Mary Ratcliffe: Strengthening Our Communities Through Community Media

I'm amazed that an intelligent woman of color gets fired from KPFA and Women's Magazine, professing to be a bulwark against the whitey white man, runs commentary from two white women in as many weeks, with Ms. Ratcliff raising the spectre of Nadra Foster. The constant reference to the Foster incident, past emails, combined with the "thou aren't progressive enough" air is why THE VAST MAJORITY OF LISTENERS view this as a vendetta, a veritable exercise in the shock doctrine courtesy of Tracy Rosenberg and Arlene Engelhardt

"Pacifica Executive Director Arlene Engelhardt told Berkeley’s Labor Commission last Wednesday that she had retained the San Francisco-based law firm Folger Levin to represent Pacifica in disputes with CWA Local 9415, the union representing KPFA’s paid workers."

My unpaid friends, Ms. Engelhardt has escalated because of the efforts of those in the community whom refuse to capitulate inre: removal of Aimee Allison and Brian Edwards-Tiekert as hosts of The Morning Show. Cynthia Johnson called into Living Room (19 Nov) and remarked that she was flabbergasted about the outrage over the firing of two staff members, to which I would say, "brace yourself." It was telling that at the end of the above interview there was an exhortation to continue financial contributions, a subtle acknowledgement that there is a movement under foot to withhold monies (sans the KPFA Craft Fair and guest speaker events) to protest Ms. Engelhardt's fiat.

she's one of the biggest self-promoters out there

politics didn't work out, so morning show. that didn't work out, so just try to kick over the whole sand castle and whip up a frenzy of much ado about nothing. the world will survive just fine without Allison on the air

boo-freakin-hoo

I presume you were of a similar emotion regarding Nora Barrows-Friedman's dismissal, and inre: Wayland Southon. These are just people that the audience has no connection with, aren't they?

will relentlessly attack anyone who doesn't share your cult of personality

what's so damned great about Allison anyway that you will attack Ratcliff over and over here? Ratcliff has done 1000 times more for the community than Allison ever will, and this interview is a rarity in that she almost never puts the spotlight on herself, unlike Allison who wants everything to be all about her, her and her political campaign, her and her stupid website, her and her radio show, ad nauseum. how will she ever get herself back in the spotlight now? surely she'll find a way as that's the one thing she seems half-way skilled at

You weren't talking about this, were you?

I like the part where Ms. Ratcliff claims KPFA has become exclusionary, and then mentions the apprenticeship as being open to women and people of color...yeah, no one is excluded under those parameters.

Here's an SF Bayview post from an Anglo whom, like Tracy Rosenberg, would never dream of using a logical fallacy. Responding to a comment about unpaid staff at KPFA, Mr. Bernstein forgets that he gets a paycheck for the work he does. The comments are of interest.

http://sfbayview.com/2010/clowns-and-conspiracy-nuts-an-open-letter-to-michael-krasny-kqed-forum-host/

Has Women's Magazine ever covered this?
http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-08-10/bay-area/17255949_1_pacifica-foundation-pacifica-network-berkeley-s-kpfa

"I'm amazed that an intelligent woman of color gets fired from KPFA and Women's Magazine, professing to be a bulwark against the whitey white man . . . . "

yes, she's a bulwark except when the whity white man like Petraues is launching drone strikes against men and women of people of color in Afghanistan and Pakistan

from the reports I've read here, she's down with that

and, isn't Pacifica firing people consistent with the seniority provisions of the CWA contract?

and, isn't she towards the bottom in seniority?