Daniel's Free Speech Zone

Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area
danielfortyone{at}gmail.com

privatizers, corporatizers

Barry Goldwater, Social Security & My Mother

Pitto's Place by Daniel Borgström

Resurrection of Care at Bohemian Grove
by Daniel Borgström


Bohemian Grove and the 25th Vigil by Daniel Borgström

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

Protesting BIO 2004 in San Francisco

Privatizers reach for our public lands

  • The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd, 101st Airborne
    by Daniel Borgström
    Fifty one years now.
  • Purging Board Members
    at KPFA

    in a Closed Session
    Nov 16, 2024

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Let's remember
    the USS Liberty

    The Israelis massacred 34 American sailors

    by Daniel Borgström
  • 20 years of Revolution and Counterrevolution at Pacifica Radio -- at KPFA in Berkeley, CA., and affecting the Five Station Network
    by Daniel Borgström and
    Virginia Browning

    April 10, 2025
  • How the seizure of a radio station in New York led to the seizure of $305,000 from KPFA
    by Daniel Borgström

    December 17, 2022
  • Two views
    for change for KPFA radio and beyond

    by Virginia Browning
  • Transcript
    KPFA Local Station Board
    CLOSED SESSION
    of November 16, 2024

    Two elected board members suspended

  • Why I'm a Rescuer, not a Protector
    by Phoebe Thomas Sorgen

    September 28, 2024
  • Three things are
    Verboten to say

    at KPFA's board
    by Ann Garrison
    February 17, 2019
  • To Be Punished
    for Protesting at KPFA?

    November 16, 2024

  • Till Sept 30th
    KPFA LSB elections of 2024

    Vote for RESCUE PACIFICA

    by Daniel Borgström
  • FAQ in response to falsehoods
    in the KPFA LSB election of 2024

    by Virginia Browning
  • Which Way, KPFA?
    by Virginia Browning

  • Lords & Ladies vs. the Peasants
    at KPFA

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Popcorn, Pizza and the Theater of Debate
    Biden v Trump 2024

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Peacewashing at KPFA?
    Ian Masters arrives

    by Daniel Borgström
    September 13, 2023
  • Ian Masters asked listeners to stop donating to KPFK in 2021

  • The KPFA Board Election
    My Views

    by Virginia Browning
  • Charlie Manson
    & his Enablers

    Book Review

    by Daniel Borgström
  • The Gaza Rally
    of October 19, 2023
    in San Francisco

    by Daniel Borgström
    also reports from others

  • Traveling the back roads of western Utah

  • Canada's Parliament:
    Immersed in US/Nato Make-believe

    by Daniel Borgström
    October 9, 2023

  • The BUDGET
    that came in
    from the Cold

    KPFA's board on Sept 23, 2023

    Daniel Borgström
  • What's at Stake
    KPFA's Board Election of 2023

    by Daniel Borgström
    July 6, 2023
  • Bylaws Improvement Undermining
    by Virginia Browning
    July 2023

  • KPFA's Programming:
    criticisms, thoughts, & suggestions

    by Virginia Browning
  • The Old Regime's Legacy at KPFA by Maria Gilardin
  • Ann Garrison
    KPFA journalist
    on the ground in
    Ethiopia

    April 2022
  • Mostly bad news
    at KPFA/Pacifica

    Rescue Pacifica Newsletter
    by Daniel Borgström
    October 2022
  • The Mythical Marksman of Dallas
    Marine Corps rifle range realities vs. the lone gunman narrative of the Warren Report

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Our Waterfront Park is Perfect
    -- Needs No Development

    by Daniel Borgström
    May 7, 2022

  • I have a weird hobby
    by Daniel Borgström

    March 2023
  • The Berkeley Marina
    Area Specific Plan (BMASP)

    Virginia Browning

    May 6, 2022
  • Living the Cold War
    NATO, Russia & Ukraine

    by Daniel Borgström
    March 1, 2022
  • Why didn't KPFA defend its journalist?
    by Daniel Borgström
    August 2022

  • KPFA election 2021
    Based on what I know, I am voting for the Rescue Pacifica slate.

