Hi! My name is Donna Carter. I am running for the office of PNB secretary. I am running for as part of the Pacifica Democracy Coalition. I am currently serving on the KPFA LSB and the PNB. I also am a member of the Audit Committee.
I have listened to KPFA for many years. It has and continues to be an important source of information source for my social activism.
I marched against the war in Vietnam. I attended San Francisco State in 1968 and joined thousands of students who for open admissions. We won that strike and access for thousands of students to a college education. This win was followed by strikes at many universities where Black and Brown had previously been denied this opportunity.
Later I became a nurse. With a group of nurses at local hospitals we struck for contacts in which we won safe staffing guidelines and improved wages and benefits in the Bay Area. These contracts wins set the stage for unorganized nurses to win union contracts and improved wages and benefits across the country.
Currently, the unique existence of the Pacifica Foundation and its five stations are holding my attention the media is under attack and it’s existence as a unique listener supported and volunteer is so important. I support its democracy diversity free speech and community oriented programming governed by the listeners and programmers.