Nov 15 KPFA Election Deadline; Mail Ballots Today

With only 1 week to the November 15 KPFA election deadline, it is urgent that you complete your ballots and mail them as quickly as possible, no later than Saturday, November 10. We need at least 10% of the subscribers to vote to make this a valid election, a difficult goal to reach. Please participate in your community radio station, urgently needed in these fascist times.

You can listen to previous on air candidate forums at:
http://pacificana.org/kpfa-air-candidates-forums
and to the Candidate Reception on November 4 at:
http://www.pacificana.org/audio-2007-kpfa-candidate-reception
There is another on air candidate forum on November 10, 2007 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The candidate statements are online at:
http://www.pacificafoundation.org/elections/kpfa-listener-candidates/
and in your voter handbook you received with your ballot.

For more on the KPFA, 94.1 FM, Local Station Board elections, see:
http://lsb.kpfa.org/elections

The latest outrage being allowed by the current "management," actively supported by the Democratic Party's slate, "Concerned Listeners," is a broadcast of a government hearing on Friday, November 9, from 3 p.m. until whenever, pre-empting the very important programs for which we pay, Hard Knock Radio, Flashpoints and the 6 p.m. Evening News and more, hosted by the reactionary Democrat who supports the government lie on the 9/11 Inside Job, Larry Bensky, who "thinks" KPFA is his toy. These hearings are always summarized on the evening news, and since this hearing is on a Friday, we will hear about it on the weekend news and on Monday's news, more than enough. All hearings are filled with procedural garbage with a tiny morsel of actual news. They are never worth pre-empting programs that we pay for.

There is also now talk of selling stations rather than getting rid of stale programming and replacing it with programming that will attract more listeners so as to make Pacifica financially viable. We should never sell any station and we should be building more stations, including one in New Orleans. This can only happen if you participate in these Local Station Board elections by voting now for the excellent alternate slates listed below:
1. Voice for Justice at
http://voicesforjusticeradio.googlepages.com/
and their related, very informative website,
http://www.kpfalaborcommunity.net/

Their candidates are:
Steve Zeltzer
Carl Bryant
CC Campbell-Rock
Sureya Sayadi
Their program is at:
http://kpfavoicesforjustice.googlepages.com/program
Their endorsers are at:
http://kpfavoicesforjustice.googlepages.com/endorsers
and are:
Cynthia McKinney, former Georgia congressperson
Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai, medical doctor and current candidate for mayor of San Francisco
Cindy Sheehan, peace activist
Sandra Everette, CTA member and member of San Mateo Greens
Gregory Richardson, Video producer, CTC
Joan Mathis, Video producer, CTC
Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10 executive board member
Idriss Stelley Foundation
Willie and Mary Ratcliff, publisher of San Francisco Bayview
Ralph Schoenman, producer of Taking Aim and author
Riva Enteen, past chair of KPFA Local Station Board

2. The People's Radio slate is the other good set of candidates, with their program, candidates and issues listed at:
http://www.peoplesradio.net/
Their candidates are at
http://www.peoplesradio.net/election2007.htm
and are:
Richard Phelps
David Heller
Attila Nagy
Bob English
Gerald Sanders
Mara Rivera
Stan Woods
Their endorsers are:
Dr. Peter Phillips – Project Censored director
Michael Parenti – Author & lecturer
William Mandel - 37 year KPFA foreign affairs commentator/talk show host, author
Peter Camejo – 3 time gubernatorial candidate & Green Party member
The Green Party of Alameda County endorses each of our candidates individually
The Peace & Freedom Party of Alameda County
The Peace & Freedom Party of San Francisco County
The Petaluma Progressives
The Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance
Richard Gage - AIA, Architect, Founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Jack Heyman – ILWU Local 10 Executive Board member rank & file organizer
Jack Ford – Teamsters Local 921 SF Chronicle Truck Drivers former president
Liana Molina – Woodfin Hotels Boycott coordinator
Eva Royal - Cesar Chavez Holiday Committee Chair, former UFW Bay Area Regional Manager/organizer
Alan Benjamin - Delegate to the SF Labor Council for Office and Professional Employees International Union #3

LaVarn Williams – KPFA Local Station Board, Pacific National Board director & Treasurer
Bonnie Faulkner - Host of Guns & Butter, KPFA
Miguel "Gavilan" Molina - Host of Flashpoints, La Honda Bajita
Francisco Herrera – musician, KPFA Flashpoints contributor
David Janda - KBBF, member of Voces Cruzando Fronteras, photogapher
Ernest Rivera – SomArts Cultural Center board president