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KPFA won’t survive unless the Progressive community realizes the seriousness of the crisis and takes action to support the station. The present majority on the LSB is tied to Pacifica bureaucracy. It resists any attempt to cut Pacifica’s costs, while supporting drastic down-sizing at KPFA. An all-volunteer station would simply be a play-thing for a narrow, ever changing slice of the left. KPFA’s mission is to be a voice for the entire progressive community – we need to find that larger audience and to produce quality radio more than ever.
KPFA and the entire Pacifica system are facing a serious crisis. In addition to the global economic downturn, we are saddled with an expensive and over-sized Pacifica bureaucracy that consumes precious resources that should be invested in producing quality radio but which are spent on endless turf battles.
• one fourth of KPFA listeners’ donations goes to the Pacifica bureaucracy.
• the local station board, whose elections costs tens of thousands of dollars, currently spends all its time consumed in internal battles to control the station, while raising no money and contributing little or nothing to building the station.
KPFA won’t survive unless the Progressive community realizes the seriousness of the crisis and takes action to support the station. The present majority on the LSB is tied to Pacifica bureaucracy. It resists any attempt to cut Pacifica’s costs, while supporting drastic down-sizing at KPFA. An all-volunteer station would simply be a play-thing for a narrow, ever changing slice of the left. KPFA’s mission is to be a voice for the entire progressive community – we need to find that larger audience and to produce quality radio more than ever.
SaveKPFA seeks to rally progressive support for the station. As in 1999, we have to resist the Pacifica Board imposing its own agenda on KPFA. We have to construct a board majority that focuses on building the station, raising funds and producing events. We are committed to seeking common ground with others who share our concerns about the state of the station. We need to save this precious resource.
SaveKPFA STANDS FOR:
CHANGE Plugging KPFA into the 21st century with access to the internet and new media technology and supporting innovative programming;
DIALOGUE KPFA must be a forum for dialogue and debate
DIVERSITY Upholding KPFA’s mission of social justice and artistic diversity – for labor, young people, people of color, musicians and artists, old radicals and new.
LOCAL CONTROL We represent KPFA’s listeners. We will defend KPFA’s finances and programming.
PROFESSIONALISM by paid and unpaid staff that creates high-quality radio without diluting KPFA’s message.
RESPONSIBILITY A board that builds the station and raises money, not one that attacks it and spends money. We believe in a collaborative relationship with staff and station management. We are clear that the board should not manage the station.
SaveKPFA SLATE:
Mal Burnstein, retired civil rights lawyer, former chair of the KPFA local board and a founder of the progressive caucus of the California Democratic Party.
Terry Doran, retired Berkeley High School teacher and teacher union activist, twice elected to the Berkeley School Board (1998,2002), serving two years as president.
Donald Goldmacher, long-time social justice activist, community psychiatrist and award-winning documentary filmmaker..
Suzi Goldmacher, lesbian feminist activist, community organizer and retired member of the California Nurses Association.
Matthew Hallinan, a life-long political activist.
Mark Hernandez, member of the KFCF Board of Directors in Fresno, has served on the various KPFA Local Boards off and on since 1999.
Jack Kurzweil retired from San Jose State, where he was President of the faculty union, active with the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, and in organizing opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tanya Russell, employment and civil rights Attorney, has been a social worker, factory worker and a community activist.
Dave Saldana, award-winning journalist, civil rights attorney, human rights advocate.
Margy Wilkinson, a UC Berkeley union activist for 40 years and currently active in Grandmothers Against the War.
ENDORSED BY:
KPFA Workers
Mitch Jeserich, “Letters to Washington”, Producer & Host
Brian Edwards-Tiekert, “Morning Show”, Producer and Host
Mark Mericle, Co-Director “KPFA News”
Aileen Alfandary, Co-Director “KPFA News”
Bonnie Simmons, Host, “The Bonnie Simmons Show”, former KPFA LSB, Pacifica National Board
Philip Maldari, “Sunday Show”, Producer & Host
Kris Welch, “Living Room” & “Saturday Morning Talkies”, Producer & Host
Miguel Guerrero, Web Producer & Producer “Rock and Rebellion”
Jan Etre, Crafts Fair Coordinator
Laura Prives, “Morning Show”, Executive Producer
Sasha Lilley, “Against the Grain”, Producer & Host
Max Pringle, News Reporter
John Hamilton, News Producer & Anchor
Rose Ketabchi, “Free Speech Radio News”, Technical Producer, KPFA News Co-Anchor
Scott Pham, “Free Speech Radio News”, Technical Producer
Derk Richardson, Host of the “Hear and Now”
David Gans, Host of “Dead To The World”
Bob Baldock, KPFA Events Coordinator
Richard Wolinsky, Bookwaves on “Cover to Cover”, Producer and Host
Vanessa Tait, labor journalist, “KPFA News Co-Anchor
Lewis Sawyer, KPFA Receptionist and producer Early Morning Music
Esther Manilla, Morning Show and Fund Drive producer
Eddie Yuen, “Against the Grain”, co-editor of Confronting Capitalism
Sally Phillips, KPFA Producer, Host, Engineer
Community
Jello Biafra, artist/musician/entrepreneur
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Native American historian
Andrej Grubacic, radical historian and sociologist
Norman Soloman, media critic, author, “WarMade Easy”
Ignacio Chapela, Professor, Director of Laboratory of Microbial Ecology, UCB
Conn Hallinan, foreign policy analyst, Foreign Policy In Focus, Institute for Policy Study, columnist, LSB member
Aaron Glantz, “Free Speech Radio News, co-anchor, “Winter Soldier” broadcasts
Mattie Harper, Democracy Now former producer
Ramsey Kanaan, founder, AK Press and co-founder/publisher, PM Press
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch investigative journalist, author of Halliburton’s Army
Dr. Carlos Muñoz, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Rychard Withers, Executive Director, Fresno Free College Foundation, General Manager KFCF
Jon Fromer, singer/songwriter, NABET/CWA local 51 shop steward
Lynne Hollander Savio, Chair., Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
Scoop Nisker, radio commentator and author
Rashidah Grinage, founder, People United for a Better Life in Oakland (PUEBLO)
Marty Bennett, Co-Chair of the Sonoma County Living Wage Coalition
Shelley Kessler, Sec. Treas., San Mateo Labor Council
Michael Eisenscher, Coordinator, Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice
Peter Olney, International Organizing Director, ILWU
Sal Rosselli, president, National Union of Healthcare Workers
For full list of endorsers go to: http://www.savekpfa.org/
DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Pacifica Foundation website nor an official website of any of the five Pacifica Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio). Opinions and facts alleged on this site belong to the author(s) of the website only and should NOT be assumed to be true or to reflect the editorial stance or policy of the Pacifica Foundation, or any of the five Pacifica Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio), or the opinions of its management, Pacifica National Board, station staff.or other listener members.
