FIRST VOICE MEDIA is looking for NEW APPLICANTS For 2012!!!

First Voice Media is currently looking for new applicants! (downloadable applications at the bottom)

First Voice Media is a radio skills apprenticeship at KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley CA. Participants receive training in radio journalism, professional broadcasting, line production, media making and much more. Members of First Voice Media also produce and broadcast Full Circle, a weekly cultural affairs radio magazine airing each Friday from 7 to 8pm. If you don’t hear your community being represented in the media, First Voice Media is for you!

First Voice Media is an intensive program spanning from 15 to 18 months. Participants take classes from 7 to 9:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursday taught by skilled broadcasters, sound engineers, social media experts and activists. Participants also help produce content for KPFA and must commit to one 3 hour shift on either Monday, Thursday or Friday.

First Voice Media aims to cultivate a community of collaboration and chooses to represent diverse communities. Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information on the application process, click here.

GROUP 38 APPLICATION DEADLINE:  5pm, June 8th, 2012

MANDATORY ORIENTATION AT KPFA: 7-9 pm, June 14th, 2012

DOWNLOAD APPLICATION:

2012 APPLICATION – Word

2012 APPLICATION – PDF

If you are having trouble with downloading an application, please call 510-848-6767 x 235 to have one mailed to you.

Tattoos and you

 

This is a segment that I put together for a First Voice Media class. It’s all about tattoos and includes tattoo music, a quick history of tattoos and an interview with three folks who have tattoos. Check it out, it’s fun and informative!

This piece originally aired on June 24th, 2011 as part of the program Full Circle on KPFA 94.1 FM. This piece is also online at shaolinbboy.wordpress.com

Leadership High School

Many high schools do their best to teach (or at least review) the basics of math, reading and science, but how many schools actually teach intangible skills like communication and critical thinking that are needed to survive day to day life? At Leadership High School in San Francisco, CA students are not only taught how to find these skills in the themselves, but how to apply what they learn to real life. I visited the city’s first charter high school during senior exhibitions to see what people think about this new approach to education.

This piece originally aired on June 3rd, 2011 as part of the program Full Circle on KPFA 94.1 FM. This post is originally from shaolinbboy.wordpress.com.

Nove 11 KPFA Rally and Points of Vision

We are not here to defend any one job.  We are here to push for the rights of all KPFA workers, paid and unpaid. Our goals are to:

• Stop all attempts to replace local programming with syndicated content

• Grow and maintain programming that prioritizes under represented communities
• Uphold Pacifica’s original mission with resources not rhetoric

• Support equitable allocation of resources, leadership development, and support
• Representation for all workers paid and unpaid

Stop all attempts to replace local programming with syndicated content – Tell KPFA Management not to replace Hard Knock and Flashpoints with Michael Eric Dyson & Al Jazeera

Grow and maintain programming that prioritizes women and people of color
Expand programming that is more reflective of local community issues.

Uphold Pacifica’s original mission with resources not rhetoric
Hard Knock Radio, Flashpoints and the First Voice Apprenticeship Program consistently fulfill the original mission of the Pacifica Network by providing a venue for local artists to feature their work, activists to talk about local struggles, and women and people of color to gain access to broadcast journalism.

Support equitable allocation of resources, leadership development and support
Paid and unpaid programmers are vital to the health of the station.  We demand equitable allocation of resources and support to all programmers, with an emphasis on leadership development, skills sharing and passing on those skills and airtime to emerging talent.

Protection for all workers paid and unpaid
All KPFA staff, paid and unpaid, should have access to union representation.  Unpaid workers at KPFA are without representation, yet provide more than half of the programming on the air.

For the past 61 years, KPFA has served audiences as a listener-funded progressive talk and music radio station.  As a community outlet, women and people of color have fought hard to have access to the station’s airwaves.  Let’s make sure KPFA and Pacifica management respect both paid and unpaid staff.  Let’s make sure KPFA and Pacifica respects the rights of all staff.  Commit to a local, visionary, and inclusive approach to programming, and the equitable sharing of resources.

ENSURE KPFA REMAINS A COMMUNITY STATION

 

Learn radio skills

We have EXTENDED our deadline for applications to be an apprentice at KPFA. Learn the skills to broadcast your stories live, interview folks, engineer and generally kick it with great people. WE ARE a lifeline for KPFA of diverse voices and stories. We bring folks in the door from under represented communities to telltheir stories. Strengthening our communities one story at a time. click here TO APPLY.

Can Art & Culture Bring Guatemala Peace?

On Friday, Full Circle’s Shana Lancaster reported on young cultural workers in Guatemala who provide alternatives to drug trafficking and gang violence but who have been targets of violence themselves.  Shana highlighted the work of Caja Ludica and Grupo Sotzil and also described the circumstances surrounding the recent murders of three of Caja Ludica’s closest members as well as Grupo Sotzil’s director, Lisandro Guarcax. We were also joined live in the studio by Sue Kuyper, a Bay Area organizer and friend of Lisandro, as well as Alma Herrera-Pazmiño of San Francisco’s Loco Bloco.

