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Mitch Jeserich Endorsements for KPFA LSB Election
KPFA Subscribers are urged to vote for the savekpfa slate
Dear KPFA Subscribers and Friends (and detractors who undoubtedly will respond with their own polemic),
Many of you have or will soon receive ballots for the kpfa local station board. I fully endorse the candidates below and I hope you will vote for them. They are all strong supporters of Letters to Washington. From the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the rise of right wing activism to major natural disasters around the world to the unnatural disaster in the Gulf Coast, it is vitally important that kpfa and the voices and perspectives it brings to the air remains a part of the public discourse during these intense times. I believe these candidates will push kpfa in a direction not just to ensure our survival but to makes us strive.
Mitch Jeserich endorses (find their bios at savekpfa.org):
§ Dave Saldana
§ Suzi Goldmacher
§ Matthew Hallinan
§ Margy Wilkinson
§ Mal Burnstein
§ Tanya Russell
§ Terry Doran
§ Donald Goldmacher
§ Mark Hernandez
§ Jack Kurzweil
It is commonly acknowledged by those who have worked in a non-profit organization that a healthy functioning board helps set out a broad direction for the organization to meet its mission and it helps raise necessary funds to keep the organization running optimally. That is why I support the candidates listed above.
We have a board that is democratically elected by listeners who donate $25 or more to the station. This is a good thing. But we are in danger of turning a democratic process into a mockery--or as I like to say, a demochery. We have a system where barely 10% of eligible voters cast ballots. I doubt any would argue that is a healthy model for a democracy. If that was the case for any country, it would be laughed at, ridiculed and considered an illegitimate election. That, unfortunately, is exactly what we have. When only 10% of those eligible vote do so, it allows unqualified candidates to conduct a modest amount of organizing to get themselves elected to a board that governs a very important organization.
Let me present this analogy to explain what that looks like. Have you ever been to a baseball game and witnessed the beer drinking belligerent fan in the bleachers heckling the ball players for the entire game? Imagine if that belligerent fan, with little actual first hand experience in the game, were suddenly made the boss of those very same ball players. That is what it feels like for many of us who work at kpfa. That is why it is so important that if you get a ballot in the mail, that you fill it out and put it in the mail asap. Yes, I hope you will vote for the people listed above. I believe that they will serve responsibly and that is what we need in these critical times. But even if you vote for others, I still implore you to vote. At least make this democratic process a legitimate one. One that ensures listeners are truly represented.
Many of you have or will soon receive ballots for the kpfa local station board. I fully endorse the candidates below and I hope you will vote for them. They are all strong supporters of Letters to Washington. From the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the rise of right wing activism to major natural disasters around the world to the unnatural disaster in the Gulf Coast, it is vitally important that kpfa and the voices and perspectives it brings to the air remains a part of the public discourse during these intense times. I believe these candidates will push kpfa in a direction not just to ensure our survival but to makes us strive.
Mitch Jeserich endorses (find their bios at savekpfa.org):
§ Dave Saldana
§ Suzi Goldmacher
§ Matthew Hallinan
§ Margy Wilkinson
§ Mal Burnstein
§ Tanya Russell
§ Terry Doran
§ Donald Goldmacher
§ Mark Hernandez
§ Jack Kurzweil
It is commonly acknowledged by those who have worked in a non-profit organization that a healthy functioning board helps set out a broad direction for the organization to meet its mission and it helps raise necessary funds to keep the organization running optimally. That is why I support the candidates listed above.
We have a board that is democratically elected by listeners who donate $25 or more to the station. This is a good thing. But we are in danger of turning a democratic process into a mockery--or as I like to say, a demochery. We have a system where barely 10% of eligible voters cast ballots. I doubt any would argue that is a healthy model for a democracy. If that was the case for any country, it would be laughed at, ridiculed and considered an illegitimate election. That, unfortunately, is exactly what we have. When only 10% of those eligible vote do so, it allows unqualified candidates to conduct a modest amount of organizing to get themselves elected to a board that governs a very important organization.
Let me present this analogy to explain what that looks like. Have you ever been to a baseball game and witnessed the beer drinking belligerent fan in the bleachers heckling the ball players for the entire game? Imagine if that belligerent fan, with little actual first hand experience in the game, were suddenly made the boss of those very same ball players. That is what it feels like for many of us who work at kpfa. That is why it is so important that if you get a ballot in the mail, that you fill it out and put it in the mail asap. Yes, I hope you will vote for the people listed above. I believe that they will serve responsibly and that is what we need in these critical times. But even if you vote for others, I still implore you to vote. At least make this democratic process a legitimate one. One that ensures listeners are truly represented.
