Media Alliance Executive Director Tracy Rosenberg. Photo via Facebook.
By Ann Garrison, guest commentary.
July 2, 2012
On Thursday, June 28, KPFA Radio mailed ballots to all KPFA subscribers. These aren’t actually ballots for the Local Station Board election, which will take place later this year. Instead, they’re ballots for voting on whether or not to recall Media Alliance Executive Director Tracy Rosenberg from the KPFA Local Station Board (LSB), and thus, from the Pacifica National Board (PNB), which makes decisions regarding the Pacifica Network of 5 metropolitan stations: KPFA-Berkeley, KPFK-Los Angeles, KPFK-Houston, WBAI-Washington D.C. and WBAI-New York City. I’m often surprised at how many listeners don’t realize that KPFA is part of a network of five sister stations and somewhere between one and two hundred affiliate stations, co-founded by Lew Hill, a pacifist who served in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II.
All Pacifica stations play a combination of local, national, and international programming, and collaborate, sometimes in programming across the network, like Democracy Now’s broadcast from the Supreme Court last week. Some shows produced at KPFA, including Flashpoints and Letters and Politics, air on other sister stations and/or smaller affiliate stations all across the country.
Why do KPFA and the Pacifica Network matter? Oakland media and entertainment lawyer and former Pacifica Foundation President Peter Franck says why Pacifica and all its sister and affiliate stations matter as eloquently as anyone:
“Pacifica is profoundly subversive because it breaks the media consensus; it’s the little boy who says that the emperor has no clothes. The little boy’s comment spreads beyond the castle, even if only a few people were actually in the room to hear it. Without Pacifica saying that Obama is killing innocents with drones, who would write about it in the NY Times?”
Arguably, this is best for Obama or whomever else commands and controls the most lethal arsenal on earth, and better for all those who voted for Obama in 2008 and who may do so again, still hoping for peace and more than spare change. The truth is the best starting point for all of us. There was a lot of talk, after the 2008 election, about the need to “hold Obama accountable,” but the corporate media rarely does so unless they’re pushed.
Assuming that some number of you reading this also listen to KPFA and have given $25 or three hours of your time to the station in the past year, and, have therefore received a recall ballot, why should you take the time to vote in this special election attempt to recall Tracy Rosenberg from the KPFA Local and Pacific National Boards?
Well, because the KPFA Local Station Board members vote on KPFA’s budget. They don’t vote on what goes on the air, but they vote on the budget, which of course, indirectly, has to do with programming, with the condition of the station’s equipment, and with social relations at the station and within the KPFA listener community. They also make recommendations to the Executive Director of the Pacifica Foundation about whom they would like to see hired as KPFA’s General Manager and Program Director, and those two managers, together, make final decisions about programming on KPFA airwaves and webstreams. The Pacifica National Board (PNB), which is made up of delegates elected by the Local Station Boards, plays a similar role throughout the network.
As a KPFA and WBAI programmer, and a listener subscriber for many years before I ever did any programming, I adamantly oppose recalling Tracy. I know Pacifica well enough to know that, as a KPFA LSB and PNB member, she does not have the authority to hire and fire, lay employees off, or make programming changes at KPFA, which is what the Recall Tracy Rosenberg campaign accuse her of, above all. I also know that Tracy’s one of the most knowledgeable, vocal, committed, hardworking, and effective media activists in the country. I recommend following her Huffington Post blog on media justice.
During the summer of 2011, I sat through a KPFA Local Station Board meeting in Berkeley, where the main subject was the presentation of a KPFA budget shortfall. Board members went back and forth about who and what to cut because of the shortfall, till Tracy was given a chance to point out two big mistakes in the budget. Her corrections eliminated half the shortfall – over $50,000. That is not the person to recall from the Local Station Board when it has to tackle the consequences of the most recent fund drive shortfall.
Another principle complaint of a vocal group of listeners, including those attempting to recall Tracy, has been Aimee Allison’s departure from KPFA airwaves, in lay-offs according to seniority, as stipulated in the Communications Workers of America (CWA) contract with KPFA. Tracy herself has argued that a “last hired, first fired” seniority rule is damaging to a dynamic, media outlet, but that’s what the CWA contract stipulates now. And, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that KPFA honored the contract in every dispute arising from the 2010 lay-offs.
