There are very few media outlets that seriously cover the Israel/Palestine issue with reporters on the ground and uncensored discussion. One of the best sources is the program Flashpoints that is presented daily in the evening drive time by a KPFA. that award-winning program is now under threat.
Dennis Bernstein and Nora Barrows-Friedman our excellent reporters with a worldwide team that presents issues using local reporters and eyewitnesses. It is likely that KPFA management is being pressured by AIPAC and others to cut off the factual reports of atrocities taking place in Palestine.
Please do what you can to help. Members should make it clear that donations will not be forthcoming if anything happens to this beloved program. I have already withheld funds this year on different grounds, namely their promotion of the pseudoscience that does such great harm to our community.
The station runs several programs that have informative information about health topics but the homeopathy fraud is promoted as well as many other substances and treatments that have been scientifically disproven. While the overall value of the station has encouraged me to contribute in many years, this year I decided enough was enough.
If Flashpoints suffers further cutbacks I will never donate again and I have made that clear to the station.
The consolidated corporate media continues to ignore stories that might offend their corporate masters. We need to preserve independent radio, but we must preserve it as an uncensored forum. If KPFA refuses to air accurate reporting from Palestine we are better off without the entire station.
Please visit their website www.KPFA.org, whether you are a member or not, and make clear your outrage over this censorship. The station has been going downhill for some time, even arresting its own employees, but until now had left their best program alone. radio is still a useful medium, at least when you're in the car, and though it is slowly being replaced by entertainment systems and Internet access, we should not let one of the few progressive voices in the country disappear.
Thanks for reading. No poll or silliness today, this is an action diary.