Daniel's Free Speech Zone

Reports on political activism
in the San Francisco Bay Area
and on the struggle to keep
KPFA 94.1 in the Pacifica network
daniel41{at}trip.net

Lake Merritt

"Honk for Peace" at Lake Merritt--now in its 10th year by Daniel Borgström

a downwinder's story by Steve Wagner

A brief history of LMNOP by Steve & Beth Wagner

Honk for Single Payer by Linda Riewe

Berkeley Daily Planet Under Attack by Marin Sanders

"Honk for a New Deal"

Yumi, a Japanese reporter, visits

Photos at the Lake by Nils

Bruce Bortin's video

Vern and his contraption




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  • Veterans for Peace continues to support Occupy Oakland
    VfP East Bay Chapter #162
  • Democracy at KPFA/Pacifica--Why? by Robbie Osman, of Across the Great Divide Note: "Management" here indicates time BEFORE elected Pacifica Executive Director Arlene Engelhardt, then Andrew Phillips and Carrie Core at KPFA finally stepped in to begin to turn things around.
  • videos of Forums on the Recall at KPFA Pacifia
    Jan 30 & Feb 6 2012
  • about this website

    topics include -Occupy Oakland -The fight for KPFA 94.1
    - soldiers once
    - Port of Oakland
    - Privatizers, 1%
    - Between the Minutes
    - Lake Merritt
    - The Middle East
    - watching those who watch us
    & more

    • High Noon & the West Coast Docks
      by Daniel Borgström
    • A New Life – Papua New Guinea
      by Andrew Leslie Phillips
      iGM of KPFA 94.1 FM
    • Occupy Oakland press release: police violence on January 28
    • Occupy claims success in West Coast Port Shutdown of Dec 12, 2011
    • The Port and the Plaza The raid that sparked the Nov 2nd General Strike in Oakland by Daniel Borgström
    • Christmas Song for Occupy
      by Kitty Costello
    • from Andrew Phillips, Mgr. of KPFA 94.1
    • The Occupocalypse of Nov 14th at Occupy Oakland by Daniel Borgström
    • Paris '68, Oakland '11 by Daniel Borgström
    • Eight days in May Truckers closed the Port of Oakland
       by Daniel Borgström
    • Whose Port? Police attack in the Port of Oakland on April 7, 2003, & Protesters response in weeks that followed
      by Daniel Borgström
    • Iraq War Veterans, casualties at Occupy Oakland statement by Steve Morse of Veterans for Peace
    • MoveOn.org--control freaks, or what? An incident in Oakland
    • Dear Oakland City Council a letter from Virginia Browning
    • KPFA's Republican Activist by Daniel Borgström
    • the crisis of insolvency at KPFA by Akio Tanaka
    • SaveKPFA and the Truth are Seldom on the Same Page
      by Richard Phelps
    • "Save KPFA" Eliminates Rank and File Input in Managerial Evaluations by Tracy Rosenberg
    • soldiers once remembering Jim Ketola; The death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd; Veterans for Peace: ARTICLES
    • soldiers on Okinawa, 1945
      by former Corporal Howard Keylor
    • Petition Call for On-Air Fairness at KPFA 94.1 fm
    • Report from the spring fund drive -- KPFA 94.1 FM
    • KPFA's Working Majority Gets Screwed by CWA Job Trust by Isis Feral
    • Statement of Purpose by KPFA/Pacifica Action

    • Port of Oakland pickets, shutdowns, & sit-ins: ARTICLES
    • Our homes--Obama's gift to Wall Street by Daniel Borgström
    • book review Rulers & Rebels: A People's History of Early California by Laurence H. Shoup