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It's 15%, Mitch.
The same 15% every nonprofit organization gets when it puts the board up for election by its members.
The same 15% KQED got before they decided democracy was too much trouble.
The same 15% the Sierra Club gets.
15%.
The same 15% every nonprofit organization gets when it puts the board up for election by its members.
The same 15% KQED got before they decided democracy was too much trouble.
The same 15% the Sierra Club gets.
15%.
I've always had a feeling things were crazy there. Thanks for the clarification Mitch.
it is still pathetic. Come on kpfa subscribers. Turn in your ballots.
Letters to Washington is the best thing to happen to KPFA's airwaves in years.
It's like the belligerent fan becomes the belligerent boss!
Thanks Mitch, for sharing your views and providing an illuminating analogy! I respect the work you do and enjoy listening to Letters From Washington. It's helpful to know which candidates you endorse, and I will answer your important call to vote. Keep up the good work!
Things have been very unpleasant working at the office where the radio station is housed, but one hopes that the next few months will be a positive one.
One bright spot at KPFA has been that many smart and committed paid and volunteer staff continue to put out quality programming despite the hardships.
"Letters to Washington" continues to be an incredible example of what is possible for the future of KPFA.
As a worker at the radio station, holding onto my part time job because I hope next year will be a better one than last year for the station, I ask that listener-voters read Mitch's post carefully. Thanks for your continued support of the station and what it stands for.
One bright spot at KPFA has been that many smart and committed paid and volunteer staff continue to put out quality programming despite the hardships.
"Letters to Washington" continues to be an incredible example of what is possible for the future of KPFA.
As a worker at the radio station, holding onto my part time job because I hope next year will be a better one than last year for the station, I ask that listener-voters read Mitch's post carefully. Thanks for your continued support of the station and what it stands for.
So we have reporters mis-stating facts in support of their chosen do-nothing board.
We have staff members assessing the fitness of board members by whether or not they support the staff member's particular program.
Our goal is "to makes us strive".
The expression inmates running the asylum comes to mind.
The radio station doesn't exist for the benefit of the people who work there.
It exists to fulfill its mission and to serve the community that supports it.
Your listeners are not belligerent baseball fans.
They are the people who pay the salaries.
We have staff members assessing the fitness of board members by whether or not they support the staff member's particular program.
Our goal is "to makes us strive".
The expression inmates running the asylum comes to mind.
The radio station doesn't exist for the benefit of the people who work there.
It exists to fulfill its mission and to serve the community that supports it.
Your listeners are not belligerent baseball fans.
They are the people who pay the salaries.
In the short space of 22 minutes, from 9:07 p.m. to 9:29 p.m., no less than 5 people posted comments cheering and praising Mitch Jeserich. Very impressive. Quite a fan club! Or, maybe Mitch posted those comments himself?
So your buddy Brian Edwards-Tiekert has educated you on how to get and keep a job at KPFA. Clearly, there this isn't a fan club, but a staged event. There simply aren't dozens of Mitch fans sitting around on a Saturday night scouring Indybay in case he should post something.
You're supporting a bunch of old white men and their spouses, sisters and brothers, employees former and present who are all on the board now or running for the board together.
They've emptied KPFA coffers during their years in control of the board and station running thru a million dollars in less than two years. They hired a manager who hid a $375,000 donation for over a year, but reported it as being in a bank account to the board they controlled.
This is the kind of cheating that only a bunch of husbands and wives and brothers and sisters can do while working together.
You can't possibly ethically suggest that people should support this just so you can keep your job!
Let's see how many monikers you can come up with pretending to be different people on Indybay.
You're supporting a bunch of old white men and their spouses, sisters and brothers, employees former and present who are all on the board now or running for the board together.
They've emptied KPFA coffers during their years in control of the board and station running thru a million dollars in less than two years. They hired a manager who hid a $375,000 donation for over a year, but reported it as being in a bank account to the board they controlled.
This is the kind of cheating that only a bunch of husbands and wives and brothers and sisters can do while working together.
You can't possibly ethically suggest that people should support this just so you can keep your job!
Let's see how many monikers you can come up with pretending to be different people on Indybay.