All that said, I hope that readers who are also KPFA subscribers will study the blogs of both campaigns: Recall Tracy Rosenberg and Stop the KPFA Recall, and whatever information comes with their ballots. And, that they’ll listen to the archive of this on-air debate (6/29/12) between Tracy and KPFA Local Station Board Chair Margy Wilkinson, at this hot link: KPFA Archives LSB Recall Show. The actual debate begins at roughly 5 minutes, 30 seconds in, after a musical break.
And, to any readers who have not given the minimum $25 or three hours that would make you eligible to vote in this special election, please consider contributing now, so as to be able to vote during the regular Local Station Board elections in the fall.
KPFA won’t be yours unless you take an interest, contribute what you can, and vote in your Local Station Board elections.
The Hunger Site
February 7, 2013 at 1:11 am
I think even Tracy knows it mattered — which is why she used legal shenanigans to block the recall vote. BOOOO!
October 3, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Ms. Garrison is as intelligent as she is beautiful and she’s right on target with this ‘Save KPFA’ fraud of the LibDem establishment hacks who have been at KPFA for over 30 years and have helped to wreck the station. Vote NO on the Tracy Rosenberg recall.
February 13, 2013 at 8:34 pm
Oh my, thank you. I just noticed all the traffic on this piece from almost half a year ago now, started scrolling through to read what’s new, and saw this. Thank you, thank you.
August 7, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Rosenberg sues over KPFA recall, ballot count delayed
It’s been almost a year since SaveKPFA
submitted over 800 signatures from KPFA listener-members seeking the
removal of Pacifica Treasurer Tracy Rosenberg — the architect of
Pacifica’s purge of the Morning Show. Against our wishes, and over our
repeated protests, Pacifica delayed the recall election past December 31
— which was the date called for in its own rules and bylaws. That
bought Rosenberg’s supporters six months to raise money for a “no”
campaign mailing.
In a bizarre turn of events, Rosenberg has now sued
Pacifica over that very delay. Her legal argument? That the gap between
the voter eligibility deadline Pacifica set when it verified the recall
petitions, and the date Pacifica actually mailed the ballots, is too
long. Her suit asks for the recall election to be thrown out altogether,
and asks the judge to make Pacifica pay her attorneys’ fees. Don’t
expect Pacifica’s attorneys to defend this one too vigorously…
On August 1, an Alameda County Superior Court judge issued a temporary
order to place all recall ballots under seal until a hearing on
Rosenberg’s lawsuit, now scheduled for September 10. On August 4,
SaveKPFA observers documented the retrieval of recall ballots from a
Berkeley PO box this weekend, and their sequestration in a nearby safe
deposit box. They report what appears to be a VERY LARGE number of
ballots waiting to be counted.
See: http://www.savekpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ballotsatpostoffice.jpg
SaveKPFA offers a few thoughts on these latest developments:
Rosenberg could have raised her procedural concerns much sooner —
perhaps even before ballots were mailed. The suit doesn’t appear to be
the action of someone who wants a smooth election process, but rather
that of someone seeking maximum delay.
Rosenberg filed the suit
just before ballots were to be counted, and sought an order to prevent
the counting itself (rather than to prevent Pacifica from acting on
whatever the count was). This indicates Rosenberg expected to lose the
vote count.
Any remedy likely to come from her lawsuit —
including an entirely new election — is unlikely to produce a different
result. So Rosenberg appears to be playing for time.
Rosenberg
told the East Bay Express that the vote was too expensive, but KPFA
listener-member Mark Spindler told the Daily Californian that “the
question should be why is Pacifica teaming with anti-union attorneys” to
use donations to fight listeners and staff. He added that Rosenberg
“needs to be held accountable for what she has done, and this recall is
the vehicle for that.”
February 7, 2013 at 1:13 am
I voted YES, recall. My vote was blocked by Tracy’s shenanigans. This is democracy? No, this is corruption and dirty tactics.
July 13, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Check out the facts before you vote. Here are some GREAT reads on KPFA’s finances and what’s happening inside the station:
http://www.savekpfa.org/facts-about-the-kpfa-situation/kpfa-financial-facts http://www.savekpfa.org/facts-about-the-kpfa-situation/why-is-kpfa-broke http://www.savekpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/MargyWilkinson_YesonKPFArecall.pdf http://www.savekpfa.org/layoffs-imminent-at-kpfa-vote-yes-on-the-kpfa-recall-to-stop-the-next-purge http://http://www.savekpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/AileenAlfandaryrecallendorse.pdf http://www.savekpfa.org/kpfa-listeners-look-for-your-recall-ballot-then-vote-yes
July 15, 2012 at 8:45 pm
We urge you to VOTE YES on the recall!
