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A powerful minority of the KPFA staff is intent upon ousting General Manager Roy Campanella II, on the job less than a year. The last manager, Gus Newport, resigned after nine months in the position due to difficulties in working with the factionalized staff....

Eighty paid and unpaid KPFA workers show their lack of confidence in General Manager Roy Campanella...

Today workers at KPFA are contacting the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the National Labor Relations Board to file complaints against the station's General Manager, Roy Campanella II, for sexual harassment, gender-based discrimination, threatened violence, repeated violation of workers' right to organize, and retaliation....

Are plans to sell KPFA/Pacifica public listener-supported radio resurfacing, after listener efforts saved it from the corporate raiders just a few years ago?...

Tomorrow the Rules Committee will be asked to rubberstamp a deal made by Mayor Gavin Newsom to extend San Francisco’s contract with cable provider Comcast. The Board of Supervisors should renegotiate the contract rather than flushing down the drain the first opportunity in 25 years to fix an awful agreement with a company American consumers rate lower than the IRS. The renegotiations represent an historic opening for strengthening cable workers’ and subscribers’ rights, obtaining Internet acc...

I am very concerned about the current dissension at KPFA. I’ve been hearing lots of stories, and I’m sure everyone has his/her point of view. I’m personally torn because I don’t dislike anyone at KPFA, although I might know one person better than another. So I thought I would try to foster some unity and provide some assistance with solving the problems and contradictions among the station’s staff....

Critical Mass Radio Network (CMRN) produces a coordinated monthly broadcast on the last Saturday of each month. CMRN is an international network of community webradio and microradio stations, including the bay area's Enemy Combatant Radio....

Check out the latest episode of Street Level TV, radical television for the Bay Area and beyond. SLTV is produced by Radical Transmissions, an all-volunteer collective in association with Indybay and VAN. Each episode is 58 minutes long and airs on Ch. 29 in SF, Ch. 28 in Berkeley and nationally on Free Speech TV....

The live play of Diamond Dave - Voices of the San Francisco poets & priestesses...

A motion likely to be made at today’s Board of Supervisors meeting would schedule a closed session for board members to discuss a deal recently proposed by Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office to extend cable provider Comcast’s contract with the city for four more years. The deal would circumvent a half-finished community outreach process initiated to discover what everyday San Franciscans and media workers wanted to see out of the contract’s upcoming renegotiation. Now, with community groups, media a...