{"id":7881,"date":"2018-02-20T15:47:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2018-02-20T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:47:58","slug":"crisis-kpfa-pacifica-network-making-sausage-democracy-national-alternative-multi-media-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/20\/crisis-kpfa-pacifica-network-making-sausage-democracy-national-alternative-multi-media-network\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crisis At KPFA &#038; The Pacifica Network: \u00a0\u201cMaking Sausage\u201d Democracy &#038; A National \u00a0Alternative Multi-Media Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3q-m08-lp8k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/code><br \/>\nlaborvideo<br \/>\nPublished on Feb 19, 2018<\/p>\n<p>The crisis at KPFA and Pacific including the possibility of bankruptcy was the focus of a forum on 32\/18\/18 in Berkeley. The forum also looked at the history of efforts to make Pacifica and the stations into an NPR type operation.Also presentations looked at the development of a multi-media platform using streaming video and the digitalization of the analogue channels at KPFA that could bring 2 additional stations for the use of KPFA and possible lease as a way of raising funding.<\/p>\n<p>Finally the program reported on the effort at KPFA to manipulate an election to prevent any representation from the station on the PNB of representatives who would be opposed to the bankruptcy proposal being pushed by the CFO, Save KPFA and United For Community Radio UCR factions.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at the forum included:<br \/>\nMaria Gilardin, TUC Radio, Former KPFA LSB Member Who Was Banned From The Station<br \/>\nFrank Sterling, KPFA Apprentice Program &amp; Full Circle<br \/>\nJeff Blankfort, Founder of \u201cSave KPFA\u201d and Host of Host KZYX&amp;Z Takes on The World 90.7, 91.5<br \/>\nJanet Kobren, KPFA LSB and former Pacific National Board Member<br \/>\nSteve Zeltzer, KPFA WorkWeek Radio and KPFA LSB Staff Representative<br \/>\nPedro Reyes, KPFA Host of Settin The Standard and Late Night Hype<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/soundcloud.com\/workweek-radio&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/201&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m8Y-i&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bcGuu&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/kpftx.org\/archives\/pnb\/pnb171&#8230;<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/ar&#8230;<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.or&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeff.blankfo&#8230;<br \/>\nThe forum was sponsored by BFUU and WorkWeek Radio.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fusers%2F58566881&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=800&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nProduction of Labor Video Project<br \/>\nwww.laborvideo.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>laborvideo Published on Feb 19, 2018 The crisis at KPFA and Pacific including the possibility of bankruptcy was the focus of a forum on 32\/18\/18 in Berkeley. The forum also looked at the history of efforts to make Pacifica and the stations into an NPR type operation.Also presentations looked at&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/20\/crisis-kpfa-pacifica-network-making-sausage-democracy-national-alternative-multi-media-network\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}