Listener Endorsements of the United for Community Radio Slate – 2012
If you would like to endorse our team, please comment below and your name will be added. Tell us how you want to be identified.
All Organizations for identification purposes only
Akio Tanaka
Member, KPFA Local Station Board, delegate Green Party
Ali Rezapour M.D.
KPFA Listener
Asa Dodsworth
Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner; Former Zero Waste Commissioner; Certified Permaculture Designer; Member, Occupy The Farm; 13-year host Food Not Bombs
Banafsheh Akhlaghi
Founder, National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement
Barbara Deutsch
Long-time KPFA Listener
Banafsheh Akhlaghi
Barbara Lubin
Director of Middle East Children’s Alliance
Barbara Michel
KPFA Listener, Bay Area Attorney
Barry Schutz
Board member, Alameda Community Radio
Bert Bartsch
Community activist in Fairfax, California
Beth Youhn
KPFA Listener
Bill Carpenter
Videographer, KPFK/KPFA listener since 1959.
Bob English
KPFA/Pacifica Listener since 1960s, Coalition for a democratic Pacifica, Peoples’ Radio, KPFA Election Committee. UFW Support & Cesar Chavez Street Committees, SEIU chapter delegate, Public Employees for a Democratic Union.
Bruce Wolfe, M.S.W
President of DogPAC of SF, Board member of Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council Kezar Gardens, CIO at Alcohol Justice, T’ai Chi teacher, long time listener and supporter.
Carole Seligman
Anti-war activist, advocate for freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Kevin Cooper & other political prisoners, editor, Socialist Viewpoint.
Carol Spooner
Lead plaintiff in listeners’ lawsuit to remove the Pacifica Board 1999-2001, Pacifica National Board 2002-2005, KPFA Local Station Board 2000-2005
Carolyn Birden
Member, WBAI Local Station Board, Listener-Representative Pacifica National Board
Carolyn Scarr
Peace & Social Justice Activist, member Ecumenical Peace Institute (CALC)
Cynthia Johnson (Right) just helped open the Hal Carstad Social Justice Center at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
Chandra Hauptman
Former Local Station Board and National Board member, member Coalition for a democratic Pacifica (CdP), former Chapter President, NYC Dept of City Planning Local 375, District Council 37, former Recording Secretary & Organizer, Local 375, DC 37, former delegate District Council 37, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Charlie Hinton
KPFA Listener, member Inkworks Press, a worker’s cooperative printing company & Haiti Action Committee.
Clarence Thomas
International convention delegate 2012, International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), former executive board member, ILWU, Local 10
Claude Gatebuke
Rwanda Genocide survivor, African Great Lakes Advocates Coalition activist, speaker, and writer
Curt Gray
Founder of the real “Save KPFA” and Take Back KPFA, member of Coalition for a democratic Pacifica
Cynthia Johnson
Member of Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, current KPFA Local Station Board listener representative.
Daniel Arauz
Photographer, KPFA listener
Daniel Borgstrom
Ex-Marine and Veteran Occupier at Occupy Oakland, writer & blogger at http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/
Dave Heller
Green Party County Council, former Green Party candidate for U.S. Congress, former board member of Californians for Electoral Reform
Dave Kadlecek
Chair of Santa Clara County Peace and Freedom Party, long-time KPFA listener active in 1990s fight against corporate takeover
David Ledesma
KPFA Listener
David Roach
Founder of Oakland International Film Festival and Mo Better Foods
Dean Tuckerman
KPFA internet listener, longtime anarchist activist
David Roach
Debra Walker
Artist, former SF Board of Supervisors candidate
Denise Ferry
Long-time KPFA listener
Dianne Budd, MD
Listener, occasionally significant donor, CODEPINK, anti-drone activist
Doyle Saylor
Business System Consultant, former unpaid staff member Pushing Limits collective
Ed Biow
Occupy Oakland activist, Kitchen & Web Committees, KPFA subscriber
Ed Pearl
KPFK Listener, Activist
Emily Sykes
Social Justice Center of Marin and Marin Peace and Social Justice Coalition
Eugene Ruyle
The East Bay Chapter (#162) of Veterans for Peace
Evelyn Nieves
Independent journalist, Salon.com contributor, former NY Times Bureau Chief, San Francisco & District of Columbia.
