My platform for the KPFK Local Station Board is to insure fidelity to the Pacifica Foundation Mission. I will be faithful by representing all communities of listener/sponsors, insure financial transparency and accountability and promoting the viability of KPFK.

I have been a listener since the late 60’s and in the past ten years I have been a very active one. I also have been since the early 70’s, an activist in the Chicano / Mexican communities advancing our community rights under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 and the United Nations Article 27 Covenant on the Civil, Political Rights of Recognized Oppressed National Minorities. The latter we share in common with African descent peoples in the United States of America.

Because Pacifica since its inception has been an anti-war and proactively seeking to use education, communication and dialogue to find resolutions to inter-group conflict, the station has helped to form my political against the Vietnam “war” and all subsequent illegally undeclared Presidential military actions for Empire beginning with the genocide of the prior sovereigns and to the invasion of Mexico.

I am a pragmatic prison abolitionist working for the reform of the Prison Industrial Complex as we make our way towards the ideal of a just society where a more humane. less restrictive alternative to prisons can evolve.

My qualifications are primarily as a listener / sponsor, my participation as an appointed member of the 2003 Local Station Board when Mr. Don White was a member of the Selection Committee. That was the year the present By-Laws were developed and my experience was deepened for it.

I participated in the coalition for Radio Justice and I submitted a friend of the court brief in the Alameda County civil case that the court made a passing reference to and ultimately approved the by-laws as written.

I attended three years of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law towards a dual degree Maters in Public Administration / Juris Doctorate and worked 33 years as a deputy probation officer for the Los Angeles County Probation Department.

My professional and community affiliations are American Federation of State County Municipal Employees Local 685 Deputy Probation Officer Union, Los Angeles County Chicano Employees Association, Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes Law, Citizens United for a Responsible Budget, the Bus Riders Union, Catholic Detention Ministries Families of the Incarcerated, Proyecto Common Touch, Committee to Free Robert Salas and the Senate Select Community Committee on California’s Correctional System

Vote por mí como su favorito delegado a la Mesa Directiva Local.

Para que se informe de mis proyectos comunitarios vea, www.ssccccs.org del Comité Comunitario Selecto del Senado sobre Sistema Correccional de California y www.robertsalas.tk del Comité Libre Robert Salas.

Su voto será uno por experiencia ganada como miembro seleccionado a la MDL de 2003 cuando el difunto Sr. Don White era miembro del comité de selecciones.

Yo he sido miembro activo durante los últimos diez anos; miembro del Colectivo Radio Comunitario responsable por la innovación de la tira de programación en español y del Comité de Estatutos.

Tlazohcamati, Gracias

1. Why do you want to be on the Local Station Board?

I want to be on the Local Station Board because I can make a difference in the direction KPFK [is taking] towards the future.

2. How do you envision the Local station Board working the Pacifica Foundation, KPFK, and the community?

I envision the LSB working with all in a collaborative way through mutual consultation in a congenial, respectful way.

3. How could the station better serve its listeners?

We can better serve the listeners by paying attention to their desires through community outreach and more public time for public input at LSB meetings.

4. Describe some actions you would take to increase the influence of the station in under-represented communities and to increase the diversity of the listening audience?

Encourage more prgramming in local news and community events that gives more of a feeling of inclusion in all the affairs of the station of the Chicano/Mexican communities, all Spanish/Aboriginal speaking communities, African descent peoples and all other communities of color which includes underrepresented “white” communities.

5. What sources of funding, other than listener donations, do you feel KPFK should solicit?

All the sources of funding Pacifica has used in the past.

6. Please state briefly the skills, experience, educational background, work history, organizational affiliations, areas of community service, areas of interest and expertise that you would bring to the Pacifica network as a member of the Local Station Board.

See my candidate statement

7. On which Local Station Board Committees are you interested in actively serving? If you are a current Local Station Board member, on which committees do you currently serve?

By-Laws, Outreach

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