• one fourth of KPFA listeners’ donations goes to the Pacifica bureaucracy.
• the local station board, whose elections costs tens of thousands of dollars, currently spends all its time consumed in internal battles to control the station, while raising no money and contributing little or nothing to building the station.
KPFA won’t survive unless the Progressive community realizes the seriousness of the crisis and takes action to support the station. The present majority on the LSB is tied to Pacifica bureaucracy. It resists any attempt to cut Pacifica’s costs, while supporting drastic down-sizing at KPFA. An all-volunteer station would simply be a play-thing for a narrow, ever changing slice of the left. KPFA’s mission is to be a voice for the entire progressive community – we need to find that larger audience and to produce quality radio more than ever.
SaveKPFA seeks to rally progressive support for the station. As in 1999, we have to resist the Pacifica Board imposing its own agenda on KPFA. We have to construct a board majority that focuses on building the station, raising funds and producing events. We are committed to seeking common ground with others who share our concerns about the state of the station. We need to save this precious resource.
SaveKPFA STANDS FOR:
CHANGE Plugging KPFA into the 21st century with access to the internet and new media technology and supporting innovative programming;
DIALOGUE KPFA must be a forum for dialogue and debate
DIVERSITY Upholding KPFA’s mission of social justice and artistic diversity – for labor, young people, people of color, musicians and artists, old radicals and new.
LOCAL CONTROL We represent KPFA’s listeners. We will defend KPFA’s finances and programming.
PROFESSIONALISM by paid and unpaid staff that creates high-quality radio without diluting KPFA’s message.
RESPONSIBILITY A board that builds the station and raises money, not one that attacks it and spends money. We believe in a collaborative relationship with staff and station management. We are clear that the board should not manage the station.
SaveKPFA SLATE:
Mal Burnstein, retired civil rights lawyer, former chair of the KPFA local board and a founder of the progressive caucus of the California Democratic Party.
Terry Doran, retired Berkeley High School teacher and teacher union activist, twice elected to the Berkeley School Board (1998,2002), serving two years as president.
Donald Goldmacher, long-time social justice activist, community psychiatrist and award-winning documentary filmmaker..
Suzi Goldmacher, lesbian feminist activist, community organizer and retired member of the California Nurses Association.
Matthew Hallinan, a life-long political activist.
Mark Hernandez, member of the KFCF Board of Directors in Fresno, has served on the various KPFA Local Boards off and on since 1999.
Jack Kurzweil retired from San Jose State, where he was President of the faculty union, active with the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, and in organizing opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tanya Russell, employment and civil rights Attorney, has been a social worker, factory worker and a community activist.
Dave Saldana, award-winning journalist, civil rights attorney, human rights advocate.
Margy Wilkinson, a UC Berkeley union activist for 40 years and currently active in Grandmothers Against the War.
ENDORSED BY:
KPFA Workers
Mitch Jeserich, “Letters to Washington”, Producer & Host
Brian Edwards-Tiekert, “Morning Show”, Producer and Host
Mark Mericle, Co-Director “KPFA News”
Aileen Alfandary, Co-Director “KPFA News”
Bonnie Simmons, Host, “The Bonnie Simmons Show”, former KPFA LSB, Pacifica National Board
Philip Maldari, “Sunday Show”, Producer & Host
Kris Welch, “Living Room” & “Saturday Morning Talkies”, Producer & Host
Miguel Guerrero, Web Producer & Producer “Rock and Rebellion”
Jan Etre, Crafts Fair Coordinator
Laura Prives, “Morning Show”, Executive Producer
Sasha Lilley, “Against the Grain”, Producer & Host
Max Pringle, News Reporter
John Hamilton, News Producer & Anchor
Rose Ketabchi, “Free Speech Radio News”, Technical Producer, KPFA News Co-Anchor
Scott Pham, “Free Speech Radio News”, Technical Producer
Derk Richardson, Host of the “Hear and Now”
David Gans, Host of “Dead To The World”
Bob Baldock, KPFA Events Coordinator
Richard Wolinsky, Bookwaves on “Cover to Cover”, Producer and Host
Vanessa Tait, labor journalist, “KPFA News Co-Anchor
Lewis Sawyer, KPFA Receptionist and producer Early Morning Music
Esther Manilla, Morning Show and Fund Drive producer
Eddie Yuen, “Against the Grain”, co-editor of Confronting Capitalism
Sally Phillips, KPFA Producer, Host, Engineer
Community
Jello Biafra, artist/musician/entrepreneur
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Native American historian
Andrej Grubacic, radical historian and sociologist
Norman Soloman, media critic, author, “WarMade Easy”
Ignacio Chapela, Professor, Director of Laboratory of Microbial Ecology, UCB
Conn Hallinan, foreign policy analyst, Foreign Policy In Focus, Institute for Policy Study, columnist, LSB member
Aaron Glantz, “Free Speech Radio News, co-anchor, “Winter Soldier” broadcasts
Mattie Harper, Democracy Now former producer
Ramsey Kanaan, founder, AK Press and co-founder/publisher, PM Press
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch investigative journalist, author of Halliburton’s Army
Dr. Carlos Muñoz, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Rychard Withers, Executive Director, Fresno Free College Foundation, General Manager KFCF
Jon Fromer, singer/songwriter, NABET/CWA local 51 shop steward
Lynne Hollander Savio, Chair., Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
Scoop Nisker, radio commentator and author
Rashidah Grinage, founder, People United for a Better Life in Oakland (PUEBLO)
Marty Bennett, Co-Chair of the Sonoma County Living Wage Coalition
Shelley Kessler, Sec. Treas., San Mateo Labor Council
Michael Eisenscher, Coordinator, Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice
Peter Olney, International Organizing Director, ILWU
Sal Rosselli, president, National Union of Healthcare Workers
For full list of endorsers go to: http://www.savekpfa.org/
DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Pacifica Foundation website nor an official website of any of the five Pacifica Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio). Opinions and facts alleged on this site belong to the author(s) of the website only and should NOT be assumed to be true or to reflect the editorial stance or policy of the Pacifica Foundation, or any of the five Pacifica Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio), or the opinions of its management, Pacifica National Board, station staff.or other listener members.
