Concerned Listener Candidates to Vote for

Warren Mar is a faculty member at City College of San Francisco in the Labor and Community Studies department. Previously, he spent 20 years as a labor organizer with HERE, CNA, and the Organizing Institute of the AFL-CIO. Prior to his work with unions, he did tenant and youth organizing in San Francisco's Chinatown, where he grew up.

Sherry Gendelman is a civil rights attorney who practices around the bay area, largely working with immigrant clients. As Chair of KPFA's Community Advisory Board, she led one of the legal actions that was key to saving KPFA from a hostile takeover in 1999-2000.

John Van Eyck has been active in the worlds of art and labor for over 30 years. He's served on the board of the National Endowment for the Arts, working on its Community Program Policy Task Force, and on the policy panel of its Expansion Arts Program—a program designed to fund projects rooted in inner city, rural, tribal and other under-served communities. He has also served as the Regional Director of Actor's Equity Association, and a union representative for scenic artists, broadcast employees, and hospital workers.

Antonio Medrano is a retired educator and long-time labor and community activist in Richmond and West Contra Costa County. He serves as Co-chair of Concilio Latino of Contra Costa County, is a member of the Rosie the Riveter Trust, and is actively involved in education and immigrants' rights organizing.

Matthew "Dynamite" Hallinan is a long-time Bay Area activist and political organizer. He has spent the last four years working to break the Republican political stranglehold on our national government, founded the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, worked on the successful Jerry McNerney congressional campaign, and is dedicated to building a grassroots, progressive movement that can pull the Democratic party to the left.

Susan McDonough now works with the Alameda County Central Labor Council, after nearly two decades of organizing with various unions in the Bay Area, both as rank and file and staff. In the 1980s, she organized medical aid and symposia in Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Paul Robins lives in Redwood City, and works as a software engineering manger in Cupertino. He's worked for KPFA intermittently over the past 25 years—mostly unpaid—helping with everything from newswriting to managing the station's database. He's a long-time volunteer with the Zen Hospice Project. Formerly, he worked as a SF Muni driver, where he was active in the drivers' union.

Dianne Enriquez works for Young Workers United, an organization in San Francisco dedicated to uniting the youth and labor movements to raise standards in non-union, low-wage jobs. She's also a former member of KPFA's First Voice Apprenticeship Program.