KPFA Voters, the Choice is yours!

Do you want a Local Station Board that...

... has never held even one minute’s discussion of the brutalization of programmer Nadra Foster inside the station or made policy changes to prevent a repetition?
... did nothing when management unilaterally dissolved the Program Council, the one body that gives listeners and unpaid staff a voice in programming decisions?
... doesn’t even ask why when management unilaterally and without explanation takes down the online archives of all KPFA programs prior to 1/1/2009?
... hasn’t posted its meeting agendas and minutes on the web since November 2008?
...cut the frequency of its meetings, despite the station’s serious problems, from monthly to bimonthly - ostensibly to allow more committee work, even though the board has no functioning committees?!?

If your answer to these questions is yes - if you’re happy with a do-nothing board - vote for the Concerned Listeners slate. You can count on getting more of the same!

Or would you prefer a board that ...

... is committed to ensuring that listeners and unpaid staff have a real voice in decision-making?
... will fulfill its obligation under the by-laws to ensure that programming decisions are made in a “fair, collaborative, and respectful manner” by reviving the broadly representative Program Council that current management unilaterally dissolved?
... will regularly post its agendas and minutes and comply with the by-laws’ requirement that the LSB “conduct ʻtown hallʼ style meetings ...devoted to hearing listeners views, needs and concerns”?
... will work with management to develop clear and equitable personnel policies, with grievance and mediation processes for unpaid as well as paid staff, to put an end to cronyism and ensure that there will no repetition of the Nadra Foster incident?
... will push for more community news, more diverse and younger voices on the air, more debates of conflicting perspectives, more community outreach, closer ties with other progressive media organizations (Youth Radio, New America Media, SF Bay View, etc.), and more focus on using new media technologies?
...will bring new blood, new energy, and new communities to KPFA governance? (Of the 11 candidates below, seven are women, seven are non-white, and seven are under 40.)

If you’re for that kind of change, vote for INDEPENDENTS for COMMUNITY RADIO:

Henry Norr • Aki Tanaka • Andrea Prichett • Rahman Jamaal McCreadie •
Lara Kiswani • Banafsheh Akhlaghi • Adam Hudson • Evelyn Sanchez • Shara Esbenshade •
Sasha Futran • Ann Hallatt

More info: http://www.indyradio2009.com