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"Cooking The Books" Community & Staff Challenge KPFA/KPFK On Morning Mix Cancellation

by Labor Video Project
Community activists and labor supporters protested the cancellation of the KPFA "Morning Mix" by the KPFA/Pacifica management. During the protest on May 27, 2014 the manager Richard Pirodsky came out of the building to answer questions from the community and programmers about the cancellation
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"Cooking The Books" Community And Staff Challenge KPFA/KPFK Pirodsky On Morning Mix Cancellation

In the second day of protests at KFPA radio station in Berkeley
on May 27, 2014, community supporters and staff protested the
cancellation of the Morning Mix radio segments on prime time to
be replaced by a program called "Uprising" in LA hosted by
Sonali Kolhatkar. Information was also released that Oakland attorney
Dan Seigel whose firm is representing the current management and
board majority and also is running for mayor of Oakland had contributed
$1,000 and this temporary increase in donations which was part of the
justification by KPFA/KPFK management for "Uprising" to replace the
Morning MIx which is a local labor community program production at KPFA
in prime time.

This debate outside KPFA in the morning was not reported on by
the KPFA news managers.

For more video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGFnptI-ig&feature=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcGuunuPKhw

UPSO Statement On Management Process at KPFA/Pacifica And Program Changes
http://kpfaupso.blogspot.com/2014/01/

Production of Labor video Project http://www.laborvideo.org
§Save KPFA Morning Mix
by Labor Video Project
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Community and labor activists want to protect local community labor programming
§KPFA Programmer Miguel Molina
by Labor Video Project
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KPFA programmer Miguel Molina spoke in support of more community labor programming.
§KPFA Time For Free Speech
by Labor Video Project
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Community people want more community free speech on KPFA during prime time instead of canned programming from Los Angeles
§Sonali "Uprising" Faces Uprising In Berkeley
by Labor Video Project
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Sonali's "Uprising" faces a growing backlash and anger in Northern California for replacing local community and labor programming on prime time.
§Davy D Spoke in Solidarity With Morning Mix
by Labor Video Project
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KFPA programmer Davy D spoke in favor of keeping the Morning Mix on KPFA and called this fight about the rights of the local communities and poor to hear their voices
§KPFA Manager Pirodsky Confronted
by Labor Video Project
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KPFA manager Richard Pirodsky was confronted by programmers and community supporters of KPFA who are angry about the unilateral conciliation of the local prime time line up of the Morning Mix.
§Sonali Kolhatkar-The New "star" at KPFA
by Labor Video Project
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Sonali Kolhatkar the host of "Uprising" has been pitched as a new "star" at KPFA by the "Save KPFA" and their supporters like Pacifica Foundation attorney Dan Siegel who is also running for mayor of Oakland and donated $1000 to Sonali's show building up her numbers. The management then argued that she was raising tremendous new money.
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