In case you have not been following the other articles on the KPFA Local Station Board election, once again the capitalist Democratic Party has put up a gang of thugs, most notably 70 year old millionaire Conn and Matthew Hallinan, and their fellow thug, 65 year old (approx) Dan Siegel and other members of his notorious law firm, who clearly support violent behavior and bleeding KPFA dry so as to make it possible for a reactionary takeover of KPFA by a profit-making entity, thus changing the politics of KPFA from promoting socialism and all other needs and interests of the workingclass to promoting the status quo, namely the reactionary Democratic Party and the capitalist class which promotes it. The Democrats exist to keep the Reds (socialists) and Greens out of office and that is exactly what is happening at KPFA. There is no other reason for 2 capitalist parties. You will note that their fellow Democrat, millionaire Barack Obama, is now busy carrying out the reactionary capitalist agenda as that is what his financial sponsors pay him to do; his halfway decent campaign statements (not many) where just vote-getting rhetoric, as always with the Democrats. No millionaire or their parties can represent the workingclass.
Here is the truth about the Thug Hallinan slate:
Tracy Rosenberg describes the bleeding of the KPFA treasury by Brian Edwards-Tiekert, board treasurer at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/21/18656512.php
Here is the violence perpetrated by the Thug Hallinan slate, in particular Conn and Matthew Hallinan and attorney Dan Siegel:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/20/18656449.php?show_comments=1#18656501
and
Daniel Borgstrom's many excellent comments on the violence and other issues:
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2009/02/dan-siegel-at-pacifica-radio.html
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/17/18656285.php
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/08/siegel-youre-suing-me.html
The violence is pure male chauvinism; no woman, no matter the politics, would engage in such horrifying, unthinkable actions, and no man with any decency would do so either.
And here is more on the stealing of KPFA's treasury, the illegal "save KPFA" name and the fossilized, male chauvinist character of the Thug Hallinan slate:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/20/18656440.php?show_comments=1#18656489
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/16/18656188.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/20/18656440.php?show_comments=1#18656500
As you will see in the articles on the treasury, the beauty-queen girfriend of the Hallinans, Lemlem Rijio, left a large check in a drawer for over a year, after it expired, thus seriously threatening the existence of KPFA, and then they tell us that this is not a serious problem! Clearly, their agenda is to turn KPFA over to an NPR-type money-making outfit when what we need is a voice for socialism and workingclass struggles.
It is the duty of all over us over 60 to pass the baton to the next generation of the workingclass as quickly as possible, so that we may have socialism in this backward, bankrupt society before humanity and the planet are destroyed, which means we must act quickly. Hopefully, in the future, more young people will run for KPFA Local Station Board. Seize the time, for the time is now!
The endorsers of the opponents of the Thug Hallinan Slate (the only name they have any business using as it is exactly what they are) are listed here:
The Voice for Justice for Radio slate are:
Steve Zeltzer, Dr. Sureya Sayadi, Jaime Cader and Felipe Messina.
The Endorsers of 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
The ICR slate is:
Listener Category:
Stephen Astourian
Naeem Deskins
Georgia Frazier
Monadel Herzallah
Cynthia Johnson
Hyun-Mi Kim
Janet Kobren
Tracy Rosenberg
Gina Szeto
Kate Tanaka
Staff Category:
Shahram Aghamir
Gabrielle Wilson
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
You can read all the candidate statements at:
http://pacificafoundation.org/cand_list.php?sta=kpfa
Here is the truth about the Thug Hallinan slate:
Tracy Rosenberg describes the bleeding of the KPFA treasury by Brian Edwards-Tiekert, board treasurer at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/21/18656512.php
Here is the violence perpetrated by the Thug Hallinan slate, in particular Conn and Matthew Hallinan and attorney Dan Siegel:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/20/18656449.php?show_comments=1#18656501
and
Daniel Borgstrom's many excellent comments on the violence and other issues:
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2009/02/dan-siegel-at-pacifica-radio.html
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/17/18656285.php
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/08/siegel-youre-suing-me.html
The violence is pure male chauvinism; no woman, no matter the politics, would engage in such horrifying, unthinkable actions, and no man with any decency would do so either.
