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Supporters of democratizing Pacifica,

Here are some of the adjusted relevant dates for the upcoming KPFA Local  Advisory Board election, which nomination period officially begins today!!

 
Nominations: August 15 - October 21
Campaign: October 22 - November 12
Voting: November 13 - December 13
Counting & Reporting: Dec 14- Dec. 18
Changeover: January 9 LAB meeting
        The LAB also approved for this year only expanding the voter qualifying period for donations to be $25 in the past 1-25 months

        Consider running for the KPFA LAB if you can come to the meetings, fight to help reclaim the network from the people who wish to see it neutralized and sold, and if you wish to go beyond the past structure to begin creating a democratic culture of listener empowerment, awareness and participation – without which Pacifica will cease its historic mission.

        Please contact us if you are interested in running, if you know someone who is, or if you wish to help us raise funds for the election, to outreach to diverse listeners, help with nomination events, publicity, with rides, phone tree work, etc.  We look forward to your participation at whatever level you can.

        We will be developing an Election web site, an official email address and our mailing address is:

KPFA Election Committee
P.O. Box 13349
Berkeley, CA  94712-4349
        Leave messages for us at KPFA at (510) 848-6767 x 626

        We'll send nomination packets to you if you give us your contact information.  Thank you.
 

– John Sheridan
KPFA LAB Election Committee
(510) 652-0272
E-mail:    John Sheridan

This sounds like it would be worth making an effort to catch, especially in
view of how warped most of the TV coverage is.  Esther
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Making Contact
August 15, 2001

"Forbidden Views: Advocating Palestinian Rights"

Opinions run strong when it comes to conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Mass media reports about violent clashes and tenuous peace talks often obscure critical information about daily life in Palestinian territories. On this program we take a look at reactions to Palestinian viewpoints.

Featuring: Reverend Mitri Raheb, pastor of the Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem; Marcia Freedman, former member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, and with the Coalition of Women for a Just Peace; Penny Rosenwasser, Middle East Children's Alliance; Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine; Edward Said, Columbia University Professor; sounds and an interview from the Occupied Territories

Making Contact, a 29-minute public affairs program fed on the public radio satellite each Wednesday at 12 noon ET, is available free of charge to all public radio stations.

National Radio Project: (510) 251-1332
International Media Project: (650) 851-7256

makingcontact@radioproject.org
http://www.radioproject.org

managing director - Laura Livoti
managing producer - Phillip Babich
executive director - Peggy Law
associate producer - Stephanie Welch
associate producer - Shereen Meraji
senior advisor - Norman Solomon
national producer - David Barsamian
women's desk director - Lisa Rudman
administrative coordinator - Rosalyn Fay

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San Francisco Bay Area listeners can hear "Making Contact" Fridays on KPFA 94.1 FM at 2:00PM. Other listeners can consult the broadcast schedule on our website for stations and times in your area. You can also listen to this week's show or archive shows
with Real Audio or as an MP3 file by going to our website: by going to our website: www.radioproject.org

Making Contact is a 29-minute weekly program committed to investigative journalism and in-depth critical analys

Making Contact is a 29-minute weekly program committed to investigative journalism and in-depth critical analysis which goes beyond the breaking news.

Utilizing voices and perspectives rarely heard in media, Making Contact focuses on the human realities of
politics, the connections between local and global events, and creative possibilities for people to engage in
hopeful democratic change.

Supported by independent funding sources, Making
Contact is free to explore corporate connections to
national and international policies, and is offered without
charge, via satellite and tape, to all public radio stations.
 

From Womens International League for Peace and Freedom,
forwarded by Carolyn Scarr

URGENT ALERT
STOP THE ABUSE AND PUNISHMENT OF WOMEN PRISONERS
AT THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S FACILITY

As if nine deaths (since November 8, 2000) were not enough. As if nearly ten years of medical neglect were not enough. As if depending upon guards who work as medical technical assistants to unlock the cell door and provide medical care is not enough. As if watching your cellmates writhe in pain and die from outright medical neglect after being refused emergency care is not enough. The California Department of Corrections (CDC) and the local prison administration at the Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) have upped the ante and are devising new ways to torment and jeopardize the lives of serious and chronically ill women prisoners.

Last Thursday night (January 25), an elderly woman prisoner at CCWF requested immediate medical care after the women were locked down for the night. CCWF staff responded in force. They apparently got the woman some care. However, they also declared the woman's cell a "crime scene," made all the women submit to strip searches and did a major shakedown of the cell. Additionally, CCWF staff dispensed this punishment loudly in front of the cells of hundreds of women, sending a warning that this was the treatment that women could expect if they had a medical emergency after hours.

In fact, CCWF's response to all the deaths has been to blame the women - to spread lies of disinformation that women prisoners died because they ingested illegal drugs or misused their prescription medicine. Thousands of cells were torn apart by guards last month and many women had their life-saving prescription medications confiscated. Toxicology reports and the CDC's own medical investigation by outside doctors have since disproved the theory that scapegoats the dead women. But the punishment still continues. Women requesting medical care after lockdown may now have their cellmates subjected to the most brutal form of repression and humiliation.

SEND A MESSAGE TODAY TO THE CDC! WOMEN PRISONERS NEED MEDICAL CARE NOT REPRESSION AND PUNISHMENT

Please call, fax, or send a letter to the following people to protest this injustice against women prisoners.

Warden Gwendolyn Mitchell
Central California Women's Facility
P.O. Box 1501
Chowchilla, CA 93610
Phone: (559) 665-5531, Fax: (559) 665-7158

Acting Director Steve Cambra
California Department of Corrections
P.O. Box 942883
Sacramento, CA 94283
Phone: (916) 445-7688, Fax: (916) 322-2877

Dear Warden Mitchell and Director Cambra,

We are deeply concerned that women prisoners (and their cellmates) at the Central California Women's Facility who request medical care after the evening lockdown will be subjected to punitive cell and strip searches. This, in fact, happened to an elderly woman prisoner last week. Women prisoners were told that this is the new policy for dealing with medical emergencies at CCWF.

If this is true, this outrageous treatment will deter ill women prisoners from seeking medical care and surely cause unnecessary deaths. We demand that CDC provide appropriate care not punishment. We will not tolerate any more deaths at CCWF. We demand that you take action to stop these punitive and unnecessary cell searches and provide decent medical care to women prisoners.

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Your name

cc: state legislators
human rights organizations
local media
Urgent Alert issued by the Ad-Hoc Committee to Save the Lives of Women Prisoners. Our members include: the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Justice Now, California Prison Focus, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and Prison Activist Resource Center. For more information, please contact us at (415) 255-7036, ext. 4 or (510) 665-1935.

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Gene & Ellie Bluestein
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~geneb/

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