Saying NO To Power     Letter Of Request To KPFA, 94.1, Berkeley, CA, To Restore Bill Mandel To The Air     Now More Than Ever...

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Here is the growing list of supporters to reinstate Bill Mandel to the precious airwaves at KPFA.

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We want Bill !!!
As a "wise elder" myself, and one who works with young people, I believe it is vital for those with less life experience to receive with grace the wisdom of those with more. You don't have to agree with your elders, but you do owe them the courtesy of listening. This gives birth to healing dialogue and well-considered action.

It is something I was taught by my own elders, and it has never failed to serve me well.

Bill Mandel is a wise and clear-speaking representative for all that is best in troubled times like these.

We want him back!
Valentine McKay-Riddell
Berkeley, California, USA

Bill Mandel
We used to listen to Bill back in 1960, when we lived in Berkeley. His analysis was vital in helping us, as then young folks, develop a philosophy that would be complex and dynamic enough to prepare us for the many social struggles that have occurred since that time. Having been out of California for many years, we did not realize that Bill was not reinstated when KPFA was "liberated" from corporate control. This information came as a shock. We join others in asking for his reinstatement, so that young people there can have the same great opportunity we had.
Alice and Richard Leuchtag
Bandera, TX, USA

Bring Bill back
Years ago Bill and I served on the editorial board of the Movement newspaper. We often disagreed, and I can think of few disagreements more fruitful, because to confront Bill's point of view you had to think and re-think. Isn't that the point of the sort of commentary KPFA should stand for?
Bernard L. Stein
Bronx, NY, USA

Return Bill Mandel to KPFA
Bill Mandel's analysis is unique and relevant; an elder statesman's perspective re- energizes seniors and bridges to the youth; it will take all generations to win any victories.
Jim Dorenkott
San Francisco, CA, USA

Bill Mandel
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Erica Etelson
Berkeley, CA, USA

bring back Bill
Bill Mandel represents a level of depth, knowledge and sophistication in political analysis all too lacking on KPFA's programming.We need him, and we need more discussion of today's world in terms of ideas, understandings, and strategies for change.
Carl Shames
Berkeley, CA, USA

Return Bill Mandel to KPFA Airwaves - NOW!
Ann Tompkins
Santa Rosa, CA, USA

mandel on kpfa:Yes
For me and my pals at Sac State in the sixties the voice of Mandel provided an arsenal of information and attitude. We brought him to town and his speech rattled the capitol and, lo, it was fun. Let's share him again with everyone. Return that learned and urgent voice to KPFA
phil taylor/the taylor report, ciut.fm 89.5/toronto
phil taylor
toronto, ontario, Canada

Supporting Bill Mandel's return
I support Bill Mandel's reinstatement to KPFA- He has important perspectives to bring to the table that benefit the listening community.
Aisha Mohammed
Chandler, AZ, USA

if i signed before, i'm signing again...
bill mandel should be back where he belongs and where he's needed..on the air at kpfa...his informed opinions were educational and refreshing to me, until i got so smart i could actually disagree with him, and i got so smart at least partly because I LISTENED TO HIM!

a new generation needs him, and an older one misses him...bring him back!
frank scott
san rafael, ca, USA

reinstate bill mandel!
reinstate bill mandel now! 10 years is a travesty!
gina and john
gina mello and john bowen
pacifica, ca, USA

Bill Mandel
Very sorry I cannot join with you in the Mandel rally... Justice will prevail...it is just slow sometimes!
Sister Bernie Galvin, cdp


Bill Mandel
Hank Levin
San Rafael, CA, USA

You are Needed, Bill
Hi Bill, Your voice is needed now more than ever! I hope that KPFA agrees to have your program back on the air now after 10 years. You are missed.
Susan Shalit
San Francisco, CA, USA

Put Bill back on KPFA
Assets are something every successful businesses value. You should realize that Bill Mandel is definately an asset. Restor his voice to KPFA.
Andy Sekara
San Francisco, California, USA

