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DESCRIPTION:KPFA: GET IAN MASTERS OFF THE AIR!!\nIn what parallel universe is a 
 CIA-connected programmer allowed his own show on KPFA?\n\n\nKPFA management 
 unilaterally has put on disgraced Los Angeles KPFK programmer Ian Masters 
 and his program called “Back Ground Briefing” Monday through Friday 
 morning during drive time. He resigned from KPFK after telling the 
 listeners that they should boycott Pacifica and not donate to the KPFK fund 
 raising.\n\nMany listeners in Los Angeles have protested for years that 
 many of his “Background Briefing” guests are ex-CIA and FBI agents who 
 are in support of US military operations around the world including in 
 Syria, Iran and many other countries. His family is also connected to CIA 
 officials including John H. Haller who ran the CIA covert operations to 
 overthrow the Mosaddegh government in Iran. He also put on an ex-FBI agent 
 who allegedly was running the Police Committee to keep Mumia Abu Jamal in 
 prison.\n\nWhen the present KPFA interim General Manager was asked at a 
 KPFA Local Station Board meeting why Masters was chosen when there are many 
 other good programs produced by Pacifica nationally he could not provide a 
 valid answer.\n\nSpeakers on 6/22 will also report on the growing rightwing 
 programming at the station including one sided NPR-type coverage about the 
 war in the Ukraine and lack of evaluation of programs.\n\nThe station 
 management and Local Station Board have refused to support the freedom of 
 Julian Assange, Mumia Abu-Jamal and also refused to defend KPFA journalist 
 Frank Sterling when he was attacked by the racist Antioch police. The 
 Treasurer of the Board, Sharon Adams even defended the police in attacking 
 and arresting Frank by reading at the meeting the pro-police version of the 
 incident and the previous KPFA manager attempted to dodge the issue of 
 supporting one of its own journalists by saying that KPFA was not a 
 political party.\n\nIs this “Free Speech” radio? Even the New York 
 Times, Washington Post, Guardian and San Francisco Labor Council called for 
 the freedom of Julian Assange.\n\nThe present Local Station board hasn’t 
 evaluated the past manager in almost a decade and the present manager was 
 just hired without an LSB convened search committee. This cronyism is not 
 the way to run a community radio station.\n\nPrograms have been 
 unilaterally removed including the only labor program WorkWeek and in the 
 midst of the largest labor union upsurge in decades, the KPFA man- agement 
 refuses to have a regular labor programs on the air.\n\nThis month 
 nominations are taking place for the Local Station Board, and Rescue 
 Pacifica is running for the Local Station Board and is linking up with 
 others around the country to make Pacifica a vibrant activist broadcast ve- 
 hicle that will help not only educate but support a people and workers 
 movement against fascism and the danger of world war.\n\nWe need a station 
 that goes back to the roots of KPFA, which was founded by Lew Hill, a 
 pacifist who was opposed to the McCarthy witch hunts and wars around the 
 world. Pacifica supported whistleblowers like the late Daniel Ellsberg and 
 supports his collaborator journalist, Julian Assange and has a tradition of 
 opposing US military empire and the military industrial complex which makes 
 money from wars that cost the lives of millions. \n\nContact the following 
 to support the removal of Ian Masters: Pacifica - pnb@pacifica.org, 
 ed@pacifica.org KPFA Interim General Manager - antonio@kpfa.org, and join 
 Rescue Pacifica email list at RescuePacifica.net\n\nJoin us to speak out 
 make KPFA a beacon for peace, justice and Free Speech\n\nFor more info: 
 RescuePacifica.net, PacificaInExcile.org, PacificaFightback.org, 
 danielborgstrom.blogspot.com\n\nSponsored by Rescue Pacifica & Pacifica 
 Fightback\n\nNew KPFK CIA connected programmer Ian Masters has been 
 continuing to support the imprisonment of Mumia Abu-jamal\n\nBackground 
 Briefing Production \nDate: Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 6:46 PM\nSubject: 
 Mumia\n\nDear Sheila,\nIf you talk to reporters who covered the case and 
 those who knew Mumia\nas fellow journalists when he got involved with MOVE 
 then was\nunderstandably outraged by the Philadelphia police's massacre of 
 the\nmovement and the burning alive of the children, it is no surprise 
 he\nkilled the cop which is what he admitted to to the EMS crew 
 who\ntreated him at the scene. I frankly don't understand why he 
 doesn't\ntell the truth and own what he did instead of feeding the martyr 
 myths\nto his gullible followers. There are plenty of black men in jail 
 who\nshouldn't be there. He just happens to be less deserving of 
 adulation.\nBut since I'm against capital punishment, he should not be on 
 death\nrow.\nCheers,\nIan Masters\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/06/19/18856931.php
SUMMARY:KPFA: Get Ian Masters Off the Air!! Why Does KPFFA Have A CIA-Connected Programmer?
LOCATION:KPFA\n1929 MLK Blvd/University\nBerkeley
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