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Silence Of "Concerned Listeners" Show Where They Stand On Democracy At KPFA
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.
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".
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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So, by inference and innuendo, you smear a slate of candidates with no evidence or proof.
You're constantly railing and attacking your opponents, but no one has seen any constructive or positive ideas, plans or goals presented by you and your allies.
The only real "plan" is Phelps' novel idea of raising money by suing listeners who speak out.
You constantly state that you 'defend and promote democracy', and yet stifle, attack, smear and insult anyone who dares to disagree with you or your statements. Democracy cannot exist without dissent, which you throttle at every chance and opportunity.
If you feel you've been 'slandered', then sue. The reality is, no one has "attacked" anyone...except you and your ilk. Everyone else is simply campaigning without stooping to this Rovian polictical "hacktic" yoou embrace and promote..
The biggest flaw in your campaigning is denying the reality that you are not the sole "Keepers of All Truth"; that other people can have disagreements on some issues while agreeing on others.
Your demand for blind acceptance and obeisance to your goals without question is your downfall; KPFA was built on people who agreed on one thing...a place for people to get together and share competing and complementary ideas.
Your goal is to make everyone the same, all believing the same, all supporting the same, a homogenization...and nothing like a democracy.
To quote Gerald Sanders: "Democracy is 'We won, you lost.'" This is hardly the concept of protection from the tyranny of the majority that democracy is supposed to embrace.
Most of us have seen enough agitprop to know the flowers from the bullets, and to never trust those who demand blind allegiance.
You're constantly railing and attacking your opponents, but no one has seen any constructive or positive ideas, plans or goals presented by you and your allies.
The only real "plan" is Phelps' novel idea of raising money by suing listeners who speak out.
You constantly state that you 'defend and promote democracy', and yet stifle, attack, smear and insult anyone who dares to disagree with you or your statements. Democracy cannot exist without dissent, which you throttle at every chance and opportunity.
If you feel you've been 'slandered', then sue. The reality is, no one has "attacked" anyone...except you and your ilk. Everyone else is simply campaigning without stooping to this Rovian polictical "hacktic" yoou embrace and promote..
The biggest flaw in your campaigning is denying the reality that you are not the sole "Keepers of All Truth"; that other people can have disagreements on some issues while agreeing on others.
Your demand for blind acceptance and obeisance to your goals without question is your downfall; KPFA was built on people who agreed on one thing...a place for people to get together and share competing and complementary ideas.
Your goal is to make everyone the same, all believing the same, all supporting the same, a homogenization...and nothing like a democracy.
To quote Gerald Sanders: "Democracy is 'We won, you lost.'" This is hardly the concept of protection from the tyranny of the majority that democracy is supposed to embrace.
Most of us have seen enough agitprop to know the flowers from the bullets, and to never trust those who demand blind allegiance.
While a political crisis is gripping not only KPFA but Pacifica as a result of the illegal political intervention into the election by the Interim Executive Director Daniel M. Siegel to influence the election. "Concerned Listeners" have been totally silent. Check out their web page and these issues dont' exist for them.
Are these "concerned listeners" concerned about the actions of Seigel or probably more likely they support them. Apparently Old Lib is not keeping up with events at Pacifica. A national meeting of the Pacifica National Board has been called to discuss these very issues but apparently the "Old Lib" thinks we should just proceed with business as usual.
Nearly all the other candidates except the candidates of "concerned listeners" have spoken out about their concern about these recent developments. We can only assume that the silence by the candidates of "concerned listeners" reflect the views of the managers who are illegally attempting to destroy any democratic election process. For them apparently a fair election means listeners not having the right to hear the local station board candidates until most members have already voted. So much for democracy.
Are these "concerned listeners" concerned about the actions of Seigel or probably more likely they support them. Apparently Old Lib is not keeping up with events at Pacifica. A national meeting of the Pacifica National Board has been called to discuss these very issues but apparently the "Old Lib" thinks we should just proceed with business as usual.
Nearly all the other candidates except the candidates of "concerned listeners" have spoken out about their concern about these recent developments. We can only assume that the silence by the candidates of "concerned listeners" reflect the views of the managers who are illegally attempting to destroy any democratic election process. For them apparently a fair election means listeners not having the right to hear the local station board candidates until most members have already voted. So much for democracy.