And here is more on the stealing of KPFA's treasury, the illegal "save KPFA" name and the fossilized, male chauvinist character of the Thug Hallinan slate:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/20/18656440.php?show_comments=1#18656489
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/16/18656188.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/20/18656440.php?show_comments=1#18656500
As you will see in the articles on the treasury, the beauty-queen girfriend of the Hallinans, Lemlem Rijio, left a large check in a drawer for over a year, after it expired, thus seriously threatening the existence of KPFA, and then they tell us that this is not a serious problem! Clearly, their agenda is to turn KPFA over to an NPR-type money-making outfit when what we need is a voice for socialism and workingclass struggles.
It is the duty of all over us over 60 to pass the baton to the next generation of the workingclass as quickly as possible, so that we may have socialism in this backward, bankrupt society before humanity and the planet are destroyed, which means we must act quickly. Hopefully, in the future, more young people will run for KPFA Local Station Board. Seize the time, for the time is now!
The endorsers of the opponents of the Thug Hallinan Slate (the only name they have any business using as it is exactly what they are) are listed here:
The Voice for Justice for Radio slate are:
Steve Zeltzer, Dr. Sureya Sayadi, Jaime Cader and Felipe Messina.
The Endorsers of 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
The ICR slate is:
Listener Category:
Stephen Astourian
Naeem Deskins
Georgia Frazier
Monadel Herzallah
Cynthia Johnson
Hyun-Mi Kim
Janet Kobren
Tracy Rosenberg
Gina Szeto
Kate Tanaka
Staff Category:
Shahram Aghamir
Gabrielle Wilson
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
You can read all the candidate statements at:
http://pacificafoundation.org/cand_list.php?sta=kpfa
If anyone is wondering why there are so many supportive comments on here it's because this post is on Mitch's Facebook page.
I think Mitch is great, does a good job, but I always feel like the situation in Washington is hopeless. Even when he has on the most supposedly progressive members, it's pretty shocking to hear what they do. He had on Lynn Woolsey on about Wikileaks she sighed and said, "There wasn't much new in there."
So what else do the most progressive members of congress know about and shut up about ? And ignore ?
And when asked why she endorsed Jane Harmon over a progressive candidate one of the reasons was "She was a classmate of mine." Later in the conversation she said that Jane wasn't "an evil person."
That's what the Democrats are about -- slightly lesser evil, and Mitch could do a lot better to add to "Letters to Washington", "Letters to the People", and get out of that pig sty.
Also, I'm sad that KPFA often hosts people whose job it is to trash the so-called "conspiracy theorists" like Chip Berlet. Here's a piece by Peter Phillips and Micky Huff of Project Censored on Chip Berlet --
A Response to Chip Berlet’s “Toxic to Democracy”
By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff
Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
"Berlet lumps valid academic research on State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) in with anti-Semitic jingoism and far right wing extremism. He suggests that any research that even implies some sort of conspiracy is dangerous and suspect, seemingly forgetting a long list of proven US and other government conspiracies (SCADs) including: Operation Mockingbird, COINTELPRO, Gulf of Tonkin “Incident,” October Surprise, CIA-Contra Dark Alliance, Iran-Contra, WMDs and Iraq Invasion, and the overthrow of governments in Iran, Guatemala, Haiti, Chile, Greece, Indonesia, Panama, and many others."
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/a-response-to-chip-berlet%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ctoxic-to-democracy%E2%80%9D/
Chip Berlet, Democrat hack is toxic to democracy. Sad to hear him on KPFA so often.
With the Democrats we get war in Afghanistan instead of Iraq.
I think Mitch is great, does a good job, but I always feel like the situation in Washington is hopeless. Even when he has on the most supposedly progressive members, it's pretty shocking to hear what they do. He had on Lynn Woolsey on about Wikileaks she sighed and said, "There wasn't much new in there."
So what else do the most progressive members of congress know about and shut up about ? And ignore ?
And when asked why she endorsed Jane Harmon over a progressive candidate one of the reasons was "She was a classmate of mine." Later in the conversation she said that Jane wasn't "an evil person."
That's what the Democrats are about -- slightly lesser evil, and Mitch could do a lot better to add to "Letters to Washington", "Letters to the People", and get out of that pig sty.
