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Got your KPFA ballot? The station’s future is on the line: VOTE SaveKPFA!
If you’re eligible to vote in KPFA’s board elections, you should have gotten your ballot, which arrived in a nondescript envelope marked “Pacifica Foundation” (not “KPFA”). For the first year ever, you will not be able to turn in ballots at KPFA — all ballots have to be sent in by mail. They have to arrive at a central counting facility in New York by the deadline of December 11th.
If you have your ballot: fill it out and mail it in now! Vote for all 9 SaveKPFA candidates, ranking them from 1 to 9 in the order you prefer — or if you’d rather not decide on a ranking, give all 9 candidates a ranking of “1.” The list of SaveKPFA candidates is here: http://www.savekpfa.org/savekpfa-candidates
Need a little inspiration? Sasha Lilly, co-host of KPFA’s Against the Grain, and co-author of Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth, endorses SaveKPFA. “While Pacifica’s governance system is clearly broken,” Lilley says, “it’s still important that people vote in this election — and vote SaveKPFA. If you think that Pacifica should not call the shots at KPFA, and if you support the work of skilled reporters and broadcasters — paid and unpaid — then please vote for all the candidates on the SaveKPFA slate.” | SEE COMPLETE ENDORSERS’ LIST at http://www.savekpfa.org/endorsements-2
Elections at KPFA are generally low-turnout affairs that are decided by relatively small margins. Every vote makes a big difference, so tell any KPFA members you know to look for their ballots and vote the SaveKPFA slate. Or ask friends to visit http://www.SaveKPFA.org to learn more.
If you didn’t get a ballot, or need to request a replacement, call this number: 1-866-720-4357 or email election [at] kpfa.org as soon as possible. DEADLINE for receipt of ballots back in New York is December 11.
Need a little inspiration? Sasha Lilly, co-host of KPFA’s Against the Grain, and co-author of Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth, endorses SaveKPFA. “While Pacifica’s governance system is clearly broken,” Lilley says, “it’s still important that people vote in this election — and vote SaveKPFA. If you think that Pacifica should not call the shots at KPFA, and if you support the work of skilled reporters and broadcasters — paid and unpaid — then please vote for all the candidates on the SaveKPFA slate.” | SEE COMPLETE ENDORSERS’ LIST at http://www.savekpfa.org/endorsements-2
Elections at KPFA are generally low-turnout affairs that are decided by relatively small margins. Every vote makes a big difference, so tell any KPFA members you know to look for their ballots and vote the SaveKPFA slate. Or ask friends to visit http://www.SaveKPFA.org to learn more.
If you didn’t get a ballot, or need to request a replacement, call this number: 1-866-720-4357 or email election [at] kpfa.org as soon as possible. DEADLINE for receipt of ballots back in New York is December 11.
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From: http://www.votecommunityradio.org/?cat=367
Andrea Prichett – Listener Candidate
Beth Seligman – Listener Candidate
David Welsh – Listener Candidate
Dr. Laurence Shoup – Listener Candidate
Karen Pickett – Listener Candidate
Kate Tanaka – Listener Candidate
Oriana Saportas – Listener Candidate
Ramsés Téon Nichols – Listener Candidate
Samsarah Morgan – Listener Candidate
Virginia Browning – Listener Candidate
David Landau – Staff Candidate
Frank Sterling Jr. – Staff Candidate
Joy Moore – Staff Candidate
You have your ballot, voter handbook, and 2 cards from 2 very different slates to read. You also need to read all the tabs on the website for United for Community Radio at
http://www.votecommunityradio.org/
The UCR slate is supported by current LSB and Pacifica National Board member Tracy Rosenberg, who faced an expensive, contrived recall by "saveKPFA" and survived as that recall was nullified. All recalls should be repealed from the bylaws as we already have almost annual expensive elections and thus all recalls are not only expensive but contrived by definition.
Tracy wrote an excellent piece in response to the usual lies by "saveKPFA'" candidate Dan Siegel, which should be read at:
http://www.votecommunityradio.org/?p=2125
You should also read the site by KPFA listener-subscriber, Daniel Borgstrom, at:
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/
And finally, you should be aware that the leading light of the inappropriately named "saveKPFA" is former KPFA programmer, Larry Bensky, who was also an editor of the CIA's Paris Review. More can be found as follows:
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
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Please fill out your ballot this weekend and mail it no later than Monday morning. Dec 3. It takes a good 3 business days to get to New York from California, and with the snowstorms New York has, you can assume a week is needed. The excitement even for this 56 year listener is very great as the UCR slate has the vitality we need, with lots of good ideas from more listener call-ins to restoring a gay program (we used to have Fruit Punch), having an animal rights program, to having KPFA go into the workingclass communities with a sound truck with speakers in Spanish and all other languages of these communities, to build support among the workingclass. I was very impressed by the candidates who spoke at the on-air forums who can be heard via links on the UCR homepage at
http://www.votecommunityradio.org/
To the young people: The future is in your hands. Pick up that ballot now, mark it with all of the UCR candidates, and mail it today. This is your own listener sponsored radio station, a treasure passed to us from the World War 2 generation, and now we, the Baby Boomers, are passing it to you, but we can only do that if you vote for the United for Community Radio candidates today.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/27/18726512.php
[Dr. Shoup is the author "Rulers and Rebels: A People's History of Early California, 1769-1901" & other books. He's a Green Party stalwart, Longtime community and people's movement activist]
Then rank vote for all ten candidates on the United for Community Radio slate.
Ramsés Téon Nichols - Organizing Committee Chair of SEIU Local 1021, SF Green Party
Dr. Laurence Shoup – Historian, Author "Rulers and Rebels",former Green Party candidate
Karen Pickett - Earth First!, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Global Justice Ecology Project
Andrea Pritchett - Incumbent board member, teacher, Copwatch founder
Samsarah Morgan - Oakland Green Party, Occupy Oakland, writer on birth, health and family
Dave Welsh - Labor organizer, delegate SF Labor Council, Haiti Action Committee, Occupy Oakland
Oriana Saportas - Community & Labor activist, former KPFA Local Election Supervisor
Kate Tanaka - Incumbent board member, anti-corporate stalwart
Beth Seligman - Vegetarian occupier, permaculturist, writer, law degree
Virginia Browning - Long time KPFA activist, former radio programmer
The intellectual level of many Save KPFA supporters leaves a little bit to be desired. They claim to hate "activists", but most activists I know can think rings around them.