KPFA Election 2010 | KPFA Local Station Board

SaveKPFA
http://www.savekpfa.org

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 CANDIDATES

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.

SaveKPFA ENDORSERS
(titles and organizations listed for identification purposes only)

KPFA Workers

C.S. Soong, Co-host “Against the Grain”
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

Artists, Journalists, Academics

Raj Patel, author of “The Value of Nothing” and “Stuffed and Starved”
Jello Biafra, artist/musician/entrepreneur
Rychard Withers, Executive Director, Fresno Free College Foundation, General Manager KFCF
Ignacio Chapela, Professor, Director of Laboratory of Microbial Ecology, UCB
Norman Soloman, media critic, author, “WarMade Easy”
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
Karen Paget, author
Mattie Harper, Democracy Now former producer
Ramsey Kanaan, founder, AK Press andco-founder/publisher, PM Press
Rick Flores, Host of “Wasteland Of The Free” on KFCF
Andrea Turner, cultural and community activist, LSB member
Frank Delgado,”Frank D”, KFCF, Creative Director
Bernard Gilbert, Freedom Song Network
Vic Bedoian, former KFCF General Manager, currently KPFA News reporter
Barbara Epstein, Professor, Dept. of History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Jon Fromer, singer/songwriter, NABET/CWA local 51 shop steward
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Native American historian
Pat Wynne, Dir. Bay Area Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus
Peter Najarian, Artist, Writer, “The Great American Loneliness”
Andrej Grubacic, radical historian and sociologist
Summer Brenner, author of Richmond Tales and community activist
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch investigative journalist, author of Halliburton’s Army
David Martinez, radical filmmaker
Sheila Tully, Faculty CSUSF
Dr. Carlos Muñoz, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Kay Trimberger, Professor Emerita, Sonoma State University and author
Johanna Poethig, Professor, CSU, Monterey Bay, Public & Community Artist
Lynne Hollander Savio, Chair., Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
Beth Lisick, author/poet/performer
Debbie Speer, Journalist, former KFCF Director, former LSB member
Dr. Carla J. Fehr, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Iowa State University
Scoop Nisker, radio commentator and author
Marty Price, educator, youth worker
Kathleen Weaver, author of Peruvian Rebel
AnnaMarie Smith, Professor, Government Department Cornell University
Susan Stone, former KPFA Drama and Literature Director

Community Activists

Rashidah Grinage, founder, People United for a Better Life in Oakland (PUEBLO)
Cecilia E.”Ces”Rosales, Alameda Cnty. D.C.C., Ntl. Cntr. for Lesbian Rights, E. Bay No on Prop 8 Campaign
Marty Bennett, Co-Chair of the Sonoma County Living Wage Coalition
Max Anderson, Berkeley City Council Member
Dr. Jeff Ritterman, Vice Mayor of the City of Richmond
John Iversen, Act Up, East Bay
Mal Warwick, consultant, author, and public speaker
Tom Bates, Mayor, City of Berkeley
Loni Hancock, State Senator, District 9, East Bay
Anna Rabkin, former City of Berkeley Auditor
Bob Meyer, President, Progressive Perspectives
Giuliana M. Sorro, SF Community Activist
Linda Olivenbaum, Director, Early Childhood Program Administration
Kathy Lipscomb, Senior Action Network, S.F. Executive Board
Fran Taylor, SF Community Activist
Anne Weills, Civil rights lawyer and community organizer
Nick Jones, Atchison Village Co-op, former UFWA Boycott Director
Sandy Spiker, East Bay community activist
Nancy Friedman, MFT, Oakland
Jack Radey, historian, game designer, Eugene, OR

Labor Leaders

Dan Siegel, civil rights and labor attorney, former Pacifica General Counsel
Sal Rosselli, president, National Union of Healthcare Workers
Glenn Goldstein, National Organizing Director, NUHW
Shelley Kessler, Sec. Treas., San Mateo Labor Council
Walter Johnson, emeritus Secretary Treasurer of the SF Labor Council
Michael Eisenscher, Coordinator, Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice
Betty Olson-Jones, President, Oakland Education Association
Warren Mar, labor & community activist
Roger Scott, Executive Board AFT 2121, CCSF
Susan McDonough, labor activist, LSB member
Catherine Powell, California Faculty Association
Larry Hendel, No. Ca. Organizing Director, California Faculty Assn.
Tho Thi Do, International General Vice President, Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE)
Bill Harvey, former Sec-Treas. CWA 9415
Ana Turetsky, President, American Federation of Teachers, Local 771
Sandy Kaplan, Co-President, Shoreline Educators Association/CTA
Peter Olney, International Organizing Director, ILWU
Maria Guillan, SEIU Local 1021 activist
Mary Fromer, Organizing Director SEIU Local 707, Sonoma County (retired)
Tonette Garcia, Worksite Organizer, SEIU Local 1021
Paul Kaplan, Executive Board Member, North Bay Labor Council

Vote the Entire Slate – Rank All Ten Candidates Only

Mal Burnstein – Terry Doran – Donald Goldmacher – Suzi Goldmacher
Matthew (Dynamite) Hallinan – Mark Hernandez
Jack Kurzweil – Tanya Russell – Dave Saldana – Margy Wilkinson

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