(this is a partial list, see full list here:
http://www.savekpfa.org/endorsements-2/kpfa-recall-endorsers)
ACT UP EAST BAY
AILEEN ALFANDARY, co-director, KPFA News
EMILY ALMA, Chico Peace and Justice Center, Butte Environmental Council, Occupy
Chico, Chico Palestine Action Group
DR. NANCY ARVOLD, psychologist, social activist, feminist
L. AYRES-FREDERICK, Artistic Director, Phoenix Arts Association Theatre
TINA BACHEMIN, KPFA reporter
DAVID BACON, labor correspondent, former KPFA Morning Show; TNG/ CWA Local
39521
BOB BALDOCK, KPFA Public Events Producer
VIC BEDOIAN, Pacifica Evening News Central Valley reporter, Fresno
JIM BENNETT, Former Interim General Manager, KPFA, Former Pacifica National
Board Member, Former Operations Director, KPFA
LARRY BENSKY, Pacifica National Affairs correspondent (1987-2007)
LAYNA BERMAN, unpaid weekly programmer
IAN BOAL, social historian of the commons
SUMMER BRENNER, author, Richmond Tales, and community activist
MALCOLM BURNSTEIN, KPFA board member and retired civil rights lawyer
SCOTT CAMIL, Activist
CATHY CAMPBELL, president, Berkeley Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1078
CLAIRE CUMMINGS, former Food and Farming editor, KPFA
LAWRENCE DAVIDSON, former co-host of KPFA’s Probabilities
JIM DAVIS, filmmaker, Meeting Room
JANE DICKSON, artist
PAMELA DRAKE, Oakland activist, KPFA Local Station Board member
ELLEN DUBROWIN, listener, former programmer & off-air staff (unpaid)
STEVE EARLY, labor journalist (CounterPunch), TNG/ CWA Local 39521
BRIAN EDWARDS-TIEKERT, KPFA News
BARBARA EPSTEIN, professor, History of Consciousness, UCSC
JAN ETRE, Crafts Fair Coordinator
DANA FRANK, Professor, History, UC Santa Cruz, AFT 1299
JULIANA FREDMAN, public interest attorney and activist
JON FROMER, singer/songwriter, NABET/CWA Local 51 shop steward
GLORIA FRYM, writer
SASHA FUTRAN, member, KPFA local station board
DAVID GANS, music programmer, KPFA board member
SHERRY GENDELMAN, attorney, former chair, KPFA board; former chair, Pacifica
National Board
PAUL GEORGE, director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
SUZANNE GORDON, journalist and author, NWU/UAW
ANDREJ GRUBACIC, anarchist historian, author of Wobblies and Zapatistas
MIGUEL GUERRERO, KPFA web producer, producer of Rock en Rebelion
CONN HALLINAN, foreign policy analyst, Foreign Policy In Focus, Institute
for Policy Study, columnist, LSB member
MATTHEW HALLINAN, listener rep, KPFA Local Station Board
JOHN HAMILTON, KPFA News anchor
WILLIAM HARVEY, Retired Sec/Treas CWA Local 9415, Retired President Alameda
County Labor Council AFL-CIO
JANE HEAVEN, KPFA producer/host, field recording engineer
JANE HIRSHFIELD, poet, author, listener-member
JOHN IVERSON, health activist
SHEILA JORDAN, Alameda County Superintendent of Schools
RAMSEY KANAAN, KPFA unpaid staff, founder AK Press and PM Press, co-founder San
Francisco Anarchist Bookfair
CHRIS KAVANAGH, former elected Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner
(2002-2008), former Green Party of Alameda County Central/County Council member
LARRY KELP, KPFA producer and host, Sing Out!
LISA KERMISH, Vice President, UPTE-CWA Local 9119
SHELLEY KESSLER, Secretary-Treasurer, San Mateo Labor Council
ROSE KETABCHI, KPFA News
ERIC KLEIN, former FSRN tech producer; former KPFA News producer;
former tech producer, Flashpoints
HELENE KNOX, poet, editor, KPFA listener & volunteer
JACK KURZWEIL, listener rep, KPFA board
JAMES LAFFERTY, host, The Lawyers Guild Show (KPFK); Executive
Director of the National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles
JOHN LAVINE, activist, former Berkeley Peace and Justice Commissioner
YING LEE, Asian-Americans for Peace and Justice
SASHA LILLEY, KPFA’s Against the Grain; Shop Steward, CWA Local 9415
LAURA LIVOTI, founder, Justice in Nigeria Now!
