5/22 Meeting On KFPA & Labor

Northern California Labor Meeting
On
Labor and KPFA

Making KPFA A Voice for Working People!







Sunday May 22, 2005 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Humanist Hall
370 27th St. near Broadway
Oakland


Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The KPFA Labor Collective in conjunction with KFPA will be hosting a Northern California meeting on how to support and build labor programming at KPFA. The growing assaults and union busting on working people requires a labor media offensive to get the truth out.
Very few working people listen to KPFA yet it provides the only regular news and information about unions and working people on radio in the bay area. We need to expand the labor programming at KPFA and make KFPA a station that is listened to by millions.
The KPFA Labor Collective invites workers, organized and unorganized to join us in a discussion on how we can support labor programming and what working people want to see on KFPA.

For further information or comments on the collective
Call (510) 848-6767 x606 and leave a message with the KPFA Labor Collective. If you want more of this programming please mail us at:
KPFA Labor Collective
Box 69
KPFA
1929 MLK Drive
Berkeley, CA 94704
or email us at
kpfalaborcollective [at] yahoo.com


LABOR PROGRAMMING ON KPFA RADIO
The KFPA Labor Collective produces radio shows about working people throughout Northern California. We broadcast news about labor issues, ranging from deregulation, discrimination and union organizing to healthcare, housing and international labor solidarity. Mainstream media usually censors labor news. We intend to change that.

Our collective is part of Pacifica, a national radio broadcast system, which produces labor news in Houston, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In Wisconsin, the Workers Independent News Service (WINS, http://www.laborradio.org) produces daily labor radio broadcasts on over 120 stations, including commercial stations. Labor television shows appear on community-access television stations and some on PBS stations across the USA. One organization that has supported this effort is the Union Producers and Programmers Networkhttp://www.laborbeat.org/3/uppnetnl.htm
One of our goals is to train working people to produce stories about their struggles and their lives. We are seeking people with skills in Spanish, Chinese and other languages. Our collective participates in LaborTech, an organization that convenes media workers to better use technology
(http://www.labortech2004.org.) In the future, we plan to develop a labor media/news Internet portal for Northern California that includes radio shows, links to labor struggles and labor news.
If you wish to participate, please contact us. We meet monthly at KPFA radio in Berkeley. To be on our email list about our programming, please send us your name, address, phone, email and organization information.
You do not have to be in a union to participate in the KPFA Labor Collective.

To listen to past Labor Collective programming, go to:
http://www.kpfa.org/specials/marchforhealthcare2004.php
http://www.kpfa.org/specials/mayday2004
http://www.laborradio.org/audio/features/mp3/winsfeat061904.mp3