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Silence Of "Concerned Listeners" Show Where They Stand On Democracy At KPFA

by "Concerned Listeners" Show Their Colors
In an effort to rig and destroy the democratic election process, KPFA managers have stalled getting statements on the web page of the candidates, prevented the radio carts and even announcements of the election during the pledge drive and have supported by their silence the efforts of Interim Executive Director and Pacifica's conflicted counselor Daniel M. Siegel.
The silence of the concerned listeners on this and many other issues shows where they really stand.
In an unprecedented intervention into democratic elections at Pacifica, the interim general manager Daniel M. Siegel has slandered candidates in the election and also placed his statement on the KPFA web page while refusing to order the statements and questionnaires of all the candidates being put up.
Interim managers Lemlem Rijio and interim program manager Sahsa Lilley who supports "Democracy in abstract" have both used their power illegally to influence and throw the election to their cohorts "concerned listerners". The latest tactic is to personally censor the statements of the candidates carts. Maybe in the next election they can make the carts for all the candidates to make sure the election is run fairly. Our impotent KPFA election supervisor and National Election supervisor Casey Peters have gone along silently with these tactics. The "concerned listeners" group was set up by the various managers and staff at KPFA and by the Wellstone Democratic Club which says it is concerned about making the Democratic Party more democratic. The Wellstone Club as well as labor "leaders" Sharon Cornu and Tim Paulson have been very silent about the antics of the management at KPFA. In fact the "concerned listeners" is a front group for the entrenched actors at KPFA and for those who want to keep their slots at the station. "Concerned Listeners" was silent when Youth Radio was thrown off the air and also silent with Poor People's Magazine lost their segment on the Morning Show.
Their efforts to silence those who are critical of the station management show their true colors as an appendage to the station management who want to further commercialize KPFA and community radio to make it more "professional".
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