On June 17th, San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Democratic Club adopted a resolution calling for the return of the Morning Mix to KPFA’s 8am time slot, Mondays to Fridays.
Continue reading Harvey Milk Democratic Club Passes Resolution To Restore The Morning Mix
Originally posted June 16, 2014
Berkeley-The Pacifica Foundation is swapping out executive directors again, as temporary interim Bernard Duncan prepares to depart to his native New Zealand, apparently to be replaced by board chair Wilkinson as the 4th executive director in the last 4 months. Wilkinson, who has cited her own lack of qualifications, is a disputed board chair, and a holdover on the national board as her elected three year term as a KPFA delegate ran out in December of 2013. Duncan has requested not to return to Berkeley from Los Angeles and to exit his appointed position totally by July 5th. Continue reading Musical Chairs
The Richmond Progressive Alliance has voted to express its support for keeping the Morning Mix in the Drive Time at 8 am on KPFA. Their decision was announced by Marilyn Langlois at a meeting of KPFA’s local station board on June 14, 2014. Continue reading Richmond Progressive Alliance Supports Morning Mix
On Saturday, June 14, 2014, VETERANS FOR PEACE East Bay Chapter
#162(VFP-EB#162) voted to endorse the below petition for the Morning
Mix and local programming, and also the same time voted to
co-sign/co-endorse the SF Labor Council Resolution (of June 9) calling
for the reinstatement of the Morning Mix to drive-time at KPFA. Continue reading East Bay Veterans for Peace Says Restore The Morning Mix
Golden Gate Branch 214 of the Letter Carriers Union adopted this resolution:
Reinstate the “Morning Mix” drive-time radio show –
Say No to Cuts in Labor/Community Programming on KPFA Radio
Whereas, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM, with a powerful radio transmitter, has been a megaphone for community free speech radio throughout northern California for over 65 years, and is the flagship station of the Pacifica Radio Network; and
Whereas, for the last 3 and a half years KPFA has aired a ground-breaking labor and community program called the Morning Mix – broadcasting at a time when more working people could hear it, during “drive time” from 8 to 9 AM, Monday to Friday; and Continue reading Golden Gate Branch of the Letter Carriers Union Says Bring Back The Morning Mix
The executive committee of ILWU Local 10 adopted this resolution:
Reinstate the “Morning Mix” drive-time radio show –
Say No to Cuts in Labor/Community Programming on KPFA Radio
Whereas, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM, with a powerful radio transmitter, has been a megaphone for community free speech radio throughout northern California for over 65 years, and is the flagship station of the Pacifica Radio Network; and
Whereas, for the last 3 and a half years KPFA has aired a ground-breaking labor and community program called the Morning Mix – broadcasting at a time when more working people could hear it, during “drive time” from 8 to 9 AM, Monday to Friday; and Continue reading ILWU Local 10 – Executive Board – Supports SF Labor Council Resolution to Bring Back The Morning Mix
Originally posted June 13, 2014
Berkeley-Members of the Siegel/Brazon faction, which sits in a slim majority on the Pacifica National Board, continue to express their enthusiasm for network breakup and the sale of one or more of the licenses of the smaller Pacifica stations, in informal online communications. In a Facebook discussion group, KPFA local station board member Kate Gowen called for the “amputation” of New York’s WBAI from the national radio network and former KPFA general manager Andrew Phillips declared “the East Coast stations are toast. Cut em loose”. Continue reading Amputation
Gray Panthers of San Francisco
2940 16th Street, Room 200-4
San Francisco CA 94103
415-552-8800, [email protected]
Dear Richard Pirodsky, Interim General Manager,
As a long-time supporters of KPFA, even prior to the 1999 attempted take over of our station, we strongly object to changing the Morning Mix programming. If this is listeners’ sponsored radio then we your listeners and supporters must be taken into account on such a major change of community focus. Continue reading Gray Panthers Letter of Support for The Morning Mix
Originally posted June 10, 2014
Berkeley-At Thursday’s Pacifica National Board meeting, the growing extent of the financial disarray at Pacifica was revealed. In a brief question and answer session with auditor Armanino McKenna regarding the network’s last 990 annual tax return, significant problems were uncovered. As mentioned in a previous issue of Pacifica in Exile, the tax return is hundreds of thousands of dollars out of whack with income and expense totals on the audit, released only a few weeks later. Worse, the return contains a certification that missing Schedule B is not required because Pacifica is not a publicly-supported organization. A publicly-supported organization is one that receives at least 33% of its support from gifts, grants or donations from members whose basic purposes are to support the organization. Pacifica has always been one. Continue reading The Tax Man Cometh and The SF Labor Council Weighs In
DON’T NIX THE MIX
by Daniel Borgström
Last week SaveKPFA took the MORNING MIX off prime time, replacing it with a show piped in from Los Angeles hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar. During that week we held three rallies at the KPFA station, carrying signs and banners reading: “Bring back the Morning Mix,” “Diversity or Monoculture?” and “Don’t nix the Mix you Dix.” Continue reading Seven Days and Three Rallies: A Quick Summary of Last Week at KPFA
