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<body><pre><br><br>--- <a href="mailto:CStephenKinder@aol.com">CStephenKinder@aol.com</a> wrote:<br> <br>> <br>> Radio Station KPFA<br>> 1929 MLK Jr Way<br>> Berkeley CA<br>> (by email & copy by mail):<br>> <br>> Dear Staff at KPFA, <br>> <br>> My name is Chris Kinder, writing on behalf of the<br>> Labor Action Committee To <br>> Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (LAC).<br>> <br>> I have to protest in the strongest terms your<br>> apparent refusal to run the PSA <br>> which I recorded last Friday (the 25th of August<br>> 2006), to promote the Rally <br>> To Free Mumia, which is being organized by the Labor<br>> Action Committee for <br>> September 15th. <br>> <br>> After recording the PSA with technician M. Mays<br>> (sorry, unsure of spelling), <br>> I was told that PSAs are only allowed for groups<br>> holding benefits in which <br>> money is collected for a 501.3c non-profit<br>> organization. When I explained that <br>> this was for a political rally for the defense of<br>> death-row political prisoner <br>> Mumia Abu-Jamal, I was told that "We don't do<br>> political rallies"! To hear <br>> that from a KPFA staff person almost rendered me<br>> speechless.<br>> <br>> The LAC (rally organizer) is not a 501.3c<br>> organization. However, money being <br>> collected at the rally will go to Mumia's legal<br>> defense, at the National <br>> Lawyers Guild Foundation, in care of the Committee<br>> To Save Mumia in New York City. <br>> The NLG Foundation is a 501.3c. I tried to explain<br>> this both at the time, <br>> and in numerous phone calls and emails to both M.<br>> Mays, and to William Walker <br>> at the traffic department at KPFA (which I was told<br>> had to rule on anything <br>> that went out on the air). <br>> <br>> In the week since I made the recording, I have not<br>> heard back from either <br>> Mays or Walker as to whether the PSA is to go on air<br>> or not. If the PSA is <br>> running and I just haven't heard it on the air yet,<br>> please accept my apologies. <br>> However, the silence of your lack of response to my<br>> phone calls and <br>> emails--after what I heard from your technician last<br>> Friday--is deafening.<br>> <br>> Mumia Abu-Jamal is not just another innocent<br>> death-row prisoner, of which <br>> even one is too many. He is one of the foremost<br>> messengers of honest, <br>> uncompromising, and I might add, unselfish leftism<br>> that we have in this imperialist <br>> heartland called the USA. He is at the apex of a<br>> tradition of black liberation <br>> fighters extending back through the Black Panthers,<br>> Malcolm X, Robert F Williams <br>> and more. And his case--in which mountains of<br>> evidence of his innocence has <br>> gone unheard by a racist, corrupt court system--is<br>> now on "fast track" to a <br>> possible new death warrent. Hence, the urgency of<br>> the LAC-initiated rally.<br>> <br>> KPFA and other Pacifica stations have been defending<br>> Mumia and running his <br>> trenchant commentaries on the war, racism and other<br>> issues for years. And KPFA <br>> is also supposed to be part of that honest,<br>> uncompromising and unselfish <br>> left--a voice for the voiceless, like Mumia.<br>> <br>> KPFA was the first public radio station, determined<br>> to serve the public and <br>> remain non-commercial. KPFA opposed the McCarthyite<br>> witchhunt in the fifties <br>> (unlike KQED-public television). And KPFA has<br>> exposed numerous domestic and <br>> international crimes of the US over the years. KPFA<br>> (and its numerous <br>> supporters who marched in the streets of Berkeley,<br>> myself among them) also fought back <br>> a vicious take-over attempt a few years ago by a<br>> corrupt ex-Pacifica Board, <br>> which had shut down KPFA for a time in a mad drive<br>> to privatization. Is all <br>> this now for nought? Is KPFA bent on turning itself<br>> into another version of <br>> National Public Radio (NPR)? <br>> <br>> In the late 1990s, Mumia Abu-Jamal's commentaries,<br>> after careful preparation <br>> for national air time, were cancelled at the last<br>> minute by NPR. This <br>> censorship came after complaints in the Halls of<br>> Congress from right-wing politicians <br>> like Bob Dole. NPR showed us at that time whose<br>> tune they were dancing to. <br>> <br>> Who's tune is KPFA now dancing to?<br>> <br>> We in the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia<br>> eagerly await your reply.<br>> <br>> Fraternally yours, Chris Kinder for the LAC<br>> </pre><br><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 05:03:57 -0700<br>> From: lookoverhere1@yahoo.com<br>> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Israeli ?bermenschen<br>> To: lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> --- Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus@yahoo.com><br>> wrote:<br>> <br>> > <br>> > Chris Doss, for example, is something of a Putin<br>> > fan,<br>> > even though there are some parallels between<br>> > Russian/Chechnya and Israel/Palestine. But nobody,<br>> > other than the American Right, would think of<br>> > calling<br>> > Putin a Nazi.<br>> > <br>> <br>> Well, Kasparov does. But Kasparov is insane.<br>> <br>> There seems to be something predisposing chess players<br>> to madness. Some kind of disorder in the brain.<br>> Kasparov, Bobby Fischer...<br>> <br>> __________________________________________________<br>> Do You Yahoo!?<br>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>> http://mail.yahoo.com <br>> ___________________________________<br>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<br></body>
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