We, KPFA Staff members, are fed up with the escalating internal conflict at the station. We believe these overheated and public battles are destructive to our station and our communities. We call on all KPFA staff, Local Station Board members and subscribers to stop wasting time, energy and money on these fights, so the station can instead focus on serving its listeners and addressing the critical issues of our time. We urge all KPFA listener-subscribers to reject the infighting by voting “no” on the recall of KPFA board member Tracy Rosenberg.
Shahram Aghamir – Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
Nick Alexander - reporter, producer; member of API (Asian Pacific Islander) Specials radio collective.
Khalil Bendib – Voices of the Middle East & North Africa
Mary Berg – A Musical Offering
Dennis Bernstein – Flashpoints
Bonnie Bone – Early Morning Music
Joseph Bolden – Poor News Network, Morning Mix
Afrikahn Jahmal Dayvs – Ear Thyme
Davey D. – Hard Knock Radio, Morning Mix
Lisa Dettmer – Women’s Magazine
Joseph Estrada – Full Circle
Bonnie Faulkner – Guns & Butter
Anthony Fest – Weekend News, Morning Mix
Ann Garrison – Weekend News
Lisa Gray-Garcia – Poor News Network, Morning Mix
Mickey Huff – Project Censored, Morning Mix
David Landau – Morning Mix
Adrienne Lauby – Pushing Limits, Morning Mix
Clay Leander – Unpaid Staff Program Council Representative, LaRaza Chronicles
Adam David Miller – Poet
Evangeline Mix – Volunteer Receptionist
Miguel Gavilan Molina – La Onda Bajita & Flashpoints En Espanol
Joy Moore, Fund drive, Full Circle, About Health
Robbie Osman – Across the Great Divide
Peter Phillips – Project Censored, Morning Mix
Emmit Powell – The Gospel Experience
Kate Raphael – Women’s Magazine
Malihe Razazan – Voices of the Middle East & North Africa
Andy Lee Roth – Project Censored/Morning Mix
Art Sato – In Your Ear
Nina Serrano – Book Waves: Open Book, La Raza Chronicles
Andres Soto – Morning Mix
Frank Sterling – Flashpoints, Full Circle
JR Valrey – The Morning Mix, Hard Knock Radio, Transitions on Traditions, Block Report Radio.com
Carla West – Flashpoints
Mari Villaluna – Poor News Network, Morning Mix
Steve Zeltzer – Morning Mix
I have always admired KPFK and hope that this recall will not happen.
Carolyn Harris
Los Angeles
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Amen.
Maggie Kaigler-former volunteer KPFA News Reporter 2005-2008
Loyal Listener KPFA 1990-2012
I tithe to KPFA.
I have a hard time understanding what the REAL issues are in this conflict. The Staff Endorsers Statement only mentions that they are fed up with conflict. This is not a very good reason to take a stand for or against something. Maybe the infighting is a good thing if it were a good cause. Of course, I am having difficulty trying to find out what the cause is on both sides. Is this all about political leanings within the Foundation and the stations. Is the YES group further to the right wing than the NO group? Is that what it is about?
Take a look at the FAQ — in particular the section titled “What’s this really about?” That might help.
Don’t keep cutting staff at KPFA. Its July 29, 2012. Well, I’ve been reading through the information on the recall, and I can’t decide whether to tear up the ballet (and then recycle it), or to vote yes or no. I don’t like the infighting, or wasted money, but I don’t feel that purging staff of popular programs was a good idea. I pretty much like what I hear on KPFA and the mix of shows produced by paid staff as well as volunteers. I don’t understand the conflicts. It appears that pacifica foundation is not producing much programing, and is taking money raised at the stations. Would the stations have more money if they didn’t have to pay to pacifica foundation? I don’t know.
Another thing I have been reading in the arguments on both sides is whether the listener donations come in for one program or another. I may be wrong, but when I think about myself, when I donate, I am supporting pretty much all the programs, news music, cover to cover, and explorations, herbal highway and visionary activist and most everything else I listen to throughout the day. I think it would be hard to say definitively that one particular program brings in a specific amount of donations.
Longtime listener, Gordan Lawrence
Each station pays Pacifica Foundation 19.5% of their listener support — 2.5% goes to support the Pacifica Radio Archives, the remaining 17% pays for shared expenses: Democracy Now! ($600+k/year), the auditor, insurance, the satellite connections, the accounting and admin staff necessary to maintain the licenses and the network, and various other expenses … you can see the whole list in the audit posted at http://www.pacifica.org/finance_forms.php on page 25 at the back. The Pacifica Affiliates programm pays for itself and its staff with fees from affiliate stations.