The
next Fair Elections Forum will be Sunday May 18,
2:00 to 6:00 pm, again at the N. Berkeley Senior Center
This is a followup to the April 6th
Forum - see just below - where we will continue seeking solutions
to the Pacifica crisis and deciding how to implement them.
Please
come if you attended the first forum; we will take off from the work
done in the small groups.
Please also come if you missed the April 6th event! You can get information
and help further the work.
We
will again have speakers, small groups, food, and this time, an informal
get together at the end.
FOLLOW
UP TO APRIL 6th FORUM
Crisis at KPFA
& Pacifica
Sunday May 18th 2:00–6:00 pm
Again at North Berkeley Senior Center
1901
Hearst Avenue at Martin Luther King Way, across from KPFA.
close
to Berkeley BART. AC Transit buses 15, 43, 51
* Recent elections corrupted
& sabotaged
*Interim Management consolidates power &
extends regime; downgrades elected station board, Program Council
& volunteer staff organization; gags staff forum and stalls General
Manager selection
* Pacifica finances falter, fundraising replaces
free speech & peace mission
*Other community radio programming & staff
issues (more on other side?
What happened to democracy, transparency & accountability?
IS
IT TIME TO TAKE BACK KPFA (AGAIN)?
Come to this FORUM to hear and discuss
NEWS & VIEWS OF THE KPFA/PACIFICA CRISIS.
We had a great Forum on Sunday April
6 – almost 100 people attended
Let’s continue working toward solutions!
If
you attended the first forum, help continue the work started in your
group.
If you didn’t make it, come this time!
Three Speakers:
Joy Moore: The downgrading of the Program Council to
“advisory” only
Speaker to be announced:
The derecognition of the Unpaid Staff bargaining committee (UPOC)
Richard Phelps: Transparency vs. the use of “confidentiality”
within the network
Small group strategizing/proposals
for actions/Your questions and input
Small
groups were/are: Programming, Governance (including Program Council),
Finances, Elections
Stay for food , drink, & socializing!
FREE/donations
accepted * FOOD available * Wheelchair accessible
More information
available at fair_elections@yahoo.com
Event
Sponsored and Endorsed by: KPFA Fair Elections Committee, Coalition
for a democratic Pacifica (CdP), Peoples Radio, Voices for Justice,
the Media Alliance, Peace & Freedom Party of Alameda County, SF
Green Party, TUC Radio, May 1st Coalition of SF
Current and former KPFA Station Board members: Tracy Rosenberg, Sureya
Sayadi, Akio Tanaka, Henry Norr, Richard Phelps, Stan Woods, LaVarn
Williams, Maria Gilardin, Anthony Fest, Attila Nagy, Gerald Sanders
*See
below
for a partial report including
AUDIOS of this event:
a
Fair Elections Committee Forum
Crisis at KPFA & Pacifica
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Sunday April 6 from 2:00 to 6:00 pm
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901
Hearst Avenue at Martin Luther King Way, across from KPFA.
close to Berkeley BART. AC Transit buses 15, 43, 51
* Recent elections
corrupted & sabotaged
* Interim Management consolidates power & extends regime; downgrades
elected station board, Program Council & volunteer staff organization;
gags staff forum and stalls General Manager selection
* Pacifica finances falter, fundraising replaces free speech &
peace mission
* Other community radio programming & staff issues (more issues
below)
What
happened to democracy, transparency & accountability?
IS IT TIME TO TAKE BACK KPFA (AGAIN)?
Come
to a FORUM to hear and discuss
News & Views of the KPFA/Pacifica Crisis
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Listener & staff speakers
and panel discussions, including:
LaVarn Williams, former
LSB/PNB member & Finance Committee Chair
Richard Phelps, LSB
chair 10-05 to 12-06; former AM & FM announcer
Steve Zeltzer,
KPFA Labor Collective member; producer, Labor Video Project
Les Radke, Coalition for a democratic
Pacifica; former Nat’l Election Supervisor
Joe Wanzala, Local Station Board
& Pacifica National Board member
Maria Gilardin, TUC radio; former
KPFA staff &
board member; Take Back KPFA
And other speakers from KPFA staff
Small
group strategizing/proposals for actions/
Your questions and
input
FREE/donations
accepted *FOOD available *Wheelchair accessible
More information available at
fair_elections@yahoo.com
&
here at peoplesradio.net
Event Sponsored and Endorsed by:
KPFA Fair Elections Committee, Coalition for
a democratic Pacifica (CdP), Peoples Radio, Voices for Justice, Media
Alliance, Oakland Tenents' Union, Peace & Freedom Party of Alameda
County, SF Green Party, TUC Radio, May 1st Coalition
of SF
Current and former KPFA Station Board members:
Tracy Rosenberg, Sureya Sayadi, Akio Tanaka, Henry Norr,
LaVarn Williams, Richard Phelps, Stan Woods, Maria Gilardin, Attila
Nagy,
Gerald
Sanders
Highlights of Pacifica/KPFA Crisis
• Former election supervisor Les Radke called
the recent board election the worst he’s seen in bylaws and
fair elections violations.
