KPFA's New Police State Rules; Sept 13 LSB station board meeting

KPFA management just threw fuel on the fire with it new police state rules, effective Sept 10, 2008, after its calling of the police to viciously beat up, hot tie and arrest a long time programmer who made a phone call for a ride on 8/20/08. You can hear more on SF Labor Cable on 9/12/08 and protest at the Local Station Board meeting on 9/13/08.

On the September 10, 2008 Flashpoints program, about 10 minutes before the end of this 1 hour program, heard on KPFA, 94.1 FM, at 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, you can hear a description of the new draconian police state rules for the staff at KPFA which will certainly cause most of the programs to end as it involves all kinds of badges, signing statements which can be used to throw people out of the station, a memo by management encouraging the calling of the police to KPFA and much more. Listen at
http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=28318

We must all ask, what is the labor union for the paid employees doing about all of this? Are they going to challenge these new police state rules?

This comes after the brutal beating, hot-tieing, putting in a wrap and arrest of a long time volunteer programmer at KPFA, Nadra Foster, on August 20, 2008, who was doing nothing more than making a phone call to get a ride home. The so-called "banning" (an insane practice that must end immediately) of Ms. Foster was unknown to her and involved her making photocopies so her children could color on something while she made programs. Worth noting is that Ms. Foster is African American; white women who bring children to the station are not "banned" for letting them use a ocmputer while their mother makes programs. Remember, 90% of the workers at KPFA are VOLUNTEERS. There is no KPFA without the volunteers.

This story will again be covered by San Francisco's Labor Cable program on Channel 29, Labor on the Job, on September 12, 2008 at 9 p.m. in an hour-long labor program heard the 2d and 4th Fridays of the month.
For more on this program, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/05/18533285.php

And, YOU CAN AND MUST DO YOUR PART TO PROTEST. The elected Local Station Board meets on Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 11 a.m. at Cafe de la paz, 1600 Shattuck, Berkeley. For more on this event, see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/24/18529275.php