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Pacifica Board tries -- and fails -- to shut out KPFA listener emails
At its recorded phone meeting April 12, the Pacifica National Board (PNB) devoted a full 45 minutes to discussing emails it is receiving from KPFA members opposed to Pacifica’s hire of Jackson Lewis. Sadly, this conversation did not involve any re-thinking of the decision to hire the union-busting lawyers.
Instead, PNB members debated whether or not to block the hundreds of protest emails its getting from listeners supporting SaveKPFA. PNB member Ken Aaron (KPFK/Los Angeles) said he thinks the people writing to the board “are not human” and their communications were “spam” that should be prevented from reaching the board. From SaveKPFA‘s website, people have a choice of sending their email directly to the PNB’s address, or sending it via a web form, which is then forwarded by SaveKPFA‘s web volunteers. | LISTEN to 30 second audio clip of Aaron
Several PNB members said they were appalled at the proposed limitations on listener comments. SaveKPFA member Andrea Turner, who is 1 of 4 KPFA delegates on the PNB, thanked listeners for writing and said she hoped they would continue doing so. Turner pointed out that a member-driven non-profit founded to advance free expression shouldn’t be scared of hearing from its own constituents. | LISTEN to 1 minute audio clip of Turner
Efforts to block or divert emails sent through SaveKPFA‘s webpage failed by a one-vote margin, with these 9 members VOTING NO on the motion: Nia Bediako (WBAI/NYC), Wesley Bethune (KPFT/Houston), Lydia Brazon (KPFK/LA), Revalyn Golde (WPFW/Washington), Campbell Johnson (WPFW, Washington), Laura Prives (KPFA/Berkeley), Marcel Reid (WPFW, Washington), Dan Siegel (KPFA/Berkeley), and Andrea Turner (KPFA/Berkeley).
PNB treasurer Tracy Rosenberg, who is facing a recall from her constituents at KPFA, VOTED YES to blocking incoming listener messages. She was joined by 7 other PNB members: Ivon Alcime (WPFW/Washington), Teresa Allen (KPFT/Houston), Ken Aaron (KPFK/LA), Carolyn Birden (WBAI/NYC), Bill Crosier (KPFT/Houston), Ali Lexa (KPFK/LA), and George Reiter (KPFT/Houston).
HEAR THE AUDIO: http://www.savekpfa.org/apparently-kpfa-listener-emails-are-making-an-impact
Keep on making "noise"...
Earlier in the same meeting, PNB chair Summer Reese complained about KPFA listeners making “a lot of noise” regarding the election supervisor she hired for the Tracy Rosenberg recall vote. Hundreds of listeners have been writing the PNB to ask why recall ballots had still not been mailed nearly four months after Pacifica’s own deadline for that to happen.
Over 1200 listeners have signed a petition demanding Pacifica appoint an impartial election supervisor from the American Association of Arbitrators or a similar organization. As we reported in our last issue, Reese recently hired a person named Matt Ward to supervise the recall, but gave no information about him. Multiple efforts by SaveKPFA activists to ask both Reese and Ward himself about his experience, or his timeline for the election, did not produce answers. Reese told the PNB that because Pacifica had previously hired election supervisors who she said “don’t appear to have had any qualifications to be election supervisors,” it was therefore “inappropriate” for KPFA listeners to ask about the qualifications of the person she hired to oversee the Rosenberg recall. | LISTEN TO 2 min audio clip of Reese
You can hear the entire PNB meeting in this three-part public recording: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. (The discussion of the recall and KPFA’s listener emails begins about 8 minutes into part 2 and continues through the vote at the end of part 3).
“KPFA listeners and staff have the right to know how the radio network they support is run and what our donations are paying for,” said KPFA board chair Margy Wilkinson. “Let’s keep speaking up loudly and clearly, until we get our station and network back on the right track.”
HEAR THE AUDIO: http://www.savekpfa.org/keep-on-making-noise
Several PNB members said they were appalled at the proposed limitations on listener comments. SaveKPFA member Andrea Turner, who is 1 of 4 KPFA delegates on the PNB, thanked listeners for writing and said she hoped they would continue doing so. Turner pointed out that a member-driven non-profit founded to advance free expression shouldn’t be scared of hearing from its own constituents. | LISTEN to 1 minute audio clip of Turner
Efforts to block or divert emails sent through SaveKPFA‘s webpage failed by a one-vote margin, with these 9 members VOTING NO on the motion: Nia Bediako (WBAI/NYC), Wesley Bethune (KPFT/Houston), Lydia Brazon (KPFK/LA), Revalyn Golde (WPFW/Washington), Campbell Johnson (WPFW, Washington), Laura Prives (KPFA/Berkeley), Marcel Reid (WPFW, Washington), Dan Siegel (KPFA/Berkeley), and Andrea Turner (KPFA/Berkeley).
PNB treasurer Tracy Rosenberg, who is facing a recall from her constituents at KPFA, VOTED YES to blocking incoming listener messages. She was joined by 7 other PNB members: Ivon Alcime (WPFW/Washington), Teresa Allen (KPFT/Houston), Ken Aaron (KPFK/LA), Carolyn Birden (WBAI/NYC), Bill Crosier (KPFT/Houston), Ali Lexa (KPFK/LA), and George Reiter (KPFT/Houston).
