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The SaveKPFA slate has won a big victory in elections to KPFA’s local governing board. Listeners elected SaveKPFA members to six of nine open seats....

What KPFA's listeners are apparently paying the professionals to do as their fund drive comes up short....

Demand the cancelation of sentences for 3 comrades who work in an indigenous community radio in Guerrero, Mexico...

It's long overdue: The 'secret list' is the really the long-withheld Staff Seniority List, which will determine who will be served, and who will weep. Democracy is Coming, to K.P.F.A.... -...

KPFA management, which is responsible managing personnel issues, has signed a contract with these workers through their union, and as such, has a responsibility to honor that contract. For the board to ignore that agreement and circumvent the management’s duty would be shameful. It is time the board honor the values they so constantly peddle and do the right thing: do not persecute these programmers. They are no less than the station's backbone....

The purge list includes the staff of some of the most successful programs at KPFA—both in terms of popularity and fundraising—including Aimee Allison, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, and Laura Prives of the Morning Show; Sasha Lilley of Against the Grain; News Anchor John Hamilton, the only two reporters Christopher Martinez and Max Pringle and News Engineer Rose Ketabchi. All of these staff members have signed statements in opposition to the actions of the Independents for Community Radio board ma...

Prople's Radio recommended candidate ranking and assessments. A guide to undecided and last minute voters, KPFA members who haven't completed and returned ballots. Take time to vote now. Ballots must be mailed in time to be received, or hand delivered to the station, by Thursday September 30. We need to achieve a higher voter rate to make the elections more representative and credible (and to answer election system critics). And we need an effective majority of independent, pro-democracy bo...

KPFA has been no stranger to conflict. The conflict that besets the station today, however, could remake KPFA into something quite different than listeners have come to depend upon for decades....

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 : The New York Times published an editorial on Monday entitled “A Reminder to the FBI” ostensibly chastising the federal police agency for spying on domestic antiwar groups and other protest organizations. The editorial makes reference to “abuses” and “missteps” committed by the agency....

Monday, September 27, 2010 : Newspaper endorsements are of limited value, especially in high-profile statewide campaigns for major elected offices like US Senate. And yet they can sometimes frame the way a campaign is discussed, and shape perspectives about a candidate, especially when the editorial board's assessment is very deeply flawed....