Name:

Robert Payne

Expertise:

Endorsements:

Statement:

I am a single issue candidate: make money for KPFK.

KPFK presents an alternative to the radio / tv / print circus of Southern California. Though I read and hear individual commentators and isolated programs of quality appearing in newspapers and broadcast programs, KPFK offers the single richest source of 24­hour, 7­day­a­week intelligent and challenging voices.

Writers, academics, practitioners, activists, musicians, witnesses, survivors ­­­­ KPFK presents their experience and intelligence to the world via radio and the internet.

And KPFK rejects commercial sponsorship. Corporations? Companies? Institutions? Political candidates? KPFK will not accept their money.

With commercial and political sponsors, come demands. KPFK will not accept those demands. In our region, AM radio stations broadcast offensive anti­fact rants to sell reactionary fantasies ­­­ and the products of the corporate sponsors.

Even the important public affairs FM stations restrict their reportage to what corporations and political forces will accept as fit for public knowledge. And now, with the ongoing demands to cut funding of public radio programming, the same news reporters under threat of unemployment must write saccharine human­interest stories of the billionaire funders of the 527 / 501(c)(4) front groups attacking progressive politicians, rights activists, organizations, writers ­­­ anyone or any organization not conforming to the corporate lock­step of the billionaires. KPFK asks for money only from their listeners. This method of funding is chaotic and crazy­ making. Yet, in this way, progressive movements succeed in presenting issues that would be otherwise lost in the vast urban expanse of Los Angeles.

I write novels.

I work video, audio, international websites, and digital print­on­demand.

I have worked in Central America, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and the many communities in Southern California.

As an artist, I designed, directed the manufacture of products, then advertised and sold those products.

As an academic, I worked as a professor of writing and literature ­­ I lost that position when I spoke against the Iraq invasion. Later, I worked as a media specialist to gain students for foreign universities. I have worked news / internet / street media for community elections. Now I work international video documentaries.

All these projects exploited whatever inadequate resources the low­budget projects offered to produce the maximum effect and/or profit.

I know the techniques of improvised, low­cost media. I have done so much with so little, sometimes I believe I can do anything with nothing.

I want to work for KPFK.

As a media worker, I see KPFK as a channel of information presenting many opportunities.

Opportunities to generate income. I can initiate projects and train others to make money for KPFK. My one issue: make money for KPFK.

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