Folks I just can't feel a dam thing about this Election Process going in Pacifica, because I know It's just a case of the chickens coming home to roost, had you all forgot that or just didn't give a dam until it hit home.>>Peace and Love>> Wpfw Delagate, Billy Ray To: fulcrumsofchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; newpacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; freekpfk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; pacifica_now@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; wbaielections@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: jdemaegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:17:00 -0800Subject: [NewPacifica] (another, smaller) Stolen Election IndyMedia (p) Los Angeles Independent Media Center Original article is at http://la.indymedia.org/news/2007/11/209842.php Hide comments. (another, smaller) Stolen Electionby Leslie Radford, KPFK LSB candidate Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007 at 2:28 PM leslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx After a struggle for democratic elections that nearly destroyed a progressive radio network, local elections at KPFK are besmirched by unchecked money, influence, and confusion. Six years ago, listeners to a progressive radio network called Pacifica won a lawsuit that allowed KPFK members to elect representatives to their local station board, and through them, to determine who sat on the Pacifica National Board. The demand for democracy was an eruption against a board of directors that considered selling one of the stations to finance a string of smaller Black stations in the South. The settlement instituted the first democratically-run radio network in the U.S., another groundbreaking advance in the network's long history. Such are the contradictions of democracy. Today, that democratic outburst has fallen victim to a single slate of candidates supported by "The Committee to Strengthen KPFK," a powerful amalgam of Local Station Board members, station staff, and new faces, and endorsed by attorney Carol Spooner, one of the key figures in the original effort to democratize Pacifica. And they have injected the influence of a financed elections and Democratic Party politics into an institution that prides itself on being "powered by the people." The Committee and procedural violations threaten to confuse and discourage candidates, and endanger the quorum necessary for election certification. Lack of oversight, improper procedures, and an insider Committee so arrogant that rules seem meant to be broken, are spreading a viscous taint on the credibility of any election outcome. At the same time, a blackout on election violations is so thorough, the determination to make quorum so overpowering after the near-failure of previous elections, that much of the electorate is unaware that infractions have occurred. Even candidates who file complaints receive, at most and only occasionally, an acknowledgment that their complaint has been received. Already, in the fifth week of the campaign, the Committee To Strengthen KPFK has wantonly violated several of the eleven simple rules laid out for fair elections. The KPFK candidate webpages and broadcast archives, under the control of Committee member and station webmaster Ali Lexa, been used for numerous inequities in publishing candidate information. And the procedures and timetable of election events distributed to the candidates and posted on the station website for voters has been altered with little or no notification to the voters and the candidates. To date, no sanctions have been announced to repair the damage to independent candidates or to inform the voters. In spite of its long list of rules violations, the Committee didn't hesitate to inject the election with the influence of privately financed campaigning, purchasing a high-gloss, multi-colored mailer sent to KPFK members, at a cost of $6,000 to $7,000 according to Committee director and candidate Grace Aaron, even as the donation-based station suffers a marked downturn in contributions. The Committee To Strengthen KPFK has taken the first step to becoming a non-profit corporation itself, by affiliation with the International Humanities Center, which has adopted the Committee as one of its projects, providing the group with a tax shelter and anonymity for its donor or donors. The Pacifica National Board, recognizing the serious disadvantage the mailer poses to low- and moderate-income independent candidates, and that "spending of large sums of money in Pacifica campaigns runs counter to the noncommercial nature of the Pacifica Radio Network while underscoring the discriminatory nature of campaign financing so prevalent and objectionable in mainstream elections," moved on November 1 to begin a process to find remediation for the disadvantaged candidates. The discussion of specific remedies began at the KPFK Local Station Board meeting on Wednesday, November 7. Candidate Jubilee Shine told the local board, ""I am here to represent workers. I'm a roofer and a union activist. I couldn't get $7,000 for a flyer for this campaign. I couldn't raise $300." In order to implement the remedies, the board discussed the possibility