• Pacifica interim Executive Director (iED) Dan Siegel illegally
advised listeners not to vote for one KPFA candidate slate; a popular
programmer used station facilities to lobby for the pro-management
slate; he and management ignored the election supervisors’ remedies
for this violation; management blocked and censored timely candidate
information on the air and website.
• The interim General Manager Lemlem Rijio decertified the Unpaid
Staff Organization, right before the Board election, compromising
the volunteer staff voting list.
• Shared program decision making declared irrelevant: The Interim
Program Director (iPD) Sasha Lilley reduced the Program Council (PC)
to advisory status, selected new programs without PC evaluation and
input; hired then summarily fired a program host, ignoring the PC
and alternative suggestions.
• Pacifica’s New York station is unable to fulfill its
fund drives, is heavily and increasingly in debt, and is drawing funds
from KPFA and the other stations to meet its expenses, potentially
threatening the entire foundation.
• Yet the iED blocked Directors from examining the books, violating
the Bylawsand state law, although a previous protracted struggle had
re-affirmed Directors’ inspection right.
• The KPFA General Manager Search Committee & Local Station
Board, after two years of work found and recommended only a single
available but eminently qualified candidate, but is now required by
the interim Executive Director to begin a second search – thereby
extending KPFA’s unpopular interim management
• The Gag Rule is back – the March 21 forum by staff,
community organizers and media activists was prevented from being
broadcast, at the last minute, by management, which also forbad them
to speak about it.
• KPFA membership has declined as volunteer, community based
public affairs and arts programming and the Folio have been replaced
by ”Healthy Station” NPR model program grid of “professional”
sound and 65%music.
(for
more details go to Current Issues pages)
This is just a sampling of recent problems –
which taken together point to an ongoing attempt to circumvent
the democratic governance hard-won after the attempted 1990’s
takeover by forces hostile to the mission of progressive community
radio.
The bylaws and democratic institutions of the network are all under
attack by the current administration, and power cliques at the stations
are not being controlled in the interests of democracy, transparency,
and accountability.
We need to stop this trend and reclaim our station and network again,
as we did before. You can help!
*See
below next announcement
for a partial report including
AUDIOS of this event
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The
next Local Station Board meeting is Saturday
May 10
at the Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison Street, Berkeley.
Please note: the start time will be 12:45 pm, it will end at
4pm.
Look
for the draft agenda before the meeting, at
http://lsb.kpfa.org/records
*********
Public comment begins early in the meeting.
Public commenters
are usually given either 2 or 3 minutes.
Please
come and express your opinions !
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The Local Station Board's Report
to the Listener takes place
the last Monday of each month
on air from 1:00 to 2:00 pm.
The next program should
be April 28
These programs are not usually publicized in advance
There is an archive of past programs at:
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=112
The Management Report to
the Listener
was also on air once a month,
however,
they have been removed from the Archives, and day is not given - just
the time of 2:00.
In
the last Report to the Listener, Tuesday, April 15th at 2:00 pm
Nicole Sawaya joined KPFA Management
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=25819
If
you think listeners should have better access to information about
their station's governance than once a month programs often skipped
and not at prime times, send your comments & suggestions to:
KPFA feedback form
at: http://kpfa.org/contactus/
LSB feedback form at: http://lsb.kpfa.org/feedback
<--PR's feedback form at the Become
a Supporter page
or contact@peoplesradio.net
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report:
program & AUDIOS
Crisis
At KPFA & Pacifica Forum
The mission of this forum is to educate/inform KPFA/Pacifica
listeners about actions by KPFA management, some staff and some board
members that are undermining the mission and possibly the future existence
of KPFA and Pacifica eight years after the "Movement to Save
KPFA." This forum is not a debate. Selected speakers will present
the situation and people will meet in small action groups to propose
remedies.
