EFF Asks FTC To Scrutinize Secret Deal Saddling .ORG Registry with $360 Million in Debt February 21, 2020: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called for the disclosure of secret financing details behind the $1.1 billion .ORG sale, and has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to scrutinize the deal. The transaction would saddle the .ORG registry with $360 million in debt....
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:56PM
How is it KPFA last paid property tax on April 3rd, 2013?!? Where's the transparency? The KPFA business manager Maria Negret and manager Quincy McCoy have failed to pay the property taxes on the building for years. People are asking how this could happen and why this information was kept a secret even from the KPFA Local Station Board....
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:34AM
American Visitors Killed New Zealand My buddy was killed in a tragic car crash while visiting New Zealand a while back. But, the authorities didn't even release his name! He was apparently one of more than 5,000 foreigners who have been killed in that country since 2000. The truth about the number of visitors killed in NZ, highlighted recently by the White Island volcano disaster, is very disturbing....
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 3:42AM
For Corporate Media, It’s ‘Anybody But Sanders or Warren’ Journalism that can't stand progressive populism...
Posted: Mon Dec 2, 2019 8:59AM
20th anniversary of Indymedia / Seattle 1999 WTO protests Curriculum to commemorate and share the history and inspiration of the Independent Media Center network...
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:44PM
Why the Pacifica National Office intervened at WBAI Pacifica have a directorship that somehow believes you can VOTE reality out of existence....
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 4:28AM
Pacifica's Rashomon The real danger to Pacifica is not a ‘corporate coup’. The real danger is a financial failure which is what the current governance structure has brought about....
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:51AM
Pacifica’s WBAI Back on the Air But Fight for Non-Corporate Radio Continues A corporate coup that shutdown New York has temporarily been thwarted but the battle continues...
Posted: Fri Nov 8, 2019 9:39AM
Identity Fraud? Removed Pacifica National Board Chair Jacabs Still Chair? Sabrina Jacobs who was part of a coup to shutdown WBAI continued to say she was chair of Pacifica after the Pacifica National Board remove her....
Posted: Thu Nov 7, 2019 8:40PM
WBAI LSB Chair Carolyn Mcintyre On 9/11 Attack On WBAI By Pacifica Bd Officers The chair of the WBAI Carolyn Mcintyre talked about the 9/11 attack on the station by the national officers of Pacifica Foundation. This was done without a vote of the Pacfiica National Board....
Posted: Tue Oct 8, 2019 7:24AM
It's Not Free Speech Radio Anymore Hypocritical attempt to dislodge vigilant Pacifica board member. I do hope you can get through this, and especially the last 3 or 4 paragraphs - then go back and read about the sausage-making if that's easier. Please forward to any you think care about Pacifica. I don't agree with this newsletter always, but I think this is important. I hope others will write to the board as article suggests - if nothing else, for the record. They may not be able to ignore thousands of emails....
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 12:08PM
Report To Pacifica Supporters & Listeners KPFA Local Station Board Member and Pacifica Network Board Member Tom Voorhees talks about a planned take-over of Pacifica and top down management...
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:57PM
United for Independent Radio - The NeoLiberal Plan to Destroy KPFA and Pacifica Radio The gloves are off and the neoliberal move to defang and destroy the only non-corporate media network in the country is out in the open. A new proposed "bylaws amendment" from United for Independent Radio exposes the plan. Vote Rescue Pacifica while you still can....
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:22PM
Indybay Pushes Back Against “Diamond Slavery” DMCA Takedown DMCA memory hole threatens to swallow article published on Indybay in 2003 about working conditions in Romanian diamond factory....
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:47PM
KPFA is Trolling for Funds…Again KPFA has embarked on another fund drive. Although they call this one their "Summer Fund Drive", it should really be called the "make-up fund drive due to the public's failure to let us loot their pocketbooks sufficiently during the Spring Fund Drive."...
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:36PM
Pacifica Chair Aaron Leaks Name Of New iED – Pacifica Splices Audiofile In Failed Coverup Grace Aaron, Chair of the Pacifica Board & two months later Executive Director, leaked to the public the name of her successor. It’s John Farneal (spelling). Then Pacifica attempted a coverup – but it failed: the unadulterated audiofile is published here. Pacifica's secrecy culture at the top remains entrenched and pervasive. Who can trust the current 'leadership'?...
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:42PM
Audio: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed She was an anti-communist and anti-Soviet after born as a Jew in St. Petersberg before the 1917 revolution....
Posted: Thu Jun 6, 2019 10:53AM
Berkeley's KPFA is a Private Radio Club KPFA used to operate like a true community radio station, but now it has devolved into little more than a private radio club for the same handful of paid program hosts who have occupied the airwaves for decades....
Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 3:45PM
Assange Has Been Arrested for US Extradition Extradited for journalism. In a blur, everything that Assange and WikiLeaks have been warning about for years has been proven correct, contrary to mountains of claims to the contrary by establishment loyalists everywhere. The same government which tortured Chelsea Manning is in the process of extraditing her publisher so that they can silence him forever....
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 1:05AM