    by Rick Sterling
  • "Shut up!"
    Public Comment at KPFA

    September 18, 2021
  • Ballad for a Scottish Bard
    Leonard Irving
    1924-2016

    by Kitty Costello
  • Debunking the Debunkers at KPFA's LSB
    by Virginia Browning

    October 14, 2021
  • Defending KPFA's antiwar voice
    by Daniel Borgström

    October 2021
  • "Shut up!"
    KPFA Board Meeting
    September 18, 2021

    transcript
  • Colin Powell
    lied his way to greatness

    1937 to 2021
  • Dear Listeners and Staff of all Pacifica stations and affiliates
    from Rescue Pacifica

    January 2021
  • Passing through Afghanistan & Pakistan--lands of the Pashtuns
  • KPFA's
    Antiwar Voice

    by Daniel Borgström

  • Highlights from the KPFA LSB of May 15, 2021 by Daniel Borgström
  • AT&T's 5G in Berkeley
    midnight vigil of Oct 4, 2020

    by Daniel Borgström
  • KPFA LSB of Jan 9, 2021
    a brief report

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Open Letter
    to KPFA Mgr. Quincy McCoy

    from Daniel Borgström
    Member of KPFA LSB
    June 2020
  • Good news!
    Pacifica replacement bylaws rejected by 66%

    by Daniel Borgström
    March 2020
  • “Three Cheers for the CIA!”
    —or How the “Left” Lost Its Mind

    by Ann Garrison
  • The Ministry of Truth the text of the 3 page Congressional act providing for the Orwellian "Global Engagement Center"
  • Clashing with the Past Old movies and patriarchy, from the days of HUAC by Daniel Borgström A review of Fritz Lang's 1952 film Clash by Night
  • Tom Horn's
    "Stock in Trade"

    by Daniel Borgström
  • The Legacy of two Gurus:
    Billy Graham,
    Charles Manson

    by Daniel Borgström

  • The Peasant War at KPFA
    and the Bylaws Referendum

    March 2020

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Between the Minutes
    at KPFA's LSB
    January 11, 2020

    Daniel Borgström
  • Magical Accounting at KPFA?
    A discussion among KPFAers

    January 24, 2019
  • Corporate funding for KPFA? Report from board of May 4, 2019 by Daniel Borgström
  • KPFA's taxes unpaid,
    building to be auctioned

    The business mgr. tells her story

    by Daniel Borgström
  • please Vote NO
    on replacement of bylaws at Pacifica

    by Marc Sapir
  • The Takeover of
    WBAI in New York

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Underwriting Pacifica:
    Opening a door we cannot close

    Daniel Borgström
    December 26, 2018
  • "Humanitarian" Propaganda
    & KPFA

    by Daniel Borgström

    February 12, 2019
  • Censoring Bonnie Faulkner
    A letter
    from Roy Tuckman of KPFK

    August 20, 2018
  • Guns & Butter banned
    a letter from a KPFA listener

    from Steve Gilmartin 8/20/2018
  • The Onion Paper
    Pacifica Network History

    by Peter Franck, 1999
  • Problems & Prospects
    of Pacifica Radio

    interview with Peter Franck

    KPFA/Pacifica History
  • KPFA's "fake-news" pitch
    and the Ministry of Truth

    by Daniel Borgström
  • The fallacy
    of calling Senator McCain or anyone else a war hero

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Deliberate Dysfunction?
    KPFA's Decade of Financial Mismanagement

    by Daniel Borgström & Steve Gilmartin
  • A trip to Nicaragua in 1984 by Daniel Borgström
  • Veterans oppose militarization of Berkeley Police
    Veterans for Peace,
    East Bay Chapter 162

    July 9, 2018
  • Veterans for Peace
    East Bay Chapter 162

    Supports Direct Talks between USA and North Korea

    March 11, 2018
  • U.S. Attack on Syria and the Threat of Nuclear War
    by Veterans for Peace

  • Introducing
    Rescue Pacifica

    February 18, 2018
  • The Shithole Countries of Donald Trump
    Haiti, Norway, & America

