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KPFA "Save KPFA" Puts Zionist Supporter Hilmon Sorey On Their Slate

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KPFA "Save KPFA" slate which runs the station and the network has put up Hilmon Sorey for a board member at KPFA local station board. He was involved in censoring a Palestinian Children's art show at the Oakland Children's Art Musuem while Quincy McCoy was the Executive Director of the musuem. McCoy is presently the executive director of KPFA. The fact that the "Save KPFA" grouping who would run a supporter of the Zionists who censored a show of Palestinian children's art is a very strong statement of their real politics, candidates and plan for KPFA and Pacifica.
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KPFA "Save KPFA" Puts Zionist Supporter Hilmon Sorey On Their Slate Who Censored Palestinian Art Show At Children's Art Museum Run By ED Quincy McCoy Who Is Now KPFA GM
From: Barbara Lubin
Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:22 AM
Subject: Hilmon Sorey

I received a letter today asking me to vote for the new KPFA Board of Directors and I
was shocked to see Mr.Hilmon Sorey's picture and name on it. I don't know if you remember when MECA brought the
Children's Art Exhibit to the U.S. from Gaza. We spent 6 months working with the staff of The Museum of Children's Art in
Oakland. They had agreed to let us hang the exhibit at the museum for 2 months during which time we would have many small events
with children and teachers. We were all very excited but that changed after a visit from Hilmon Sorey who was chair of the Museum's
Board. He came to MECA'S office 2 weeks before the exhibit was to open and informed us that the Museum had changed their
mind and we would have to look elsewhere for a place to hang the pictures. The rest of this story is in the book we had published
and I will get to you.

I have been thinking about all of this and all the pain that we here at MECA went through and I asked myself this question "with all the problems that KPFA has do we really need a person like Mr. Sorey on our Board?" He is not to be trusted and when push comes
to shove he will do what the Zionist community tells him to do. We received hundreds of letters from all over the world condemning
him for his lack of leadership but mostly for insulting the Palestinian children who drew these pictures.

Barbara Lubin


Barbara Lubin
Middle East Children's Alliance
Web: http://www.mecaforpeace.org
Tel: 510-548-0542
Fax: 510-548-0543

Maia Project: Bringing clean water to children in Palestine
http://www.mecaforpeace.org/project/maia-project


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2015 Local Board candidates endorsed by SaveKPFA

August 14, 2015 by Save KPFA





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Candidates endorsed by SaveKPFA | READ the endorsers list
http://www.savekpfa.org/4156/
Margy Wilkinson served as Chair of KPFA’s Local Station Board from 2011-2012, Chair of the Pacifica National Board in 2014 and 2015, and as Pacifica’s volunteer Interim Executive Director for nearly a year. She is a lifelong activist and organizer, and served as the chief rank-and-file bargainer for a union representing over 17,000 employees in the University of California system.

Sasha Futran is a community activist who served on KPFA’s local board from 2006-12, serving as Chair in 2010. In the past, she’s worked as a journalist in print and broadcasting, mostly for alternative newspapers and public radio and TV.

Barbara Whipperman has served as Treasurer of KPFA’s Local Station Board from 2011-2015, fighting for local control over KPFA’s finances — and eventually winning!

William Campisi is an attorney who represents injured patients in claims against doctors and hospitals; he was also a volunteer at KPFA in the 1970s.

David Lynch is a software engineer, compulsive podcast listener, and staunch supporter of the KPFA news team.

Leland Thompson is an Oakland native, a professional leadership coach, and a black independent business owner committed to improving KPFA’s fundraising and growing its audience.

Yuri Gottesman worked in the labor movement for more than 8 years, first as an organizer, then as an attorney. He now operates a small business in Berkeley teaching test preparation to adults.

Hilmon Sorey has spent the last 15 years as a consultant building non-profits and businesses in the Bay Area, including leading advertising, events and circulation at what was (at the time) the fastest-growing newspaper in the Bay Area. He also serves as Chair of Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Arts.


Filed Under: elections and governance, KPFA, Margy WilkinsonTagged With: Barbara Whipperman, David Lynch, Hilmon Sorey, KPFA Local Station Board election, Leland Thompson, Sasha Futran, William Campisi, Yuri Gottesman