Fadi Saba
South Bay Mobilization
Feifei Chang
Occupy Oakland activist
George Pope
Long time KPFA listener
Grace Aaron
KPFK Listener. Former Interim Executive Director Pacifica, Former Chair Pacifica National Board
Gray Brechin
Environmental Activist
Greg Jan
Occupy Oakland activist; Green Party
h. “bulldog” brown
Fog City Journal columnist and San Francisco politics maven
Hale Zukis
Long-time Disability Activist & KPFA listener
All Organizations for identification purposes only
Hatem Bazian
Senior Lecturer, Dept of Near Eastern Studies, UC-Berkeley, Adjunct Professor of Law, Boalt School of Law
Heather La Mastro
Occupy Oakland activist, Events Committee
Henry Norr
Retired technology journalist and six-year listener representative on the KPFA Local Station Board
Howard Levine
President, Alliance Graphics
Isis Feral
Longtime KPFA listener, environmentalist, labor and disability rights activist
JP Massar
Occupy Oakland activist, Foreclosure Defense &, Labor Solidarity Committees
Jack Heyman
Retired executive board member and business agent, ILWU Local 10
Jack Heyman
James Heddle
Ecological Options Network
James Helms
Occupy Oakland activist, Occupy Oakland Bus
Jan Garrett
Program director at the Pacific ADA center, past executive director of the Center for Independent Living (CIL), Director of the Pacific Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Center, former Director of The Center for Independent Living
Jan Santos
Director East Bay Center for the Blind, community activist, former unpaid staff member Pushing Limits collective
Jane Welford
Longtime listener and supporter, part of the 1999 struggle for KPFA in the streets and at the camp out
Janet Kobren
KPFA Local Station Board listener representative, activist with the Occupy movement, Occupy Bay Area United, Palestine, democratic media, election integrity, environment, housing justice, and other issues
Jean Pauline
Pacifica Listener since 1959, member Coalition for a democratic Pacifica (CdP), member Bound Together Bookstore Collective, volunteer San Francisco State Labor Archives and Research Center (SF LARC) Bay Area Workers’ Collective and SF Gray Panthers. Formerly with Modern Times Bookstore Collective and NY American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
Jeff Blankfort
Co-founder original Save KPFA 1993, co-founder Take Back KPFA 1995
Jeff Mackler
United National Antiwar Committee, Mobilization to Free Mumia abu-Jamal, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee, Socialist Action
Jeffrey Masson
KPFA Listener
Jenny Miller
Activist, writer (“Bayer Buys Berkeley”) and freelance editor
Jessie Sandoval
Occupy Oakland activist, Web & Committees
Jim Curtis
Artist Activist, KPFA listener, Santa Rosa, California
Joe Wanzala
Former KPFA Local Station Board and Pacifica National Board member
Joe Wanzala
Joel Schor
KPFA Listener
John Henneberry
Prosecute Bush in Alameda County, Occupy Oakland activist
John Sheridan
KPFA listener-activist, member Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica (CdP) and former Local Advisory Board member.
Jonathan Nack
KPFA listener
Joan Marie Woods
Author of Her Voice is Blackberries, creator and moderator Temescal Writers
Joshua Smith
Occupy Oakland activist, Events Committee
Karen Hancock
Occupy Oakland activist, Labor Solidarity & Finance Committees
Kevin Zeese
Executive Director and co-founder of *VotersForPeace, Director of the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics, a former press secretary and spokesperson for Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign for 2004
Kristy Keller
Occupy Oakland activist
Larry Bragman
Fairfax Town Councilor, former mayor
Laura Wells
Member of Green Party
Linda Hewitt
Member Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica (CdP) and Peoples’ Radio
Mara Math
Host of Tenants Rights Radio, film critic, journalist, & listener
All Organizations for identification purposes only
Mara Rivera
KPFA listener-supporter since 1962, activist for a democratic KPFA & Pacifica since 1992, presently a member of the Rainbow Grocery workers’ coop, Bay Area Workers’ Collectives (NOBAWC), and the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Marc Sapir M.D.