For more information:
http://www.savekpfa.org/
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What a pile of out and out lies. Whoever wrote this has missed their true calling. They belong on Fox News.
Where to begin?
There is no "Pacifica bureaucracy". The Pacifica Foundation employs eight people to KPFA's 40+ member CWA staff. The whole national office can fit in one corner of KPFA's 2nd floor. Most of the Pacifica staff consists of book-keepers.
The list of endorsers of Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA or whatever the hell their name is, is heavy on the CWA staff who have a death grip on the daytime programming with the limited exception of Hard Knock Radio and Flashpoints. What's stopping them from finding a larger audience and engaging them? Their own inertia, it seems.
Save KPFA's Suzi Goldmacher: “I believe it is crucial that our program content on KPFA begin to reach out to younger people and people of color. As an example, I have found the program “Ask an Economist” to be very informative, shows like these should be encouraged”
If you believe that, I have a lovely bridge I'd like to sell to you.
1/4 of KPFA donations do not go to Pacifica. The figure is 18% of pledge drive donations with another 1.8% that supports the Pacifica archives down in Los Angeles. That totals less than 1/5 of pledge drive revenue and less than 14.8% of all revenues. In return for that, KPFA retains the right to air Democracy Now twice a day and keep 80% of the revenues that are pledged when it airs, which is a big chunk of change.
KPFA's financial troubles are not rocket science. Listener donations have been down by 10-15% the last two years since the economy collapsed in the fall of 2008. All donations to all charitable institutions are down 10-15% (or more) in the last two years since the economy collapsed. A lot of people are unemployed and can't donate as they used to.
Anybody with a brain in their head understands that when your revenues are down and the economy is in a shambles, you have to reduce your expenses. So KPFA's budget called for reducing expenses by $300,000 in 2008 and by $425,000 in 2009. The only problem is that management didn't follow the budget and reduce the expenses. Instead they kept on spending till every last penny in the bank was gone. Dumb huh? And there was nobody to stop them because Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA, whoever the hell they are, dominated the board and kept repeating like a bunch of brainless sheep that they trusted the manager and the board shouldn't micromanage.
A million dollars went away - spent on maintaining a payroll that couldn't be maintained with the revenues coming in.
A million of YOUR dollars.
And no, they didn't raise a cent - for anything.
Finally in December of 2010, the board turned over to Independents for Community Radio. With a teensy one-vote majority, but a majority all the same.
And what did they find out? They found out that $375,000 reported to be in a money market account wasn't there, that 14 months of phony bank reconciliations had been submitted to Pacifica, and that a large check sat uncashed and expired in a managerial desk.
Perhaps just a little board oversight, a tiny bit of micromanaging, might have prevented this stupid, embarrassing situation?
We acted. There has been a management change. Expenses are finally being brought into line with revenues. A program council has been re-authorized to move on engaging new audiences, not just talking about it and doing nothing at all.
Independents for Community Radio did more to help KPFA in six months than those numbskulls did in 2 years when they accomplished nothing but blowing through a million bucks.
No change. No diversity. No responsiblity. That's Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA, the identity crisis slate.
You'd have to be nuts to vote for them.
Where to begin?
There is no "Pacifica bureaucracy". The Pacifica Foundation employs eight people to KPFA's 40+ member CWA staff. The whole national office can fit in one corner of KPFA's 2nd floor. Most of the Pacifica staff consists of book-keepers.
The list of endorsers of Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA or whatever the hell their name is, is heavy on the CWA staff who have a death grip on the daytime programming with the limited exception of Hard Knock Radio and Flashpoints. What's stopping them from finding a larger audience and engaging them? Their own inertia, it seems.
Save KPFA's Suzi Goldmacher: “I believe it is crucial that our program content on KPFA begin to reach out to younger people and people of color. As an example, I have found the program “Ask an Economist” to be very informative, shows like these should be encouraged”
If you believe that, I have a lovely bridge I'd like to sell to you.
1/4 of KPFA donations do not go to Pacifica. The figure is 18% of pledge drive donations with another 1.8% that supports the Pacifica archives down in Los Angeles. That totals less than 1/5 of pledge drive revenue and less than 14.8% of all revenues. In return for that, KPFA retains the right to air Democracy Now twice a day and keep 80% of the revenues that are pledged when it airs, which is a big chunk of change.