of a further election delay, to December 21. Aaron formed the Committee to spearhead a campaign to remove progressive, lesbian, and African general manager Eva Georgia in light of a sexual harassment suit filed against her and the network. In July, the Committee presented a petition calling for her removal to the Pacifica National Board, the culmination of a five-year campaign to oust Georgia with a plethora of accusations that began even before a staffer denied her the keys to her office when Georgia officially took over leadership of the station. The Committee invited local media to the board meeting held in Los Angeles, and the event was reported in the LA Times, Throughout the summer, the press was fed accusations, and articles without context appeared in the LA Weekly (twice), where reporters salivated over the charges of Black lesbian sexual misconduct. Meanwhile, the PNB, the CEO, and the CFO stood behind Georgia with unreported public statements of support. The lawsuit is still pending, and Pacifica insiders seem confident that Georgia will be vindicated in court. Aaron chaired the LSB in 2006 until her term ended and she was voted out. During her tenure, she forced the local board into numerous closed sessions to present sundry charges against Georgia. One, an expense report purported to show Georgia's misuse of station funds but discredited by the Pacifica CFO, Lonny Hicks, was circulated widely among station staff despite its confidentiality. Aaron, along with Committee members and the slate's other two returning candidates, Lamont Yeakey and Donna Warren, during earlier elections were members of a slate known as Progressives for Independent, Responsible Community Radio. PIRCR and slates at other stations in the network were organized by Spooner from Pacifica members who had opposed ensuring elected representation for underrepresented communities in the new Pacifica Bylaws. The Committee To Strengthen KPFK and Spooner, after roundly condemning Georgia for bringing a lawsuit down on the network, are contemplating their own lawsuit against Pacifica for refusing to include their partisan mailer with the ballot mailing, according to Committee member Ian Masters in his November 4 broadcast (since edited out of the archived version of the broadcast). Slate members Ricco Ross, Linda Sutton, Dan Wang, and Ahjamu Makalani, according to their election materials, are all active in the Progressive Democrats, a caucus of the Democratic Party, raising alarm bells about mainstream party funding and takeover of the "fiercely independent" radio station. Makalani, who has moved from the Peace and Freedom Party and the Green Party to vice chair of the Progressive Democrats, explained that they were supporting John Edwards in the national elections because, "Kucinich wasn't a viable candidate." Other Committee candidates include Aaron, Summer Reese, Donna Warren, Lamont Yeakey, Lich Doan, Sarkis Ghazarian, Sergio Monteiro, and Shel Plotkin. Popular radio show hosts Shawn Casey O'Brien, Don Bustany, and Eben Rey are running with on the Committee ticket for staff seats on the local board. Meanwhile, candidates without insider connections, largely newcomers to KPFK's election process, are left to slug their way through the morass of confusion, violations, and unannounced changes, in what is turning out to be something akin to a no rules wrestling match. The elections are supposed to operate under the terms the new Pacifica Bylaws and the summaries provided to candidates in the 2007 Fair Campaign Provisions for Listener Candidates and for Programmers, Staff and Management , with the enforcement of the National Election Supervisor, Casey Peters, and Local Elections Supervisor, Liliana Sanchez. The Violations Apparent violations by the Committee to date include: Committee candidate Donna Warren was on the KPFK Evening News of October 2, a week after candidates were prohibited from appearing on air. The Committee To Strengthen KPFK was provided with access to a mailing house and the use of the KPFK membership list held by that mailing house, while many other candidates were unaware that such a service was available and nearly all are unable to afford those services. That list was used to send a mailer endorsing those candidates to the voters, unduly affecting the outcome of the election. The Committee To Strengthen KPFK used a website for four weeks that had “KPFK” in its URL, in direct violation of a prohibition against using the station call letters in an election-related URL. Ian Masters, program host and signatory to The Committee To Strengthen KPFK, in his broadcast of October 14 concluded that some candidates did not adhere to the mission of the Foundation, a clear disparagement of the candidates and violation of the rules for programmers. Masters during his broadcast of November 4 called some candidates “psychotic,” while he deemed The Campaign To Strengthen KPFK "sane" and "reasonable,", alleged that “pinche ethno-fascists” were disrupting the elections with "lots of race-baiting." (The archived version of this broadcast was edited to remove the offending remarks.) Jon Weiner, program host and signatory to The Committee To Strengthen KPFK, includes a hyperlink