[KFCF Friends] Program Notes and more infoon FFCF Elections

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        FFCF Elections

September 15 (Wednesday): Opening date to accept nominating papers at 
FFCF office.

October 15 (Friday): Close of nominating period.

More details at www.kfcf.org


        Program Notes:

What: * The California Performance Review Commission hearings* on 
Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection. The purpose of the 
commission is to make the State government more efficient and effective. 
The subject is of great importance since the workings of environmental 
and resources agencies are critical to California's economy and 
well-being. Broadcast live from CSU, Fresno Satellite Student Union.

When: Friday September 17, 2004 -- 10 am to 5pm Pacific 1-8pm 
eastern..ku right

Hosted by Larry Bensky and  produced by KFCF and KPFA 

*AGENDA*
September 17, 2004
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
California State University, Fresno
Satellite Student Union 
5241 North Maple Street
Fresno, CA 93740

This is the sixth of seven public hearings on the recommendations in the 
report generated by the CPR. It will focus on CPR recommendations to 
improve the efficiency and management of Resource Conservation and 
Environmental Protection programs.

I. Call to order/Welcome remarks by Co-Chairs
II. Introduction of Commission Members
III. CPR Overview by CPR Staff Member -The process of the development of 
the CPR recommendations and a brief summary of the recommendations.
IV. Testimony of invited witnesses (panel format) on chapter 5 of the 
CPR report. Questions from Commissioners will follow each panel.
V. Lunch Break
VI. Public comment*
VII. Adjournment

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ACIFICA, KMUD & KZYX CONNECTING PEACE EVENTS AT EARTHDANCE TO
PACIFICA AFFILIATES, WORLDWIDE AUDIENCE
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DATE: Saturday, September 18, 2004 
TIME: 3:30 - 6:00 p.m. Pacific time

"Soft breaks" will be built into the program at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. for 
stations that wish to carry only the worldwide interactive "Prayer for 
Peace" and "Drums for Peace."

Northern California community radio stations KMUD and KZYX & Z, in 
collaboration with the Pacifica radio network, are proud to announce the 
broadcast of several peace events from the worldwide peace festival 
Earthdance on Saturday, September 18, from 3:30 to 6 p.m.  
This programming will be available to Pacifica affiliates and other 
media throughout the United States with access to the KU satellite band 
(it will air on the left channel) and the Internet.

Earthdance is a global festival for peace taking place from Friday, 
September 17 through Sunday, September 19 in 130 cities and 50 
countries. The "mothership site" for the festival is the Black Oak Ranch 
in Laytonville, California, about three hours north of San Francisco. 

The centerpiece of the festival is a non-denominational "Prayer for 
Peace," wherein people around the world will simultaneously direct their 
intention toward creating peace locally and around the world.  This will 
occur at 4:00 p.m. Pacific time.

At about 4:15, after introductory remarks by comic shaman Wavy Gravy, 
former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart will lead a worldwide drum 
circle entitled "Drums for Peace." During this segment, Hart, Zakir
Hussain and Airto Moriera will begin a "heartbeat" drum rhythm, which 
can be picked up by Pacifica affiliates and broadcast via radio and 
internet to other Earthdance sites, house parties and gatherings in the 
United States and worldwide. Hart and the Earthdance organizers are 
attempting to set a new Guinness world record for largest drum circle, 
and will be giving away 3,500 free drums at the event.  Participation by 
Pacifica affiliates will expand the size, range and significance of this 
drum circle dramatically.

 >From the time of the drum circle until the program's conclusion at 6 
pm, KMUD will present interviews with activists and event organizers 
(including Earthdance founder Chris Deckker) music from the main stage
(including Mickey Hart's Planet Drum and world-ambient didgeridoo music 
by Ganga Giri), and excerpts from the festival's other live performances 
- all dedicated to fostering peace on the planet. Other Earthdance 
performers include Michael Franti & Spearhead, Ozomatli, Blackalicious, 
and Midnite.


Complete information about the festival, including a listing of 
Earthdance sites around the world, can be found at www.earthdance.org 
<http://www.earthdance.org>. 

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*"It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis. *

FRIDAY 9/24, at 1:00 pm

"It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair 
Lewis.                                                                          


A charismatic politician, supported by "stop-at-nothing" power brokers, 
uses the democratic electoral process to make himself dictator.  He 
promises quick solutions to a country gutted by civil unrest, high 
unemployment, financial scandals, and a fear of foreigners.  Sound 
familiar?  It's happened before: 1933, in Germany , in the explosive mix 
of a big economic downturn and Hitler's lunge for power.  Join KPFA for 
this power and timely radio theater adaptation of  Sinclair Lewis' 
literary classic.

Writing this story in 1935, when the United States and Western Europe 
had been in a depression for six years, the Nobel Prize-winning author  
drew parallels to the times, and to key figures shaping ominous events.  
"It Can't Happen Here" was set in a bucolic Vermont town--one suspects 
very near to Thornton Wilder's  "Our Town".  The nation is in the grip 
of a Presidential campaign where a populist Senator fronts for a shadowy 
cabal intent on seizing the White House for their narrow, 
self-interested agenda.  Upon winning the election, the new 
administration immediately ends crime in America by suspending civil 
liberties and rounding up everyone that objects.

 Lewis' novel was supposed to be made into a film in 1936, but those in 
charge of censorship for the American movie studios stopped the film 
from being made out of concern it would be seen as an attack on the 
Republican  party.   Republicans, at the time, were seen as more opposed 
to anything that might lead to war with Germany than Democrats were.

 "It Can't Happen Here" has now been revived at a key time in American 
electoral politics, and is performed by an all-star cast in a thrilling 
radio adaptation that has its world premier this September and October 
on the Pacifica Radio network nationwide.  It is most certainly a play 
for our times, and is likely to have no small impact on this year's 
election, as it did in 1936 when  it was produced as a stage play by the 
Federal Theater (a project of the WPA), opening that October in 17 
cities simultaneously, all across the United States.  By the election 
two weeks later, over 500,000 Americans had seen the play.  After FDR 
was re-elected, Congress formed a committee to investigate the play and 
its impact on the election.  They immediately cut the funding of the 
Federal Theater to a point where it was forced to dissolve.  Congress 
made the committee permanent and renamed it: the House Un-American 
Activities Committee.

 Hear the play that once changed the vote in America. 

It may do so again. Be a part of - be aware of!--history, lest it repeat 
itself!

 

FFCF/KFCF Annual Banquet - Mark your calendars and PDA's

Sunday October 24th from 5 to 9 PM at Love and Garlic in Fresno with 
Special Guest Sunday Salon's Larry Bensky. More details soon.

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