Defend KPFA and Pacifica, Project 2025 & The Rise Of Fascism Emergency Speak-Out At KPFA

Defend KPFA and Pacifica, Project 2025 & The Rise Of Fascism
Emergency Speak-Out At KPFA
July 31, 2024 12:00 pm Emergency Speak-Out At KPFA
KPFA
1929 MLK Blvd
Berkeley

There will be an emergency speakout in front of KPFA on Wednesday July 31, 2024 to protest the attack on KPFA and Pacifica by members of the KPFA Local Station Board. These members who are part of the Protecting KPFA group have filed complaints with the FCC to deny a license to Pacifica Affiliate WBAI. That complaint has led to the FCC putting entire Pacifica under a monitorship and are now engaged in intensive oversight of fundraising of all stations of Pacifica.

This has led to complaints by programmers at KPFA and other stations and as a result of this government intervention KPFA and two other stations have cancelled their summer fund drive despite the deep financial crisis at Pacifica. The cancelling of the fundraising in this dire financial crisis is a threat to KPFA and Pacifica.

This real threat against KPFA and Pacifica because of these complaints to the FCC by members of KPFA's The Protectors group is extremely dangerous since the election of a Trump government and their control of the FCC could lead to the immediate closure of Pacifica using the pretext of these complaints by "KPFA Protectors”. Project 2025, is a fascist program that specifically mentions the need to take action against the Pacifica Foundation.

Speakers will also discuss the refusal of the manager to attend the bi-monthly KPFA Local Station meetings to give reports to the elected Local Station Board which governs the Local Stations. The so called "Protectors" continue to defend their complaints to the FCC about WBAI and their lawsuits pushing to illegally amend the bylaws to eliminate democratic governance and allow them to appoint their cronies from the listeners and the staff.

Rescue Pacifica members, candidates and supporters of KPFA and Pacifica will discuss the threat of fascism and the growing need to build KPFA and Pacifica in this time of great threat to democratic communication rights. They will also discuss the importance of having democratic elections at KPFA with carts of the candidates and live debates on the air of all the candidates. In the past the management has prevented full debates on the air of the candidates and having them prominently linked on the website.

We support KPFA as an activist workers and people's network so it can become a relevant media voice opposing US wars abroad including the genocide in Gaza and and the rise of fascism in the US.

The present KFPA "Protectors" have also voted down a resolution to oppose the genocide by Israel and support by the United States for these war crimes.

Rescue Pacifica Emergency Speak-out At KPFA
Sponsored by Rescue Pacifica

Support KPFA Rescue Pacifica 2024 Candidates In The Upcoming Election

Rescue Pacifica Candidates:

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi -- Professor of Ethnic Studies / Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University, member of the Board of Advisors of National Students for Justice in Palestine, author of over 80 articles, books, and book chapters in seven languages

Virginia Browning -- Former LSB member, previously served on KPFA and Pacifica national committees, former co-chair of Standing Together for Accountable Neighborhood Development (STAND)

Donna C Carter -- Current LSB and Pacifica National Board member, anti-war and anti-racism activist for many years, former nurse contract negotiator

Michai Freeman -- Former Chair of the Berkeley Disability Commission, Systems Change Advocate at the Center for Independent Living, and 2022 Berkeley City Council candidate whom we endorsed back then

Felipe "Phil" Messina -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) member, previously worked with Valley Improvement Projects and with Modesto Cop Watch

Phoebe Thomas (fka Phoebe Sorgen) -- Former LSB member, Social Justice Committee chair for the Berkeley Fellowship of UU’s, BCA Steering Committee member, Move to Amend East Bay Steering Committee member

Pathma Venasithamby -- former UC Berkeley staff member, software engineer, member of Jewish Voice for Peace who has lobbied Congress in Washington, DC

Stan Woods -- Former ILWU Local 6 Executive Board member, member of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, member of the Oscar Grant Committee against Police Brutality and State Repression


Additional Media:
The Rise Of Fascism & Danger To KPFA & Pacifica: Report To KPFA Pacifica Listeners In The South Bay
https://youtu.be/0c-6zIfBk-E
KPFA Pacifica's 75th Anniversary & The Genocide In Gaza https://youtu.be/uWeACjMHcYk
Defend Democracy & Journalists At KPFA & Pacific-Rescue Pacifica Supporters Speak Out
https://youtu.be/I_PXufckOY8
KPFA Journalist Frank Sterling, , Elections, Pacifica & The Fight Against The Racist Antioch Police
https://youtu.be/I_PXufckOY8
KPFA & Pacifica Radio Network Struggle For Democracy & Transparency In LSB Elections
https://youtu.be/_-uuWZpFwpU
Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA Pacifica In Berkeley https://youtu.be/DzzoEnzvJPE
Shut Up Or Speak Out! KPFA Press Conference For Democracy & Transparency
https://youtu.be/hbHUrLR9Wy0
The KPFA Local Station Candidate Debates On the Air! Youtube Won't Do & Stop Rigging Elections! https://youtu.be/95PHBEWymrQ
KPFA Business Maria Negret Report To Staff On Failure to Pay Property Taxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AhKXQZPFLk&t=322s
KPFA Bylaw Referendum Debate July 2, 2021 https://kpfa.org/archives/2021/7/2/
KPFA Pacifica Local Station Board/Public Discuss On Financial Crisis, Bankruptcy & Governance
https://youtu.be/WsN9lZPQrJs
For more information: Rescue Pacifica
https://rescuepacifica.net