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Help save KPFA Community Radio - from"Save KPFA"! "Save KPFA" is the new incarnation of the "Concerned Listeners" slate, and after a dismal record of actions and non-action destructive to KPFA, is appealing to its listener base to continue on its obstructive/destructive course!
This letter by Akio Tanaka, rep to the Local Station Board and ICR member, urges progressive listeners to join KPFA and vote in truly pro-democratic candidates....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 2:54am PDT
Mud KPFA and Listeners -- we Just Want some Calm Leafleting at the Petaluma Progressive Fest I heard "so much gunk. I just don't want to get involved..." Yes, it's a drag, but "if not now, when..."...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 4:52pm PDT
Journalist Aaron Glantz & KPFA Can a professional journalist be asked to do research?...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 4:31pm PDT
KPFA Local Station Board Report - Media Democracy - Tonight at 9pm Tonight at 9:00pm on KPFA. What's media democracy got to do with it? A Local Station Board Report to the Listener...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 1:37pm PDT
SHORT Reminder: SaveKPFA have been told it is an unfair election practice to link w/ '99 The "SaveKPFA"group who have been told their name is a violation of fair rules when they try to link it to the historic well-known movement have posted at the last minute a blatant link with the picture of the banner from '99....
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 9:44am PDT
Save KPFA/Concerned Listeners Will Kill KPFA Voters need to remember the track record and not be swayed. The cost will be the loss of KPFA and it's not worth it....
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 9:29am PDT
KPFA: Donald Goldmacher, Psychiatrist, Liar, and Documentary Maker Goldmacher, a candidate for the KPFA board of directors was busy today posting lies about Independents for Community Radio and Tracy Rosenberg, head of Media Alliance. Read her post here: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/26/18659956.php
She's a lot more patient than I am....
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 11:58pm PDT
An Open Letter To Robbie Osman Longtime listener and activist responds to Robbie Osman's endorsement of the Independents for Community Radio slate in the KPFA Local Station Board Elections. "The thing that makes me saddest is your use of the word democracy, in contraposing those who support democracy and those who supposedly oppose it. The reason this saddens me is that it strikes me as deliberately dishonest, which was something that I did not expect from you."...
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 5:45pm PDT
Calculated Chaos: Inside the Mobilization That Rocked Pacifica - by Van Jones Excerpted from MediaFile - August 1999. Van Jones and his account of the real 1999 movement to save free speech radio. Jones later became the Green Jobs Advisor to the Obama Administration, until he was hounded out by right-wing forces accusing him of being a 9-11 "Truther". The ending section "Why Did We Fight?" is very germane to this election and worth reading....
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 5:13pm PDT
Media Alliance If Media Alliance had not used its organizational resources on the democratization struggle of KPFA and Pacifica in 1999, there wouldn't be a KPFA today....
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 12:42pm PDT
Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance, and the KPFA Board Elections These two sides differing approaches to ethics in journalism can perhaps be best illustrated by a few examples involving the leader of the Independents for Community Radio slate, which is running against my slate. Tracy Rosenberg has used all candidate forums and on air spots to point out that she is executive director of Media Alliance, an organization whose stated mission is to promote “diverse, accountable and ethical media.” She has also been using Media Alliance’s e-newsletter and postal...
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 11:26am PDT
Thoughtful KPFA Programmer Robbie Osman on Election Some other views on the charges made in the KPFA election by a long-time KPFA programmer. Explains why the Concerned Listener/Save KPFA charges do not hold up....
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 9:29am PDT
Pacifica's situation 'DIRE" - use you vote well Doug Henwood, is a long time left economics who had a show on WBAI in New York for many years, which is also is broadcast weekly on KPFA. He also publishes he Left Business Observer. He supports www.SaveKPFA.org....
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2010 5:23am PDT
Wellstone Democratic Club/Save KPFA Also Taking Aim at Kriss Worthington As if their ridiculous attempt to take over KPFA isn't enough, the Oakland/Berkeley Wellstone Democratic Club is also running one of THEIR own executive committee members against incumbent District 7 council member Kriss Worthington - the most progressive member of the Berkeley City Council....
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 7:05pm PDT
The Value of Democracy - on the KPFA Board Elections- by Robbie Osman KPFA is, once again, holding elections for board members. And, once again, listener subscribers are wondering what’s what and who’s who....
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 6:20pm PDT
Majority of KPFA Unionized Workers Support Save KPFA in Board Election KPFA won’t survive unless the Progressive community realizes the seriousness of the crisis and takes action to support the station. The present majority on the LSB is tied to Pacifica bureaucracy. It resists any attempt to cut Pacifica’s costs, while supporting drastic down-sizing at KPFA. An all-volunteer station would simply be a play-thing for a narrow, ever changing slice of the left. KPFA’s mission is to be a voice for the entire progressive community – we need to find that larger audien...
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 4:52pm PDT
Looking Beneath The Mud - KPFA Board Election It's sad to see a KPFA Local Station Board election debate descend to lies and mudslinging....
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 4:41pm PDT
Concerned Listener/Save KPFA'er Jack Kurzweil Suspended from Wellstone Club For Shoving Yet another incident of intimidation by the Wellstone Demo/Save KPFA/Concerned Listeners crew....
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 4:36pm PDT
KPFA Election 2010: Vote to Save Progressive Radio I've always tried to avoid writing about the internal politics of KPFA Radio. There are so many big issues that I'd rather spend my time covering - the wars, the economy, the November elections to name a few. But right now, KPFA is at a critical moment and I couldn't stay silent....
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 3:19pm PDT
KPFA Election Will Decide Progressive Network’s Future The future of KPFA radio is now in the hands of its members, who have until September 30 to cast ballots in Local Station Board elections. KPFA and Pacifica Radio have faced many “moments of truth” since progressives defeated a corporate takeover of the network in 1999, but the financial challenges and internal infighting have never been worse....
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 3:15pm PDT
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