KPFA's financial troubles are not rocket science. Listener donations have been down by 10-15% the last two years since the economy collapsed in the fall of 2008. All donations to all charitable institutions are down 10-15% (or more) in the last two years since the economy collapsed. A lot of people are unemployed and can't donate as they used to.
Anybody with a brain in their head understands that when your revenues are down and the economy is in a shambles, you have to reduce your expenses. So KPFA's budget called for reducing expenses by $300,000 in 2008 and by $425,000 in 2009. The only problem is that management didn't follow the budget and reduce the expenses. Instead they kept on spending till every last penny in the bank was gone. Dumb huh? And there was nobody to stop them because Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA, whoever the hell they are, dominated the board and kept repeating like a bunch of brainless sheep that they trusted the manager and the board shouldn't micromanage.
A million dollars went away - spent on maintaining a payroll that couldn't be maintained with the revenues coming in.
A million of YOUR dollars.
And no, they didn't raise a cent - for anything.
Finally in December of 2010, the board turned over to Independents for Community Radio. With a teensy one-vote majority, but a majority all the same.
And what did they find out? They found out that $375,000 reported to be in a money market account wasn't there, that 14 months of phony bank reconciliations had been submitted to Pacifica, and that a large check sat uncashed and expired in a managerial desk.
Perhaps just a little board oversight, a tiny bit of micromanaging, might have prevented this stupid, embarrassing situation?
We acted. There has been a management change. Expenses are finally being brought into line with revenues. A program council has been re-authorized to move on engaging new audiences, not just talking about it and doing nothing at all.
Independents for Community Radio did more to help KPFA in six months than those numbskulls did in 2 years when they accomplished nothing but blowing through a million bucks.
No change. No diversity. No responsiblity. That's Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA, the identity crisis slate.
You'd have to be nuts to vote for them.
Ask them if they include cutting ALL paid staff or just CERTAIN paid staff.
Have they demanded their benefactor Dennis Bernstein take the cuts, or did some of them scream bloody murder instead?
People need to figure out that this election is about what all elections since democratization have been about. The Bernstein Faction vs. Everyone Else. Doesn't matter who comes and goes.
When Tracy Rosenberg and Joe Wanzala announce that they support salary cuts to the THAT sacred cow, I'll change my mind. Well, Tracy's just padding her resume, not really a Bernsteinista. (and they dare call themselves "independents") The Bernsteinistas howled bloody murder when she wanted to be program coordinator, too. They'll throw her under the bus with the rest of the staff if they're given the chance. Especially if she's serious about "austerity" which should include not just salary cuts but to production budgets that are out of this world for a show that is less interesting than, say, Radio Intifada at KPFK.
Have they demanded their benefactor Dennis Bernstein take the cuts, or did some of them scream bloody murder instead?
People need to figure out that this election is about what all elections since democratization have been about. The Bernstein Faction vs. Everyone Else. Doesn't matter who comes and goes.
When Tracy Rosenberg and Joe Wanzala announce that they support salary cuts to the THAT sacred cow, I'll change my mind. Well, Tracy's just padding her resume, not really a Bernsteinista. (and they dare call themselves "independents") The Bernsteinistas howled bloody murder when she wanted to be program coordinator, too. They'll throw her under the bus with the rest of the staff if they're given the chance. Especially if she's serious about "austerity" which should include not just salary cuts but to production budgets that are out of this world for a show that is less interesting than, say, Radio Intifada at KPFK.
Fact.
I know facts are inconvenient sometimes.
But they are still facts.
I know facts are inconvenient sometimes.
But they are still facts.
On the surface the Concerned Listener 's (I won't use their slanderous use of the name '' Save KPFA '' , a dynamic coalition in the 90's that did really did play a major role in ' saving '' KPFA and Pacifica )
endorsement list sounds impressive . But while it may be wide it's not deep. Very few of those listed have even attended a LSB meeting . Even fewer have had extended discussions with anyone in the ICR or Peoples Radio to hear their point of view .
But a few have . For example Angela Davis , the famous former Communist party leader and Political prisoner did endorse the CL in past elections . But last election people talked to her and informed her about what was really going on. Angela didn't switch sides but she did withdraw her endorsement of the CL much to their horror .
I urge supporters of a Democratic Pacifica to contact the many misguarded endorsers of the CL . I think that many of them have been duped and aren't really opposed to what we are trying to accomplish at KPFA and Pacifica .
endorsement list sounds impressive . But while it may be wide it's not deep. Very few of those listed have even attended a LSB meeting . Even fewer have had extended discussions with anyone in the ICR or Peoples Radio to hear their point of view .
But a few have . For example Angela Davis , the famous former Communist party leader and Political prisoner did endorse the CL in past elections . But last election people talked to her and informed her about what was really going on. Angela didn't switch sides but she did withdraw her endorsement of the CL much to their horror .
I urge supporters of a Democratic Pacifica to contact the many misguarded endorsers of the CL . I think that many of them have been duped and aren't really opposed to what we are trying to accomplish at KPFA and Pacifica .
We have had enough KPFA Local Station Board elections to know the real name of this reactionary gang, namely the Hallinan Thug Slate. The latest horrifying thuggery of the 70-year-old, millionaire Hallinans may be found at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/17/18656285.php
This Hallinan Thug Slate is clearly promoting the capitalist Democrats while what we need is a strong voice for socialism which by definition is a voice for, of and by the workingclass.
One such strong voice for the workingclass is Voices for Justice at
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org/
Their candidates are Steve Zeltzer, Dr. Sureya Sayadi, Jaime Cader and Felipe Messina.
