The Passion of the K

KPFK Post-Settlement Internet
Document Archive

This archive is an ongoing project. It is quite embryonic right now, but it will grow.

Its goal is to provide a repository for primary-source material on the factional crisis at KPFK that began AFTER the legal settlement of late 2001. In other words, it is ideally a museum, used by others who seek a rigorously documented historical understanding.

Most documents are verbatim, as presented on the various web sites. Presence does not imply agreement or disagreement, any more than it would at the public library.

"With the Winter Solstice the Light Returns:"
The Settlement, 9/01 - 12/01

Bob Farrell makes first peace initiative 9/27/01
Dave Adelson's letter to L.A. Times re: DN! 10/1/01
Bramson, Cagan, Moran reply to Farrell 10/2/01
KPFK staff letter to PNB re: insolvency 10/22/01
Spooner announces mediation as depositions begin 10/25/01
Cagan: mediation produces tentative agreement 11/3/01
Current (broadcast magazine) report on the agreement 11/5/01
Spooner on Mediation Confidentiality 11/5/01
November LAB meeting picks Fertig 11/27/01
Spooner: Mediation fails, depositions resume 12/3/01
Spooner: Mediation back on, judge calls in parties 12/8/01
Bensky: Lawsuit settlement reached 12/12/01
Friedman: Plaintiffs have announced settlement 12/12/01
Text of the settlement 12/12/01
Associated Press story 12/13/01
New York Times story 12/13/01
Progressive Portal story 12/13/01
Steve Brown's comments 12/17/01
iPNB selections 12/20/01
Spooner announces final signing of settlement 12/22/01
Lyn Gerry's call for a Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Interim Period Comes, Mark Schubb Goes, 12/01 - 2/02

Press Release: Schubb gags Seditious Beats 12/21/01
Spooner announces the settlement is final 12/22/01
Dave Fertig introduces himself 12/23/01
Freedkin's notes on first iPNB meeting 12/29/01
L.A. Times report on Seditious Beats demo at station 12/29/01
Resolutions from meeting go to judge 1/2/02
Press Release: Democracy Now! returns to air 1/4/02
Text of the Cooper/Schubb attack on iPNB and listeners 1/7/02
Adelson replies to the attack 1/7/02
So does Lyn Gerry 1/10/02
And Hugh too 1/10/02
Judge rules in favor of new iPNB leadership 1/10/02
Agenda of first in-person iPNB meeting 1/11/02
Gregory Wonderwheel's iPNB meeting notes 1/12/02
Hugh's notes 1/13/02
Juan Gonzalez: Schubb seeking $100k severance 1/17/02
Cagan responds to KPFK listeners hearing attacks 1/19/02
KPFK LAB calls for Schubb's firing 1/19/02
1995-2002 KPFK fired/banned list 1/24/02

Springtime for KPFK: Steven Starr, Roy Hurst; 2002

Starr's bio, from IMC 1/25/02
Marc Rubinn's welcome/advice (IMC) 1/27/02
Anna Kunkin's welcome/advice (IMC) 1/28/02
Starr tells FPNN how he succeeded Schubb 1/28/02
Don White's welcome, and what future holds 1/30/02
Press Release: Seditious Beats is back 1/30/02
Gonzalez leaves Pacifica Campaign, returns to DN! 2/1/02
Coughlin: iPNB inherited $4.8 million debt 2/6/02
Starr seeks control of station funds 2/6/02
Starr's letter to listeners 2/17/02
Pacifica Campaign calls off the boycott 2/18/02
Don White: What a great atmosphere in the station! 2/22/02
KPFK winter drive sets all-time records 2/28/02
Carol Spooner on fund raising 3/3/02
iPNB L.A. meeting agenda 3/8/02
Dan Coughlin's executive report 3/8/02
Steven Starr's report 3/8/02
Photo: Cagan opens L.A. meeting 3/8/02
Anna Kunkin's IMC report back from the meeting 3/10/02
Pacifica settles PNN strike 3/10/02
Summary of L.A. board meeting 3/12/02
Press Release: Pacifica posts record fund drives 3/13/02
Press Release: Ratification ends PNN strike 03/22/02
Unity party #1 for Starr and Hurst 4/10/02