Concerned Listeners didn't post libelous smears for the purpose of defaming their opponents, and instead speak to what they are attempting to achieve by election.
The "Peoples Radio" group, under all their various slate names this election, post nothing positive without using smears, innuendo and libel to advance themselves at the cost of others. Even the "Independent" group is drawn almost entirely from the "Peoples Radio" group, and have merely toned down the rhetoric rather than eliminate it.
Even the RCP has more restraint in attacking its opponents than you do.
While I don't know the details of the infighting of the groups, I don't think it's fair to link Casey Peters with some management plot to keep KPFA in the thrall of the Democrat Party. Casey is a long-time Peace and Freedom Party activist (since 1967), a long time activist for voting reforms, and an expert on proportional representation, ranked choice voting, etc. Why don't people use their real names in this section?
the candidate statements have all been up for several days and are linked from here:
http://lsb.kpfa.org/2007candidatelist
http://lsb.kpfa.org/2007candidatelist
maybe concerned listeners are too busy working for positive change and don't have time to contend with all the useless drivel, lies, innuendo, slanted speech and other low brow political warfare that we see on IndyBay regarding this election. They run on a campaign of not furthering all this mudslinging so maybe that's what they are DOING. What are you doing?
Paul, regarding Casey, this is how they speak of anyone that disagrees with them, if you speak out even a little about these tactics or if you disagree with their agenda you are written about as some part of a secret plot, 28000 people have now gotten a ballot that has a glaring example of this. This has been happening for years but is particularly ugly at the moment, anyway it makes you want to get back to the issues, it should be about the content and the issues not about who is bringing which issue forward.
In today's (Oct. 30 ) edition of the Berkeley Daily Planet Sherry Gendelman warmly welcomed Dan Siegel's attempt to tilt the election in favor of his political bedfellows , themselves ! In the same edition Matthew Hallinan rants and raves and distorts the facts . But Carol Spooner destroys Siegel's rationale for his '' Open Letter'
In my earlier post i meant to write '' Sherry Gendelman on behalf of the Concerned Listeners''
Leading Concerned Listeners candidates are now backing the intervention into the election by Interim Pacifica Exective Director Daniel M. Siegel. While the station refuses to play the carts during the fund drive and even publicize the election, CL candidates Gendelman and Hallinan now speak out for management's role in the election.
Interestingly enough, the election supervisors have been forced to get Siegel's statement off the KFPA web site because it violated the election guidelines but according to Gendelman and Hallinan they would support Siegel's statement continue to be on the web site and used to support the CL grouping. So much for fighting for free speech and democracy at KPFA.
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=10-30-07&storyID=28352
Tuesday
October 30, 2007
Commentary: KPFA ‘Concerned Listeners’
By Sherry Gendelman (10-30-07)
Concerned Listeners very much appreciates the Berkeley Daily Planet’s coverage of the current KPFA LSB elections.
Concerned Listeners is a broad coalition of people active in labor, community organizing, and the arts. We formed because we did not want KPFA’s board dominated by sectarian groups trying to impose a rigid ideological orthodoxy on a station that has always thrived because of its diversity. Our candidates include myself, Sherry Gendelman, a long-time stawart and activist who led one of the listener lawsuits that saved KPFA and Pacifica from a hostile board in 1999-2001. We also include new faces like Dianne Enriquez, an activist with Young Workers United, and a former member of KPFA’s First Voice Apprenticeship Program. We have people active in unions and academia, like Warren Mar of the CCSF Community and Labor Studies Program. And we also have people with a history in the arts—for years, John Van Eyck sat on board of the National Endowment for the Arts as a trade union representative. Matthew Hallinan is a seasoned political organizer, and co-founded of the Wellstone Club. Susan McDonough works for the Alameda County Central Labor council, and has a strong nonprofit fundraising background. Antonio Medrano is a consummate community activist, co-chairing Concilio Latino of Contra Costa County, among his work with many, many other organizations. And Paul Robins, a software manager from the Peninsula, is tech-savvy with a solid background in labor organizing and Buddhist peace work. See http://www.concernedlisteners.org.
