"Background Briefing" is an outstanding show. It airs every
Sunday on Pacifica Radio's KPFK. It can
be heard online via the ongoing archive. The latest program is below, with
links to the archive.
17th-21st September: "Adunata Sediziosa" (Sedicious Gathering), fourth festival of selfmanagement in Campania (Italy) at Officina 99 squatted community center". The municipality of Naples wanted this happening to be
Auntie Bees Knees looks at last week's failed round of WTO talks in Cancun, Mexico, touching on the death of Lee Kyung Hae, stalled agriculture negotiations and the failure to make headway on the "Singapore Issues." 12 minutes 51 seconds.
Although it's split in three parts for easier download, this is actually one continuous piece. Using audio from our own interviews and those done by indymedia folks on the ground in cancun, we've put together this one-hour summary of the WTO and the main issues of Cancun -- ie. why it failed.
September 11th 2003 marks the 30th anniversary of the Chilean coup that toppled Socialist president Salvador Allende. The death of the coveted leader was the start of years of repression of the Chilean people under the Pinochet regime. Chilean exiles came to the US, forming a strong political and artistic presence in the San Francisco Bay area. In this half hour documentary produced by Pauline Bartolone, members of the music ensemble Grupo Raiz reflect on the coup 30 years later, and how their lives as musicians helped form their identities as Chilean exiles in the US.