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Confederate leaders said it clearly:
    The Civil War was fought over SLAVERY
    --not for states rights

    by Shawn Gillard
  • Mantra Plonsey
    Candidate for KPFA's Board

    August 15 to October 15, 2019
    Rescue Pacifica
  • Daniel Borgström was elected to KPFA's LSB
    March 2019

    Introducing Rescue Pacifica
  • Three Green Party Members
    are running for KPFA's board

    January & February 2019
  • Chandra Hauptman's
    KPFA Local Station Board
    Candidate Endorsements

    January & February 2019
  • 3 Rescue Pacifica candidates elected
    to KPFA board

    by Daniel Borgström
    March 2019
  • meeting Maxie Jackson, Pacifica's Executive Director
    and KPFA's LSB on June 15, 2019

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Armistice Day
    Korean Americans walk for peace

    by Daniel Borgström
    Veterans for Peace
    November 11, 2017
  • The Wife of a fighter pilot in Viet Nam
    by Mike Hastie

    Vietnam Veteran
  • Veteran Occupiers 1971 & 1972 ex-GIs against the Vietnam War
    by Daniel Borgström
  • Stony Brookers, Yale, & Kent State
    old memories recalled while watching Ken Burns

    by Mitchel Cohen, a Vietnam era student activist
  • war, survival, guilt & choice
    poems
    by Gregory Ross
    Vietnam Veteran

  • Meeting the Berkeley Strangler in a Dark Alley
    at the June 20, 2017 Berkeley City Council hearing on Urban Shield & police militarization

    by Daniel Borgström
  • A letter from Bodega Bay
    in Sonoma County, California which is being ravished by fires

    from Bob English
    October 11, 2017
  • No Charlottesville in California
    Veterans for Peace
    East Bay Chapter #162

    August 22, 2017
  • East Bay Veterans Petition Amy Goodman of DN
    Please sign and distribute widely

    Veterans for Peace / East Bay Chapter 162
  • 2 Sunday Morning Protests in Berkeley
    Protest at the Marxist Library while discussing Nicaragua
    Protest downtown against a rightwing rally

    by Eugene Ruyle and Daniel Borgström
    August 5, 2018
  • Veterans for Peace,
    East Bay Chapter #162

    Open Letter to

    Amy Goodman of
    Democracy Now
  • Carta abierta a Amy Goodman y a Democracy Now
    Por Veteranos por la Paz

    East Bay Chapter #162
  • The Triumph of the Necrophiles
    A Critique of the Mechanical World View

    by John Modrow
  • Better BadNews urges KPFA listeners to
    Donate, vote, and throw the bums out

    by George Coates
  • Marilyn Langlois
    Candidate for KPFA's Board

    August 15 to October 15, 2019
    Rescue Pacifica
  • massacre & cover-up
    in Las Vegas

    by Daniel Borgström
  • When Amy came to town
    Veterans ask Amy Goodman of Democracy Now for more diverse coverage on Syria

    Veterans for Peace, Chapter #162
    An interview by Ann Garrison
  • Veterans for Peace
    Chapter 162 / SF East Bay
    Statement on

    the U.S. Attack on Syria
    on 6 April 2017
  • whistleblowers & checkpoints
    at SF Pride 2016

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Book Review by Ann Garrison:
    Bernie and the Sandernistas, by Jeffery StClair

  • Homeland Security
    & the Berkeley City Council

    by Daniel Borgström
  • A Sighting
    of possible Fascist "cadre "
    on February 1, 2017

    by Stan Woods
  • Election night Thoughts and Feelings
    (the night Trump was elected)

    Peter Straus, Veterans for Peace
    November 9, 2016
  • Think Tank in Berkeley
    by Daniel Borgström

    Veterans for Peace, East Bay chapter, #162
    December 13, 2016
  • Veterans for Peace
    Action on Free

    Mumia Abu-Jamal
  • "Honk for Peace" every Sunday at Lake Merritt: ARTICLES
  • Coming together in a time of crisis?
    Between the Minutes at KPFA's board meeting of Nov., 19, 2016

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Our memories of
    Steve Wagner