ROBERT LONGER, Exec VP, CWA Local 9421
TIM LYNCH, KPFA producer and host, unpaid staff
PHILIP MALDARI, KPFA’s Sunday Show; Shop Steward, CWA Local 9415
JOANNA MANQUEROS, Music of the World, unpaid staff
DAVID MARTINEZ, radical filmmaker
DIANA MARTINEZ, Letters & Politics, unpaid staff
EMILY MCMILIN, Former KPFA Station Engineer
PETER OLNEY, listener and ILWU organizing director
ZEESE PAPANIKOLAS, listener, Oakland CA
EDDY PAY, KPFA music programmer
SCOTT PHAM, Free Speech Radio News, Technical Producer
SALLY PHILLIPS, KPFA Producer, Host, Engineer
MAX PRINGLE, KPFA News Reporter
LAURA PRIVES, former executive producer of the KPFA Morning Show;
producer,Letters & Politics, KPFA board member, Pacifica National Board
member
GLENN REEDER, KPFA News anchor, unpaid staff
BLANCHE RICHARDSON, owner, Marcus Books
DERK RICHARDSON, host of KPFA’s The Hear and Now
FRANCESCA ROSA, member SEIU 1021, delegate, SF Labor Council
SUSAN SACHEN, Campaign Director, California Labor Federation
CHARLOTTE SAENZ, community artist and educator
LYNNE HOLLANDER SAVIO, Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
LEWIS SAWYER, producer, Early Morning Music, former KPFA Receptionist
DAN SIEGEL, civil rights and labor attorney, former Pacifica General
Counsel
BONNIE SIMMONS, host, KPFA’s Bonnie Simmons Show; former LSB, Pacifica
National Board member
SARA STEFFENS, Newspaper Guild/CWA District 9
SUSAN STONE, Former Director, KPFA’s Drama and Literature Department
VANESSA TAIT, KPFA News; co-founder, FSRN; author Poor Workers’ Unions;
TNG/ CWA Local 39521
MARY TILSON, Host, America’s Back 40 (with Bette Beasley)
ANDREA TURNER, cultural and community activist, LSB member
SALLY VENABLE, president, CWA Local 9415
RICHARD WALKER, professor, radical geographer & author of The
Country in the City
KATHLEEN WEAVER, Author of Peruvian Rebel, listener/member
KRIS WELCH, KPFA’s Living Room
JOHN WHITING, KPFA Production Director and Program Producer (1960-1965);
London Correspondent, Pacifica Radio (1966-1972)
BARBARA WHIPPERMAN, treasurer, KPFA local station board
MARGY WILKINSON, chair, KPFA Local Station Board
CAL WINSLOW, labor historian, co-author of Rebel Rank and File
RYCHARD WITHERS, Executive Director, Fresno Free College Foundation, General
Manager, KFCF (Fresno)
EDDIE YUEN, KPFA’s Against the Grain
(Please note: all titles & organizations for ID only)
This is a partial list, FULL LIST IS HERE:
http://www.savekpfa.org/endorsements-2/kpfa-recall-endorsers
July 24, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Can anyone explain why Aimee Allison hasn’t endorsed the recall? Given the arguments put forth in favor, one would expect her to, if she agrees, no?
February 7, 2013 at 1:14 am
Why would that be relevant?
July 12, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Thanks, Ann. http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org , http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/ , http://www.supportkpfa.org . and to hear the on-air debate : http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/81956
July 13, 2012 at 9:30 pm
So
most of the staff who oppose the recall got their on-air gigs via
loyalty to Rosenberg and Engelhardt, who purged the young, diverse
Morning Show programmers and took their places.
So we get lousy Steve Zeltzer on labor instead of the brilliant David
Bacon. And Dennis Bernstein & Davey D (who are already on evening
drive time) instead of Aimee and Brian. We have no food and farming from
Claire Cummings, no film reviews, no wonderful, lively coverage of
local events and books….
And you think this is an improvement?
