Pacifica's KPFA non-profit status suspended

PRESS CONFERENCE

Pacifica's KPFA non-profit status suspended while trump-like purges at KPFA & Pacifica continue


from RESCUE PACIFICA rescuepacifica.net




Please join KPFA listeners and workers at a press conference on Friday, Sept 19th at 4pm in front of KPFA 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley CA 94704.

There is a battle going on at Pacifica Foundation, Inc the organization to which KPFA and four other radio stations nationwide belongs, a battle that is even more dangerous now, with the very tangible threat of fascism in the US government.

It seems like Pacifica's non-profit status has been suspended by the State of California for failure to present necessary documentation. Is this just plain incompetence of those who control Pacifica or are there other plans at play?

The governance structure of Pacifica used to be one of the most democratic in the country: both listeners and staff had equal standing thru elections of Local Station Boards (LSBs) with term limits. Each LSB oversaw each station and elected representatives to the Pacifica National Board of Directors (PNB).

Yet Pacifica's radio stations' history of covering issues and struggles of working people (that most US media didn't cover ) has made it a target. The special interest groups inside KPFA (the so-called "Protectors") and in Pacifica ("New Day") were able to change the by-laws via sham "settlement" which would make it into a self-designated Board of Directors, disenfranchising the listeners and staff by dismantling the power of the Local Station Boards.

The purging continues: At this next KPFA LSB meeting on Saturday, September 20th, 2025 the majority "Protectors" on KPFA LSB will be holding a kangaroo "trial" to purge a dissenting member from the PNB so they can have total control of the National Board.

Friday, Sept 19th at 4pm in front of KPFA 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley CA 94704.

We are RESCUE PACIFICA, a group of dissenting members on the KPFA LSB and listeners and workers who are trying to keep KPFA "Protectors" from destroying Pacifica Foundation from within. Whether the suspension of non-profit status is just gross incompetence or planned destruction of Pacifica to take KPFA away from Pacifica, what is ultimately being targeted is Free Speech, and the last remaining terrestrial radio network in the US that was truly independent and listener-sponsored.


RESCUE PACIFICA rescuepacifica.net

Contact: (415)-867-0628/(415)-260-2565


for more info:

Pacifica Fightback for Democracy

PACIFICA IN EXILE pacificainexile.org



KPFA 94.1 FM is one of five stations of the Pacifica radio network located in major cities across the country. The other stations are WBAI 99.5 in New York, WPFW 89.3 in Washington, DC, KPFT 90.1 in Houston, and KPFK 90.7 in Los Angeles. There are also about 250 affiliate stations.