Publish to Newswire
Add an EventFrom the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
Peace & Freedom's KPFA candidate endorsements; KPFA's poor coverage of UC strike
Peace & Freedom Party has made its endorsements of candidates for KPFA's Local Station Board, and of course, none are of the reactionary current LSB majority, Concerned Listeners. They have endorsed Jaime Cader, Jim Curtis, Henry Norr, Richard Phelps, Andrea Prichett , Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, Steve Zeltzer
Peace & Freedom Party has made its endorsements of candidates for KPFA's Local Station Board, and of course, none are of the reactionary current LSB majority, Concerned Listeners. They have endorsed Jaime Cader, Jim Curtis, Henry Norr, Richard Phelps
Andrea Prichett , Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, Steve Zeltzer
More information may be found at:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/resolutions-and-statements/565-pfp-endorses-candidates-in-kpfa-election
The following is a personal obsevation and not a position of Peace & Freedom Party.
KPFA is in such a moribund state that its coverage of the 9/24/09 UC statewide labor/student strike was miniscule and NONE OF IT WAS LIVE. This writer can easily remember that LIVE COVERAGE of the 1964 Free Speech Movement's sit-in at Sproul Hall by KPFA, including the screaming students as they were thrown down the stairs by the National Guard and County Sheriffs, called to action by Democratic Governor Pat Brown, father of current Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown, and the LIVE COVERAGE of the protests against the US war against Vietnam and against the draft, which took place almost daily in Berkeley as students could be drafted before 1973, and the war escalated between 1964 and 1971. It was this LIVE COVERAGE that built the solid financial support for KPFA.
This statewide UC strike was planned many weeks ago. On KPFA, we heard 4 lines of news briefs at noon, 3 good speeches from the noon rally at UC Berkeley shortly after 4 p.m., when Hard Knock Radio, a young workingclass people's program was pre-empted for a program on Charles Darwin, and they sandwiched in these 3 speeches; a brief snippet of one of these speeches at the beginning of Flashpoints at 5 p.m., and about 5 minutes for UC Berkeley's protest and another 10 minutes or so for UCLA and other UC campus protests during the 6 p.m. evening news. THERE WAS NO LIVE COVERAGE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.
WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE: Since UC Berkeley is only 2 blocks or so from the KPFA station and UC San Francisco at Parnassus and Mission Bay (the medical school) and Hastings Law School of San Francisco are just across the Bay from Berkeley, there should have been:
1. Live Noontime coverage of the entire UC Berkeley rally
2. Live coverage of the march of thousands of people on the UC Berkeley campus and in the streets of Berkeley.
3. Live coverage of the entire UCLA rally re-broadcast on KPFA during the hour that is Hard Knock radio.
4. Live reports from all 10 UC campuses starting at 7 a.m. when the pickets were first put up at all the campuses, with live interviews of as many people as possible who walked the picketlines. With cell phones, this is much easier than the 1960s and 1970s, and we had live street coverage then too.
THIS WAS A MILESTONE EVENT THAT KPFA AND KPFK SHOULD HAVE COVERED LIVE ALL DAY LONG. That is how community radio builds support, reporting the news from the community in which it exists. ALL POLITICS ARE LOCAL, and education is a primary example. Without a strong free, public educational system from pre-school through university, no society can call itself a democracy or an industrialized society.
The paltry coverage of the statewide UC strike on KPFA today, 9/24/09, was so shameful that if the Concerned Listeners are again allowed to prevail on the Local Station Board, KPFA is dead. If that happens, we will have to start a new radio station, not an easy task.
Andrea Prichett , Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, Steve Zeltzer
More information may be found at:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/resolutions-and-statements/565-pfp-endorses-candidates-in-kpfa-election
The following is a personal obsevation and not a position of Peace & Freedom Party.
KPFA is in such a moribund state that its coverage of the 9/24/09 UC statewide labor/student strike was miniscule and NONE OF IT WAS LIVE. This writer can easily remember that LIVE COVERAGE of the 1964 Free Speech Movement's sit-in at Sproul Hall by KPFA, including the screaming students as they were thrown down the stairs by the National Guard and County Sheriffs, called to action by Democratic Governor Pat Brown, father of current Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown, and the LIVE COVERAGE of the protests against the US war against Vietnam and against the draft, which took place almost daily in Berkeley as students could be drafted before 1973, and the war escalated between 1964 and 1971. It was this LIVE COVERAGE that built the solid financial support for KPFA.
This statewide UC strike was planned many weeks ago. On KPFA, we heard 4 lines of news briefs at noon, 3 good speeches from the noon rally at UC Berkeley shortly after 4 p.m., when Hard Knock Radio, a young workingclass people's program was pre-empted for a program on Charles Darwin, and they sandwiched in these 3 speeches; a brief snippet of one of these speeches at the beginning of Flashpoints at 5 p.m., and about 5 minutes for UC Berkeley's protest and another 10 minutes or so for UCLA and other UC campus protests during the 6 p.m. evening news. THERE WAS NO LIVE COVERAGE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.
WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE: Since UC Berkeley is only 2 blocks or so from the KPFA station and UC San Francisco at Parnassus and Mission Bay (the medical school) and Hastings Law School of San Francisco are just across the Bay from Berkeley, there should have been:
1. Live Noontime coverage of the entire UC Berkeley rally
2. Live coverage of the march of thousands of people on the UC Berkeley campus and in the streets of Berkeley.
3. Live coverage of the entire UCLA rally re-broadcast on KPFA during the hour that is Hard Knock radio.
4. Live reports from all 10 UC campuses starting at 7 a.m. when the pickets were first put up at all the campuses, with live interviews of as many people as possible who walked the picketlines. With cell phones, this is much easier than the 1960s and 1970s, and we had live street coverage then too.
THIS WAS A MILESTONE EVENT THAT KPFA AND KPFK SHOULD HAVE COVERED LIVE ALL DAY LONG. That is how community radio builds support, reporting the news from the community in which it exists. ALL POLITICS ARE LOCAL, and education is a primary example. Without a strong free, public educational system from pre-school through university, no society can call itself a democracy or an industrialized society.
The paltry coverage of the statewide UC strike on KPFA today, 9/24/09, was so shameful that if the Concerned Listeners are again allowed to prevail on the Local Station Board, KPFA is dead. If that happens, we will have to start a new radio station, not an easy task.
For more information:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-...
Add Your Comments
Comments
(Hide Comments)
As a long time Peace and Freedom party member, this is very disappointing. PFP is showing it is just as clueless as the local Green Party groups to endorse such divisive antagonistic and destructive people as Phelps, Woods, and Sanders. I think this is it for me and PFP, you guys are just tilting at windmills while helping the real tyrants destroy Pacifica.
Here are some of the things I have done for democracy and transparency and accountability at KPFA and Pacifica. I hope they have been "destructive" to the opportunistic attempts by Concerned Listeners (CL) and their allies to dominate and not democratize. I also hope they have educated the listener activists that are sometimes slow on the uptake in understanding who we are dealing with in this struggle.
Exposd the practice of selling speeches and not playing them for all to hear "The Alternative Home Shopping network"
"Pacifica Financial Crisis-Who is Responsible" showing how a power hungry collusion almost destroyed WBAI and Pacifica.
Worked with La Varn Williams and Patty Heffley to get Pacifica to allow Director's Inspections, wrote 11 page legal and historical analysis.
Defended Miguel Molina when he was targeted by Mgt. for exercising his free speech rights and saying "Be there" about an anti-war rally. First on the scene to give the correct legal and political analysis of "calls to action".
Developed a progressive protocol for the LSB report to the listeners which included having folks for both sides invited to participate. Personally made sure each program was produced despite attempts to drop the program while on the LSB.
Made sure that CL ex-Director paid back the cost of her attempt to get a free trip to Houston on listener donations despite much heat from her allies. I always wondered why they weren't trying to protect listener donations?
Wrote several motions for greater transparency on the LSB. One would have required PNB members to report back to the LSB and local listeners on the motions they voted on and how they voted at PNB meetings.
First to challenge Dan Siegel about conflicts of interest and his self-serving "Confidentiality Agreement" and many other issues.
Chaired the LSB meetings fairly and as efficiently as possible given the constant disruptions by KPFAForward folks, later to become CL.
Regularly giving free legal advice to various PNB Directors.
Agent for various Directors inspections of Pacifica records.
Many other things, some that can't be discussed because of Attornry Client privilege.
Exposd the practice of selling speeches and not playing them for all to hear "The Alternative Home Shopping network"
"Pacifica Financial Crisis-Who is Responsible" showing how a power hungry collusion almost destroyed WBAI and Pacifica.
Worked with La Varn Williams and Patty Heffley to get Pacifica to allow Director's Inspections, wrote 11 page legal and historical analysis.
Defended Miguel Molina when he was targeted by Mgt. for exercising his free speech rights and saying "Be there" about an anti-war rally. First on the scene to give the correct legal and political analysis of "calls to action".
Developed a progressive protocol for the LSB report to the listeners which included having folks for both sides invited to participate. Personally made sure each program was produced despite attempts to drop the program while on the LSB.
Made sure that CL ex-Director paid back the cost of her attempt to get a free trip to Houston on listener donations despite much heat from her allies. I always wondered why they weren't trying to protect listener donations?
Wrote several motions for greater transparency on the LSB. One would have required PNB members to report back to the LSB and local listeners on the motions they voted on and how they voted at PNB meetings.
First to challenge Dan Siegel about conflicts of interest and his self-serving "Confidentiality Agreement" and many other issues.
Chaired the LSB meetings fairly and as efficiently as possible given the constant disruptions by KPFAForward folks, later to become CL.
Regularly giving free legal advice to various PNB Directors.
Agent for various Directors inspections of Pacifica records.
Many other things, some that can't be discussed because of Attornry Client privilege.
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!
Donate
$35.00 donated
in the past month
Get Involved
If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.
Publish
Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.
Topics
More
Search Indybay's Archives
Advanced Search
►
▼
IMC Network