    KPFA 94.1 Pacifica Radio under Attack

    • Brian's email of 2005
    • Pacifica Foundation vindicated on all labor issues at KPFA
    • NLRB finds CWA complaints without merit
      --a memo from the Office of the General Counsel
    • recent articles by Carol Spooner
      "Russian Roulette," "Who runs KPFA," & more
    • Grumbling over the bedside manner of WBAI Program Director Tony Bates?
      by Steve Brown
    • The Grover Norquist Solution at KPFA by Daniel Borgström
    • What's Really Happening at KPFA 94.1 fm: A Labor Perspective
    • The Best & the Brightest, at KPFA by Daniel Borgström
    • links Pacifica & Grassroots Radio topics, etc., including: Pacifica auditor's report for the year ended September 30, 2010
    • Support Our KPFA & Pacifica! by Akio Tanaka
    • Between the Minutes
      scenes & sketches from KPFA board meetings
      a series from 2006 to 2011 by Daniel Borgström
    • "Honk for Peace" every Sunday at Lake Merritt: ARTICLES
    • privatizers, corporatizers: ARTICLES
    • The Middle East: ARTICLES
    • watching those who watch us: ARTICLES
    • False Reports about Underwriting
      by Carol Spooner
    • History, Finance, & Business 101 --applied to KPFA
    • The CL in a Nutshell by Richard Phelps
    • Tracy Rosenberg responds to email accusations
    • email accusations, a comment by Brian Shiratsuki
    • The "Gag Rule" critiqued by Terry Goodman
    • Missing Comments from Mara Rivera
    • Merrill Lynch no longer exists. Nevertheless … A report from Tracy Rosenberg
    • paved with bad decisions: KPFA's Road to Hell
    • Staying friends with the Crocodile by Curt Gray
    • Pacifica Radio Network carries Al Jazeera English
    • Pacifica Radio Board Elections Terry Goodman critiques Matthew Lasar
    • Brian Edwards-Tiekert rehired, spins "Victory" What really happened?
    • Distortions & Factual Errors CL'ers' "facts" vs. reality at KPFA
    • KPFA financial status & layoffs/bumps by Arlene Engelhardt & Carrie Core
    • The Layoffs, by Terry Goodman
    • Better Bad News--Reports on KPFA
    • Chandra Hauptman: The truth about "Concerned Listeners-Savekpfa's" latest misinformation
    • Do the bylaws apply to Dan Siegel? Memos from Carol Spooner & Richard Phelps
    • Analysis by Tracy Rosenberg of KPFA 1st quarter financial report
    • Scenarios of bankruptcy & sale of Pacifica stations by Steve Brown, WBAI
    • A Few Comments on the Financial Crisis at Pacifica by Max Blanchet
    • KPFA election report 2010 by Oriana Saportas
    • Pacifica Election Report 2010 by Renée Asteria Peñaloza
    • False History & Current Myths about KPFA & Its Union
    • Morning Mix airs from 8-9 am on KPFA 94.1 This week's advance highlights
    • Driving a Wedge by Sally Sommer
    • The Patronage Culture at KPFA by Curt Gray
    • CWA kills the Morning Show --a revealing email
    • Why are CWA and the "left" trying to take down KPFA? by Carol Spooner
    • Dangling off the Cliff: Commentary on Current KPFA Crisis, by Adrienne Lauby
    • Hate Week In the home of the Free Speech Movement, on Free Speech Radio, by Curt Gray
    • What is at stake at KPFA? by George Reiter, Chair, Pacifica National Board
    • A Response to KPFAworker.org by Akio Tanaka
    • Support KPFA by Virginia Browning
    • A letter to the Berkeley City Council by Steve Gilmartin
    • A letter from Arlene Engelhardt, Executive Director of Pacifica Radio
    • The Current Brouhaha at KPFA by Max Blanchet, Former LSB member
    • The Magic of Illusion, by Marc Sapir Ten statements about KPFA: some true, some false
    • Playing the Union Card by Richard Phelps
    • KPFA should learn from New Agers by Daniel Borgström
    • On the Road Today letters & updates from Tracy Rosenberg, dismantling myths about the budgets & layoffs
    • What’s Happening at KPFA? by Carol Spooner
    • CWA-KPFA collective bargaining agreement April 30, 2010
    • Gaza Flotilla survivor runs for KPFA's board
    • Lords & Ladies vs. the Peasants at KPFA
    • Insights & Experiences on the KPFA board by Sasha Futran
    • Save KPFA -- hijacking a legendary name
    • Stealing Save KPFA: erasing history by Jeffrey Blankfort, Maria Gilardin, Curt Gray, Marianne Torres, & Sasha Futran
    • KPFA Workers & Community step up, GM "Resigns" by Bob English
    • A Disinformation Professional

