KPFA Management Supported CWA 9415 Union Propaganda At Bay Area Labor Councils

What's the difference between propaganda and subjectively-framed news? Last I checked ICR supports the latter without considering it the former.

If the Council voted unanimously to support KPFA's union, then I guess they think it's serious and not 'propaganda'.

I suppose if you don't agree with something you call it propaganda, but a search for the truth never stopped you from posting those "Thug Hallinan" posts did it ?

Concerned Listener's-"Save KPFA's" Demagogic Playing of the "Union Card" is Fully Exposed! Their claims that their opponents had a hit list of staff to lay off evaporated into the lie that it always was. Their relentless dishonest attacks of union busting and their made out of "whole cloth" attack that their opponents want an "all volunteer" staff was exposed by a roll call vote at yesterday's LSB meeting. [of 9/16/10]

During the discussion on the new budget Shahram moved to amend the intro language for the budget Resolution to include that it would be implemented according to the union contract. This would mean that layoffs would be done by seniority. Every CL/"Save KPFA" person in attendance voted that amendment down??? Why would they be against that "pro union" sentiment being added to the budget resolution that included the need for some staff reductions? They were trying to protect the jobs of some of their "insider" group. Some would lose their jobs if seniority is followed. So much for union solidarity!

Is this new? No, we have seen it over and over. In the late 1990s this same political strain pushed for a change from a progressive union, UE, to CWA and dumped all the unpaid staff from the union roles. There have been many attacks on union members by CL management allies and the union has consistently done nothing. Ask anyone of the FlashPoints folks how much union support they get. The latest was the pay reduction forced on Nora Barrows Friedman outside of union seniority. . . . . . . .

-- see http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/17/18661565.php
for the rest of this article by Richard Phelps

As someone pointed out last time Christina Huggins letter was published, she endorsed the Concerned Listeners' slate in the LSB election, so she is hardly "avoid[ing] any involvement in KPFA/Pacifica Foundation governance issues. . . . . . . .Our relationship is strictly maintained within the scope of the management of KPFA and the Executive Director of Pacifica."
Nor is the CL/"SK" faction maintaining the scope mentioned above, in taking to the airwaves with the one-sided statements alleging a political purge by the LSB of programs and programmers.
In fact, this morning of 9/26 at 7:30 am onward, there was an interview of the Pacifica Executive Director and the Chief Financial Officer LaVarn Williams about these budget/layoff matters. The "interviewers" were Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Amy Allison, show hosts. Brian's interview consisted in great part of yelling over their attempts to answer his/Amy's challenges while ignoring what they had already said.
Hear it at http://kpfa.org/archive/id/64918
(Filibustering is a tactic Brian has used extensively in his Machiavellian attempts to prevent any work from getting done at KPFA Local Station Board meetings.)
Amy Allison, I am a Green too, like you - are you ashamed to have been a part of this attempt to prevent "fair and balanced" reporting?

At the KPFA LSB meeting on October 16th, staff PNB representative Shahram Aghamir put forward a motion stating that "any and all layoffs at KPFA would be performed in compliance with the union contract".

Every member of Save KPFA - Concerned Listeners voted against the motion. Concerned Listener - Save KPFA'er Conn Hallinan can be heard on the meeting audio archive urgently whispering to one of his cohorts - "We *can't* vote for it".

Gee, I wonder why they *can't* vote for it?

The labor councils are being snookered all the way.

Save KPFA - Concerned Listeners stands for:

Anything but a balanced budget.

Anything but fiscal responsibility

Anything but observing the union contract.

(As they confirmed themselves).

http://sfbayview.com/?c=121&a=1092

Police terrorize Black KPFA programmer in the station
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:37:00

Speak out at the town hall meeting Sunday, Sept. 7, 3 p.m., at the Black New World, 836 Pine St., West Oakland
WASHINGTON, July 17 — Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina often plays the contrarian, the conservative Republican willing to poke a stick in the eye of the White House.
by Minister of Information JR

Police terrorize Black KPFA programmer in the station

Speak out at the town hall meeting Sunday, Sept. 7, 3 p.m., at the Black New World, 836 Pine St., West Oakland

by Minister of Information JR

Editor’s note: The Aug. 20 brutalizing of longtime KPFA programmer Nadra Foster by police who were called to KPFA by station and network management has the Black community and all justice seekers seething. How could managers, including two Black women, of the radio station that proudly considers itself the most progressive in Northern California not know the dangers of calling the police on a young Black person? As KPFA programmer Weyland Southon exclaimed on the Block Report that broke the story on Flashpoints the next day, “Situations like this get us killed.”