October 3, 2012 at 6:22 pm
Steve Zeltzer is a huge improvement over David Bacon and the ‘Save KPFA’ hacks are the same folks, the Benskys, Mericles, Welches, Maldaris, ad nauseum, who have wrecked this station and caused a huge drop in listenership. Vote NO on the recall promoted by hacks who have been on the KPFA welfare rolls for decades.
Dennis and Davey D far outshine Brian and Aimee, who by the way is not listed as a recall supporter.
July 9, 2012 at 5:21 pm
One really must wonder what SaveKPFA is trying to accomplish with actions that continuously drain the station’s funds, like this recall election, the lawsuitst, and even calling on people to boycott specific time slots during fundraising. And now they want to get rid of the one person who consistently has a handle on the financial situation at the station?
Whatever the agenda, saving KPFA does not actually seem to be on it.
Vote NO on the Recall! Tracy Stays!
July 12, 2012 at 7:18 pm
You are making this stuff up – there is no “lawsuit” and no actions to drain the station’s funds from SaveKPFA. Actually, SaveKPFA has been RAISING funds for KPFA by continually asking our supporters to donate. SaveKPFA raised $63,000 in pledges to put the Morning Show back on — Pacifica wasn’t even interested in it! The agenda here is Tracy’s way or the highway. She wants her friends on the air, the station’s health be damned.
For background, see SaveKPFA.org, including the very very long list of RECALL ENDORSERS.
July 12, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Letting independent listener groups select programming by fundraising for it seems like a dangerous precedent, arguably close to selling air time.
July 13, 2012 at 5:09 am
Also, $1 million now has to be cut from Pacifica’s budget, after $476,000 in legal expenses last year. Most of those expenses were at KPFA, although one expensive suit, that of Maya Orozco, was brought long before the current troubles.
October 3, 2012 at 6:23 pm
The FACTS are on the NO side here, Save KPFA is a bogus group made up of hacks who originally opposed the real Save KPFA twenty years ago.
February 7, 2013 at 1:16 am
One needn’t wonder — Save KPFA & many listeners would like less manhandling of KPFA by bad management practices from Pacifica. Tracy has her hand in many of the bad decisions. And you say she has a handle on the financial situation? I don’t think so. She is spending donation money on lawyers who are blocking the will of the KPFA membership. Seems pretty whack (and anti-democratic to the core).
July 6, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Some
of today’s NEW endorsers of YES on the KPFA recall: SHEILA JORDAN, Alameda
County Superintendent of Schools, JANE HEAVEN, KPFA producer/host, field
recording engineer, BARBARA EPSTEIN, professor, History of Consciousness, UCSC,
EMILY MCMILIN, former KPFA station engineer, JOHN LAVINE, activist, former
Berkeley Peace and Justice Commissioner, ZEESE PAPANIKOLAS, listener,
Oakland CA, and dozens of others…..see SaveKPFA.org for more.
October 3, 2012 at 6:24 pm
These names mean nothing as the facts are against them.
July 6, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Pacifica treasurer Tracy Rosenberg claims that she “saved” KPFA from bankruptcy, but as KPFA News co-director Aileen Alfandary writes in an open letter released today, “a close examination of that claim shows it doesn’t hold water.”
Alfandary continues: “Virtually the entire reduction in staffing in
2010 was from union members who took voluntary layoffs. When the dust
settled, and Pacifica was forced to rehire Brian Edwards-Tiekert, the only involuntary layoff that occurred in 2010 was that of the other Morning Show
co-host who had been paid for a grand total of 27 hours a week. It’s
absurd to claim that this small salary saved KPFA from bankruptcy. It’s
quite the contrary. The reduction in fundraising from purging the Morning Show cost us dearly and drove listeners away from KPFA.”
READ ALFANDARY’S ENTIRE LETTER HERE:
http://www.savekpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/AileenAlfandaryrecallendorse.pdf
July 8, 2012 at 8:43 am
Why hasn’t Aimee Allison endorsed the recall? I can’t imagine she hasn’t been asked.
February 7, 2013 at 1:17 am
Who cares? Many people HAVE endorsed the recall, including myself. Don’t know why she hasn’t, don’t care. Is Aimee THE authority on the matter? Nope.
July 4, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Let me add the Ratcliffs’ hearty endorsement to the long list of folks urging KPFA members to VOTE NO on the Tracy Rosenberg recall. I hesitate to comment here; I’m not in your league. As a teenager, I aspired to witty repartee until I discovered and joined forces with people who aspired to change the world. KPFA broadcasts both sides of that looking glass, and Tracy embraces people at KPFA — programmers and listeners — who want both excellent journalism and revolutionary change.
