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Today KPFA is in financial disarray after years of living beyond its means. And the same people who brought this crisis about are now pushing yet another unworkable budget. To broadcast their unrealistic demands, they've taken over KPFA's airwaves....

From 1pm to 6pm, Indybay was hosting a media conference with an exciting and diverse line-up of speakers, panels, and workshops focusing on independent media's role in social and environmental justice movements. Two dozen media and social justice organizations were tabling. Of course was free and FOOD NOT BOMBS gave all of us food! From 8pm until midnight, was the benefit party featuring DJ Pubic Frenemy spinning all night, Eddie Falcon, Ras Ceylon with Unity and Sinista Z as Gideon.Force...

This is the corrected text of Carol Spooner's article that first appeared in the November 11 issue of the San Francisco Bayview....

Doors open at 8pm. Eddie Falcon, Ras Ceylon Unity and Sinista Z, and Audiopharmacy with, plus a full bar. Come on out!...

“KPFA lives on listener support, and the Morning Show is the most lucrative program on the station when it comes to pledge drives. KPFA listeners want local content; in fact, since the Morning Show staff was laid off, listenership has plummeted. Figures I’ve obtained on web listenership (which is easy to track, and at KPFA ultimately tends to be similar to the overall listenership tends) show that the peak audience dropped more than 60 percent after the station started piping in outside conte...

KPFA staff and community members rallied to defend community programming at KPFA and the potential introduction of new programmers outside the local area. They also challenged the role of CWA 9415 that says it is representing the staff....

It seems to me the issue is not that layoffs are necessary. Everyone sane and knowledgeable seems to concede that point. Even the kpfaworker shills have more or less given up asserting that their glue and sticks PDF solves all the financial problems. So the real issue is *who* gets laid off....

Hundreds of listeners and subscribers have flooded Engelhardt and the Pacifica National Board with emails demanding that they reverse the layoffs of Morning Show staff. “As a KPFA listener, subscriber, and voter for over ten years, I am disgusted with this decision,” writes Arcelia M. “Aimee and Brian have been the voices my family has woken up to every morning, and those of Andrea and Phillip before. Our family connection to them is a vital part of our getting going as our days unfold. Brian...

Since we are in a transition phase, with the first most difficult step finally having been taken, namely laying off the expensive Morning Show staff, we can suggest improvements. Since anything during morning and evening drive times raises the most money, Democracy Now must be moved to 7 a.m. with no repeats. Other suggestions are discussed below....

Saturday the Concerned Listeners on the KPFA LSB all voted against advocating that both sides of the budget issues to be given air time. On the programs that their staff allies control we have heard repetitive one sided speeches and rants, even on the news. This after last months CL vote against having any layoffs determined by seniority. That's right the CL "pro union" folks voted against a resolution on the budget to require any layoffs to be by seniority? The CL and their staff allies are...