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KPFA Voices For Justice Radio Slate Calls For KPFA & KPFK To Sponsor Debates of CA Statew
KPFA Voices For Justice Radio Slate is calling on the Local Station Board of KPFA and KPFK as well as the management of both stations to support and sponsor a statewide debate of all statewide candidates. The opposition to debates of all qualified candidates by the leading Democrats and Republicans must be answered by full democratic debates simultaneously on both KPFA and KPFK radio
KPFA Voices For Justice Radio Slate Calls For KPFA & KPFK To Sponsor Debates of CA Statewide Candidates
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org/others/call-for-debate.htm
Voices For Justice Radio Slate
Calls For KPFA & KPFK To Sponsor Debates
of CA Statewide Candidates
The Voices For Justice Radio slate supports statewide debates of all qualified candidates for statewide offices sponsored by KPFA and KPFK and calls on KPFA and KPFK management to provide a forum for these statewide debates on both stations simultaneously. KALW broadcaster Rose Aguilar has volunteered to moderate these debates to support this statewide election debates.
We believe that the corporate and commercial media do not want to have such debates since many of the major statewide candidates do not want to include all candidates qualified and on the ballot for these offices. This would be a significant contribution and public service by KPFA and KPFA and would also help build publicity and support for these stations and Pacifica. We urge listeners and subscribers at KPFA to contact the local station board and the management to implement this proposal.
Voices For Justice Radio http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org/others/call-for-debate.htm
Voices For Justice Radio Slate
Calls For KPFA & KPFK To Sponsor Debates
of CA Statewide Candidates
The Voices For Justice Radio slate supports statewide debates of all qualified candidates for statewide offices sponsored by KPFA and KPFK and calls on KPFA and KPFK management to provide a forum for these statewide debates on both stations simultaneously. KALW broadcaster Rose Aguilar has volunteered to moderate these debates to support this statewide election debates.
We believe that the corporate and commercial media do not want to have such debates since many of the major statewide candidates do not want to include all candidates qualified and on the ballot for these offices. This would be a significant contribution and public service by KPFA and KPFA and would also help build publicity and support for these stations and Pacifica. We urge listeners and subscribers at KPFA to contact the local station board and the management to implement this proposal.
Voices For Justice Radio http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org
For more information:
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org/other...
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But Steve, I heard your candidate statement and your only platform is to GET RID of the statewide broadcast. Now you guys want to tell them what to do? This is why you loonies should never be elected as dogcatcher, let alone stewards of a station that is already heading to into la la conspiracy land as it is. You think BAI was bad, wait and see what happens if these crackpots get elected to the sandbox board.
A Vision To Rebuild KPFA & Pacifica
A Program To Rebuild KPFA and Pacifica
1. More community based reporters with volunteer news bureaus in the South Bay, N. Bay, Peninsula, Fresno and Sacramento and training of community reporters in these areas. Also web links to these news bureaus with reports from the regions and that can be reached on the web through google news and other search engines.
2. Re-establish and Open up the Program Council meetings to the public. Programmers and management can have a voice but no vote. The listeners need to be the decision makers on changes of programming.
3. Reorganize the KPFA news department to get more in depth news reporting and make segments such as labor and environment available as a google news feed. We also support combining labor, environmental, Black, GBLT and other programming nationally so it is searchable on the web. We support putting on Workers News as a feed which has been offered free to the station but is not used by news department managers.
4. We need to increase Public Affairs programming at KPFA including all communities in the Northern California. At present there is no public affairs director with a budget of $4.5 million and a population in the bay area of 12 million.
5. Better utilize KPFB by webcasting it and using new internet technology that will allow more new programs on housing & tenants rights and many other issues. We also propose to encourage use of video for interviews and on the site remote locations.
6. Re-establish the Women's Department, the Third World Department and establish a Labor Department with voices of the rank & file and leaders of unions and a news information calendar on the web.
7. Bring back the monthly folio in print and on line with interactive feedback on programming and how to build the station and Pacifica. We also support a regular survey by mail during the elections of what listeners support and what changes they want at our community radio station
8. Support the establishment of a Pacifica New Orleans Station Affiliate that can be a beacon from the South.
9. The development of a national and regional community producers network that will develop national and regional programming proposals that can link up the stations and the network from the ground up instead of a top down approach to national and regional programming.
10. Re-establish regular community town hall meetings every 6 months that are required under station bylaws but have been ignored by the present Concerned Listeners Group who have a majority on the board.
11. Support the campaign to drop the charges against arrested community programmer Nadra Foster. Foster who was arrested and charged with trespassing at the station must be defended and Nadra is still banned by the station management without due process.
We need to be a beacon for all the people of this country!
(415) 867-0628/925-719-1788
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org
A Program To Rebuild KPFA and Pacifica
1. More community based reporters with volunteer news bureaus in the South Bay, N. Bay, Peninsula, Fresno and Sacramento and training of community reporters in these areas. Also web links to these news bureaus with reports from the regions and that can be reached on the web through google news and other search engines.
2. Re-establish and Open up the Program Council meetings to the public. Programmers and management can have a voice but no vote. The listeners need to be the decision makers on changes of programming.
3. Reorganize the KPFA news department to get more in depth news reporting and make segments such as labor and environment available as a google news feed. We also support combining labor, environmental, Black, GBLT and other programming nationally so it is searchable on the web. We support putting on Workers News as a feed which has been offered free to the station but is not used by news department managers.
4. We need to increase Public Affairs programming at KPFA including all communities in the Northern California. At present there is no public affairs director with a budget of $4.5 million and a population in the bay area of 12 million.
