Passions continue to run high over the KPFK elections, as the
deadline for casting votes approaches. All ballots must be received at the
KPFK office or Post Office box by
midnight on December 11. For more info on voting, see:
The 2007 KPFK Local Station Board Elections are now on!
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Posts from the newswire:
KPFK Disenfranchised? by Leslie | |
How To Rig a KPFK Election by Leslie Radford, KPFK LSB candidate | |
Peter Camejo & Nativo Lopez Support Donna Warren & John Wegner for KPFK Board by Camejo, Lopez, etc | |
VOTE FOR WARREN AND WENGER FOR KPFK BOARD by Mike Wyman | |
Donna Warren and John Wenger are not recommended by Independents and Grassroots Greens by Jack Lindblad | |
KPFK is biased, still, while pretending to be "fair" by sidestepper | |
Response to Lila Garrett by Jim Lafferty | |
XENOPHOBIA and the KPFK ELECTIONS by R. Salazar | |
KPFK Programmer Plugged Assistant Running as Listener Sponsor in LSB election by Miles Copeland | |
KPFK and Pacifica Need Good Governance by Grace Aaron | |
A Letter from the Interim GM of KPFK by Jim Lafferty | |
KPFK: Welcome to the Madhouse by Leslie Radford, KPFK LSB candidate | |
(another, smaller) Stolen Election by Leslie Radford
The state’s cases against
T. A. C. O., Aryana and Stress, which T. A. C. O. described as “b. s.” to defense attorney Guillermo Suarez, are based on the testimony of an undercover cop who alleges that he approached the Black Riders, pretending to be Lebanese and connected to freedom fighters in the Middle East. He claims that the three defendants were involved in a plot to take possession of weapons and protective vests that he claimed to be able to provide them.
No weapons were ever involved. These charges are essentially for a
“thought crime”
– allegedly conspiring to attempt to possess weapons.
It is no accident that the arrests took place while several of the Black Riders were up in northern California Building support for the San Francisco 8 political prisoners. Recall that in 1974 a federal court had dropped all charges against the San Francisco 8 because the New Orleans police and the San Francisco police used torture to extract a
confession.
It is also no coincidence that the Black Riders were scheduled to appear in court on December 3, the same day as a hearing was scheduled in San Francisco on San Francisco 8.
From the newswire:
Black Riders held on million dollars bail each, back in court Wednesday by Repost of Assata Shakur forums