KPFT movie night - the birth of Pacifica

Event Description:

KPFT FREE MOVIE NIGHT

"KPFA ON THE AIR"

Interested in the birth and history of Pacifica?

Come to one or both of the two upcoming showings of "KPFA on the Air", at the next KPFT movie nights.  If you are reading this on the PAA home page, click on the title to read the entire article.

Join us for one of these screenings followed by animated discussion of the impact that Pacifica has had upon its community.

Bring a friend and please spread the word.

These are also good places to visit with other activists, tell others about freeway blogging and other activities, to distribute flyers on upcoming events, etc.

Two showings:

• Tuesday, August 1st, Tracy Gee Community Center, 3599 Westcenter Drive at Westpark (almost to the Beltway) at 7 p.m.
• Monday, August 7th, Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak (at Studemont), 8 p.m.

FREE

KPFA on the Air

Before there was "public radio," KPFA presented voices and sounds found nowhere else on the radio dial. The brainchild of poets, pacifists and utopian dreamers, the station went live in 1949 with content so valuable that 39 listeners were willing to pay for it, making KPFA the first listener-sponsored radio station in the world. Five decades later, 10,000 supporters took to the streets when news spread of the station's possible sale. With free speech and democracy at its core, Pacifica remains founder Lewis Hill's dream of "a real place, only a few steps up from the street... an integrating aspect of the community."

Would you have joined the KPFA family in the early days?

KPFA On the Air pays tribute to the oldest and most ambitious independent, community-based media in the world, KPFA radio. Novelist Alice Walker narrates the vibrant and stormy history of the first listener-sponsored station. KPFA On the Air is a case study of the pitfalls and possibilities confronting any experiment in media democracy.

More on the movie: http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0052

Event Sponsor:
KPFT

Event Phone Contact Information:
713-526-4000

Event Website:
kpft.org