INTRODUCTION
2:00 FORUM overview
PANELS
2:07-2:55 First Panel of Speakers:
Richard Phelps, Anthony Fest (KPFA newscaster),
LaVarn Williams, Les Radke
2:55-3:00 Short Break
3:00-3:50 Second Panel of Speakers:
Lisa Dettmer (KPFA co-host of Women's Magazine),
Steve Zeltzer, Maria Gilardin
SMALL GROUPS*
3:50-4:05 Small Groups assemble
4:05-5:00 Small Group discussions
5:00-5:10 Small Group summations and preparation for report-back
5:10-5:20 Short Break
BACK TOGETHER
5:20 Reconvene as one body
5:22-5:40 Report-backs from each small group
5:40-6:25 Open mike for comments, announcements
WRAP UP
6:25-6:30 Closing statement
6:30-6:59 Clean Up and Exit
**Hear AUDIOS
of this Forum**
PANELS
http://pacificana.org/public/files/KPFA/Media/2008/20080406-1326-Forum.mp3
http://pacificana.org/public/files/KPFA/Media/2008/20080406-1420-Forum.mp3
BREAKOUT REPORTS
http://pacificana.org/public/files/KPFA/Media/2008/20080406-1616-Forum.mp3
*SMALL
GROUP Breakout
Aim: For participants who agree there’s
a crisis at KPFA and Pacifica to strategize and come up with proposals
for action
• Choose and participate in one of five groups as follows (tables
will have signs designating the groups):
1. Programming
2. Station Governance (incl. Program Council)
3. Network Governance
4. Finances
5. Elections
• Groups should be no larger than 20 so everyone gets a chance
to contribute. If your group is more than 20, split up into two.
• Talk and strategize about your subject matter area and what
to do about them; questions about what the speakers talked about and
ideas they put forward may be discussed, strategic ideas and proposals
to move forward; look at the following ways to focus on the area:
1. Strategy
2. Outreach
3. Literature
4. Demands (petitioning, meeting with people, etc.)
5. Watchdogs (documenting, tracking, etc.)
6. Actions (next forum/debate, other actions)
• Each group will have an assigned facilitator whose role is
to draw people out and engage them in dialogue. Each group will choose
1) a scribe who will write down proposals on large paper to be taped
in front of room at re-group, 2) a time-keeper (each group will determine
how much time each participant can speak at any one time; recommendation
is no more than 2-minutes per speaker at a time), and 3) a presenter
at the re-group to present the proposals in a 3-minute sum-up
• The panelists will divide themselves among the small groups
• Time breakdown: 55-minutes open discussion, 10-minutes wrap
up and preparation for report back to whole group
Berkeley
Media Alliance Panel Discussion
On Thursday April 24th,
Indybay will participate in a panel discussion, sponsored by Media
Alliance, about building community in the practice of independent
media.
The program will be held at the Unitarian
Universalist Church at the corner of Cedar and Bonita in in Berkeley,
at 7:00 p.m.
On the panel with Indybay will be Silicon Valley Debug, Berkeley Community
Media and First Voice, the apprenticeship program at KPFA. The program
is an effort on the part of Indybay and Media Alliance to promote
independent media in the Bay Area.
more
at: http://www.indybay.org/indymedia/
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The People's
Voice Town Hall:
A Forum for Self-Determination
This event took place as scheduled but KPFA
Management
prevented the broadcast shortly before it occurred.
The event was recorded for later rebroadcast &
the rebroadcasts are now set for 4/11 at 7-8 pm for Part 1 (no advance
announcement) & 4/18 at 7-8 pm Part 2.
It was specified that the rebroadcast
would be edited. We fear that criticism of KPFA's management &
their supporters on the Local Station Board (LSB) will be edited out
("the Gag Rule").
We'll see!
You'll be able to hear these programs
on the KPFA Archives, if you can't
hear the broadcast. Look for them by date
and time or under Full Circle at: http://kpfa.org
Community media event by KPFA staff, Media Alliance, & others,
in Fruitvale, will be broadcast live on KPFA next Friday pm.
There will be some information on the unpaid staff situation at KPFA,
as well.