ENDORSERS 2015

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KPFA STAFF:
Aileen Alfandary, KPFA news director
Bob Baldock, producer, KPFA author events
Vic Bedoian, KFCF news stringer, Pacifica Evening News, Central Valley reporter
Larry Bensky, host of Piano
Claire Hope Cummings, former Food and Farming Editor, KPFA Morning Show
Brian Edwards-Tiekert, host, Upfront
David Gans, KPFA music programmer and outgoing LSB member
Miguel Guerrero, KPFA’s Rock en Rebelión
John Hamilton, former Pacifica Evening News producer/anchor
Mitch Jeserich, host, KPFA’s Letters & Politics
Ramsey Kanaan, founder, AK Press; co-founder/publisher, PM Press; KPFA unpaid staff
Sasha Lilley, author and producer and host of KPFA’s Against the Grain
Tim Lynch, co-host Dead to the World
Philip Maldari, host, Sunday Show
Glenn Reeder, KPFA News Dept.
Derk Richardson, host of The Hear and Now
Lisa Rothman, former executive producer, KPFA Morning Show
Lewis Sawyer, founder of The Experience Collective
Bonnie Simmons, The Bonnie Simmons Show
Vanessa Tait, KPFA News Dept, labor journalist, FSRN co-founder
Kris Welch, host of Living Room and Saturday Morning Talkies
Richard Wolinsky, producer/host, Bookwaves, Arts-Waves, UpFront theater critic

ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS AND ACADEMICS:
Bill Ayers, author of Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident
Rick Ayers, author, professor at SF State University
David Bacon, labor journalist
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author, activist, professor emerita
Rashid Khalidi, author, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University
Barbara Epstein, Professor, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Dana Frank, Professor of History, UCSC
Judith Scherr, independent journalist
Steve Goldfield, musician, activist, journalist
Donald Goldmacher, filmmaker, Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
Conn Hallinan, Former LSB member, Analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus
Rose Marie Kuhn, Ph.D, Professor, California State University Fresno
Ilene Abrams, College Readiness and Persistence Coach at Youth Radio
Richard Walker, professor emeritus, UC Berkeley
Kathleen Weaver, author
Kay Trimberger, Professor Emerita, Sonoma State University, author
Linda Olivenbaum, early childhood educator
Matthew Hallinan, former LSB member
Peter Najarian, Artist, Writer, The Great American Loneliness
Teresa McFarland, PhD, Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Rose Marie Kuhn, Ph.D, Professor of French, California State University Fresno
Juan Pedro José Gaffney Rivera, community artist/musician
Elizabeth Ebrahimzadeh, Professor of Mathematics
Susan Weiss, ​Business ​ & Editorial​ Services
Mark Gorney, Worldisc, Global Music Promotion, Berkeley, CA

LABOR LEADERS AND ACTIVISTS:

Steve Early, labor journalist
Michael Eisenscher, USLAW National Coordinator Emeritus
Carole Travis, Chicago UAW (retired), prisoner rights attorney , KPFA Local Station Board chair
Craig Merrilees, Communications Director, ILWU-International Longshore & Warehouse Union
Ellen Jennings, SEIU 1021, KPFA Listener/Subscriber
Craig Alderson, union activist, KPFA Local Station Board secretary
Joan Lichterman, Communications Workers of America
Libby Sayre, Area Director (retired), CWA District 9
Nick Jones, Atchison Village Employees Assn., former UFWA Boycott Director
Tonette Garcia, Worksite Organizer, SEIU Local 1021
Suzanne Gordon, journalist and author, NWU/UAW
Francesca Rosa, rank-and-file labor activist; writer
Alex Chis & Claudette Begin, activists

COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS:

Max Anderson, member Berkeley City Council
Blanche Richardson, owner, Marcus Books, Oakland
Dr. Raye Richardson, author, veteran civil rights activist
Rychard Withers – Executive Director, Fresno Free College Foundation / KFCF-FM
Dan Siegel, civil rights and labor attorney, former Pacifica Counsel
Lynn Hollander Savio, Free Speech activist, actor
David Blume, author Alcohol Can Be a Gas, permaculturalist, I.I.E.A Santa Cruz
Elizabeth (Betty) Brown, Co-Chair East Bay Peace Action
Jack Kurzweil, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, KPFA LSB
Kathy Lipscomb, SF Senior & Disability Action, Ex. Bd.
Steve Goldfield, musician, activist, journalist
Mal Burnstein, retired civil rights attorney
John Van Eyck, former listener rep., KPFA Local Station Board
Barbara Whipperman, KPFA LSB Treasurer
Burton White, arbitrator/mediator, KPFA LSB
John Whiting, Member, Guild of Food Writers
Nancy Polin, KPFA Outreach Committee, formerly KPFA CAB
Pamela Drake, Oakland community activist
Sherry Gendelman, attorney; former chair, Pacifica National Board
Ted Weisgal, former parliamentarian, Pacifica National Board, chair of KPFT’S Anti-Racism and Diversity Committee
Iris Biblowitz, RN, KPFA listener of many years
Sheila Goldmacher, listerner/activist

