Ten Years of KPFA Finances –in TABLE FORMAT, here –as a GRAPH, here Current Debt at KPFA, with Summary Audits (2005-2009) Media Alliance: On-Air Drama at KPFA After Executive Director Acts on 2-Year Financial Collapse
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 [...]

David Landau Co-host and Producer “KPFA Weekend News” I’m running for the Local Station Board (LSB) as an unpaid staff-member, a co-anchor with the Weekend News. Some of you have already asked whether I’m the same David Landau who was on the station’s Local Advisory Board (LAB) about ten years ago. I am. Nine [...]

Frank T. Sterling Jr.: KPFA Board Operator, First Voices Apprenticeship Program instructor My name is Frank T. Sterling Jr. aka Freewillin’ Franklin. I graduated the KPFA Apprentice Program in 2006. Upon my graduation I was awarded “The Golden Stride Award” by the other members of my group for tremendous growth throughout my time in [...]

Joy Moore: “First Voices” KPFA Apprenticeship Program instructor, phone room supervisor, guest host “About Health,” Outreach Committee member. former Local Advisory Board member, gardening and cooking educator Dear KPFA Staff members, I’m Joy Moore, and I’d appreciate your vote for a staff seat on the Local Station Board. I teach in the [...]
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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 [...]
KPFA’s election season for its 2012 board members has begun. Candidates must register and get their paperwork done by September 13. Here’s the place to go for all the details. Aside from thinking about what you would like to do if you are elected and writing up a couple of statements to tell KPFA subscribers [...]