Here are some key excerpts from the NES Report: The quality of staff lists – particularly unpaid staff lists – was challenging. Due to the pandemic, there were many shifts in programming especially amongst stations with larger unpaid staff (KPFA, KPFK and WBAI). Coupled with changes in management at KPFK and KPFT, vetting the lists […]
KPFK Candidate Disqualifications A unique situation occurred during the 2021 delegate election: A misuse of the KPFK membership list resulted in the disqualification of four KPFK candidates. One of the disqualified candidates, Robert Payne, asked the NES to use the KPFK mailing list to do a mailing. 2 Day Postcards, a vendor based in Houston, […]
We the undersigned submit this action-letter to you and for you to sign onto it and disseminate it further, to make this a living document to educate, agitate and organize against white supremacy. We its initial signatories are committed to recognizing white supremacy and interrogating it in whatever manner it manifests, and most decidedly when […]
November 13, 2021
Pacifica Fightback will be hosting a national virtual town hall via zoom on Saturday, November 13 at 4:00 PM Pacific (6 PM Central/7 Eastern) to discuss the recently completed election process and lessons from it for running a participatory democratic election for listener and staff delegates next year as scheduled, and to consider how Pacifica’s […]
Dear KPFT General Manager Robert Franklin: We are very concerned about some KPFT program changes that preceded your joining as General Manager. You have inherited long-term and short term messes and we thank you for taking up the challenge of leading the station’s renewal. A rash of changes in June had the effect of marginalizing […]
This is an alert about serious problems in Pacifica’s Delegate / Local Station Board elections. The National Election Supervisor seems reluctant to use her full authority to direct that station management put candidate information on the radio where it is easily accessible to the greatest number of people. Online information is not a substitute; it […]
On Sept. 12, Pacifica Fightback is hosting a national candidates’ forum via zoom, featuring candidates for the Local Station Board at WBAI, KPFT, KPFK, and KPFA, including from the Justice & Unity Coalition, Stand4KPFT, the Grassroots Community Radio Coalition, and Rescue Pacifica. Michael Novick is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Pacifica Fightback […]
Thanks to listeners raising the demand and the PNB passing a mandate, live on-air candidate forums with opportunity for listener-call-ins are starting to air on Pacifica stations, plus PFB will be hosting a forum for some of our candidates at various stations via zoom. Here’s the schedule: BROADCAST & VIRTUAL PACIFICA LISTENER CANDIDATE DEBATES/FORUMS ••ON-AIR•• […]
Have you heard any candidate forums on your Pacifica station? The Pacifica Bylaws require that: “All candidates for election as a Listener-Sponsor Delegate shall be given equal opportunity for equal air time, which air time shall include time for a statement by the candidate and a question and answer period with call-in listeners.” This has […]