Special: KPFA On the Air
In this Link TV special, KPFA on the Air, novelist Alice Walker delivers a vibrant narration on the struggle of the oldest and most ambitious independent, community-based media in the world: Berkeley's KPFA Radio. It is a case study of the pitfalls and possibilities confronting any experiment in media democracy. During this special presentation, we are joined by someone who knows much about experimenting with free media, Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman, for additional insight into the show.
KPFA on the Air recounts how KPFA became a voice for the radical movements of the 1960s. It surveys the station's spirited coverage of such events as the Civil Rights movement, the Berkeley Free Speech movement, the campus Anti-War movement and the rise of the Black Panther Party.
Rather than covering up the fractious culture of the station, the documentary illustrates that communities are by nature in constant formation, change and contention. KPFA on the Air traces how, after the movements of the 1960s, the station painfully reconfigured itself into a multicultural coalition of various programming collectives.
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