New Website to Defeat the Recall of KPFA's Tracy Rosenberg

Thank you for this outstanding website. We now have an opportunity to send our own postcard to the listeners, which is urgently needed to overcome the lies. See:
http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/?page_id=27
for how to pay by credit/debit card or send a check to:
Stop the KPFA Recall
Post Office Box 9094
Berkeley CA 94709

You can add your name to the list of endorsers at
http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/?page_id=25
The Honor Roll so far is:
Shahram Aghamir – Co-Producer, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Mary Berg – Producer & Host, A Musical Offering, former Secretary of the PNB and KPFA LSB, and member of the Program Council, among many other things.

Rivian Berlin - former producer Women’s Magazine, listener.

Max J. Blanchet – Former KPFA Local Advisory Board (LAB) and Local Station Board (LSB) Member

Jeff Blankfort - co-founder of the original SaveKPFA in 1993 and of Take Back KPFA in 1995.

Carol Brouillet – Community Currency.org, and Co-Founder, International Media Project

Michael Costello – North Bay for KPFA Folio in Exile 2000

Susan da Silva - Former Chair KPFA LSB

Bonnie Faulkner - Producer, Guns & Butter

Anthony Fest – Producer, KPFA Weekend News, KPFA Local Station Board Staff Representative.

Peter Franck – Former President of the Pacifica Foundation (1980-1984)

Maria Gilardin - Producer, TUC Radio

David Greene – First KPFA Elections Coordinator

Noelle Hanrahan – Producer, Prison Radio

Roger D. Harris – Vice President, Task Force on the Americas

Chandra Hauptman – Former KPFA LSB and Pacifica National Board listener-representative.

Dorothy Kidd - Professor, Dept of Media Studies, University of San Francisco, and long-time community radio producer and advocate.

Janet Kobren – KPFA LSB Listener Member, activist around the Occupy movement, Palestine, democratic media, election integrity, environment, housing justice, and other issues.

Monique Koller - Listener.

Adrienne Lauby - Host/producer, Pushing Limits, KPFA unpaid staff.

Kenya Lewis – Save KUSF volunteer

Barbara Lubin – Executive Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance.

Laura Mac Dougall – KPFA Listener from the South Bay.

Neal Madnick - Listener.

Abby Martin – Founder & Editor in Chief of Media Roots

Aimee Murray – KPFA Listener.

Attila Nagy – North Bay for KPFA, Santa Rosa Occupy, former KPFA Local Station Board member.

Marilyn Naparst - Long-time listener.

Henry Norr – Retired journalist, member of the KPFA LSB since 2006, activist around Palestine, torture, ending wars, labor solidarity, and other issues.

Robbie Osman - Host, Across the Great Divide

Michael Parenti – Author & Lecturer

Ed Pearl - Founder/Operator of the Ash Grove in LA, organizer with the “Take Back KPFK” Campaign, served two terms on KPFK’s first elected board

Richard Phelps – Chair, KPFA LSB 2005-2006

Peter Phillips - Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University, former Director of Project Censored, Co-Producer of Project Censored heard Friday mornings on The Morning Mix.

Andrea Prichett – LSB Current Listener Representative, teacher and co-founder of Berkeley Copwatch

Les Radke – Co-Host Bill Mandel’s Soviet Union Program, Vice President Richmond Federation of Teachers for several years, Member of the Contra Costa Labor Council for several years, Co-Founder of Coalition for a democratic Pacifica, Education Chair of KPFA’s former Education Collective, Member of Californians for Electoral Reform for 10 years, KPFA Local Election Supervisor for 2003, Pacifica National Election Supervisor for 2006 & 2009.

Willie Ratcliff – Publisher, San Francisco Bayview, Former member for six years of the KPFA Local Advisory Board and Local Station Board

Malihe Razazan – Co-host & Producer, Voices of the Middle East & North Africa, and Producer of Your Call on KALW

Mara Rivera – KPFA listener-supporter since 1962

Ruth Shpiner – Unpaid staff KPFA Weekend News Reporter

Sally Sommer – Active with KPFA/Pacifica since 1999 with the Coalition for a democratic Pacifica. Served on the KPFA elections committees over the years since then.

Carol Spooner - Former PNB member (Jan 2002-Jan 2005), former KPFA LSB member (Apr 2000-Apr 2005), former lead plaintiff in the “listeners’ lawsuit to remove the old Pacifica Board (1999-2001)

Roger Stoll – Secretary, Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas

Marsha Vas Dupre, Ph.D. - City Councilwoman Santa Rosa, CA.

Laura Wells - Green Party candidate for the 2010 California Governor’s race.

Dave Welsh - Labor organizer, journalist, musician, letter carrier, S.F. Labor Council delegate. Member of Occupy Oakland, Freedom Song Network, Haiti Action Committee.

Sue Wilson – Producer, Broadcast Blues

Candace Wolf – Pacifica listener, storyteller, Washington, DC

Pro-Rosenberg Recall Endorsers Listed at savekpfa.org

12 are current members of the local board affiliated with Concerned Listeners/Save KPFA - 33%
3 are programmers from the old Morning Show - 8%
6 are married couples - 16%
19 are current or former staffers - 53%

Above is a totally dishonest comment.

What savekpfa's list shows is the broad support of community/listener reps as well as unpaid and paid KPFA staffers.

What the "no on recall" list shows is broad support from scabs and scab-supporters, all of whom do pretty crummy radio.

