this Thursday November 29th at 7 pm at Round Table Pizza, 3375 Port Chicago Highway, cross street Olivera in Concord, 1/2 mile from North Concord BART & about 1 mile from Highway 4 For more info call Frank at 925-798-3698 Or if you get lost, call Round Table at (925)825-1993 Hosted [...]
“I am supporting the United for Community Radio slate because I don’t want a KPFA that is ruled by an elite peerage of paid staff. These self-appointed elites consume almost the entire budget while producing only 20 percent of the programs. I also would like the dedicated volunteer staff to be able to have an organized [...]
Published in Counterpunch, 11-9-12 by Tracy Rosenberg In his Nov 5th Counterpunch op-ed titled “The Battle for Pacifica,” Oakland attorney Dan Siegel exhibits a severe case of amnesia. While chronicling a presumed series of deeds he claims occurred since 2009, Mr. Siegel mentions nothing at all that happened prior to 2009. As if Pacifica were [...]
Vote ‘United for Community Radio’ for the KPFA Local Station Board Akio Tanaka, KPFA LSB Member (2006-2012) Current situation and background As long time observers know, there never seems to be peace at KPFA-Pacifica. After the 1999 Crisis, Pacifica reorganized with new bylaws which called for democratic governance by a board elected by the listeners [...]
Hayward, CA - September 27, 2012. The Alameda County Superior Court issued a ruling today enjoining the Berkeley-based Pacifica Foundation, the 501c-3 nonprofit organization that holds the license for Bay Area radio noncommercial radio station 94.1 KPFA-FM, from proceeding with a member-initiated recall election of an elected board member. The injunction was in response to a [...]
From left to right Kristy Keller, interviewer, Occupy Oakland Virginia Browning, A retired Health care worker and KPFA activist, Daniel Borgstrom, Vets for peace, OO participant (who was twice arrested during OPD attacks,and likewise a activist for a Democratic, truly radical alternative Pacifica, Stan Woods, of the Transport workers Solidarity committee who was active in [...]
by Joe Wanzala, Shahram Aghamir, Tracy Rosenberg and Anthony Fest – (written in 2010) KPFA listeners know that the Local Station Board elections tend to be acrimonious. What many listeners might not realize is that the controversy of the LSB elections actually reflects a historical issue about the nature of community radio itself. The four [...]
We Can All Save KPFA Together by Akio Tanaka 8-22-11 The crisis that KPFA faced in the fall of 2010 was insolvency. Between 2001 and 2006, there was a dramatic increase in listener support due to the expanding economy and interest in the Iraq-Afghan War. KPFA added many paid staff during this same period; however, [...]
Brian Edwards-Tigert has complained widely about the cuts at KPFA in 2009 and he has already begun complaining about the layoffs that are coming again, calling them a ‘purge’. But Brian knows the finances of the station and network make these cuts necessary. In this report, he speaks about the problem. The problem was not [...]
By Akio Tanaka, Listener Representative, KPFA Local Station Board 7-1-12 Don’t Shoot the Messenger – Vote NO on the Recall! Current situation As long-time observers know, there never seems to be peace at KPFA-Pacifica. In 2001 Pacifica Radio had new organizational bylaws which called for democratic governance by the listeners and staff, both paid and [...]
July 8, 2012 This misguided recall attempt has taught me a lot. In my professional life as a public interest advocate, I often sit in rooms with various elected officials. I visit them after they have been besieged by lobbyists from AT&T, Verizon, or Comcast. It’s hard to tell them I can’t bribe them, threaten [...]
Some (not all) election violations September 29th and 30th, 2010 Excerpt from Report by Renée Asteria Peñaloza, Pacifica National Election Supervisor 2010. At KPFA, on-air violations were committed on September 29th and September 30th by three staff members, the last 2 days of the election. Both the staff and listener election process was affected. While [...]
April 26, 2012 In the last funddrive, KPFA listeners pledged 7.4% more money than they did in the days of the former Morning Show. Given the economy, when everyone from phone sex workers to grocery stores are seeing drops in income, this is excellent news. It disproves the claim that the Morning Mix, the program [...]
By Arlene Engelhardt, Executive Director, Pacifica Foundation Pacifica respects our workers’ rights to union representation and we deplore “union busting” wherever it occurs — and it WILL NOT occur at Pacifica on my watch. We also expect Pacifica’s KPFA staff to act, speak and report with integrity and professionalism when they have disputes with management. [...]