on his show’s webpage from the KPFK website to his personal website , where he endorses the Committee slate. Campaign rules prohibit using the station website to link to any endorsement. Lich Doan is running as a listener candidate although he was regularly announced as assistant producer for Background Briefing from June 1 to August 31, and he continues to be announced as the assistant producer for that show, giving him regular on-air name recognition and disadvantaging candidates without similar access to the airwaves. Candidates are disqualified for listener seats after 30 hours of work for the station in the three months prior to the start of the campaign. Ajhamu Makalini, a write-in candidate according to The Campaign To Strengthen KPFK, did not have the requisite fifteen signatures for his nomination form but has been allowed to participate in the on-air and in-person forums. KPFK website and archives inequities: Candidate Lich Doan’s statement included two references to his endorsement by Mr. Masters for the first month it was posted, an unfair advantage to candidates who did not use staff services to promote their candidacies. Staff services are forbidden to candidates. Candidates Bayard Condon and Jubilee Shine have their names inaccurately posted on the website, and Joaquin Cienfuego’s name is misspelled on the ballot, so that their names on the website do not match their names as listed on the ballot. Candidates Bayard Condon, Reza Pour, Schyna Pour, and Alise Sochaczewski’s answers to the candidate’s questionnaire have not been posted on the station website, while other candidates’ answers have been available for weeks. The English on-air candidate forums for November 1 was not posted to the archives of station broadcasts until November 5 and the Spanish forum of the same date is still not available, although the forums for October 30 and 31 were available immediately after broadcast. The English-language forum of October 29 as originally posted edited out the responses of candidate Leslie Radford, and, when that was brought the attention of the Local Election Supervisor, the forum was hyperlinked to a non-existent file. Candidate Lawrence Reyes’ email address and telephone number, included in his candidate statement, were not included in the station website posting of his statement, and candidate Radford’s website was not included in the station posting of her statement, and these inequities continued for weeks into the campaign. Other candidates’ statements that included email contacts and website addresses, notably addresses to the Committee's website, were posted properly. The number of viewings of each candidate statement is revealed on the list of candidates on the KPFK and Pacifica Foundation website , producing a bandwagon effect for some candidates, and this number can be artificially increased by repeatedly reloading the statement webpage. Procedural infractions: The deadline to submit ballots was moved to November 26, but not all voters have been notified of the extension, so that some voters inevitably returned their ballots on the date indicated on the ballot without access to all information about the candidates or remedies of grievances that may occur after the original ballot deadline. The extension of the deadline also shortens the time to extend the election to assure a quorum, endangering the elections altogether. Unannounced changes to the published timetable, including more than a week’s delay in mailing the ballots, delaying the on-air candidates’ forums, delaying broadcast of the candidates’ on-air announcements, and extending the return date for ballots, have caused some candidates hardship in planning an election campaign. No announcements have been made to the candidates of election events, changes to the election materials and election deadlines, any sanctions resulting from election violations, or the Pacifica National Board motion regarding elections passed and referred to committee, so that candidates are reliant on word of mouth to participate fully in the election process. Links from Pacifica's homepage to Election News in English and Election News in Spanish lead to Washington, DC candidate statement. No time has been provided for a question-and-answer call-in period between candidates and station listeners as required by the Bylaws. Until November 5, no carts were aired regarding any election events, election materials, election deadlines, or any sanctions resulting from election violations, so that voters are denied timely election information and reminders on the airwaves, endangering informed voting and making a quorum. On-air announcements recorded by candidates did not begin to air until November 5, although the election timeline requires that broadcast begin immediately after the fund drive which ended on October 20. English-language forums will be rebroadcast while Spanish-language broadcasts will not, and neither candidate statements nor ballots are available in languages other than English. In-person candidate forums have been announced on the air only a handful of times, the announcements occurred only a day or two prior to the forum, and the address of the first in-person candidate forum was