Send in your KPFA ballot!

If you are a KPFA listener who gave $25 or more to the station in the year ending August 31, 2004, or if you are on record as having put in 3 hours of volunteer time during that period, you are eligible to vote in the election for nine listener representatives to the Local Station Board. If you have not yet received your ballot, you should immediately call (toll-free) 877-217 6928 ext 205 and request a replacement. With luck, you should receive it in time to bring it to the station on Saturday.

For more information, see http://election.kpfa.org/.

The ballot is a preferential ballot, which means you can vote for any or all of the candidates and rank them in whatever order you choose. If anybody you choose is eliminated, your vote will be transferred to the next candidate in your ranking, so there is no "spoiler" effect.

I am a candidate in this election and am asking for your vote. My web site is http://kpfa.aarons.fastmail.fm/. Many of you know my politics from my many posts to this and other indymedia sites. If you don't, you can do a google search using the URL at the end of this post.

In addition to encouraging you to vote for me, I am also urging you to give high ranking to all the candidates listed at http://peoplesradio.net/. I believe that the strongest among this group are Joe Wanzala, Michael Lubin, Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, LaVarn Williams and Richard Phelps. (I don't have strong feelings about the order of these six.) The other four: Chandra Hauptman, Ted Friedman, Steve Conley and Attila Nagy are also way preferable to the "KPFA Forward" slate, who apparently are aligned with entrenched staff (Bensky, Maldari, Mericle, Alfandary et al.) to keep anti-imperialist voices on the station to a minimum.

Disclaimer: The endorsements expressed in the preceding paragraph are mine alone, and have not been approved by any of the candidates mentioned.