LETTERS TO THE FOLIO --

 

Dear NB4KPFA,

Enclosed is $10 for a subscription to your Folio. I grew up in the Bay Area and I listen to KPFA whenever I’m visiting, as I was last week. I picked up a copy of your first issue at the KPFA Crafts Fair. The article "Pacifica in Vincula" was Fascinating!

Thanks for your efforts to bring KPFA listeners together and for providing this forum for exchanging ideas.

Shana Frank,
Putney, Vermont

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Dear Folio,

Enclosed is a check for the 2400 "Folio" copies and yellow sheets. We will send them to our subscribers with our next mailing in a couple of weeks. It’s really exciting that it is being published. I hope there are lots of folks who subscribe so that the Folio will be sustained. At some point it would be good to talk about the future and possible contributions by KFCF, such as space for articles from KFCF land and local program information.

Best Wishes,

Vic Bedoian
Executive Director KFCF
Fresno, California

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Dear Folio Editorial Board,

Thanks heartily for renewing the Folio as another means to keep KPFA listener-supporters in a community of information exchange and hopefully sustained activist solidarity/coalition and in dialog. I have been a listener/"sponsor" -- contributor very regularly (though for years "low income") since coming to Berkeley for college in 1976. Before that I listened occasionally to KPFK and college independent radio in LA at least sometimes as a child and teen. I’ve chosen in part not to live too far from Berkeley ever since.

The escalation of power struggle, differences in sense of mission and management conflicts that have resulted between the National Pacifica Foundation and local Pacifica Station, especially KPFA, is something I’ve been aware of -- largely due to Larry Bensky and others (Nicole Sawaya, etc.) speaking of it on-air. This conflict troubled me and last Spring and summer brought all kinds of feelings, thoughts, talk with fellow listeners, seeking out internet and other information, letter-writing and calls for me. I was very happy to be in Berkeley at the big demo. The end of July last summer with a Mexican farmworker friend and his wife and baby -- just part of the large organized farming community that listens and supports KPFA.

(I write all this just to let you know an example (or a bit of a sketch there of) of a fellow listener. I urge you to use the Folio for activist suggestions and to allow programmers and listeners to communicate with each other. Also, include news and comment and requests for support from other community non-commercial stations -- KDUS Davis, KUMR Grass Valley are two that I can and do listen to. I was very heartened this past summer at not just how much the KPFA listenership gathered together, but also how other independent radio and print sources made efforts to share news and inform and organize people in the Pacifica-KPFA struggle. The two community radio stations I just mentioned did so -- even KUOP Stockton - a generally staid NPR voice -- did so on several hour long shows. The Sacramento and Chico news and review weeklies had some somewhat sensible articles and welcomed letters. The local peace/activist monthly newspaper out of the Sacramento Peace Community, "Because People Matter," had some excellent articles.)

Again, thanks for the issue so far -- please do keep in touch and give activist alerts and news coming if you can. Keep on with your fine work!

Yours,

David Fritz
Davis, California

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