What Does the Future of Progressive Media Look Like? You Get to Decide. Join us on Saturday, March 5, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. to 2 p.m., for a Town Hall Meeting powered by the Community Advisory Board of KPFT. The purpose of this Town Hall meeting is to bring programmers, listeners, and people from diverse […]
Fernando Velazquez, Presente! Judy Marksman, Rest in Power! Fernando Velazquez, co-anchor and co-producer of Informativo Pacifica with Norma Martinez, tragically passed away February 12 of a ruptured aneurysm. He dedicated 40 years of his life to Pacifica radio and in particular KPFK as a producer, programmer, mentor, organizer, news director, international and internationalist broadcaster, elected […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]