The Weekly/Nation Group's Last Stand, 2/02 - 4/02

Pacifica slashes budget, cuts PNN 2/16/02
Transcript by Myla Reson: Landau on Cooper's show 2/16/02
Transcript by Myla Reson: Saul Landau Signs Off PNN 2/16/02
Edward S. Herman responds to Landau 2/16/02
Marc Cooper on his suspension 2/19/02
Dave Mosso replies to Cooper 2/19/02
Gray Brechin: The Nation's Disastrous Complicity 2/20/02
Spooner debunks Cooper 2/20/02
Carl Gunther does same 2/20/02
Tax Evading Treasurer? (So does Rendall) 2/20/02
'Standing on Hill's corpse' ('Alex' to Cooper) 2/21/02
LA Times: Two Staffers Suspended 2/21/02
Mark Vallen responds to Cooper re: Wilkins 2/22/02
Starr responds to e-mail about Cooper 2/27/02
Marc Cooper leaves KPFK 3/6/02
Starr's letter to Weekly before hit piece, 3/19/02
Hugh drops moose turd on Weekly 3/21/02
Renteria's letter to Weekly 3/25/02
Julie Thompson to Weekly 3/26/02
Andres Collazo to Weekly 3/28/02
Rendall to Nation after its own hit 4/1/02
Cliff Barney to Nation 4/1/02
Spooner to Nation 4/1/02
Leone Hankey to Weekly 4/2/02
David Moore to Nation 4/2/02
Starr to Weekly 4/12/02
Hugh drops bunny poo on Nation 4/15/02
Ed Herman critiques Nation 4/16/02
Marc Cooper rebuts Herman 4/16/02
Adelson to Weekly 4/24/02

L'Affaire Ruppert;
aka Era of Good Feeling Ends At KPFK, 3/02 - 6/02

Cooper & friends slander Ruppert after fund drive appearance 3/3/02
[Curatorial note: the allegation that Ruppert was thrown off LAPD on a psycho is untrue, and led to legal action. Best not to repeat it without this disclaimer.]
Norman Solomon attacks Ruppert in letter to KPFA 3/7/02
E-mail exchange: was Ruppert censored on KPFA? 4/2/02
Ruppert defends his reputation 4/22/02
Starr explains fund drive debate decision 5/31/02
Transcript: Ruppert on The Morning Show 6/13/02
'Ambush' from Corn on Sonali's show 6/13/02
Public comment re: Ruppert at iPNB meeting 6/21/02
KPFK Morning Show responds to Ruppert 6/28/02