KPFA Listener
Mark Boynton
Retired logger, restorer of Victorian houses, and blacksmith. Longtime progressive and KPFA listener. Many years walking the “Honk for Peace” walk around Lake Merritt
Malkia Cyril
Executive Director, Center for Media Justice (national organization located in Oakland, CA)
Maria Gilardin
Producer of TUC Radio, Co-founder the real Save KPFA 1993, and Take Back KPFA, 1995
Marsha Feinland
Co-chair, Alameda County Peace & Freedom Party & member of state executive committee, Commissioner Berkeley Rent Board 1994-1998
Mary Beth Brangan
Ecological Options Network
Willie Ratcliff
Mary and Willie Ratcliff
Editor and Publisher, SF Bayview Newspaper
Mary Prophet
KPFA Community Advisory Board, Delegate Alameda County Central Labor County, Steering Committee US Labor Against the War, past co-chair CA Teachers’ Association Peace & Justice Caucus, Steering Committee Labor Committee for Peace & Justice.
Max Blanchet
Former member of the Local Advisory Board (LAB) and Local Station Board (LSB) and long-time friend of KPFA and Pacifica with deep knowledge of their finances, programming and diversity statistics that he has tracked over the years and distributed widely
Michael Lyon
Gray Panthers of SF, California Alliance of Retired Americans (CARA), and Senior Action Now (SAN)
Michael Parenti
Political analyst and author of The Face of Imperialism, Gods and His Demons & many other books
Mindy Stone
Occupy Oakland activist, Anti-Repression Committee
Mitchel Cohen
Brooklyn Greens/Green Party, Coordinator, No Spray Coalition Against Toxic Pesticides, and Chair WBAI Local Station Board
Milton Allimadi
Editor and Publisher, Black Star News
Monadel Herzallah
Labor activist, Palestinian rights activist, immigrant rights activist
Monadel Herzallah
Nancy Delaney
KPFA Listener since mid-60s, programmer & production engineer for 16 years in KPFA womens and public affairs in the ’80′s and 90′s. Unpaid Staff Steward for seven years
Nancy Okada
Social Justice Center of Marin
Neil MacLean
Organizer of over 40 public forums in 4 broadcast areas including three nationwide conferences: Pacifica Now!, Rethinking the News, and Investigating the Future
Nicole Milner
KPFA listener activist, member Coalition for a democratic Pacifica (CdP), community garden advocate, musician & composer
Noelle Hanrahan
Producer, Prison Radio, Former KPFA LSB member
Norma J. F. Harrison
http://normaharrisonforschoolboard.info/ Candidate, Berkeley School Board, Peace and Freedom Party
Per Fagareng
Producer/host Radio Free Ireland, KBOO-FM
;;peter – aka Peter Broadwell
Webweaver3, technical help behind this website, listener since early 1960′s
Peter Franck
Long time movement lawyer, from Mario Savio, San Francisco Liberation Radio, to “Save KUSF” http://savekusf.org/, former President Pacifica Foundation, KPFA board member 11 years, San Francisco National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Board member (present), NLG National Treasurer (former). East Bay Entertainment & Intellectual Property attorney.
Regina Carey
San Rafael Activist
Renee Asteria
KPFA Listener, former Pacifica national election supervisor & KPFA election supervisor, musician, producer, singer
Richard Uzzell
Former KPFT Local Station Board listener-representative and Pacifica National Board Member
Riva Enteen
First KPFA Local Station Board Chair
Robert Pack Browning
Poet, editor Mark Twain Papers, business owner
Ron Freeman
Occupy Activist
Sally Sommer
Active in Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica (CdP) since 1999. Participant on all Local Station Board election committees since 2001. Active with Albany Farm Alliance to preserve urban agricultural land at the Gill Tract, volunteer mediator at SEEDS
Sam Husseini
Communications director at *Institute for Public Accuracy and long time Palestinian anti-war and media activist
Sandy Sanders
Occupy Oakland activist, Foreclosure Defense Committee, artist
Sarah Glaubman
Listener, supporter, volunteer
Signe Mattson
KPFA activist and listener since 1957
Scott Braley
KPFA listener, photographer, activist
All Organizations for identification purposes only
Soula Culver
Peace, social justice, environment, labor, & disability rights activist, former Richmond Greens, current member of SEIU-ULTCW. Part of the 1999 struggle for KPFA in the streets, supporter at the tent city, vote counter at the first Local Station Board election, went to a lot of Coalition for a democratic Pacifica (CdP) & Local Station Board meetings.