The first priority now is for all charges against Nadra to be dropped and for KPFA to make her whole. The cost of justice isn’t cheap and should inspire some deep soul searching by KPFA and Pacifica management.

Rumors that Nadra had been “banned” because a white programmer said she felt “threatened” by this young Black woman who’d been trained at KPFA and has worked there as unpaid staff for over a decade are not unprecedented. Other young Blacks in recent years have been banned and locked out of KPFA merely because white programmers complained they felt threatened by the young people’s presence. Racism runs deep at KPFA.

Reparations must include revising KPFA’s program schedule to include a prime time public affairs show covering African American news and views. The one hour a week allocated to the esteemed show Africa Today is nowhere near enough time to cover the far flung African Diaspora.

News from the Black community inevitably features police terrorism because it is perpetrated every day in every hood in the U.S. That’s the “War at Home” – hidden in plain sight because powerful media, including KPFA with its 59,000 watts reaching a third of California, refuse to recognize and report on it.

The fact that the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, which does report the news from Black communities across the country, is not currently in print makes coverage of that news by KPFA imperative. KPFA’s signal reaches most of the 100,000 people who used to read the printed Bay View every week – the majority unable to read it on the web because they can’t afford internet access or are locked behind enemy lines.

Be sure to attend and speak out at the town hall meeting Sunday, Sept. 7, 3 p.m., at the Black New World, 836 Pine St., West Oakland. Demand as reparations a prime time program on KPFA that’s of, for and by the Black community – a show that covers police terrorism unflinchingly so that listeners and KPFA and Pacifica management know the terrible consequences of calling the police on a young Black person. KPFA, where the memory of the Black Panther Party is revered, must remember that the purpose of the party was to defend the Black community against police terrorism!

The journalist best known for his coverage of police terrorism and other life and death Black news is POCC Minister of Information and Bay View Associate Editor JR, who wrote the story that follows and broke the story of the attack on his colleague at KPFA, Nadra Foster. He asked that word of another tragedy suffered by the Black community be included in this message to emphasize the unbreakable ties that bind KPFA to the Black community:

A member of the Sideshow collective whose program is broadcast on KPFA every last Friday at midnight, August “Fef Nitt” McCoy, was murdered in Vallejo on Saturday night. His funeral will be Friday, Sept. 5, 11 a.m., at Wilson & Kratzer Mortuary, 455 24th St. in Richmond. Please pay your respects by attending or by sending your condolences to the family via MOI JR atblockreportradio [at] gmail.com.

Meanwhile, watch for the impending relaunch of a redesigned website for the Bay View newspaper at http://www.sfbayview.com. Your support of the Bay View by advertising or contributing (tax deductibly if you wish) is badly needed and greatly appreciated, and your stories and comments sent to editor [at] sfbayview.com are always welcome.

On Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, between 1 and 2 p.m., Nadra Foster, a young Black woman programmer and single mother, was beaten to the ground by the Berkeley police, arrested, hog-tied and taken to jail, after the management of KPFA radio and the Pacifica Foundation had called the police on her, falsely accusing her of being “banned” from the station.

The incident started when Nadra, a graduate of the KPFA apprenticeship program who hosted the program Elemental Roots for several years at KPFA and often works with other programmers, came to the radio station to work on the KPFA jazz radio show Transitions on Traditions. She was working in the studio called Ujima, which means collective work and responsibility in Swahili – a studio that signifies racial justice. Michael Yoshida, KPFA’s chief engineer and a member of KPFA’s management team, had personally let her into that studio the previous Friday.

