Newsitem List
372 of 419
KPFA Staff File Charges Against General Manager
According to a press release by the plaintiffs, women at KPFA who turned down Campanella’s advances were retaliated against through “public belittlement, threats to cut funding, criticism of their work to supervisors, slander and threats of termination.”...
Posted: Sat, Aug 13, 2005 12:19pm PDT
IMC super rural access problem
Urgent help needed to deliver indymedia via wireless service to isolated rural users. The FCC is considering reopening docket #04-151 which would likely result in corporate take-over of the remaining public wireless frequencies needed to bring wireless services to isolated rural users. Comments are still being accepted....
Posted: Sat, Aug 13, 2005 12:15pm PDT
KPFA Staff File Charges Against General Manager
According to a press release by the plaintiffs, women at KPFA who turned down Campanella’s advances were retaliated against through “public belittlement, threats to cut funding, criticism of their work to supervisors, slander and threats of termination.”...
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2005 10:36pm PDT
PRESS RELEASE from some KPFA LSB members regarding harrassment case
Some of the listener representatives of KPFA'S Local Station Board make a statement about the charges against General Manager Roy CampanellaII to be decided upon this Sunday...
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2005 7:10pm PDT
KPFA Workers File Complaints of Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Threats, Retaliation
Today workers at KPFA are contacting the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the National Labor Relations Board to file complaints against the station's General Manager, Roy Campanella II, for sexual harassment, gender-based discrimination, threatened violence, repeated violation of workers' right to organize, and retaliation....
Posted: Thu, Aug 11, 2005 10:33pm PDT
The Web: Founder sales flourishing
Capitalist profiteers are raping companies and sucking the life out of employees....
Posted: Wed, Aug 10, 2005 6:53pm PDT
Extra! Extra! Fault Lines Party
EXTRA! EXTRA!
SF Bay Area Independent Media Center’s newspaper, Fault Lines, Shakes the Bay!
Celebrate one year of making independent media with the Bay Area’s best radical community newspaper- Fault Lines!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 9:52am PDT
The Crisis of the Media and the Fifth Estate
"In many countries, the media long regarded as a characteristic element of democracy have become the main problem for democracy. Media's association with information has become a problem.. The quality of democracy depends on the quality of democratic debate.."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 6:20am PDT
Growing Grassroots in Beirut
Stefan Christoff writing from Beirut, Lebanon, The Electronic Intifada, 8 August 2005...
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 11:39pm PDT
KPFA/Pacifica up for sale - again?
Are plans to sell KPFA/Pacifica public listener-supported radio resurfacing, after listener efforts saved it from the corporate raiders just a few years ago?...
Posted: Sun, Aug 7, 2005 4:44pm PDT
Wireless World: No E9-1-1 for now
Capitalists burden the working man with needless technology....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 1:57pm PDT
StreetLevel TV Screens Episode Sweet 16
Sunday, August 7th at 8pm
Artist's Television Access
992 Valencia Street @ 21st
San Francisco
$5...
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 9:54am PDT
CHICAGO WRITER DECLARES CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT OF EGYPT
"This is the first time in Egypt's modern history that a native Egyptian runs for president of Egypt. Egyptians never had the chance before to run for president, nor elect their chosen leaders freely...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 11:11am PDT
SF Supervisors Should Reject Comcast Deal
Tomorrow the Rules Committee will be asked to rubberstamp a deal made by Mayor Gavin Newsom to extend San Francisco’s contract with cable provider Comcast. The Board of Supervisors should renegotiate the contract rather than flushing down the drain the first opportunity in 25 years to fix an awful agreement with a company American consumers rate lower than the IRS. The renegotiations represent an historic opening for strengthening cable workers’ and subscribers’ rights, obtaining Internet acc...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 9:53am PDT
EFF :: Indymedia seizure documents unsealed
A number of Italian and U.S. government documents related to the seizure of Indymedia server "Ahimsa" from the UK have been unsealed by order of the federal court in San Antonio, Texas. On Thursday, October 7, 2004, more than 20 Independent Media Center (IMC) websites and other Internet services were taken offline pursuant to a Commissioner's Subpoena. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is representing the interests of Indymedia....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 11:09pm PDT
Open letter to KPFA
I am very concerned about the current dissension at KPFA. I’ve been hearing lots of stories, and I’m sure everyone has his/her point of view. I’m personally torn because I don’t dislike anyone at KPFA, although I might know one person better than another. So I thought I would try to foster some unity and provide some assistance with solving the problems and contradictions among the station’s staff....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 7:22am PDT
Google Deletes Charles Schwab Securities Fraud Documentation Caches
As you may know I have struggled to put my info regarding Charles Scwab,LOM of Bermuda,and a scam called 'naked short selling' of penny stocks online using various websites and to keep it there.
Indybay is where I uploaded my pdf file of a Charles Schwab and Endovasc 'shareholder agreement' for unidentified 'select clients' of both who are protected by Schwab after Schwab itself was accused by them of 'naked shorting' to cover up this illegal pump and dump and
probable money laundering ope...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 7:04pm PDT
KPFA Women's Magazine show this Monday
Tune in this Monday at 1pm to the Women’s Magazine on KPFA radio.
we will be featuring two premiums you cannot live without !...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 1:01pm PDT
Don't Give Me No Lip, "What's wrong with Mimicking Corporate Media"
-- A response to Jennifer Whitney's article on indymedia, which can be found here
The spirit of critique and wanting to help move indymedia forward is something I really appreciate. However, Jennifer Whitney's article, "The Good, The Bad, & (sic) The Ugly: "What's the Matter with Indymedia?" is one part critique, and two parts personal axe grinding, three parts "Ra! Ra! UC, NYC, 501-c(3) IMC" . Beyond the fact that the article is so deliberately misleading in ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 11:39am PDT