Another worthwhile slate is the Independents for Community Radio Candidates at:
http://www.voteindyradio.org/content/about-independents-community-radio-icr
All of the KPFA candidate statements may be found at:
http://pacificafoundation.org/cand_list.php?sta=kpfa
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/17/18656285.php
This Hallinan Thug Slate is clearly promoting the capitalist Democrats while what we need is a strong voice for socialism which by definition is a voice for, of and by the workingclass.
One such strong voice for the workingclass is Voices for Justice at
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org/
Their candidates are Steve Zeltzer, Dr. Sureya Sayadi, Jaime Cader and Felipe Messina.
Another worthwhile slate is the Independents for Community Radio Candidates at:
http://www.voteindyradio.org/content/about-independents-community-radio-icr
All of the KPFA candidate statements may be found at:
http://pacificafoundation.org/cand_list.php?sta=kpfa
For more information:
http://pacificafoundation.org/cand_list.ph...
No, what we have here is...
SAVE KPFA = a broad coalition of community supporters, progressive academics, writers, artists, and kpfa workers, and some brave candidates who are willing, for the sake of the station, to be attacked by wackos like those commenting above.
versus
"Voices of Justice" and "Indyradio" or IRC = highly sectarian folks who have no understanding of KPFA's place in the community. They are people who want their own shows, or want their friends to have shows. They are into speaking to the converted, conspiracy theories and doing bad radio. They govern for the sake of governance, and are spending Pacifica into bankruptcy. They are using negative made up stories and attacking SAVE KPFA's candidates shamelessly using ageism this year. Pathetic.
SAVE KPFA = a broad coalition of community supporters, progressive academics, writers, artists, and kpfa workers, and some brave candidates who are willing, for the sake of the station, to be attacked by wackos like those commenting above.
versus
"Voices of Justice" and "Indyradio" or IRC = highly sectarian folks who have no understanding of KPFA's place in the community. They are people who want their own shows, or want their friends to have shows. They are into speaking to the converted, conspiracy theories and doing bad radio. They govern for the sake of governance, and are spending Pacifica into bankruptcy. They are using negative made up stories and attacking SAVE KPFA's candidates shamelessly using ageism this year. Pathetic.
Its not ageism, or racism or sexism, for that matter, to point out that the Concerned Listeners or Save KPFA or whoever they are slate is 70% white, 70% male and 70% over 60 (probably 90%). Again. For the second straight year. It's a fact and one that people should be cognizant of and take into account.
KPFA's financial troubles have little to nothing to do with governance expenses which are less than 3% of the budget. You had a 13% decline in listener donations due to the economy and the budgetary reductions ordered were not carried out for 15 months. Management failed and so did the Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA, dominated board, who are supposed to exercise oversight. They didn't. A million dollars in overspending resulted.
If you eliminated the entire governance expense category from the budget, KPFA would have overspent by $900,000 in the same period.
Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA bankrupted the station. No one else.
ICR has been cleaning up their mess for six months.
KPFA's financial troubles have little to nothing to do with governance expenses which are less than 3% of the budget. You had a 13% decline in listener donations due to the economy and the budgetary reductions ordered were not carried out for 15 months. Management failed and so did the Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA, dominated board, who are supposed to exercise oversight. They didn't. A million dollars in overspending resulted.
If you eliminated the entire governance expense category from the budget, KPFA would have overspent by $900,000 in the same period.
Concerned Listeners, Save KPFA bankrupted the station. No one else.
ICR has been cleaning up their mess for six months.
The CL'ers ("Concerned Listeners") are wrongfully using the name without permission.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/16/18656188.php
Some of the Save KPFA/Concerned Listeners and others believe that KFPA and Pacifica can't survive financially. This is propaganda put out by the entrenched staff who want full time jobs and aim to make the station an NPR type operation. This idea of course is ludicrous. We already have KQED and other NPR affiliates in the bay area for people to turn to if they want this programming. Many other community radio stations around the country including popular KBOO in Portland are run entirely with volunteers. They don't have a $4 million dollar budget and they are able to provide serious radio programming 24 hours a day.
The LIE that KPFA will collapse is just that "a lie." If the full time staff is reduced by 50%, volunteers can and will be recruited to operate the station. In fact, many of these volunteers have been driven away by a management and entrenched staff that run the station autocratically and with nepotism and cronyism. Some have been threatened physically and one Nadra Foster was even beaten up by the crew running KPFA when they called the police on her for "trespassing". Their lawyer Dan Siegel who wants to punch people out at Local Station Board meetings and is on the board of Berkeley Cop Watch said at the time he was "surprised" that the police beat Nadra Foster up. He was simply doing damage control for his pals. Another one of their key operatives is one Brian Edward-Tiegert who was Treasurer for years of the Local Station Board and helped push budgets with the support of most of the board that kept spending far beyond income. They talk about competence but they were responsible for the mismanagement of the station. The same BET now wails about how you need competents to run the station but his new position on the morning show was gotten by cronyism and nepotism. It was not posted and it was given to him by the previous incompetent manager Lemlem Rijio who worked with BET to cover up the mismanagement. This was approved by the new interim manager who was brought in supposedly to deal with the financial situation.
KPFA has to cut it's expenses to meet it's income and that means cutting the paid staff and it should be done by seniority. That means new hires for new programs such as letters from washington have to go and be replaced by volunteer programmers. Instead, this corrupt management with the support of the "union" tops at the station has gone after those who oppose them politically. This again shows that these people have no place at KPFA and Pacifica since they are using their positions to retaliate against those who they disagree with. This is not new but has a long history at KPFA and many other Pacifica stations.
Photograph of Siegel and his colleagues. Apparently they needed another lawyer from the Siegel firm to run with them this election cycle. How many lawyers do you need from one law firm on the board of KPFA? You have a married couple and the two millionaire Hallinan brothers on the board and these people talk about "saving KPFA"? Their "Save KPFA" plan is apparently putting more relatives and employees on the board?
