KPFA Local Board Meeting

The LSB has always met on Saturdays. Why the move to a week night?

The move to have some meetings on weeknights is to allow a member to attend at least some of the meetings who has a job conflict on Saturday afternoons. Since this member belongs to the then-minority faction (ICR), the Concerned Listeners group never agreed to hold any meetings on times other than Saturday afternoons for the past 2 years. Now that CL is no longer a majority - narrowly - the Independents decided that meetings should, at a minimum, rotate times so that no one member is forced to miss all of them due to scheduling issues.

Best,

Tracy Rosenberg
(Listener Rep - ICR)

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I have no problem with the time change . But i am a little concerned with the lack of unity among those up against KPFA's top dogs . For example during the campaign i was very impressed with candidates from the Independents and Peoples Radio . i never understood though why there wasn't a single slate .
So several of the Independent slate won but none of the Peoples Radio guys . I think that's really too bad .
I think we could use KPFA vets like Rick Phelps and Stan Woods back on the board . They both sounded great on the air .Instead we have at least a couple of Newbees who's knowledge of and commitment to the keeping of Pacifica as a radical cutting edge alternative is questionable .
My question to Tracy is shouldn't all of those who are working for this common goal be supported ? Why didn't you endorse the above candidate as well as your slatemates ?