{"article":{"id":12574,"heading":"KPFK Listeners Boycott","author":"Pacifica Campaign","created":"2001-11-02 15:09:49","modified":"2005-08-15 00:42:36","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:42:36","article":"
PLEASE DON'T FUND THE DESTROYERS OF THE PACIFICA
RADIO NETWORK
Last week, the staff at KPFK - Pacifica Radio in
Los Angeles opposed the
fall fund drive in a letter written to the
overseeing Pacifica National
Board. Citing \"bills that are months overdue,\"
and that \"employees owed as
much as $1200 are simply ignored,\" as well as \"no
petty cash,\" and \" despite
endless promises, no accounting of the financial
state of this network,\"
they concluded:\"We find it inappropriate and
ultimately immoral to ask our
listeners to donate another penny to this
organization as long as it refuses
to account for the funds received.\"
Despite their efforts toward accountability, KPFK
began pitching on October
31st. Berkeley station KPFA \"Flashpoints\" host
Noelle Hanrahan reported on
Octber 31st, \"KPFK has just begun its fund drive,
despite their demands for
bills payments and opening the books NOT being
answered. At a meeting with
the staff, Pacifica Board Chair, Bob Farrell,
demanded the fund drive begin,
...and they caved.\"
Bob Farrell is applying pressure to get money
from Southern California
listeners. But we can boycott to express our
outrage over the fiscal
unaccountability and neglect at the stations
while the Pacifica National
Board uses our funds for high-priced lawyers,
public relations firms and
security companies to maintain their tenuous grip
over our radio network.
In Pacifica's FY2000 the current board majority
and managers spent a
staggering $500,000 of listener money on
anti-union law firms and $440,000
more on security. Dissident board members
estimate this year's leagl bills
have already topped one million dollars.
Meanwhile, an investigation by the
Pacifica Campaign has revealed that in the past
couple of years, executive
salaries skyrocketed. ( For information, go to
http:\/\/www.pacificaboycott.org).
KPFK station manager Mark Schubb's salary shot up
from $56,000 in 1999 to
nearly $72,000 in 2000. What are we paying for?
Mark Schubb has kept
\"Democracy Now!\" off the air at KPFK, even though
it is still being
broadcasted from KPFA in Berkeley. David
Barsamian's \"Alternative Radio\" was
silenced and KPFK continues to lack community
announcements, and real racial
diversity. Meanwhile, due to the policies
of the Pacifica National Board, we no longer
receive \"Free Speech Radio
News,\" daily cutting-edge
newscasts by Pacifica's stringer journalists.
Ironically, under the current
administration, the great programs our network
created are heard throughout
the country on affiliate stations and on the
internet, yet our Pacifica
stations have shut them out!
Every cent you give to KPFK will be directly
under the control of the ruling
majority of the Pacifica National Board. Don't
pay them to destroy our
network. Instead:
- Join the Pacifica boycott. Give your support to
efforts to preserve the
network. Addresses for places to send funds are
listed at the bottom of this
email.
- Call the KPFK pledge line; express your
opinions about the current
destruction of Pacifica. 818-985-5735.
- Participate in an informational presence and
picket held by the Pacifica
Campaign at the station nightly from 4-6. Address
and directions are below.
- Demonstrate on Saturday November 3, from 12
noon to 2pm. Many working
people have asked us to have a demonstration on
Saturday where latest news
and analysis will be shared.
- Contact station manager Mark Schubb; tell him
you will not pledge; express
your opinions about the destruction of Pacifica,
and absence of \"Democracy
Now!,\" \"Alternative Radio,\" and community
programming. mschubb@kpfk.org
- Join the Free Pacifica Neighborhood Network. To
find a group near you,
call 323-878-5680.
- Please give generously to one or all national
efforts to regain our
network. Make checks payable to:
Institute for Media Analysis \/ Pacifica Campaign
(Pacifica Campaign to Stop
the Takeover)
51 MacDougal Street #80
New York, NY 10012
Vanguard Public Foundation (The lawsuits)
383 Rhode Island Street Suite 301
San Francisco CA 94103
Agape Foundation Free Speech Radio Fund
(Additional cross complaint lawsuit
by Board members)
Friends of Free Speech Radio
905 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
KPFK is located at 3729 Cahuenga Blvd. West in
North Hollywood: Driving
North on Route 101 (Hollywood Freeway) to
Nothbound Lankershim exit; stay in
left exit lane, turn left onto Lankershim Bvd.,
turn left onto Cahuenga
Blvd. Or driving south on Route 101 to
southbound Lankershim exit; stay in
the middle exit lane; turn right onto Cahuenga
Blvd.
The Pacifica Campaign is a grass-roots
organization representing listeners
and staff alike, fighting to regain and preserve
the Pacifica Network's
50-year tradition of progressive community-based
radio.
Pacifica Campaign
51 MacDougal Street #80
New York, NY 10012
646-230-9588
pacificacampaign@yahoo.com
http:\/\/www.pacificacampaign.org
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