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KPFA local board, staff object to Pacifica’s removal of station manager
Pacifica’s top official moved to oust KPFA’s interim general manager, Andrew Phillips in a phone call on April 12th. Phillips told KPFA’s elected Local Station Board (LSB) on April 13 that interim Pacifica executive director Summer Reese told him to vacate his office within a week. Here’s a report that ran on the Pacifica Evening News. The LSB passed two measures in response. The first states: “The KPFA Local Station Board opposes any move by Pacifica to remove or replace a KPFA manager without the meaningful participation of KPFA’s elected Local Station Board and consultation with KPFA’s paid and unpaid … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Leslie Phillips, Arlene Engelhardt, KPFA, Pacifica National Board, Summer Reese
Tagged Andrew Leslie Phillips, KPFA, local, local control, Pacifica National Board, Summer Reese
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Financial results: KPFA beating budget, Pacifica lagging
KPFA’s most recent fund drive turnaround seems to have had a big impact on the station’s bottom line. On February 23, Pacifica distributed first-quarter income statements for the network. Brian Edwards-Tiekert (now serving as KPFA’s staff rep on the Pacifica National Board) reported the statements “show KPFA outperforming its budget to the tune of $115,000 in just three months. The main driver is KPFA’s fund drives — the statements show that KPFA brought in $154,348 more listener support than budgeted” before the most recent drive even started. “The bad news,” said Edwards-Tiekert, “is that KPFA appears to be the only … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Edwards-Tiekert, budget, elections and governance, fund drives, Pacifica National Board
Tagged Arlene Engelhardt, budget, Free Speech Radio News, KPFA, Pacifica National Board, Pacifica National Office
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New board members seated at Pacifica (finally)
After much delay, the Pacifica National Board (PNB) seated newly-elected reps from its stations at a February 22-25 meeting in New York. SaveKPFA-affiliated rep Margy Wilkinson was one of them. In her report-back, Wilkinson said highlights included a short video about the Pacifica Radio Archives and a full-length documentary about WBAI’s Bob Fass. She added that most of the meeting was spent behind closed doors in “executive” sessions, at least one of which was “probably held in violation of the law governing public vs. executive sessions.” “We received no written reports from Summer [Reese] in her role as either as … Continue reading
Posted in elections and governance, fund drives, Pacifica ban on dissent, Pacifica National Board
Tagged KPFA, Pacifica National Board
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Lame-duck Pacifica board rushes to approve anti-dissent “loyalty” rules
Has there ever been a Pacifica board more out of touch with KPFA’s listeners? Three days ago, the board’s lame-duck majority passed a McCarthy-like resolution to quash dissenters in the network. Hundreds of listeners and staff wrote to members of the Pacifica National Board (PNB) earlier this month when the anti-dissent “loyalty” measure first came up, calling it a political witch hunt. (A sampling of the letters is here, and you can add your voice here.) “Putting forward rules about ‘loyalty’ under the guise of financial duty is a trick that Joe McCarthy himself would have been proud of,” wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Crosier, KPFA, Margy Wilkinson, Pacifica, Pacifica ban on dissent, Pacifica National Board, Summer Reese, Tracy Rosenberg
Tagged fundraising, KPFA, KPFA Morning Show, Pacifica National Board
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Anti-dissent measure on Pacifica’s Jan 10 agenda
On less than four days’ notice, the lame-duck Pacifica National Board has scheduled a vote on a resolution designed to prevent people who dissent from the current majority from serving on local or national boards. After we alerted SaveKPFA supporters to this, hundreds wrote, calling the measure what it is: a political witchhunt. “I’m stunned that a measure about ‘loyalty’ should even be considered by a Pacifica board,” wrote listener Alan Snitow. “Please stop this measure and repudiate its intent. The loyalty measure is the kind of pseudo-leftwing idea that merges Stalinism and McCarthyism.” “How can you dare to try to turn … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Steinberg WBAI, Bill Crosier, elections and governance, free speech, Kathy Davis WBAI, KPFA, legal, Morning Show 4, Pacifica, Tracy Rosenberg
Tagged KPFA, Morning Show 4, Pacifica, Pacifica loyalty resolution, Pacifica National Board
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Banning dissent at Pacifica?
Before votes in KPFA’s local board election are even counted, Tracy Rosenberg and her allies at the national level continue to do damage to Pacifica’s structure and mission. Earlier this week, the Pacifica National Board, which is dominated by Rosenberg and her allies, passed a measure that prohibits those who dissent from Rosenberg’s agenda from serving on local or national boards. “The resolution banning those deemed ‘disloyal’ which was presented to the board by Tracy is pure McCarthy era,” noted Sasha Futran, KPFA’s former Local Station Board vice chair. “The appeal process is a sham, as any appeals would go … Continue reading
Posted in elections and governance, free speech, KPFA, Morning Show 4
Tagged censorship, fundraising, KPFA listeners, Lew Hill, Morning Show 4, Pacifica National Board
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Why this vote matters
“The result of these elections could determine whether Pacifica survives or continues its slide into bankruptcy,” writes Pacifica National Board member and SaveKPFA activist Dan Siegel in Counterpunch. “Pacifica has always been fractious, back to when KPFA was founded as its first station in 1949,” he continues, going on to describe the network’s current leadership as “inept and politically sectarian.” That leadership, he writes, “has brought the Foundation to its knees. It has spent down all its reserves, incurring cumulative deficits of $5.7 million in the last four fiscal years, according to its 2012 audit report.” | READ Siegel’s article … Continue reading
Posted in Dan Siegel, elections and governance, endorsers, Independents for Community Radio, KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, Tracy Rosenberg, United for Community Radio, WBAI, WPFW
Tagged KPFA, kpfk, KPFT, Pacifica National Board, SaveKPFA, WBAI, WPFW
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Recall response: we called it!
SIGN THE PETITION HERE In our last newsletter we pointed out that, when Tracy Rosenberg used a lawsuit to scuttle the count of recall ballots, her own court filings argued that it would cost KPFA very little money to fix the recall’s procedural problems by sending out a new ballot in the same envelope as the general election ballots due to be mailed on November 6. Here’s what Rosenberg’s legal filing says: “It is understood that that PACIFICA has incurred expenses in conducting the present recall….However, the cost to Pacifica of a new election can be mitigated since it is … Continue reading
Posted in KPFA recall, KPFA recall vote, Pacifica, recall Tracy Rosenberg, Tracy Rosenberg, United for Community Radio
Tagged KPFA, Pacifica National Board, petition, recall Tracy Rosenberg, tracy rosenberg
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Rosenberg blocks recall vote count
An Alameda County judge has granted Pacifica treasurer Tracy Rosenberg‘s request to block any counting of the thousands of ballots in the recall election against her cast by KPFA members this summer. The election was triggered after more than 800 KPFA listeners who signed petitions seeking Rosenberg’s removal from the Pacifica National Board over her role in killing the Morning Show, misappropriating members’ email addresses, and other abuses. At the time, the Morning Show was the most listened-to program produced at KPFA, and the station’s biggest fundraiser. Rosenberg delays vote, then sues over delay Shortly before the ballot count was … Continue reading
Posted in elections and governance, endorsers, Independents for Community Radio, KPFA, KPFA recall, legal, Matt Ward, recall election, recall Tracy Rosenberg, United for Community Radio
Tagged Independents for Community Radio, KPFA, kpfa recall vote, Pacifica National Board, tracy rosenberg, United for Community Radio
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