[PAA-Discuss] FLASHPOINTS NEWS

Fri Mar 30 16:18:12 EDT 2007

I support the return of Flashpoints unequivocally, as it merits our airtime, 
so much so that I once considered resigning my membership in protest, but 
instead decided to run for the LSB on a peace and justice platform, one that 
I wanted to have included the components that allowed the space for music, 
creativity,education and other like areas which we can consider as our 
mandate to our listeners.
  As always I appreciate you Paul and your commitment to being a genuine 
peace maker, with kindness and compassion that is so present in your 
messages always.
   Please keep sending us your thoughts and impressions so we may examine 
ourselves. That is a gift.
Joseph Kaye

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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Paul Myers" <PaulandCarole at msn.com>
To: "discuss" <discuss at paa-tx.org>
Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] FLASHPOINTS NEWS
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:02:02 -0500

Yesterday morning I responded to another message by an KPFT LSB member by 
expressing regret that I did not understand what the words written actual 
meant and asked if that member, regardless of how he voted,  supported and 
desired the show, Flashpoints, to be broadcast at 7 pm Monday through 
Friday.  Still no answer to that simple question.

One portion of this latest message that I totally understand suggests the 
same thing.  Much of the rest of the message is in a context that I do not 
fully understand and was not explained in words that I understand, perhaps 
because that might take more time and effort than is available to the 
writer?

I cannot help to observe that the majority of words in the messages in this 
string from LSB members are not about the issue at hand, but rather 
judgments, criticisms and defense, which do not focus on the resolution of 
problems or concerns, and unfortunately provide objective evidence in 
support of the observations made by Kris yesterday about KPFT.

I sense frustration, defensiveness and perhaps some anger in these messages, 
which is human.  Expression of these feelings and why might result in taking 
the time to look within oneself, as suggested yesterday, by Carondelet,  
that can then allow expression of words that are focused on resolving the 
underlying causes of  concerns rather than criticisms and judgments of 
others.

Paul

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Wendy Schroell<mailto:wendy at radio4houston.org>
   To: discuss at paa-tx.org<mailto:discuss at paa-tx.org>
   Cc: Kpft Lsb<mailto:lsb at kpft.org>
   Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:45 PM
   Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] FLASHPOINTS NEWS

   With reporting like this, who needs friends?  I shudder re that code of 
conduct stuff I brought up before "stick to the issues"

   Even the first sentence is absolutely misleading - the lsb actually voted 
to request that the show be put back on at 7pm - .  And if you are going to 
assign motives (hmm, where have I heard that before?...) then you should at 
least write a clear motion that is airtight.

   I am astounded at the risque manner in which such a motion was presented. 
  If it is a motion about Flashpoints on KPFT, (a show that is very 
important to many, many people in Houston), then the creators of the motion 
should make SURE that it won't be thrown out because there are things in it 
that can be disputed.

   I share the frustration that it took so long to get to this motion 
(copied after what I write here), but I will say that I would have not voted 
for the whole thing had it ever come to a vote in its entirety.  Paraphrase: 
  there's an egregious issue about journalists being forced to testify on 
the side of the government against their interviewerees that would have been 
heard on Flashpoints, and one time the kpft program council said it wanted 
to restore flashpoints to it's previous time of 7pm, THEREFORE we want 
editorials on journalists and flashpoints back on at 7.  This is really 
apples and oranges and simply too much there that the board might have voted 
against.  Irresponsible.  To do it in that way could have cemented the 
future of kpft for a very long time.

