What it is!!
LA CAN’s (Los Angeles Community Action Network) Human Rights Watch Report (“You Have to Move! The Cruel and Ineffective Criminalization of Unhoused People in Los Angeles’) Release  -  Panel discussion of organizers and some with lived experiences and all on the frontline in the Los Angeles Housing Crisis.  Criminalization and harassment of the unhoused.

Guests: John Raphling, Human Rights Watch, Associate Director for the US Program, Researcher and Writer for the Human Rights Watch Report; Pete White, Executive Director & Founder of Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN); Natosha Smith, Housing Organizer / Downtown Women’s Action Coalition Organizer, Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN); Ndindi Kitnoga, Houseless Rights Advocate, Co-founder of Angeles Workshop School; Sonya Verdugo, Ground Game LA; and Derrick Metyor, Member of Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN).

Conversation Piece w/ Angela Birdsong
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KPFK Conversation Piece...You Have To Move! Human Rights Watch Report @ LA CAN

What it is!!
A coalition of tenants, housing rights advocates, public interest lawyers and community based organizations formed a coalition called Keep LA Housed with the goal of protecting tenant rights by the of way of strengthening the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance for the City of Los Angeles, improving the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance for rent control, and ensuring the Right to Counsel for low income renters to name a few of the ongoing actions by Keep LA Housed.  

I covered two of their many press conferences hosted by this coalition upholding the Housing Movement.  Hear some of the voices from Keep LA Housed saying housing is a human right and that no one should EVER be evicted without legal representation. This rally took place on the South Lawn of Los Angeles City Hall.

Later hear about the Pickle-ball craze in the City of Inglewood, which is a combination of tennis, badminton, ping pong and racquetball and is currently one of the fastest growing sports in America!  To see the sport in action, search the web: keyword – Pickle-ball.  For more information about Pickle-ball in Inglewood, please 310-412-8750 or reach the Pickle-ball Ambassador at 310-654-7344.

For more information about Keep LA Housed Coalition and to read the Tenant Bill of Rights and about TAHO, the Tenants Anti Harassment Ordinance go to KeepLAHoused.org.

Song Credit:  California Rent Control by Adam Smith


Conversation Piece w/ Angela Birdsong
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KPFK Conversation Piece...Housing Rights Rally and Inglewood Pickle Ball

During our KPFK Membership Fund Drive, we have a special Black History Edition of Conversation Piece with a speech you may not have heard as much as the I have a Dream speech. 

This speech was given in Los Angeles on March 16, 1968, less than three weeks before Rev Dr Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated.  The setting is a house in the Hollywood Hills with a group of artists who were concerned about the war in Vietnam. Dr. King is introduced by one of the artists there, novelist, playwright, and poet James Baldwin.  KPFK was there to record the event and Pacifica Archives has curated it. The recording aired on KPFK on April 4, 1968.  

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You can participate in our Membership Fund Drive by calling 818-985-5735, hit option 2, that's 818-985-KPFK and online anytime at KPFK.org.


KPFK Fund Drive Conversation Piece -Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr 1968 Speech

Today on Conversation Piece...Meet Ronnie Laws and his sister Debra Laws, as you may know about their jazz-soul fusion of music with instrumental songs like Always There and love ballads like Very Special.  With early musical roots in their family today you will hear some of theri musical hisotry and legacy from Ronnie Laws' early professional breakthrough when he joined Earth Wind & Fire to Debra's solo career.

See Ronnie and Debra Laws perform next Saturday, June 28 at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.  Follow Ronnie Laws on all social media platforms to find his next performance and upcoming releases.

KPFK Conversation Piece Musical Legacy & History of Ronnie and Debra Laws

What it is!  Friday,June 6, 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents invaded Los Angeles.  They used administrative civil warrants to arrest students, hotel workers, cooks, landscapers, and construction workers.  Invading schools and workplaces demanding that any Angeleno who wasn’t sufficiently Caucasian produce their papers.  Taking them away in unmarked vans, without judicial process.  Of course, the people of LA wouldn't stand for this, and mass protests flooded out downtown Los Angeles.  The news, federal government, and even some members of the city council lied about these peaceful protests being riots, but the video shows that the only ones rioting were the LAPD.  Today we are going to speak to a community member who was there all week, and later we will be joined by Matyos Kidane to explain the strategy behind these lies...Welcome to Conversation Piece.

