These individuals endorse the Rescue Pacifica 2021 team of candidates for the KPFA Local Station Board.
- RADIO HOSTS, PRODUCERS AND ENGINEERS:
Cindy Sheehan – Peace organizer, host of Cindy’s Soapbox
Maria Gilardin – Host of TUC Radio
Verna Avery Brown – Host at WPFW (Washington DC), former host of Pacifica Network News
Ann Garrison – Contributing Editor, Black Agenda Report, KPFA News reporter, producer/contributor to Pacifica’s “COVID, Race and Democracy”
Andres Soto – Host of El Show de Andres Soto (KPFA), Organizer at Communities for a Better Environment, Jazz musician p
Mickey Huff – Host of Project Censored Show (KPFA), Professor of History at Diablo Valley College
Peter Phillips – Co-founder of Project Censored Show (KPFA), Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University
Anthony Fest – Producer of Project Censored Show (KPFA), 30 year news host and producer
Frank Sterling – Co-director, KPFA Apprenticeship Program
Dennis Bernstein – Host/producer Flashpoints
Justin Richardson – past President, WORT Community Radio, Board of Directors
Joy Moore – KPFA program producer
Tom Voorhees – Transmitter Engineer, KPFA and Pacifica board member
George Coates– Playwright, theatrical producer, creator of Twit Wit Radio (KPFA)
Steve Zeltzer – Host of Work Week Radio, KPOO (San Francisco), Founder of Labor Fest
Bonnie Faulkner – Host of Guns & Butter (WBAI New York)
Lawrence Reyes – Podcast host, KPFK and Pacifica board member
Miguel Perez – producer, La Onda Bajita
Polina Vasiliev – Program Producer (Covid, Race & Democracy), KPFK and Pacifica board member
- OTHER MEDIA MAKERS:
Milton Allimadi — Editor, Black Star News
Danny Haiphong — Contributing Editor, Black Agenda Report
Larry Shoup – Historian, author (Wall Street’s Think Tank)
Mary Ratcliff — Editor, San Francisco Bay View Newspaper
Joe Lauria —Editor, Consortium News
- LABOR LEADERS, SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZERS:
Clarence Thomas – former Business agent of Int’l Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10, member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Jack Heyman – former Business agent of Int’l Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10
Oriana Saportas – Eviction Defense Collaborative, San Francisco, KPFA Local Election Supervisor, 2010
Bill Balderston – Oakland Educational Association
Paul Larudee — The Association for Investment in Popular Action Committee, and Green Party Contra Costa County Council and Peace Organizer for Palestine & Syria
Dave Welsh – Former LSB member, retired postal worker, Veterans for Peace
Carole Seligman – Editor, Socialist Viewpoint
Tim Laidman – Green Party Contra Costa County Council
Eduardo Martinez – Richmond City Council member and East Bay Sanctuary Covenant board member
Michael Rubin – SEIU 1000 Delegate – Alameda Labor Council
Marilyn Langlois – current LSB member and co-founder, Richmond Progressive Alliance
Rick Sterling – Independent journalist
Gar Smith – Co-founder and Director, Environmentalists Against War
Laura Wells – former Green Party gubernatorial candidate
Marsha Feinland – former Peace & Freedom Party presidential and senatorial candidate
Tarnel Abbott – C0-Founder, Richmond Progressive Alliance
Andrea Prichett – Co-founder of Berkeley Copwatch, Berkeley school teacher, musician
Christine Pepin – current LSB member, electrical engineer, Sunnyvale, CA, former chair, Climate Action Team, South Bay Progressive Alliance
Chandra Hauptman – Former KPFA board member
Sasha Leitmann — Co-Producer of the documentary movie “Socialism: An American Story”
Shim Farrell – retired teacher, union member OEA & OFT, (veteran of 4 long strikes), Pacifica subscriber since 1957 (KPFK & KPFA), member of LMNOP, the Lake Merritt peace walk
John Sheridan – Visual artist, Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica
Diana Bohn – Berkeley Peace and Justice Commissioner
Pamela Spevack – NOW, OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change)
Attila Nagy – Organizer of the Petaluma Progressive Festival and Former member of the KPFA Local Station Board
Carol Brouillet – founder of 9/11 Film Festival, Green Party congressional candidate in 2006 and 2008
Joe Wanzala – Former member of the KPFA Local Station Board and the Pacifica National board
Rick Perez – Father of Pedie Perez (Murdered by Richmond PD ), Oscar Grant Committee
Phoebe Anne Thomas Sorgen – Move to Amend and Berkeley Citizens Action Steering Committees, BFUU Social Justice Committee chair, Green Party alt rep to the Global Greens, former LSB member
Jessica Montiel – Green Party Contra Costa County Council
Greg Jan – Environmental and Green Party activist; former President, Ohana Asian Cultural Center, former co-coordinator, Greening the West conference, Berkeley Earth Day, and World Future Society, SF Bay Area Chapter
Henry Norr – Former KPFA LSB member, Gaza Freedom Flotilla volunteer
Stephanie Thomas — Albany/Berkeley activist
Stan Woods – Former Executive Board International Longshore and Warehouse Union # 6. and former member of KPFA Local Station Board
Richard Tan – National Lawyers Guild, Attorney at Law
Barbara and Barry Deutsch – KPFA activists
Deborah Marks – Oscar Grant Committee
Richard Phelps – Attorney, former chair of KPFA Local Station Board and member of the Pacifica National board.
Carol Shaw – Attorney at Law, Castro Valley
Steve Gilmartin – Freelance editor
Sandi Morey – music teacher, member of LMNOP, the Lake Merritt peace walk; KPFA member/listener since the 1950s.
Orion Edmondson – Jazz musician, songwriter and educator
Frank Running Horse – Social justice activist and union organizer,
Virginia Browning – KPFA activist
Carolyn Birden — WBAI (former) Director, Pacifica National Board
Stephen Brown – Former PNB director, board member, Covert Action Quarterly
Mara Rivera – Long time KPFA/Pacifica activist and member Jewish Voice for Peace
Tracy Rosenberg – Executive director, Media Alliance
Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party – {organizational endorsement}
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