<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear Marin Greens,</div><div><br></div><div>This is a note from a member of the Green Party of Alameda County who is running for the KPFA Board.</div><div><br></div><div>Peace,</div><div>Marnie Glickman</div><div>Co-chair, Marin Greens</div><div>415-472-2859</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Dear Greens,</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">As you all know balloting for the KPFA Local Station board has started.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br><span style="color: black; ">Although most candidates running for the board claim to espouse progressive politics, there is a clear difference in the direction they want to take KPFA.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The Concerned Listeners, who have held the majority on the board for the last three years, want to make the station more 'professional' and mainstream. They believe that the management should set station policy and make programming decisions. In their platform they refer to the unpaid staff which comprise 3/4 of the station as a 'sectarian group' and say that the unpaid staff are packing their organization with "people who have only tangential relationship to KPFA”. But KPFA cannot exist without the unpaid staff. They are news reporters, DJs, public-affairs hosts and members of the KPFA Apprenticeship Program.<br><br>The Independents for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1252527340_0" style="cursor: pointer; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; ">Community Radio</span> want to put the community back in community radio; they believe that programming decisions and other significant station policies need to be made collaboratively. (For more info, please see their website at: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.indyradio2009.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; ">http://www.indyradio2009.org/</span></a> ).</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">I am concerned that the Concerned Listeners doctrine of concentrated management power and its disrespect for the unpaid staff could turn KPFA into another mainstream station and marginalize the listener community.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br>It is a critical election which will determine the direction the station will go. Please rank vote for the candidates who are endorsed by the ‘Independents for Community Radio’. The candidates are: Akio Tanaka, Henry Norr, Banafsheh Akhlaghi, Evelyn Sanchez, Rahman Jamaal, Andrea Prichett, Lara Kiswani, Adam Hudson, Sasha Futran, Shara Esbenshade, and Ann Hallet.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br>Your vote is important so please vote and mail in your ballot.<br><br>Sincerely</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br>Akio Tanaka</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">GPAC and Listener Delegate-KPFA LSB</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">---------------------------------------------</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The platform-statement of the 'Concerned Listeners' and a rebuttal by ‘Independents for Community Radio can be found at:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://indyradio2009.org/sites/default/files/CL_Statement-Rebuttal.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: purple; ">http://indyradio2009.org/sites/default/files/CL_Statement-Rebuttal.html</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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We work together to share Green art, politics and culture.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div></div><br></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>