The www.peoplesradio.net candidates are doing a collective statement to provide you with information you would not otherwise have to help you understand the crisis at KPFA/Pacifica. Our statements are best read in order starting with Richard Phelps, Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, Bob English, Dave Heller, Attila Nagy and Mara Rivera.

I am a doctor, media and community activist. I have done programming at KPFA about the conditions of Iraqi women and the Kurdish/Iraqi people and was active in helping to encourage KPFA to do more programming on the issues of the death penalty, women’s rights and programs about working people. I am on the Contra Costa Human Rights Commission and have worked to oppose discrimination against people from the Middle East and ethnic minorities in the US.

My name is John Van Eyck and I am running for the Local Station Board as a member of Concerned Listeners for KPFA slate. We have a pressing need for independent media in these times of war without end abroad and war against the constitution at home. KPFA gives voice to the people who are fighting back -- a unique resource for progressives in all communities.

I served on KPFA first elected Local Advisory Board and I am just completing a term on the Local Station Board (LSB). I am seeking another term because I realize that there are no quick fixes to the challenges we face. The Pacifica bylaws are designed to facilitate participatory democracy to ensure community input in decision making. There is a natural tension between this model and the interests of some radio professionals. Much of the tension around the station over the last few years is due to a failure to find a way to mediate this problem and channel it in a more positive direction.

At age 17, I became a WWII combat veteran. Later, in the mid-1950s, I moved to the SF Bay area, became a teacher, discovered KPFA and Luis Hill, who had more sense and wisdom about war than I once had. I’ve been a KPFA listener ever since.

The www.peoplesradio.net candidates are doing a collective statement to provide you with information you would not otherwise have to help you understand the crisis at KPFA/Pacifica. Our statements are best read in order starting with Richard Phelps, Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, Bob English, Dave Heller, Attila Nagy and Mara Rivera.

The voice of KFPA is needed now more than ever!

The bay area is a vital political and cultural center with people from throughout the world, and we have the potential to reach millions of people in the N. California who are concerned about the struggle against the wars, the fight for labor and human rights such as in Jena and for justice against the growing repression and attack on our democratic rights.

I am a United States Postal Service employee, National Association of Letter Carriers union member and worker.

I believe that workers need a vehicle to get their views out to other workers and their managers. Workers also need to inform the public on their views of current events.

When I completed my term as LSB rep in 2004 I returned to community work including Berkeley in establishing (40) groups and social networks such as Disabled Berkeley seniors. In Oakland developing Artist Land Trust condo housing at the old Oakland Noodle Factory, working as a leader in the progressive community in SF, elected board member to Community Benefits District responsible for real community work in making the streets cleaner, safer as well as building alliances and coalitions between groups and diverse communities. In 2002 as the producer of the TL Summit Live Radio Town hall, Septemeber 26th was declared TL Summit day by District Six and the Supervisors. In 2004 KPFA was recognized by SF Supervisors for its broadcast of TL Summit II which again represented real issues affecting the homeless, seniors, housing, health care, workers union and non-union. The real winners are those groups who continue to work in coalition together.

The www.peoplesradio.net candidates are doing a collective statement to provide you with information you would not otherwise have to help you understand the crisis at KPFA/Pacifica. Our statements are best read in order starting with Richard Phelps, Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, Bob English, Dave Heller, Attila Nagy and Mara Rivera.

I am Dianne Enriquez. I am 24 years old and I’ve been an avid listener of KPFA since I moved to the Bay Area seven years ago. Currently, I work for Young Workers United, a groundbreaking effort to organize and support young and immigrant workers in the service industry, and to raise restaurant industry standards across the board. We have worked to raise the minimum wage in San Francisco to $9.14 an hour, and we helped San Francisco pass the only law in the country guaranteeing paid sick days for all workers.

My name is Sherry Gendelman, and I'm seeking re-election to KPFA's Local Station Board because I want to help KPFA thrive.

