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Nominations Open for KFCF Board
Want to get involved with the only community radio station in the Central Valley? Candidates are being sought for four open seats on the Fresno Free College Foundation / KFCF Board of Directors.
The Fresno Free College Foundation, owner/operator of KFCF 88.1 FM, is seeking qualified applicants to its board of directors. Subscribership to KFCF in the last fiscal year or direct donation of $25 or more to the Foundation by members as of August 31, 2005 is required for eligibility.
We are seeking member/subscribers with financial planning, nonprofit
organization, independent media and/or event organization skills to
serve three year terms on our board of directors. The board meets once monthly. Enthusiasm for the mission of small "d" democratic governance is a must, and applicants will stand for member election to four open seats on an 11-member board of directors in November.
The Fresno Free College Foundation has served the Central Valley
community for more than 30 years as a free speech advocate and
supporter of arts and education. As a grassroots community
organization, the Fresno Free College Foundation accepts no corporate grants or Corporation for Public Broadcasting money for the operation of KFCF. It is associated with radio station KPFA in Berkeley, Calif., but is officially independent of it and produces its own programming aimed at a listening area reaching from roughly Turlock to McFarland, and into Sierra and coastal mountain communities. It is also a member of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the Grassroots Radio Coalition.
In addition to operation of KFCF, the Fresno Free College Foundation
provides its 501(c)3 umbrella to local organizations including the
Fresno Poets Society, Ananda Fund and others.
If you are a member/subscriber of the Fresno Free College Foundation
and KFCF, support free speech and believe in improving grassroots
community radio, please consider running for a seat on its board of
directors. The deadline for nominations to be received at the KFCF
office or postmarked is September 30, 2005.
Please see: http://www.kfcf.org or call the foundation's office at
559-223-2221 for a nomination packet more information.
We are seeking member/subscribers with financial planning, nonprofit
organization, independent media and/or event organization skills to
serve three year terms on our board of directors. The board meets once monthly. Enthusiasm for the mission of small "d" democratic governance is a must, and applicants will stand for member election to four open seats on an 11-member board of directors in November.
The Fresno Free College Foundation has served the Central Valley
community for more than 30 years as a free speech advocate and
supporter of arts and education. As a grassroots community
organization, the Fresno Free College Foundation accepts no corporate grants or Corporation for Public Broadcasting money for the operation of KFCF. It is associated with radio station KPFA in Berkeley, Calif., but is officially independent of it and produces its own programming aimed at a listening area reaching from roughly Turlock to McFarland, and into Sierra and coastal mountain communities. It is also a member of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the Grassroots Radio Coalition.
In addition to operation of KFCF, the Fresno Free College Foundation
provides its 501(c)3 umbrella to local organizations including the
Fresno Poets Society, Ananda Fund and others.
If you are a member/subscriber of the Fresno Free College Foundation
and KFCF, support free speech and believe in improving grassroots
community radio, please consider running for a seat on its board of
directors. The deadline for nominations to be received at the KFCF
office or postmarked is September 30, 2005.
Please see: http://www.kfcf.org or call the foundation's office at
559-223-2221 for a nomination packet more information.
For more information:
http://www.kfcf.org/
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Good luck getting a better crowd than the wackos (present company excluded, Ms. Speer) on KPFA's Local Board. Among their list of accomplishments has been slagging off the workers at the station at every opportunity, keeping a sexual harasser and violent general manager in his job despite multiple women coming forward, and now attempting to downsize KPFA at a time of record fund drives in order to punish those staff they don't like (read: almost all the staff at KPFA).
Hopefully a less power-drunk group of candidates wants to steer KFCF.
Hopefully a less power-drunk group of candidates wants to steer KFCF.
Thanks for the good wishes for KFCF.
But I do wish that we could tone down the rhetoric around KPFA in order to at least crack the door open to resolve, at least as much as Pacifica agonistes are ever resolved, the current infighting that is preventing us from focusing on the mission. In the LSB's case, this infighting is preventing us from dealing with other important issues that demand attention, like the bylaws revision in progress almost everywhere else but at KPFA.
The lawsuit and complaints will work their way through the appropriate venues but, in the meantime, it seems to me we have a mission and responsiblity to our listeners that needs to be carried out and which is more important than the internal squabbling that is wasting so damn much of our collective energies.
I am as allergic, and maybe more so, as anyone to violence and sexual harrassment issues in the workplace, having experienced both in my own long work history. I don't believe the LSB is remotely qualified, given its gross politicization and polarization, to make a legitimate determination of those issues. I wish that were not so.
What we need, at KPFA and at KFCF, are people to serve on our boards that are dedicated to media democracy, capable of supporting our missions, and talented in the areas of organizational governance, budgeting and yes, fund raising.
If you know of such a person in the KFCF listening area, please urge them to run for a board seat.
But I do wish that we could tone down the rhetoric around KPFA in order to at least crack the door open to resolve, at least as much as Pacifica agonistes are ever resolved, the current infighting that is preventing us from focusing on the mission. In the LSB's case, this infighting is preventing us from dealing with other important issues that demand attention, like the bylaws revision in progress almost everywhere else but at KPFA.
The lawsuit and complaints will work their way through the appropriate venues but, in the meantime, it seems to me we have a mission and responsiblity to our listeners that needs to be carried out and which is more important than the internal squabbling that is wasting so damn much of our collective energies.
I am as allergic, and maybe more so, as anyone to violence and sexual harrassment issues in the workplace, having experienced both in my own long work history. I don't believe the LSB is remotely qualified, given its gross politicization and polarization, to make a legitimate determination of those issues. I wish that were not so.
What we need, at KPFA and at KFCF, are people to serve on our boards that are dedicated to media democracy, capable of supporting our missions, and talented in the areas of organizational governance, budgeting and yes, fund raising.
