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My name is Chuck Anderson. I am president of the O.C. Chapter ACLU, Chair of the O.C. Peace and Freedom Party, Vice President, Elders Council, Alianza Indigena, organizer and cofounder of the KPFK Support Group with seven plus years antiwar and human rights weekly street corner protesting. I am past president of O.C. Veterans for Peace, past president of The Tustin Municipal Employee Association and former Board member of O.C. Unitarian Church. I am a volunteer for Change Links, KPFK, The World Can't Wait, member of NAACP, CAIR, ARA, AL AWDA, Viva Palestinia, KPFK Outreach Committee, a volunteer for ANSWER Los Angeles. I am a Pan Africanist, Bolivarian and support open borders, open arms and open hearts for all immigrants.
I fully support Spanish programming. An energetic effort must be made to return full representation of the African American community.
Remembering the past presidential campaign when the KPFK airwaves were constantly promoting the Democratic candidate but were near mute on third party candidates.
Our station has deviated to medical quackery, crystal ball divining, snake oil and an abundance of spiritual religious programming with an absence of educational and political programming. Some LSB members (Progressive Democrats) are attempting to syndicate Pacifica programming like National Public Radio with generic topics and music. Why has the Lew Hill dream been deferred? Why has The Mission Statement been trashed? What has happened to the KPFK news broadcasting? Please read and reread the Pacifica Mission Statement. We have no or little coverage of community events and reporting.
I am for socialism. Ownership of the tremendous productive wealth built by the hundreds of millions of workers can't remain in the hands of a privileged few. We must build our ideas into practice. I am for the student, labor, women's lesbian/gay/bi/trans, antiwar and anti-racists, pro-immigrant movements.
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Hola, mi nombre es Chuck Anderson. Soy candidato para la mesa directiva de KPFK. Debemos exigir un fin de las guerras y la codicia del capitalismo. El mal trato de los inmigrantes y las redadas deben parar. Unidos podremos abrir las fronteras y derrumbar la pared del odio. Sueño con fronteras abiertas para recibir los inmigrantes con brazos y corazones abiertos.
Actualmente, en la estación de radio de KPFK nos encontramos con un peligro de un golpe para eliminar la transmisión en español y despedir los compañeros de color. Les ruego votar para Chuck Anderson.
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| Biography |
My father was a paratrooper who died in battle in the final days of World War II. He was involved in liberating German death camps.
1. Why do you want to be on the Local Station Board?
I want to participate in the governance of KPFK. I see the station direction ignoring the Pacifica Mission Statement and filling broadcast programs with an agenda much like NPR Radio. There is a great lack of community programs, the local news has been trashed. The Berkeley news is inadequate. There is a minimal announcing local and community events. There is a "good old boys" club of staff and programmers who resist improvement and change. The quality of programming is unacceptable. We need a house cleaning of programs and programmers. We need revolutionary change at KPFK and programming for the listeners.
2. How do you envision the Local Station Board working with the Pacifica Foundation, KPFK and the community?
I envision much improved relations and with a new and fresh Board and Foundation with new and improved acting and fresh ideas.
3. How could the station better serve the listeners?
We need an honest election. The election rules should be respected by the staff and candidates. We need honest and accurate vote counting. We need to end the "Gag" rule recently implemented. It is not free speech. The listeners should be allowed to call in and comment on every program without censorship.
4. Describe some actions you would take to increase the influence of the station in underrepresented communities and to increase the diversity of the listening audience?
We need more representation from the African American community. There is no representation of the vast homeless peoples of Los Angeles. The station should represent the many political factions of the community and not just constantly broadcast promotions for the Democratic Party. This station belongs to the listeners not the Democratic Party. They have taken over our broadcasting and political direction. There are other political parties which are disenfranchised on KPFK. We must stop the Democratic Party take over!
5. What sources of funding, other than listener donations, do you feel KPFK should Solicit?
We should not continue to promote "snake oil" and miracle potions to raise funds or make outlandish medical claims to solicit funds. We should ask for membership funds. We should turn away from vulgar miracle cure hawkers and go to the people who are wishing for some true value information to come from the radio. Are they trying to wreck our station?
6. Please state briefly the skills, experience, educational background, work history, organizational affiliations, areas of community service, areas of interest and expertise that you would bring to the Pacifica network as a member of the Local Station Board.
If you read my candidate statement and brief biography, you will see that I am well experienced and qualified to serve on the Listener Station Board. I am involved with many justice organizations.
7. On which Local Station Board committees are you interested in actively serving?
I am an active member of The KPFK Outreach Committee. We hold public events, solicit memberships and plan public forums and picnics.
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In high school, following the lynching of Emmitt Till, I was influenced and befriended by the great poets Langston Hughes and Ray Durem. I immigrated to Mexico and lived there for 20 years where I was an English instructor and sub-director of the United Nations School in Puebla. I was the foreign correspondent for the LA/Detroit Herald Dispatch, under the management of Malcolm X and Pat Alexander. I have published poems, photographs and news articles in Robert Williams, The Crusader, Bohemia, La Habana, Workers World, Peoples Weekly World, El Don, West Seventeenth ST., The Fullerton Observer, Street Scene, Change-Links and Others.
Vote #one Chuck Anderson KPFK LSB
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