What We Stand For
OUR PRINCIPLES
- Implementing the core values of the Pacifica Mission: voices by and for people not commonly heard in the mainstream media
- Greater autonomy and local decision-making for our radio station
- Fiscal transparency and responsibility: people, not corporate underwriters, supporting people’s radio
- Local, diverse, multilingual, and young voices from and for our communities
- Spanish language programming to bring progressive messages to Spanish language communities
- Effective, participatory governance that is accountable to listener-sponsors and responsive to the diverse needs and interests of the Southern California listening community
Community Activists, Artists, and Programmers are among those who endorse the Ad Hoc Committee’s Principles
Endorsers of OUR PRINCIPLES
*Note: Organizational affiliations noted for identification purposes only
Yousef Abudayyeh, National Coordinator, The Free Palestine Alliance, USA*
Elahe Amani, Iranian women and human rights activist, mediator and artist
Yolanda Anguiano, LSB member*
Lydia Brazon, former LAB Chair, former PNB Director, human rights activist
Bill Gallegos, Communities for a Better Environment*
Sherna Berger Gluck, LSB member, Programmer (Radio Intifada)*
Sundiata Griotts, African Story Teller
International Action Center, Los Angeles
Dedon Kamathi, KPFK Programmer (Freedom Now)*
Hamid Khan, South Asian Network; KPFK Programmer (Beneath the Surface)*
Peggy Lee Kennedy, Venice Justice Committee*
L.A. County Peace and Freedom
Nativo Lopez, Mexican American Political Association (MAPA)*
Norma Martinez, Programmer (Informativo Pacifica)*
Elizabeth Mejia, Programmer (Insurgencia Feminina)*
Calvin E. Moss, Venice/Santa Monica Food Not Bombs*
Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror*
Puerto Rican Alliance
Jerry Quickley, former Producer and Host from KPFK
Victor Rodriguez, Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, CSULB*
Pedro Sanchez, Programmer (Suplemento Comunitario)*
SEIU Local 721 Latino Caucus*
Jim Smith, Free Venice Beachhead*
South Central Farmers, South Central Farmers Action Fund, South Central Farmers Cooperative
Southern California Immigration Coalition
Bernard White, fired and banned Program Director and Host from WBAI
Tim Wise, anti-racist speaker and author
The “Best Candidates” listed on this website are the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee members, not the Endorsers of OUR PRINCIPLES, who haven’t had the opportunity to evaluate all the candidates.
Ad Hoc Committee for KPFK Community Radio
The Ad Hoc Committee for KPFK Community Radio stands for OUR PRINCIPLES, the core values of the Pacifica Mission and the ideals of the struggle to free Pacifica Struggle in which so many of us fought a decade ago. We stand for a vision of Pacifica that is both financially and ethically sound: grassroots, participatory radio. The Ad Hoc Committee for KPFK Community Radio is Bernie Eisenberg, Tracy Larkins, Moe Mansour, Reza Pour, Leslie Radford, Alise Sochaczewski, and Roger Zimmerman. We’ve watched the candidates, read what they wrote, listened to them on air and in local candidate forums and engaged in personal conversations with many of them. In our judgment, the candidates we list as the Best Candidates are the ones who we believe will promote Our Principles.
Take Back KPFK – Again!
All sides of today’s Pacifica struggle claim to embrace the Pacifica Mission. How that Mission is interpreted and implemented is at the core of the difference between sides. Like the Free Pacifica movement ten years ago, the Ad Hoc Committee for KPFK Community Radio believes that not only the letter but also the spirit of the Mission – and consequently how it is implemented – is the issue of this election. We’re backing candidates who support the civil rights, economic, political, and environmental struggles of working class and poor people, and diverse communities including recent immigrants – social democratic ideals that would change our society at its roots. If you support our candidates, you are voting that Pacifica should be a radical outlet that welcomes those whose voices are suppressed in our culture, media that includes diverse and multicultural viewpoints.
What Your Vote Means
Voting for these candidates is voting against the compromises of corporate underwriting. Your votes means that you believe that the self-sustainability required by the Mission isn’t paid professionals, celebrities, or promoting premiums of dubious value. You support community radio that relies mainly on volunteers and on an expansive and diverse progressive listenership. You want programs that are evaluated based on the Mission, not on how much money they raise. You welcome volunteers to KPFK from the cutting edge of social change (assuring that they are trained in good radio production), authentic community support for community radio, and voices by and for people not commonly heard by the mainstream, to join together to fulfill thePacifica Mission. Your vote for these “Best Candidates” means that you promote transparent governance and management practices that respect our listeners and our paid and unpaid workers’ rights, fair and open policies and processes, honest and open business practices, and empowering our members to determine the direction of our station. You uphold the ideals embodied in the Pacifica Mission and by Pacifica founder Lew Hill, whose vision was a radio station for the working class. In short, you’re ready to challenge the current majority faction, who took the 2007 election with their $7,000 glossy mailer and who have a much different vision of KPFK. You want KPFK to depend on people power, not deep pockets, and you support our candidates’ vision of the Mission and community radio.