    February 20, 1949 to June 30, 2016
    Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace
  • "Clean Coal"
    (black lung & sinkholes)

    by Daniel Borgström
  • a downwinder's story by Steve Wagner
  • Veterans for Peace thank
    Colin Kaepernick

    Veterans for Peace, East Bay Chapter 162
  • Pacifica Radio's Margaret Prescod & Askia Muhammad interview
    Jill Stein

    July 26, 2016
  • KPFA's Republican Activist by Daniel Borgström
    Harmeet Dhillon is now endorsing Donald Trump
  • Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff,
    Co-hosts for the Project Censored Show on KPFA & Pacifica Radio, endorse

    United for Community Radio
  • On the streets of Oakland, marching in solidarity with Charlotte, NC
    and asserting our First Amendment rights

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Report from
    KPFA's Board Mtg of
    September 10, 2016

    including info on KPFA/Pacifica Finances
    by Sharon Adams
  • Carol Wolfley
    KPFA Local Station Board Candidate

    2016
  • Differentiators?
    a letter to the UCR
    with reply by Mara Rivera

    September 2016
  • Our favorite programs
    at KPFA 94.1 FM

    United for Community Radio
  • United for Community Radio platform in the upcoming
    KPFA board election of 2016

    what the UCR stands for
  • AUDIO
    KPFA's Twit Wit Radio

    Episodes of August 21 & 28, 2016
  • Daniel's Preface
    to Brian Edward-Tiekert's Farewell Address

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Pacifica in the 1990s
    by Maria Gilardin
  • KPFA: Radio Programs for the Community and Social Change, or for SaveKPFA's Staff Allies and their Jobs?
    by Richard Phelps
  • audio The death of JFK 50 years later
    -- from KPFA's Project Censored; Guns and Butter shows
    -- interviews with Oliver Stone, Peter Dale Scott, Mark Lane, Peter Kuznick, Jefferson Morley, James H. Fetzer
  • A coach who loses the . . . would be fired
    by Steve Brown

    WBAI/Pacifica Radio, July 2016
  • Following Pacifica in Exile?
    by Bob English & Linda Hewitt
  • Pacifica coverage from the Green Party National Convention in Houston, Texas
    August 6, 2016

    KPFA 94.1 FM
  • Report on the 2016
    Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention

    in Houston, Texas
    by John Torok
  • Virginia Browning responds to an email from a KPFA member
    Underwriting & other issues
  • When Berkeley in the 60s was taking shape
    A letter from Jeff
  • Donald W. Duncan
    Ex-Green Beret and Early Critic of Vietnam War

    by Steve Wagner
  • a poem for
    Adelle Foley

    who passed away in June 2016
    by Ivan Argüelles
  • NYT tries to bury Bernie with biased reporting
    by Stephen M Brown
  • Bernie's African Immigrant Supporters
    from Rwanda, Burundi & the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    by Ann Garrison
  • Quimby & the dog who herded cats
    by Daniel Borgström
  • censoring
    Guns & Butter

    A letter from Bonnie Faulkner at KPFA
  • Hillary's Honduras Connection
    and the 2016 Democrat Primaries

    by Linda Hewitt and Bob English
    April 12, 2016
  • Steve Wagner Memorial
    Sunday, Oct 9, 2016 at 3 p.m.

    at Humanist Hall in Oakland
  • Five Days in December 2014
    The McKinley Ave Lockdown -- a Homeland Security takeover?

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Bernie Sanders rally in San José
    at the California State Democratic Party State Convention
    February 27, 2016
    by Stan Woods
  • Penelope's Memorial
    a Leonard Irving story

    retold by Daniel Borgström
  • Civil Disobedience shuts down a PNB mtg
    by Steve Brown

    January 31, 2016
  • an exchange between
    Steve Brown & Dan Siegel

    A few pages of Pacifica Radio history
  • A Scheme to hijack Pacifica's broadcast licenses & assets uncovered by Pacifica's PNB Secretary Janet Kobren
  • Joe Hill & Lew Hill
    IWW & Pacifica Radio

