Pacifica/KPFA Management Team Targets KPFA Show Africa Today

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A PERSONAL PLEA TO SUPPORT "AFRICA TODAY"

Yesterday at 9:54pm

Hotep Africans,

I am forwarding you this urgent message below from our Brother Walter Turner
regarding a proposed program change from the KPFA's acting General Manager
which would in short end brother Walter's ability to host the much needed
"Africa Today" program. This could mean the end of this program as we know
and depend on it as a media source for both local, national, and
international news on the African Continent and the African Diaspora. We
must support this Brother by writing the KPFA folks below and letting them
know that we don't support their idea of the time change.

I ask you all both locally and out of the area to please take a small bit of
your time and let these people know how we feel about losing that space and
particularly our media scribe Brother Walter's ability to host this program.
Brother Walter does not get paid for his effort of hosting this program so
we are not talking about someone's job. This is this Brothers service to
African People. Let's show a strong unity in this small but large segment of
our struggle for uplifting our people.

In Struggle,
Naeem Deskins


Africa Today/ KPFA/ Your support is needed

From: Walter Turner Host/ Producer/Africa Today / KPFA

I am contacting you as a supporter and or long time listener of the
Program “Africa Today” on KPFA Radio in Berkeley, California.

AFRICA TODAY has been aired in various formats on KPFA Radio for more than
30 years. The initial host of Africa Today was Faraha Hayati and I have now
hosted the program for more than 20 years.

I have been informed by Amelia Gonzalez, the Acting Assisitant General
Manager of KPFA that there is a proposal to change the time slot of Africa
Today from 7PM on Monday evenings to 11AM during a weekday. This time change
will effectively end my ability to produce and host Africa Today.

I have attached a letter to the Acting Assistant General Mangager which
explains my specific concerns regarding the proposed change and the impact
that it will on my ability to host and produce the program.

Africa Today on KPFA is one of a very few national media programs that
focuses on the Africa continent. Africa Today is a resource that our global
community can not afford to lose. Please voice your support and work with
others to voice collective support for the retention of Africa Today, in its
current time slot, on KPFA Radio.

Please voice your individual and collective concerns to the following
members of the KPFA administrative staff at your earliest convenience.

Thank you

Amelia Gonzalez [ amelia(at)kpfa.org)
Acting Asisting General Manager and Development Director

Ahmad Anderson ( ahmad(at)pacifica.org)
Interim General Manager

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