Tracy’s media expertise informs her determination to make KPFA the progressive powerhouse envisioned by its founders: Millions should and will, if we play it right, “keep it locked” on KPFA’s 59,000 watts that reach most of Northern and Central California. It wasn’t Tracy who put that sacred cow, The Morning Show, on the chopping block, but when KPFA was the only Pacifica station refusing to bring its expenses into line with its income, spent its million-dollar reserves and had to borrow payroll from KPFT, the smallest Pacifica station, she and many of us supported the emergency surgery that literally saved KPFA.
Extraordinarily knowledgeable and passionate volunteers now filling the breach weekdays at 8-9 a.m. welcome us to worlds rarely explored by any media — labor by Steve Zeltzer and Sabrina Jacobs, Black movements and culture by JR Valrey, media freedom by Project Censored and tomorrow a pilot show by Poor News Network’s Tiny Gray-Garcia and crew that I hope will become a Morning Mix staple. Tuning in to KPFA at 8 a.m. is a Morning High, and tens of thousands are already addicted. In the last fund drive, the Morning Mix was already the sixth highest fundraiser of all KPFA shows, bringing in more per hour than Democracy Now!
Your NO vote on the Tracy Rosenberg recall is a vote for the courage to believe in the power of the people to make the truly progressive media that can save KPFA and the world.
July 4, 2012 at 1:39 pm
My dear friend, Mary, I hope you’re not accusing me of witty repartee. The only thing close was my remark that Obama voters may still be hoping for peace and more than spare change this time. Otherwise I was trying to explain why KPFA/Pacifica matters, why this election matters, and how the self-governance structure works, in the most readily understood terms possible.
Most arguments about this get into way too much obscure historical detail and make the combatants sound as nutty as sectarian Marxists bitterly arguing about who has betrayed whom and who has made the wrong decisions at this or that historical moment, costing them the revolution, ever since Marx penned the Communist Manifesto in 1848.
July 4, 2012 at 11:18 pm
No, no, Ann. Your article is clear and compelling, as is your Marxist analogy. I just meant that I feel way outclassed by the Fog City crowd. I admire you all but prefer to do so quietly from the back of the room … unless I’m tip-toeing in to snatch one of Luke’s magnificent photos. Back to the topic though: Please, all you very smart people, vote NO on the recall of Tracy Rosenberg so we really can save KPFA.
July 5, 2012 at 5:56 am
Mary, when you have TIME to do your own writing, instead of getting so many other people’s stories online, in the streets, and into America’s prison gulag, you’re as well-spoken as any of the FCJ dry wits, and look at what you’ve helped happen, on KPFA, during the past three years: Claude Gatebuke speaking the truth about U.S. involvement in Rwanda/Congo, the most lethal conflict in the world, on the Minister of Info’s Morning Mix yesterday. Story wouldn’t have gotten that far without you and Willie.
Defending that ground, and the rest of the Mix, is one of the best reasons to vote no on Tracy’s recall.
July 3, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Thanx Ann, for the extensive work you’ve done in writing this story that makes it easier for me than previously thought in reaching my decision to vote against the recall: and that is the the fact that Tracy Rosenburg is behind many of my favorite shows, which ln my mind, are less sympathetic to mainstream politics, shows like ‘Guns and Butter” & “Flashpoints” that make no apology to American and Israeli hegemony..
July 3, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Thanks, Ann, for clearing up some questions about the recall. I’m voting “No” because it’s not well
understood, generally, that most of the members of the Pacifica National Board are very much against the recall, but most of them can’t vote and have no way of stopping the recall. That’s why I’M RECOMMENDING A “NO” VOTE by those who appreciate that it’s VERY rare that the PNB gets someone to serve who’s as competent, reliable and generous as Tracy. Also, if you look at the people voting “No” compared with those voting “Yes,” you’ll find there are many, many people of color voting “No” and very few, if any, voting “Yes.” That says a LOT!
Jean Pauline
July 3, 2012 at 11:19 am
Vote YES on the KPFA recall!
Thanks to a
grassroots campaign to return local control to KPFA, Pacifica treasurer Tracy Rosenberg is facing a
recall endorsed by a long list of community activists, writers,
labor leaders, and KPFA listeners and staff |
BREAKING NEWS: Layoffs imminent at KPFA: details here
We urge you to VOTE YES on
the recall!