We’re running to strengthen KPFA. We believe in a KPFA that is both radical, and diverse, embracing its original mission of using the airwaves for dialogue between contrasting points of view. We want to bring the station closer to the communities it serves, by doing hands-on outreach and organizing ourselves—not by yelling about how the station’s not doing enough.
In this regard we welcome the statement by Dan Siegel, civil rights attorney, long-time political activist, and interim executive director of the Pacifica Foundation. It is Dan Siegel’s opinion that “Pacifica’s local station board elections have taken a particularly nasty turn. A group of candidates running for the KPFA local board have issued statements that contain little more than personal attacks on their opponents and station staff. A candidate at WBAI engages in blatant race-baiting. As a community and a progressive organization we must ask ourselves whether this type of rhetoric is acceptable. “Siegel went on to say that the debate within Pacifica is often so toxic that it inhibits the ability of Pacifica to respond to the issues our time, and the in-fighting, he said, “saps the morale of our hard-working and underpaid staff, and discourages people of good will from participating in our organization.”
We, Concerned Listeners, urge Pacifica’s members to decide if this is the nature of the dialogue they want those of us who are active to engage in. To quote Mr. Siegel yet again, Pacifica needs “leaders who will work to improve our programming, broaden our listener base, and attract needed financial support.” We, Concerned Listeners, urge all KPFA members to vote for those candidates who want KPFA to flourish. To vote for candidates who have expressed ideas about how this radio station should be run to the advantage of the mission of Pacifica. We believe that would mean votes for the Concerned Listeners slate of candidates. We want to do some of the things the board is supposed to do but hasn’t—fundraise for KPFA, organize town halls for KPFA, hire visionary permanent management. But we can’t accomplish those things if we can’t transcend the board’s petty infighting.
Sherry Gendelman is a Concerned Listeners candidate for KPFA’s Local Station Board.
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=10-30-07&storyID=28353
Tuesday
October 30, 2007
Commentary: The KPFA Flap
By Matthew Hallinan (10-30-07)
When I was considering running for the KPFA Local Station Board, a number of old-time activist friends told me I was crazy. There is a sectarian fringe, they said, that has placed all their hopes for getting access to an audience by gaining control over KPFA. At the same time, they explained, there was a staff that had grown comfortable with the way things are, and that would resist any effort to change things. Anybody who would put him or herself in the middle of that minefield was just plain nuts.
What to do? KPFA and the other Pacifica stations are a few of the last mass media outlets that belong to progressives. It’s just not possible for those of us who witnessed the mass hysteria whipped up by the media during the drive to war with Iraq to simply stand back and let KPFA slide into oblivion because we don’t want to deal with the nasty characters who are trying to take it over. All of us on the left have had to deal with nasty characters—and most had a lot more power than these folks!
When I agreed to run on the Concerned Listeners slate, I made a pact with the other members of that slate not to run a negative campaign. Somebody had to break the cycle of mudslinging that turns off listeners and that keeps good people from getting involved with the station. We were going to be different. We were going to talk about our positive vision for bringing peace to KPFA and for mobilizing support for strengthening its signal, improving its programming, and reaching out to a broader progressive audience.
Seemed like a good idea. We all signed the KPFA Fair Campaign Provisions, the fifth plank of which states that no candidate may use Pacifica or KPFA resources to publicly attack another candidate, station staff, management, or the Foundation. Seemed like a good way to ensure that people would talk about their visions for the station, rather than simply what they don’t like about their opponents.
However, at the candidate’s forum broadcast by KPFA, one of the People’s Radio candidates made a series of unsubstantiated charges against some of the management, staff and board. The point of his attacks was to insinuate that the members of the Concerned Listeners slate were somehow linked to the events and people he criticized. We ignored it.
Then, when the election pamphlets were sent out to all the voters, we were amazed to see that the seven members of the People’s Radio slate had combined their statements into a lengthy, paranoid tract. They attempted to “expose” an effort by management, backed by a “minority” of staff, and supported by our slate to “dismantle” the Local Station Board in order to seize power at the station. Management’s goal, they said, was to take us back to the “bad old days” before the listener’s revolution of 1999. The members of our slate howled foul. We were playing by the rules and got blind-sided. And when we complained of the unfairness of this, that their slate broke the rules we had all signed on to, and defamed us in the one mailing the station would make—Carol Spooner and Marc Sapir come forth to protest that our complaints are just another example of management suppressing free speech.
