This sound clip comes from an August 17th KPFK staff meeting and contains a description of the bookkeeping problems at KPFK, including embezzlement and staff reactions to the news.
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Two Credit Cards Are Better Than One
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
Forget About That Election Thing
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
Dead Man Endorses Save KPFA by Daniel Borgstrom
This article was published by the author on their blog at: http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2015/08/dead-man-endorses-savekpfa.html
A similar article was published by Diana Bohn at http://www.unitedforcommunityradio.org/?p=3161
After these articles were published and a third problematic endorser (deceased two and a half years ago) was observed, the “endorsers” page at savekpfa.org was hidden.
Among SaveKPFA’s most distinguished endorsers is Walter Johnson. According to an obituary in the SF Chronicle, the late Mr. Johnson was for many years the Secretary-Treasurer of the San Francisco Labor Council. He died on January 12, 2012. Obituaries in several newspapers, and also the Labor Council’s website, confirm that reports of his death were not exaggerated. The man is dead. He’s been dead for over two and a half years. Continue reading Dead Man Endorses Save KPFA by Daniel Borgstrom
August 15th Homophobia Special on KPFK
Among other questionable Radford programming decisions at KPFK contributing to plummeting fund drive results, the new manager put the struggling pledge drive on a “break” this weekend to air a 30-hour Afrikan Mental Liberation Marathon, an independently produced dawn to dusk black nationalist-oriented program . The program has disturbed queer-identified listeners with aggressively homophobic positions presented with little to no counterpoint.
A KPFK staffer provided this clip of an interview with female psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing in which she compares queer sex to human-dog mating, states that male semen is a dietary protein like sweet potatoes and greens, and that homosexuality in Ancient Greece was caused by shock at the larger sizes of African genitals – among other bizarre statements deeply disrespectful towards LBGT people. You can hear for yourself here.
Majority on Pacifica Board Refuse To Discuss Secret Corporation to Acquire KPFA License
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
Some More Questions for Dan Siegel About The KPFA Foundation
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”.
Continue reading Some More Questions for Dan Siegel About The KPFA Foundation
Federal Trademark Database – “Pacifica Foundation”
| 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 |
Federal Trademark Database – “KPFA”
| 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 Foundation” Headquarters Relocated to 1925 Martin Luther King Jr Way
On July 31, 2015, a revised Statement of Information was filed with the California Secretary of State moving the corporate headquarters of the “KPFA Foundation”, entity #C3803602, from the law offices of Siegel and Yee at 499 14th Street in Oakland California to the Pacifica Foundation at 1925 Martin Luther King Jr Way in Berkeley California. Continue reading “KPFA Foundation” Headquarters Relocated to 1925 Martin Luther King Jr Way