Friday March 21 ****
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
EastSide Arts Alliance
2277 International Boulevard, Oakland, CA
& on KPFA 94.1 FM :
Collaborative LIVE Broadcast
from 5-6pm and 7pm-10pm.
Interactive discussion
of community expression, new technology and economics, and the future
of the Pacifica network.
Hear from KPFA staff & others on their situation.
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* with
First Voice, KPFA's training and production collective, the Block
Report, Flashpoints, La Onda Bajita, Apex Express, the KPFA Unpaid
Staff Organization (still de-recognized), the San Francisco BayView
newspaper, Media Alliance and YOU!
Past Candidate Events
on audio, 2007 LSB election
On
air Candidate forums
-- Listen on the archives
lsb.kpfa.org/audio-2007-air-candidate-forums
Schedule of candidates:
Monday October 8, 2007
8pm - 10pm
lsb.kpfa.org/audio-2007-air-candidate-forums
[not in order]
Steven
Conley
Sherry
Gendelman
Chandra Hauptman
Tracy Rosenberg
Paul Robins
Joe Wanzala
Jim Weber
Stan Woods
Steve Zeltzer
Monday October 15
lsb.kpfa.org/audio-2007-air-candidate-forums
8pm
- 9pm
Attila Nagy
Sureya Sayadi
CC Campbell-Rock
John Van Eyck
Dianne Enriquez
Warren Mar
9pm-10pm
Dave Heller
Susan McDonough
Antonio Medrano
Mara Rivera
Richard Phelps
Gerald Sanders
10pm- 10:30 pm
Matthew Hallinan
Carl Bryant
Bob English
Saturday November 3
10am - 11am
lsb.kpfa.org/audio-2007-air-candidate-forums
1. Attila Nagy
2. Sureya Sayadi
4. John Van Eyck
5. Warren Mar
6. Carl Bryant
10. Antonio Medrano
11am - 12pm
3. C.C Campbell Rock
7. Mara Rivera
8. David Heller
9. Gerald Sanders
11. Richard Phelps
[ 12. Susan Mc Donough]
Saturday November 10, 2007
10am - 11am
kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=23104
13. Joe Wanzala
14. Stan Woods
15. Steve Zeltzer (to call in)
16. Dianne Enriquez
17. Sherry Gendelman
18. Matthew Hallinan
11am - 12pm
19.Tracy Rosenburg
20. Paul Robins
21. Chandra Hauptman
22. Bob English
23. Jim Weber
24. Steven Conley
November 4, 2007, 7 pm
- Live
Meet the Candidates Forum (see
below)
pacificana.org/audio-2007-candidate-reception
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Meet the Candidates' Forum Sunday
Nov.4
The Live "Meet the Candidates" forum for KPFA listener board
candates
will be Sunday November 4th, 7 - 10 pm
at Lutheran Church of the Cross,
1744 University Avenue, Berkeley, between Grant & McGee Streets
about 3 blocks west and 2 blocks north of the Downtown Berkeley BART
station.(on Shattuck)
on the south side of University.
The location has a parking lot and is wheelchair accessible .
> Format summary:
> --Short candidate statements in front of whole group
> --small groups of listeners asking candidates questions
Each candidate will make a 3 minute statement,
followed by small groups in which about 10 listeners per group can
ask questions of 3 candidates for about 20 minutes. Then the candidates
will rotate to the next table.
> JaNay Jenkins will moderate, with technical help from Les Radke.
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We will be leafletting & possibly have a table
at this event
Naomi
Wolf - 'The End Of America: A Letter Of Warning To A Young Patriot'
Tuesday November 13th 7:30 pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way at Durant
Berkeley
Also featuring Daniel Ellsberg and Lakshmi Chaudhry
Hosted by Peter Laufer
"You will be shocked and disturbed by this book. Most Americans
reject outright any comparison of post 9/11 America with the fascism
and totalitarianism of Nazi Germany or Pinochet's Chile. Sadly, the
parallels and similarities... are all too compelling." - Michael
Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
"The Framers of the Constitution fully understood that it can
happen here. Patriots like Madison, Paine, and Franklin would certainly
applaud Naomi Wolf and recognize her as a sister in their struggle."