Vini Beecham, a member of the paid staff, contacted Lois Withers, the KPFA business manager, aka accountant, telling her that Nadra was in the building using station resources for her personal benefit. Lois, another member of KPFA’s management team, contacted Michael Yoshida to escort her while she kicked Nadra out of the station.

When the two arrived at the door of Ujima, Nadra stated that she refused to leave because Lois does not have the power to kick her out. According to Yoshida, Lois called Dominga Estrada, the human resources director of the Pacifica Foundation – which is in charge of the Pacifica network of five major radio stations and dozens of affiliate stations around the country – to ask how to deal with the situation. Dominga authorized Lois to call the police.

According to what Nadra told me, Lois told the police that she was the general manager of the station and that Nadra was a fired employee who refused to leave. In reality, Lois is the business manager and Nadra is a volunteer at the station and a member of the Unpaid Staff Organization.

Two male police officers slammed Nadra to the ground, kneeing her in the groin in the process, as well as severely spraining her arm. A number of KPFA broadcasters saw what happened, including Anita Johnson of Hard Knock Radio, who was in tears pleading with the management and other people at the station to get involved and help Nadra, to no avail.

Weyland Southon of Hard Knock Radio taped Nadra’s chilling screams as the police were slamming her to the ground and twisting her arm. He also taped Nicole Sawaya, the executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, slapping his camera out of his hand on the scene.

Interim Program Director Sasha Lilley was also an eyewitness to this act of management initiated police terrorism, yet did nothing in defense of Nadra’s human rights. Initially charged with several felonies, her bail set at $81,500, Nadra spent two days in jail and is now facing five misdemeanors, including trespassing, two assault on a police officer charges and two charges of resisting arrest.

The Prisoners of Conscience Committee, along with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Black New World and producers from the Voices of the Middle East radio show are organizing in the Black and Brown communities of the Bay Area and throughout the media to expose this grave injustice.

A town hall meeting is planned for Sunday, Sept. 7, at the Black New World – at 836 Pine St., West Oakland, at 3 p.m. – so that the community can have an opportunity to get the facts about what happened to Nadra Foster and the current status of her case and a glimpse into the shady workings of the corrupt administration running KPFA currently.

We invite everyone to express themselves about this outrageous act of police terrorism in our community and get involved in organizing to get the charges against Nadra Foster dropped, get KPFA to pay all medical and legal bills, demand that they acknowledge that they didn’t follow any due process or protocol as laid out in the handbook in relation to “banning” somebody, demand that the Unpaid Staff Organization be reinstated and a transparent grievance process be established, among other things.

People should also start to think about organizing to get this interim administration at KPFA removed from power and a Black public affairs show broadcast during prime time on the airwaves of KPFA that talks about the domestic affairs of Black people in this country. Consider that KPFA and the broader Pacifica network of radio stations uses Black voices like James Baldwin, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers to raise money, but the reality is if these people were alive today they would not have a show on the KPFA airwaves that is dedicated to the people they were organizing. Although most people would expect KPFA to have done this decades ago during the Civil Rights Movement, still today no such program exists on the KPFA schedule.

After the Block Report broke this story on KPFA airwaves Thursday, Aug. 21, and followed it up with Block Report coverage on Friday, Aug. 22 – listen at http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=9 – Interim Program Director Sasha Lilley, Lois Withers and Vini Beecham went on vacation for two weeks. On Aug. 22, KPFA Interim General Manager Lemlem Rijio issued a statement on the incident. It reads in part, “It is important for you to know that the Berkeley Police acted independent of direction from KPFA.”

Considering that Rijio is an African woman, can you believe that she or any Black person who is connected to the Black community would call the police thinking that after the police arrive she can control their actions? This incident and the writing of the press release exemplifies the incompetence of this current KPFA administration led by Lemlem Rijio, as well as that of the current Pacifica administration led by Nicole Sawaya.

Aileen Alfandary, the white news director of KPFA, told me personally that what happened to Nadra was not newsworthy, and that is why KPFA News did not cover the issue on Thursday. The disabled white executive producer of the KPFA Morning Show, Mitch Jeserich, also told me on Thursday, a day after the tragic incident, that it was not newsworthy. And Andrea Ali, the manager of Guerrilla Cafe, told me, when asked if we could have a community meeting there regarding the incident, that she was on a spiritual quest and did not want to deal with KPFA’s negativity at Guerrilla Cafe.