(titles and organizations for ID only)
ACT UP EAST BAY
CRAIG ALDERSON, secretary, KPFA Local Station Board
AILEEN ALFANDARY, News
co-director
TINA BACHEMIN, KPFA reporter
DAVID BACON, labor
correspondent, former KPFA Morning Show; TNG/ CWA Local 39521
BOB BALDOCK, KPFA public
events producer
MARGARET BANNERMAN, listener, San Francisco
MICHAEL BARGLOW, listener, public school teacher
VIC BEDOIAN, Pacifica
Evening News Central Valley reporter, Fresno
IAIN BOAL, social historian of the commons
SUMMER BRENNER, author, Richmond Tales
LARRY BENSKY, Pacifica National Affairs correspondent (1987-2007)
MAL BURNSTEIN, KPFA board
member and retired civil rights lawyer
CATHY CAMPBELL, president,
Berkeley Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1078
YVONNE CAMPBELL, Martinez listener
KAANII CLEAVER, listener, Fort
Collins CO
SHIELA COCKSHOTT, listener and
supporter of every fund drive since 1980
JOYCE COLE, listener, San
Anselmo
ALISON DAVIS, listener, San
Mateo
JIM DAVIS, filmmaker, “Meeting Room”
JANE DICKSON, listener, Oakland
PAMELA DRAKE, Oakland activist
ELLEN DUBROWIN, listener, long-ago programmer (unpaid staff) and off-air
staff (Pacifica Workers Union, then UE member)
STEVE EARLY, labor
journalist (CounterPunch), TNG/ CWA Local 39521
BRIAN EDWARDS-TIEKERT, KPFA News
BARBARA EPSTEIN, Professor, History of Consciousness,
UCSC
JAN ETRE, Crafts Fair Coordinator
RUTH FALLENBAUM, listener, Oakland
DEE FARLON, Oakland listener
JOSEPH “JODY” FERGUSON, longtime
listener, Menlo Park
DANA FRANK, Professor of History, UCSC;
correspondent, The Nation
JULIANA FREDMAN, public interest
attorney and activist
JON FROMER, singer/songwriter, NABET/CWA
Local 51 shop steward
MARY FROMER, organizing
director, SEIU Local 707, Sonoma County (retired)
GLORIA FRYM, writer
DAVID GANS, music
programmer, KPFA board member
JANET GEIS, publisher, Open
Exchange Magazine
SHERRY GENDELMAN, attorney,
former chair, KPFA board; former chair, Pacifica National Board
PAUL GEORGE, director,
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
SUZANNE GORDON, journalist
and author, NWU/UAW
KATE GOWEN, listener, Petaluma
ANDREJ GRUBACIC, anarchist
historian, author of Wobblies and Zapatistas
MIGUEL GUERRERO, KPFA web producer, producer of Rock en Rebelion
CONN HALLINAN, columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus, the Daily Planet, contributor to CounterPunch, former head of UCSC’s journalism program
MATTHEW HALLINAN, Listener Rep, KPFA
board
SHAWN HAMILL, listener, Sebastopol
JOHN HAMILTON, KPFA News anchor
JANE HEAVEN, KPFA
producer/host, field recording engineer
JANE HIRSHFIELD, poet, author,
listener-member
CHRISTINA HUGGINS, First Executive
Vice President, CWA Local 9415
JOHN TANGO IVERSON, health activist
RICH JOHNSON, activist
RAMSEY KANAAN, KPFA unpaid
staff, founder AK Press and PM Press, co-founder San Francisco Anarchist
Bookfair
LARRY KELP, KPFA producer and host, Sing
Out!
DAVID KESSLER, longtime listener, UCB staff, CUE-Teamsters member
SHELLEY KESSLER, Executive
Secretary of the San Mateo Labor Council
ROSE KETABCHI, KPFA News
SANDY KING, listener
ERIC KLEIN, former FSRN tech producer; former
KPFA News producer; former tech producer, Flashpoints
JACK KURZWEIL, Listener rep, KPFA
board
MARCIA LARIS, listener
JIM LAFFERTY, host, KPFK’s Lawyers Guild Show;
executive director, National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles
JOHN LAVINE, activist, former Berkeley Peace and Justice
Commissioner
YING LEE, Asian-Americans
for Peace and Justice
CLYDE LELAND, listener
ELIZABETH LEONE, PhD, applied linguist, activist, Fresno
listener
SANDRA LESSENDEN, listener
ROBERT LEVERANT, longtime
Sebastopol listener, psychotherapist
ARTHUR LEVITT, listener, Belmont
LAURA LIVOTI, Founder, Justice in
Nigeria Now!
