RESULTS
The 12 seats available overall went 7 to Save KPFA and 5 to United for Community Radio. The top three vote getters on the listener side were SaveKPFA: Dan Siegel, Craig Alderson & Mark Hernandez. Other seats were filled in the following order:
Andrea Prichett (UCR)
Jose Luis Fuentes-Roman (SaveKPFA)
Laurence Shoup (UCR)
Ramsés Teon-Nichols (UCR)
Carole Travis (SaveKPFA)
Burton White (SaveKPFA)
On the staff side the winners were:
Brian Edwards-Tiegert (SaveKPFA)
Joy Moore (UCR)
Frank F Sterling Jr (UCR)
For more detailed results, click here.
To all the generous contributors and supporters of UCR:
Thank you so much for your contribution to the KPFA Local Station Board campaign of United for Community Radio. Your financial support made it possible to get our mailer to every KPFA member, do some advertising on Facebook and more.
Many people worked incredibly hard recruiting candidates, running as a candidate, getting our message out, on the streets, on websites and e-mailings. Whatever the outcome, and in spite of the challenge of limited exposure to the member/voters, we can be proud of running with a clearly articulated platform and principled campaign.
CANDIDATE FORUMS
(Click date for audio archive)
November 25: Virginia Browning, Kate Tanaka, Carole Travis, Burton White; Ramses Teon-Nichols, Karen Pickett, Dan Siegel, Jose Luis Fuentes-Roman
November 26th: Laurence Shoup, Andrea Prichett, Barbara Whipperman, Craig Alderson (begins 30 min into program)
November 27: Dave Welch, Oriana Saportas, Beth Seligman, Kate Gowen
PLATFORM
United for Community Radio
KPFA and Pacifica are a priceless resource.
We have the opportunity to be
a force for change –
by amplifying the voices of the millions
whose needs and desires, opinions
and culture are overlooked, marginalized
or silenced by the mainstream media.
1. A Community Resource – To reclaim the mission of Pacifica and KPFA as a commons, with broad and diverse participation, and not to be controlled by any particular group or party.
2. Both Station and Network – To maintain the integrity and financial viability of KPFA and the Pacifica network – the national office, all five stations, the 180 affiliates, and the Archives. To develop a financial recovery and sustainability plan for KPFA to ensure its continued survival.
3. Democratically Governed–To support governing boards that are elected by proportional representation, and that collaborate with, ensure accountability, and exercise oversight of station management.
4. Program Council – To reactivate the Program Council, including representatives from the listener community and staff (unpaid and paid), to evaluate current and proposed programs.
5. A Voice for Progressive Social Movements –To advocate for news, public affairs, music, arts and cultural programming that incorporate the voices of people’s movements and communities – including struggles for protection of human and labor rights, civil liberties and the environment; for social equality, self-determination of peoples, and freedom from imperialist domination and war. To balance the often difficult news with programming that is uplifting and facilitates human connections. We envision a vital and imaginative radio station that resonates with those reached by our signal.
6. Mutual Respect– To recognize and respect the essential roles of unpaid and paid staff and apprentices, volunteers, management, and listeners. To foster cooperation and equal access to resources and training within the station, including the right to union representation, thus empowering both paid and unpaid staff to better fulfill Pacifica’s mission and potential. When major issues relating to Pacifica and KPFA are reported on the air, on the website, or at KPFA events, it should be in a fair and accurate manner.
7. Listener Input – To ensure that the listeners have opportunities to provide input to the station through various forms of feedback, including two annual, bylaws-mandated Local Station Board (LSB)-hosted Town Hall meetings, regularly scheduled listener call-in shows and surveys.
8. Web Presence – To improve KPFA’s web presence, including searchable archives by show and by subject, with links to background information and related stories. To work to integrate video, transcripts, live streaming and social media. This will help us to reach current and potential communities of listeners with KPFA’s unique content.
~labor donated~
No question – I’m voting for you/r slate.
I’d like to see response back to what Save KPFA is saying about their intentions. This is no time to be gentle-people. Most of us can’t decipher details of programs – of LSB candidates plans; of the conflicts. Please say what you’re about and how Save is the opposite or otherwise – not just to me – but to all of us.
t/u
Norma
510-526-3968 Berkeley.
I second this. I can’t decipher what the difference is between SaveKPFA and United for Community Radio. What do you DISAGREE about?
Thanks,
C:-
Carl, Please see what I think is #2 in this comments section – a link to an article Tracy Rosenberg wrote in answer to some recent spin by SaveKPFA
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/09/the-battle-for-clarity/ .
What the main difference is for me is the attempt to create dialog, conversation. It is not an easy thing to try to reconcile 200-some unpaid staff who, with training and resources, could really make this station so rivetting it could bring many communities into a sense of shared purpose — to reconcile that vision with one that preserves income and benefits for excellent paid broadcasters (and that is good!) but at but at the price of severely limiting actual community conversation which I imagine they think would threaten their benefits. Our team wants to work this out — theirs seems to want to continue to create false wedge narratives that come, perhaps at least in part from fear of unpaid staff taking jobs. There is a tension there that has to be resolved either in honest dialog and creative work or through dishonest false narrative. I believe it can be resolved creatively and constructively without wasting the gifts of any of these talented broadcasters. Look carefully at our platform and candidates as well. We have some really long-term committed activists and folks committed to constructive, active listening.
