannister Federal Complex deal - Faster Cleanup, or Just Dodging Superfund Status?
WEDNESDAY
- 5am Wednesday morning on the Pacifica Radio Archives' From the Vault this week is a ten-year retrospective of Pacifica’s 9/11 coverage, as it happened, and the pacific and progressive voices subsequently given safe harbor on Pacifica Stations in the time after the attacks. We begin with a montage produced by Pacifica Radio Archives one year after 9/11 – voices include Bertrand Russell, Howard Zinn, Dennis Kucinich, Gore Vidal, June Jordan, Michael Moore, Angela Davis, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mumia Abu Jamal, Cornel West, to name a few. Then, WBAI producer Michael Haskins recalls his journey to WBAI studios in the heart of the financial district in the midst of the attack, and former Pacifica producer and author Laurie Garrett muses on the events and consequences of 9/11, along with Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy, and others.
- 7am On your Wednesday Morning Buzz, I'll exploring 9/11 in music. I'll be featuring some of the music I played ten years ago right after 9/11 on a Friday night show I did, called You Name It, as well as some of the music that has been written in response to 9/11. Bruce Springsteen's The Rising, and Black 47's New York Town are two albums that come to mind. Do you have any suggestions?
- 9am The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi continues in various ways in India. Gandhi had his flaws but as George Orwell wrote: “compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind.” Himanshu Kumar is a staunch proponent and practitioner of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy and techniques of non-violence and civil disobedience. He worked for almost two decades serving the poor in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh until he was driven out in 2009. He continues to publicize the situation in Chhattisgarh. David Barsamian interviews him on Alternative Radio, Wednesday at nine.
- 10am Mark Manning features the music of the artists at the upcoming Crossroads Music Festival, on Wednesday Mid-day Medley from 10 to noon.
- 12pm Then on BOOKWAVES at noon on Wednesday, New York Times Op-ed columnist, Gail Collins discusses her book, "When Everything Changed," about the changes in women's lives 1960 to the present.
- 12:30pm - Then, on From Ark to Microchip, The Apocalypse is revealed in an upbeat musical composed and performed by Kansas City’s Black Crack Revue (BCR) featuring songs such as “Headed Toward Extinction,” “Dinosaur Breakfast,” and “666 Dub.” This is a brand new version.
- 6pm - A painfully shy Englishman is packed off to rural America for some rest and relaxation … only to find that the countryside isn’t quite as pastoral as he had imagined. Dina Waters, Johnny Galecki, and Paxton Whitehead star in The Foreigner by Larry Shue on LA Theatre Works, from six to eight Wednesday evening.
THURSDAY
- 9am On Sprouts, Thursday morning at nine, we tour through outstate Missouri and conduct interviews at three locations of interesting one-of-a-kind businesses and little-known national landmarks.
- 9:30am Then, on Making Contact, who won the Egyptian Revolution?
- 6pm On The Heartland Labor Forum, Susan Sanders, on her Pioneering Women series, interviews the only pilot left in the air after the 9-11 tragedy. Also, a look at the Afghan War as it approaches it's tenth year.
- 7pm Shots in the Night radio theatre folks take over the Thursday Night Special.
- 8pm DJ Radionic (host of Seasoned Beats,heard on KKFI 12-5am Thursday) hosts The Local Showcase.
SUNDAY
On Sunday September 11th, starting at 11am, KKFI will bring a special day of broadcasting on this tenth anniversary day. The schedule is as follows:
- 11am – Democracy Now!
- 12pm – Pacifica Archives
- 1pm - KPFK – 911's impact on U.S. foreign policy
- 2pm - WBAI - The Culture of Fear and the Loss of Civil Liberties - Also, 2 and a half minute live reports from various events in NYC on 9/11 2011.
- 3pm – KPFT- from the Bible belt..The Rise of the Religious Right post-9/11
- 4pm – WPFW – The Pentagon, has the culture changed ? A debate about the lingering questions surrounding the attack on the defense citadel. Jazz legends weigh in musically on that fateful day.
- 5pm – KPFA – hour one of debate – 9/11 Commission Report
- 6pm - KPFA – hour two of debate – moderator Peter Phillips on The Science around the Twin Towers collapse
- 7pm – KPFA – live phone calls from the nation moderated by Veronica Faisant
(Our regularly scheduled Sunday programming, from Foolkiller Folk to Sunset Reggae, will return next week.)
I hope you can listen to most if not all of this special day of broadcasting, and as alluded to in the beginning of this epistle, I hope you can get as many people as possible to listen, because if the past ten years have taught us anything, its that we'd all be better off, if more people paid attention to and supported KKFI.
Stay tuned,
Mike Murphy
90.1FM KKFI
Kansas City Community Radio
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