- Mark Crispin Miller
"...a vivid, urgent, mandatory wake-up call that addresses momentous
issues of tyranny, democracy, and survival." - Blanche Weissen
Cook, author of The 3-volume Eleanor Roosevelt
For more information visit: www.globalexchange.org/naomiwolf
Tickets: $10 - $13 door
Tickets available at supportive local bookstores:
EAST BAY: Analog Books, Black Oak, Cody's, DIESEL a Bookstore, Global
Exchange store, Moe's Books, Pegasus (both stores), Pendragon, Walden
Pond Books San Francisco
Modern Times
Call 510-848.6767 x609
Wheelchair access
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We
plan to table in front of and pass out flyers at the
SF Green
Festival
Saturday November 10th & Sunday the 11th
Just a few highlights;
Friday 9th 4 pm --Antonia Juhasz - - Ending Wars for Oil
Saturday noon --Biggs, Danaher, Mark -- Building the /Green Economy
Sunday 1 pm -- Amy Goodman--Bush & the Media
3 pm --Chris Daly & Ross Mirkarimi-- Sustainable San Francisco:
Past & Future
5
pm --Medea Benjamin-- the Peace Movement: New Strategy
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Join the
October 27 National Mobilization to End the Iraq War
initiated by United for Peace and Justice, co-sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R.,
endosed by almost 200 organizations including People's Radio
People everywhere want the war to end, but Washington
has failed to take decisive action. With each passing month, the Iraq
disaster claims the lives of nearly 100 service people and countless
Iraqis as it drains 12 billion of our tax-dollars. Our communities
are neglected and suffer the consequences.
Today, an amazing and powerful story is unfolding
in this country. We've all known for some time that most people want
the war and occupation in Iraq to end. For the first time, people
from all walks of life will have an opportunity to be counted as part
of a national, public protest without having to travel to Washington,
DC, or New York City. People are responding, and looking forward to
speaking with one voice to demand an end to this outrageous war.
Momentum is building for the 11 regional demonstrations -- Boston;
Chicago; Jonesborough, Tenn.; Los Angeles; New Orleans; New York City;
Orlando; Philadelphia; Salt Lake City; San Francisco; and Seattle
-- that will be held on Saturday, October 27th.
People's Radio will have a table at
this event.
Please visit us there!
10th
Annual Petaluma Progressive Festival
September 30 -- Noon
Walnut Park, Petaluma Blvd. South & D Street, Petaluma
*See directions below
The Petaluma Progressive
Festival marks its 10th anniversary
with the return of the
award-winning
San Francisco Mime Troupe's
play, Making a Killing.
Jim Hightower, national radio
commentator and world-renowned author,
will top a program of music, speakers, and booths by social justice,
environmental, labor, and community organizations.
There will be a forum on immigrant rights
with Renee Saucedo, Organizer with La Raza Centro Legal; Arnoldo Garcia,
National Network for Immigration & Refugee Rights; and Davin Cardenas,
Committee for Immigrant Rights, Sonoma County.
Other speakers include Richard
Heinberg, "Peak Oil" author/activist; Ben
Terry, Sonoma County NAACP president; Clean Money campaign reform
activist Danny Medress; and speakers on the US Foreign Policy, Living
Wage, Cop Watch, Universal Health Care, and more.
There will be Norteño and Cumbia
dance music by "Groupo AL3" plus the 30 voice youth
SPACE Freedom Choir.
The
many tables of political and cultural groups from throughout the Bay
Area are the core of the Festival. They will continue the tradition
of a chance to network and make connections with progressive activists.
Tamales and other food and beverages will
be available for purchase.
The event is free, wheel chair
accessible and there will be free secure valet bicycle parking. Donations
benefit several nonprofit organizations.
* DIRECTIONS *
From San Francisco and points south
- Take 101 North, get off at the Petaluma Blvd. South
exit, and go straight for about two miles.
Walnut Park will be on your left, at the corner of D Street and
Petaluma Blvd., right in downtown Petaluma.
From Santa Rosa and points north - Take 101 South, get
off at the Petaluma Blvd. North exit. Turn right at the light
and go about two miles, through downtown Petaluma to D Street.
Walnut Park is at the corner of Petaluma Blvd and D St., on your
right.
Parking - There is parking on the streets surrounding
the park, or at the public parking facility on C Street, between
1st and 2nd St.
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Sponsored by KPFA 94.1 FM, the Peace
& Justice Center of Sonoma County, and The Committee for Immigrant
Rights, Sonoma County. Produced by the Petaluma Progressives
To reserve booth space, call 707.763.8134.
More information at http://progressive
festival.org