Stan Woods
Former KPFA local station board member and a founder of the Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee
Steve Brown
WBAI Station Board Listener representative, co-founder of The Progressive Radio Network (PRN), and a director of El Taller Latino Americano and Alliance for Community Elections (ACE), writer-activist and fundraiser.
Steve Gilmartin
Longtime KPFA Listener, Supporter
Steve Martinot
Member of Community Advisory Board, anti-racist professor, author including the 2010 book, The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization
Steve Kessler
Long time KPFA listener
Susan da Silva
Member of Coalition for a democratic Pacifica (CdP), former chair KPFA Local Advisory Board
Susan da Silva
Tom Brown
KPFA listener, retired civil engineer, volunteer Dorothy Day homeless shelter, former 16 yr board member of Lifelong Medical of the East Bay
Tom Hillgardner
Attorney, 2002 Candidate for Lieutenant Governor, NY with the Marijuana Reform Party (MRP)
Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Longtime queer & housing rights activist, writer, and editor of Avanti Popolo: Sailing beyond Columbus
Tony Coleman
One Fam / Bikes 4 Life
Tova Klein
Occupy Oakland activist, Labor Solidarity Committee
Tracy Rosenberg
Member of KPFA Local Station Board & Pacifica National Board, Pacifica National Finance Committee, Member Coalition for a democratic Pacifica (CdP), Executive Director Media Alliance
Valeri Hood
Community activist in Fairfax, California
Vic Sadot
Singer/songwriter, Chair Berkeley Fellowship Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee
Vivian Warkentin
KPFA Listener
Wendy Schroell
KPFA Listener since 1981, former Pacifica-KPFT staff, Listener Representative KPFT Local Station Board 2004-2009, Pacifica National Board 2004-2005, 2007-2009
*Organizations for identification purposes only
KPFA and Pacifica Network are regional and national treasures that can be vital to all communities under attack–from the undocumented to the foreclosed, unemployed and underemployed, to African American youths, to prisoners at Pelican Bay, to students and parents, teachers, the Muslim community, the Palestinian resistance and more. The highly disruptive effort to bring down Pacifica, to sever, “professionalize” and privatize KPFA over the past few years was carried out in a way that did great damage to community support for this institution, which already had suffered so many internal problems over the years. Claiming they would end the dysfunctionality, the present Board majority behaved deceptively and disingenuously and promoted dissaffection and withdrawal of support. A local station board giving full support to the Network’s efforts to become more embedded in cultural revival and a the new Freedom movement that Occupy symbolized is of great importance. Electing such a Board will not guarantee that recent progress in finances and programming will be sustained and enhanced, or that more communities in resistance that need KPFA will trust or become part of KPFA or Pacifica, but they are a surely a prerequisite. That’s why, knowing your intentions and involvement, I give you my full support.
President of DogPAC of SF, Boardmember of Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council/Kezar Gardens, CIO at Alcohol Justice, T’ai Chi teacher, long time listener and supporter.
Peace, social justice, environment, labor, & disability rights activist, was one of the Richmond Greens, current member of SEIU-ULTCW. I was part of the 1999 struggle for KPFA in the streets, a supporter at the tent city, helped count the vote at the first LSB election, went to a lot of CdP & LSB meetings then.
Please list me as an endorser
Peter Phillips—Co-Host Project Censored Show, Morning Mix on KPFA
@Peter: You’re on the staff endorsers’ list.
Please list me as a long term ‘KPFA Listener’
KPFA should become a community station run by all the stakeholders: paid staff, unpaid staff (who produce the vast majority of our programs), and the communities who currently are, or should be, served by KPFA. The people in United for Community Radio give us our best possible chance to achieve that vision. As always, this is a critical election.
Scott Braley. KPFA listener.
Hi Scott,
Thanks for the endorsement and your eloquent restating of what is at stake here.
I listed you as KPFA listener, photographer, activist. Is this okay?
Want to use something else? Just let me know.