The above comment is revealing of the toxic poisonous way the entrenched KPFA staff treat their coworkers. Big reason why they're in the mess they're in. Very unpleasant.

The site put up by Rosenberg's supporter got 61 endorsers in its first 24 hours. Only 11 of them are KPFA staff or 18%. The vast majority are long-time dedicated KPFA listeners, who have been active around independent media issues and KPFA politics.

Save KPFA is also obscuring the difference between endorsing their slate for the LSB and endorsing Rosenberg's recall. They've already had to take down several names after implying they supported the recall effort without asking them. Pretty grody.

There are so many supporters/endorsers of SaveKPFA they spill out all over the organization's website, from "big" names to ordinary listeners. Hundreds have been writing letters and signing petitions for the last year.

For instance, here's just the latest SaveKPFA petition:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/pacifica_recall_oversight/signatures/page/19

And this is only 1 page of 19!

So please, stop the silly claim that Rosenberg has more endorsers. And be aware that many of those signed are her friends or people she's given air time to doing some kissing up.

Some broad support: here's your own Save KPFA list of recall endorsers from the front page of your own damned website:

# of Current Save KPFA Local Board Members
12

# of Current KPFA Staff
17

# of Total Endorsers
38

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From the Stop the KPFA Recall Page

# of Current Local Board Members Affiliated with ICR
4

# of Current KPFA Staff
15

# of Total Endorsers
79

These are the same folks who have run the station into the ground for the last 30-40 years. Shallow LibDems, ex-CPUSA hacks, PC jerks all. They have typically stolen the name of the original Save KPFA group two decades which they opposed and they collaborated in the 1995 purge and only spoke up when their asses were on the line in 1999. I call them the Bensky Boob Brigade.

The Recall Tracy folks are attributing magical powers to Tracy Rosenberg, in the form of many actions she could not possibly have accomplished!

To 'is broad':
You give Tracy too much power - how can she "give (anyone) airtime"? So you must have no idea who Tracy is or how programming is allocated at KPFA.

Some facts: The ED planned to have the Morning Show staffed by other paid staff.
Their shop steward(s) prohibited paid staff from taking any such position.
So volunteers stepped up to create "the Morning Mix".

A working Program Council with paid & unpaid staff, including department heads, and others, would have been the body to allocate airtime - had not core paid staff & Concerned Listener/SaveKPFA faction elements first destroyed it and then stalled its reformation.

It is true, however, that many CL/SK endorsers endorse them because they control who has access to the airwaves as guests. Although there was also a KPFAworker/SaveKPFA request to community members to NOT participate in Morning Mix programming. So others had to be presenters/interviewees. They were all called "scabs" by the SK, even though there was no picketline they had to cross! In fact, the CWA union is prohibited from such "job actions".

Didn't you hear to the BFUU "video cast" the other night, where Sasha Futran recounted in detail how the Morning Mix was entirely created by Tracy?

Oh, I bet that part will be edited out when it is finally circulated.

Anyway, for more accurate information, these:

Pacifica misses recall deadline:
http://www.savekpfa.org/kpfa-listeners-look-for-your-ballot-by-december-30

Lots of details are explained here:
http://www.savekpfa.org/faqrecall

Why is KPFA broke?
http://www.savekpfa.org/facts-about-the-kpfa-situation

We would need more accounts to be able to believe that Tracy and/or Tracy alone was responsible for programming the Morning Mix.
Remember, the original idea was for other paid staff to take over the morning show. They opted out. (This was an illegal "job action", by the way, prohibited by the union contract.)

The ballots were delayed because Save KPFA forces would not agree to the impartial election supervisor first chosen.
When SaveKPFA sent out their card in December, they asked listeners to harass Pacifica over this deadline, when they already knew the deadline could not be met.

And lots of details are explained here:
http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org

It's a little difficult to keep up with the 5,000 different charges being randomly thrown around. Had I known someone said I "programmed the Morning Mix" at that forum before I arrived there, I would have said something about it.

I didn't program the Morning Mix. It was a proposal submitted by a bunch of unpaid staff after the union staff stated in defiance of their contract they were refusing lateral transfers to the AM time slot. I think 2 different ones were submitted.

(The illegal job action later broke down and Davey D now participates in the Morning Mix, along with other local 9415 members).

I did make a call to Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips at Project Censored to see if they might be able to contribute some content. I've always been a fan of their work. When they said they wanted to talk about it, I put them in touch with others.

That's not exactly "programming the morning mix".

These exaggerated and hysterical accusations are really getting wacky.

I can only wonder what agenda all the noise is trying to cover up.

"Didn't you hear to the BFUU "video cast" the other night, where Sasha Futran recounted in detail how the Morning Mix was entirely created by Tracy?

Oh, I bet that part will be edited out when it is finally circulated. "


Futran sold out the listener democratic movement because it wouldn't kiss her _ _ _ and she hates Tracy since Tracy used her and then dropped her, as Tracy sometimes does. No rational person will pay any attention to Sasha Futran's ultra narcissistic distortions of history.

Futran is the one that tried to get Henry Noor, her slate mate, kicked out of the 2009 election because he produced his own election leaflet and didn't praise Sasha in it.

There is no real basis for the recall. It is another power move by the CL/Save KPFA sectarians that want absolute control over KPFA and they will lie and distort reality to win power no matter what the cost to KPFA and Pacifica.