Public Comment by Daniel Borgstrom at 12/13 KPFA Local Station Meeting
https://soundcloud.com/ann-garrison/daniel-borgstrom-public-comment-kpfa-lsb-december
Audio
Berkeley Police Out Of Control … Even Broke My Phone And Assaulted Me
By Lisa Dettmer, KPFA unpaid staff member. Dettmer sent this email to her colleagues at 2:00AM on Monday, December 8, 2014 and consented to having it published here. Dettmer is a producer on KPFA Women’s Magazine.
Last night, I was covering the demonstration around midnight. In response to protestors setting garbage on fire the police got into a line and began pushing the crowd down the street. I was on the sidewalk and trying to explain to them that I was “press” and I was videotaping for KPFA, and instead of allowing me to continue videotaping from the sidewalk where I was not in their way at all, they hit the phone out of my hand and broke my phone and then shoved me and wouldn’t let me get my phone back. When I tried to approach a police car to ask to get my phone back, four armed police jumped out of the car with their guns drawn and told me to get away from their car. They seemed quite out of control generally, which is not new. I managed to get my broken phone back, but have not been able to upload my video coverage of the protest and my encounter with them from my Samsung to my Mac after they smashed the screen. If I am able to tomorrow, I will send the audio to the news department.
While this kind of behavior is not new for the Berkeley Police who have no better record than Oakland or anywhere else, I feel very strongly KPFA should be covering this – and not just from our desks. If Al-Jazeera can cover this from thousands of miles away, surely we can from one mile away.
I really hope others were out there this weekend and have tape and also will be covering this for the fund drive tomorrow. I think this is what is of interest to our audience, and selling premiums on an un-related topic feels quite uncomfortable, given what is happening.
Block The Boat Discussion at the KPFA Local Station Board 8-9-2014
This is the discussion of the Block The Boat special broadcast at the KPFA Local Station Board on August 9, 2014. The 7 minute clip features Save KPFA’s Jack Kurzweil saying it is a terrible mistake and wrongheaded for KPFA to support the blockade and programmer Brian Edwards-Tiekert saying the discussion was a “waste of the board and the manager’s time”.
Ballad of the Morning Mix
Have a listen to Flashpoints on Friday, May 30. Miguel Molina interviews Andrés Soto about the cancellation of the Morning Mix. The program ends with the Ballad of the Morning Mix composed and created by Andrés. The segment begins around 30:30
Open House, Saturday, May 31, 10 am at KPFA
Fight Back! Join Morning Mix hosts for an open house at KPFA
this Saturday, May 31 at 10 am!
1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley
It’s not a minute to soon rescue Free Speech Radio KPFA and Pacifica.
Stand Strong and draw the line at the Morning Mix!
On the evening of May 21, Morning Mix producers were told that their programs were cancelled. Some have been moved to other spots in the schedule. Others were cancelled entirely.
On May 23, Save KPFA sent an e-mail blast happily announcing that the Morning Mix will be replaced by Uprising Radio with host Sonali Kolhatkar. Ms. Kolhatkar is a long-time collaborator of Brian Edwards-Tiekert whose program UpFront runs from 7-8 am.
Insiders predict that the two programs will eventually merge, making Mr. Edwards-Tiekert the gatekeeper of all the morning prime time hours at KPFA.
Diversity is an strong theme for those who think this change is a spectacularly bad idea. This is from a statement by Morning Mix Host Sabrina Jacobs:
The People of Color that are affiliated with KPFA and Pacifica Radio will not be silenced until the questions of all those concerned are answered. The world outside of this “bubble” that has been created where white supremacy reigns will cease to exist when the necessary changes are made and our demands to be treated equally are heard and executed, post haste.
Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Molina talk about the changes on Flashpoints.
Stand Up And Fight Back For Free Speech Radio
Originally posted May 23, 2014
A Statement By Miguel Gavilan Molina, Executive Producer for La Onda Bajita, and Senior Producer for Flashpoints and Flashpoints in Espanol.
Broadcast between 5pm and 6pm at 94.1 fm on Friday May 23rd, 2014
“This is Miguel Gavilan Molina. It has come to my attention that this past Wednesday – the same day that Pacifica’s new interim executive director was introducing the staff of KPFA to the three finalists for the general manager position – KPFA’s outgoing interim manager was slashing and scattering the Morning Mix and removing it from the morning. Continue reading Stand Up And Fight Back For Free Speech Radio
Summer Reese Interview on “Just Peace” – Radio Free Georgia
On April 7, 2014 Pacifica Radio’s Executive Director Summer Reese was interviewed by Heather Gray of WRFG-89.3FM in Atlanta which is an Affiliate of Pacifica Radio. Ms Reese discussed her accomplishments, the challenges of community radio and her ideas for future development of community radio overall in America and specifically about the Pacifica Radio network.
Twit-Wit Radio Show – Send up of Pacifica’s Crisis
National Board Member (WBAI) Manijeh Saba’s Outburst at the Last Board Meeting
This audio clip contains an outburst by national board member Manijeh Saba – a listener representative from WBAI-FM – at the conclusion of the open session of the last board meeting. Her strong statement was removed from the audio archive of the meeting, but we have a copy here.
(It begins at about 2 minutes into the recording. The recording has all the discussion after the board vice-chair unilaterally declared the meeting “adjourned” without a vote).
Summer Reese Talks to Eben Rey and Roy Tuckman on KPFK
This conversation happened on KPFK, March 27, 2014 at 2 am.
Listen here. It’s almost 2 hours. Listener questions start at the hour mark.