    Union history & politics at KPFA-Pacifica
    by Bob English
  • Whistleblower Manning on Market Street at the San Francisco Pride Parades of 2013, 2014 & 2015
    by Daniel Borgström
  • audio Daniel, a guest on WGDR, a Vermont community radio station
  • Parliamentary Addiction: Roberts Abuse at KPFA's board, by Daniel Borgström
  • Pacifica in Exile
    website launched
  • Paris 1968, Oakland 2011 by Daniel Borgström
  • Plaintiffs' Motion to Disqualify Siegel & Yee as Opposing Counsel
    April 3, 2014
  • Séance vindicates SaveKPFA's claim on $400,000
    by Daniel Borgström
  • To vote in KPFA's Board Election
    Please Subscribe
    by June 30, 2016
  • Virginia Browning’s
    Life-long Love of Radio

  • “SaveKPFA” squanders $600,000
    by Adrienne Lauby

    October 2015
  • Does the $400,000 bequest belong to KPFA or to Pacifica?
    What Janet Kobren's October 2015 director’s inspection revealed
  • Joe Hill's Last Will
    one hundred Years Later

    by Bob English
  • NLG Letter to KPFA On removing the Morning Mix from drive time
    by Sharon Adams
  • SaveKPFA hit pieces
    with UCR rebuttals
  • The Value of Democracy at KPFA by Robbie Osman, of Across the Great Divide
  • NLG Letter to KPFA On removing the Morning Mix from drive time
    by Sharon Adams
  • Averting a financial disaster at KPFA in 2010
    by Virginia Browning
  • Statements & Rebuttals
    UCR comments on statements from SaveKPFA

    United for Community Radio
  • Dan Siegel, Fiction Writer
    Siegel creates a false narrative which he attempts to pass off as Pacifica history
  • Daniel's recommendations for KPFA's election of 2016
    Vote United for Community Radio
  • SaveKPFA's election fraud: Documenting the cheating in KPFA board elections
    reports, letters & articles
  • Iraq War Veteran
    Scott Olsen

    Joins Campaign to Rescue KPFA
    United for Community Radio
  • soldiers once Whistleblowers, Occupiers, Activists;
    Veterans for Peace,
    Veterans Against the War
    Essays & Articles
  • JFK didn't send us to Cuba
    Coming of age in a time of assassination

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Staying friends with the Crocodile by Curt Gray
  • Dead man endorses SaveKPFA
    KPFA's upcoming 2015 election

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Pacifica National Board motion
    to fire Dan Siegel,
    to expel Margy Wilkinson

    by Stephen M Brown

    Director, Pacifica National Board
    Member, WBAI Local Station Board
  • a bad budget: the Minority Report of September 17, 2005 by Max Blanchet
    A bit of KPFA financial history
  • Stealing Save KPFA: erasing history by Jeffrey Blankfort, Maria Gilardin, Curt Gray, Marianne Torres, & Sasha Futran
  • UPSO an organization representing the unpaid staff at KPFA
    by Adrienne Lauby
  • Iraq War Veterans:
    Scott Olsen & Kayvan Sabehgi -- casualties at Occupy Oakland
    Statement by Steve Morse of Veterans for Peace, October 2011
  • Surviving Typhoon Louise
    on Okinawa in October 1945
    by Howard Keylor
  • Siegel: "You're suing me!" by Daniel Borgström
  • Where were SaveKPFA's Grassroots Supporters?
    Between the Minutes at KPFA's Board on April 12, 2014,
    by Daniel Borgström
  • soldiers on Okinawa, 1945
    by former Corporal Howard Keylor
  • Pacifica in Exile
    website launched
  • KPFA's Working Majority Gets Screwed by CWA Job Trust by Isis Feral
  • The Patronage Culture at KPFA by Curt Gray
  • SaveKPFA and the Truth are Seldom on the Same Page
    by Richard Phelps
  • Scenarios of bankruptcy & sale of Pacifica stations by Steve Brown, WBAI
  • Brian's famous email of Sept. 1, 2005 "how do we make our enemies own the problems that are to come?"
  • KPFA's upcoming board election
    by Daniel Borgström

    Please subscribe to KPFA and be a voting member
  • Don't look up
    an experience of eye surgery