    Between the Minutes

    • Siegel Stuff --after the minutes at the Jan 13th LSB, by Daniel Borgström
    • Intimidation between the minutes March 7, 2010 by Daniel Borgström
    • Siegel: "You're suing me!" by Daniel Borgström
    • The "RAID" August 8, 2009 by Daniel Borgström
    • The Split Between the Minutes Dec 5, 2009 & Jan 11, 2010 by Daniel Borgström
    • Parliamentary Addiction: Roberts Abuse at the LSB by Daniel Borgström
    • KPFA's manager attends a board meeting: March 14, 2009 by Daniel Borgström
    • Between the Minutes: Scenes from Jan 10, 2009 by Daniel Borgström
    • Between the Minutes: Scenes from June 14, 2008 by Daniel Borgström
    • Between the Minutes--March 24, 2007 by Daniel Borgström
    • NOTES from February 24, 2007 by Daniel Borgström
    • Notes from January 13, 2007 by Daniel Borgström

      • Listener Democracy: The long Struggle

    • The Old Regime's Legacy at KPFA by Maria Gilardin
    • Ten years after the 1999 Hijack Attempt by Richard Phelps, July 2009
    • a 2001 article by Gregory Wonderwheel Still relevant today in 2010
    • The Gray-haired Forty: Sasha Lilley attacks listener democracy, disses listener activists
    • The struggle for transparency at Pacifica by Richard Phelps
    • Countering Kéllia: debating listener democracy at KPFA, by Virginia Brownng
    • The Battle of the Board at KPFA 2007
    • The Pacifica financial Crisis by Richard Phelps
    • a bad budget: the Minority Report of September 17, 2005
    • New Leadership in Pacifica Radio

      • violations & abuse of KPFA's air time

    • Disinformation & abuse of airwaves during the 2010 KPFA board elections by Felipe Messina
    • Bogus News Broadcasts by the bogus Save KPFA
    • Transcripts from September 30, 2010 For the Record by Felipe Messina

      • Cheating in past elections at KPFA

    • When Progressives Cheat --the KPFA election, 2007
    • Conn Hallinan Misinforms Doug Henwood: an intriguing email exchange
    • Responding to Dan Siegel's intervention in the LSB election--letters from Virginia Browning and Steve Gilmartin
    • Open Letter from the Committee on Fair Elections Bylaws & Rules Violated in KPFA Board Election of 2007
    • Dan Siegel at Pacifica Radio: excerpts from the elections report by Casey Peters

      • Miscellaneous

    • The Sorceress at Pacifica Radio by Daniel Borgström
    • KPFA: Let's Get Real by Sasha Futran
    • Statement re Dec. 5, 2009 by 13 members of the LSB
    • Daniel's Recommendations for KPFA's board election 2010
    • Daniel's Recommendations for KPFA's Board 2009
    • Recommendations for KPFA's Board 2007
    • KPFA's Election & Green Sunday

    The Middle East

    • Passing through Afghanistan & Pakistan--lands of the Pashtuns
    • Afghanistan's Road Less Traveled
    • Zarqawi's death, Bush's loss
    • Dave's Middle East Study Group

    watching those who watch us

    • The Spymaster's Tale
    • My Favorite Infiltrator
    • A Death Threat for Daniel