For more information on Caja Ludica visit http://www.cajaludica.org/ To learn more about Grupo Sotz’il see http://sotziljay.wordpress.com/

TO GET INVOLVED:

In remembrance of and in solidarity with the Guatemalan Community…

*$3,000 is being raised to make an international statement in a Guatemalan Newspaper about the murder of cultural workers in Guatemala and to demand an investigation into the recent murder of Grupo Sotzil’s Director Lisandro Guarcax. To support this effort send a check with “Lisandro Guarcax” in the memo to:

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
436 14th Street, Suite 409
Oakland, CA 94612

For more information call Sue Kuyper at 415-574-6111.

*An alter will be built in San Francisco for the Mission Districts Dia de los Muertos celebration to honor Lisandro and the members of Caja Ludica. There will also be an accompanying cultural event. For more information call 415-574-6111.

Music Is a Force For Personal Empowerment & Political Resistance

Last night on KPFA 94.1 FM’s Full Circle, Courtney Supple had the pleasure of interviewing two Bay Area artivists: Waheed, from Waheed & The Resistance and Charlene Wedderburn, president of independent label Power Surge Recordings.  We talked about everything from music, to metaphysics, to the global Emcees 4 P.E.A.C.E. movement .  Take a listen…

Check out Waheed & The Resistance on MySpace to hear full length versions of the songs on tonight’s broadcast.

What DO we think about violence?

In a society that legitimizes aggression and domination, it is so important to hear of individuals that resist the fallacy that they are powerless to effect it. The Storytelling & Organizing Project, or STOP, is doing the work of reaching out and encouraging folks to tell their own stories of dealing with violence so that we can all see that there are many ways of dealing with situations of harm, and that we don’t have to rely on the police, prisons, traditional social services, and other systems of the State. Courtney Supple sat down with Rachel Herzing and Isaac Ontiveros from STOP to bring you this story.

If you want to hear more stories like the ones you heard in this piece, check out The Storytelling & Organizing Project’s website at www.stopviolenceeveryday.org. They have a bunch of really great resources for anyone who wants to learn about using their stories in your own work to intervene in interpersonal violence, as well as information on how to get involved in the project.

What do you get out of violence in film?

Jane Chang of Tela Mana and Carmen Reed of Sunlo Sauti Sunlo Ongea break out of the KPFA studios and into the community to ask “what do you get out of violence in film?” Listen up!

If you want to hear all the segments from this week’s show and hear the music that the Full Circle crew brought to the airwaves, check out our archives at: http://kpfa.org/archive/show/32

Until next week…keep listening!

Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp

What is Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp? It is a fun, intensive one-day conference where people learn how to bring their ideas for stronger communities into reality. At Boot Camp, you can take action in interactive workshops, receive expert coaching, and get fired up by stories of successful community transformations. On August 14th, 2010, Craigslist Foundation is holding its 7th Annual Boot Camp at UC Berkeley, Lower Sproul Plaza in Zellerbach Hall. This event is co-sponsored by KPFA, 94.1 FM.

For details, visit www.craigslistfoundation.org/boot-camp and listen to the interview Full Circle’s Jane Chang had with Paige Buck, Director of Events at Craigslist Foundation.

(Aired on Full Circle, Friday, July 30, 2010 at 7pm on KPFA 94.1 FM)

What’s Happenin’ in the Bay?

Get on Your Bikes and Ride with Red Bike & Green!

Tonight on Full Circle, we focused our attention to what’s happening in the Bay.  Our first story comes from Shaunnah Ray, who took some time to interview the founder of Red, Bike & Green, Jenna Burton. Red, Bike & Green is a community-building collective of Black urban cyclists that seeks to improve the physical health, individual economy and local environment of African Americans by strengthening the relevance of bike culture within the Black community. Come check ‘em out this Saturday, July 24th, at the 3rd annual Bikes 4 Life Peace Ride.  Meet up at 468 Perkins Street, off of Grand Ave, at 7:30 PM to ride from Lake Merritt to the Bikes 4 Life Bike Shop in West Oakland. After the ride, there will be a bike-in movie night featuring that cinematic class, The Warriors.  Get in touch with Red, Bike & Green and stay informed about upcoming rides and events at their blog.

Audio clip coming soon.

What Do Californian’s Value Most?

Our next story comes from the Fruitvale neighborhood of East Oakland. Regina Scott struggles to care for her disabled brother Ned, as the Governor and legislature threaten to cut the programs that allow Ned to live with his family and be a part of his community. The cuts to In Home Supportive Services and Adult Day Health Centers will devastate families caring for elder and disabled loved ones all over California and put a strain on already weak local economies when the 375,000 jobs are eliminated along with the programs. Full Circle’s Courtney Supple brings you the story:

We encourage you to contact the members of the Joint Conference Committee, who are now reviewing the budget. You can find all of their contact information here.  You can also contact the Governor here.

ArnieVille Protesters Bring the Fight To Save IHSS To The Streets!

In our final segment, Jane and Shana brought us sounds from folks who are taking up Regina’s challenge to make their voices heard. ArnieVille was an open-air tent city on Adeline and Russell streets in Berkeley. People with disabilities and their allies came together to protest the proposed cuts of In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS), Medi-Cal, and other critical programs by California Governor Schwarzenegger. The protest carries on the tradition of the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression, shanty towns that sprung up as the nation’s most vulnerable people found themselves driven into homelessness and hunger. Now the protective policies and programs of the New Deal are under attack. Here are some of the voices of ArnieVille and their supporters.

On July 22nd, ArnieVille pulled up stakes and left Berkeley, but you can help them continue their fight on the road as they travel to other cities around California. You can donate to the cause and follow them on Facebook.