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KPFA & KPFK radio are endangered - financially, and now with disposing of a whisleblower  

by KPFK worried loyalist
Please sign and share petition for Pacifica Bd whistleblower who dissented from hiding financial info required by CA Atty Geneneral in legal action. And write further to insure & demand that real accountings & audits are open and accurate. Let the honest facts be revealed for real review.
KPFA & KPFK radio are endangered - financially, and now with disposing of a whisleblower  


Berkeley is the home of radio KPFA, and down south in LA it is KPFK --- continually with money troubles and incessantly fund-raising on air. Exhaustingly so.

PLEASE SIGN PETITION - on URL seen below - see signers, testimonials, more info there.

KPFA & KPFK  thru their overseer the -  Pacifica National Board [PNB] - are losing their 1 courageous whistleblower -  Why ?  For providing legally requested & more fully accurate information about the dire financial conditions of  these stations -  who are legitimately being reviewed by the CA Attorney General in a legal action. 

PNB  member - Kim Kaufman -  who dared to  abide by her duties to legally provide the required data - the actual accounting legally requested by CA Atty General - and who, instead of colluding with any hiding, lying or side-tracking  the full and needed accounting has complied with the laws in the investigation. She chose to be the lone dissenting Whistleblower that  plays by the legitimate "books" then is ousted.  

The legal investigation was unfortunately was elicited because of the financial  and administrative discrepancies and the radio station auditing lapses - as these are regulated, being non-profit corporations in CA , as are all other such corportations when necessary.

Whether the financial accounting  hid missing-parts or there are large sums that have been left out of auditing reports were  errors in financial accountings ... or - perhaps  if some PNB members had even deliberately "re-figured " some numbers - whichever of those tactics should Not have ever even been allowed - and especially then Not be hidden, nor labeled as secret and unavailable for legal inspection and auditing. 

If any illegalities have occurred -- while simultaneously these same radio stations are continually begging their listeners for financial trust, loyalty and more-more-more monies -- there is much explaining and exposing to be done -if they even want to survive in any manner.

 So instead this PNB conveniently has chosen to kick out a KPFK PNB member who complies with the investigation and laws ? what can be going on ??? Since when is law-less-ness the better way to solvency ?
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http://www.unitedforcommunityradio.org/?p=2219 -

"Consistent with their long-standing pattern of retaliating against staff and board members who blow the whistle on financial malfeasance, the rogue board majority joined by KPFA’s UCR representative Janet Kobren who cast the tiebreaking vote, kicked LA listener rep Kim Kaufman off the Pacifica National Board for the alleged crime of supposedly releasing financial data sent to California’s Attorney General in response to the state’s investigation of the radio network.

Things have changed at the 66 year old radio network since it gained national prominence in 1960 when KPFA programmer Bill Mandel declared ““I want the lights on, precisely; I want the fullest glare of publicity on this committee’s activities” and refused to cooperate with the HUAC “kangaroo court”.

Now the board of the radio network that used him as an example of their bravery and iconoclasm for 55 years convenes their own secret kangaroo courts and ducks the glare of basic transparency.

On April 30, 2015, the majority on the Pacifica National Board (PNB) voted in closed session to remove Kim Kaufman, a Director from KPFK who has repeatedly tried to get the PNB and management to investigate financial irregularities and missing / incomplete information supplied to the California Attorney General.

The retaliation against Kim Kaufman by the PNB is one in a long line of incidents where people trying to draw attention to fiscal mismanagement at Pacifica stations have been harassed, fired, run off and recalled.

It’s past time to fix the problems, not to keep attacking the messenger, especially when there are many other critical problems (like listenership, finances, etc.) that the PNB should be dealing with!

Please sign the petition to tell the PNB that Kim deserves thanks, not punishment, for fulfilling her fiduciary duties and for insisting that Pacifica’s financial problems need more illumination rather than being hidden away in the dark."
http://www.unitedforcommunityradio.org/?p=...
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