Stop Rigging The Election At KPFA & Pacifica! Purged KPFA Candidates Speak out:

Purged KPFA Candidates Speak out: Stop Rigging The Election At KPFA & Pacifica!
Wednesday August 26, 2026 12:00 pm noon
KPFA- 1929 MLK Jr. /University Avenue
Berkeley

“Free Speech” bastion, KPFA/Pacifica is conducting a rigged election for its National and Local Station Boards. Purged KPFA candidates and suspended LSB member speak out against election irregularities, unfair disqualifications and Free Speech violations as well as biased enforcement of Fair Campaign provisions.

Pacifica Foundation is a five station nationwide listener and staff sponsored radio network founded in 1948 by pacifist Lew Hill which has been the bastion of the free speech movement in the US. Pacifica owns and operates five stations: KPFA (Berkeley), KPFK (Los Angeles), KPFT (Houston), WPFW (Washington DC), and WBAI (NYC).
The purged KPFA candidates were unfairly disqualified after speaking at a rally on July 4, 2026 against fascist founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison and for emphasizing the urgent need to defend democracy at KPFA/Pacifica.
Pacifica has been applying McCarthyite “Fair Campaign” rules that prohibit the free speech of its candidates and any criticism of Pacifica or its improperly adopted 2025 by laws. These new Fair Campaign rules extend Pacifica’s reach beyond its own airwaves or websites and punishes candidates even for the speech of others at non-Pacifica events! Anyone who speaks up against the corporatization of KPFA and Pacifica is purged from the election.

The present majority on the Pacifica National Board adopted by laws in April of 2025 that created a winner-take-all election to consolidate its power. The handpicked National Election Supervisor has been under their guidance and direction: Constant censorship of candidate statements, publications, websites and speech, shady nomination procedures, purged voter rolls, unequal deadlines between listeners and staff, and serious double standards have become par for the course at KPFA/Pacifica. As an example: staff/volunteer team candidates are not allowed to even mention the election on the air, and no listener candidate is supposed to receive more airtime than any other, yet the present Chair of the Pacifica National Board, Susan Young, who is running for Chair of the PNB, is being given airtime in at least three of the five stations every day. At KPFA she is airing twice a day. Local Station Board Chair, Carol Wolfley, who is running for LSB Chair and Fred Dodsworth, running for PNB Treasurer, have practiced muting, outright bullying and holding politically-motivated sham “trials” to suspend LSB members.

Join purged Pacifica candidates KPFA LSB members Cheryl Davila, Steve Zeltzer and suspended KPFA LSB member Lisa Milos who will report about their purging from the election and their fight for free speech and democracy at Pacifica.

It is the right of all Pacifica and KPFA members to have a fair and democratic election.
Defend Democracy and Free Speech At KPFA & Pacifica!

For more information lvpsf [at] igc.org

The July 4th rally at Oracle that was used as a pretext to disqualify candidates: https://youtu.be/06cN29Oivb8