SASHA LILLEY, KPFA’s
Against the Grain; Shop Steward, CWA Local 9415
TIM LYNCH, KPFA producer and host, unpaid
staff
KAREN MACLEOD, University Council-AFT
PHILIP MALDARI, KPFA’s Sunday
Show; Shop Steward, CWA Local 9415
SHARON MALDONADO, listener
JOANNA MANQUEROS, Music of the World,
unpaid staff
DAVID MARTINEZ, filmmaker
DIANA MARTINEZ, Letters & Politics, unpaid staff
BARRIE ANN MASON, listener and contributor for 25 years,
Santa Rosa
SUSAN MCDONOUGH, former KPFA Local Station Board member
EMILY MCMILIN, former KPFA station engineer
MARY MORTON, listener
MEAVEEN O’CONNOR, listener
PETER OLNEY, listener and ILWU
organizing director
ZEESE PAPANIKOLAS, listener,
Oakland
EDDY PAY, The Herbal Highway
SCOTT PHAM, Free Speech Radio News,
Technical Producer
SALLY PHILLIPS, KPFA
Producer, Host, Engineer
MARY POWER, listener, Berkeley
MAX PRINGLE, KPFA News
Reporter
LAURA PRIVES, former
executive producer of the KPFA Morning Show; producer, Letters & Politics,
KPFA board member, Pacifica National Board member
GLENN REEDER, KPFA News anchor,
unpaid staff
HAYDN REISS, listener, San
Anselmo
BLANCHE RICHARDSON, listener, San
Francisco
DERK RICHARDSON, host of KPFA’s the
Hear and Now
SUSAN SACHEN, Campaign
Director, California Labor Federation
CHARLOTTE SAENZ, community artist
and educator
CLARA SANTISO, listener, Somis
CA
LEWIS SAWYER, producer,
Early Morning Music, former KPFA Receptionist
LYN HOLLANDER SAVIO, Mario Savio
Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
LIBBY SAYRE, CWA District 9
SONA SHAH, Clark University postgrad
DAN SIEGEL, activist and KPFA board member
BONNIE SIMMONS, host, KPFA’s
Bonnie Simmon’s Show; former LSB, Pacifica National Board member
JANINE SOPP, member of WBAI (NY), Grassroots Education
Movement, Change the Stakes Campaign
SARA STEFFENS, The Newspaper Guild/CWA District 9
ROSALIE STEWARD, listener, Petaluma
VANESSA TAIT, KPFA News;
co-founder, FSRN; author, Poor Workers’ Unions
ANDREA TURNER, cultural and
community activist, LSB member
JOHN VAN EYCK, former KPFA
board member
KIT VAQ, Oakland listener
RICHARD WALKER, radical
geographer & author, The Country in the City
KATHLEEN WEAVER, biographer,
poet, translator
KRIS WELCH, KPFA’s
Living Room
ERMA WHEATLEY, Berkeley listener
BARBARA WHIPPERMAN, treasurer, KPFA Local Station Board
MARGY WILKINSON, chair, KPFA Local Station Board
CAL WINSLOW, labor historian, co-author of Rebel Rank and File
RYCHARD WITHERS, KFCF general manager
EDDIE YUEN, KPFA’s Against the Grain
October 3, 2012 at 6:27 pm
The above LibDem hacks are the very people who have destroyed KPFA. Vote NO on the recall.
February 7, 2013 at 1:18 am
Eh? LibDem hacks? Nope, that’d be an incorrect characterization.
July 3, 2012 at 10:30 am
Scores of community allies and dozens of KPFA staff members urge a “NO” vote on the recall; they include Gray Brechin, Michael Parenti, George Coates, Noelle Hanrahan, Davey D, Leslie Stovall, Mesha Irizarry, David Barsamian, Maria Gilardin, Miguel Molina, Dennis Bernstein and Bonnie Faulkner. So please don’t toss that ballot. Vote, and vote NO!
July 3, 2012 at 12:16 pm
Here’s the list of those endorsing Stop the KPFA Recall: http://www.stopthekpfarecall.org/?page_id=25
July 4, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Vote NO.