KPFA Entrenched Staff Ignore Unions and Labor On Labor Day 2010 While KQED FM Has Program

KPFA covers labor news and views 365 days a year, on a variety of its shows. From David Bacon's early AM segments on the "Morning Show" to frequent reports on bay area labor struggles on the KPFA News, to reports and interviews on Letters from Washington and Against the Grain and many other public affairs shows.

Instead of ghettoizing labor into a single time slot, KPFA runs labor programming all over the schedule. Check out the endorsements for http://www.savekpfa.org and you'll find a wide range of bay area labor activists endorsing that slate.

The post above is from Steve Zeltzer (or one of his supporters), of the "Voices for Justice" slate, who is personally pissed he doesn't have his own "Labor Collective" show on. For good reason -- that show was unlistenable and Zeltzer is an obnoxious wacko that few KPFA listeners tune in to hear.

There is NO LABOR PROGRAMMING on KPFA 24/7/365. There is bougeois Babbitt pabulum at best, and at worst, the trash described above. There is daily promotion of the anti-labor Democratic Party instead of the pro-labor Peace & Freedom and Green Party. On the Labor Day 6 p.m. news, there was an uncritical announcement of Democrat "targeted assassination" Obama announcing some public works program, obviously in a futile effort to save the Democratic majority in Congress, which passed a medical insurance enrichment program instead of the socialized medicine we need, separate abortion insurance and no medical coverage for undocumented immigrants, and they did this without Republican votes so they cannot blame the Republicans. The fact is, this public works program is a LIE.
See
"Obama on Labor Day: No measures to address jobs crisis",7 September 2010
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/pers-s07.shtml
"Speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Monday, Obama trumpeted a plan for investment in infrastructure and transportation as a significant jobs program. Despite efforts by the media to play up the announcement, it quickly emerged that the administration is simply asking Congress to reauthorize a bill that is routinely passed every five years. His proposal for spending is little changed from previous years."

Steve Zeltzer is widely respected by pro-labor people for his tremendous efforts to bring labor news and culture to everyone. His proposals, as well as those of the rest of his Voices for Justice slate, would certainly save KPFA. In fact, there would be no financial crisis at KPFA today if yesterday, Labor Day, there had been an all-day live labor news and culture fundraiser, done by volunteers as many of us have the day off and would certainly give time for a labor cause. Labor Day is a traditional fundraising day for a good reason: It works.

We are all horrified at the Thug Hallinan Gang, its promotion of "professionalism" instead of humility and COLLECTIVE LABOR, its proud and open promotion of the anti-labor capitalist, warmongering, target assassination, school privatizing, anti-socialized medicine Democratic Party which only exists to keep the Reds and Greens out of office and preserve the capitalist profit motive which is killing humanity and the earth, and its vicious, thug personal attacks on Steve Zeltzer and anyone else worth respecting on this website, which is clearly an anti-Democratic Party website.

The 20,000 listener-subscribers must vote in large numbers to put an end to this destruction of KPFA by the Thug Hallinan Gang, which due to its till-tapping either in the form of paying worthless people to program while firing the anti-Zionist Nora Barrows-Friedman who is missed at Flashpoints or letting a large check sit in a drawer until after it expired, has caused KPFA to now live from fundraiser to fundraiser with no reserve, and completely dead programming so that on Labor Day, of all days, there was nothing to listen to, and even the evening news was minimal and contrived with fillers. In addition, the Thug Hallinan Gang PERPETRATES TERRORISM, which threatens people's lives and increases the liability to KPFA. See:
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/08/siegel-youre-suing-me.html
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/03/intimidation-between-minutes.html
and
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/17/18656285.php

The 2 slates worth considering are:
Voices for Justice at
http://www.voicesforjusticeradio.org/
with candidates:
Steve Zeltzer
Sureya Sayadi
Felipe Messina
Jaime Cader
and
Independent Community Radio at
http://www.voteindyradio.org/
whose candidates are:
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
All candidate statements are at:
http://pacificafoundation.org/cand_list.php?sta=kpfa
Please listen to any of the forums that are both on-air and off-air at:
From:
http://www.artistdata.com/kpfa/shows/
You can meet the candidates at the following forums or hear them on KPFA:
For transit info or carpool to any forum call 510.332.7181 or email les_kpfa [at] pacifica.org

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:


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

Labor Leaders Supporting CL "Save KPFA"?
http://www.savekpfa.org/
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

Dan Siegel stands at the top of the Concerned Listeners/Save KPFA endorsement list. Yes, Siegel is a great endorsement. At the March 7th LSB meeting he tried to pick a fist fight

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/17/18656285.php

How many of those labor bureaucrats listed have ever spoken out against U.S. imperialism? And I don't mean just against wars, like those in Iraq and even Afghanistan, that are not cost-efficient for the Empire, but also opposing all interference by the U.S., and the international institutions it dominates, in the affairs, including economic policies, of other countries? Last but certainly not least, how many have opposed U.S. aid to Israel?

If that's too complicated a question, how many of them have denounced Barack Obama for HIS imperialist and pro-capitalist policies and actions? If they haven't, their endorsements should be an indication of who NOT to vote for in the KPFA LSB election!