I know it’s a waste of time and energy to get down in the mud with a bunch of attack dogs, but it just goes against my Irish temperament to give these folks a pass on this.
The issues are exactly the opposite of what the People’s Radio folks claim. There is no danger of management turning the clock back to 1999. The power of the Local Station Board is now written into the by-laws of the Foundation. This charge is their equivalent of Bush’s WMDs.
It is we, the Concerned Listeners slate that wants to bring democracy to the board and to the station. It is the People’s Radio folks and their allies who are fighting tooth and nail to keep a broad, representative local Station Board from being elected. Look at who is running on our slate and who our endorsers are! The People’s Radio folks are not interested in bringing new people on to the Board—people who haven’t participated before in KPFA and that represent progressive currents that may have different outlooks on many issues than they do.
These folks don’t want to broaden the base of democratic participation in KPFA—they want to control the station. They think they are the “true” representative’s of the Left, and they think they should be in a position to define KPFA’s mission. But do they ever talk about this? Do they ever say what their vision is? No they don’t. They talk in vague generalities about ‘mission’ and program, and substitute paranoid and baseless attacks on others to avoid spelling out what they really want for the station.
They are not battling an effort by management to take over KPFA. Management at the station hardly exists: the paralysis created by these people has kept a permanent station and program manager from being hired! They have demonized the management and the paid staff, and have tried to present Concerned Listener’s efforts to get the entire KPFA community working together as a subterfuge for a management take-over. These folks are true believer bullies who do not want to see KPFA become an authentically democratic station that can serve as home to this incredible, broad and diverse progressive community we have in Northern California.
That’s what’s at stake in the LSB elections at KPFA.
Matthew Hallinan is a Concerned Listeners candidate for KPFA’s Local Station Board.
Interestingly enough, the election supervisors have been forced to get Siegel's statement off the KFPA web site because it violated the election guidelines but according to Gendelman and Hallinan they would support Siegel's statement continue to be on the web site and used to support the CL grouping. So much for fighting for free speech and democracy at KPFA.
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=10-30-07&storyID=28352
Tuesday
October 30, 2007
Commentary: KPFA ‘Concerned Listeners’
By Sherry Gendelman (10-30-07)
Concerned Listeners very much appreciates the Berkeley Daily Planet’s coverage of the current KPFA LSB elections.
Concerned Listeners is a broad coalition of people active in labor, community organizing, and the arts. We formed because we did not want KPFA’s board dominated by sectarian groups trying to impose a rigid ideological orthodoxy on a station that has always thrived because of its diversity. Our candidates include myself, Sherry Gendelman, a long-time stawart and activist who led one of the listener lawsuits that saved KPFA and Pacifica from a hostile board in 1999-2001. We also include new faces like Dianne Enriquez, an activist with Young Workers United, and a former member of KPFA’s First Voice Apprenticeship Program. We have people active in unions and academia, like Warren Mar of the CCSF Community and Labor Studies Program. And we also have people with a history in the arts—for years, John Van Eyck sat on board of the National Endowment for the Arts as a trade union representative. Matthew Hallinan is a seasoned political organizer, and co-founded of the Wellstone Club. Susan McDonough works for the Alameda County Central Labor council, and has a strong nonprofit fundraising background. Antonio Medrano is a consummate community activist, co-chairing Concilio Latino of Contra Costa County, among his work with many, many other organizations. And Paul Robins, a software manager from the Peninsula, is tech-savvy with a solid background in labor organizing and Buddhist peace work. See http://www.concernedlisteners.org.
We’re running to strengthen KPFA. We believe in a KPFA that is both radical, and diverse, embracing its original mission of using the airwaves for dialogue between contrasting points of view. We want to bring the station closer to the communities it serves, by doing hands-on outreach and organizing ourselves—not by yelling about how the station’s not doing enough.