HEAR THE AUDIO: http://www.savekpfa.org/apparently-kpfa-listener-emails-are-making-an-impact
Keep on making "noise"...
Earlier in the same meeting, PNB chair Summer Reese complained about KPFA listeners making “a lot of noise” regarding the election supervisor she hired for the Tracy Rosenberg recall vote. Hundreds of listeners have been writing the PNB to ask why recall ballots had still not been mailed nearly four months after Pacifica’s own deadline for that to happen.
Over 1200 listeners have signed a petition demanding Pacifica appoint an impartial election supervisor from the American Association of Arbitrators or a similar organization. As we reported in our last issue, Reese recently hired a person named Matt Ward to supervise the recall, but gave no information about him. Multiple efforts by SaveKPFA activists to ask both Reese and Ward himself about his experience, or his timeline for the election, did not produce answers. Reese told the PNB that because Pacifica had previously hired election supervisors who she said “don’t appear to have had any qualifications to be election supervisors,” it was therefore “inappropriate” for KPFA listeners to ask about the qualifications of the person she hired to oversee the Rosenberg recall. | LISTEN TO 2 min audio clip of Reese
You can hear the entire PNB meeting in this three-part public recording: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. (The discussion of the recall and KPFA’s listener emails begins about 8 minutes into part 2 and continues through the vote at the end of part 3).
“KPFA listeners and staff have the right to know how the radio network they support is run and what our donations are paying for,” said KPFA board chair Margy Wilkinson. “Let’s keep speaking up loudly and clearly, until we get our station and network back on the right track.”
HEAR THE AUDIO: http://www.savekpfa.org/keep-on-making-noise
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Last night, April 18, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. on the evening news, we heard the government operatives announce a picketline of our radio station they had that day over the contrived lawyer issue, whining that next year, their contract expires with our poverty stricken, charity, and they are gearing up for that event. In that newscast, our outstanding general manager, Andrew Phillips, stated that Jackson Lewis is not used for contract negotiations. To the listener, this segment reeked of contempt for the listener subscribers who are not rich but contribute what we can to keep our small radio station alive. This criminal gang is a government operation determined to destroy our radio station. We have nothing more to give in these hard times so if they do not like what Pacifica offers them next year, they can look for another job, the same as the rest of us.
Meanwhile, we heard nothing about a major picketline of San Francisco city workers, representing the 27,000 people employed by the City and County of San Francisco, at City Hall on April 18, where Democrat Mayor Ed Lee is busy getting rid of organized labor by hiring temporary workers who cannot fight back, and their union is not helping. Here is the video, well worth the 8 minutes of viewing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjv3fpor1N4&feature=youtu.be
from:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/04/19/18711588.php
As I was leaving work, I heard the announcement on the KPFA news of this phony picketline at KPFA and was outraged. We have been harassed by this government operation for too long and we are voting No on the Recall of our wonderful, outstanding board member, Tracy Rosenberg.
This newscast of the government operative picketline sounded like the hate speech that it was and it was certainly a vicious slap in the face to the 22,000 listener subscribers, most of whom spent our day working for a living so that we could have not only our living expenses paid for, but a few pennies in discretionary income to give to our beloved radio station, KPFA. The retired people among us have even less to give.
This is the kind of person that Local Station Board members and former Communist Party members Margy Wilkinson, Conn and Matthew Hallinan and Jack Kurzweil, and former member of the Communist Party law firm, Walker, Treuhaft and Burnstein, Malcolm Burnstein, all proud Democrats, view as their leading light, namely Larry Bensky, former programmer at KPFA:
1. His attacks to callers on air:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/25/18659813.php
2. Supporters of Pat Scott Gang and union busters American Consulting:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/21/18659436.php
3. More horrors of supporting Concerned Listeners gang:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/22/18626386.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/15/18472757.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/29/18324348.php
4. His opposition to Peace & Freedom and Green Parties:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/27/18495315.php
5. His use of name lists in violation of Pacifica election rules:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/21/18462672.php
6. His opposition to the 9/11 Truth Movement
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/10/18459899.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/15/18311830.php
7. His anti-labor outlook on labor programming:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/04/14/18154241.php
8. His contempt for free speech:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/13/17051361.php
9. His attack on William Blum's book exposing the CIA and a reminder that Bensky was editor of the CIA front, the Paris Review, at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/27/17498851.php
10. His ridicule of the fact of history that Nazis influenced the anti-Communist witchhunts of the 1940s-1950s as of course they were first and foremost anti-communist:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/05/16762211.php
http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/04/13/mirkarimi-claims-lee-didnt-care-what-really-happened
and
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/04/15/18711368.php
AND THE EMAILS ARE NOT BEING BLOCKED, BUT PUT IN A SPECIAL FOLDER. SEE:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/04/19/18711597.php
WE DO NOT NEED THE MORNING REGURGITATION OF THE PREVIOUS NIGHT'S NEWSCAST AND WE DO NOT NEED AN HOUR OF SO-CALLED NEWS, MOSTLY FILLER, AT 6 P.M.
Sheriff Mirkarimi regrets not speaking out earlier with his side of the story. THAT IS A LESSON EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN. WE SPEAK AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE ABOUT THE LIES OF THE CIA GOVERNMENT OPERATION SITTING IN THE KPFA NEWS DEPARTMENT. WE NEED TO SHUT DOWN THAT NEWS DEPARTMENT.