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Grievances To Make Your Head Spin

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News and Information about Pacifica Radio

Berkeley -“There have been so many grievances filed it will make your head spin” were the words of one of KPFK-FM’s two SAG-AFTRA union stewards on Friday September 4th, a week after the LA entertainment union stated it was taking Pacifica Radio into arbitration alleging union-busting and contract violations. The handling of staff reductions has been an unmitigated disaster, with laid off employees receiving notices days late with incorrect job titles on them, Pacifica not applying for promised workshare benefits until one day before all employees were shifted to half-time, and employer-provided cell phones shut off this week with no notification. Continue reading Grievances To Make Your Head Spin →

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Secret Corporation and We’re Proud of It

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This sound snippet contains the conversation at the KPFA local station board meeting on August 22nd about the secret incorporation of the KPFA Foundation by Margy Wilkinson at the office of attorney Dan Siegel.

Seems like the best excuse they can come up with for incorporating a new nonprofit to “capture” Pacifica’s licenses is to accuse others of doing (with no evidence) what they just got caught doing.

That’s what scoundrels do. Yell really loudly that everyone else is doing it too.

 

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Two Credit Cards Are Better Than One

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Berkeley -The severe financial distress at KPFK-FM, which resulted on Monday in an announcement by Margy Wilkinson-appointed general manager Leslie Radford of the immediate reduction of all KPFK employees to 50% work schedules and the layoff of three employees, has been accompanied by growing evidence of a year and a half of financial mismanagement of the station, Pacifica’s highest earner as recently as 2013. KPFK abruptly fired its second consecutive temporary business manager after finding out about monthly checks issued to an outside person by the business manager, along with unauthorized cash advances never paid back. The business manager was personally hired and trained by former CFO Raul Salvador to “fix” the accounting mess at KPFK in the fall of 2014, and per a motion passed by the national board in 2014, reported directly to Salvador rather than the station’s general manager. Continue reading Two Credit Cards Are Better Than One →

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Forget About That Election Thing

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Berkeley – On Thursday night, Pacifica’s election supervisor announced that despite soliciting over 100 local board candidates across the country, the Pacifica Foundation would not be mailing ballots to its 55,000 members on August 29th to replace 72 local and national board members squatting in their seats for the 20th month past the expiration of their elected terms. The reason given: an inability to pay the approximately $50,000 printing and postage bill. Continue reading Forget About That Election Thing →

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Majority on Pacifica Board Refuse To Discuss Secret Corporation to Acquire KPFA License

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Berkeley – In a shameful display, the majority on the Pacifica National Board refused to discuss the public matter of the 2013 secret incorporation of the KPFA Foundation by Margy Wilkinson and Dan Siegel for the purpose of acquiring KPFA’s broadcast license. Continue reading Majority on Pacifica Board Refuse To Discuss Secret Corporation to Acquire KPFA License →

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Some More Questions for Dan Siegel About The KPFA Foundation

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Dan Siegel’s response to the many inquiries regarding the establishment of the headquarters of the KPFA Foundation at his personal law firm office is below.

Pacifica National Board member Stephen Brown’s comments about Mr. Siegel’s statements having limited veracity are well-advised, but if taken at face value, here are some questions that arise:

1) “There is nothing “clandestine” about the creation of the KPFA Foundation”.

Dictionary.com: [klan-des-tin]. Characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: “Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years”.

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Federal Trademark Database – “Pacifica Foundation”

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Word Mark PACIFICA FOUNDATION
Goods and Services IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: Promoting cultural diversity and pluralistic community expression, thereby contributing to lasting understanding between individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors and promoting freedom of the press, by means of distribution of audio works by radio broadcasting, through a global computer network, and via audio recordings. FIRST USE: 19460000. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19460000
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 76256785
Filing Date May 15, 2001
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition February 26, 2002
Registration Number 2571290
Registration Date May 21, 2002
Owner (REGISTRANT) Pacifica Foundation CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 1925 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way Berkeley CALIFORNIA 94704
Attorney of Record John Crigler
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE “FOUNDATION” APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20111108.
Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20111108
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
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Federal Trademark Database – “KPFA”

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Word Mark KPFA
Goods and Services IC 038. US 100 101 104. G & S: Radio broadcasting services. FIRST USE: 19490415. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19490415
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 76256786
Filing Date May 15, 2001
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition October 16, 2001
Registration Number 2527450
Registration Date January 8, 2002
Owner (REGISTRANT) Pacifica Foundation CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 1925 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAY BERKELEY CALIFORNIA 94704
Attorney of Record John Crigler
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20111019.
Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20111019
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE 

 
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KPFA Secession Documents

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Berkeley – The KPFA Foundation, a new California not for profit organization, was incorporated in the State of California on September 24, 2013 under Entity # C3606802. The Articles of Incorporation, which can be seen here, steal the entire 1946 Pacifica Foundation mission statement and quote it as the mission of the new not for profit organization. The name of the person incorporating the new nonprofit is Margy Wilkinson, who signs the Articles of Incorporation. The corporate headquarters of the KPFA Foundation is the Siegel and Yee law firm at 499 14th Street in Oakland, California. The agent for service of process is attorney Dan Siegel. The Articles of Incorporation for the KPFA Foundation do not vest any other parties besides Wilkinson and Siegel. Continue reading KPFA Secession Documents →

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Factional Lawyering

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Originally posted June 25, 2015

Berkeley – The Pacifica National Board, after 15 months of ad-hoc legal consultation, is moving ahead with appointing a corporate counsel. Unfortunately, the fix appears to be in for the law firm of former board member Dan Siegel. Siegel and Yee has been an active factional entity within Pacifica for years, sending three of the firm’s employees to the KPFA local station board in the last six years as listener representatives with the Save KPFA group. Jose-Luis Fuentes, a Siegel and Yee associate from 2002-2014, is on the search committee appointed by the board, despite his 12 years of employment at one of the applicant firms. Continue reading Factional Lawyering →