The LIE that KPFA will collapse is just that "a lie." If the full time staff is reduced by 50%, volunteers can and will be recruited to operate the station. In fact, many of these volunteers have been driven away by a management and entrenched staff that run the station autocratically and with nepotism and cronyism. Some have been threatened physically and one Nadra Foster was even beaten up by the crew running KPFA when they called the police on her for "trespassing". Their lawyer Dan Siegel who wants to punch people out at Local Station Board meetings and is on the board of Berkeley Cop Watch said at the time he was "surprised" that the police beat Nadra Foster up. He was simply doing damage control for his pals. Another one of their key operatives is one Brian Edward-Tiegert who was Treasurer for years of the Local Station Board and helped push budgets with the support of most of the board that kept spending far beyond income. They talk about competence but they were responsible for the mismanagement of the station. The same BET now wails about how you need competents to run the station but his new position on the morning show was gotten by cronyism and nepotism. It was not posted and it was given to him by the previous incompetent manager Lemlem Rijio who worked with BET to cover up the mismanagement. This was approved by the new interim manager who was brought in supposedly to deal with the financial situation.
KPFA has to cut it's expenses to meet it's income and that means cutting the paid staff and it should be done by seniority. That means new hires for new programs such as letters from washington have to go and be replaced by volunteer programmers. Instead, this corrupt management with the support of the "union" tops at the station has gone after those who oppose them politically. This again shows that these people have no place at KPFA and Pacifica since they are using their positions to retaliate against those who they disagree with. This is not new but has a long history at KPFA and many other Pacifica stations.
Photograph of Siegel and his colleagues. Apparently they needed another lawyer from the Siegel firm to run with them this election cycle. How many lawyers do you need from one law firm on the board of KPFA? You have a married couple and the two millionaire Hallinan brothers on the board and these people talk about "saving KPFA"? Their "Save KPFA" plan is apparently putting more relatives and employees on the board?
How is the Pacifica Board imposing its own agenda on KPFA?
What does your slate think the role of the board should be?
it seems to me that if you are allying yourself with most of the KPFA paid staff and you think that the local station board should not govern the organization, that you believe in a hierarchical structural model of governance where only few at the top control the station?
hope I can get my questions answered.
What does your slate think the role of the board should be?
it seems to me that if you are allying yourself with most of the KPFA paid staff and you think that the local station board should not govern the organization, that you believe in a hierarchical structural model of governance where only few at the top control the station?
hope I can get my questions answered.
It is worth noting the Voices for Justice Radio slate:
From: http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org/endorsers.htm
Cindy Sheehan, Anti-war activist
Cynthia McKinney, Former Congresswoman
Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor of City of Richmond, California
Peace and Freedom Party California
Green Party of Contra Costa County Council
San Francisco Bayview Newspaper
Mary And Willie Radcliff, Publisher, San Francisco Bayview Newspaper
Gray Brechin, UCB Geography Department and Author "Imperial San Francisco"
Genoveva Calloway, Vice-Mayor, City of San Pablo
Jovanka Beckles, The Richmond Planning Commission
Education Not Incarceration, SF Chapter
Idriss Stelley Action and Resource Center (ISARC)
Trent Willis, Vice President ILWU Local 10
Clarence Thomas, Former ILWU Local 10 Secretary Treasurer
Francisco De Costa, Executive Director of Enviromental Justice Advocacy San Francisco
Roger Scott, Past President AFT 2121, Professor San Francisco City College
Bill Carpenter, Professor, San Francisco City College, Videographer
Todd Davies, Lecturer, Stanford University (endorsing Steve Zeltzer only)
Rick Hauptman, Chair, North Mission Neighborhood Alliance
Mary Ellen Churchill, Videographer and media activist
Lotus Fong, Community Activist
Philip Santos, Muscian, member of American Federation of Musicians
Ralph Schoenman, Co-Producer Taking Aim
Cynthia Servetnick, Member IFPTE Local 21, Save the Laguna Street Campus
Lisa Milos, UCSF CWA-UPTE Member
Mary Ann Ring, UCSF CUE 9 Delegate
Russ Miyashiro, ILWU Local 34 Assistant Dispatcher
Brad Wiedmaier, SEIU UHW, Architectural Historian, 113 Steuart St. Labor Center Project
Jemahl Ämen
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, Phyisican, Environmental Activist
Charles Smith, AFSCME 444 Chief Steward
Diane Brown, Member of United Teachers of Richmond, CTA/NEA and Progressive Teachers Caucus of Richmond
Riva Enteen, former Chair KPFA Local Station Board
JR Valery, Producer of the Black Report (endorsing Steve Zeltzer only)
Skip Charbonneau, member SEIU 1000
Regina Carey, Community Activist Marin County
Lynda Carson, Freelance journalist & tenant activist
Peter Philipps, Founder of Project Censored and Professor Sonoma State University
John Mifsud, Artistic Director of Diversity Productions
Anore Shaw, Green Party member
Organizations after the names are identification only
Endorsers of the ICR slate are:
From http://voteindyradio.org/node/4
Endorsments of ICR candates so far
Community Members
Alan Benjamin
Delegate to SF Labor Council, Editor of "The Organizer
Anuradha Mittal
Executive Director of Oakland Institute; author of "America Needs Human Rights," co-author of "10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank"
Attila Nagy
Community activist, former KPFA LSB member, former Program Council member
Barbara Lubin
Founder, Middle East Children's Alliance and Co-founder, Friends of Free Speech Radio
Beshara Doumani
Professor of History, UC Berkeley
Carol Brouillet
Green Party candidate, US House of Representatives
Carol Spooner
Lead Plaintiff - 1999 KPFA Listeners Lawsuit
Christine Ahn
Korean activist, fellow at *Korean Policy Institute and *Oakland Institute, policy analyst at *Global Fund for Women, columnist for *Foreign Policy In Focus.
