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Former Pacifica ED and Leader of "Save KPFA" Targets Flashpoints Host Dennis Bernstein
Pacifica "Save KPFA" grouping including former Pacifica ED Margy Wilkinson who is a collaborator with Dan Siegel has targeted Pacifica KPFA Flashpoints producer Dennis Bernstein for interviewing Aron Gupta about the role of the SEIU in the Fight For $15 Movement.
Former Pacifica ED and Leader of "Save KPFA" Targets Flashpoints Host Dennis Bernstein As "Anti-Union" For Exposing Role Of SEIU In Fight For $15 By Interviewing Aron Gupta
https://soundcloud.com/tracy-rosenberg/arun-gupta-interview-11-10#t=0:00
http://pacificainexile.org/archives/1424
AUDIO
CENSORING ARUN GUPTA
NOVEMBER 11, 2015 PACIFICA IN EXILE
On November 10, 2015, supporters of the Berkeley wing of the Siegel/Brazon faction (Save KPFA) targeted an interview between Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein and Indypendent editor Arun Gupta.
Gupta, who writes for The Nation, The Progressive, Al-Jazeera America, and The UK Guardian and has been a Democracy Now correspondent, was accused by Save KPFA supporter Sheila Sexton of being anti-union. This was quickly echoed by SaveKPFA-affiliated local station board member Kate Gowen and former Pacifica IED Margy Wilkinson, who asked for complaints to be filed with KPFA’s general manager and program director over Gupta’s interview.
Gupta provided a measured critique of SEIU’s leadership of the Fight for $15 movement.
The full 13 minute interview can be heard below.
The exchange on Facebook is excerpted here. It reveals a poor understanding of current progressive discourse, intolerance for dissent, the instinct to censor prominent national journalists, and a reflex reaction to punish the Flashpointsprogram, even going so far as to say it should be eliminated on editorial grounds.
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Sheila Sexton
Was anyone else just listening to Dennis Bernstein’s anti union segment? I tried to call to complain but no one answered.
Kate Gowen likes this.
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Kate Gowen What did he say?
Margy Wilkinson Sheila: You can send a message to the General Manager at q [at] kpfa.org and to the Program Director at pd [at] kpfa.org
Barrie Ann Mason I think Dennis Bernstein needs to move on, he’s used up his good will at KPFA. I’m sure he has loyal supporters however.
https://soundcloud.com/tracy-rosenberg/arun-gupta-interview-11-10#t=0:00
http://pacificainexile.org/archives/1424
AUDIO
CENSORING ARUN GUPTA
NOVEMBER 11, 2015 PACIFICA IN EXILE
On November 10, 2015, supporters of the Berkeley wing of the Siegel/Brazon faction (Save KPFA) targeted an interview between Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein and Indypendent editor Arun Gupta.
Gupta, who writes for The Nation, The Progressive, Al-Jazeera America, and The UK Guardian and has been a Democracy Now correspondent, was accused by Save KPFA supporter Sheila Sexton of being anti-union. This was quickly echoed by SaveKPFA-affiliated local station board member Kate Gowen and former Pacifica IED Margy Wilkinson, who asked for complaints to be filed with KPFA’s general manager and program director over Gupta’s interview.
Gupta provided a measured critique of SEIU’s leadership of the Fight for $15 movement.
The full 13 minute interview can be heard below.
The exchange on Facebook is excerpted here. It reveals a poor understanding of current progressive discourse, intolerance for dissent, the instinct to censor prominent national journalists, and a reflex reaction to punish the Flashpointsprogram, even going so far as to say it should be eliminated on editorial grounds.
**
Sheila Sexton
Was anyone else just listening to Dennis Bernstein’s anti union segment? I tried to call to complain but no one answered.
Kate Gowen likes this.
Comments
Kate Gowen What did he say?
Margy Wilkinson Sheila: You can send a message to the General Manager at q [at] kpfa.org and to the Program Director at pd [at] kpfa.org
Barrie Ann Mason I think Dennis Bernstein needs to move on, he’s used up his good will at KPFA. I’m sure he has loyal supporters however.
For more information:
https://soundcloud.com/tracy-rosenberg/aru...
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Margy Wilkinson certainly knows all this as she spent most of her adult life as a member of the Communist Party and is the daughter of Communist Party leaders, Helen Lima and Mickey Lima, the latter having been Northern California chair of the Communist Party. See http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2005-06-24/article/21688?headline=Helen-Lima-Presente-By-MARGY-WILKINSON-Special-to-the-Planet
Since she is determined at age 72 to destroy the 5-radio station network of which KPFA is a part, the Pacifica Radio Network, we must ask how long has this experienced destroyer of progressive institutions been doing this? Sooner or later, we will learn the truth about Margy Wilkinson, her connection to Dan Siegel, and all the rest of the Hate Pacifica Gang commonly known as SaveKPFA. What Margy Wilkinson and her ilk do not understand is that The Whole World is Watching her destruction of Pacifica and we are outraged.
Meanwhile, please let us know what phone numbers we can call to Save Flashpoints.