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Recent Changes in KPFK's Programming Schedule

Democracy Now! has moved back to 8 AM, Monday-Friday. We are running Informativo Pacifica, KPFK's daily Spanish-language newscast at 6 AM for the early-rising Spanish-speaking community, followed by half-hour public affairs programming, including Counterspin on Mondays at 6:30 (a more reasonable hour), Making Contact on Tuesdays, Economic Update with Richard Wolff on Wednesdays, Building Bridges with Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash on Thursdays, and the Laura Flanders show on Fridays at 6:30 AM.
    Eric Mann with Voices from the Frontlines has moved to Fridays at 7 AM, and the other morning-mix radio magazine programs have mostly gone to other places on the programming schedule. Alternative Radio from David Barsamian is airing at 10 AM Fridays, and Working Voices, our labor-oriented program, moved to 5 PM on Tuesdays when more working people can listen after work. Scholars Circle is back onto the daytime airwaves, Mondays from 1-2 PM.
     Radio Insurrection with Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane has moved from morning to evening drive time, Thursdays at 5 PM, and La Raza Radio is on Friday at 4 PM after the Pocho Hour of Power.
     Access Unlimited, KPFK's award winning disability rights and resources program, has returned  to our airwaves with Jolie Mason, one of the original trio of hosts, and Tamara Johnson. Vanessa Ramos and others from Disability Rights California are also involved. That airs Thursday from 1-2 PM. Health Care 4 US moved its biweekly show into that same health-oriented hour, alternating on the 2nd and 4th Mondays with Expansion Zone from Sonia Barrett. 
     StrikeLine with Dan Navarro has wrapped up with the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, and California Solartopia is back on our airwaves at that hour, Wednesday at 5 PM. Capitalism Race and Democracy's new spot is Tuesdays at 7 PM. CinemaScore with classical music host John Santana will run Sundays at 5 PM with orchestral music from the movies and interviews with film composers. Maggie Le Pique's Profiles will move to the first Friday of the month at 7 PM (Soul Rebel Radio will continue at that hour Fridays the rest of the month.)
      There are additional  changes that will be occurring, so please check the online schedule which is updated regularly.
     Let us know what you think about these changes and about other programming you'd like to hear on KPFK. Email comments@kpfk.org.

KPFK's Community Underwriting Information and Intake Form

KPFK, under a policy adopted by the Pacifica National Board, is now accepting underwriting from local businesses, community organizations, and other non-profits, that are aligned with Pacifica’s Mission Statement. Underwriters will receive weekly on-air announcements acknowledging their support for KPFK, listing on a dedicated page on our website, and a rotated listing in KPFK’s weekly Dispatch newsletter emailed to over 18,000 of our listeners. KPFK has the strongest broadcast signal in Southern California, with listeners from Santa Barbara to San Diego to the greater Palm Springs area, and online at KPFK.org. We are listener-sponsored, commercial-free Pacifica Radio for all of Southern California

For more details about how you can become an underwriter of KPFK, email GM@KPFK.ORG with your contact info and "Underwriting" in the subject line.

Below is a link to the intake form for potential underwriters. We will send you a follow-up email. If your underwriting is accepted, we will send you the proposed underwriting announcement based on the information you provide in the form. Once approved, we will send you the underwriting contract.

/community-underwriting-intake-form/

Programming Highlights

Democracy Now Newsfeed

  • Marianne Williamson on Running for President, Challenging Biden & Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire

    It’s primary day in New Hampshire. As Donald Trump and Nikki Haley square off in the Republican race, we speak to 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on her longshot campaign against President Biden. In an unusual twist, Williamson’s name is on today’s ballot, but Biden’s is not. Biden opted out of running in New Hampshire after the state refused to move its primary until after South Carolina’s. Williamson discusses why she’s running for president, her antiwar platform, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, immigration reform and the New Hampshire primary election. “Just like with health and sickness, you don’t just treat sickness, you learn to cultivate health,” she says. “We need to not just drop bombs and put people in prison when there is conflict. We need to learn to prevent conflict. We need to proactively create peace.”

  • "Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled": Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship

    We speak with acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who recently had an exhibition in London canceled after he publicly criticized Israel’s assault on Gaza. “We are gradually losing the ground of democracy or personal freedom,” says Ai, whose show in London was indefinitely postponed after he posted a controversial tweet about Israel in November. He joins Democracy Now! to discuss his longtime support of Palestine and Western hypocrisy over human rights and free speech. Ai Weiwei also describes his new graphic novel Zodiac, about his experiences as a Chinese dissident.

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    Okay. I'm back. COVID free! (Again!) Hopefully for good this time, as discussed --- along with many other things --- on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among the news we begin to get caught up with today after my rebound sidelining last week... My surprise COVID rebound last week and lessons learned [...]

  • Sunday 'Out of Iowa, On to New Hampshire' Toons

    As The BRAD BLOG's longtime, now-retired toon sherpa PDiddie always took pains to remind us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered species, please consider supporting them if you possibly can." * * * The BRAD BLOG is looking for someone --- other than me --- who may be able and available to post [...]

