Live Call In Show for Palestine

<p>During the show we invited you, our listeners, to call in to our station to give us your comments and feedback on our work and our broadcasts live on air with us. </p> <p>Once again, KPFK is holding an urgent fund drive, hoping to overcome a serious and ongoing financial crisis that affects the whole Pacifica Network of independent broadcasting stations. Since the financial crisis of 2008 and with a smaller listener base due largely to the rise of social media, it has proven ever harder to raise the money needed to sustain an independent radio station that depends entirely on listeners like you to support its valuable work. Though increasingly people are tending to get their news via social media platforms, that only increases the unique value of broadcast radio. Unlike the self-selecting silos of Twitter or Facebook, KPFK’s signal, which covers almost all of Southern California, can reach a broad and diverse audience and not merely the already converted. </p> <p>Now, even as Israel has announced that it intends to intensify its horrific bombardment of Gaza and increase the number of airstrikes in preparation for the long-awaited and dreaded ground invasion, the need for independent media voices could not be more urgent. Mainstream media and even the White House have been parroting and amplifying Israeli propaganda, erasing Palestinian lives and deaths, ignoring the 75-year history of Palestine’s ongoing Nakba, Israel’s apartheid regime and its violent project of ethnic cleansing, dispossession and settler colonialism. Without this context, the current phase of Israel’s violent war on Palestine cannot be understood but all that CNN or MSNBC can do is ask their few Palestinian guests to condemn Palestinian violence as their ticket to utter a few soundbites. </p> <p>Today, we also bring you the recorded voices of Palestinians, expressing points of view that have largely been ignored by the mainstream media. Despite the fact that we must urgently fundraise to keep this show and this station on the air, we cannot