Community, support those who support you and don’t support people who don’t support you!

If you did not get a chance to hear the audio accounts from people who eyewitnessed the police terrorism inflicted on Nadra Foster, you could go to http://www.blockreportradio.com and stay updated on the community organizing surrounding this topic.

Email POCC Minister of Information JR atblockreportradio [at] gmail.com and visit http://www.blockreportradio.com.

PHOTO: KPFA protest 071599 by S. Druding.jpg

CAPTION: Many KPFA broadcasters and listeners say that tension between them and management, dramatized by managers calling police on Nadra Foster, feels a lot like ‘99. This photo of riot police arresting protesters who had climbed a ladder to enter the station was taken July 15, 1999, during the “coup” when management at KPFA and Pacifica, apparently intending to sell the station, had police drag Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein off the air, sparking battles with thousands of protesters that went on for weeks.

Photo: S. Druding

Beachum is the program coordinator. It's a traffic position. Mostly deals with carts and FCC logs. KPFA hasn't had a program director since 1998 - except for the 2007-2009 period when Against The Grain co-host Sasha Lilley worked as an interim.

Vini Beacham KPFA Manager Reportedly Assaults Flashpoints Programmer
http://quartz.he.net/~beyondch/news/index.php?itemid=1713
Guest Editorial: KPFA Manager Reportedly Assaults Flashpoints Programmer
by Marc Norton‚ Jun. 19‚ 2004
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It was Friday afternoon before the big Saturday, June 5 anti-war rally. The alleged assault on Miguel Molina, a long-time programmer on KPFA's radical, ground-breaking Flashpoints show, occurred in KPFA's parking lot, where Molina was talking with some of the crew and one of his sons. When Vini Beacham, the recently hired Interim Program Coordinator, came by, Miguel complained to him about the reversal of a decision to broadcast the June 5 rally.

According to numerous witnesses, Beacham completely lost it, started yelling a string of profanities at the top of his voice, got right up next to Molina, and thrust his arms out. Molina wisely avoided responding in kind, which was likely the only thing that prevented an actual assault. Instead, Molina took a couple of days off, and then came back to work.

To the best of anyone's knowledge, no disciplinary action has been taken against Beacham, despite numerous reports and complaints to the station's Interim General Manger, Jim Bennett. At the most recent meeting of KPFA's elected local board, there was an open call during public comment for Beacham to be suspended pending an investigation of the incident. Bennett offered no response.

The crew at Flashpoints is no stranger to controversy. The show recently broke the news of the abduction of Haiti's elected President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, by U.S. military forces. In 1999, it was the attempt by the then corporate-dominated KPFA management to drag Flashpoint's founder, Dennis Bernstein, off the air during the show that set off a weeks-long occupation of the streets around the station, in the very location that Beacham's alleged temper tantrum took place. The occupation led to a shut-down of the station by management, and set off a mass movement that ultimately forced out the old Pacifica Foundation board and replaced it with an elected board.

But things have definitely not cooled down at the station, the incident in the parking lot being but one example, albeit a significant one. The apparent failure of management to take any visible disciplinary action against Beacham seems indicative of the lack of direction at the station. Most workers are well-aware that if they did what Beacham is alleged to have done to a fellow employee, they would be out of a job in no time flat.

Bennett has been around KPFA and Pacifica for a long time, as have a number of KPFA programmers. Then again, so have a whole set of programmers who were sent packing during the corporate reign at the station, widely dubbed the "banned and fired." They include the venerable William Mandel (a Soviet expert and mainstay of the station for decades), the popular Mama O'Shea, and a whole slew of unpaid community programmers much less well-known. Few have been brought back, despite all the turmoil in the last few years.

The new KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) was elected in February. Each of the other four Pacifica stations -- in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, D.C. -- also elected boards. These five boards, in turn, elected a new national Pacifica Foundation Board. But democracy creates its own problems. KPFA and some of the other stations are rent with factions, and the contention for power and air time is intense.