not posted on the station website until some hours before the forum, while announcements directed voters to that website for the address of the forum. The Local Election Supervisor appointed candidate Grace Aaron to convene the first in-person candidate forum and refused to intervene when that forum became contentious. The Local Election Supervisor did not attend the second candidate forum, leaving the host to moderate the event. In both cases, the lack of leadership diminished candidates’ communication with voters. radiojustice.net Report this post as: add your comments Democrat takeover of KPFKby anonymous Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 12:31 AM Leslie Radford has expertly encapsulated the multifaceted paralysis of governance at KPKF and the takeover by monied interests of the Democrat party that has squashed democracy, instituted self-censorship of programming content and corporatized listener representation/ownership at the radio station. Volunteerism (the life-blood of listener-sponsored radio) has succumbed to a slick, glossy politicized professionalism exercised by Democrat Party hacks. Report this post as: add your comments Democrat Party takeover of KPFKby Anonymous Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 12:31 AM Leslie Radford has expertly encapsulated the multifaceted paralysis of governance at KPKF and the takeover by monied interests of the Democrat party that has squashed democracy, instituted self-censorship of programming content and corporatized listener representation/ownership at the radio station. Volunteerism (the life-blood of listener-sponsored radio) has succumbed to a slick, glossy politicized professionalism exercised by Democrat Party hacks, Report this post as: add your comments PDA? Jeeez. Even Air America is more progressive.by mous Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 1:17 AM The station needs a diversity of ideas. Report this post as: add your comments " Democracy" at KPFKby Tejano Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 1:49 AM We know, in watching "free" elections under US capitalism, that there is no such thing. Wealth/ class, race, and gender play tremendous roles in limiting the available choices of candidates, and the media are all too happy to tell us who is a "credible" candidate. We see much the same thing in the KPFK elections. Those who have long controlled the station in their own interests- so-called "progressive democrats and west side liberals have tried for years now to maintain the death grip on privilege that they have at the station. Some of them fought tooth and nail to prevent affirmative action in KPFK's elections, in an effort to ensure their continued dominance of the station, of what it broadcasts, and for whom it broadcasts. The same group of readily identifiable power players sought to eliminate KPFK's South African lesbian general manager, waging a a campaign of vilification that lasted literally, for years, form _before_ she ever set foot in the station until very recently when, at last, after years of harrassment, she had had enough, and resigned. The same "players" sought to make sure that the poor would have no voice in KPFK's future, and did all in their power to defeat proposals that would allow people to vote - even if they can't afford to subscribe to the station - by signing up under a system of waivers. Apparently, they never heard of the infamous poll taxes in the Old South that made it effectively impossible for poor people of color to vote, Apparently, they didn't understand that that bastion of injustice, th US Supreme court itself, had outlawed the practice, and apparently they were too tied to their own privilege to see clearly the comparison between the poll tax and the subscription fee that would "allow" one to vote in the white dominated atmosphere of KPFK's elections. Or rather, perhaps they understood these matters clearly- all too clearly, and acted simply and consciously in their own naked self interest. Perhaps they understood all along that the drive to get rid of the former general manager began with those who had been part of the hijacking of the station and mainstreaming it- people loyal to the old Schubb / Cooper regime that had purged virtually all radical programming form the air, and had certainly banned all radical programmers of color, and who had gone so far as to ban the pronunciation of Spanish place names with anything other than their English pronunciation. No, these defensive an narrowly intersted people are not hard to identify. In past elections they called themselves PIRCR- People for Responsible Independent Community Radio. NOW THEY GO BY"THE COMMITTEE TO STRENGTHEN KPFK." AND THEY ARE TRYING TO BUY AN ELECTION AND CHEAT THEIR WAY TO VICTORY Report this post as: add your comments one down . . .by Leslie Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 11:13 AM Jon Weiner has just informed me that he has asked the KPFK webmaster to remove the link from KPFK to his website where he endorses the Committee. Report this post as: add your comments Air Americaby V Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 12:26 PM But Air America is owned by rupert murdock. Report this post