Adrienne (Lauby)
adrienen@sonic.net
I’ve grown up with KPFA and the way it has expanded my thinking is invaluable.Keeping it an avenue for all kinds of voices is important to me, and I think the United for Community Radio folks both share that goal and can achieve it if elected. Help us find out – Vote in the coming elections for this slate.
;;peter – aka Peter Broadwell, webweaver3, technical help behind this website, listener since early 1960′s
If we don’t maintain democratic governance of the station and network, what happened in 1999 could happen again. KPFA needs to be true to the mission of Pacifica, and not sacrifice its integrity because some staffers imagine they will be more effective that way at pushing some particular agenda. I support a station that gives a platform to the less powerful in our society, and seeks to include them among its audience, not only to academics discussing political economy (though that also has its value). There is no better alternative to democracy.
Sarah Glaubman, listener, supporter, volunteer
I endorse the United for Community Radio slate. KPFA and Pacifica Board elections were intended to open up the stations to organizers who could refine and deepen their objectives by creating programming. The stations could become community centers voicing diverse needs and encouraging common objectives.
Sadly, the stations remain under the control of programmers who have little or no organizing experience, who think they are superior and disdain real contact and lived issues.
United for Community Radio candidates share a vision of community radio and hopefully will achieve a majority on the board.
Neil MacLean, organizer of over 40 public forums in 4 broadcast areas including three nationwide conferences: Pacifica Now!, Rethinking the News, and Investigating the Future.
please add me as an endorser as a “long time KPFA listener”.
thanks, Denise
Davey D. and Dennis Bernstein endorse you. I trust them because I listen to their show and agree with them on everything so far.
I also like that your endorsements actually have real people and are not filled with city council members and lawyers like the so called “savers” do.
You have my endorsement.
Ron Freeman, Occupy Activist.
Thank you Ron!
forwarded from h. “bulldog” brown:
boys and girls,
Would appreciate it if those of you who are eligible to vote for the KPFA board to consider the UCR slate of candidates favorably.
My post on the FogCityJournal.com story …
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/5281/kpfa-is-more-than-a-radio-station/
I’m backing Eric and Annie’s endorsements for UCR. The opposing slate and their arguments remind me in an unsettling way of the America’s Cup PR campaign. They claimed that because of their amazing connections to the 1% that they’d be able to raise tens of millions and that these bequests should be considered as real money. Harvey Rose tore them a new anal egress but the Board of Supes ignored him and chose to trust the 1%.
Surprise, surprise, they didn’t come through.
But, the SF General Fund was already on the legal hook to cover the deficit.
Am I right that the present Board of KPFA has already given a half million or so in high end salaries to a half dozen or so people?
Just eliminate those positions.
Give em a stipend of ten grand apiece if they want to continue.
Had a very similar case in San Francisco over our cable Public Access on Channel #29. Still got a big button hanging in my collection that is condemning someone named ‘Blane’ somethingorother for taking all of the City money and paying it out to his friends in hundred grand a year in high level jobs.
Of course, as in the KPFA case, he bankrupted the station.
What part of ‘non-profit’ don’t these folks understand?
UCR slate!
UCR slate!
UCR slate!
Go Niners!
h.
Here’s link to the article and congrats to Luke for hosting this debate in isolation. It is very very interesting to me that despite the fact that a large percentage of KPFA’s listeners are no doubt San Franciscans that the major media here has ignored this battle.
I think it’s part of the Plutocracy’s strategy of ‘cognitive capture by presenting zero options in media opinions presented to the masses’.
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/5281/kpfa-is-more-than-a-radio-station/
Vote UCR.
And, to you editors, why aren’t you covering this?
1. i’m strongly supporting the UCR slate because i’m so tired of the “save”‘s lies and misinformation. The left has to have integrity to grow.
2. i would like to see MORE activist programs, not less.
3. Plus all the cool people are UCR supporters, (she smiled).
When Dennis Bernstein, Robbie Osman, Davey D, Bonnie Faulkner, Michael Parenti, Laura Wells, Noelle Hanrahan, Barbara Lubin, & Cynthia Johnson – all agree – VOTE UCR.
Listener, Occasionally significant donor, CODEPINK, anti-drone activist
Thank you Diane!