#kpfa

[remembertheplunge]

Beginning of an answer

9/7/2020. Monday 2:08pm 

out front. Espresso’s Coffee House: Pacific Ave, Stockton, Ca

“There were plenty of onlookers, but no witnesses.” In other words, we may log impressive miles in our travels but see nothing: we may follow all the advice in the travel magazines and still feel little enthusiasm.” Page xxi The Art of Pilgrimage

Our pilgrimage has taken us into a Land which Angela Davis said is one that she never experienced before—the confluence of pandemic and protest.

I agree with Angela—its a phenomenon—We have all awakened here on Bali-Hi.

But, as Ms Davis also said, it will pass—the mystical island will recede back into the fog of “normalcy”

Like the travelers described in the Art Of Pilgrimage (above) we have to see it—to embrace it while it is here. I feel fortunate to have lived to see this beginning of an answer—

Angela also said this is not the time to dismantle the police, but, instead, to evolve that institution.

Mavis Staples sings “Gotta change around here, say it loud, say it clear” as I write.

End of entry

Notes: 1/15/2025

Please see photos of the original 9/7/2020 entry in the next blog

Bali-Hi was a mystical island of magic in the musical “South Pacific"

The above journal entry was written in September of 2020 during the Covid Pandemic and the era of the massive George Floyd—Black Lives Matter protests. Angela Davis, a well known civil rights activist during the 1960’s, was acknowledging the power of the people’s movement then. Although she was right that it would pass and the streets would become quite, the Christian Nationalist response is now raging in the form of Trump 2.0

Kat Brooks, who hosts a show on KPFA radio, said yesterday on KPFA Hard Knock that “We are never going to get free in the halls of power. It’s in the streets…"

[bcbdrums]

Please, read this important post. We are trying to gather community opinion about the Kim Possible Fannies Awards. Feel free to comment only there, or comment/reblog here, or send PMs.

Thank you.

[oldshowbiz]

1963 - The bombing of Radio KPFA

[darkmattersproj]

Authors Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Jewelle Gomez: Afrofuturism & 3 Women you Need to Know On this episode of Making Contact

[goalsarebricks]

#costofhealthcare #AmericanSickness #emslife

Is healthcare a business in our country?

Author, Dr. Rosenthal, discusses the shift to business values and profits in health care with host of Letters and Politics, Mitch Jeserich. I’m interested in her views because I’ve also noticed that the costs of medical services feel ethically confusing. Applying a cost to patient care is weird to me and it’s complicated. Imagine saving a life and at the same time bankrupting a family..

[remembertheplunge]

September 6, 2020

Sunday

1:30pm

Rasputin’s (parking lot)

So, it’s mid Labor Day weekend. KPFA radio this morning was next to silent regarding Pandemic Protests. There was some railing away on Trump.

The Sunday Modesto Bee was La Dee da, like it’s just another Sunday.

At the almost 6 month mark (of the Covid Pandemic) the elephants in the living room are becoming invisible, with a viral tidal wave potentially forming on the horizon.

Walking to Preservation Coffee 1/2 hour ago, 40 young people, outside Commonwealth restaurant, were crowded together at outside tables with no masks.

Shades of denial blind us to the viral storm.

 On KPFA radio Kevin Vance played one of his "Across the Great Divide"  shows today from Labor Day 2018. “A time when things were normal” per Kevin.

Normal?

In 2018, the “have nots”, like the poor and the homeless, were being steam rolled by society.They were expected to to stay in their place. Cruel and unusual was the usual.

The pandemic ushered in a wave of change.

The" have nots" spoke through riot and protest, just as Martin Luther King said they would.

September 2020 is a much healthier normal than was the of 2018.

And, with Trump pouring gas on the fire via his hate and vitriol, there will be an explosion of revolution.

Mavis Staples wails out “keep your eyes on the prize, hold on” on my Apple Play as I write.

End of entry

Notes: 1/17/2025

The protests that I am referring to in the above are George Floyd-- Black Live’s Matter protests. Trump was running against Biden for President. Trump said ugly things then just as he does today. 

I think that now, pre Trump's inauguration Jan 20, 2025, we are like passengers on a jet liner that is going down out of control. All we can do is hold on in brace position waiting until we hit ground. That’s when you’ll know what to do. Once Trump is President, we will see what they do. Then, we will know what to do. 

During Covid Pandemic days, I would get a coffee at Preservation Coffee, drive to Rasputin’s parking lot, sit in my car and write. Often, as I wrote I listened to Mavis Staples songs of gospel activism. They were soothing and inspiring in the dark pandemic days.

[oldshowbiz]

[oldshowbiz]

William Mandel, the American professor, left wing agitator, and KPFA radio personality, was subject of a latter-day smear campaign headed by Richard Arens, the staff director of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1960. Click to listen to Mandel versus Arens.