Also, I'm sad that KPFA often hosts people whose job it is to trash the so-called "conspiracy theorists" like Chip Berlet. Here's a piece by Peter Phillips and Micky Huff of Project Censored on Chip Berlet --
A Response to Chip Berlet’s “Toxic to Democracy”
By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff
Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
"Berlet lumps valid academic research on State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) in with anti-Semitic jingoism and far right wing extremism. He suggests that any research that even implies some sort of conspiracy is dangerous and suspect, seemingly forgetting a long list of proven US and other government conspiracies (SCADs) including: Operation Mockingbird, COINTELPRO, Gulf of Tonkin “Incident,” October Surprise, CIA-Contra Dark Alliance, Iran-Contra, WMDs and Iraq Invasion, and the overthrow of governments in Iran, Guatemala, Haiti, Chile, Greece, Indonesia, Panama, and many others."
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/a-response-to-chip-berlet%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ctoxic-to-democracy%E2%80%9D/
Chip Berlet, Democrat hack is toxic to democracy. Sad to hear him on KPFA so often.
With the Democrats we get war in Afghanistan instead of Iraq.
Here's what a friend had to say about CL "SaveKPFA-Mart" when told about the non-sensical claim being made now by CL/"SaveKPFA-Mart" that Pacifica made Ms. Rijio NOT cash that 374,000 check for some unknown reason. What benefit would that have for Pacifica? asks my friend....
"...No wonder the CLers want people to vote lickety split...before the forums expose them for the dim grim dunderheaded ethically tone deaf lame ass know nothings that they are. But I mean that in a nice way."
"...No wonder the CLers want people to vote lickety split...before the forums expose them for the dim grim dunderheaded ethically tone deaf lame ass know nothings that they are. But I mean that in a nice way."
Letters to washington sounds like all the people of FSRN, except with "progressive" republicans putting in their perspective of their non conservative government. it also sounds like the morning show to me, with new books from the same old white writers. Only difference is the time, and the audience they target, older middle white america.
It is imperative that as many people as possible support KPFA. Let's keep it the people's radio (or what's left of it). We need more radical voices on the airwaves.
That baseball analogy is interesting. Who ARE the know-nothings running for this board?
If only 10 or only 15% elect the board, why is that somehow trotted out as worse than a very few ( POINT-1%?) people in top staff/managment positions at the stations controlling all that is in the air, choosing who will help with news, etc. etc. etc.?
Here's an idea, as a member who has fought an E X T R E M E L Y uphill battle to get ANY coverage of the elections over the airwaves, how about pitching the elections along with pitching for money? Like: "Becoming a member of this station allows you to vote and have a voice in how your money's spent. If you envision a true community hub where creative ideas are welcomed onto the air, story presentations mentored by a supportive paid staff here to make this station a real mover in the world to try to make things better -- PLEASE join and when those ballots come -- hear from as many candidates as you can and VOTE."
As to all the staff endorsers of the name-co-opting "SaveKPFA-Mart" slate: several staff have approached people on OTHER slates and privately said they would like to endorse them, but they are worried their hours will be cut if they do. Can you see the conflict of interest here when people like Lasar want even MORE paid staff/manager control?
Mitch-ally Matthew Lasar is openly discouraging listeners who know nothing about the obfuscation of CL or any other politics from voting, while behind the scenes he is endorsing the slate who've already sent several expensive mailers to listeners, at least one to ALL member/listeners. This expense is something most candidates can't afford. Money should not be buying this election.
Neither should "influence." Those on-air guests who have been interviewed by the paid staff members who are unquestionably competent but who want to maintain the airwaves as they choose, with only new voices of their choosing, those guests would be hard-pressed to dis those interviewers. Furthermore, most of the interviewers are so good, why WOULD the guests question them?
The charge of "anti-professionalism" in fact is thrown around by Mitch's and Lasar's allies to imply that any minute change from the crony-chosen format now on the air will, by default, be terrible-sounding. There are a couple of popular shows now on that I would like to improve the sound of if I had my way, but the idea that simply ripping stuff off the air rather than mentoring and improving is not the way to build this station as a hub of community-organizing that is needed.
Lasar's solution is to call for an unelected board "like we had in 97." (or did he say 98?)
Doubtless the bylaws need improving, but without an elected board, what is to stop a few from taking this network as its own for a few? It is much harder with an elected board to do that. And who will work on those bylaws changes -- those who lie and deceive to retain power at any cost?
As to all the staff endorsers of the name-co-opting "SaveKPFA-Mart" slate: several staff have approached people on OTHER slates and privately said they would like to endorse them, but they are worried their hours will be cut if they do. Can you see the conflict of interest here when people like Lasar want even MORE paid staff/manager control?