Bill Mandel should be broadcast
As a former Station Manager at KBOO I value Bill Mandel's comments. Please return him to the airwaves.
Roger Ferguson
PORTLAND, Oregon, United States

Bill Mandel
Even though I do not live in the San Francisco area, and am not familiar with his broadcasts, I believe that we all need to do what we can to shore up the fragile boundaries of free speech in this country. You don't get to be 87 years old without learning a little something about honesty. And besides, if Pete Seeger signed this, it has got to be right!
Nancy Viens
Denton, Texas, USA

Bill Mandel
Return Bill Mandel to KPFA. His voice deserves to be heard.

Thank you.
Steven Alan Dickerson
Tijuana, BC, Mexico

Bill Mandel
I think Bill Mandel should be back on our airvaves!
Larry Buchalter
Berkeley, California, USA

Great to have Bill back on KPFA!!!
Looking foreward to hearing Bill this coming saterday at 9:00am on the Kris Welsh show "The talkies" w/o Kris. Sound perfect to me. Miss so much Bill's show on the former Soviet Union on monday night.Great to have Bill back!!!!
apullman
berkeley, ca, USA

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we love you bill mandel!
bibi lapuree
oakland, ca, USA

We Miss Mandel
What it seems has suffered the most at KPFA in the last few years is the level of intelligence and knowledge on the part of those who are on the air. Lots of emotive stuff, few informed and articulate guests, more off-the-AP-wire news reading, less sheer radio talent and challenging content. One of the things KPFA lost when it lost Mama O'Shea and Bill Mandel was on-air personality combined with a rare and impressive ability to deal with oppositional or critical callers without either temper (try Bensky), inabilty to answer arguments (try Kris Welch), and/or a great deal of defensiveness (try almost anyone who bothers to take calls on KPFA). To hear Mr.Mandell talk with a passionate anti-Communist, or Mama deal with criticism of her behavior was to experience the pleasure of human conversation between disputants who still respect each other. Bring Bill back if just to elevate the level of talk on your station.
Richard Pfeffer
Bolinas, CA, USA

Put Bill back on KPFA
Now, more than ever before, Get Bill back on KPFA
Joseph W. Grant
Tempe, AZ & Madison, WI, USA

Bill Mandel's return to KPFA
Two longtime former residents of Berkeley, longtime and continuing listeners of KPFA, and longtime admirers of Bill Mandel.
Richard Sullivan & Julie Lamont
Chicago, IL, USA

Bring Bill back now!
Shame, shame, shame. That is the word that fills this petition. It is an insult that a station which claims to uphold free speech should still be shunning one of its greatest voices of all times for violating a gag order - a siren to alarm us of Pacifica's peril. Apprarently, we're still in peril, during times never more dangerous.
Riva Enteen
San Francisco, CA, USA

The quelling of dissent is a blight on our republic. This injustice must be overturned.
Silver Knight
Portland, OR, USA

Best Wishs Bill
Fred Blair
Los Angeles, CA, USA

The "all about what's mine" cabal running KPFA is a shameful disgrace - and the reason i no longer give financial support to this phony rip and read disinformation or censored news disservice provider, and their shallow, know nothing programming ideas with their "do nothing" programming making decisions. Bill Mandel should have been returned to the air the day after the station went back on the air in 1999. Shame on you Bensky and the rest of you phony no nothings.
Heidi Chesney
Cotati, California, USA

Not since the McCarthy era has the media been so much the tool of the right wing... Mandel offers a balancing voice, at the very least, and his place is on KPFA! I listen driving through the Bay Area on a monthly basis, contribute financially even though I live in Butte County, and support our local independent community station. As a vested listener, I demand his reinstatement!
Celeste Worden
USA

Why?
jccol
Pasadena, Calif, USA

I don't agree with everything Bill has to say but I support his returning to KPFA as a regular public affairs programmer. Its way overdue!
Shiu M. Hung
Menlo Park, CA, USA

