Did Pacifica consider other budget options such as National taking a smaller cut of our fundraising, or renegotiating the contract for DEMOCRACY NOW, which has formed partnerships that give it alternative resources?
Do not hope better times will help the budget. Mark my words, we are experiencing the collapse of industrial civilization.
So NOW is the time for alleged progressives to prove another world really is possible:
Shredding the livelihoods of poor workers to achieve a certain bottom line, is not alternative or progressive. It's Schwarzenegger cutting IHSS, it is the Congress dragging the feet on extending unemployment benefits. It's BP.
Pacifica hires an election supervisor while they cannot keep a news tech at quarter-time hours? Is this the business of elections or radio? To those who say that I should not criticize this expenditure, because "we must democratize Pacifica", I quote Confucius: "You cannot teach philosophy to a hungry man."
And I will also say to those of you who are talking about news staffs in other places that KPFA is overstaffed. I think you're understaffed.
And I refuse to be the collateral damage of the mistakes or malfeasances of KPFA management, past or present, and I refuse to be sacrificed on the altar of "democratization". So I have given notice that July 25 is my last work day. You can all go exploit someone else!
Good Bye!
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