In this regard we welcome the statement by Dan Siegel, civil rights attorney, long-time political activist, and interim executive director of the Pacifica Foundation. It is Dan Siegel’s opinion that “Pacifica’s local station board elections have taken a particularly nasty turn. A group of candidates running for the KPFA local board have issued statements that contain little more than personal attacks on their opponents and station staff. A candidate at WBAI engages in blatant race-baiting. As a community and a progressive organization we must ask ourselves whether this type of rhetoric is acceptable. “Siegel went on to say that the debate within Pacifica is often so toxic that it inhibits the ability of Pacifica to respond to the issues our time, and the in-fighting, he said, “saps the morale of our hard-working and underpaid staff, and discourages people of good will from participating in our organization.”
We, Concerned Listeners, urge Pacifica’s members to decide if this is the nature of the dialogue they want those of us who are active to engage in. To quote Mr. Siegel yet again, Pacifica needs “leaders who will work to improve our programming, broaden our listener base, and attract needed financial support.” We, Concerned Listeners, urge all KPFA members to vote for those candidates who want KPFA to flourish. To vote for candidates who have expressed ideas about how this radio station should be run to the advantage of the mission of Pacifica. We believe that would mean votes for the Concerned Listeners slate of candidates. We want to do some of the things the board is supposed to do but hasn’t—fundraise for KPFA, organize town halls for KPFA, hire visionary permanent management. But we can’t accomplish those things if we can’t transcend the board’s petty infighting.
Sherry Gendelman is a Concerned Listeners candidate for KPFA’s Local Station Board.
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=10-30-07&storyID=28353
Tuesday
October 30, 2007
Commentary: The KPFA Flap
By Matthew Hallinan (10-30-07)
When I was considering running for the KPFA Local Station Board, a number of old-time activist friends told me I was crazy. There is a sectarian fringe, they said, that has placed all their hopes for getting access to an audience by gaining control over KPFA. At the same time, they explained, there was a staff that had grown comfortable with the way things are, and that would resist any effort to change things. Anybody who would put him or herself in the middle of that minefield was just plain nuts.
What to do? KPFA and the other Pacifica stations are a few of the last mass media outlets that belong to progressives. It’s just not possible for those of us who witnessed the mass hysteria whipped up by the media during the drive to war with Iraq to simply stand back and let KPFA slide into oblivion because we don’t want to deal with the nasty characters who are trying to take it over. All of us on the left have had to deal with nasty characters—and most had a lot more power than these folks!
When I agreed to run on the Concerned Listeners slate, I made a pact with the other members of that slate not to run a negative campaign. Somebody had to break the cycle of mudslinging that turns off listeners and that keeps good people from getting involved with the station. We were going to be different. We were going to talk about our positive vision for bringing peace to KPFA and for mobilizing support for strengthening its signal, improving its programming, and reaching out to a broader progressive audience.
Seemed like a good idea. We all signed the KPFA Fair Campaign Provisions, the fifth plank of which states that no candidate may use Pacifica or KPFA resources to publicly attack another candidate, station staff, management, or the Foundation. Seemed like a good way to ensure that people would talk about their visions for the station, rather than simply what they don’t like about their opponents.
However, at the candidate’s forum broadcast by KPFA, one of the People’s Radio candidates made a series of unsubstantiated charges against some of the management, staff and board. The point of his attacks was to insinuate that the members of the Concerned Listeners slate were somehow linked to the events and people he criticized. We ignored it.
Then, when the election pamphlets were sent out to all the voters, we were amazed to see that the seven members of the People’s Radio slate had combined their statements into a lengthy, paranoid tract. They attempted to “expose” an effort by management, backed by a “minority” of staff, and supported by our slate to “dismantle” the Local Station Board in order to seize power at the station. Management’s goal, they said, was to take us back to the “bad old days” before the listener’s revolution of 1999. The members of our slate howled foul. We were playing by the rules and got blind-sided. And when we complained of the unfairness of this, that their slate broke the rules we had all signed on to, and defamed us in the one mailing the station would make—Carol Spooner and Marc Sapir come forth to protest that our complaints are just another example of management suppressing free speech.
I know it’s a waste of time and energy to get down in the mud with a bunch of attack dogs, but it just goes against my Irish temperament to give these folks a pass on this.