'Starts When You're Always Afraid:'
Eva Georgia, 5/02 - Present

Eva Georgia files suit against her former employer 4/29/02
[Curatorial note: this complaint's citation of allegedly defamatory language, allegedly used by a defendant (of color), is apparently the source of the buzzwords that set off the racial storm when Barahona (white) used them in October.]
Announcement: GM finalists' forum 5/7/02
Transcript: Eva clarifies forum HSP reference on R4H 5/7/02
Official Pacifica press release: Eva Georgia hired 5/28/02
Los Angeles Times story on Eva Georgia 6/7/02
Some SA enemies surface after reading news 6/7/02
Staff letter demanding Manilla be reinstated 7/15/02
Announcement: Listener forum on SA charges with Coughlin & Cagan 7/17/02
Notes from first program council forum 7/21/02
Announcement: Unity Fest for Eva Georgia & transmitter 7/27/02
Photo: National Corporate Radio at Unity Fest 7/27/02
A blogger reviews the Unity Fest 7/27/02
Unity Fest report on station web site 8/1/02
Unity Fest in OOA newsletter 8/02
"Jon Beaupre = CIA?" (wacky Listeners Forum thread, 8/18/02)
Nalini and Pam Cooke's letter to iPNB & CA Atty. Genl. re DN! Contract 9/1/02
KPFK staff asks for programming & personnel freezes 9/24/02
Esther Manilla tells her whole story 9/25/02
Kolhatkar: "Outwardly Progressive, Inwardly Corporate" 9/30/02
Fertig pointedly rebuts S. Africans, claims sources were vetted 10/1/02
Barahona's IMC posting that set off the racial storm 10/1/02
The Freeze: Coughlin's "Transitional Program"10/5/02
Fertig rebuts critics, makes vague legal threat 10/16/02
Maria Gilardin (KPFA): Racism is not the problem 10/20/02
Barahona's reply to Fertig's 10/16 10/27/02
Eve Aruguete's story on her layoff 11/6/02
Report of General Manager Search Comm. 11/12/02
Picture: annmt of probably the last P&D FPNN meeting 11/07/02
Transcript of LAB comment: programmers/staff 'could be agents' 11/18/02
Rob Robinson repeats Renteria's accusations at iPNB 12/7/02
South Central Coalition emergency meeting re:KPFK 12/19/02
Santa Barbara listener calls for end to elitism, sectarianism, & political feuding 12/23/02
Letter from KPFK staff members to iPNB and Coughlin 1/1/03
Wonderwheel advises against paranoia after meeting change 1/13/03
Report of the Program Committee Committee 1/19/03
File on Roth resignation 1/24/03 (as modified after a right wing site linked to it)
Survey of >90% of KPFK staff 6-7/03
Sudden program schedule changes 7/4/03
Davises on their cancellation 7/4/03
David Ponak on his cancellation 7/8/03
Ponak's announcement to his Yahoo! Group 7/10/03
Does Management Really Speak for Youth of Color? 7/14/03
LA Business Journal story on program changes, death threats 7/14/03
Larmans on Folk Scene change 7/15/03
Crystal Ann Lea's story 7/18/03
Other listener opinions 7/18/02 on
Lyn Gerry on 'racism' at Pacifica 7/20/03
Many listener letters asking to return The Nixon Tapes 8/4/03 on
John Martínez on bad working conditions at K 8/22/03
Gudiño's rejection letter to Afrikan Mental Liberation Weekend 12/12/03
Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn's reply to Gudiño 12/12/03
Transcript: Eva Georgia on moving the station 12/03
Accidentally leaked e-mail on LSB politics #1 2/12/04
Dr. Kwaku announces AMLW cancellation 2/25/04
Mirza: Was Dr. Kwaku set up? 2/27/04
Myla Reson's letter regarding her banning from station 2/28/04
'Raisa' posts on infiltration of KPFK and Pacifica 3/3/04
Khoisan: Zane Ibrahim detained, strip searched at BWI Airport 4/16/04
Khoisan: Ibrahim due back in SA, consul is investigating 4/19/04
M.T. Karthik leaves KPFK for Pacifica election role 4/21/04
Listener barred from leafletting at Amy Goodman speech 4/21/04
Side one of the offending flyer 4/21/04
Side two of the offending flyer 4/21/04
John Johnson of Change-Links describes event 4/22/04
Transcript: Jack VanAken discusses incident on Uprising 4/23/04
Editorial: Mad K Disease 4/26/04
Jack VanAken's letter to Eva regarding incident 4/27/04
Harbor truckers' action leader slams KPFK coverage 5/2/04
Accidentally leaked e-mail on LSB politics #2 5/6/04
Prescod's request for apology after above 5/7/04
Entire thread, for context 5/8/04
Transcript: Eva Georgia describes 4/21 incident to LSB 5/8/04
Listener debunks assumptions in the 5/6 leaked e-mail 5/10/04
Editorial: Mad K Disease Redux 5/13/04
Open Letter to listeners regarding Feminist Magazine 5/26/04
E mail exchange: Eva disciplines Cassandra Russell 6/11/04
Eva Georgia: Thanks for a million-dollar fund drive! 6/28/04
John Martínez: Don't pre-empt the Spanish programming

Program Director Searches, 9/02 - 4/03

First Search:

Announcement of open PD position 9/16/02
Carole LaFlamme resigns, search collapses 10/30/02
Dave Fertig tells his side 10/31/02
Spooner: Regroup and start over 10/31/02
Spooner: failure threatens democracy at Pacifica 10/31/02
Laflamme: The PDSC is Ethically Compromised 11/1/02
Terrence McNally's resignation letter 11/3/02
Don White's proposal moved & seconded at the LAB 11/3/02
Leslie Radford's counter-proposal in grid form 11/4/02
KPFK Race and Diversity Committee's proposed resolution 11/4/02
Steven Starr's comments 11/5/02
Carl Gunther's theory on what happened 11/6/02
Sara Zwern's analysis 11/06/02
And Spooner's statement 11/6/02
Barahona on what happened 11/9/02
Carole LaFlamme asks Coughlin to Freeze PD and Disband PDSC 11/10/02
PDSC Interim Committee Report (And some comments) 11/16/02
Farah Davari's critique of PDSC report 11/16/02
Carole LaFlamme responds to PDSC report 11/17/02
Bill Gallegos rebuts LaFlamme 11/18/02
PD candidate Bob Young replies 11/20/02

Second Search:

Interview Questions asked PD candidates
Finalist statements from station web site 1/26/03
Post-search "Minority Report" from two PDSC members 2/21/03
Peter Dudar's first statement 2/26/03
Peter Dudar's resignation 4/9/03
A reaction 4/9/03

'Fixing the World With A Radio Network:'
Bylaws/ LSB Elections, 2002-2004

Listener proposal for independent bylaws committees 3/3/02
2nd draft of bylaws proposal 3/8/02
Bylaws 'bullet points' 5/30/02
KPFK bylaws comm rejects appointed seats 6/9/02
KPFK proposal for on-air bylaws discussion 6/16/02
First bylaws program is a love feast 7/15/02
By program 4, they're ripping up scripts on-air 8/2/02
Eisenberg's chronology of bylaws pgm turf battles 8/8/02
Original production team reinstated 8/12/02
Sako Sefiani answers Fertig 8/14/02
KPFK Unity Bylaws (consensus model submitted to iPNB) 9/16/02
LAB and Bylaws Committee call for Bylaws Convention 9/25/02
Rob Robinson's merged bylaws draft 11/14/02
KPFA election model 11/29/02
WPFW/Zakiya model 12/2/02
Pacifica attorney calls diversity quotas illegal 1/10/03
Fertig calls for early elections 6/11/03
Spooner: pass draft B 6/11/03
Post-packing LAB members list 7/03
Court upholds iPNB vote, sends election bylaws to LABs 7/8/03
Hamanaka's report: K LAB defeats draft B 7/21/03
Unofficial minutes of this meeting 7/21/03
Surovell's reply: loss of B will restart litigation 7/22/03
Anonymous (long) IMC report with case against B 7/22/03
[more to come in here]
Fertig: K LAB has reversed, B is now enacted 8/23/03
Judge rules bylaws adopted, orders elections 9/15/03
iPNB tries to change election rules (shot down by Sabraw) 11/17/03
Coalition for Justice platform 12/03
PIRCR platform 12/03
iPNB tries to change rules again (shot down by Finck) 12/7/03
The Infamous Late Ballot Procedure (which didn't work) 1/6/04
Transcript: Ian Masters' on-air election comments 1/18/04
Witness account of altercation at election forum 1/18/04
Election supervisor allows write-in votes 1/21/04
Update to Infamous Late Ballot Procedure 1/23/04
Notes from iPNB telephone meeting on election procedures 1/28/04
Spooner comments on undelivered-ballot problems 2/3/04
An unusually civil exchange on the diversity issue 2/9/04
Full election results - all 53 candidates 2/10/04
Cagan: All LABs to dissolve within a week 2/10/04
Instructions for LAB/LSB transition 2/10/04
Coughlin's first LSB meeting guidelines 2/16/04
Agenda for first LSB meeting 2/29/04
Hugh's notes from first PNB meeting 3/13-14/04
Alice In Pacifica Land (fiction, I think) 4/11/04
Renteria: Lawyer will have to sort out iPC - POC overlap 5/5/04