"We Have A Vision For KPFA" ?Concerned Listeners for KPFA 2007
http://www.concernedlisteners.org/



Eric Drooker
We Have a Vision for KPFA

Warren Mar • Sherry Gendelman • John Van Eyck
Antonio Medrano • Matthew "Dynamite" Hallinan
Susan McDonough • Paul Robins • Dianne Enriquez

We are the Concerned Listeners for KPFA, a group working toward broadening KPFA's listener base and cultivating dedicated and talented station leadership and staff who produce compelling programs that build audience.

If you listen regularly to KPFA, you know it is the best source for alternative radio in Northern California and the Central Valley. KPFA offers information, music and culture, community affairs, and investigative reporting on events in the U.S. and around the world. Its point of view, critical of racism, militarism, and domination by corporate power, has never been more important.





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We believe in the philosophy of KPFA founder Lew Hill that dialogue among differing points of view should be fostered and honored. KPFA needs to embrace change. We need to cultivate visionary programming in public affairs, news, music, arts and the humanities. We want diverse, high-quality programming that serves the traditional listener-base, but can also attract new listeners.

All this requires a board that is broad and representative of the diverse progressive community of the Bay Area. We are not running against anyone. We are running for a more powerful, effective, and influential KPFA. All of KPFA's listeners should have a voice on the board. If you want KPFA to be a place where political and cultural visions can be realized, a place that lives up to its mission of social justice and artistic diversity for labor, young people, people of color, musicians and artists, listeners outside the Bay Area, old radicals and new, then we ask for you to vote for our slate.

We Will:

Keep KPFA true to its mission of social justice and cultural diversity in these dark times.
Distinguish between governance and administration. The board's role should be to keep the station true to its mission and vision, inspire management and staff, but not micromanage station operations and programming.
Take seriously the responsibilities of fiscal oversight, fund raising and community outreach. Listenership and listener financial support remains stagnant. We must turn this around.
Be a local board that respects competency and professionalism, and values civility and consensus building.
Help KPFA embrace the new technologies of the 21st Century.

Ballots are due on November 15! Mail yours in today!

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We Will Broaden KPFA's Listener Base and Stay True to its Mission of Dialogue and Diversity for Social Change.
2007 candidates to vote for:


Warren Mar is a faculty member at City College of San Francisco in the Labor and Community Studies department. Previously, he spent 20 years as a labor organizer with HERE, CNA, and the Organizing Institute of the AFL-CIO. Prior to his work with unions, he did tenant and youth organizing in San Francisco's Chinatown, where he grew up.




Sherry Gendelman is a civil rights attorney who practices around the Bay Area, largely working with immigrant clients. As Chair of KPFA's Community Advisory Board, she led one of the legal actions that was key to saving KPFA from a hostile takeover in 1999-2000.




John Van Eyck has been active in the worlds of art and labor for over 30 years. He's served on the board of the National Endowment for the Arts, working on its Community Program Policy Task Force, and on the policy panel of its Expansion Arts Program—a program designed to fund projects rooted in inner city, rural, tribal and other under-served communities. He has also served as the Regional Director of Actor's Equity Association, and a union representative for scenic artists, broadcast employees, and hospital workers.




Antonio Medrano is a retired educator and long-time labor and community activist in Richmond and West Contra Costa County. He serves as Co-chair of Concilio Latino of Contra Costa County, is a member of the Rosie the Riveter Trust, and is actively involved in education and immigrants' rights organizing.




Matthew "Dynamite" Hallinan is a long-time Bay Area activist and political organizer. He has spent the last four years working to break the Republican political stranglehold on our national government, founded the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, worked on the successful Jerry McNerney congressional campaign, and is dedicated to building a grassroots, progressive movement that can pull the Democratic party to the left.




Susan McDonough now works with the Alameda County Central Labor Council, after nearly two decades of organizing with various unions in the Bay Area, both as rank and file and staff. In the 1980s, she organized medical aid and symposia in Nicaragua and El Salvador.




Paul Robins lives in Redwood City, and works as a software engineering manager in Cupertino. He's worked for KPFA intermittently over the past 25 years—mostly unpaid—helping with everything from newswriting to managing the station's database. He's a long-time volunteer with the Zen Hospice Project. Formerly, he worked as a SF Muni driver, where he was active in the drivers' union.



Dianne Enriquez works for Young Workers United, an organization in San Francisco dedicated to uniting the youth and labor movements to raise standards in non-union, low-wage jobs. She's also a former member of KPFA's First Voice Apprenticeship Program.