[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Please Vote in the KPFA Local Station Board Election!

[Gerry Gras]

 From Greg Jan (GP Alameda County):

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Dear Fellow Greens,

Those of you who are members of KPFA will be receiving the ballot for 
the KPFA Local Station Board elections in the mail within the next few days.

This year, 4 Greens are running on the Independents for Community Radio 
slate: Kate Tanaka, Cynthia Johnson, Janet Kobren and Tracy Rosenberg.


The Independents for Community Radio won a slight majority last year and 
the struggle is to keep KPFA a progressive community radio station and 
prevent it from becoming a mainstream media outlet like National Public 
Radio. With our slight majority the popular Program Council was 
reinstated this year which will allow programming decisions and 
evaluations to be done in a fair and collaborative manner.

We all can make a real difference to help keep KPFA a progressive 
community voice, so please vote for the candidates endorsed by the 
Independents for Community Radio:

Kate Tanaka- Green Party of Alameda County, involved with land-use 
(Oak-to-Ninth) and anti-corporate activities

Cynthia Johnson - Chair, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist 
Social Justice Committee

Janet Kobren – Retired teacher and information technologist, Gaza 
Freedom Flotilla survivor

Tracy Rosenberg - Executive Director, Media Alliance

Stephen Astourian- Professor of History UC Berkeley

Hyun-Mi Kim – An anti-war, anti-rape feminist activist

Gina Szeto - Director of Worker’s Rights Clinic, Boalt School of Law

Monadel Herzallah- President of the Arab American Union Members Council

Georgia Frazer- Public Policy, UC Berkeley; former Vice Chair of 
American Women in Radio and Television

Naeem Deskins- Western Regional President of the Association for the 
Study of Classical Civilizations.



Visit www.voteindyradio.org to find out more about the candidates and 
the issues.



Note:

There are 27 candidates running for 9 seats on the board:

Independents for Community Radio has endorsed 10 candidates,

SaveKPFA (formerly the Concerned Listeners) has 10 candidates,

Voice for Justice Radio (Steve Zeltzer’s slate) has 4 candidates,

and 3 unaffiliated candidates.



* Please vote and mail in your ballot so it will arrive at the station 
by September 30!

* Please rank-vote for the ten Independents for Community Radio 
candidates first, then, if possible, please rank the seven other 
candidates who are Not part of the "SaveKPFA" slate.

* (The Green Party of Alameda County, who originated this message, has 
formally endorsed the Independents for Community Radio candidates, and 
they are also recommending that they be ranked first, followed by the 7 
candidates who are not part of the 'SaveKPFA' slate).



* Please forward this email and post it on Facebook to tell your 
friends, organizations, and networks!





Thank you!,



Greg Jan

Green Party of Alameda County