SUPPORT KPFK: SOJOURNER TRUTH EDITION OF MORNING REVIEW FUND DRIVE SPECIALS!

It is Black History Month as well as KPFK fund drive time. Both will be reflected on The Sojourner Truth Edition of Morning Review with host Margaret Prescod (KPFK 90.7 FM, So Cal, 98.7 FM, Santa Barbara, 7:00 - 8 am).

Here is the line up for our show on Tuesday February 24, 2004:

Hear from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's interview with Margaret Prescod, also Margaret's brand new interview with Black feminist writer bell hooks; ALSO hear the latest news from Venezuela with a coordinator of the Bolivarian Circles in the US; ALSO listen up for a segment on Cuba, hear from west side activist Stanley Sheinbaum about his long history with noted civil rights attorney Leonard Weinglass; get an update on the Cuba Five case.

Premiums for this coming Tuesday on the Sojourner Truth Edition of Morning Review will include:

  • A first edition signed copy of Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's brand new book "Love"! Limited to 12 copies, so be sure to call in early! It is bound to be a collector's item. Also offered with the book is a 47-minute interview with Margaret Prescod, and Toni Morrison.
  • Signed first edition copies of bell hooks new book "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love". Limited to 10 copies · CD of my 47 min interview with Toni Morrison will be offered as a separate premium as well.
  • CD from Pacifica Archives of Toni Morrison speaking about her book "Tar Baby". 
  • "Why Choose Love" CD of a 59 min presentation by bell hooks. 
  • A CD on the herstory of Sojourner Truth.
  • A first for KPFK! A special "Sojourner Truth Afro-American, Afro Caribbean Pack" including CDs of the following interviews done by Margaret Prescod: Toni Morrison; Harry Belafonte; Caribbean writer George Lamming; writer and Afro-American Studies Professor Gerald Horne; Cuban film maker Rigoberto Lopez; Rev. Jessie Jackson; Felipe and Valeria Garcia, Professor Robert Ferris Thompson on how slaves and their descendants used African spiritual and cultural practices in rebellions and to survive; a not yet heard one hour interview with 91 year old Dr. Dorothy Height! ALSO included is bell hooks "Why Choose Love" speech! 
  • Brand new video on Venezuela: "Women the Heart of Venezuela's Revolution" (English subtitles)
  • Hear Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Nora Castaneda, President of the Women's Development Bank and more! Back by popular demand, the video:
    "Venezuela: A 21st Century Revolution" (English subtitles).
  • CD of Nora Castaneda speaking in LA
  • Venezuela pack: both Venezuela videos and Nora Castaneda CD!
  • A brand new video on the Cuba 5 entitled "An appeal for Justice" by multi academy award winner cinematographer and director Haskell Wexler who filmed noted civil right attorney, Leonard Weinglass as he spoke on the case of the Cuban Five.
  • AND last but not least A VERY SPECIAL OFFER to premier on Sojourner Truth Edition of Morning Review!!!! I have arranged with Cuba Travel for guess what! Round trip tickets to Cuba! We will offer as a raffle a pair of round trip tickets to Cuba, one lucky person who pledges just $30 on Morning Review and who meet the qualifications set for US travel to Cuba will win 2 round trip tickets to Cuba. After the Sojourner Truth show, the Cuba tickets raffle will be available station wide where additional tickets will be offered. REMEMBER a winner is guaranteed to one lucky person who pledges during the Sojourner Truth Morning Review show!
  • The KPFK film club and more!

On the Sojourner Truth Edition of Morning Review, we bring you news and views on the impact of US domestic and foreign policy, in Southern California and around the world, and how women, communities of color and others are responding to, or opposing those policies. We bring you the voices of grassroots movements from inner cities, rural areas, indigenous lands and the Global South, including how people are working to protect their communities, indigenous practices and cultures. We also look at the inter-relationship between art and politics.

Fans of the show outside of Southern California are of course welcome to contribute and listen to the show by tuning in on the web to www.kpfk.org and click on the Sojourner Truth Edition of Morning Review. Credit card contributions are welcome. KPFK must meet its fund drive goal to keep operating at its capacity, so please call in your contributions, no matter how small or how large. Please tune in and pledge your support to keep shows like the Sojourner Truth Edition of Morning Review and KPFK on the air. If you would like your pledge to be credited to the Sojourner Truth Edition of Morning Review but you call to pledge at a time the show is not on the air, be sure to ask that your contribution be credited to the show.

But please remember to support all of the programming on KPFK.

Please send your comments about the shows to margaretprescod@kpfk.org  or comments@kpfk.org  or call 818-985-2711x204. To order copies of your favorite Sojourner Truth Show contact the Pacifica Archives by calling 800 735-0230.

Thanks to all of the KPFK behind the scenes staff, whose voices are not heard on the air, but who with limited resources including limited and/or outdated equipment keeps KPFK on the air. A heartfelt thanks to all for your encouragement, work and support to make the Sojourner Truth Edition and all of KPFK's programming happen!

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