Organizational Support for United for Community Radio
Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party
East Bay Media Center
Green Party of Alameda County
Veterans for Peace East Bay Chapter #162
San Francisco Green Party
Strike Debt Bay Area
First They Came for the Homeless
Green Party of Contra Costa County
Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica
Individuals* Endorsing United for Community Radio (Partial list)
Adam Hudson, Independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, contributor to TruthOut and AlterNet
Adrienne Lauby, Host/producer, Pushing Limits, KPFA’s disability program
Andrea Prichett, Former LSB member, Copwatch founder
Andres Soto, KPFA host, Afternoons de Andres Soto, CBE Organizer, musician
Ann Garrison, KPFA News Reporter
Anthony Fest, KPFA producer, Project Censored Show, El Show de Andres Soto, Poor News Network
Attila Nagy, Petaluma Progressives, former LSB member; musician, Sonoma County organizer
Barbara Lubin, Founder, Executive Director of Middle East Children’s Alliance
Barry and Barbara Deutsch, KPFA listener activists
Bert Bartsch & Emily Bartsch, One of the founders of Sustainable Fairfax, member of Citizen Marin – anti density housing organization, former board member of Social Justice Center of Marin, long time KPFA supporter, contributor and volunteer
Bob Marsh, Green Party Activist
Bonnie Bone, former KPFA programmer
Bonnie Faulkner, Producer and host, Guns and Butter
Bruce A. Dixon, Managing Editor, Black Agenda Report
Carol Spooner, Leader of the 1999 listeners’ lawsuit to remove the old corporatizing Pacifica Board, former Pacifica National Board member
Carole Seligman, co-editor Socialist Viewpoint; volunteer Prison Radio
Carolyn Birden, Pacifica National Board member from WBAI, Assistant Professor of English at Community College of Philadelphia.
Carolyn Scarr, Ecumenical Peace Institute (and other groups)
Cathe Norman, KPFA Listener
Chandra Hauptman, former Local Station Board & Pacifica National Board member
Charlie Hinton, KPFA listener
Christopher Bowers, Social worker, writer, musician and activist. Involved in organizing in the North Bay around issues of privilege and race as well as homelessness.
Clark Sullivan, live-streaming journalist, Occupy
Cynthia Johnson, Former KPFA Local Station Board listener representative, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Save the Post Office, many more
Dale Baum, author, County Council member, Green Party of Alameda County
Dan Mayfield, San Jose criminal defense attorney, National Lawyers Guild SF-Bay Area
Daniel Borgstrom, listener activist, blogger, Veterans for Peace
Dave Welsh, Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council, postal worker, defender of Berkeley Post Office, former member, KPFA Local Station Board,
Davey D., producer & host, Hard Knock Radio
Dennis Bernstein, producer & host, Flashpoints
Diana Bohn, current Secretary NAACP, former member of the Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission
Donna Carter, KPFA listener
Ed Biow, Occupy Oakland activist
Ed Holmes, S.F. Mime Troupe
Eduardo Martinez, Richmond City Council Member
Edward S. Herman, University of Pennsylvania professor emeritus and co-author, with Noam Chomsky, of Manufacturing Consent.
Elliot Halpern, Berkeley/North East Bay Chapter of the ACLU, NAACP board member
Emily Sykes, Social Justice Center of Marin
Eric Brooks, Sustainability Chair, San Francisco Green Party
Eugene Ruyle, author, Veterans for Peace. Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, CSU, Long Beach
Fadi Saba, former Local Station Board member
Fran Rachel, Grandmothers for Peace, educator, life-long activist
Frank LeFever, Past President, Board member of New York Neuropsychology Group Medical Staff of Helen Hayes Hospital (retired), Listener Representative on WBAI Local Station Board.
Frank Sterling, KPFA Apprenticeship staff, KPFA Local Station Board member
Fred Norman, Veterans for Peace
Gayle McLaughlin, Richmond City Council Member, former Mayor of Richmond
George Coates, producer, writer Twit Wit Radio, KPFA
Gigi Winter, activist
Grace Aaron, Pacifica National Board (PNB) Director 2008-2009, PNB chair & Interim Exec Dir 2009, anti-nuclear campaigner
Greg Jan, Green Party Activist
Gregory Ross, Veterans for Peace
Henry Norr, former listener-representative Local Station Board, Gaza Freedom Flotilla volunteer.
Hep Ingham, Houston, Texas listener
Howie Levine, KPFA Listener
Ivar Diehl, KPFA Listener
Jack Heyman, Executive board member International Longshore and Warehouse union Local 10 (retired) and chair of the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
Jackie Barshak, occasional KPFA producer
Jan Arnold, Green Party Activist
Jan Garrett, Past Executive Director of the Center for Independent Living, Berkeley
Jean Stewart, disability rights and environmental activist, Communities United in Defense of Olmstead (CUIDO)
Jeff Mackler, National secretary of Socialist Action, a leader in the Free-Mumia campaign, member of the United National Antiwar Coalition’s administrative committee
Joe Wanzala, former Pacifica National Board member, media activist
John Hayakawa Torok, SEIU Local 1000 shop steward, former Green Party candidate, Occupy Oakland, World Association of International Studies, Oakland Livable Wage Assembly.