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Old issues that have not gone away
    a letter from July 2004

    Robbie Osman
  • video UASIs, Fusion Centers & Homeland Security
    by Tracy Rosenberg
  • Transcript of JR Valrey's broadcast of February 6, 2013 for which he was dismissed from KPFA without due process
  • The CL in a Nutshell by Richard Phelps
  • Veterans for Peace at Oakland's First Fridays by Gregory Ross
  • Up one street, down another
    Cops from 11 agencies chase 500 peaceful protesters around Oakland
    -- by Daniel Borgström
  • Saturday night war zone Dec 6th in a quiet Berkeley neighborhood by Daniel Borgström
  • Barry Goldwater, Social Security & My Mother
    by Daniel Borgström
  • AUDIO of the June 8, 1967 Israeli attack on an American ship, the USS Liberty.
  • "Please don't ask any more questions about . . ."
    Between the Minutes
    at KPFA's Local Station Board on December 1, 2012
    by Daniel Borgström (How do you ask an infiltrator if she is what you suspect her to be?)
  • Tracking the ZIM Shanghai
    by Jane Jewell

    September 19th – 27th, 2014
  • St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch: Thief of a Grand Jury
    by Richard Uzzell
  • Noir City Viewing the film festival of January 2015
    by Daniel Borgström
  • Occupy the Farm documentary
    directed by Todd Darling

    The fight to save this last bit of East Bay farmland from the developers
  • Canine Candidate Einstein at the Occupy Oakland General Assembly
    by Daniel Borgström
  • Dan Siegel for Mayor of Oakland? NO
    by Daniel Borgström
  • Finding Spirituality & Revolution at Block the Boat Oakland
    by Adam Mostafa & Emily Loftus

    August 16 - 20, 2014
  • SaveKPFA Cooks the Books Call it "factional accounting". Call it deliberate deception. Call it exceedingly bad journalism. But call it. by Tracy Rosenberg
  • A Blockade Diary
    Our one-day protest became a four-day blockade of an Israeli cargo ship in the Port of Oakland

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Was the Israeli ship chased out of Oakland without unloading?
    Here's what appears to have happened.
    by Peter Turner
  • How many marched for Gaza? Was it only hundreds on July 20, 2014?
    by Daniel Borgström
  • Another View of the Blockade of the ZIM Piraeus in Oakland
    August 2014
    by Marsha Feinland
  • whether a number of laws weren't broken by the port administration?
    August 2014
    by Steve Martinot
  • Blockading the Israeli ship
    Oakland - August 2014

    by Peter Turner
  • My experiences at the Blockade the Boat North West! The event in Tacoma on August 23, 2014
    by Mindy Stone
  • stopping the ZIM Piraeus from unloading
    Tuesday, August 19, 2014

    by Steve Martinot
  • Next ZIM Picket — Sept 27
    End the Siege of Gaza!
  • Block the Boat
    Statement of support by the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
    August 2014 - at the Port of Oakland
  • My Goals for KPFA/Pacifica
    from a discussion on what we'd like to see at the station and in the network

    by Adrienne Lauby
  • Don't Nix the MIX
    7 Days and 3 Rallies: The last week of May at KPFA
    by Daniel Borgström
  • Chevron at the Richmond City Council Chevron's freedom to pollute vs. Bay Area residents' right to breath
    by Daniel Borgström
  • Strangeloves & Globalizers the 25th Vigil at Bohemian Grove
    by Daniel Borgström
  • Resurrection of Care at Bohemian Grove
    by Daniel Borgström
  • a call to defend KPFA's Morning Mix -- Miguel Gavilán Molina, Executive Producer for La Onda Bajita, and Senior Producer for Flashpoints and Flashpoints in Español,
    and an essay by Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff
  • about this website
  • Our Last Day at the Pacifica HQ
    Eight week occupation ends after judge rules
    by Daniel Borgström
  • What's Really Happening at KPFA 94.1 fm: A Labor Perspective - 2010
  • The Ordeal of Summer Reese and Pacifica Radio
    by Ann Garrison
  • Siegel & WBAI "Dan Siegel does not begin his account of WBAI's travails until 2009 -- I wonder why?" by Mitchel Cohen, Chair, WBAI Local Station Board
  • paved with bad decisions: KPFA's Road to Hell
    In 2008 Dan Siegel prevented the hiring of a promising manager
  • Cutting the Gordian Lock at Pacifica
    Occupying the Pacifica National Office,
    by Daniel Borgström
  • without due process
    by Richard Phelps
  • lyrics
    We shall not be moved from Pacifica

