Bernie Rauch - KPFA Censors Guns & Butter Show - NoLiesRadio Report 3/5
Channel: TruthTroubadour
Date: 2018-08-19

This is video clip 3 of 5 from the Aug 18, 2018 public meeting of the KPFA Local Station Board "Public Comments" session in Berkeley, CA. Bernie Rauch is speaking against the censorship of the Guns & Butter Radio show hosted by Bonnie Faulkner for about 17 years. 

NoLiesRadio.Org is a Pacifica Affiliate, which entitles it to broadcast on the internet many of the same shows that are produced at KPFA and other network stations. Guns and Butter has been a popular program on KPFA for about 17 years. It has reached a new and wider international audience on internet radio via NoLiesRadio. Therefore, concern is widespread about the “deep politics” show being censored in the midst of a wave of censorship and loss of civility in these post 9/11 crime times. 

Allan Rees of No Lies Radio requested a video report on the Aug 18, 2018 regular public meeting of the KPFA Local Station Board similar to recent reports filed by Vic Sadot from the Free Julian Assange actions at the SF consulates of Ecuador and the UK. Assignment accepted! To report on the Public Comments Session being offered by the Local Station Board. 

To understand the current context of the censorship of Guns & Butter Radio, check out the blog linked below. An except is provided here. Start here to get the background to these No Lies Radio reports: 

“Guns and Butter Banned and Removed from KPFA Radio” - Posted on August 16, 2018 at the Guns and Butter Blog.  http://www.gunsandbutter.org/blog/2018/08/16/guns-and-butter-banned-and-removed-from-kpfa-radio

Excerpt: I received on Wednesday, August 8th, before Guns and Butter would have aired on KPFA, the following email from the General Manager”: 

Bonnie, KPFA will cease broadcasting “Guns and Butter” effective immediately. We’ve received an avalanche of negative calls and emails from listeners about your uncritically airing of views by a holocaust denier, climate denial and casting the Parkland mass shooting survivors as crisis actors. As steward of our airways, we can’t defend this content to our listeners. Sincerely, Quincy McCoy, General Manager KPFA; Kevin Cartwright, Program Director KPFA

This was followed by the removal of the entire KPFA broadcast archives of Guns and Butter, down the memory hole. KPFA defines itself as "Free Speech Radio" and this reaction is a form of censorship. There was no discussion of these claims, nor any provision for due process or community involvement before these actions were taken. If you are as taken aback as we are, as many of our listeners have already expressed to us by email, you can have your voice heard in this matter. You can make in-person comments at the next KPFA Local Station Board Meeting this Saturday, Aug 18 at 1 pm. Bonnie Faulkner

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