And as for "badly behaving boards," one new tangent I've recently discovered is that one of the top problems for many CORPORATE boards (with UN-elected members) is that APPOINTED board members tend to shake-down to such buddy buddy ties with the managers they are supposed to provide oversight for that there is no oversight. That is one of THE main problems with unelected boards. SEE FORUM SCHEDULE BELOW
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
Your Vote is Your Voice
Community and On-Air Candidate Forums 2010
For transit info or carpool to any forum call 510.332.7181 or email les_kpfa [at] pacifica.org
Saturday, August 28thShip Clerks ILWU Local 344 Berry Street - (corner of 2nd and King).San Francisco, 12-4pm parking behind building
Thursday Sept.9 Black Dot Cafe 924 Pine St., West Oakland 6:30-9pm Hosted by JR Ministry of Information from blockreportradio.org and Hardknock radio
Monday Sept. 13 First United Methodist Church San Rafael (basement) 9 Ross Valley Drive ( Greenfield and Ross Valley Dr.) just off the Miracle Mile (Fourth St.) across from Bedrock Music near Cafe Gratitude). Potluck at 6:15pm / Forum at 7:15pm Sponsored by: Marin Peace and Justice
Tuesday, Sept. 14 Berkeley Community Media Public Access TV2239 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley 5-7pm
Sunday, Sept. 19 Sonoma Peace and Justice Center 467 Sebastapol Ave, Santa Rosa 2-5pm
Monday, September 20th Richmond Public LibraryCommunity Room/patio325 Civic Center Plaza (at MacDonald ) Richmond lots of parking co-sponsored byRichmond Progressive Alliance 6:30-9pm
O N A I R F O R U M S:
First Round:
Tuesday, August 31st 2-4pm
Wednesday Sept. 1st 2-4pm
Thursday Sept 2nd 2-4pm
Second Round:
Friday Sept. 10th- 7-8pm
Saturday Sept.11: 9-12noon
Wednesday Sept. 15: 7-8pm
Thursday Sept. 16: 7-8pm
Third Round:
Monday Sept. 27th: 8-10pm
Tuesday Sept. 28th: 8-10pm
Wednesday Sept.29: 8-10pm
If only 10 or only 15% elect the board, why is that somehow trotted out as worse than a very few ( POINT-1%?) people in top staff/managment positions at the stations controlling all that is in the air, choosing who will help with news, etc. etc. etc.?
Here's an idea, as a member who has fought an E X T R E M E L Y uphill battle to get ANY coverage of the elections over the airwaves, how about pitching the elections along with pitching for money? Like: "Becoming a member of this station allows you to vote and have a voice in how your money's spent. If you envision a true community hub where creative ideas are welcomed onto the air, story presentations mentored by a supportive paid staff here to make this station a real mover in the world to try to make things better -- PLEASE join and when those ballots come -- hear from as many candidates as you can and VOTE."
As to all the staff endorsers of the name-co-opting "SaveKPFA-Mart" slate: several staff have approached people on OTHER slates and privately said they would like to endorse them, but they are worried their hours will be cut if they do. Can you see the conflict of interest here when people like Lasar want even MORE paid staff/manager control?
Mitch-ally Matthew Lasar is openly discouraging listeners who know nothing about the obfuscation of CL or any other politics from voting, while behind the scenes he is endorsing the slate who've already sent several expensive mailers to listeners, at least one to ALL member/listeners. This expense is something most candidates can't afford. Money should not be buying this election.
Neither should "influence." Those on-air guests who have been interviewed by the paid staff members who are unquestionably competent but who want to maintain the airwaves as they choose, with only new voices of their choosing, those guests would be hard-pressed to dis those interviewers. Furthermore, most of the interviewers are so good, why WOULD the guests question them?
The charge of "anti-professionalism" in fact is thrown around by Mitch's and Lasar's allies to imply that any minute change from the crony-chosen format now on the air will, by default, be terrible-sounding. There are a couple of popular shows now on that I would like to improve the sound of if I had my way, but the idea that simply ripping stuff off the air rather than mentoring and improving is not the way to build this station as a hub of community-organizing that is needed.
Lasar's solution is to call for an unelected board "like we had in 97." (or did he say 98?)
Doubtless the bylaws need improving, but without an elected board, what is to stop a few from taking this network as its own for a few? It is much harder with an elected board to do that. And who will work on those bylaws changes -- those who lie and deceive to retain power at any cost?