    Life in the Bay Area

    • CRAWL SPACE--a dream-allegory of our times
    • Moving to the San Antonio District
    • The hit

    Sundays at Lake Merritt

    • "Honk for Peace" at Lake Merritt--now in its 10th year by Daniel Borgström
    • a downwinder's story by Steve Wagner
    • A brief history of LMNOP by Steve & Beth Wagner
    • Honk for Single Payer by Linda Riewe
    • Berkeley Daily Planet Under Attack by Marin Sanders
    • "Honk for a New Deal"
    • Yumi, a Japanese reporter, visits
    • Photos at the Lake by Nils
    • Bruce Bortin's video
    • Vern and his contraption

      • Laura Wells--Green Party candidate for governor

      • Laura Wells was arrested in San Rafael

      privatizers, corporatizers

      • On the waterfront -- Oak to Ninth
      • Oak to Ninth & Eminent Domain
      • Oak to Ninth hearing of 3/15/2006
      • History for Sale at Jack London Square
      • Barry Goldwater, Social Security & My Mother
      • Privatizers reach for our public lands
      • Resurrection of Care at Bohemian Grove
        by Daniel Borgström
      • Bohemian Grove and the 25th Vigil by Daniel Borgström
      • Pitto's Place by Daniel Borgström
      • Protesting BIO 2004 in San Francisco

      politicians of a bad sort

      • Short pieces
      • Judge Alito - Like a Bar of Soap
      • Arnie Under Siege
      • A "Grassroots Survey"?

      Port of Oakland: Attack of April 7, 2003 & follow-up



      • ILWU hold sit-in at PMA office April 12, 2011
      • On the Line in the Port of Oakland Spring of 2007
      • United Nations report on the 2003 police attack
      • What caused the Port Chicago disaster? by Howard Keylor, retired longshoreman
      • Pre-trial hearings of the Oakland 25
      • SSA Marine--profile of a profiteer
      • "Remember the shots? Return to the docks!"
      • The unexpected ending of the case against the Oakland 25
      • Port Protest 2007
      • Picket war profiteers in the Port of Oakland on Saturday, May 19
      • A letter from Bellingham --Port actions in the Pacific North West
      • Port Activists from Puget Sound visiting Bay Area, will speak in San Francisco on Friday, March 28

      Temescal & North Oakland Neighbors

      • STAND Mission Statement——— Standing Together for Accountable Neighborhood Development
      • Key Zoning Points
      • Reply to the glossy mailer
      • STAND's response to Proposed Zoning Guidelines
      • Design Guidelines for Temescal
      • Appeal Points 4801 Shattuck
      • Stop the Condo-Glomeration in North Oakland

        • soldiers once

        • remembering Jim Ketola, Vietnam veteran, antiwar & labor activist
        • The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd by Daniel Borgström
        • Veteran Occupiers 1971 & 1972
        • Between the Crosses by Daniel Borgström
        • Zwischen den Kreuzen
        • Ask a Marine --at the recruiting office in Berkeley
        • "Take us instead!" -- Grannies at the recruiting office on Valentine's Day
        • My Four Years in the USMC
        • Coup in Haiti, Corps in Haiti, Rally in San Francisco
        • Support the Troops; Jail a Veteran
        • Charges dropped against Vermont Peace Activist
        • Our Country was Founded by Protesters

        From 2003

        • January 2003: we said "NO"
        • The Franklin St. Mass Arrest of March 21, 2003
        • Point Richmond on September 9th 2003

        From Way Back

        • A trip to Nicaragua in 1984

        Past Elections

        • The Nov. 3rd rally: A spirited antiwar rally ended a bleak day in San Francisco
        • "Daniel -- What a crock!"
        • Is Karl Rove in Oakland?

        Also in this Free Speech Zone

          Dave's Middle East Study Group

          Tae a Haggis: Poetry by Leonard Irving

          Cuauhtémoc & me: a novel by Daniel Borgström

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