The biggest decision that the new KPFA board has made so far was to uphold a decision by the station's Program Council to move Amy Goodman's renowned "Democracy Now" show from its 6-7 AM broadcast to 7-8 AM, which most observers agree is the most listened-to time slot, and to move the Morning Show from its current 7-9 AM slot to 8-10 AM.

This decision has engendered stiff opposition from some long-time programmers. For example, an LSB staff representative from the news department complained at a board meeting that letting the listeners make such decisions is like letting the passengers of an airplane take over and fly the plane.

Related to the Democracy Now/Morning Show decision is the feeling shared by many listeners that the Morning Show could be a lot better, especially since the departure of Kris Welch from the program to her own show. For example, Welch's replacement recently compared Haiti's Aristide to Saddam Hussein: "There seem so many parallels here between the situation in Iraq, the idea that there are people who really wanted a leader out of power but didn't want to be occupied, it seems to be exactly what's happening in Haiti as well, even the New York Times editorial drew some conclusions about Iraq and Afghanistan and Haiti..."

The LSB vote on the Program Council decision won only a slim majority of the board. However, it won a large majority of the listener representatives on the board. One-fourth of the members of the LSB are staff representatives. The staff voted nearly-unanimously against the listener-initiated change. The only staff member who voted with the listeners was -- Miguel Molina.

So far, Bennett has not implemented the decision to adjust the time slots for Democracy Now and the Morning Show. He is instead doing a "survey" about the matter. Perhaps he will also do a "survey" about what to do about Beacham.

Molina is no stranger to struggle. His first introduction to politics was when organizers from the United Farm Workers showed up in a field where he was working with his family. Molina has worked at KPFA for 25 years, and has been with Flashpoints for the last year.

Just a few days before the incident in the KPFA parking lot, Beacham sent out a "Programmer's Memo," which said, in part, "What is an 'Interim Program Coordinator?' Your guess is as good as mine... I do strive to be business-like in what needs to be done... I feel I should conduct myself in a professional manner without compromising my esteem or demeaning anyone in the process of TCB [Taking Care of Business]. Consider me by my actions... I don't have time for games. I don't believe you do either."

Copyright C 2004 by Marc Norton.
Marc Norton has been listening to KPFA since 1967.
He can be reached at nortonsf [at] ix.netcom.com.

KPFA's Management Ignored Beacham Physical Threats and Thuggery
http://struggle-and-win.net/16732/15704.html

A posting last week about Robert Knight's complaint reminds this list that we share a responsibility to make certain that Robert's charges are fairly evaluated and, if it turns out to be necessary, to make certain that appropriate action is taken to guarantee Robert and all Pacifica workers and volunteers a workplace free of violence and the threat of violence. Public attention and widespread and constructive concern can help assure all involved that a politically difficult issue is not put aside.

In a follow-up email the writer wrote: “I just remember the kind of crap that Knight took back in the Christmas Coup days. I had hoped, and still hope, that those rotten times are over.”

I would like to see those rotten times fade into memory. But hoping alone will not make it so. There are obstacles yet to be surmounted -- not just the question of what happened to Robert Knight at WBAI -- before the staffs at Pacifica stations, particularly those of us who seek to reform the way the stations function and who support more effective community participation, can have a reasonable expectation or even hope that the ‘rotten times’ are gone.

If it’s right to keep our collective attention on Robert Knight’s situation until we’re certain that his charge has been given the consideration it merits (and it certainly is) then we ought to scroll back a page or two and ask whatever happened to the complaint that KPFA’s Miguel Molina filed alleging an attack on him by KPFA Program Coordinator Vini Beacham.

Miguel filed the complaint along with supporting materials (witness statements) with KPFA’s management months ago. He sent copies of the complaint to KPFA’s union and also to Pacifica ED [Executive Director] Dan Coughlin. The silence with which all three have greeted Miguel’s appeal for redress ought not be accepted by decent Pacificans. If there has been any investigation at all it has not included interviewing the witnesses who filed statements that accompanied Miguel’s complaint and it has not resulted in a public or even a private report.

