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Happy Birthday to Berkeley's KPFA!
Posted by FoM on April 07, 1999 at 12:53:51 PT
50 years of pacifism, protests and public radio!
Source: SF Gate
ON A SPRING AFTERNOON about 50 years ago, a small team of pacifists marched to the top floor of an office building on University Avenue in Berkeley. Almost immediately, KPFA became a magnet for trouble. First came protests about children's storyteller Josephine Gardener, whose violent and macabre Irish folktales proved a little too authentic for university town parents.Then in 1954 came the studio remarks of four marijuana smokers, whose enthusiastic endorsement of the drug earned the station its first police raid. 
And so it went: the first broadcast of Allen Ginsberg's poem ``Howl'' in 1957; the first gay rights documentary in 1958; William Mandel's courageous condemnation of the House Committee on Un- American Activities in 1960 -- right up to last week, when KPFA news interviewed local peace organizers opposed to President Clinton's intervention in Kosovo. The pattern duplicated itself as KPFA's parent organization, the Pacifica Foundation, acquired frequencies in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, D.C. Click above link for the whole article!
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