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DESCRIPTION: LSB Candidates On The KPFA Airwaves NOW!-\nLet The Membership Hear The 
 Candidates On The Air!\nStop Elections Without A Right To Hear The Issues 
 and Candidates On The Air\n\nPress Conference\n\nKPFA Candidates 
 Speak-Out\n\nTuesday August 17, 2021 4PM PST\nKPFA Station\n1929 MLK 
 Blvd,\nBerkeley\n\nThe election for the KPFA local station board is now 
 taking place yet the manager of KPFA, Quincy McCoy is refusing to play the 
 debates of the candidates on the KPFA airwaves. Debates have laready taken 
 place but the members and listeners won’t be hearing them. The membership 
 and listeners of KPFA should have the right to hear the canddates before 
 the vote at  KPFA yet the management wants to prevent that.\n\nThis is not 
 the first time that the management of KPFA of prevented the listeners from 
 hearing the election issues. \n\nDuring the election on the bylaws there 
 was only one debate during the election and this was not replayed or 
 publicized at KPFA. So much for democracy at KPFA which has become more and 
 more corporatized with a top down autocratic management.\n\nThe management 
 has also refused to let the listeners know that that previous bylaw 
 election was lost by two to one vote even though the Pacifica Interim 
 Executive Director  had said that they should play a cart reporting the 
 results of the election to the membership. This contempt for democracy and 
 transparency Isi the calling card of the manager and needs to be 
 challenged.\n\nWhat kind of free speech radio at KPFA when the management 
 refuses to allow the membership to have the election issues on the 
 air?\n\nIf the station doesn't give equal representation to all candidates 
 by airing the statements and forums, then the winners are likely to be the 
 ones who have the most money to spend — as happens in municipal, state 
 and national elections which are dominated from behind the scenes by huge 
 funders.\n\nThis is also the case where the "New Day" and "Protectors" 
 grouping have spent over $100,000 in emails and postcards to push the 
 corporate bylaws that would eliminate the power of Local Station Boards. 
 Who is providing this massive amount of money for destroying Pacifica? They 
 refuse to say who their big financial backers are.\n\nMany of the 
 programmers on KPFA talk about the need to defend democracy but doesn’t 
 that start at home?\n\nCall the Manager at KPFA to demand that the election 
 debates be on the air before the ballots go out.\n\nIf you want to hear the 
 candidates on the air before members start voting send email to Q@kpfa.org, 
 ed@pacifica.org, nes@pacifica.org, pnb@pacifica.org, lsb@kpfa.org\n\n\nFor 
 more information:\nLet The KPFA Candidates Debate On The Air!\n(415) 
 533-5642‬\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/15/18844320.php
SUMMARY:LSB Candidates On The KPFA Airwaves NOW!- Let The Membership Hear The Candidates On Air
LOCATION:KPFA\n1929 MLK Bld/University\nBerkley California
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/15/18844320.php
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