As to all the staff endorsers of the name-co-opting "SaveKPFA-Mart" slate: several staff have approached people on OTHER slates and privately said they would like to endorse them, but they are worried their hours will be cut if they do. Can you see the conflict of interest here when people like Lasar want even MORE paid staff/manager control?
And as for "badly behaving boards," one new tangent I've recently discovered is that one of the top problems for many CORPORATE boards (with UN-elected members) is that APPOINTED board members tend to shake-down to such buddy buddy ties with the managers they are supposed to provide oversight for that there is no oversight. That is one of THE main problems with unelected boards. SEE FORUM SCHEDULE BELOW
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
Your Vote is Your Voice
Community and On-Air Candidate Forums 2010
For transit info or carpool to any forum call 510.332.7181 or email les_kpfa [at] pacifica.org
Saturday, August 28thShip Clerks ILWU Local 344 Berry Street - (corner of 2nd and King).San Francisco, 12-4pm parking behind building
Thursday Sept.9 Black Dot Cafe 924 Pine St., West Oakland 6:30-9pm Hosted by JR Ministry of Information from blockreportradio.org and Hardknock radio
Monday Sept. 13 First United Methodist Church San Rafael (basement) 9 Ross Valley Drive ( Greenfield and Ross Valley Dr.) just off the Miracle Mile (Fourth St.) across from Bedrock Music near Cafe Gratitude). Potluck at 6:15pm / Forum at 7:15pm Sponsored by: Marin Peace and Justice
Tuesday, Sept. 14 Berkeley Community Media Public Access TV2239 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley 5-7pm
Sunday, Sept. 19 Sonoma Peace and Justice Center 467 Sebastapol Ave, Santa Rosa 2-5pm
Monday, September 20th Richmond Public LibraryCommunity Room/patio325 Civic Center Plaza (at MacDonald ) Richmond lots of parking co-sponsored byRichmond Progressive Alliance 6:30-9pm
O N A I R F O R U M S:
First Round:
Tuesday, August 31st 2-4pm
Wednesday Sept. 1st 2-4pm
Thursday Sept 2nd 2-4pm
Second Round:
Friday Sept. 10th- 7-8pm
Saturday Sept.11: 9-12noon
Wednesday Sept. 15: 7-8pm
Thursday Sept. 16: 7-8pm
Third Round:
Monday Sept. 27th: 8-10pm
Tuesday Sept. 28th: 8-10pm
Wednesday Sept.29: 8-10pm
who gave mitch his show, and when did this happen that he got his own personal show with his other white colleagues. As far as i know mitch doesn't represent diversity, and this whole time he has worked with majority white people. If you support programmers who focus on having solely white people on the air of course you will vote for mitch, and his white pride gang.
Mitch is disabled, I believe he uses a Wheel Chair. This does not mean I agree with many things he says, but I do think we need to consider the challenges he faces.
Wheel chair or not he is white, and so are almost all the folks on letters to washington except for the board op most of the time. Wheelchairs do not make up diversity, and disabilities don't make up your diversity. IF your feeling sorry for mitch and his situation is one thing, but politics are another.
Wow, after reading how this seems to be coming down to the pro-Democratic Party wingnuts of the Old Guard establishment vs. the Old Left sectarian (mostly of the Trotskite variety) upstart wingnuts, who cares who wins?
I actually don't hope that KPFA goes down, but I predict it will. As an anarchist, I like all the pirate radio stations better anyway.
I have to be honest: I don't trust a SINGLE person on any of those lists of endorsers. Most are hacks of one sort or another. None is to be trusted. And frankly, I doubt I could count those under 50 on one hand.
Maybe if the left-liberal scene cannibalizes itself, more space will open up for young radicals like us. We can only cross our fingers and hope!
I actually don't hope that KPFA goes down, but I predict it will. As an anarchist, I like all the pirate radio stations better anyway.
I have to be honest: I don't trust a SINGLE person on any of those lists of endorsers. Most are hacks of one sort or another. None is to be trusted. And frankly, I doubt I could count those under 50 on one hand.
Maybe if the left-liberal scene cannibalizes itself, more space will open up for young radicals like us. We can only cross our fingers and hope!