Rising Up with Sonali  

 

 

 



Sonali Kolhatkar can be heard Tuesdays at 3:00 PM on KPFK. Rising Up with Sonali is now a project of Yes! where she is an editor.

Rising Up With Sonali

  • Lessons in Government Spending: The Pandemic Paradox

    When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the U.S. government stepped in and began sending payments and unemployment checks to Americans all over the country. Writing about it in a new book called The Pandemic Paradox is Scott Fulford.

  • Yemen’s Houthis Take Action to Stop Gaza Genocide

    Houthi fighters from Yemen have been attacking commercial cargo ships and oil tankers in the Red Sea in an attempt to thwart Israel’s on-going genocide in Gaza. In response, the US and UK launched airstrikes against Yemen, risking a wider regional war.

Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod

Currently heard Tuesdays at 7am on KPFK
Archives of the program can be found HERE
Sojourner Truth w Margaret Prescod

KPFK's Rebel Alliance News

KPFK's Rebel Alliance News is our nightly weekday English-language locally produced newscast, your uncensored source of progressive news, information and commentary, with international, national, state-wide and local coverage. Interim news director Ziri Rideaux has recruited a team of unpaid newsgatherers, reporters, commentators and anchors to cover local, state, national and international news, including Angela Birdsong, Jack Kennedy, Polina Vasiliev, Ann Garrison, Don DeBar, Dan Nowman, Marcy Winograd and others. We are looking for more beat reporters and volunteer stringers from OC, San Diego, and covering local government, housing and policing issues in Southern California including LA City and County and other municipalities. Email news@kpfk.org

News from KPFK and Pacifica

KPFK is moving!
The building housing the station and the Pacifica Radio Archives has been sold -- the new owners will renovate the building, adding two major music recording studios, installing an elevator and adding other needed refurbishments, and setting up a space for KPFK and the archives to move back in as tenants, rent-free for a decade. We are having a rummage sale of books, CDs, DVDs, office furniture, and some tech that we don't want or need to move or store --see the banner  in the flipbook at the top of this page : Sat. Jan 27, 10 AM - 4 PM. At the same time and location, we are collecting donations of warm coats  and rain ponchos for distribution to people in need by local non-profits.
 
Newly elected listener and staff delegates have been seated on the KPFK Local Station Board for the two remaining years of the 2022 term (whose commencement was delayed by a postponement of the scheduled elections by the Pacifica National Board. LSB committees are open to participation by KPFK members in good standing. These include Outreach, Programming Oversight, Fundraising and Finance. There is also a PNB Committee of Inclusion for KPFK. For more information, see https://kpftx.org, click on monthly calendar.
 
2023 ANNUAL EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT
Pacifica Foundation Inc.
Station: KPFK 
Community of License: Los Angeles, CA 
Reporting Period: July22nd 2021–July 21 st 2022

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2023 REPORT
KPFK’s Online Public File

KPFK LSB, CAB Info and Committee Schedule

CLICK HERE FOR KPFK LOCAL STATION BOARD INFORMATION AND NEWS

Pacifica National Board and Local Station Board meetings, as well as those of their committees can be found here:

 

Pacifica Foundation Info can be found on the foundation's website at www.pacifica.org.

The Pacifica National Board (PNB) can be reached by email at PNB@pacifica.org.

The Local Station Board (LSB) can be reached by email at LSB@kpfk.org.

 

Director's Report 

to the KPFK LSB and Listeners

Director Beth von Gunten

January 7, 2024

 

The authority of the KPFK Local Station Boards and all Pacifica LSBs is limited to the one binding decision it makes at the beginning of each year: the choice of four Directors to represent KPFK on the Pacifica National Board. All other decisions of Local Station Board are merely advisory in nature and are not binding. 

Any Delegate who has served for at least a year on the LSB is eligible to serve as a Director. 

This year, KPFK's options are limited by the fact that seven of the more experienced members of last year's LSB who would have carried over to this year's LSB were among the nine - more than a third of last year's Local Board - improperly purged in one blow and replaced by less experienced runners up. That reduces the pool of those eligible to serve on the National Board. That favors the handful of Delegates who engineered last year's purge and now control KPFK's LSB. 

To limit discussion of who should represent KPFK on the National Board to a mere minute per candidate is unreasonable, unrealistic, and irresponsible.  A Delegate's duty of due diligence requires that sufficient time is allowed to put substantive questions to each candidate and to compare their responses. 

What is their vision for KPFK and Pacifica? Where do they stand on the array of problems facing the station and the Foundation? What changes do they propose? What is the position of each regarding Pacifica's current legal disputes - the pending New Day case for instance? *Is any candidate a party to any of these disputes?* If so, how much has their legal actions against Pacifica cost the Foundation so far? 

Is it not a conflict of interest, running for a place on the Board of an organization against which a candidate is taking legal action? Should that not disqualify a candidate at least until such outstanding legal disputes are resolved? Such a conflict of interest must at least be brought out into the light of day.

