Partial Document Dump Re: Bequest
Berkeley-The “60 pages you can’t see” of documentation regarding the bequest directed to Pacifica Foundation Radio that was incorrectly reported as a restricted donation for the exclusive use of...
View ArticleJoe Hill’s Last Will: 100 Years Later
by Bob English. I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, Alive as you or me … Swedish-American labor organizer, poet and songwriter Joe Hill was executed 100 years ago on Nov 19, 1915. Born Joel Emmanuel...
View ArticleWhat’s The “New Low” and Who Is “Sleazy”?
By Frank Sterling I was astonished to read the latest edition of Save KPFA and its attack on local station board member Janet Kobren. As we all may have heard, the $400,000 bequest left to the Pacifica...
View ArticleSystem Breakdown
Berkeley-The Pacifica Foundation, 19 months into a coup by the Siegel/Brazon faction, is starting to project its internal demolition onto on-air operations. In the past two weeks, LA station KPFK’s...
View ArticleKPFK Stream Gone for 106 Hours
The Internet stream at Pacifica’s LA station KPFK has been broken for more than 100 hours since 9am on Wednesday November 25th. The breakdown is suspected to have been caused by an inept repair of the...
View ArticleLatest Audit In History
Berkeley-Ten days after Pacifica’s interim controller issued a long list of accounting schedules and bank reconciliations to meet a projected start date on November 30th for the 2014 audit, it looks...
View ArticleKPFA-Pacifica Union History and Politics
by Bob English Joe and Lew Hill (1879-1915) – (1919-1957) IWW and Pacifica Radio Two named Hill, Lew following Joe a century ago, different national, cultural and class origins; both radical humanists...
View ArticleMr. Destructo
Former Siegel and Yee associate attorney Jose Luis Fuentes, who replaced his then-boss Dan Siegel on the Pacifica National Board in January of 2014, has the solution to Pacifica’s problems:...
View ArticleMore Than 600 Unread Emails
Berkeley-Only in Berkeley will the network’s troubled board elections come to a close today, with balloting extended to January 4th in Los Angeles, NY and Houston. The election supervisor has decided...
View Article“We Want Him Off The Air”
In a candidate forum, Siegel/Brazon candidate Chuck Anderson said the station “absolutely did not want” to keep paid programmers, called overnight programmer Roy Tuckman “goy of hollywood” and said “we...
View ArticleEmails To KPFK About Roy Of Hollywood Cut
Here’s a sampling of the emails flooding into KPFK after “Safe Harbor” replaced the first three hours of “Something’s Happening” ====================================================== From: James Hober...
View ArticleTime To Stop Dan Siegel
This interchange, while lengthy, is very worth a read. It covers many aspects of Pacifica history and the destructive contributions of attorney Siegel. Documents referred to in the text are...
View ArticleControl At Any Cost
Berkeley-In the wake of the overwhelming election victory for the Committee to Strengthen KPFK and the rejection of current IED Lydia Brazon’s handpicked slate by KPFK’s donors (depending on how you...
View ArticlePetition To Restore Something’s Happening
Restore “Something’s Happening” Hours Hosted by Roy Tuckman We the signatories, are petitioning KPFK’s General Manager Leslie Radford, Interim Program Director Alan Minsky and the Local Station...
View ArticleThe Only Call: Safe Harbor’s “Community Conversation
Safe Harbor’s attempt at a community conversation went terribly awry when the only caller in the hour-long program, Denise, said the program was getting on her nerves, called the hosts kids in a...
View ArticleLockdown
Berkeley-Within days of the seating of the new KPFK local station board after the landslide victory of the Committee to Strengthen KPFK, GM Leslie Radford and roommate Adam Rice suggested to staff...
View ArticleMozart Meeting: Civil Disbedience
Berkeley–Thursday’s Pacifica National Board meeting turned into a Mozart sonata after the Siegel/Brazon faction insisted on preventing both the 2016 and 2015 directors from WBAI-FM from voting in the...
View ArticleDialing To Resist By
For the second time in a week, the Pacifica National Board’s attempt to have a meeting after disenfranchising WBAI’s elected majority and seating two bogus affiliate directors, resulted in meeting...
View ArticleWho Needs A Vote?
Berkeley-Mozart did not make an appearance at the second disrupted national board meeting in a week, but while the sounds were less than musical, the outcome was the same: meeting interuptus. Doubling...
View ArticleFlip-Flopper
In the February 9th, Pacifica National Board finance committee meeting, former Pacifica ED and board chair Lydia Brazon is heard insisting that “of course” members of Pacifica boards and committees...
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