5. Better utilize KPFB by webcasting it and using new internet technology that will allow more new programs on housing & tenants rights and many other issues. We also propose to encourage use of video for interviews and on the site remote locations.
6. Re-establish the Women's Department, the Third World Department and establish a Labor Department with voices of the rank & file and leaders of unions and a news information calendar on the web.
7. Bring back the monthly folio in print and on line with interactive feedback on programming and how to build the station and Pacifica. We also support a regular survey by mail during the elections of what listeners support and what changes they want at our community radio station
8. Support the establishment of a Pacifica New Orleans Station Affiliate that can be a beacon from the South.
9. The development of a national and regional community producers network that will develop national and regional programming proposals that can link up the stations and the network from the ground up instead of a top down approach to national and regional programming.
10. Re-establish regular community town hall meetings every 6 months that are required under station bylaws but have been ignored by the present Concerned Listeners Group who have a majority on the board.
11. Support the campaign to drop the charges against arrested community programmer Nadra Foster. Foster who was arrested and charged with trespassing at the station must be defended and Nadra is still banned by the station management without due process.
We need to be a beacon for all the people of this country!
(415) 867-0628/925-719-1788
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org
For more information:
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org
Hopefully, you've read the VJR platform, LOL, and it clarified some of your confusion. As you doubtless see, collaborative special programming covering statewide elections has nothing to do with the arbitrary replacement of the "KPFA Evening News" with the "Pacifica Evening News," nor calls for redressing this matter. Please be clear and avoid muddying the waters, LOL.
The usurping of local news coverage by KPFA's merger with KPFK has deprived both regions of hard-hitting, local news coverage. It's quite disappointing to see Pacifica begin to centralize its news bureaus. If this trend continues, all Pacifica stations will be broadcasting one big, generic evening newscast, aloof and removed from the struggles of everyday people like you and I. And with most of the reports coming off the mainstream wires anyway. What'll be the difference, at that point, from tuning into Pacifica's centralized newscast or any other generic newscast like the ones found on NPR or PBS?
It's not about telling "them" what to do, dear LOL. And who died and made them the lords of KPFA anyway? Pacifica is supposed to be an environment of free speech where the community can participate, contribute, and express its hopes, concerns, and ideas and contribute to the marketplace of ideas where the best ideas can rise to the top. It seems you are suggesting KPFA's community must simply shut up, donate, and listen to "them," whoever this wise, infallible "them" is. But then, you resorted to silly name-calling and infantile insults, so I doubt you have any substantive input to contribute to furthering Pacifica's mission. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. If you do, or if you disagree with any of the candidates, why not run for the LSB yourself? If you already are involved in the LSB, please reconsider your attitude and unconstructive approach to KPFA and Pacifica. Your negativity does not benefit KPFA or Pacifica. Please disagree respectfully and avoid logical fallacies, such as your ad hominem attacks. Clear, honest critique supported by evidence through reasoned arguments benefits the KPFA dialogue better than disappointing name-calling. This will not further the cause of social justice or even the minimal cause of understanding. The important, and fundamental, thing to remember is the airwaves are a public resource and do not belong to the current, past, or any, stewards or programmers, but to the public as a whole. The goal is to find fair and inclusive processes by which the responsible stewardship of KPFA may be realized. In order to avoid any one group dominating KPFA, democratic elections provide a check through the LSB. I hope you will join the struggle toward media democracy and begin to question the status quo, even the status quo at KPFA, before KPFA morphs into NPR, if it hasn't already.
The usurping of local news coverage by KPFA's merger with KPFK has deprived both regions of hard-hitting, local news coverage. It's quite disappointing to see Pacifica begin to centralize its news bureaus. If this trend continues, all Pacifica stations will be broadcasting one big, generic evening newscast, aloof and removed from the struggles of everyday people like you and I. And with most of the reports coming off the mainstream wires anyway. What'll be the difference, at that point, from tuning into Pacifica's centralized newscast or any other generic newscast like the ones found on NPR or PBS?
It's not about telling "them" what to do, dear LOL. And who died and made them the lords of KPFA anyway? Pacifica is supposed to be an environment of free speech where the community can participate, contribute, and express its hopes, concerns, and ideas and contribute to the marketplace of ideas where the best ideas can rise to the top. It seems you are suggesting KPFA's community must simply shut up, donate, and listen to "them," whoever this wise, infallible "them" is. But then, you resorted to silly name-calling and infantile insults, so I doubt you have any substantive input to contribute to furthering Pacifica's mission. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. If you do, or if you disagree with any of the candidates, why not run for the LSB yourself? If you already are involved in the LSB, please reconsider your attitude and unconstructive approach to KPFA and Pacifica. Your negativity does not benefit KPFA or Pacifica. Please disagree respectfully and avoid logical fallacies, such as your ad hominem attacks. Clear, honest critique supported by evidence through reasoned arguments benefits the KPFA dialogue better than disappointing name-calling. This will not further the cause of social justice or even the minimal cause of understanding. The important, and fundamental, thing to remember is the airwaves are a public resource and do not belong to the current, past, or any, stewards or programmers, but to the public as a whole. The goal is to find fair and inclusive processes by which the responsible stewardship of KPFA may be realized. In order to avoid any one group dominating KPFA, democratic elections provide a check through the LSB. I hope you will join the struggle toward media democracy and begin to question the status quo, even the status quo at KPFA, before KPFA morphs into NPR, if it hasn't already.
For more information:
http://www.pacificaelections2010.org
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