as: add your comments Not really......by Lord Locksley Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 12:48 PM ........the company is owned primarily by Green Family Media, made up of New York real estate investor Stephen L. Green and his brother Mark J. Green, who closed on the purchase of the network on March 6, 2007 for US$4.25 million. The Greens' purchase of Air America Radio followed the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on October 13, 2006. Report this post as: add your comments Radford is biased, corruptby for justice against disunity Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 2:44 PM Leslie Radford is probably a pig and everyone around Pacifica (who isn't a cop or a moron) knows it. Five years ago, when KPFK employee Esther Manilla (a radical woman of color) believed that then-GM Eva Georgia sexually harassesed her, she was told to report the incident to a member of the LSB. The station board at the time (which was unelected, and controlled by supporters of the ex-GM), made sure the person Manilla spoke with was LSB member Radford, who "counselled" Manilla to shut up: "it'd be your word against the General Manager's, and you're only going to make a fool of yourself." That's right, it was old-school vile sexism - Radford's like the judge who told the rape victem to stuff it in order to protect the powerful. Manilla is a young woman of color, who is brilliant and a great radical activist - in effect, Radford ia a right-wing tool. Looks what's happened since: it's five years later, Georgia went on to be accused of sexually harassing two more women, one of whom finally brought a lawsuit (because she was outside the control of pigs like Radford) - and Pacifica is poised to lose hundreds-of-thousands, if not millions, of dollars. If Leslie Radford is not a pig infiltrater, she achieves the exact same effect, destroying one of the most important institutions of the left. She's a white person who fronts like she's a friend to people of color, but all she does is undermine solidarity with divide and conquer B S. It's sad to see that Radford has now infiltrated indymedia, the organization should do everything they can to protect themselves from her, she's probably a pig. If you take this post down, you'll only show that Indymedia does not support free speech because what I've written is the truth, plain and simple Report this post as: add your comments the event aboveby Leslie Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 3:24 PM never happened. Report this post as: add your comments OK, I can't let it standby Leslie Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 3:32 PM What is absolutely verifiable is that I was NOT a member of the Local Advisory Board under Schubb. I came onto the interim LAB, after Schubb was gone and the lawsuit was won. This note opens with a lie that can be checked easily by anybody with web access. No board would send a member in to "counsel" anybody if it involved a lawsuit, and I never had such a conversation with Ms. Manilla, nor would I. But since I wasn't even on the board, the author must have someone else in mind. Georgia is accused of sexually harassing one woman, the only such charge that's been filed, as far as I know. I don't know the amount of damages sought, but "millions" sound utterly ludicrous to me. I didn't know the minutemen had such good friends in KPFK--or does the Committee To Strengthen KPFK have such good friends among the minutemen? Report this post as: add your comments Why is Indymedia intervening in KPFKby KPFK listener and volunteer Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 3:36 PM Indymebia should not be trying to influence the KPFK elections. Leslie Radford's front page article is full of distortion and lies - and, guess what, she's a candidate. This is interference It is highly unethical that Los Angeles Indymedia has decided to influence the KPFK Local Station Elections by posting a rant by one the candidates on its front page. To correct the injustice, Indymedia should now allow all of the other candidates the same opportunity. Short of that, Ms Radford should be disqualified. Report this post as: add your comments Radford drank the Kool-Aidby Concerned for the K Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 3:37 PM I think Leslie Radford not only drank the Kool-Aid but now she's trying to get everyone else to chug-a-lug as well. The outlandish actions Eva Georgia perpetuated on a regular basis were monumental and not just the rantings of rogue staff members as Radford would have you believe. AFTRA Union members supported a vote of "no confidence in their General Manager" and yet these people who claim to support letting the little guy speak, tried to get the information stricken from the record! Adding insult to injury - after all of the lawsuits and money that has been spent - Georgia got paid over $60,000 to go away! (http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/10/what_eva_georgia_cost_kpf.php) Reading this fear fueling paranoia on IndyMedia today from blindly obediant people who backed Georgia as if she were Jim Jones is chilling to say the least. Anyone who disagrees with them are immedetialy labeled right