Attention KFCF Friends,

Free Speech Radio KFCF 88.1 FM invites = you to an=20 open house to celebrate our new broadcast & = production studio. =20 The open house ranges from 3 to 6 pm on Saturday, January 25, 2003, and = folks=20 are encouraged to drop by and say Hi. A Tower District studio = combined=20 with the KFCF office has been a major goal of the Fresno Free College = Foundation=20 and the local community, providing expanded opportunities for local = productions and connections with the world of community=20 radio.

The open house will be highlighted by a = special=20 broadcast of the regular KFCF show, RHYTHMS IN = JAZZ=20 with Mr. Leonard from the new studio, featuring a live=20 performance from the new studio by the Dakota Iyall Jazz=20 Trio.

We forgot to mention the address for = the Open=20 House. Sorry.

The address for the new studio at the = KFCF office=20 is 1449 N Wishon Avenue. It is at Pine and Wishon, across the street = from the=20 Armenian School and St Therese. It is south of McKinley on Wishon = a few=20 blocks on the right hand side.

KFCF will be airing Pacifica = Radio's coverage=20 of the Antiwar Rallies from Washington DC and San Francisco this = coming=20 Saturday Jan 18, 2003 beginning at 8 AM.

Here is the rundown from Pacifica on = the DC=20 rally:

From The Pacifica Radio Network

Live coverage of the = January=20 18th anti-war rally will be available on the KU/Left Channel at 11:00am = eastern=20 time

Laura Flanders, host of Working Assets Radio, daily on = KALW=20 91.7 in San Francisco and WBAI General Manager Don Rojas will join Verna = Avery=20 Brown at the anchor desk for the INTERNATIONAL A.N.S.W.E.R. =
Coalition is=20 rally on the Washington, D.C. Mall, Saturday, January 18, = 2003.   The=20 Pacifica Radio Network will be airing five hours of the rally from = 8:00am=20 Eastern Time till 1:00pm . The program will broadcast the events = from the=20 stage as well as on-set interviews.

At the top and bottom = of each=20 hour a network ID will be played.

The International A.N.S.W.E.R. = (Act Now=20 to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition is building on the momentum of the = October=20 26 anti-war protests, the biggest opposition to conflict since the = Vietnam War.=20
A.N.S.W.E.R. is also sponsoring mass rallies against the war in San=20 Francisco and other cities worldwide also on Saturday, January 18. =
=20 The event is pegged to overlap the spirit of peace and non-violence = embodied in=20 the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Confirmed speakers at the = rally =20 include:

Reverend Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH
- Ramsey Clark, = former=20 U.S. attorney general
- Mahdi Bray, Executive Director, Muslim=20 American
Society Freedom Foundation
- Reverend Al Sharpton, = National Action Network
- Representative Charles Rangel, U.S. = Congress
-=20 Ron Kovic, Vietnam Veteran and author of "Born on the Fourth of = July"
-=20 Representative John Conyers, U.S. Congress
- Cynthia McKinney, former = Congresswoman

- Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Auxiliary=20 Bishop,
   Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
- Jessica = Lange,=20 actor
- Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream
- Mike Farrell, = actor
-=20 Elizabeth McAlister, Jonah House
- Brenda Stokely, President, = District=20 Council 1707 AFSCME; Co-Convener,
New York City Labor Against the = War
-=20 Damu Smith, Black Voices for Peace
- Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, New = York=20 City Labor Against the War
- Bill Fletcher, President, = TransAfrica
- Peta=20 Lindsay, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth and Student
    = Coordinator,=20 Howard University student
- Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister,=20 Plymouth
Congregational Church
- Blas=E9 Bonpane, Office of = the=20 Americas- Representative, Bayan
- Free Palestine Alliance
- = Macrina=20 Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network
- Yoomi Jeong, Korea Truth=20 Commission
- Nicaragua Network
- Partnership for Civil = Justice
- Muslim=20 Students Association of the U.S. & Canada
- IFCO/Pastors for = Peace
-=20 International Action Center
- Rev. John Dear
- Blas=E9 Bonpane, = Director,=20 Office of the Americas
- Rev. Herbert Daughtry, national pastor, = House of=20 the
Lord Church, Brooklyn
- Not in Our Name Project
- = Michael=20 Tarif Warren, attorney
- Mumia Abu-Jamal, taped = message

MUSICAL &=20 CULTURAL PERFORMANCES INCLUDE:
- Chumbawamba
- Prime Meridian
- = Patti=20 Smith

At 1 PM, Coverage of the San Francisco = rally will=20 be carried.

KFCF will be carrying the antiwar = rallies from=20 Washington DC and San Francisco this Saturday Jan 18,2003.

An earlier message detailed the lineup = for the=20 Washington DC rally, which will run from 8 AM to 1 PM.

At 1 PM we will cover the rally in = SF...here is the=20 rundown on that part of the broadcast:

>Pacifica National coverage of the West Coast Rally in San = Francisco on January 18th will begin at 1:00pm and will be anchored by = Dennis=20 Bernstein, Host of Flashpoints, a news magazine heard daily on Pacifica = stations=20 KPFA in the San Francisco Bay Area and on KPFT in Houston. Co-hosting = with=20 Dennis Bernstein will be KPFA's Hard Knock Radio's Anita Johnson, noted = Middle=20 East scholar and KPFA producer, Hatem Bazian. Miguel Molina of La Onda = Radio on=20 KPFA, Nick Alexander, news producer and People of Color Coalition will = be the=20 event's onstage MC.

West Coast Rally Speakers will=20 include:
>-Congresswomen Barbara Lee(the only member=20 of Congress to vote against the Iraq=20 pro-war resolution)
>-Noted American = Indian=20 activist and singer Floyd "Red Crow"=20 Westerman
>Anuradha Mittal, Food-First = Co-director
>-Congressman=20 Woman Lyn Woolsey
>-Singer Joan Baez
>-Vietnam vet and Medal = of=20 Honor Winner Charlie Litkey
>-Amy Brennerman of the "Judging = Amy=20 Show"
>-Dick BecKer of the International Action=20 Coalition