The issues are exactly the opposite of what the People’s Radio folks claim. There is no danger of management turning the clock back to 1999. The power of the Local Station Board is now written into the by-laws of the Foundation. This charge is their equivalent of Bush’s WMDs.
It is we, the Concerned Listeners slate that wants to bring democracy to the board and to the station. It is the People’s Radio folks and their allies who are fighting tooth and nail to keep a broad, representative local Station Board from being elected. Look at who is running on our slate and who our endorsers are! The People’s Radio folks are not interested in bringing new people on to the Board—people who haven’t participated before in KPFA and that represent progressive currents that may have different outlooks on many issues than they do.
These folks don’t want to broaden the base of democratic participation in KPFA—they want to control the station. They think they are the “true” representative’s of the Left, and they think they should be in a position to define KPFA’s mission. But do they ever talk about this? Do they ever say what their vision is? No they don’t. They talk in vague generalities about ‘mission’ and program, and substitute paranoid and baseless attacks on others to avoid spelling out what they really want for the station.
They are not battling an effort by management to take over KPFA. Management at the station hardly exists: the paralysis created by these people has kept a permanent station and program manager from being hired! They have demonized the management and the paid staff, and have tried to present Concerned Listener’s efforts to get the entire KPFA community working together as a subterfuge for a management take-over. These folks are true believer bullies who do not want to see KPFA become an authentically democratic station that can serve as home to this incredible, broad and diverse progressive community we have in Northern California.
That’s what’s at stake in the LSB elections at KPFA.
Matthew Hallinan is a Concerned Listeners candidate for KPFA’s Local Station Board.
The poor Hallinan brothers. Here they are trying to save KPFA and Pacifica and they have to get in the "mud" about what is going on at KPFA. Matthew Hallinan claims that the opposition to the management at KFPA only really want air time unlike him and his brother who have more proper aims. Maybe he has not read his own statement or should read it again. He sees his project in life to revitalize the Democratic party and make it really represent people. Since he put this out on his statement and on the radio interview we should take him at his word. He would like KPFA and Pacifica to be more orientated toward making Pelosi, Feinstein and Clinton do the right thing. He and his brother will undoubtedly support the Democratic presidential candidate as the best choice against evil. That is obviously their perogative but to put this out as the agenda for KPFA and Pacifica is clearly a question for debate and discussion. Unlike their father Vincent, who ran against the Democrats and Republicans, his millionaire sons have different aims and their plans including making KPFA and Pacifica (Conn wants to get on the Pacifica National Board) to become more of a player in national Democratic party politics. They believe that this will make KPFA and Pacifica more "relevant".
It is interesting that Hallinan talks about not wanting anything from KFPA when his brother Conn gets airtime on Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley. Her laudatory interview of Conn is another example of buttering up the pro-management board members. Another example of this blatant corruption is the offer by Lemlem Rijio at a previous LSB meeting to make sure that Siegel gets good airtime on the anniversary of1968 that KFPA will be doing. Isn't it nice that Lemlem Rijio is making sure that our counsel and now acting interim executive director Daniel M. Seigel will get recognition at KFPA. Does this have something to do with Siegel's active intervention into the KPFA Local Station Election? Who knows?
The fact of the matter that those who are challenging KPFA management and management mouthpieces have fought to get KFPA to cover the many political events that Pacifica and KPFA should be covering. What they have found is that this management is more interested in protecting the entrenched interests at KPFA who just want to keep their slots. They are bothered by those who want to cover anti-war rallies live or who want to cover other events and struggles taking place in the bay area and nationally. When "concerned listeners" on the Local Station Board do damage control for Lemlem Rijio when she reprimands programmers Miguel Molina for urging listeners to attend peaceful anti-war rallies we can really see where these people are taking KPFA.
It is interesting that Hallinan talks about not wanting anything from KFPA when his brother Conn gets airtime on Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley. Her laudatory interview of Conn is another example of buttering up the pro-management board members. Another example of this blatant corruption is the offer by Lemlem Rijio at a previous LSB meeting to make sure that Siegel gets good airtime on the anniversary of1968 that KFPA will be doing. Isn't it nice that Lemlem Rijio is making sure that our counsel and now acting interim executive director Daniel M. Seigel will get recognition at KFPA. Does this have something to do with Siegel's active intervention into the KPFA Local Station Election? Who knows?