KPFK Conversation Piece Kidnapping in LA and the Protests Against It

On Conversation Piece today…Meet my guests: Angie Wilson, the president of the Council of Black Nurses Los Angeles Chapter, and Gwen Woods, who will share why she is a fierce bone marrow advocate and community activist with a personal story about her grandson, Eric Alexander.  Did you know that Black patients are less likely to find a bone marrow match due to low representation on the bone marrow registry?  July is designated as African American Bone Marrow Month, and my guests say don’t wait until July for a simple cheek swab to save a life.

But first we have a Sister Charlene Muhammad with a news report.

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KPFK Conversation Piece Bone Marrow Registry, Another Health Gap with Angelia Wilson and Gwen Woods

House Keys NOT Handcuffs!  
This week on a special Music To Resist By Edition of Conversation Piece, we speak to members of the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) about the effects of Trump's executive order on homelessness, and it's real effects on housing and criminalization policies region wide. 

Join our guests Therese Howard of the Housekeys Action Network Denver (HAND), Clayton Shea from the Missoula Homeless Union, and Sam from Judy's Midnight Diner in Oregon to get the real picture of the oppression of poor people on the ground, and what they are doing to fight back!  Welcome to Conversation Piece, the Music To Resist By edition.

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KPFK Music To Resist By Edition of Conversation Piece with WRAP Members

Unhoused constituents reported waking up to a heavy turnout of LAPD officers, just before an encampment sweep on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. They said they were lined up and detained, before sanitation workers had shown up, many of them issued citations for LA's anti-camping law 41.18. 

Some of those constituents confronted and sought answers from LA City Council member Eunisses Hernandez's staffer, Eric Ares, who identified himself as the office's district director (he has served as the office's Director of Housing and Homelessness).

Mountain View's unhoused constituents seek answers from Eunisses Hernandez staffer

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Today on Conversation Piece…from East 6th Street in the apartheid state, the center of Downtown Los Angeles known as Skid Row…Hear voices, chants and sounds at the O22 Rally & March in Downtown Los Angeles at LA CAN for the National Day of Protest against police brutality.  Stop LAPD Spying Coalition hosted the O22 Rally & March, where they tell everyone to join the fight against the fascist police state.  StopLAPDSpying.org

Later Stephano Medina, Managing Attorney, Movement Legal speaks of the importance of rental assistance to keep Angelenos housed, and why the Los Angeles City Attorney has placed millions of dollars on hold for most of 2025, for rental assistance leaving tenants vulnerable to being evicted.  

If you need to know your tenant rights, check out StayHousedLA.org and MovementLegal.org.

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KPFK Conversation Piece O22 March Rally and Atty Stephano Medina Movement Legal

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Human rights, economic justice and do not promise something that cannot be delivered. All People’s Health Collective refuses to leave anyone behind and will find solutions that benefit everyone.

Today on Conversation Piece…learn about the All People’s Health Collective with Lex Steppling because “People are the healthiest when their fundamental needs are met.  We are safest when everyone has housing, community, health, and purpose.” 

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KPFK Conversation Piece All Peoples Health Collective with Lex Steppling

A place for leaders and members of the community to have a voice in the real day to day issues & celebrations of urban living locally and worldwide, and brings awareness to the point of action & cataclysmic change.  Yes, storytelling changes & saves lives!

Los Angeles native, Angela Arkwright Birdsong, is shaking up the media space with her groundbreaking media production company, MTAS Productions.

Angela's podcast, Conversation Piece, can be heard weekly on Pacifica Network KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles at 10am PT Saturdays.

Angela worked as a producer/guest host/news anchor on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles radio shows:  Liberated Sisters, The Earl Ofari Hutchinson Show (formerly The Hutchinson Report), KPFK Rebel Alliance News, along with ghost writing for some folks…shhhh.

~Her podcast, Conversation Piece, ranked #1 Show on RadioJustice.org for multiple weeks in 2019/2020 with over 5000 listeners* 
~Most Placed Show on RadioJustice.org in 2019/2020*

*RadioJustice is on hiatus.

KPFK Conversation Piece...You Have To Move! Human Rights Watch Report @ LA CAN

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