[KFCF Friends] Larry Bensky TONIGHT Sunday Oct 24th in Fresno

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A few dinners are still available at the door for tonight. Social Hour 
5:30 PM, Dinner at 6 PM , Program at 7 PM. Note:

 If you would like to come to hear Larry Bensky but can't make it to the dinner, you can pay a reduced rate of $5 at the door at 7 p.m.  


Veteran Political Journalist to speak at KFCF 88.1 FM Event

Local Peace and Civil Liberties Activists Honored

Veteran political correspondent Larry Bensky will discuss the 2004 
elections and the national political climate at the Fresno Free College 
Foundation Annual Banquet on Sunday October 24 at 7 pm . The Foundation 
operates listener-sponsored radio station KFCF, which has broadcast a 
diverse array of news, public affairs and cultural programming for 
nearly 30 years to much of central California. The Foundation will also 
honor two Fresno activists with the annual Free Speech Award for their 
efforts to advance education and civil liberties. The honorees are Vida 
Samiian, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno 
State University , and Ken Hudson, an activist with Peace Fresno and 
local school teacher.

Larry Bensky is a literary and political journalist with more than forty 
years experience in print and broadcast media. Perhaps best known as 
National Affairs Correspondent for Pacifica Radio since 1987, Bensky 
covered numerous national and international events for Pacifica , 
including the Iran-contra hearings in 1987, the confirmation hearings 
for four Supreme Court justices, the 1990 elections in Nicaragua , and 
numerous demonstrations and protests in Washington and elsewhere. He won 
the prestigious George Polk award for his coverage of Iran-contra, and 
has won a record five Gold Reel awards from the National Association of 
Community Broadcasters. Before his work for Pacifica , Bensky was one of 
the original "underground" newscasters and talk show hosts on 
"alternative rock" stations KMPX and KSAN in San Francisco . And before 
(and during) his broadcasting career, Bensky has been a print journalist 
and editor, including positions as managing editor of Ramparts Magazine 
in 1968, Paris editor of The Paris Review (1964-66) and as an editor of 
the New York Times Book Review. For the past fifteen years he has been a 
political writer and columnist for the East Bay Express, and a 
contributor to the Los Angeles Times book review, and The Nation. He was 
founding managing editor of the Mediachannel (_ www.mediachannel.org_ 
<http://www.mediachannel.org> ) where he is now senior editor.He has won 
a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Professional 
Journalists, and the Golden Gadfly award from Media Alliance. He taught 
broadcast journalism classes for twelve years at Stanford, and now 
teaches mass communications, journalism, and broadcasting at California 
State University , Hayward . A native of New York City , he graduated 
from Yale University . He is married and lives in Berkeley with his wife 
and daughter.

The Fresno Free College Foundation is a nonprofit public benefit 
organization that nurtured and enriched the intellectual and cultural 
environment of the community since 1968. The Annual Banquet will be held 
on Sunday October 24 at Love & Garlic, 5351 N. Diana Court (located 
inside the Elks Club). Tickets are $35 for a buffet dinner. For 
reservations and information call the Foundation office (559) 233-2221

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