We Have a Vision for KPFA
Conn Hallinan • Dan Siegel • Andrea j. Turner • Jack Kurzweil • Virginia Rodriguez
Pamela Drake • Donald Goldmacher • Mike Smith • Mark Hernandez • John Van Eyck
We are the Concerned Listeners for KPFA, a group working toward broadening KPFA's listener base and cultivating dedicated and talented station leadership and staff who produce compelling programs that build audience.
If you listen regularly to KPFA, you know it is the best source for alternative radio in Northern California and the Central Valley. KPFA offers information, music and culture, community affairs, and investigative reporting on events in the U.S. and around the world. Its point of view, critical of racism, militarism, and domination by corporate power, has never been more important.
Ballots will be mailed on August 29, and are due on October 14!
We Will Broaden KPFA's Listener Base and Stay True to its Mission of Dialogue and Diversity for Social Change.
2009 candidates to vote for:
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Conn Hallinan is running for his second term on the KPFA Local Station Board. He was vice-chair for two years, and is the current chair of the Board. He won a Project Censored Award for "outstanding investigative journalism" in 2007. (read more)
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Dan Siegel is an Oakland based civil rights and labor attorney. He served as Pacifica's general counsel from April 2006 to January 2009 and briefly as interim executive director in 2007 and 2008. (read more)
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Andréa j Turner is running for her second term on the KPFA Local Station Board. She was vice chair and chair consecutively for two years on the LSB and is currently representing KPFA on the Pacific National Board. (read more)
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Jack Kurzweil, as a graduate student, was involved in the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam Day Committee. As a Professor of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University he was President of the SJSU California Faculty Association chapter (CFA). (read more)
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Virginia Rodriguez has made her life's work as a union organizer. In the mid-60's she started as a volunteer doing boycott work for the United Farm Workers that turned into ten years and covered many major cities. (read more)
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Pamela Drake is an Oakland resident and community activist. She was one of the first women train operators at BART, the chief of staff to two East Oakland council members, and the Director of the Grand Lake Neighborhood Center, lobbying for public power and advocating for community involvement in city planning. (read more)
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Donald Goldmacher is a community psychiatrist and a documentary filmmaker. A political activist since the 1960s, he's been involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. (read more)
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Mike Smith wants KPFA to continue to be the voice for progressive change, and an essential part of the movements for peace, social, economic, and environmental justice.He says, “I can’t imagine a world without KPFA. In 1964 as a student arrested in Sproul Hall, in 1967 as a leader of Stop the Draft Week and in 1969 as a member of the Oakland Seven on trial for conspiracy KPFA stood beside me. (read more)
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Mark Hernandez was born and raised in Fresno, California, and exposed to the Bay Area lifestyle since 1965 through a series of fortuitous events. He has worked extensively in print, radio, video, film and web media, as well as currently working as a computer consultant and service provider. (read more)
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John Van Eyck has been active in the worlds of art and labor for over 35 years. He’s been Regional Director of Actor's Equity Association, and a representative for broadcast employees, film workers, scenic artists, healthcare workers and county employees. (read more) |
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