Since the inception of BART, this transportation system has excluded Black contractors, Black construction workers and Black riders. Charlie Walker drove a truck into a San Francisco BART excavation site before we could get contracts.
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Bay Area Black Builders,
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART),
bid bond requirements,
Black construction workers,
Black contractor,
Black contractors,
Black riders,
Blacks in construction,
Block Report Radio,
Charlie Walker,
craft unions,
debentures,
Flashpoints,
Joseph Debro,
KPFA,
KPFA General Manager Lemlem Rijio,
KPFA management,
Minister of Information JR,
National Association of Minority Contractors,
Nedir Bey,
non-admitted sureties,
on-the-job training,
Oscar Grant,
project labor agreement,
solar project,
underutilized disadvantaged contractors
Is the Black community supposed to be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of KPFA when our community is not deemed important enough to be given a public affairs show? “Shut up and keep dancing” is what KPFA’s management team is telling the Black community.
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Apartheid Radio,
Black Panther Party,
Black public affairs show,
Block Report,
East Bay Express,
KPFA,
KPFA management,
Lovelle Mixon,
Minister of Information JR,
Nadra Foster,
Pacifica mission of racial understanding,
police beating,
police terrorism,
police war on Black people,
racial conflict,
radical radio,
San Francisco Chronicle
Recently KPFA has been making headlines for a number of reasons, most notably the Aug. 20 police beat down of Black programmer of 12 years Nadra Foster after a member of the KPFA management team called the police on her with approval from Pacifica management after Foster was accused of using a KPFA telephone for a personal call. So whose job is it to report on issues such as these in the Black community in and around KPFA or nationally? A daily or weekly Black public affairs show.
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Apollonia Jordan,
August "Fef Nitti" McCoy,
Berkeley California,
Berkeley Daily Planet,
Black public affairs show,
Block Report Radio,
Cecil Brown,
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
Democracy Now,
Gabrielle Wilson,
KPFA,
KPFA "apartheid radio",
KPFA management,
Martina Davis,
Mos Def,
Mumia Abu Jamal's daughter Goldii,
Nadra Foster,
Paul Mooney,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
Welfare Poets
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