First of all you completely misunderstood me. I will be clearer. I do not personally believe that being in a wheel chair and yes, a Cripple is in itself is not an example of diversity. However KPFA and much of the Politically Correct Left feel it is. I think that is how KPFA gets a hand picked token that supports the stations current management agenda. His interviews are not hard hitting. What Mitch does is already covered by The Morning Show and Democracy Now. Democracy does an ok job. The Morning Show as hosted by Brian Edwards-Teickert and Aimee Allison is also lame and increasingly sounding like Mainstream TV News Anchors. What you may not understand now is that "Diversity" is a marketing strategy used of major corporations to both co-opt real Diversity and sell consumer products to more people. The terms of debate have been been appropriated by those in power.
I feel that KPFA has moved far away from its Radical Roots. I have not subscribed to the Station for years. I was active with the original Save KPFA and Take Back KPFA, and have found that the station still continues after nearly 20 years to keep moving in the direction of NPR/ corporitization. While I support Identity politics we need to find ways to work together,because those in power at the Station and the government are using that to divide us from each other and further take over control, while we bicker among ourselves.
PS: I'm fine with your name calling however why don't you come up with your own original Screen name and attack me in the body of the message. Your understanding seems to be one of selective awareness.
I feel that KPFA has moved far away from its Radical Roots. I have not subscribed to the Station for years. I was active with the original Save KPFA and Take Back KPFA, and have found that the station still continues after nearly 20 years to keep moving in the direction of NPR/ corporitization. While I support Identity politics we need to find ways to work together,because those in power at the Station and the government are using that to divide us from each other and further take over control, while we bicker among ourselves.
PS: I'm fine with your name calling however why don't you come up with your own original Screen name and attack me in the body of the message. Your understanding seems to be one of selective awareness.
Notice what's really under the criticisms of the Save KPFA Candidiates? A deep-seated desire for ethnic cleansing at KPFA.
No COINTELPRO organized affair could ever hope to do as good a job of disrupting and threatening to destroy KPFA and Pacifica as the frenzy ethnic cleansers are trying to whip up.
Don't fall for it: Save KPFA!
No COINTELPRO organized affair could ever hope to do as good a job of disrupting and threatening to destroy KPFA and Pacifica as the frenzy ethnic cleansers are trying to whip up.
Don't fall for it: Save KPFA!
Looking over the various slates and their respective endorsements, it's apparent to me that Save KPFA has the least amount of loons attached to them. For that reason I'll be voting for their slate. I heard Guns and Butter the other day and they had some nutjob Larouchite on. Block report, the new age garbage, Flashpoints should all be booted for lacking attachment to reality. That's my opinion. Vote KPFA.
A slate that is 70% white, 70% male and 70% over 70 (Save KPFA) is a great advertisement for diversity.
Why not vote for a candidate slate that is 70% people of color, 70% female and has an average of 25 years younger?
Vote Indyradio. http://www.voteindyradio.org
Some people *talk* about diversity. Other people practice it.
Who would you believe is more serious about diversity?
Why not vote for a candidate slate that is 70% people of color, 70% female and has an average of 25 years younger?
Vote Indyradio. http://www.voteindyradio.org
Some people *talk* about diversity. Other people practice it.
Who would you believe is more serious about diversity?
Mitch attracts all the wackos to his thread. Every last one of them.
Trying to prove his own point, I guess ....
I'd knock it off. It's not fooling anyone.
Just vote ICR. http://www.voteindyradio.org
Trying to prove his own point, I guess ....
I'd knock it off. It's not fooling anyone.
Just vote ICR. http://www.voteindyradio.org
"who gave mitch his show, and when did this happen that he got his own personal show with his other white colleagues. As far as i know mitch doesn't represent diversity, and this whole time he has worked with majority white people. If you support programmers who focus on having solely white people on the air of course you will vote for mitch, and his white pride gang. "
... like it's a bad thing
... like it's a bad thing
<<< Save KPFA has the least amount of loons attached to them.>>>
Maybe you missed the March 7th LSB meeting where the former chair, a CL'er, advanced on the new chair who'd replaced him.
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/03/intimidation-between-minutes.html
and later at the same meeting another CL'er tried to pick a fight.
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/08/siegel-youre-suing-me.html
Maybe you wouldn't call such people "loons", but I would certainly NOT call them "Save KPFA" because in the first place, "Save KPFA" is somebody else's name, and the CL'ers don't have permission to use it.
I'd have to attest to Daniel being about the only honest person anywhere near KPFA. Trust what he says and what he writes. He's one of the very, very few with integrity.
ALL the rest are the real "loons."
ALL the rest are the real "loons."
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