Black Lives Matter members speak at NAACP event on race, equity and gentrification. Over 200 people attended. KPFA did not cover the story.
United for Community Radio (UCR) member Andrea Pritchett proposed a resolution to the KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) to build a powerful news and public affairs network that is broad based and well coordinated.
Carol Wolfley, a member of the KPFA Community Advisory Board, worked with KPFA listeners, members of local organizations and with Andrea to develop the Resolution below. This Resolution has been presented to the LSB, and is scheduled to come up again at future LSB meetings.
UCR and its candidates believe we need to speak truth to power. We want community-sourced, local, daily, prime-time programming—where we are making news together. For example, the NAACP recently had a community forum on race, equity and gentrification (see photo above). We at UCR believe this type of event should be covered by KPFA.
Local, community sourced programming would address issues of profiling and violence directed at people of color, and discrimination based on race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. It would cover what people are doing in the face of police militarization, and housing, health, water, economic, educational, and environmental depredation. We need programs that tell these stories, locally, regionally and globally.
PROPOSED RESOLUTION:
The Local Station Board asks that KPFA General Manager and staff work with community members to develop a coordinated station-wide plan for providing local news and public affairs programming in alignment with KPFA’s mission to cover local events and topics with a depth, insight and broad signal range that no other station can do.
This may plan may include exploration of possibilities to:
Increase access to information from the community such as:
- Organize an electronic bulletin board to share and utilize news and public affairs information resources from the KPFA community, local organizations and the public
- Establish a list of people involved with social justice, political, economic and environmental issues from our local geographical areas who we can invite to contribute to local news and public affairs programs as citizen journalists
- Expand recruitment and training of program interns for news and public affairs. Articulate requirements for becoming an intern and make these requirement broadly known and available on our website so that volunteers outreaches can assist in finding volunteers.
- Develop and communicate a system for programmers to be able to receive and use recorded segments from community members for news and public affairs programs.
- Utilize Twitter, Facebook and live stream channels to get up to the minute information for news and public affairs programs
Coordinate a station-wide system for providing local news and public affairs programming
- Create daily programs or parts of programs that focus primarily on local community news and public affairs at predictable and regular times during the work week
- Coordinate KPFA programming in relation to topics to avoid repetition from one program to the next.
- Increase programming that includes listener phone in time.
- Develop a protocol that clarifies when/how to cover breaking news in our signal range and to pre-empt programming in significant and emergency situations.
- Expand use of video channel and live streaming channel to cover local news and public affairs and cultural events.
Communicate regularly with listeners and viewers about local news and public affairs.
- Develop outreach materials to let people know about station coverage of local news and public affairs programs and feature it on the website, the video channel, Twitter and Facebook. Include information about all the station resources including KPFA, KPFB, KPFA video channel, KPFA Facebook, KPFA Twitter, KPFA on You Tube and kpfa.org with program archives.
- Post written local news and public affairs stories on the KPFA website so that they can be accessed easily through computer searches
- Increase (through training and recruitment of volunteers) our capacity to provide responses to emails and calls that are received at the station.
LIBERATE MEDIA TOGETHER!!!
VOTE FOR ALL UCR CANDIDATES IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION TO THE KPFA LSB
More photos from NAACP event:
NAACP President Mansour Id-Deen and VP Barbara White
Community members at NAACP forum
