KPFA Special Broadcast, for September 11, 2011 - 9:00am
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Democracy Now ! - Sept. 11, 2001 began for Pacifica listeners with Democracy Now! broadcasting `live' from New York, only a few blocks away from where the planes hit the towers. Amy Goodman takes us back to that ill fated day with actual sound gathered on the scene as well as her own personal recollections.
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I have been on the Local Station Board of KPFA and intimately involved with KPFA for just two years. Although I have listened to the station for 30 years, when I ran for the board, I didnât really know who the players were. I wasnât really a part of the âwarsâ of the late 90âs except as a supporter of the station itself. I didnât know Tracy Rosenberg and I didnât carry any baggage other than a desire to make sure that the KPFA airwaves continue to be accessible to community activists and organizations. However, in my time on the board I have seen and can attest to the fact that Tracy Rosenberg has been a fearless and most dedicated advocate for our station. I personally believe that she, more than any other board member, has been responsible for the financial recovery that KPFA has made in the last two years. With a deep commitment to progressive media, a solid grasp of non-profit finances and a remarkable ability to articulate her concerns, she has earned the respect and, apparently the ire, of some members of the board.The reason she has become a target of the Concerned Listener/SaveKPFA faction is because she has been outspoken in her support of the Pacifica Foundation and has been willing to express opinions that placed her in the minority. She has donated thousands of hours to making sure that the practical realities of keeping KPFA viable were tended to. I view her as a remarkable and loyal steward of the station. It would be a huge mistake to recall her.The CL/SaveKPFA faction has not alleged any misconduct by Tracy. They are targeting her because of her beliefs about how the station should be run and its relationship to the network of Pacifica stations. It is alarming to watch as the well-funded CL/SaveKPFA faction mobilizes to put Tracy in the crosshairs for simply speaking her mind. Others of us on the board share her views, although we may lack her expertise and meticulous understanding of the institution. If they want to get Tracy, they should go after all of us because we share her beliefs and support her 100%.It seems that the CL/SaveKPFA faction has many thousands of dollars to spend on glossy postcards that are filled with reckless and devisive half-truths and some outright lies. Sadly, money, time and energy that could be going to building our station and its listenership is being spent on prolonging and mischaracterizing issues within the KPFA community. In fact, the recall itself requires the station to spend thousands more dollars I implore those colleagues on the board to stop this reckless campaign. This is a political vendetta and no good can come of it.To everyone else, please vote NO on the recall effort. Please send the CL/SaveKPFA faction a message that diversity of opinion should be honored and not attacked. Support Tracy and be sure to thank her for her careful examination of KPFA budgets, her attention to detail, her love of media and her courage in lending real leadership to KPFAâs LSB.SincerelyAndrea PrichettListener RepresentativeKPFA Local Station Board
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GET USED TO IT.PG&E has already elilkd people in Hinkley, California and San Bruno California and other places less well known. Why are you people complaining about Wireless smart meters? Do you think you deserve better than those adults and children that have already been elilkd by PG&E?I just don't understand you people. PG&E has a record of killing and sickening people throughout the state and that's not going to change.Why don't you people just accept it, like the rest of us?
Open Note to Amy Goodman:
I don't have time to hear your every broadcast, but am thankful for your complete and searchable site. Today I felt compelled to type in "Vanity Fair", to see whether you've had interviews or even mention of some very important articles about Sept 2011:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/08/9-11-2011-201108
The Kingdom and the Towers
Did America’s supposed ally Saudi Arabia secretly support the 9/11 hijackers? In an adaptation from their new book, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan investigate.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/09/preventing-9-11-201109
9/11: The Tapping Point
U.S. intelligence could have been monitoring every al-Qaeda or Taliban call and e-mail, starting in 1999. David Rose reveals how the government bungled its best chance to prevent 9/11. Illustration by Barry Blitt.
I find this conerning, as I know you're on a whole bunch of college stations, where Pacifica signals do not reach.. where you're surely considered as Left as it gets in the minds of many. Yet, you rarely address how rife with holes the Official story of 01-09-11 is...
I feel that the way to honour those who died and continue to die from dust, is to do an honest journalist's job of getting at the truth, wherever it leads you.