wing, racist or some operative within the CIA. I am very concerned for the station at this time and don't know how long it will last if these people take over completely. And I am beyond frustrated that the fine folks at IndyMedia thought that Radford's rantings should be posted on the main page. Don't you people know that she is running for the LSB? In her letter she says, "Candidates Bayard Condon and Jubilee Shine have their names inaccurately posted on the website, and Joaquin Cienfuego’s name is misspelled on the ballot, so that their names on the website do not match their names as listed on the ballot." Is she insinuating that due to a spelling error there is a conspiracy against these people? Maybe if you look at the full list of candidates for the LSB with your left eye closed you can see a clearly defined image of the messiah as well. Come on, wake up people. Report this post as: add your comments Memory problems Ms Radford?by for justice against disunity Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 3:51 PM nice effort at deflection Ms Radford (or should I say officer Radford). Clearly, if Eva Georgia was already GM, we're not talking about the unelcted LAB during Schubb's reign, but rather the unelected LAB afterwards - which you did sit on. And, as for my source, let's just say it's first-hand. Go ahead, Indymedia, do some journalism, find out the truth - that way, Ms Radford will be exposed as the blatant liar that she is Report this post as: add your comments Just the factsby Leslie Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 4:46 PM First of all, I identified myself in the "author" line of the article as a candidate. I corrected the verifiable error in the comments above, and the writer concurs. The rest is fiction, but not fiction that anyone can prove or disprove, and I have no interest in getting into back-and-forth where I'm supposed to provide evidence that I *didn't* do something. That's absurd on the face of it. So far, no one has pointed to a factual error in the article itself. I will be happy to address those. But if you would like to continue to smear me, go ahead. This is an intelligent readership--they'll make the distinction between smears and attacks. I'll bet they never knew that the crap inside KPFK was this vicious, but here goes. Let me give them some background. Many of the same crew from the Committee that opposed Ms. Georgia and (I'm pretty sure) are slamming me here first came after me when I opposed ratification of Pacifica bylaws without guarantees of representation by oppressed groups. We lost that battle, but I stand behind it. Pacifica is a "minority-owned" network for purposes of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding, although it's listenership is largely white. That means, to this day, the national board has to be a majority peoples of color according to CPB rules to get CPB funding. As I hear it, the Pacifica struggle began with GM Mark Schubb, abetted by Marc Cooper, purging mostly Black programmers from KPFK. Shortly afterwards, the national board floated a plan to sell the Berkeley station to finance a string of smaller Black Pacifica stations across the South. Carol Spooner led a listener revolt to demand that the listenership elect the local boards, which would, in turn, elect the national board--the "majority minority" national board. I came into KPFK after Spooner had won the lawsuit, as the new Bylaws were being hammered out. And that's where I "earned" the animosity of Spooner and her local minions, supporting representation for the various communities of color, gender "difference," and the differently-abled. You can meet one of those purged programmers, Dedon Kamathi, returned to the air by Eva Georgia, tonight at a candidates' forum at the Lucy Florence Coffee House, Gallery and Theater, 3351 West 43rd Street LA at 7:00 p.m. And I'll be there, and I bet whoever is writing these comments will also be there. Let the fireworks begin (again). Report this post as: add your comments Personal Atttacksby Anon Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 at 10:44 PM Personal attacks are the last refuge of scoundrels. The name calling diatribes and efforts to create an atmosphere of scapegoating against Leslie Radford here are consistent with what has gone on in KPFK and Pacifica for years. Since PIRCR and its new front group, "The Committee to 'Strengthen' KPFK" have long been on record - in formal votes - as opposing affirmative action remedies to balance representation on local boards for disenfranchised communities, since they have long been on record as opposing waivers for the poor so that they can participate in the station's elections, and since the election violations they have engaged in are indisputable, they have no recourse but to attempt to slander Radford, and hope, as they do it, that you, the reader, are gullible enough to not see through the ploy. Notice the obvious. None of them deny the elections violations, nor the effort to turn the elections into a "he who has the money Rules" game _ they can't - they've been condemned by the Pacifica National Board for trying to buy the elections, none of them deny their opposition to affirmative action or fee