Cindy Sheehan
Anti-war activist
Dan Berman
public-power organizer; author of "Who Owns the Sun?" and "Death on the Job"
Dave Welsh
Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council, and member, Haiti Action Committee
David Barsamian
host of "Alternative Radio;" prolific author
Fadi Saba
South Bay Mobilization
Green Party of Alameda County
Greta Berlin
Co-Founder, *Free Gaza Movement
Henry Norr
*San Francisco Chronicle, *International Solidarity Movement, Listener Rep on KPFA Board
James Vann
Co-Founder, Oakland Tenants Union
Karen Pickett
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
Oakland community activist, *Co-Founder, Oakland Tenants Union
Maria Gilardin
TUC Radio, Save KPFA
Malkia Cyril
Executive Director, *Center for Media Justice
Max J. Blanchet
Free Speech Radio News
Meshe Monge-Irizarry
Education Not Incarceration
Noelle Hanrahan
Producer, Prison Radio, Former KPFA LSB member
Nora Barrows-Friedman
Former Flashpoints co-host, writer and reporter
Peter Phillips Ph.D
Professor Sociology—Sonoma State University
President—Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
Per Fagerang
Radio Free Ireland, KBOO-FM
Peter Franck
Media Action Marin, Social Justice Center of Marin, former President of Pacifica Foundation, Legal advisor to Mario Savio and Free Speech Movement
Sam Husseini
Communications director at *Institute for Public Accuracy and long time Palestinian anti-war and media activist.
Samera Esmeir
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Vida Samiian
Professor of Linguistics, CSU-Fresno
KPFA Workers
Adrienne Lauby
Producer, Pushing Limits, KPFA-FM
Anthony Fest
KPFA Weekend News, KPFA Unpaid Staff Organization Council, Staff Rep on KPFA Board
Ann Garrison
Weekend News, KPFA-FM
Bonnie Faulkner
Producer, Guns and Butter, KPFA-Radio
Dennis Bernstein
Host and Producer, Flashpoints, KPFA-FM
Khalil Bendib
Political Cartoonist, Host, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, KPFA-FM
Lisa Dettmer
Producer, Women's Magazine, KPFA-FM
Malihe Razazan
Your Call, *KALW-FM, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, KPFA-FM
Preeti Mangla Shekar
*Global Fund for Women and Womens Magazine, KPFA-FM
Renee Yang Geesler
Co-director, First Voice Apprenticeship and Host, Apex Express, KPFA-FM
Robbie Osman
Across The Great Divide, KPFA-FM
Ruthanne Sphiner
KPFA News Reporter
* for identification purposes only
CAN YOU IMAGINE ANY ADULT, MUCH LESS ANYONE CONNECTED WITH MANAGEMENT OF KPFA THREATENING TO ATTACK ANYONE ELSE PHYSICALLY? This is exactly the horrifying, unconscionable scene perpetrated by the Thug Hallinans, backing a notorious lawyer, Dan Siegel, also threatening physical violence, described by Daniel Borgstrom at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/17/18656285.php
More may be found at Borgstrom's site at
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/08/siegel-youre-suing-me.html
The Thug Hallinan Slate is not at all bothered by having a huge check sit in the drawer of their girlfriend "manager" until it expired while KPFA desperately need funds.
On the basis of the violence and the lack of concern for finances as described above, the one slate that must be avoided is the Thug Hallinan Slate.
From: http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org/endorsers.htm
Cindy Sheehan, Anti-war activist
Cynthia McKinney, Former Congresswoman
Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor of City of Richmond, California
Peace and Freedom Party California
Green Party of Contra Costa County Council
San Francisco Bayview Newspaper
Mary And Willie Radcliff, Publisher, San Francisco Bayview Newspaper
Gray Brechin, UCB Geography Department and Author "Imperial San Francisco"
Genoveva Calloway, Vice-Mayor, City of San Pablo
Jovanka Beckles, The Richmond Planning Commission
Education Not Incarceration, SF Chapter
Idriss Stelley Action and Resource Center (ISARC)
Trent Willis, Vice President ILWU Local 10
Clarence Thomas, Former ILWU Local 10 Secretary Treasurer
Francisco De Costa, Executive Director of Enviromental Justice Advocacy San Francisco
Roger Scott, Past President AFT 2121, Professor San Francisco City College
Bill Carpenter, Professor, San Francisco City College, Videographer
Todd Davies, Lecturer, Stanford University (endorsing Steve Zeltzer only)
Rick Hauptman, Chair, North Mission Neighborhood Alliance
Mary Ellen Churchill, Videographer and media activist
Lotus Fong, Community Activist
Philip Santos, Muscian, member of American Federation of Musicians
Ralph Schoenman, Co-Producer Taking Aim
Cynthia Servetnick, Member IFPTE Local 21, Save the Laguna Street Campus
Lisa Milos, UCSF CWA-UPTE Member
Mary Ann Ring, UCSF CUE 9 Delegate
Russ Miyashiro, ILWU Local 34 Assistant Dispatcher
Brad Wiedmaier, SEIU UHW, Architectural Historian, 113 Steuart St. Labor Center Project
Jemahl Ämen
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, Phyisican, Environmental Activist
Charles Smith, AFSCME 444 Chief Steward
Diane Brown, Member of United Teachers of Richmond, CTA/NEA and Progressive Teachers Caucus of Richmond
Riva Enteen, former Chair KPFA Local Station Board
JR Valery, Producer of the Black Report (endorsing Steve Zeltzer only)
Skip Charbonneau, member SEIU 1000
Regina Carey, Community Activist Marin County
Lynda Carson, Freelance journalist & tenant activist
Peter Philipps, Founder of Project Censored and Professor Sonoma State University
John Mifsud, Artistic Director of Diversity Productions
Anore Shaw, Green Party member
Organizations after the names are identification only
Endorsers of the ICR slate are:
From http://voteindyradio.org/node/4
Endorsments of ICR candates so far
Community Members
Alan Benjamin
Delegate to SF Labor Council, Editor of "The Organizer
Anuradha Mittal
Executive Director of Oakland Institute; author of "America Needs Human Rights," co-author of "10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank"
Attila Nagy
Community activist, former KPFA LSB member, former Program Council member
Barbara Lubin
Founder, Middle East Children's Alliance and Co-founder, Friends of Free Speech Radio
Beshara Doumani
Professor of History, UC Berkeley
Carol Brouillet
Green Party candidate, US House of Representatives
Carol Spooner
Lead Plaintiff - 1999 KPFA Listeners Lawsuit
Christine Ahn
Korean activist, fellow at *Korean Policy Institute and *Oakland Institute, policy analyst at *Global Fund for Women, columnist for *Foreign Policy In Focus.