   I voted for the motion, but had there been more time, I would have 
amended it to say simply The KPFT LSB recommends that Flashpoints be aired 
on KPFT at 7pm.  There are good reasons, and simply put, trying to score 
"points" against anyone in our internal structure are not a good way to 
bring those reasons forth.  That is absolutely risky - a dangerous way to 
go.

   wendy

   PS: Oh gawd - in copying the original again I find that I understated the 
danger of too many whereases:

   VII. Unfinished Business.

   a. By Freeland.  Motion that, Whereas, unembedded Journalist Sarah Olson 
and Dahr
   Jamail are being effectively denied their first amendment rights under 
the con
   stitution as journalists, insofar as the US government is requiring them 
to testify
   against one of their news sources, Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada, who 
refused to
   deploy to Iraq because he considered the war to be violation of 
international law, and

   Whereas, we as a Board concur with Lt. Watada that the US invasion and 
occupation
   of Iraq does indeed constitute a crime against peace, in accordance with 
the Geneva
   Convention, the Nuremberg principles and subsequent international 
legislation to
   which the United States is signatory, and

    Whereas, support for conscientious objection to illegal war is consonant 
with the
   principles of the Pacifica Foundation (Article 1, Section3), and

    Whereas, the cutting-edge reporting of Dahr Jamail is freely available 
to KPFT via
   Pacifica's FLASHPOINTS programming, but whereas by decision of KPFT man-
   agement (without consultation with the Local Station Board) this program 
was
   removed from KPFT's broadcast schedule,

    Therefore be it resolved that the KPFT LSB unequivocally supports the 
stand of Dahr
   Jamail and Sarah  Olson against the government's demand that they testify 
against
   Lt. Watada, whose decision to act in accordance with his conscience and 
interna-
   tional law rather than those of his military superiors the KPFT LSB also
   unequivocally supports, and

    Therefore be it further resolved that KPFT management be instructed to 
produce and
   begin the periodic broadcast within the next seven days of an editorial 
reflecting the
   above statements on behalf of the LSB, which also invites listeners to 
visit these
   journalist's official joint website and to contribute to their legal 
defense fund, and

    Therefore be it  resolved that the KPFT LSB requests that management 
imme-
   diately implement the unanimous recommendation of the KPFT Program 
Council
   that Pacifica's FLASHPOINTS radio program be once again broadcast at its 
former
   live broadcast time of 7:00 pm, so that KPFT listeners can once again 
hear the unem-
   bedded journalism of Dahr Jamail live from Occupied Iraq, Kevin Pena live 
from
   Occupied Haiti, and other independent journalists live from other 
"flashpoints"
   throughout the world, in fulfillment of Pacifica's stated purpose of 
broadcasting ac-
   curate news "from sources not commonly found in the same medium," and

   Therefore be it further resolved that our elected representatives to the 
PNB are
   hereby instructed to introduce a corresponding resolution for 
consideration at its
   January 2007 meeting by the Pacifica National Board requesting that a 
editorial sup-
   portive of
   both these journalists and the courageous conscientious objector whose 
story they
   told be produced and be mandated for periodic broadcast by all Pacifica 
station.

   robert wrote:
     Attention:

     Flashpoints will be back on the air soon so says the majority of kpft 
lsb.

     About 9:45 PM 28 March 2007 a motion (see below) was voted on and 
passed

     Therefore be it resolved that the KPFT LSB requests that management 
immediately implement the unanimous recommendation of the KPFT Program 
Council that Pacifica's FLASHPOINTS radio program be once again broadcast at 
its former broadcast time of 7:00 pm

     Whereas the resolution was voted on and past ( 8 for, 5 against)  the 
five dissenters were: Michael Woodson, Bill Crosier, Deb Shafto, Sandy 
Weinman and Teresa Allen.  I am sure of at least these five.  And  was 
shocked to discover that Mike Martin voted for.  Thanks, Mike.  And Thanks, 
Deb for talking for it and then voting against.  Go figure.

     But Bill Crosier?....why are you voting against Flashpoints?  I thought 
you were a Progressive.  I really am confused.  Please 
explain....no..don't....I would not believe you anyway.

     Michael has new priorities  and that must be to protect Duane so that 
he can keep his show.  I understand  and what a great show it is too.  It is 
worth stabbing your friends (pt) in the back.

     robert

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