LISTENERS:
Bill Appledorf, listener
Lee Block, listener
Michael Coan, listener
Caryl Esteves, listener
Janet Esteves, listener
Lena Hahn-Schuman, listener
Christine Hansen, listener
Bonnie Holl, listener
Jerry Holl, listener
Sheila Newbery, listener
Linda Nicoletto, listener
Donna Odierna, DrPH, listener
Jack Radey, listener
Barbara Rozen, listener
Nikki Sachs, listener
Ed Treuting, listener
Susan Weiss, listener
Phyllis Willett, listener and donor
Dr. Celia Reyes, MD., listener
Barbara Rozen, listener
Dr. Donna Odierna, KPFA listener
Christine Hanson, listener
Sheila Newberry, listener
Lena Hahn-Schuman, Listener
Herschel Schuman, Listener
Linda Nicoletto, listener
Bruce Hobson, listener
Sandra Carmichael, South Bend, IN, listener via internet
Ignacio Bermudez-Corrales, listener
Alison Davis, listener
Mike Himmel, listener
James Rudoy, listener
Edward Garcia, listener
Bert Kaplan, listener

PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME and ID BY EMAILING votesavekpfa [at] gmail.com – thanks!

Quincy McCoy
General Manager at KPFA Radio
Berkeley, CaliforniaNonprofit Organization Management
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• Museum of Children's Arts,

• salon.com,

• Youth Radio International
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• Utica College of Syracuse University

QUINCY MCCOY
Creative Associate
Quincy is a dynamic leader with strong management experience in both corporate and non-profit sectors, with an emphasis in communications, media, and music. He has brokered numerous strategic alliances, helped organizations innovate programs during crucial moments of change, and is a respected youth mentor in the East Bay. McCoy served as Chief of Operations for Salon Studio at Salon.com and was Vice-President of Radio for MTV Networks and Rhapsody America. He has also served on the board of Youth Radio International.




Museum Bows to Pressure From Jewish Groups and Cancels Palestinian Children’s Art Show
http://hyperallergic.com/35382/museum-bows-to-pressure-from-jewish-groups-and-cancels-palestinian-childrens-art-show/
by Hrag Vartanian on September 12, 2011


One of the images that was to appear in the canceled Palestinian children's art show.
Pressure from some Bay Area Jewish groups and others have pushed the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) in Oakland, California, to cancel A Child’s View from Gaza, which is an exhibition featuring 50 art works by Palestinian children aged 9 to 11. Slated to open at the Oakland institution on September 24, the rather last minute cancellation has shocked many who are disturbed that the voices of young children are being silenced in America. Many of the images portray the bloodshed of the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2008 and 2009, known as Operation Cast Lead, and they were created by the children during art therapy sessions that help them cope with the trauma.

In an open letter to the MOCHA community, chair Hilmon Sorey wrote that, “…as an organization that serves a large and diverse community, we tried to balance this with the concerns raised by parents, caregivers and educators who did not wish for their children to encounter graphically violent and sensitive works during their use of our facility.” In an interview with the Contra Costa Times newspaper, Sorey was more specific and said that “the board felt the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is too divisive an issue.”

Yet the Museum is no stranger to exhibitions that portray violence and a 2004 exhibit showed art done by Iraqi children immediately following the American invasion and the institution has explored children’s art that portrays violence in other shows.

Barbara Lubin, who is the chair of The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), which organized the show was dismayed by the cancellation. “We understand all too well the enormous pressure that the museum came under. But who wins? The museum doesn’t win. MECA doesn’t win. The people of the Bay Area don’t win. Our basic constitutional freedom of speech loses. The children in Gaza lose,” she said in a MECA media advisory issued today. The document suggests a disturbing trend:

… [T]his disturbing incident is just one example of many across the nation in which certain groups have successfully silenced the Palestinian perspective, which includes artistic expression. In fact, some organizations have even earmarked funds for precisely these efforts. Last year, regrettably the Jewish Federation of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs launched a $6 million initiative to effectively silence Palestinian voices even in ‘cultural institutions.’

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the pressure to cancel the show “came from Jewish groups as well as others in the community, board members said.”



Alice Walker urges children’s museum to reverse decision, but censoring of Gaza kids’ art continues
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/alice-walker-urges-childrens-museum-reverse-decision-censoring-gaza-kids
Nora Barrows-Friedman Lobby Watch 16 September 2011

In the past week since their board of directors made a decision to censor children’s artwork from Gaza, the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) in Oakland has been deluged with emails and phone calls urging them to reconsider and give Palestinian children’s expression a platform.

Legendary author and political activist Alice Walker — who had recently returned to visit Palestine earlier this year — wrote a beautiful piece on her website admonishing the decision to censor this exhibition.

