Campaign to get Bill Mandel back on KPFA

by Riva Enteen & Bill Carpenter (wcarpent [at] ccsf.edu)

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 6:39PM

Early in March the Committee to Restore Willliam (Bill) Mandel to KPFA went to the station to meet with new manager, Roy Campanella II. QT Video (in three parts, 7 minutes each) of the meeting is below.

Here are Bill Mandel, Gerald Sanders and Jack Heyman about to enter the station, while Henry Norr parks his bike.

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Bill Mandel, popular KPFA radio programmer for 37 years, was unceremoniously thrown off the air in 1995 for violating a gag order against airing news of the struggle over KPFA's political direction. At the height of the struggle for free speech radio in 1999, two others were thrown off for violating the gag order, but have been returned to the air. A ten year effort to return Mandel, now 87, is gaining momentum. Armed with a petition signed by notables such as Daniel Ellsberg, Pete Seeger, Ed Asner, Tillie Olsen, Alexander Cockburn and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, on March 7, 2005 a delegation of 13 "Mandelistas" marched to the station to demand Mandel's reinstatement. View the video of the delegation to understand why this is a critical campaign, then log onto his website at http://www.billmandel.net to add your name to the effort. Si se puede!

--Riva Enteen, Committee to Restore Willliam (Bill) Mandel to KPFA

For more information: http://www.billmandel.net

§Mandel, Sanders, Heyman, and Norr

by Bill Carpenter (wcarpent [at] ccsf.edu)

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 6:44PM