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Subject: [PDLA] Fwd: KPFK LSB Election
What Is An Emergency? Afghanistan Or Our Children?
Local Station Board Election for KPFK
KPFK is electing 9 members to its 24 seat Local Station Board and YOU can be
one of them.
If you are a subscriber you can run. And if you're not a subscriber you can
become one and then you can run. We need diversified representation on the
last hold out of progressive radio on the West Coast, we need YOU.
The deadline to file is June 30th. That's only 10 days away.
To get started, click on http://pacificaelections2010.org/?page_id=356 :
Listener Forms, down load the forms. Or you can go to www.kpfk.org (on left
side of front page: "Click Here for KPFK LSB Elections)
You'll probably need help getting the required 15 signatures on you petition
and we will help you.
If you need help or have any questions call Ken Aaron at 310 286 1011 or Kim
Kaufman at kim.kaufman@att.net
Linda Sutton
Los Angeles, CA
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or
the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
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REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons
SUNDAY
Quote of the Day
June 13, 2010
'It is well within Mr. Obama's power to keep his
administration and Congressional Democrats focused on
what the economy needs: jobs and stimulus. Voters are
anxious about the deficit. But the president needs to
tell them the truth - that without more spending the
economy could remain weak for a very long time.
'Unless Mr. Obama says it, no other politician will.
Just the other day, the House passed an unemployment
benefits extension from which Democrats, not
Republicans, had stripped vital measures that would
have helped lots of Americans, but did not close a tax
loophole for billionaires.'
Editorial
New York Times
June 13, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/2fbxdcf
Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2e227re
Home to Roost
Jeff Danziger
MONDAY
Quote of the Day
June 14, 2010
'Do Democrats honestly think that nickel-and-diming on
stimulus now will have a substantial impact on the
long-term deficit or be of greater help to them in
November than more robust growth?'
Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
June 14, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/289ufs8
Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2fhoalb
Pernicious
Tom Toles - Washington Post
TUESDAY
Quote of the Day
June 15, 2010
'When you put people out of work, you cripple the
quality of life of their entire families. When you
start dismantling the public schools and driving
teachers from the classrooms, you damage - and in many
instances cripple - the lifetime prospects of untold
numbers of pupils. When you undermine a recovery that
is as fragile as this one, which is as fragile as a
crate of eggs, you undermine the economic health of the
entire nation.
'These are the kinds of disasters that the deficit
hawks, secure in their ideological dream world, are
quite happily prepared to live with.'
Columnist Bob Herbert
New York Times
June 15, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/36su683
Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2a7w9pv
Looking Bad
Joel Pett
WEDNESDAY
Quote of the Day
June 16, 2010
'I'm a fan of Barack Obama. I campaigned for him and I
believe in him. I think he has a first-class
temperament. I have been deeply moved and startled by
his ability to speak about the nation's most
intractable problems. But he failed tonight to rise to
the occasion. Is it because he's not getting good
advice, or because he's psychologically incapable of
expressing the moral outrage the nation feels?
'Or is it something deeper? Whether it's Wall Street or
health insurers or oil companies, we are approaching a
turning point. The top executives of powerful
corporations are pursuing profits in ways that menace
the nation. We have not seen the likes not since the
late nineteenth century when the "robber barons" of
finance, oil, and the giant trusts ran roughshod over
America. Now, as then, they are using their wealth and
influence to buy off legislators and intimidate the
regions that depend on them for jobs. Now, as then,
they are threatening the safety and security of our
people.
'This is not to impugn the integrity of all business
leaders or to suggest that private enterprise is
inherently evil or dangerous. It is merely to state a
fact that more and more Americans are beginning to know
in their bones.'
Economist Robert Reich
blog
June 16, 2010
http://robertreich.org/
Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/23nretz
The Bunny
Bill Day
THURSDAY
Quote of the Day
June 17, 2010
'Father's Day tends to be less a celebration of
fatherhood than a triumph of commercialism. The
National Retail Federation projects that Americans
will spend $9.8 billion on Father's Day this year. To
put that in perspective, that's more than enough to
assure a primary education for every child on the
planet who is not getting one right now.
'In fact, we could send every child to primary school
and have enough left over to get each dad a (cheap)
necktie. And if we skipped store-bought cards (almost
$750 million annually) and offered handmade versions,
the savings alone could make a vast difference to great
programs that help young American men escape poverty.'
Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times
June 17, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/2fm4s76
Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2fck7yr
IHOTFM
Tom Tomorrow - Salon
FRIDAY
Quote of the Day
June 18, 2010
'German deficit hawkery seems more sincere. But it
still has nothing to do with fiscal realism. Instead,
it's about moralizing and posturing. Germans tend to
think of running deficits as being morally wrong, while
balancing budgets is considered virtuous, never mind
the circumstances or economic logic. "The last few
hours were a singular show of strength," declared
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, after a special
cabinet meeting agreed on the austerity plan. And
showing strength - or what is perceived as strength -
is what it's all about.
'There will, of course, be a price for this posturing.
Only part of that price will fall on Germany: German
austerity will worsen the crisis in the euro area,
making it that much harder for Spain and other troubled
economies to recover. Europe's troubles are also
leading to a weak euro, which perversely helps German
manufacturing, but also exports the consequences of
German austerity to the rest of the world, including
the United States.
'But German politicians seem determined to prove their
strength by imposing suffering - and politicians around
the world are following their lead.
'How bad will it be? Will it really be 1937 all over
again? I don't know. What I do know is that economic
policy around the world has taken a major wrong turn,
and that the odds of a prolonged slump are rising by
the day. '
Columnist Paul Krugman
New York Times
June 18, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/25petav
Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2aj5gvy
Time Machine
Tom Toles - Washington Post
SATURDAY
Quote of the Day
June 19, 2010
'If this obstruction continues, unemployed Americans
will see their benefits stop. Teachers and firefighters
will lose their jobs. Families will pay more for their
first home. All we ask for is a simple up or down vote.
That's what the American people deserve.'
President Barack Obama comments
after Democrats could not muster
the 60 Senate votes needed to end
debate on the Administration's
economic proposal.
Associated Press
June 19, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/3yoptnb
Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2cm2bgj
Come on In
Tony Auth- Philadelphia Inquirer
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