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Pacifica board member Tracy Rosenberg weighs in on JR’s unjustifiable ban from KPFA
October 5, 2013
Tracy Rosenberg is the executive director of Media Alliance, an action and resource organization in Oakland advocating just, accountable and diverse media. She has been a listener representative on the KPFA Local Station Board since 2007 and a member of the Pacifica National Board of Directors since 2010. We asked her to comment on the situation from her perch as an insider. Here’s what we talked about.
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Filed Under: SF Bay Area
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Filed Under: SF Bay Area
Tags: acts of discrimination • African-American men and police brutality • Against the Grain • Aileen Alfandary • Andrew Phillips • apartheid policies • Berkeley police • Berkeley-based radio station • Black broadcasters • Black broadcasters at KPFA • Black volunteer broadcasters • Block Report Radio • Brian Edwards-Tiekert • broadcast journalism • broadcaster Sasha Lilley • capitalism • Communications Workers of America • conflict of interest • CWA union • Dan Siegel • Davey D of Hard Knock Radio on KPFA • disciplinary process • donated labor • due process • economic privilege • Empire State Building • executive director of Media Alliance • executive director of Pacifica • Executive Director Summer Reece of the Pacifica Foundation • Father Figures • Federal Communications Commission • federal labor code • former general manager Andrew Phillips • Frank Sterling of KPFA staff and board • Free Speech Radio • handling grievances and complaints in a fair and consistent manner • Hard Knock Radio • hostile work environment claim • housing activist JR Fleming • Hurricane Sandy • injustices • innovative internal structures • institutional power • Interim Executive Director Summer Reese • interim general manager • jazz-based station • JR’s ban from KPFA • KPFA and Pacifica • KPFA and Pacifica managers • KPFA general manager position • KPFA listeners • KPFA Local Station Board • KPFA station wide investigation into racism • KPFA working conditions • KPFA’s local station board • KPFA’s two-year apprenticeship program • labor activist Gerald Sanders • labor union leadership • Laney College • listener representative • listener-supported station • low-income communities of color • Malcolm Shabazz • Malcolm X • Media Reform Conference in Minneapolis • middle-class insurance company values • Minister of Information JR Valrey • Nadra Foster • Nicole Sawaya • nonviolent disagreements between individuals • notifications of potential litigation • NPR culture • officer and director’s liability insurance policy • Oscar Grant • Pacific Islander broadcaster Weyland Southon • Pacifica board member Tracy Rosenberg • Pacifica National Board of Directors • Pacifica Radio • paid-and-unpaid-staff United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers bargaining unit • paid-staff-only bargaining unit • person of color • plight of people in the Black community • police power • progressive organizations • race problems • racism • racist hiring practices • racist KPFA and Pacifica • radio arts and media production • reduce litigation risks • Save-KPFA-affiliated board members • Section 2.11 of the National Labor Relations Code • sexism • station and network board member Tracy Rosenberg • Steve Zeltzer of Workweek Radio • The People’s Minister of Information JR • The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey • Tiny of Poor News Network • Townhall on Racism at KPFA • Tracy Rosenberg • Transitions on Traditions • Trayvon Martin • union stewards acting as managerial department heads • unpaid workers • volunteer programmer and producer at KPFA • WBAI • Weyland Southon • White Citizens Council • WPFW • “creating a hostile work environment” • “hostile work environment”
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