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Daniel's Free Speech Zone: Pacifica in the 1990s
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone. Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Pacifica in the 1990s. The history we live with. In this account, written 2001, Gilardin mentions a group then known as ". This is the history we are still living with in 2016. Pacifica in the 1990s. Eff Blankfort and I were the recipients in the annual San Francisco Bay Guardian "Best Of" awards of 1999. Thus ended - we thought - a several year long period in which the efforts of. The group of people who early on ...
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone: The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone. Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd. Forty four years ago. It still seems like last week. I'd yell back, "Airborne sucks! The Marine Corps sucks! Only two things come out of the sky," I'd yell back again. "Bird shit and fools! That was how we said good morning to each other. It was our ritualized greeting. He told me angrily, meaning that the poor animal had done something to displease him. I intervened, telling him th...
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone: KPFA: Radio Programs for the Community
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone. Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA: Radio Programs for the Community. And for Social Change, or for SaveKPFA's Staff Allies and their Jobs? June 17, 2014. Pacifica Financial Crisis: Who is Responsible? This article exposes SaveKPFA's current PNB Chair, Margy Wilkinson's willingness to blatantly disregard the truth to push their unprincipled politics, denying due process to punish an opponent. She may become the new Interim Executive Director.
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone: Surviving Typhoon Louise
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone. Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. On Okinawa in October 1945. Howard Keylor is a World War II veteran of the Okinawa campaign. Then, only a few months after the war ended and the danger seemed to be all over with, the island was hit by a major typhoon. What really put his life in jeopardy during that storm was military incompetence - a naval high command that didn't seem to understand the most basic principles of seamanship. And How I Survived.
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone: Parliamentary Addiction
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2010/09/parliamentary-addiction.html
Daniel's Free Speech Zone. Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. This was my introduction to KPFA's board (LSB) some years ago.- Daniel. Rendered KPFA's Local Station Board dysfunctional. The following report from 2006 recommended enrolling acutely addicted board members in Parliamentarians Anonymous. Descent into the gnarly tangle: the epidemiology of advanced parliamentarianism at KPFA- a year-long empirical study in causes and possible treatments. By Daniel Borgström,. The en...
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone: The "Raid"
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone. Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. This story from 2009 records the opening round of "SaveKPRA"'s attack on the Pacifica network. It was then that that the group appropriated the name ". A name belonging to a group of activists who fought for listener democracy during the 1990's. The attack on Pacifica begins. KPFA's Board Meeting of August 8, 2009. KPFA Charges Pacifica With Raid on Station's Funds. Was there some truth in it? There was a flurry of...
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone: Save KPFA's Grover Norquist Solution
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2011/01/grover-norquist-solution-at-kpfa.html
Daniel's Free Speech Zone. Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Save KPFA's Grover Norquist Solution. The financial crisis at KPFA/Pacifica has been many years in the making. Incompetence? If Grover Norquist had been consulting for the gatekeeper group of paid staff that seems to run things at KPFA, he might've recommended something like: "You should reduce Pacifica Radio down to a size where you can. Drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. Nevertheless, year aft...
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone: Clashing with the Past
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2013/06/clashing-with-past-by-daniel-borgstrom_18.html
Daniel's Free Speech Zone. Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Clashing with the Past. Old movies and patriarchy. From the days of HUAC. A look at Fritz Lang's 1952 film "Clash by Night". May 15, 2016. Andes' girlfriend Monroe is a cannery-worker. She works in one of the sardine canneries along the waterfront; in one scene, Andes meets her after work and they stroll down Cannery Row, chatting. One of the women came in to work that morning with a black eye, Monroe is saying....
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Daniel's Free Speech Zone: Pacifica in Exile website launched
http://danielborgstrom.blogspot.com/2015/07/pacifica-in-exile-website-launched.html
Daniel's Free Speech Zone. Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Pacifica in Exile website launched. A new website,. Has been launched to help Pacifica (KPFA, etc.) listeners learn more of the inside info they need to know. Listeners of KPFA and other stations often have trouble understanding, from just listening to the station, why there are so many internal problems. Most stem from problems with governance - the people who members of the stations elect. KPFA 94.1 FM. Interview...
