KPFA Board election deadline, Oct. 15

[zenekar]

The KPFA (94.1FM) Local Station Board (LSB) election deadline is Oct. 15. If you are a current listener/subscriber to KPFA you would have received a ballot.

If you haven't already voted, ballots must be returned to KPFA no later than Oct. 15 so it is important to put it in the mail within the next couple of days.

As a listener supported community radio station it is important that KPFA/Pacifica follows its original mission (see Mission Statement below). The primary concern for many of the progressive candidates is community accessibility to programming, a democratic Program Council, and transparency -- so that subscribers can know how their donations are being allocated.

I was previously on the KPFA Board for three years. I'm not a candidate at this time. I recommend the following candidates because they will best represent the interests of the listeners. I had worked on the LSB with some of these candidates who have the the experience to lead in the right (progressive) direction, and recommend some new voices who will represent a new generation in the progressive movement.

There are nine open seats on the LSB. The voting process is Single Transferable Vote (STV). See: Single transferable vote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I recommend that candidates be ranked as follows:

Shara Esbenshade
Akio Tanaka
Banafsheh Akhlaghi
Richard Phelps
Henry Norr
Jim Curtis
Lara Kiswani
Gerald Sanders
Stan Woods

(It is unfortunate that Evelyn Sanchez is no longer a candidate.)

Ballots must be received on Oct. 15 so it's important to put it in the mail within the next couple of days.

If you need help filling out the ballot, see:
https://pacificafoundation.org/ballot_tutor09.htm

If you can't mail in your ballot in time, they will be accepted until midnight, Oct. 15, at the KPFA station, 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way in Berkeley. If you are a paid member, last minute ballot replacements will be provided.

Thanks for voting.
Attila Nagy
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Pacifica's Mission Statement

(a) To establish a Foundation organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any member of the Foundation.[*]

(b) To establish and operate for educational purposes, in such manner that the facilities involved shall be as nearly self-sustaining as possible, one or more radio broadcasting stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission and subject in their operation to the regulatory actions of the Commission under the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended.

(c) In radio broadcasting operations to encourage and provide outlets for the creative skills and energies of the community; to conduct classes and workshops in the writing and producing of drama; to establish awards and scholarships for creative writing; to offer performance facilities to amateur instrumentalists, choral groups, orchestral groups and music students; and to promote and aid other creative activities which will serve the cultural welfare of the community.

(d) In radio broadcasting operations to engage in any activity that shall contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors; to gather and disseminate information on the causes of conflict between any and all of such groups; and through any and all means compatible with the purposes of this corporation to promote the study of political and economic problems and of the causes of religious, philosophical and racial antagonisms.

(e) In radio broadcasting operations to promote the full distribution of public information; to obtain access to sources of news not commonly brought together in the same medium; and to employ such varied sources in the public presentation of accurate, objective, comprehensive news on all matters vitally affecting the community.
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[The Owl]

The KPFA (94.1FM) Local Station Board (LSB) election deadline is Oct. 15. If you are a current listener/subscriber to KPFA you would have received a ballot.

If you haven't already voted, ballots must be returned to KPFA no later than Oct. 15 so it is important to put it in the mail within the next couple of days.

...

Once again KPFA did NOT send me a ballot. I have a theory... It would seem that whoever is in charge of mailing out ballots only looks at the pledge list for the year at hand and either ignores, misses or is unaware of people like myself who tithe monthly via direct fund transfer and have been so doing for the past decade or so. Of course, after hearing who is running for the board, I'm not so sure this is a bad thing. So many seemed absolutely clueless about radio as a medium and seemed to be grinding such petty personal axes during the "debates" that were their ideas to make it to actually be programs, I doubt anyone would listen or call in at pledge time.