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Feb 6th 2006 Picket By KPFA UPSO Of CONCERNED LISTENERS BENEFIT FOR HALLINAN MILLIONAIRES
The millionaire Hallinan brothers who are supporting the Concerned Listeners group is having a benefit. The KPFA "Concerned Listeners" group have opposed the recognition of the KPFA Unpaid Staff Organization and also supported the KPFA and Pacifica management in calling the police who beat KPFA programmer Nadra Foster.
*CONCERNED LISTENERS BENEFIT FOR HALLINAN MILLIONAIRES AT LA PENA ON
FEBRUARY 6TH*
*Only 2 weeks after the UPSO-sponsored benefit for Nadra Foster, the
programmer defending herself from the cops KPFA called on her… Concerned
Listeners have the audacity to present a benefit for themselves!
Will the labor luminaries cross an UPSO picket line?
*
Featuring:
1) VUKANI MAWETHU is a nonprofit multiracial choir which sings the freedom
songs of Southern Africa, and also gospel, spirituals, labor and civil
rights songs linking peoples in the U.S., South Africa, and around the
world. Formed in 1986 by the late great James Madhlope Phillips, an ANC
union and cultural organizer, we are united by our strong opposition to
racism and apartheid and by our love of the rhythms and melodies which have
grown out of century-long struggles for freedom. *(510) 444-5009*
2) JON FROMER is an award-winning singer/songwriter whose music is a special
blend of folk, blues and country that has been at the center of movements
for peace and social change in the San Francisco Bay Area for decades. Every
November, Jon helps lead and organize the music for the annual mass
demonstrations of more than 20,000 protesters outside the School of The
Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia. *(415) 383-2593*
3) PAT WYNNE is a performer, music teacher and vocal coach as well as a long
time labor activist and organizer. Pat teaches parttime in Labor Studies
and Music at City College of San Francisco and at Laney College in Oakland
where she conducts the Labor Chorus. *415-648-3457 *
CALL THESE FOLKS NOW!
FEBRUARY 6TH*
*Only 2 weeks after the UPSO-sponsored benefit for Nadra Foster, the
programmer defending herself from the cops KPFA called on her… Concerned
Listeners have the audacity to present a benefit for themselves!
Will the labor luminaries cross an UPSO picket line?
*
Featuring:
1) VUKANI MAWETHU is a nonprofit multiracial choir which sings the freedom
songs of Southern Africa, and also gospel, spirituals, labor and civil
rights songs linking peoples in the U.S., South Africa, and around the
world. Formed in 1986 by the late great James Madhlope Phillips, an ANC
union and cultural organizer, we are united by our strong opposition to
racism and apartheid and by our love of the rhythms and melodies which have
grown out of century-long struggles for freedom. *(510) 444-5009*
2) JON FROMER is an award-winning singer/songwriter whose music is a special
blend of folk, blues and country that has been at the center of movements
for peace and social change in the San Francisco Bay Area for decades. Every
November, Jon helps lead and organize the music for the annual mass
demonstrations of more than 20,000 protesters outside the School of The
Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia. *(415) 383-2593*
3) PAT WYNNE is a performer, music teacher and vocal coach as well as a long
time labor activist and organizer. Pat teaches parttime in Labor Studies
and Music at City College of San Francisco and at Laney College in Oakland
where she conducts the Labor Chorus. *415-648-3457 *
CALL THESE FOLKS NOW!
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Jon was duped
Wed, Jan 7, 2009 11:14AM
Who Was The Benefit For?
Fri, Jan 2, 2009 11:57AM
Jon Fromer Response to attack on Fundraiser
Tue, Dec 30, 2008 2:46PM
Why Are KPFA Local Station Board Members Representing "labor" Supporting Union Busting?
Mon, Dec 15, 2008 11:48AM
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