    by Vic Sadot
  • The Battle of the Board at KPFA 2007
  • When Progressives Cheat --the KPFA election, 2007
  • Open Letter from the Committee on Fair Elections Bylaws & Rules Violated in KPFA Board Election of 2007
  • A coup? or what? at Pacifica Radio Questions from Bill Crosier of KPFT in Houston
  • Civil Suit -- in court of appeal
    The case of SaveKPFA's competing fund drive. -- SaveKPFA members attempt to avoid liability for disloyalty denied by the Court of Appeal --
    by Richard Phelps, former Chair KPFA LSB
  • KPFA & Pacifica
    a strategic asset for social movements

    by Daniel Borgström
  • SaveKPFA’s Quan Connection at Occupy Oakland by Daniel Borgström
  • Why are CWA and the "left" trying to take down KPFA? by Carol Spooner
  • The 48th Day
    Rallying to support the prisoners' hunger strike

    by Daniel Borgström
  • He walked
    So we walked

    A report from the evening of July 15th 2013 in Oakland
    Justice for Trayvon Martin

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Is KPFA the Alternative Home Shopping Network? by Richard Phelps
  • My Other Life
    a woodcutter in Vermont
    by Daniel Borgström
  • The Magical Olden Days Visiting Point Reyes
    by Daniel Borgström
  • Bradley Manning's "apology" August 2013
    essays & differing views
  • Well, let's do a head count, shall we? The KPFA war that never ends & JR's Town Hall of April 11 by Richard Chen
  • Laurence Shoup:
    My analysis of the KPFA election & what is to be done
  • The Death of Aaron Swartz The extraordinarily gifted and effective computer programmer and progressive activist who committed suicide on Jan 11, 2013
  • shotgun incident
    OPD confirms & exonerates
  • Brian Edwards-Tiekert endorsed cuts excerpts from Brian's report to the Pacifica National Board in September 2008
  • The Blame Game at KPFA
    by Tracy Rosenberg
  • Thoughts on Our Campaign
    and remembering
    Les Radke
    by Adrienne Lauby
  • Response to SaveKPFA's claim that the suit for breach of loyalty was intended to ban dissent. by Richard Phelps
  • Daniel's Recommendations
    for KPFA's Local Station Board
  • "Help!"
    Carol Spooner's exchange with a friend who asks about the KPFA election
  • Democracy at KPFA/Pacifica--Why? by Robbie Osman, of Across the Great Divide
  • Honor Veterans - Not the Wars!
    Veterans for Peace march in Veterans Day Parade

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Bringing Peace to KPFA-Pacifica [Don’t Shoot the Messenger – Vote NO on the Recall!]
    by Akio Tanaka
  • What does KPFA's board do? Responsibilities of a board member by Adrienne Lauby
  • SaveKPFA's Latest,
    & responses from United for Community Radio
  • Tracy Rosenberg responds
    to the recall
  • Occupy’s Stake in KPFA’s Board Election --a video
  • We need to endorse Tracy Rosenberg
  • Judge Halts Ballot Count in KPFA Recall Election
    August 2, 2012
  • "Me first" politics & financial irresponsibility
    "SaveKPFA" again puts its members jobs before the survival of KPFA/Pacifica

    by Richard Phelps
  • The Magic Minutes of Mark Hernandez
    SaveKPFA Candidate Mark Hernandez, Caught with his "Hand In the LSB Minutes Jar"
    by Richard Phelps
  • Why We're Voting NO
    on the recall