The fact of the matter that those who are challenging KPFA management and management mouthpieces have fought to get KFPA to cover the many political events that Pacifica and KPFA should be covering. What they have found is that this management is more interested in protecting the entrenched interests at KPFA who just want to keep their slots. They are bothered by those who want to cover anti-war rallies live or who want to cover other events and struggles taking place in the bay area and nationally. When "concerned listeners" on the Local Station Board do damage control for Lemlem Rijio when she reprimands programmers Miguel Molina for urging listeners to attend peaceful anti-war rallies we can really see where these people are taking KPFA.
To quote:
"Apparently Old Lib is ... but apparently the "Old Lib" thinks ...We can only assume that the silence ...reflect the views...For them apparently...
"Apparently Old Lib is ... but apparently the "Old Lib" thinks ...We can only assume that the silence ...reflect the views...For them apparently...
Of all the members of the Concerned Listener slate, Aaron Fan supports only Antonio Medrano, and then with reservations. It is obvious from the on-air forums that the non-incumbents do not know much about KPFA. They will act, at least initially, primarily to amplify the influence of an existing faction. Aaron Fan does not support Concerned Listener Sherry Gendelman because her long tenure in KPFA governance brought us to where we are today, which is not a very good place!
Aaron Fan suggests writing in Aaron Aarons for first place, and filing ranks 2-9 as indicated on our EasyVote Ballot model.
Aaron Fan suggests writing in Aaron Aarons for first place, and filing ranks 2-9 as indicated on our EasyVote Ballot model.
I've looked at the Concerned Listeners web site at http://www.concernedlisterns.org and they have taken a pledge to not engage in mudslinging. They have apparently learned the adage about not getting in the mud with pigs: You just get dirty, and the pig likes it.
I suppose it's up to the reader who the pigs are.
I suppose it's up to the reader who the pigs are.
Exposing people for their true values and politics by showing what they have done versus their rhetoric is fair play in politics. Have you noticed that with all the hyperbole from Hallinan, Gendelman and their anonymous allies, they have NOT debunked any of the things we put in the campaing booklet. The reason that they are so HOt is that they have been exposed for their duplicity. I have offered to debate any and all of them and they have declined bcause they are afraid of what the listeners will find out if their games are exposed. They like to stay with the controlled attack, e-mails behind our and the voters backs, and personal attacks with NO FACTS.
Why don't they have a position on the Program Council or the Democracy Now! time change or the Unpaid Staff issues in their campaing spin sheets? Because if they published their actual anti-democratic , top down positions they would be exposed. What would you think of a candidate for President who didn't have a position on health care or the occupation? Trying to hide something, right. All they have said are general platitudes and on their slate mailer, conspicuous in its absence are the words "democratic process", "transparency" or "accountability".
They only way to hold a slate accountable is to know where they have stood in the past. Something CL conveniently leaves out and when Peopleradio brings it up they want to KILL THE MESSENGER instead of dealing with the issues. I am embarrassed that some "progressives" could fall for this BS and Siegel's unlawful and unprincipled attempt to sway the election. Did he get inspired by Ohio in 2004 or Florida in 2000??
Richard Phelps
Why don't they have a position on the Program Council or the Democracy Now! time change or the Unpaid Staff issues in their campaing spin sheets? Because if they published their actual anti-democratic , top down positions they would be exposed. What would you think of a candidate for President who didn't have a position on health care or the occupation? Trying to hide something, right. All they have said are general platitudes and on their slate mailer, conspicuous in its absence are the words "democratic process", "transparency" or "accountability".
They only way to hold a slate accountable is to know where they have stood in the past. Something CL conveniently leaves out and when Peopleradio brings it up they want to KILL THE MESSENGER instead of dealing with the issues. I am embarrassed that some "progressives" could fall for this BS and Siegel's unlawful and unprincipled attempt to sway the election. Did he get inspired by Ohio in 2004 or Florida in 2000??
Richard Phelps
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