KPFA Election - Vote Independents For Community Radio - ICR

Save KPFA, whose real name is Concerned Listeners, has run KPFA into the ground. They dominated the board for two years in 2008-2009, passed budgets calling for massive staff layoffs due to declining contributions, and then sat on their hands for 15 month while the reductions didn't happen.

The station blew through a million dollars in less than a year and a half.

A million dollars in listener donations. *All* the cash in the bank.

They're *saving* KPFA from their own self-created disaster.

Save KPFA thinks boards can't insist that budgets be followed.

Save KPFA thinks staff shouldn't be held accountable for leaving large checks uncashed in their desks until they expire,

Save KPFA blocked an investigation into the police beating of a volunteer producer on KPFA's premises because it wasn't the board's "business".

They are advocates for irresponsibility and dereliction of duty. That is their track record on KPFA's board.

They are continuing to shamelessly lie. KPFA's central services levy isn't 25%. It's 18% for central administrative and programming services (including Democracy Now) and 1.8% for Pacifica archive presentation. Less than 20% in total. KPFA hasn't paid it since April. They are too broke.

There is an alternative. Independents for Community Radio has assembled a great, diverse team of organizers, academics, labor activists, and radio professionals to get a grip on things and revitalize KPFA. More at http://www.voteindyradio.org.

Vote Indyradio!

(In alphabetical order)

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

Naeem Deskins - Western Regional VP, Association for the Study of Classical Civilizations, small-business owner, activist for the African diapora, dear friend of Africa Today host, Walter Turner

Georgia Frazier - Former national sales manager at KJAZ Radio, Former VP, American Women in Radio and Television, Goldman School of Public Policy - UC Berkeley

Monadel Herzallah - Founder and President, Arab-American Union Members Council, Coordinating Committee, US-Palestinian Community Network, Lead organizer, Justice for Janitors

Cynthia Johnson - Chair, Berkeley Federation of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee

Hyun-Mi Kim - Immigrant rights and feminist organizer

Janet Kobren - Freedom Flotilla survivor, retired teacher and website developer, Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica Coordinating Committee

Tracy Rosenberg - Executive Director, Media Alliance, Pacifica Foundation Board of Directors, Media and Democracy Coalition Board of Directors, Alliance for Community Media, Western Regional Board of Directors

Gina Szeto - Director, Worker Rights Clinic, Boalt School of Law, Executive editor of the Asian-American law Journal

Kate Tanaka - Alameda Green Party, Lead organizer Oak-to-Ninth Campaign

2011 Independents for Community Goals

*Generate and support local, hard-hitting, radical journalism right here in the Bay*

*Prioritize coverage of - and collaborative program generation with - underrepresented Bay Area communities that have little access to other media*

*Allocate resources to support volunteer programmers by covering production expenses, supplies and transportation, to increase KPFA's reach - sustainably.

*Set up digital channels to trial-run new show ideas, offer special events for specific audiences, and build training opportunities for newer programmers.*

*Budget conservatively for tough economic times and rebuild the rainy day reserve.*

*Work cooperatively with the Pacifica Foundation. Due to YOUR hard work, Pacifica is now member-elected and accountable at every level. The time to spit at Pacifica is over. Now is the time to collaborate in increasing the scope of this national progressive media voice and support Democracy Now, Free Speech Radio News, and our over 60 years of progressive heritage in sound.*

Endorsers

Community Members
Alan Benjamin
Delegate to SF Labor Council, Editor of "The Organizer
Ali Rezapour M.D
Andrea Buffa
Apollo Alliance, Former ED, Media Alliance
Andrea Prichett
*Berkeley Copwatch, *Rebecca Riots
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
Banafsheh Aklaghi
Founder, National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement
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
Chandra Hauptman
member, KPFA LSB
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
Ed Pearl
Activist
Fadi Saba
South Bay Mobilization
Green Party of Alameda County
Greta Berlin
Co-Founder, *Free Gaza Movement
Hatem Bazian
Senior Lecturer, Dept of Near Eastern Studies, UC-Berkeley, Adjunct Professor of Law, Boalt School of Law
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
Kevin Zeese
Executive Director and co-founder of *VotersForPeace,
Director of the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics, a former
press secretary and spokesperson for Ralph Nader's presidential
campaign for 2004
Marc Sapir, M.D.
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
Sasha Futran
Writer, Member, KPFA LSB, Former member KQEd Board and the Committee to Save KQED
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 Bone
Host, Early Morning Music
Bonnie Faulkner
Producer, Guns and Butter, KPFA-Radio
Dennis Bernstein
Host and Producer, Flashpoints, KPFA-FM
Doug Edwards
Host, Ear Thyme and Jazz Passages, KPFA-FM
Emiliano Echeverria
Host, Cuba Canta, Former Music Director, KPFA-FM
Emmit Powell
Host, The Gospel experience 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
Nicholas Alexander
Producer, Radio Chronicles, KPFA News, Co-founder KPFA-People of Color Coalition (KPFA-POC)
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 Shpiner
KPFA News Reporter
Yvette Hochberg
Producer, Womens Magazine, KPA-FM