Peter Phillips on the KPFA Elections

From: Peter Phillips
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Sent: Fri, August 27, 2010 6:12:02 PM
Subject: [Project-Censored-L] KPFA Election

KPFA Radio, the Northern California radio station that pioneered the idea of listener-sponsored community radio in 1949, is having board elections. Here is what at stake and what KPFA subscribers need to know.

At the heart of Pacifica's struggles and that of much of progressive media, is a split between two visions. The first calls for more professionalism, mainstreaming, providing a progressive alternative that is comfortable and not too challenging. Known by many names in the past, including the Healthy Station Project, it is represented in this election by the candidate group called “Save KPFA”, formerly “Concerned Listeners”.

The second, closer in spirit to the WWII pacifism of founder Lew Hill, seeks to feature radical voices ahead of their times, uncomfortable and challenging points of view, perspectives that are rarely if ever heard in media, and directly connect with communities that are the most deeply impacted by social and economic injustice, here and around the world. This point of view is represented by “Independents for Community Radio (ICR)”.

I am personally endorsing Independents for Community Radio. Visit their important website at http://www.voteindyradio.org.

Your vote will make a real difference to help make KPFA a place where news will be covered that won't be covered anywhere else.

Independents for Community Radio-affiliated candidates:

Stephen Astourian Ph.D - Professor of History UC Berkeley, Chair of Armenian Studies

Cynthia Johnson - Chair, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee

Monadel Herzallah - President/Founder of the Arab American Union Members Council

Gina Szeto - Director of Worker’s Rights Clinic, Boalt School of Law, executive editor of the Asian-American Law Journal

Tracy Rosenberg - Executive Director, Media Alliance

Kate Tanaka- Green Party of Alameda County, land-use (Oak-to-Ninth) and anti-corporate activist

Hyun-Mi Kim – Immigrant rights organizer

Janet Kobren – Gaza Freedom Flotilla survivor

Georgia Frazier- Former VP, American Women in Radio and Television, Goldman School of Public Policy - UC Berkeley


Peter Phillips Ph.D.
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President—Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
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