Concerned Listeners KPFA CAB Appointed By Their Operative KPFA Manager Lemlem Rijio

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Thu, Oct 1, 2009 10:10AM

The KPFA Concerned Listeners Group has fought a Community Advisory Board for years but their operative and manager Lemlem Rijio finally appointed one although it should have been a collaborative process with the KPFA board. Here is their "board".

Concerned Listeners KPFA Community Advisory Board Appointed By Their Pawn KPFA Manager Lemlem Rijio

http://kpfa.org/about/kpfa-community-advisory-board-september-2008-august-2010

Tom Jackson
Tom is an organizing director of Coleman Advocates for Youth and Families in SF

Beth Byrne
Beth is an activist, graphic designer, intellectual and works with young laborers

Nancy Polin
Nancy is involved in education access other social justice issues and has been a long time activist in the East Bay

Don Godmacher
Don is a retired medical practitioner, film-maker and social justice activist

Karega Hart
Karega is a teacher, founder and member of the Black Radical Congress in the Bay area.

Juanita Mena
Juanita works for the Community Childcare Council in San Jose, active in immigrant rights working on issues of poverty with immigrants

Carl Bloice
Carl is an African American labor activist and writer

To cantact CAB: kpfacab09 [at] gmail.com

For more information: http://kpfa.org/about/kpfa-community-advis...

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§Hard for listeners to attend the CAB meetings

by Mara

Mon, Oct 5, 2009 2:34PM

It's hard for (real) concerned listeners to attend the CAB meetings because they are scheduled at the same times as the Local Station Board meetings!
I've appealed this to the GM and others but there has been no response.
Perhaps the GM and the "Concerned Listeners" majority would prefer that listeners not observe the CAB.
It could be part of their general disregard for involving listeners in KPFA governance.
For example, there isn't any notice of the next LSB meeting at the KPFA website. It's true the Concerned Listeners majority on the board cut the meetings to every other month, but the last meeting was in August.
They cut the LSB meetings in half, from monthly, as they are scheduled at all the other Pacifica stations. (They said this was to get more committee work done, but this hasn't happened.)
There are no minutes from any LSB meetings after 11/08, and the agendas tend to appear the day of the meeting itself.
The prominent link to the LSB section of the website has been removed from the first page. ( http://lsb.kpfa.org )
That section is not being maintained up-to-date.
One listener commented to us recently that the station only paid attention to listeners at fundraising time.
But listeners need to be/feel involved in their station or they will lose interest in it, as the loss in listeners and underfullfillment of the current fund drive partly demonstrates.

For more information: http://peoplesradio.net

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§Hard for listeners ....cont'd

by Mara

Mon, Oct 5, 2009 3:35PM

The LSB meetings don't seem to be announced on air regularly in advance of the meetings.
And the LSB's Report to the Listener program, which used to be on at 1:00 the last Monday of the month, which was hard enough to remember to listen to, and at a time when not many can listen, has become even more unpredictable.
Also, programs which have even a trace of introductory music, have been removed from the archives after 2 weeks, so you can't listen to prior LSB programs.

For more information: http://peoplesradio.net

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