waivers for the poor, none of them deny the long term effort to drive out the former GM, nor that it began before she even took office (Not that the former GM was saintly, by anyone's standards - I had marked differences with her). All they have left is to slander the one who has exposed what they cannot and do not deny. Report this post as: add your comments The Democratic Party Spin Doctorsby Honest Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007 at 4:02 PM Ok here comes the Spin Democratic/Repulican Party like Operations attacking the Truth that is undenialable that Ms. Radford inform us about. As these type of Arrognant Money Power Hungry slate with an Agenda that is is hidden from Public viewing as it is an attempt Take Over of KPFK to polish off Grassroots Voices with there Glossy mailer just as the Repulicrats do to ask for your vote and then act in there OWN Interest as the staff is doing now. The Quelling of Dissent and Craving out of Consent to Govern only for there own interests as Listener Democracy is Explioted for the Staff own ends($) as the Information being put out by those earning a Salary that i help paid, Paid Staff play Ring Around the Pony with Air time gaining a Salary and with Impunity controling the Information that is put out on KPFK wherther its thru Editorial Commentary by those whom already have shows or Station paiding Jobs and doing commentary or appearing as Guest on shows hence Censoring the possiblity of New fresh ideas and voices and De-constructing of serious National Security State issues, accepting the Pharmaceutical lies that so call Aids Drugs cure Aids while allowing this lie the Pharmaceutical Industry Laughs its way into the Bank without being Check or Challenged by the unPaid/Paid Programmers Censoring the Alternative Views of people as this Industry has engage in modern Human Genocide as it has done the same on 911 Truth as some of these same programmers and Slate of candidates condone the so call Humanirian Bombing of Bosnia during Clinton Sleazy and greasing Rein. So now here we come again with now a Second Hi-jacking attempt being wage by the so call Flashy Deep Pocket and Arrogant Committee To Strengthen KPFK these are Remants of the Chubb and Cooper Crowd whom have been Engage in a Lenghty Undermining of KPFK efforts to remain free and Independent and grassroots then Slandering the K-GM refer to LA Weekly as link to the great Fact Base Article Ms. Radford wrote. The relationship's are very cozy by most of the Listed Endorsers of this Arrogant Slate of mindless Mainstream Party Officals and the ongoing relationships with Marc Cooper and Chrubb for those whom had no idea these where the supporters of suppressing Dissent and Grassroots Democracy in Pacifica and hence making the conditions Possible for a Hi-jacking of our station and network. Ask yourself one question why will the Rich want to invest so much money to take over a Local Station Board knowing most of us struggle to support our station with our modest incomes and even the Poor contribute as much as there can or Volunteer. So my question to you all is Why Has The Rich and Powerful engage in an attempt to unduly Posion our Grassroots Election Process? Also, are we to Keep Our Station Power By The People or over-Power by the Rich and Well-Connected with a Clear Agenda to Lock Communities and new Voices out as these actors and thinkers only are looking out for there own interest and not of those of the Main Stake Holders the KPFK Listener Supporters. Honest Report this post as: add your comments The Democratic Party Spin Doctorsby Honest Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007 at 4:06 PM Ok here comes the Spin Democratic/Repulican Party like Operations attacking the Truth that is undenialable that Ms. Radford inform us about. As these type of Arrognant Money Power Hungry slate with an Agenda that is is hidden from Public viewing as it is an attempt Take Over of KPFK to polish off Grassroots Voices with there Glossy mailer just as the Repulicrats do to ask for your vote and then act in there OWN Interest as the staff is doing now. The Quelling of Dissent and Craving out of Consent to Govern only for there own interests as Listener Democracy is Explioted for the Staff own ends($) as the Information being put out by those earning a Salary that i help paid, Paid Staff play Ring Around the Pony with Air time gaining a Salary and with Impunity controling the Information that is put out on KPFK wherther its thru Editorial Commentary by those whom already have shows or Station paiding Jobs and doing commentary or appearing as Guest on shows hence Censoring the possiblity of New fresh ideas and voices and De-constructing of serious National Security State issues, accepting the Pharmaceutical lies that so call Aids Drugs cure Aids while allowing this lie the Pharmaceutical Industry Laughs its way into the Bank without being Check or Challenged by the unPaid/Paid Programmers Censoring the Alternative Views of people as this Industry has engage in modern Human Genocide as it has done the same on 911 Truth as some of these same programmers and Slate of candidates condone the so call Humanirian Bombing of Bosnia during Clinton Sleazy and