If you know of such a person in the KFCF listening area, please urge them to run for a board seat.
Whoa folks, tone down your rhetoric indeed!
It was not "power drunk" "wackos" who did not fire the General Manager - it was a group who reviewed his case through 8 special meetings, & found a lack of the necessary evidence, 14 to 5.
This was not "polarization", it was a decision of both sides as people crossed the polarization line!
Are the "power drunk" group those who don't want a GM who won't do exactly what they want, & have manipulated a case against him; who caused former GM Gus Newport to resign for lack of their cooperation? Who have made various statements about KPFA having "too much democracy" - meaning the elected board of 18 representatives of the (28,000) listeners & 6 staff representatives (for 225 staff)? Who spoke against the new bylaws which set up this democratic governance?
This is a struggle between de facto power & democracy, nothing new to Americans. Just to KPFA.
Hang in there! Give our new democracy a chance!
And elect some "wackos" who will support it!
It was not "power drunk" "wackos" who did not fire the General Manager - it was a group who reviewed his case through 8 special meetings, & found a lack of the necessary evidence, 14 to 5.
This was not "polarization", it was a decision of both sides as people crossed the polarization line!
Are the "power drunk" group those who don't want a GM who won't do exactly what they want, & have manipulated a case against him; who caused former GM Gus Newport to resign for lack of their cooperation? Who have made various statements about KPFA having "too much democracy" - meaning the elected board of 18 representatives of the (28,000) listeners & 6 staff representatives (for 225 staff)? Who spoke against the new bylaws which set up this democratic governance?
This is a struggle between de facto power & democracy, nothing new to Americans. Just to KPFA.
Hang in there! Give our new democracy a chance!
And elect some "wackos" who will support it!
Hey folks,
My five cents. So you don't have to do the right thing and make sure that women are not silenced because these things will be solved through some process in the courts.
Jeez. That is so weak. In the meantime valuable women's voices like Solange and Noelle are banned and their reputations trashed for years.
Well Debbie, sometimes justice just shouldn't take years.
And for Mara err Riva......
It is very obvious that you are just using the ends justify the means. There is NO NO NO NO reason that Noelle and Solange should have lost their jobs. Oh come on. Try and justify that. Like there were any reasons they got fired, except that they exercised their legal rights to make a complaint.
They told the truth about rampant sexism and sexual harassment at KPFA and you didn't like the fact that it exposed ---- a perpetrator --- who you liked- or liked his politics.
So screw these women's voices.... just to preserve your political agenda.....
what a sad sad sad testimony to struggling to win, struggling to win sexist radio at the cost of lots of women's voices....
jeez..... you guys are something else.
My five cents. So you don't have to do the right thing and make sure that women are not silenced because these things will be solved through some process in the courts.
Jeez. That is so weak. In the meantime valuable women's voices like Solange and Noelle are banned and their reputations trashed for years.
Well Debbie, sometimes justice just shouldn't take years.
And for Mara err Riva......
It is very obvious that you are just using the ends justify the means. There is NO NO NO NO reason that Noelle and Solange should have lost their jobs. Oh come on. Try and justify that. Like there were any reasons they got fired, except that they exercised their legal rights to make a complaint.
They told the truth about rampant sexism and sexual harassment at KPFA and you didn't like the fact that it exposed ---- a perpetrator --- who you liked- or liked his politics.
So screw these women's voices.... just to preserve your political agenda.....
what a sad sad sad testimony to struggling to win, struggling to win sexist radio at the cost of lots of women's voices....
jeez..... you guys are something else.
Jeez --
We are all very distressed over the situation at KPFA, but it is very convoluted.
First of all, read this - about Noelle Hanrahan:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1754430.php
It shows you there can be another side which you are not hearing about, often because people are required to, or trying to, keep confidentiality.
That is why people are saying leave it to the courts - so that we don't condemn people on the partial evidence that we have. Let them have an in depth investigation. Not call them guilty beforehand.
And it is important to also see things in their larger context - in this case, the anti-democracy campaign which some of the staff are waging at the station. If you want to learn more about this go to:
http://www.peoplesradio.net
I agree - let's not be just trying to preserve our political agenda - be it feminism, supporting labor, whatever. We need to look at each case individually & in depth & realize that anti-democratic forces can be dishonest & manipulative.
We are all very distressed over the situation at KPFA, but it is very convoluted.
First of all, read this - about Noelle Hanrahan:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1754430.php
It shows you there can be another side which you are not hearing about, often because people are required to, or trying to, keep confidentiality.
That is why people are saying leave it to the courts - so that we don't condemn people on the partial evidence that we have. Let them have an in depth investigation. Not call them guilty beforehand.
And it is important to also see things in their larger context - in this case, the anti-democracy campaign which some of the staff are waging at the station. If you want to learn more about this go to:
http://www.peoplesradio.net
I agree - let's not be just trying to preserve our political agenda - be it feminism, supporting labor, whatever. We need to look at each case individually & in depth & realize that anti-democratic forces can be dishonest & manipulative.
I don't know all the details about each of these women's situations so I won't take a position like so many do without all the facts. However, Noelle lost her job under the Jim Bennett regime. He was closley allied with the folks that tried to get the current GM fired. So it is important to not lump the two situations together. The current GM was not around at that time. I do think women's voices are important at the station and in governance. The strides toward transparency at Pacifica have been led by the progressive women on the PNB, La Varn Williams, Patty Heffley, Wendy, Donna, Maria and some of the pro Mission Men. The PNB members allied with the Jim Bennett Regime last year and the entrenched staff that tried to fire Campanella have fought transparency ever step of the way. Transparency and clarity are very important.
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