The refusal to conduct an evaluation of Miguel’s grievance can not honestly be attributed to carelessness or inattention. The context of and the reason for the inaction is internecine division at KPFA. Miguel stands on the wrong side of that division to expect any protection from hostile or unfair behavior by members of the station’s leadership. We may hope that Roy Campanella II, KPFA’s new manager, intends to take up the issue (I am informed that he has been told that it is still outstanding). And, in fairness, it should be said that he has only recently become KPFA’s GM. But so far the silence continues.

The most disheartening aspect of this failure and the part that most makes me fear for KPFA’s soul is the fact that so many of the station’s staff members who disagree with Miguel about station politics have been willing to see his charges ignored. After Miguel filed his grievance more than fifty KPFA staff members signed a horrible letter which in part condemned the chair of KPFA’s LSB [Local Station Board] for doing in regard to Miguel’s complaint more or less what has been done on this list in regard to Robert’s. The letter ‘charged’ that Riva Enteen had advocated the use of email lists to alert concerned Pacificans about management’s foot-dragging on Miguel’s complaint. As one item in a litany of complaints about reform-minded LSB members the letter levels this ‘accusation’:

“The LSB Chair asked that a now-resolved internal staff issue be broadcast far and wide to the public via email, even though it was a personnel and union matter beyond the purview of the LSB. In doing so, she has rendered the station vulnerable to potential litigation by the maligned staff member.”

The issue (Miguel’s complaint) had been ‘resolved’ in the sense that it had been duly received and had been duly ignored; in the end it disappeared down the memory hole. It was ‘beyond the purview of the LSB’ in the sense of ‘mind your own damn business’ (the issues involved are, of course, well within the purview of the LSB). And the question of whether Vini had been maligned (which would mean, I suppose, falsely accused) and therefore the question of whether he was in a position to sue had not and still has not been evaluated - trying to create some public support for getting said evaluation started being Riva’s ‘offense’ in the first place.

So, more than fifty KPFA staffers publicly and in writing condemned an attempt to mobilize public pressure to persuade the interim GM to look into Miguel’s charges. And that was the end of that. Miguel’s complaint could be safely ignored. Much else could and should be said about this widely circulated, influential, and shameful letter but that’s for another time.

This sorry story gets even sadder. But it’s not boring. And it sheds light on the question of whether there’s reason to think that the rotten times may already be over.

Doubtless emboldened by the fact that so many KPFA staff members publicly expressed outrage at the LSB chair for her having conspired to make sure that the charges against him were evaluated, Vini took to his own defense/offense. He made an impassioned speech at an LSB meeting in which he claimed that the bringing of charges against him was an attempted lynching. At the end of his speech he suddenly produced a hangman’s noose, brandished it for all to see, and then dramatically threw it on the floor.

In sanely managed organizations, organizations in which reasonable behavior is required by both formal sanction and peer pressure, responsible employees who have been accused of misconduct are well advised to say something like: “There is an ongoing investigation of the charges against me. I am confident that when the facts are all evaluated I will be exonerated. In the meantime I have no comment." But any hope of an ongoing investigation had been blown out of the water. And no one can honestly argue that ‘responsible KPFA employee’ was the image that Vini was seeking to convey.

Waving around a symbol of racist murder at an LSB meeting was understood by many of us to convey a much more aggressive message namely: “Understand that I equate the filing of charges against me with threatening me with murder -- and be warned that I will respond accordingly”. Before any of us are tempted to declare the rotten days are over please consider the fact that many supporters of more listener power at KPFA understand Vini’s noose wielding as a warning, a renewed threat against Miguel and anyone else who might criticize Vini or complain about his actions in the future. And we interpret the station’s refusal to mount a fair and thorough investigation into Vini’s LSB performance and into Miguel’s original charge as a chilling and conscious demonstration of our vulnerability.

The bottom line is that there is still only silence from KPFA about Miguel’s complaint (despite the fact that many months have passed) and Vini Beacham is still KPFA’s Program Coordinator (despite the fact that one can never be certain that he is not carrying a noose).

