This is Jack Neff and I am running for the office of Chair of the KPFK Local Station Board. KPFK’s Local Station Board is your protection that KPFK will remain on-air radio with voices of in-depth political speech on the internet for free.
KPFK is educational radio airing voices for peace, justice, liberation, self-inquiry, skepticism and real-time political struggles as they happen on live radio. KPFK is the only reliable radio media outlet giving regular air time to voices from incarcerated communities, the transportation-dependent, disabled, labor, feminists, Native-Americans, alternative cultures and to political progressive. KPFK is also changing the system by broadcasting censored voices in English and Spanish, airing voices of 2026 in Los Angeles. KPFK’s gumbo of programming educates policy wonks, techno geeks, youth from various immigrant backgrounds and has music shows for almost every taste. KPFK’s website archive uploads programming on the internet for 60 days after broadcast, making KPFK unique radio. .
The KPFK Local Station Board (“LSB”) is a democratic committee created under the bylaws of the Pacifica Foundation National Board (“PNB”) so listener-sponsors and KPFK staff can be involved in KPFK decision-making. In Southern California 98% of the commercial radio market is about corporate-controlled for-profit messages. KPFK is the exception to media censorship and KPFK’s LSB should support the PNB mission of a not-for-profit radio station, listener-supported and independent.
Voices against fossil fuels, racism, militarism, and the voice of actions for socialism and the struggle for liberation for targeted, persecuted communities are heard KPFK and nowhere else. KPFK covers Voting Rights, Ecological Justice, La Raza, Black Lives Matter, Global Women’s Strike, American Indians, Peace in the Middle East.
KPFK is where everybody goes to hear voices nobody likes. In the words of George Carlin, whose 7 dirty words routine was aired on KPFK, if you don’t like it, that’s what the knobs on the front of the radio are for.
KPFK must continue with news and programming produced locally, and air controversial radio which welcomes disagreement.
On KPFK we hear journalists and activists who support causes for the climate and environment, people whose stories and statements get chopped up and taken out of context by the far-right hate voices on the internet, and also by the Washington Post, New York Times, Fox News and MSNBC have hours of programming each week on KPFK and nowhere else.