greasing Rein. So now here we come again with now a Second Hi-jacking attempt being wage by the so call Flashy Deep Pocket and Arrogant Committee To Strengthen KPFK these are Remants of the Chubb and Cooper Crowd whom have been Engage in a Lenghty Undermining of KPFK efforts to remain free and Independent and grassroots then Slandering the K-GM refer to LA Weekly as link to the great Fact Base Article Ms. Radford wrote. The relationship's are very cozy by most of the Listed Endorsers of this Arrogant Slate of mindless Mainstream Party Officals and the ongoing relationships with Marc Cooper and Chrubb for those whom had no idea these where the supporters of suppressing Dissent and Grassroots Democracy in Pacifica and hence making the conditions Possible for a Hi-jacking of our station and network. Ask yourself one question why will the Rich want to invest so much money to take over a Local Station Board knowing most of us struggle to support our station with our modest incomes and even the Poor contribute as much as there can or Volunteer. So my question to you all is Why Has The Rich and Powerful engage in an attempt to unduly Posion our Grassroots Election Process? Also, are we to Keep Our Station Power By The People or over-Power by the Rich and Well-Connected with a Clear Agenda to Lock Communities and new Voices out as these actors and thinkers only are looking out for there own interest and not of those of the Main Stake Holders the KPFK Listener Supporters. Honest Report this post as: add your comments Can't true u anymore Leslieby Ricco Ross Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007 at 6:20 PM My name is Ricco Ross, I am one of the candidates running for LSB and it is really disheartening to read all of the negatively about the station which is about so much more to our community . It has been informative as I didn't really know much of the specifics re all the in fighting and you have prompted a conversation that is revealing. Having said that, Leslie I don't know you from Adam and like wise you doesn't know me. To some how imply that because I am a Progressive Democrate, active and a voting member of the Democratic Party (which I must admit lacks a spine to say the least.) and am trying to do all that I can to help change the governments position of looking after the "haves" and forgetting the "have not's", somehow makes me an unworthy candidate is something I strongly take objection to. Because I am tired of complaining and have gotten off my back side and become an activist "...raises alarm bells about mainstream party funding and takeover". ? Wow, that is some leap and if you can make such a leap there, I now have to question any and everything you say. I have met the other candidates on and off my slate and in my opinion all of us seem to truly want the same thing. Which is the best for KPFK. Some of us are from different slates, back rounds and some from similar back rounds, but from what I have heard, we seem to have a common goal, all be it different views of how to achieve that goal. We all want the best for KPFK and as some of us will be elected, we might want to start trying to work together now, because there may be different slates running, but in the end there will only be one LSB. Report this post as: add your comments To Riccoby Leslie Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007 at 10:41 PM leslie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ricco, For the record, there's only one slate in these elections, the Committee To Strengthen KPFK. What really interests me here is that you're talking and listening, you're getting your feet wet at KPFK, and that you're moving into activism. You might talk to Rodrigo or Kimberly or Lydia or Bill--all LSB members who are leaving. They all believe in KPFK, at least in its potential, and they've all struggled to do what is best for the station. And I'd be happy to sit down over a cup of coffee with you if we can get our schedules together, and you can question me all you want--my veracity, my views of KPFK, my background there. Email me--my address is above. As far as knowing you, I only know that you're a Democrat, and that's what I commented on. I'm pretty sure that most KPFK listeners want to know that four members of PDA have suddenly appeared on the KPFK scene. Your concern with the article seems to be that I've linked the entry of local Democratic Party leaders along with a sudden influx of cash into the KPFK election to alarm bells I've heard from friends, who've heard them from friends, who've heard them from friends--a whole swath of people who are wondering what's happening. I didn't create those alarms, but they don't seem to be much of a leap to me. I expressed the concerns I'm hearing (and feeling) to Ahjamu after the Santa Monica forum, and he seemed to hear what I was saying. If we can talk, maybe you will grasp some of what raised alarm bells for me, too. --Leslie Report this post as: add your comments © 2000-2003 Los Angeles Independent Media Center. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Los Angeles Independent Media Center. Running sf-active v0.9.4 Disclaimer | Privacy _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline