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Choices at KPFA, KPFK
Community Radio for the Future, or Failing Gatekeepers of the Past? A couple of recent op ed pieces make the choices clear — the rule-or-ruin elements that want to break up Pacifica have no real solutions. Only a commitment to the radical community-based voices that are shaping the future will restore the stations’ relevance and […]
NES Explains KPFK Candidate Disqualification
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, […]
NES Election Report Released
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 […]
Say No to ‘Progressive’ White Supremacy
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 […]
Pacifica Fightback Town Hall
November 13, 2021
Save the Date: PFB National Town Hall Sat. Nov. 13, 4 PM PST
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 […]
Open Letter & Petition to KPFT GM Robert Franklin – Restore BIPOC Programs!
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 […]
Election Difficulties Persist
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 […]
National PFB Candidates’ Forum Sept. 12
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 […]