Greetings Economists,
Many Pen-L's have been on Pacifica stations. The Berkeley station,
KPFA, called the police on a pregnant African American programmer,
Nadra Foster, for using the telephones and copier machine for personal
copying for which she was banned from the station by Lois Withers
(white business manager), but a failure to communicate to other
managers resulted in a manager letting Nadra in to work on her current
show commitments to which Nadra felt there this indicated the ban was
not in effect. The police arrested her and used 9 officers to subdue
her, including breaking her arm. During this struggle which sub
manager Sasha Lilley witnessed the police brutality (therefore knows
exactly what it means to call the police to the station), the police
claimed Nadra bit an officer in the struggle and she was originally
charged with a felony assault on a police officer.
As a result of this incident LemLem Rijo (acting station manager) has
instituted an order to all KPFA employees to sign a statement they
will call the police on other employees when management is not
present, and failure to sign this statement effects a ban of that
person from the station.
A majority of staff is mobilizing to fight these police state tactics.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
For local newspaper account of this mess see here -
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-09-04/article/31010?headlin
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