I appreciate what has been said and and done on this list in regard to Robert Knight’s as yet unacted-upon charges. I join in your concern and in your determination to make sure a fair evaluation takes place. But it’s still much too early to comfort ourselves with the thought that the rotten times may already be over. The rotten times are very much with us still.

"If the Council voted unanimously to support KPFA's union, then I guess they think it's serious and not 'propaganda'.

I suppose if you don't agree with something you call it propaganda, but a search for the truth never stopped you from posting those "Thug Hallinan" posts did it ?"


It seems you understood the letter of my post(s) without grasping the spirit; you've utilized a text-book false dichotomy by implying that one isn't engaged in a 'search for truth' vis a vis supporting Save KPFA's budget proposals. I may be harsh on ICR's ideology, but I haven't resorted to the sort of ad hominem that your 'Thug Hallinan' retort represents. I have nothing to gain except radio programing that I appreciate, which presumably is all you stand to gain from supporting ICR, 'search for truth' rhetoric aside.


Question people's judgment, not their motivation.

Apparently entrenched staffer ukexica or one of their shills is unaware that telling lies to the labor movement is unprincipled and shows the corrupt and dishonest character of the charlatans running KPFA. Many delegates at the Alameda and San Francisco Labor Council were unaware that the resolution from CWA Local 9415 KPFA Chapter was a political fabrication to support the entrenched staff. Once they find that out and they will, they can start to ask some real questions about what kind of "union" would lie to the rest of the labor movement in order to get political support for it's agenda.

This is the letter sent out by the Alameda Labor Council falsifying the situation at KPFA and seeking to blame the Pacifica Board for taking action to successfully deal with the deficit.

Incredible how a a thread titled "KPFA Management Supported CWA 9415 Union Propaganda At Bay Area Labor Councils" ends up being a rehash of the Nadra Foster incident, a matter which as far as I can tell has no bearing on the budget.

Unless this is the moral imperative that underlies ICR's one-trick pony proposal that seeks to remove Sasha Lilley et al. While it is a straw man to call me a member of the entrenched staff, it is in line with ICR's position representing the regressive and atavistic wing of the progressive movement, the Tea Party of the Left. This moniker of 'thug halinan' is meant to obscure the fact that ICR is a gang of shameless opportunistic sycophants that cuddle up to the disenfranchised in our community to use them as cover for slinging this self-serving, sanctimonious verbiage about 'lies to the labor movement.' I didn't realize the labor movement had any dignity left.

"You got a problem being outraged about that?"

Indeed, whom is more thuggish?

This shill for the "save kpfa" crew at KPFA obviously is either ignorant of what is going on at KPFA or is lying about the financial crisis. As everyone knows who follows KPFA and Pacifica closely, as a result of incompetent managers and discrimination and retaliation against employees, the Foundation which includes KPFA has had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of membership fees on lawyers and suits filed against the station and foundation.
This is still adding up and "conflict king" lawyer Dan Siegel is also demanding over $100,000 for his "legal" services during "work" for the foundation. This ukexica apparently thinks when you call police to arrest an unpaid staff person and that person is roughed up by the police this has nothing to do with the financial situation at the station. This sounds like Lawyer Dan Siegel who is also on the board of Berkeley cop watch who when asked about the Foster incident said he was "surprised" the police beat her up.
The dangerous and incompetent staffers who call themselves "professionals" continue to operate in the "business as usual" mode as they whistling Dixie.

"ignorant of what is going on at KPFA" - I can't blame you for mistaking curiosity for ignorance; the difference, like propaganda, is perceptual. But more to the point, how does one become apprised without asking questions (or speculating wildly, in thugspeak)

"retaliation against employee(s)" parentheses added for emphasis. what other incidents took place?

I've opted to maintain a recurring pseudonym in an attempt to make this dialog more human, you ought to recognize that your syntax isn't hidden by a shifting handle. We all have an emotional connection to KPFA, but pathos shouldn't obscure the fact that SaveKPFA and ICR are based on a common dichotomy inre: NPO administration, and indybay shouldn't be an echo chamber for either faction.

See you at the next board meeting

ukexica, you are refreshing. thanks for bringing some intelligence to the discussion. what patience you have!