    by Bob English and Linda Hewitt
  • Kernighan's Tool Kit
    by Daniel Borgström
  • My May Day Highlight: The loving embrace of Black Bloc by Isis Feral
  • Oakland Occupies May Day by Daniel Borgström
  • Occupying the farm below Albany Hill by Daniel Borgström
  • videos of Forums on the Recall at KPFA Pacifia
    Jan 30 & Feb 6 2012
  • Stop the KPFA Recall! Let's keep Tracy Rosenberg
  • a different story for this day
    “Columbus Day”

    by Daniel Borgström
  • Veterans for Peace supports Occupy Oakland
    VfP East Bay Chapter #162
  • 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
    • The Story Behind the Charge
      by Arlene Engelhardt
    • Occupying a House Auction
      by Daniel Borgström
    • The Entrepreneur's Story, as told to Daniel on April 1st
    • Occupy Oakland press release: police violence on January 28
    • reflecting on J28, mass arrests in Oakland
    • Occupy claims success in West Coast Port Shutdown of Dec 12, 2011
    • The Documents: ILWU Local 21 Longview contract with EGT
    • Comments on ILWU Local 21 Longview contract with EGT, LLC
      by Howard Keylor
    • Notes from Occupy Oakland
      2011 by Dave Welsh
    • 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
    • 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
    • MoveOn.org--control freaks, or what? An incident in Oakland
    • Dear Oakland City Council a letter from Virginia Browning
    • The Triumph of the Necrophiles
      A Critique of the Mechanical World View
      by John Modrow
    • the crisis of insolvency at KPFA by Akio Tanaka
    • "Save KPFA" Eliminates Rank and File Input in Managerial Evaluations by Tracy Rosenberg
    • Petition Call for On-Air Fairness at KPFA 94.1 fm
    • Report from the spring fund drive -- KPFA 94.1 FM
    • 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 reviews *

    • book review Rulers & Rebels: A People's History of Early California by Laurence H. Shoup
    • From the Jaws of Victory New Book on the Destruction from the inside of the United Farm Workers Union by Matt Garcia
      a review by Howard Keylor

    KPFA 94.1 Pacifica Radio under Attack

    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
      March 3, 2011
    • Do the bylaws apply to Dan Siegel? Memos from Carol Spooner & Richard Phelps
    • Analysis by Tracy Rosenberg of KPFA 1st quarter financial report
    • 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
    • Gaza Flotilla survivor runs for KPFA's board
    • Save KPFA -- hijacking a legendary name
    • 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
    • The Split Between the Minutes Dec 5, 2009 & Jan 11, 2010 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

    • a 2001 article by Gregory Wonderwheel Still relevant today in 2010
      "Please do NOT vote for Sherry"
    • 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 Pacifica financial Crisis by Richard Phelps
    • 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

    • 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
    • Dan Siegel at Pacifica Radio: excerpts from the 2007 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 16th year by Daniel Borgström
    • 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
      • Privatizers reach for our public lands
      • 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
      • *** KPFA history: the cisis of 2010 ***

        • Ten years after the 1999 Hijack Attempt
          by Richard Phelps, July 2009
        • The "RAID" scare of 2009
          by Daniel Borgström
          SaveKPFA begins its attack on Pacifica
        • Insights & Experiences on the KPFA board
          by Sasha Futran
        • The Best & the Brightest, at KPFA by Daniel Borgström
          December 2010
        • A Few Comments on the 2010 Financial Crisis at Pacifica by Max Blanchet
        • Driving a Wedge by Sally Sommer, Dec.2010
        • CWA kills the Morning Show --a revealing email, 11/10/2010
        • Dangling off the Cliff: Commentary from the 2010 KPFA Crisis, by Adrienne Lauby
        • Hate Week - November 2010 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
        • A letter to the Berkeley City Council by Steve Gilmartin, Nov 2010
        • A letter from Arlene Engelhardt, Executive Director of Pacifica Radio, December 2010
        • The Current Brouhaha at KPFA by Max Blanchet, Former LSB member
          November 2010
        • 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, Oct 2010
        • What’s Happening at KPFA? by Carol Spooner
        • CWA-KPFA collective bargaining agreement April 30, 2010

        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
          • 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

          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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