[KFCF Friends] KFCF Program Highlights

Tue Aug 12 10:47:17 PDT 2008

Upcoming KFCF Program Highlights
Tuesday August 12 
10:00 AM Wasteland of the Free Host Rick Flores interviews Randy Sharp and Jack
Wesley Routh about the songwriting process and their experiences in Music City USA.
Also, other musicians and their music emanating from Nashville will be featured.
Plus, a special tribute to the late Isaac Hayes!
7:00 PM Nuestro Foro - Eduardo Stanley hosts. 1.) ALPAUGH. The fight for water. That
day, the local water board will vote for (or against) the hike on water rates for
this small community of about 900 people ,mostly farm workers. 2) ARREST
(Pro-immigrant activist arrested at the border last week) and 3) WOMEN, a project to
empower young women in the Visalia area.
8:00 pm Saroyan Radio Series The KFCF series Saroyan on Radio continues on Tuesday,
August 12 at 8:00 pm with a salute to the William Saroyan Centennial Prize winning
writers. This program is part of a seven-month radio series celebrating the 100th
year of Saroyan's birth. 
The contest is a brainchild of the William Saroyan Society, a local group preserving
his legacy and the San Joaquin Valley Writer's Project. In past years they sponsored
an annual writing competition for youth. This year, because of the special attention
paid to Saroyan, they created the William Saroyan Centennial Prize, an international
competition for serious adult writers which attracted sixty-five entries in the
categories of short fiction, creative nonfiction and one-act play. The writing was
judged by a distinguished panel of local writers and teachers.

This program is a reading of the winning writers' entries: Learning the Alphabet by
Bethany Chaney, Floating Away by Elizabeth Edelglass, and Testosterone by Hal
Ackerman. The readings are performed by Megan Bohigian, Paula Fansler and Skip
Sargenti. 

The second hour of the program features a reprise of a previous offering, a rare
recording of William Saroyan talking in his own tape recorder at home and telling
stories about his life, his musings and his thoughts about Fresno. 
This program and Saroyan on Radio series is produced by Vic Bedoian.

Wednesday August 13
3:00 PM Stir It Up - Center for Non-Violence Richard Stone will have as his guest
Mor Chang, who will discuss Hmong and Laotian issues in the community. 
10:00 pm Sing Out! Live, in-studio performance by young jazz vibist-composer Sam
Goldsmith and his band. 
Thursday August 14
1:00 PM If You Love This Planet  Helen Caldicott hosts. Arjun Makhijani is President
and Senior Engineer at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma
Park, Maryland. In this episode Arjun Makhijani discusses his extraordinary
publication, Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy,
produced in 2007.
The roadmap is the first analysis of a transition to a U.S. economy based completely
on renewable energy, without any use of fossil fuels or nuclear power. This episode
also includes an excerpt from a lecture given by Dr Caldicott in Brisbane, Australia
2007.
Friday August 15
3:00 PM Down on The Farm  Today's show focuses on the local part of Slow Food
Nation, most of which takes place in San Francisco. SFN is billed as the "Woodstock"
of American food traditions and will feature many of our local organic producers.
www.slowfoodnation.org Today organic stone fruit farmers, Fran and Ted Lowen of
Blossom Bluff Orchards, Kingsburg, who will be featured in the SFN marketplace in
San Francisco civic center with their heirloom Elephant Heart plums. 
Joel Salatin Grass Farmer-Author, Polyface Farm, Swope, Virginia Salatin's "farm of
many faces" is richly profiled in Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma as "one of
the most productive and influential alternative farms in America." Acclaimed author
and pastoralist, Salatin's passion for humanity's ancient engagement with grass
argues its current relevance to your health and our species' continued success on
the planet.
For more information call:
209-874-1309 or 559-706-9552
Monday, September 1, 2008 . 2pm-4pm . Bernell & Flora Snider Music Recital Hall -
California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California
Tickets must be purchased in advance . $20 general, $10 student At:
www.brownpapertickets.com <http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/38999> 
Joel will be joined in the presentation by Jerry Brunetti, Martin's Creek,
Pennsylvania, educator, consultant and authority on correlations between soil,
plant, animal and human nutrition
7:00 PM Move on Up  Devoya Mayo hosts. Kris Clarke( FSU Prof) focus global activism
and her return to the USA after 25 years in Europe
August 25- August 29  
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Democratic National Convention Pacifica Radio analysis and
coverage of the Democratic National Convention. Coverage that the mainstream media
misses or ignores. The DNC is being produced by Eileen Javar and anchored by Aimee
Allison & Mitch Jeserich, with Larry Bensky hosting from the balcony.

Friday August 29, 2008

3:00 PM Pakistan Now - Host Dan Yaseen with Robert Jensen an author and a journalism
professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His opinion and analytic pieces on
such subjects as foreign policy politics, gender and race have appeared in papers
around the country. He is also involved in a number of activist groups working
against U.S. military and U.S. economic policies. He recently returned from Pakistan
where he taught a summer class at International Islamic University in Islamabad. 
Sept 1-  Sept 4

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Republican National Convention.  Coverage that looks beyond the
podium and the bunting. The RNC is being produced by Brian Edwards-Tiekert and
anchored by Sonali Kolhatkar & Mitch Jeserich, with Larry Bensky hosting from the
balcony.

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