John Sheridan, Visual Artist, active in the Free Pacifica struggle in 1999.
Joy Moore, Long-time KPFA producer, Full Circle & About Health, Apprenticeship Program volunteer, Local Station Board representative
Karen Pickett, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Global Justice Ecology Project, Earth First
Kate Raphael, Womens Magazine, KPFA producer
Kate Tanaka, Former KPFA Local Station Board member
Ken Aaron, PNB director, 2011-2012
Khalil Bendib, co-host of KPFA’s Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, artist, cartoonist
Kim White, Steering committee member, Vallejo Waterfront Coalition; activist, Strike Debt Bay Area
Kristen Cross, Former Co-Director, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, (EBASE)
Laura Wells, Former Governor & State Controller Candidate, Green Party of California
Laurence Schechtman, organizer for community skill sharing and gardens
Laurence Shoup, author, Wall Street’s Think Tank, Rulers and Rebels, and other books, former member, Alameda Central Labor Council
Lesley Tiyesha Phillips, Co-founder, People’s Community Medics
Lisa Dettmer, co-host, Women’s Magazine
Marc Sapir, MD, MPH, retired primary care community physician and former medical director of the Center for Elders’ Independence.
Maria Gilardin, Host and producer, TUC radio, co-founder of the original Save KPFA organization in early 90s
Marilyn Langlois, Richmond Planning Commissioner, co-founder of Richmond Progressive Alliance
Marilyn Naparst, Activist
Mark Boynton, retired logger, blacksmith, beekeeper, LMNOP (Peace walker at Lake Merritt)
Mark Mason, U.S. domestic and foreign policy analyst, formerly taught at Sacramento State University
Marsha Feinland, former Berkeley Rent Board member, California Teachers’ Association honored union activist
Michael Bass, School of the Americas Watch
Michael Lyon, SF Gray Panthers
Michael Parenti, progressive political analyst, author of 24 books, lecturer
Michael-David Sasson, Former President, Coalition of University Employees (CUE), Local #3, (now part of IBT #2010)
Mickey Huff, Project Censored show and KPFA
Miguel Molina, veteran KPFA programmer
Milton Allimadi, Editor of Black Star News
Molly Beyea, community activist
Nancy Delaney, KPFA programmer, 1981 – 1995, focused on women, indigenous peoples around world but especially here, and aspects of health for the whole human and community well being.
Nancy Nadel, The Oakland Chocolate Company Advisor to Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) Retired Oakland City Councilmember, District 3
Nicole Milner, Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica (CdP), Musician
Noelle Hanrahan, Director, Prison Radio, former KPFA programmer and union steward
Patti Marsh, Green Party Activist
Paul Kealoha Blake, Co-founder and co-director of the East Bay Media Center; co-curator, Berkeley Video & Film Festival
R. Michael Flynn, National Lawyers Guild SF Bay Area Board member.
Rahman Jamaal, Hip Hop Congress, Rap Force Academy, Hip Hop Chess Federation, former CAB member.
Raymond Meyer, KPFA listener
Richard Stone, Delegate, S.F. Labor Council; member, Save Mid-town (San Francisco)
Rick Sterling, Walnut Creek, KPFA volunteer
Robbie Osman, long-time host of Across the Great Divide
Robert McCockran, Veterans for Peace
Ruthanne Shpiner, KPFA news reporter
Samsarah Morgan, KPFA Local Station Board member
Scott Braley, Community Activist
Sheila Carrillo, Santa Cruz listener
Signe Mattson, KPFA listener
Stan Woods, Longtime labor activist and former member of the KPFA Local Station Board and the Program Council
Steve Brown, Pacifica National Board Director, WBAI Local Station Board Director, Progressive Radio Network (PRN) Director, El Taller Latino Americano
Steve Gilmartin, KPFA listener-activist
Steve Kessler, Activist
Steve Zeltzer, WorkWeek Radio Host, Founder of SF LaborFest
Steven Strauss, musician, KPFA listener
Susan da Silva, former Pacifica National Board member, Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) board member, media steward
Suzanne Baker, archaeologist/principal, Archaeological/Historical Consultants
Tim Laidman, Former Steering Committee member, Richmond Progressive Alliance; Former Coordinating Committee member, Green Party of California
Toby Blomé, Code Pink
Tommi Avicolli Mecca, longtime queer and housing rights activist, author, and editor of Avanti Popolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus
Tony Coleman, founding member One Fam, Bikes for Life
Torger Johnson, Green Party Activist
Tracy Rosenberg, Director, Media Alliance, past Pacifica National Board Treasurer
Valeri Hood, KPFA listener
Vic Sadot, Balladeer and social justice activist
Virginia Browning, Listener activist, Former KPFA LSB and KPFA Election committee member
Mary Ratcliff, Editor of the San Francisco Bay View Newspaper
Willie Phillips, chair of Economic Dev. Committee of Berkeley NAACP, Berkeley Revolving Loan Fund board member, RCD board member
*All organizations in the list of individuals are for identification purposes and should not be presumed to indicate support of the organization.