Cindy Sheehan
Anti-war activist
Dan Berman
public-power organizer; author of "Who Owns the Sun?" and "Death on the Job"
Dave Welsh
Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council, and member, Haiti Action Committee
David Barsamian
host of "Alternative Radio;" prolific author
Fadi Saba
South Bay Mobilization
Green Party of Alameda County
Greta Berlin
Co-Founder, *Free Gaza Movement
Henry Norr
*San Francisco Chronicle, *International Solidarity Movement, Listener Rep on KPFA Board
James Vann
Co-Founder, Oakland Tenants Union
Karen Pickett
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
Oakland community activist, *Co-Founder, Oakland Tenants Union
Maria Gilardin
TUC Radio, Save KPFA
Malkia Cyril
Executive Director, *Center for Media Justice
Max J. Blanchet
Free Speech Radio News
Meshe Monge-Irizarry
Education Not Incarceration
Noelle Hanrahan
Producer, Prison Radio, Former KPFA LSB member
Nora Barrows-Friedman
Former Flashpoints co-host, writer and reporter
Peter Phillips Ph.D
Professor Sociology—Sonoma State University
President—Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
Per Fagerang
Radio Free Ireland, KBOO-FM
Peter Franck
Media Action Marin, Social Justice Center of Marin, former President of Pacifica Foundation, Legal advisor to Mario Savio and Free Speech Movement
Sam Husseini
Communications director at *Institute for Public Accuracy and long time Palestinian anti-war and media activist.
Samera Esmeir
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Vida Samiian
Professor of Linguistics, CSU-Fresno
KPFA Workers
Adrienne Lauby
Producer, Pushing Limits, KPFA-FM
Anthony Fest
KPFA Weekend News, KPFA Unpaid Staff Organization Council, Staff Rep on KPFA Board
Ann Garrison
Weekend News, KPFA-FM
Bonnie Faulkner
Producer, Guns and Butter, KPFA-Radio
Dennis Bernstein
Host and Producer, Flashpoints, KPFA-FM
Khalil Bendib
Political Cartoonist, Host, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, KPFA-FM
Lisa Dettmer
Producer, Women's Magazine, KPFA-FM
Malihe Razazan
Your Call, *KALW-FM, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, KPFA-FM
Preeti Mangla Shekar
*Global Fund for Women and Womens Magazine, KPFA-FM
Renee Yang Geesler
Co-director, First Voice Apprenticeship and Host, Apex Express, KPFA-FM
Robbie Osman
Across The Great Divide, KPFA-FM
Ruthanne Sphiner
KPFA News Reporter
* for identification purposes only
CAN YOU IMAGINE ANY ADULT, MUCH LESS ANYONE CONNECTED WITH MANAGEMENT OF KPFA THREATENING TO ATTACK ANYONE ELSE PHYSICALLY? This is exactly the horrifying, unconscionable scene perpetrated by the Thug Hallinans, backing a notorious lawyer, Dan Siegel, also threatening physical violence, described by Daniel Borgstrom at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/17/18656285.php
More may be found at Borgstrom's site at
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/08/siegel-youre-suing-me.html
The Thug Hallinan Slate is not at all bothered by having a huge check sit in the drawer of their girlfriend "manager" until it expired while KPFA desperately need funds.
On the basis of the violence and the lack of concern for finances as described above, the one slate that must be avoided is the Thug Hallinan Slate.
For more information:
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org/endor...
they seem to follow the marching orders of the board insider who recruit them to run.
have a terrible track-record: their worst actions, unfortunately, I’m required to keep confidential. have doubled the number of meetings—and halved the amount of work done. misrepresented staff- and registered the web address savekpfa.net in an apparent attempt to confuse voters about which candidates are running on which slate. Their incumbent board member have brought several board meetings grinding to a halt by screaming epithets at the top of her lungs. If other folks at kpfa got paid like Brian edward tikerd they would spend more time on indybay as well, and get more involved. However, since he is entrenched in these politics it has become a way to save his job to have this ability to comment on indybay.org to try to save his job, and keep a hold on his nice income to criticize eve the real progressives out in the community while he sits in a box looking at the news from the internet.
have a terrible track-record: their worst actions, unfortunately, I’m required to keep confidential. have doubled the number of meetings—and halved the amount of work done. misrepresented staff- and registered the web address savekpfa.net in an apparent attempt to confuse voters about which candidates are running on which slate. Their incumbent board member have brought several board meetings grinding to a halt by screaming epithets at the top of her lungs. If other folks at kpfa got paid like Brian edward tikerd they would spend more time on indybay as well, and get more involved. However, since he is entrenched in these politics it has become a way to save his job to have this ability to comment on indybay.org to try to save his job, and keep a hold on his nice income to criticize eve the real progressives out in the community while he sits in a box looking at the news from the internet.
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