FOLIO ANNOUNCEMENTS

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The Folio accepts notices concerning KPFA/Pacifica resources and events.

Members of the KPFA LAB Election Committee were pleased to attend a meeting of listener-activists in San Jose who announced the formation of South Bay for KPFA, the newest KPFA listener group - formed in the wake of the threat posed to KPFA by Pacifica, and to develop and promote a candidate from the South Bay for the KPFA LAB election.

The South Bay for KPFA members will be active in organizing KPFA listeners from the South Bay initially around the upcoming LAB Election, with the goal of trying to unify around a single strong South Bay candidate for the LAB.

SB4KPFA will be holding a forum in San Jose in September, inviting candidates for the LAB Election down to discuss their candidacy within the context of the need for coverage of South Bay issues on KPFA. Look for more information coming out of this newest listener group!

For more information email Fadi Saba at fasaba@yahoo.com, or call him at (408) 279-3879.

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KPFA needs you! The KPFA Subscriptions Department needs reliable volunteers to help ship out Fund Drive premiums from the station. It's not the most glamorous work, but you will be working with a great crew of dedicated KPFA supporters, and will contribute to the day-to-day running of the station.Crews meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30 - 7:30 pm, and on Fridays from 10 am to 2 pm at KPFA. For more info or to sign up, please phone 510-848-6767 x205.

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One Vivid Evening of Subversive Hilarity with JIM HIGHTOWER: "Election 2000: A Space Odyssey", Saturday, September 30, 8 PM, King Middle School, 1781 Rose Street, North Berkeley. Benefits KPFA Free Speech Radio & Global Exchange. Tickets - advance $10, $12 door, available early September at our community bookstores and Global Exchange stores. 510-848-6767x609

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Join us in protesting the National Association of Broadcasters convention September 20-23, 2000. Help make history when media activists from all over North America converge on the National Association of Broadcasters' radio convention. The NAB is the WTO of the broadcasting industry. It spends millions of dollars every year lobbying to keep the airwaves out of the hands of the public.

See you in San Francisco! Bring your microradio transmitters, your dancing shoes, and your militant nonviolent attitude. Join Media Alliance, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Project Censored, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Micropower Radio Coalition, Global Exchange, Direct Action Network, Prometheus Radio Project, Civil Rights Forum on Communication Policy, Rainforest Action Network, We Interrupt this Message, the Independent Press Association, National Writers Union Bay Area Local 3, National Lawyers Guild Committee for Democratic Communications, and many other organizations in protest! Contact: Media Alliance * www.mediademocracynow.org * ma@igc.org, 814 Mission St., Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94103, (415) 546-6334.

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The Alliance for Democracy of Sonoma County unanimously passed the following resolution at our meeting August 14, 2000.

Passed unanimously by the Alliance for Democracy's 2000 National Convention.

RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF PRESERVING PACIFICA RADIO'S PEACE AND JUSTICE MISSION

BACKGROUND

The Progressive movement in the United States relies upon alternative media sources to inform itself about issues of concern, especially with corporate consolidation of the mainstream media. Pacifica Radio has played a major part in providing alternative news since its foundation in 1949. However under the direction of a self-appointed board of directors, Pacifica has become more "mainstream". Many of those opposed to this direction have been forced out of the organization. Led by listeners, local board members and station staff at KPFA, Berkeley, a movement has developed to reverse that trend with the goal of restoring Pacifica's Peace and Justice Mission. The AfD should voice its support of those seeking to preserve Pacifica as a genuine voice of the progressive community.

RESOLUTION

"Whereas Pacifica Radio, up to now a central voice in the progressive communities of this country, but which under the leadership of an un-elected and unrepresentative board of directors has become more concerned with commercial success and has abandoned its Peace and Justice mission;

"Whereas the Joint Legislative Audit Committee of the California Assembly has concluded that Pacifica's activities contradict its mission, that it has violated union contracts and misused donor funds; and that Pacifica's activities have been resisted by a majority of its news "stringers", currently striking from working for the organization;

"Whereas those who are resisting this transformation of Pacific Radio have formed an Alliance to Promote Pacifica's Peace and Justice Mission and are collecting signatures in a letter of support of this effort;

"This convention Resolves that the Alliance for Democracy supports those seeking to Promote Pacifica's Peace and Justice Mission and assist in the development of a democratic process for holding the radio network accountable to peace and justice organizations, and calls upon the Executive Board of the Pacifica Foundation to resign and be replaced with members truly representative of the Progressive Community, such as members elected by local advisory boards."

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RESOLUTION IMC -- Independent Media Center

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Relationship with KPFK

Whereas KPFK Los Angeles is a community radio station whose mission commits it to community involvement, free speech and an airing of a broad spectrum of opinion

And

Whereas the station, along with management of the Pacifica network has strayed far from that mission by:

O Practicing Censorship

O Exercising Autocratic Managerial Control

O Demonstrating a lack of accountability to the community

O Attempting to coerce programmers to sign the "Y2k Compliant" Agreement that makes all volunteer work the property of the station

O Dismantling its training program that provided access to radio skills for women and people of color.

O Practicing union busting.

Therefore, be it resolved that we, of the IMC LA, condemn the above regressive policies and practices that are antithetical to Pacifica's own mission statement. We demand that KPFK recommit itself to its own mission statement to become a truly independent, alternative media outlet accessible to all communities in Los Angeles.

Be it further resolved that the IMC-LA will not share space, equipment, programming, analysts or recorded sound unless and until KPFK

A. Renounces the gag rule.

B. The station establishes mechanisms for meaningful participation of stakeholders (subscribers, volunteers, etc.) in decision-making processes.

C. Agrees to cease retaliation against staff and volunteer who speak out on aspects of the current crisis

D. Withdraw its demand that all volunteer work produced at the station become the sole property of KPFK, as specified in the Y2K Compliant Agreement.

This is not to be interpreted to mean that KPFK volunteers cannot participate in the IMC.

RESOLUTION

IMC (Independent Media Center) Denies Press Credentials To Pacifica Network News (PNN) Reporters and Staff

The consensus of IMC members is that the IMC will not credential PNN reporters nor freelance reporters nor any person who attempts to file for PNN, nor give interviews to PNN, nor allow PNN to use material created by the IMC.

The "reassignment" of PNN News Director Dan Coughlin has caused much controversy. PNN has compromised its journalistic integrity by acts of censorship. There is an ongoing strike by Pacifica stringers and freelancers, and we need to be in solidarity with them.

Since the crisis last spring, when armed guards were called in to lock out staff at KPFA, Pacifica reporters say management has subjected journalists, contributors and independent producers to repeated acts of alteration, suppression and censorship of news stories and public-affairs programming, which they say are of vital interest to the listeners of Pacifica and the broader communities it serves.

Furthermore, since the IMC strives to combat censorship and corporate control of the media, and Pacifica management has failed to address our concerns regarding these issues, there are some who consider contributing to Pacifica Network News in any way to be incompatible with their journalistic ethos.

The Pacifica stringers strike has received endorsements from the "Democracy Now" AFTRA Bargaining Unit (David Love), Aileen Alfandary (KPFA News Co-Director), WBAI/UE Local 404, Pacifica Affiliates KCSB (which has suspended PNN broadcasts) and KFCF, L.A. County Federation of Labor, Noam Chomsky, Ben Bagdikian, Medea Benjamin, Michael Parenti, Alice Walker, Mike Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Norm Solomon, Daniel Ellsberg, and over 100 other scholars, academics and organizations.

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