People's Radio Forum

(Unless they bought a place across the street!)

I'm planning on stopping my monthly pledge, and joining at the minimum $25 level before the Oct. elections (so I can vote).

Take back KPFA — see you there!

I should also say more about the event - maybe some people don't want to open the attachment - how do you edit your own item?
I'll just post a new item with text - see People's Radio Forum 2!

So, wheres the report? How many people came, who was there, what was discussed, etc.? Why do we always hear that about these big important meetings that we should go to, and never get a follow up report?

I'm beginning to think this Peoples Radio group is a figment of a very few peoples imaginations.

I don't know what occurred at the Peoples Radio Mothers Day event . Since i'm a Mother i didn't attend . (That was stuped scheduling on their part ! ) But friends of mine have gone to their meetings in the past and according to their estimates the crowd size has been from 50 to a hundred . Which isn't bad at all for a Public Radio Listener's caucas .Since they also received two thirds of the vote in the last board election i think they are more than a 'figment of a few people's imagination ''. Unless they screw up big time i plan to vote for their entire slate in the station's fall election . The situation at Pacifica is too dire and the current managers too inept and ''mainstream ' not too. Just please be more careful next time and not plan a event for a beautiful holiday .

Oops I do know how to spell stupid .

I don't know what you mean by "if they screw up big time" because i think that richard phelps suing a listener is screwing up big time. supporting an incompetent gm for year is screwing up big time, and exposing a hate radio plant on the lsb and then taking her in as a member of the faction is screwing up big time. i did ask around and found someone who went. apparently it was cancelled when nobody showed up, or when a few non-peoples radio lsb reps showed up. i think some of them are okay and sincerely try to work with others for the station, but from what i've seen no way will i vote for many peoples radio this time. i'm saving my votes for people who put kpfa first so probably won't vote for anyone on a factional slate. it wasn't just stupid to do it on mothers day, it was stupid to do it during a fund drive.

The KPFA management might be responding to pressure from Peoplesradio and other Radical critics. There seems to be more airtime for Marxists like Michael Parenti than in years past . Other radical's interviews, speeches, and so forth seem to be played more often this fund drive than i've heard in a decade.(Whiney liberals don't inspire the $ i guess) It's sort of similar to the way bosses can respond when union organizing drives become public. Suddenly there's pay increases, promotions, and more paid vacation time for the workers. Maybe Bensky, Malderi, Baldock, and the others who really rule the roost think they can undercut their critics by pretending they're still radicals .But i think it's too little, too late.Check out the news . Still NPR lite or even worst !

The KPFA management might be responding to pressure from Peoplesradio and other Radical critics. There seems to be more airtime for Marxists like Michael Parenti than in years past . Other radical's interviews, speeches, and so forth seem to be played more often this fund drive than i've heard in a decade.(Whiney liberals don't inspire the $ i guess) It's sort of similar to the way bosses can respond when union organizing drives become public. Suddenly there's pay increases, promotions, and more paid vacation time for the workers. Maybe Bensky, Malderi, Baldock, and the others who really rule the roost think they can undercut their critics by pretending they're still radicals .But i think it's too little, too late.Check out the news . Still NPR lite or even worst !

Hello, 21st century calling! Didn't you hear? Sectarian politics is dead. People have kicked the idealogues out all over the world. It's people like the previous poster who are driving away listeners. KPFA better get with it, because nobody wants to hear tired old slogans anymore, and haven't for about 15 years now. When they turn on their radios, serious listeners want to hear a variety of viewpoints and want wide-ranging debate, not a one-sided echo chamber . It's good to hear nobody came to that silly People's Radio event. The sooner the People's Radio bunch are pushed aside, the better.