Are there other outstanding conflicts of interest? Has any candidate benefited financially or otherwise from previous transactions with other Delegates, candidates, or Directors? Does that in any way pose ongoing entanglements? If so, should that not be fully documented and disclosed? Does that pose liability for Pacifica?

Organizational ability, leadership, and integrity should also be considered, especially in light of the highly irregular conduct of last year's LSB Officers throughout last year and into this.

Notice of the December 3, 2023 LSB and Delegates Assembly special meetings were improperly altered by the Secretary Pro Tem, who then benefitted personally from that meeting, gaining seats for herself and an ally on the National Board. The Chair proceeded to convene and conduct a Delegates Assembly, an LSB special meeting, and a second Delegates Assembly all in one day, all with highly inadequate and improper notice. This ongoing cascade of improper procedure, month by month and meeting after meeting, undermines the functionality, credibility, and stability of Pacifica governance at every level, and carries legal liability for Delegates, Directors, and the Foundation as a whole. 

Each KPFK Delegate should carefully consider the implications and the LSB's full range of options before electing any candidate as a Director and elevating them to the National Board where all other binding decisions are made. Have they earned your trust? Your confidence? Your mandate? Is Pacifica safe in their hands? --Beth von Gunten

2022-2026 KPFK CAB MEMBER ROSTER 

Marcus Avila, Male Latino, realtor

 Joe Ayala, Male Latino/Iranian, labor leader, co-host Working Voices

John Donner   Male, Caucasian  Retired, former reporter,

Kelly Flores    Female, Latina  K-12 Educator, UTLA member      

Tsukuru Fors, Trans, Japanese political activist

Melvin Ishmael Johnson         Male, African American, Playwright

Stephan Klein Male, Latin, Caucasian, General contractor, Realtor

Chancee Martorell      Female, Thai, Executive Director non-profit

Dan McCrory  (chair) Male, Caucasian; former labor leader, retired telecom worker, PBS CAB member,

Sylvester Rivers      Male, African American, musician, radio producer (co-host Cut to the Chase)

Ruth Sanchez   Female, Latina      Educator

Dr. Ruth Strauss         LSB liaison physician

David Tokofsky  Male, Caucasian     Teacher, Former LAUSD board member

Analisa Venolia (Vice Chair)  Female, Latina      Graduate student

 

Pacifica National Board Motions on Terms for Those Elected in 2023 Elections 

Whereas there were insufficient funds to hold elections in 2022, which was year 2 of Pacifica’s 3-year election cycle in which half of the delegates would be elected;

Whereas the PNB passed a motion on October 20, 2022 providing that delegates whose terms would have ended in 2022 would continue to serve in 2023 if Pacifica failed to hold elections;

Whereas delegates whose terms would have ended in 2022 were either in their first term and therefore eligible to run again, or in their second term and therefore ineligible to run again, according to the Pacifica bylaws, and the delay from 2022 to 2023 in holding elections does not change that eligibility status;

Whereas Pacifica is in the midst of the election cycle for 2023, with the record period having passed, the period for candidate nomination having closed, the ballots not yet sent to members, and ballots slated to be sent to voters in the second half of August; and

Whereas it is important for voters to understand before they cast their votes the length of terms to which successful candidates would be elected and serve;

Therefore be it resolved that all candidates running in the 2023 delegate elections are running for two-year terms, and that the elections.pacifica.org website and the ballot shall reflect this information. Pacifica elections would return to the Article Four, Section 3 schedule of holding elections in years one and two and no elections in year three (i.e., elections in 2024 and 2025 but not in 2026).

 

To find your email with access to the web-based ballot, look and approve emails from this address: <invitations@mail.electionbuddy.com>

More information at https://elections.pacifica.org/wordpress  If you did not receive a ballot or don't have email and want a paper ballot, please call the National Elections Supervisor's message line: 213-635-9363.

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Jobs at KPFK and Pacifica

KPFA Radio Berkeley - UpFront Producer Sought -

UpFront is a mostly-live morning public affairs show that delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through engaging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. We broadcast Monday to Friday from 7 to 8 am on 94.1 FM and at kpfa.org. This producer will have primary responsibility for setting up most days’ shows, with help from the show’s host and interns. More info here

KPFK is seeking to fill several pro bono (unpaid) interim management and coordinator positions. These include:

interim unpaid development director to form and guide a development task force to raise funds for the station;

interim unpaid social media marketing manager to coordinate social media promotion efforts at and by the station;

interim unpaid volunteer coordinator to recruit and supervise volunteers for diverse tasks at the station.

Those interested in applying for these unpaid interim positions, please contact interim GM Michael Novick at gm@kpfk.org.

Pacifica Foundation Radio seeks an experienced leader for the position of
General Manager of its Los Angeles station, KPFK 90.7 FM 
For more information and to apply, click
HERE or see http://pacifica.org/jobs_kpfk.php

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