http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/10/18459899.php?show_comments=1
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/10/18460002.php?show_comments=1
Everything I've seen in these discussions reaffirms my support for People's Radio.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Vote for People's Radio!
When I started this blog 11 months ago, I was still very much involved, at least in spirit, with KPFA politics after my second campaign for the Local Station Board (LSB). But I drifted into other areas of activity and, after a while, couldn't remember the name of this blog or where it was!
Well, I found a link to my own blog on the Pacifica elections web site, http://www.pacificafoundation.org/elections/, in a comment by somebody with the handle a2sfan and the self-description "Aaron Fan". This is presumably the person I heard about who tells people to vote for me as a write-in candidate. After I get a good night's sleep, I'll try to find out more.
Actually, the idea of voting for me, Aaron Aarons, as a write-in on the KPFA LSB ballot isn't a bad one! Thanks to the Single Transferable Vote system, your vote isn't wasted by voting for someone who can't win, since it will just go to the next person in your ranking. And it's a way of showing support for the radical anti-imperialist politics I advocate. (I'm more likely to be struck by lightening than to actually get elected this way, and I'm not sure which of those two improbable events would be worse for my mental and physical health.)
But, whether you write me (or anyone else) in or not, I strongly urge the following order of ranking for the slates that are running:
More to come! Good night, comrades, compas, and friends.
Well, I found a link to my own blog on the Pacifica elections web site, http://www.pacificafoundation.org/elections/, in a comment by somebody with the handle a2sfan and the self-description "Aaron Fan". This is presumably the person I heard about who tells people to vote for me as a write-in candidate. After I get a good night's sleep, I'll try to find out more.
Actually, the idea of voting for me, Aaron Aarons, as a write-in on the KPFA LSB ballot isn't a bad one! Thanks to the Single Transferable Vote system, your vote isn't wasted by voting for someone who can't win, since it will just go to the next person in your ranking. And it's a way of showing support for the radical anti-imperialist politics I advocate. (I'm more likely to be struck by lightening than to actually get elected this way, and I'm not sure which of those two improbable events would be worse for my mental and physical health.)
But, whether you write me (or anyone else) in or not, I strongly urge the following order of ranking for the slates that are running:
- People's Radio
- Voices For Justice
- I Team
More to come! Good night, comrades, compas, and friends.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Introduction
Hello, out there! For those who come across this blog by accident, KPFA is the Berkeley, California-based FM radio station of the Pacific Foundation.
That said, the purpose of this blog is the same as that of my two campaigns for the KPFA Local Station Board, which was and is to make KPFA and Pacifica more of a service to the struggle against the imperialist United States ruling class and its allies, including Zionism. Comments are only welcome if they share that objective. Those who want to argue in favor of capitalism and imperialism, or defend the elites of the United States and Israel, can go elsewhere! The same goes for those who want to invoke some god or other (Bacchus/Dionysus, Eros, Aphrodite, et al. excepted!) in support of their politics.
One of the main practical functions of this blog will be to show how much allegedly alternative news and public affairs programming on KPFA actually serves that ruling class both by its selection of what counstitutes NEWS and by the language it uses. But that will be clarified in my upcoming posts.
That said, the purpose of this blog is the same as that of my two campaigns for the KPFA Local Station Board, which was and is to make KPFA and Pacifica more of a service to the struggle against the imperialist United States ruling class and its allies, including Zionism. Comments are only welcome if they share that objective. Those who want to argue in favor of capitalism and imperialism, or defend the elites of the United States and Israel, can go elsewhere! The same goes for those who want to invoke some god or other (Bacchus/Dionysus, Eros, Aphrodite, et al. excepted!) in support of their politics.
One of the main practical functions of this blog will be to show how much allegedly alternative news and public affairs programming on KPFA actually serves that ruling class both by its selection of what counstitutes NEWS and by the language it uses. But that will be clarified in my upcoming posts.
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