She wrote:

Empathy is a wave that need never be stopped. If our children can catch this wave, from the ocean of tears shed by Palestinian children, they might have a future in a more stable and saner world.

However, it seems as if MOCHA’s board has prioritized giving into intimidation by the Israeli lobby over freedom of expression of children in Palestine who suffer under the effects of Israeli policy.

The Middle East Children’s Alliance sent a press release on Thursday night saying that “[d]espite the massive outcry against its censorship of a Palestinian children’s art exhibit, the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) in Oakland has refused to change its decision to cancel ‘A Child’s View From Gaza.’”

The press release continued:

The Museum’s Board of Directors, which voted to cancel the art exhibit one week ago following enormous pressure from pro-Israel groups, received a letter from the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), along with thousands more from supporters around the country, requesting that they reverse their decision by Thursday, September 15.

Regrettably, on Tuesday, September 12, MOCHA’s Board President Hilmon Sorey posted an open letter on the organization’s website defending the cancelation of the exhibit, citing community concerns about the “violent” nature of the images. However, the images depicted in the art exhibit drawn by Palestinian children in fact decry the use of violence against a defenseless civilian population.

The Museum itself has previously presented wartime artwork, including drawings by Iraqi children that show U.S. tanks and weaponry, as well as another exhibit of World War II imagery. One letter writer also reminded MOCHA that pro-Israel groups routinely sponsor student trips to Holocaust museums around the country that feature images of Nazi horror.

“We are very disappointed in MOCHA’s insistence to silence the voices of Palestinian children, despite its long history of presenting similar wartime art. MOCHA’s double standard when it comes to Palestinian children shows that its decision was political in nature,” said Barbara Lubin, Executive Director of MECA.

In fact, days after MOCHA announced the cancelation of the exhibit, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish Federation of the East Bay boasted to several media outlets to pressuring the museum to make that decision.

Unfortunately, this disturbing incident is just one example of many across the nation in which certain groups have successfully silenced the Palestinian perspective, which includes artistic expression. Last year, the Jewish Federation of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs launched a $6 million initiative to effectively silence Palestinian voices even in “cultural institutions.”

“It is very sad that the children artists in Gaza have been forced to live under siege by Israel since 2006. By silencing these Palestinian children, the pro-Israel groups succeeded to stretch the siege from Gaza to Oakland,” said Ziad Abbas, Associate Director of MECA.

MECA will present “A Child’s View From Gaza” in the courtyard outside of MOCHA on the scheduled opening date, September 24. We promise you that the voices of these children will not be silenced, not in Gaza, and certainly not in the Bay Area.

MOCHA is located at 538 9th street, suite 210, in Oakland. MECA and supporters of the young artists from Gaza will be there from 1 to 3pm. For more information, visit http://www.mecaforpeace.org.
In an open letter to the MOCHA community, chair Hilmon Sorey wrote that, “…as an organization that serves a large and diverse community, we tried to balance this with the concerns raised by parents, caregivers and educators who did not wish for their children to encounter graphically violent and sensitive works during their use of our facility.” In an interview with the Contra Costa Times newspaper, Sorey was more specific and said that “the board felt the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is too divisive an issue.”
Lubin is exploiting this "incident" in order to bolster her organization and causes. This has nothing to do with Pacifica or KPFA. What did Barbara Lubin expect? When little 8-year old Jacob's mom and dad said "after synagogue this weekend, let's go see "Zionists: The Monster Jews Who Kill Trees and Children" show? For goodness sake, even MECA For Peace itself cautioned families when they set up their own exhibit, "Due to the graphic nature of some of the images, adult supervision is advised." Well, the candidate pulled out of the election. Congratulations on another successful smear campaign!
by Tracy Rosenberg
While I think Lubin's letter is important, it's also important to be accurate. The United for Community Radio post is, but this one is not. Yes, Hilmon Sorey was the chair of the MOCHA board in 2011, when this incident occurred, and as Barbara Lubin relates, he was responsible for the decision, a decision that set off a national uproar and greatly damaged MOCHA's reputation. However, KPFA's general manager Quincy McCoy did not begin working as Mocha's director until December of 2012 (he worked there for less than two years), so he didn't have anything directly to do with MOCHA's actions in 2011. Sorey did.

Hilmon Sorey has withdrawn his candidacy for KPFA's local station board as a Save KPFA candidate, which is good news for anyone who cares about the independence of non-commercial media.
by Ann Garrison
I'd like, with all due respect, to ask the "repost" poster to take this down because of the inaccurate statement that Quincy McCoy was ED at MOCHA at the time that Hilmon Sorey cancelled the Palestinian childrens' art exhibit.

If you write to Indybay and ask them to take it down, I'm sure they will.

Barbara Lubin's letter is also posted here on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/28/18779360.php.
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