What do KPFA listeners want? Tell us.

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Art by Bob Baldock for the film KPFA on the Air

As we announced last week, the interim managers that Pacifica has installed at KPFA have announced sweeping program changes. Problem is, they haven’t bothered to ask KPFA’s listeners what we want. So, we’re doing it for them.

Please take a moment to answer these 12 QUESTIONS FOR KPFA’S LISTENERS & STAFF via this SaveKPFA ONLINE SURVEY.

We’ll use the data to show KPFA and Pacifica management what the KPFA community wants out of our station. It will also help us plan SaveKPFA‘s work in the coming months. Many of you have said you’re tired of writing letters to management that are ignored, and you want to take stronger action — we’ll use your responses to plan our next steps.

Goldman Sachs funding causes uproar

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Twelve members of the local station board have written an open letter to KPFA’s interim general manager Andrew Phillips objecting to what they say is “completely inappropriate” behavior on his part toward the station’s journalists, after news staff broke the story of a $15,000 donation from Goldman Sachs to Pacifica.

A scan of the actual checks from Goldman Sachs Gives raises more questions than it answers, showing that the funds were earmarked for a series on hydro-fracking, but leaving off important attachments and presenting conflicting information, which is being investigated. The fund was started by the firm’s partners in 2007, as part of a public relations campaign to deflect criticism over its executive bonuses and involvement in the global financial meltdown.

WBAI’s Finance Committee, which had uncovered the donation a little over a week ago, has passed a motion expressing frustration that management has not responded to its inquiries.

Four reasons to give to KPFA’s Spring Fund Drive

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KPFA’s Spring Fund Drive is about to start. We want to heartily encourage you to give, despite the turmoil. Here’s why:

  1. The more money KPFA raises, the less of an excuse Pacifica has to interfere with the station.
  2. Your donations are the only thing standing between KPFA’s union staff and further retaliatory layoffs.
  3. Change. Donating gets you the right to vote in KPFA board elections, bylaws amendments, and recalls of board members.
  4. Warts and all, KPFA is worth it.

USE YOUR PLEDGE TO SPEAK OUT IN SUPPORT OF KPFA’S WORKERS: If you are able to make a contribution of $200 or more, please tell the person who takes your call that you’d like your pledge used as a match, and you’d like it to be announced as a challenge “in support of KPFA’s workers.” You can add also add that message to pledges of any size that you make at KPFA’s online donations page.