[lbo-talk] KPFA morning show, and staff, canned

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Nov 8 18:57:39 PST 2010


When was Pacifica founded? How long would you say it retained _some_ of its orginal defining purpose(s)? It retained you and Amy & a few others up to the present. Isn't that a fairly decent achievement for any left institution? All left political parties and most left journals have decayed in a few decades. That is one reason slow building from the bottom does not work in left politics: there is nothing to maintain the internal integrity of left organizations.

Professionals are either hied and paid for by capitalists or they are hired _for a time_ by "democratically" run institutions. But within capitalism, democratic organizations are doomed to the fate you describe Pacifica undergoing. And even institutions with self-reproducing internal boards, don't usually last indefinitely.

With the next left upsurge, new institurions will be created, some of which will work very effectively for several decades after normalcy (disappearance of any coherent left) reasserts itself. That is what has apparently happened to Pacifica: it outlasted its initial push quite awhile, actually. It sounds like it's time to give it a decent burial.

Andre Gorz was right. Left movements have a brief lifespan (probably around 5 years at their best), and any instituions created within that short period aren't apt to survive it very long.

Carrol

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 7:55 PM To: lbo-talk Subject: [lbo-talk] KPFA morning show, and staff, canned

[links in original - lbo-talk alum, and leading maniac and 9/11 truther, Joe Wanzala was crucial to the evolution of this idiocy]

<http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/08/kpfa-morning-show-off/>

KPFA morning show: off

The idiots and maniacs who are now running Pacifica have decided to lay off the entire staff of the excellent KPFA Morning Show and to take it off the air: BREAKING: Pacifica management lays off entire staff of Morning Show | KPFA Worker. The show is the station's most popular, and its best fundraiser. But its quality comes at a price: much of the staff actually earns a salary, with benefits.

KPFA faces serious budget problems, but the union has proposed a way to deal with them. It looks like a faction of the local board has won the ear of the network's executive director, Arlene Engelhardt. Their dream is to turn the station into an all-volunteer "community" station, which means an endless revolving door of amateurs who have no idea what they're talking about.

I've about had it with the whole Pacifica scene. It's going down-and Engelhardt & Co. are helping.

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<http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/08/arlene-engelhards-cell-phone-number/>

Arlene Engelhardt's cell phone number

Apparently Arlene Engelhardt, the head maniac at Pacifica, isn't returning phone calls from her Pacifica number, 510-849-2590 ext. 208.

So, folks, here's her cell phone: 510-402-9880.

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