I have been a life long activist for social justice beginning with the Civil Rights movement to the present day. In the past, I was District Counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Executive Director of the San Francisco Gray Panthers, and have worked with a variety of policital and social movments including Central American peace work and neighborhood arts projects. Currently, my law practice focuses on working people, immigrant communities, and teaching classes around the Bay Area informing people of their constitutional rights and how defend themselves in court.

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My name is Matthew Hallinan and I'm running for the Local Station Board as a member if Concerned listeners for KPFA slate. I want to see KPFA become a major beacon of progressive thought and culture.

I want to thank all the listeners who elected me and supported my past three years on the LSB. It’s been a rocky road, but I continue to hold out hope that listener democracy within KPFA and Pacifica will prevail. That is why I am running for re-election. I will continue to seek common ground with all sides on the LSB and within KPFA while holding fast to the principles of transparency, openness and inclusiveness. And I will continue to support our listener and community representatives on the Program Council in their efforts to encourage the inclusion of new, diverse and original voices on the air including young people, people of color, women, the disabled, labor and people of all sexual persuasions.

The www.peoplesradio.net candidates are doing a collective statement to provide you with information you would not otherwise have to help you understand the crisis at KPFA/Pacifica. Our statements are best read in order starting with Richard Phelps, Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, Bob English, Dave Heller, Attila Nagy and Mara Rivera.

My name is Warren Mar, and I’m running for KPFA’s Local Station Board to strengthen this radical, independent station. I’m also part of the Concerned Listeners for KPFA slate. Visit concernedlisteners.org to learn more about our platform and endorsers.

My name is Susan McDonough. I’m running for KPFA’s Local Station Board as part of a slate – Concerned Listeners – dedicated to strengthening and expanding KPFA, and bringing civility to its board meetings. Read more about our slate and platform at concernedlisteners.org

I am a retired community college/high school teacher. 40 years in the classroom. A long time community activist in human rights, immigrant rights, solidarity activist. Numerous fact finding missions to Central America (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and southern Mexico).

The www.peoplesradio.net candidates are doing a collective statement to provide you with information you would not otherwise have to help you understand the crisis at KPFA/Pacifica. Our statements are best read in order starting with Richard Phelps, Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, Bob English, Dave Heller, Attila Nagy and Mara Rivera.

Some of my qualifications for election: LSB member, LSB Chair 10- 05 to 12-06, Committees: PNB> Election and Governance, LSB> Outreach, Personnel, former AM & FM radio announcer, 33 year listener/subscriber, peace, labor and social justice activist, attorney/mediator. For a complete list see www.peoplesradio.net

The www.peoplesradio.net candidates are doing a collective statement to provide you with information you would not otherwise have to help you understand the crisis at KPFA/Pacifica. Our statements are best read in order starting with Richard Phelps, Gerald Sanders, Stan Woods, Bob English, Dave Heller, Attila Nagy and Mara Rivera.

My name is Paul Robins and I am running for the KPFA Local Station Board on the Concerned Listeners Slate. For 25 years, off and on, I have worked or volunteered at KPFA. I have worked in the phone room, written the news, engineered music shows, and managed the database. During the struggle to save KPFA I was in the streets in Berkeley.

As a journalist and social justice and peace activist, I share the mission of Pacifica Radio of promoting and working for peace and justice in the world.

As a student of communications, I have learned that the greatest tool for activism of any sort is access to the airways. Too often, those who need a public voice, lack access to a medium with which to air, discuss, and act on their commitment to work for a world that is just and a peace that is lasting.

My name is Tracy Rosenberg, I’m running for the KPFA Local Station Board as a listener representative and I hope that you’ll vote for me.

In eight+ years of involvement with KPFA and its community, I’ve served in a variety of ways: as the program coordinator on staff, as a listener representative on the program council (twice), as an activist and strategist and sidewalk camper in the lockout days, and as last year’s election supervisor. So I’ve been on the payroll, off the payroll, and in the streets - and I know the issues and the people in and around KPFA. I was honored to be chosen as the program council facilitator from 2005-2007 - by unanimous consent among paid and unpaid staff members, board members and other listeners. As we all know, unanimous consent to anything is not common at KPFA.