Daniel's Free Speech Zone

Reports from grassroots activism in the San Francisco Bay Area
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Occupy Oakland, articles



Occupying the farm below Albany Hill by Daniel Borgström

Kernighan's Tool Kit
by Daniel Borgström


KPFA & Pacifica
a strategic asset for social movements

by Daniel Borgström

My May Day Highlight: The loving embrace of Black Bloc by Isis Feral

Oakland Occupies May Day by Daniel Borgström

Veterans for Peace supports Occupy Oakland
VfP East Bay Chapter #162


High Noon & the West Coast Docks
by Daniel Borgström


Occupying an Auction by Daniel Borgström

Occupy Oakland press release: police violence on January 28

reflecting on J28, mass arrests in Oakland

Comments on ILWU Local 21 Longview contract with EGT, LLC
by Howard Keylor


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

Notes from Occupy Oakland
2011 by Dave Welsh


Christmas Song for Occupy
by Kitty Costello


The Occupocalypse of Nov 14th at Occupy Oakland by Daniel Borgström

Paris 1968, Oakland 2011 by Daniel Borgström

Eight days in May Truckers closed the Port of Oakland
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

  • 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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