The postcard from “SAVEKPFA” says they saved Democracy Now! from elimination? Makes no sense at all — no one has tried to eliminate Democracy Now! since many now in the group who uses our old name “SaveKPFA” did, in fact, work to eliminate the airing of Democracy Now! in an optimal timeslot. Recent management moved Democracy Now! very slightly to bring in more money. Maybe that’s what they mean. Other charges on the postcard they sent have been answered here and on the stopthekpfarecall.org website and elsewhere that can be found.
Norma, Tracy wrote a great reply to the latest Dan Siegel disinformation at http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/09/the-battle-for-clarity/ . Mitchel Cohen also wrote something — has he posted it yet? You might search. AND, I wrote this quickly and am welcoming tweaking for easier-readability – though the facts are straight. This in answer to one of the fictions on the glossy mailer from the so-called “savers” :
NEW / OLD FICTIONS: * The group which has slyly usurped the name “SAVEKPFA” from
those many thousands of us who DID save it in 1999-2000, has also mailed a postcard with additional fictions. A significant one is that that their bunch somehow “Saved the 9AM broadcast of Democracy Now! From elimination.“ That is so much the opposite of fact, it’s hard to imagine what story they’ve concocted to frame it. In fact, members of our group, United for Community Radio, have gone to bat several times to make sure Democracy Now! was heard at the most opportune times. Some managers (NOT “incumbents from the ‘Community Radio’ slate”) have moved it slightly several times for maximum effect, perhaps in response to a primetime boycott by those in the so-called “SAVE” group now pretending to call for cooperation, something we actually have worked very hard for.
The difference between UCR and SAVEKPFA is simple, and the simplicity is genius.
Whereas the latter reeks of soulless, self serving ambition, and is deceitful in both purpose and intent, the former, that is UCR, is honest, moral and unselfish in pursuit of one intent, furthering one thing, the KPFA mission and purpose.What the latter lacks the former provides: ingenuity, genius and truth.
IT is probably indeciepherable to anyone who has not worked under the authority of Aileen Alfandary and Mark “white men rule the world” Mericle. But for me, an unpaid general assignment reporter in the KPFA news room for 3 years (2005-08) it was an unfolding education in obstginate meanness. I also worked on a KPFA radio news series with staff, and brought with me my 40 years experieince as a major market, commercial, corporate, government, public radio, black radio and producer, anchor and broadcast journalist, comfortable in both television and radio, behind and in front of the camera in differing capacity from New York to California, and my experience made it clear.
I suggest that KPFA news stands among the most pervadingly corrupt, blatantly ungoverned, unaccountable, disorganizd and mismanaged news operation I have ever had the distinctly perverse and priveleged horror to witness, experience and observe.
It is getting better. Getting rid of Brian Edwards-Tiekert and the elitists he represents and symbolizes helps both the station and Brian to understand good looks and a charming manner cannot gangster you to the top despite the formidable aid of Alfandary and Mericle for whom, white male supremacy, the glamor of evil and over riding ambition is all pervasive.
I mailed my ballot Novemer 29th. UCR all the way.
Somehow, KPFA and its organized information and intelligent administration muscles through cruelty and meanness to prevail. This, due in no small part to unending, selfless acts of courage and perserverance by true leaders like Tracy Rosenberg; RIchard Phelps, VIrginia Browning, Adrienne Lauby, Daniel Borgstrom (more information @ D.B.’s free speech zone@danielborgstrom.com) and many, many others who are awake, clear on the agenda of the white collar, faux liberal progressive, entrenched operatives- who, to further their own blind, self serving ambition are willing to kill KPFA, its journalistic ethic, creativity and spirit.
And yet….spirit cannot die. I am most grateful. UCR! UCR!!
To rid the airways of community radio or free speech segments is most definitely a violation of our First Amendment Right. Obviously somebody has either forgotten, or has not read the United States Constitution. We should not have to query the people on this issue since the people have already been queried, and their voice was loud and very clear on this issue. The adoption, and ratification also speaks loudly, clearly, and very strongly for me. To KPFA the best.
“With Warmest Regards And A Hope For Love, Peace, Prosperity, And The Power Of The Unity For All Lifeforms On An Island, In A City, In A County, In A State, In A Country, And In An Obama Nation Here In Our Precious Temple Where Every Animal Reaps The Harvest (E.A.R.T.H.) Merry Christmas
Michael John Torrey
mjohntorrey54@yahoo.com
Alameda, CA. 94501-1875
Hey Michael John,
These are great words. Thank you for putting fingers to keyboard and leaving them here. Would you like to be added to the United For Community Radio endorser list? Let me know.
I did vote, someone sent me the cards of both enpaneled groups, and a ballot. I can no longer hear KPFA where I live, unless I happen to be on a borrowed computer but have long wanted the best and free speech for KPFA.
I read all the materials and made and mailed my selections . Do hope my ballott was received and will be counted.
Thanks for finally writing about > Support KPFA < Liked it!