Mr. Mandel's brilliant legacy should not be brushed away, nor should he retire under a cloud. He must be reinstated. Many say it is time for younger voices to be heard-- well and good: they forget however that nature should give them that chance by default. To bolster an injustice today is to insure future injustice which harms us all. For the sake of respect, continuity, and the youth: Reinstate Mr. Mandel at KPFA and keep Free Speech Radio alive!
Robert B. Livingston
San Francisco, California, USA

I miss Bill's precise and informative commentaries
Dale Nesbitt
Berkeley, USA

As Condoleesa Rice brings back more and more of the Cold War rhetoric, it is more and more necessary for us to hear and learn from voices like Bill Mandel's. It is now more important than ever that he pass on his wisdom.
Joyce Umamoto
San Francisco, CA, USA

Bill Mandel's return to his popular place on the air would show that KPFA's management recognizes its error in summarily dismissing him. It would help to energize the station's staff and its subscribers by beginning to restore the conviction that KPFA's dedication to justice is more than empty advertising. Bill has spent his life expressing that dedication and deserves nothing less than the apology which reinstatement will convey.
Jacques Levy
Occidental, CA, USA

Good luck.
Jack Gerson
Oakland, CA, USA

Reinstate Bill Mandel.Stop the hypocrisy and McCarthyism VENCEREMOS
Dr. John Langrod
New York, NY, USA

More than even there is a need for independent left journalism. Bring back Bill.
Jeffrey Segal
Louisville, Kentucky, USA

We really need people like Bill Mandel at Pacifica. Even though, I would not be able to listen to his show on the air, I can listen on the internet. He is a valuable asset & we should be eager to take advantage of his knowledge.
Harriet Castronovo
Brooklyn, New York, USA

I never heard Bill Mandel, but recall Madalyn O'Hair's problems with the station. Seeing the response to recalling Mandel is great, but I add my voice without hope for righting this wrong, or for slowing this country's headlongcalling Mandel is great, but I add my voice without hope for righting this wrong, or for slowing this country's headlong pitch into the hell-pit that is at some point always the reward for the mad persuit of total power, rank greed, and hypocrisy - which is the insane mantra of our country's present administration, and too many of its citizens.
M. Neven Du Mont
Pleasanton, Texas, USA

As an occasional correspondent, I can attest to Bill's continuing ability to stay on top of the issues. His wisdom and commitment are needed now more than ever.
Carol B. Vesecky
Palo Alto, USA

An injury to one is an injury to all. Do the right thing and bring back Bill Mandel to the KPFA airwaves.
Tony Roehrig
SLC, Utah, USA

It is absurd to think that Bill has had to wait so long for this!
Fred Mindlin
Watsonville, CA, USA

Stew Albert
USA

Bill's commentaries and analysis are above all else very historically based. Whether or not we agree with everything he says, we should all agree that his voice is an important one. Very few of his generation are still with us to share what they lived through and learned. We need to hear his voice, commenting on the past ... and the present.
Steve Bingham
San Rafael, CA, USA

I mostly listened to Bill Mandel's Russian news spot in the Morning Show, and it was always riveting. I was fascinated by his commentaries and impressed with his incredible knowledge and eloquence. But he's been away so long now, that those of us who admit to remembering his broadcasts are dating ourselves! It's way past time to bring him back, and when you do bring him back, broadcast him nationally, not just locally. He's a Pacifica treasure!
Margo Shafer
Berkeley, CA, USA

Bill Mandel has been a voice of light, peace, & clarity, blessing our world and our community in countless ways. I am honored to urge his KPFA restoration.
Will Tuttle, Ph.D.
Healdsburg, CA, USA

BILL MANDEL HAS CONTRIBUTED MORE TO THIS STATION OVER THE YEARS THAN MOST FORMER AND ALL PRESENT kpfa stafferscombined. Restore him to the air waves at once.
Jack Ford
Pacifica, ca., USA

Bill deservese to be heard on KPFA. We deserve to hear him. Thanks, Jan Tiura (listener and supporter for 35+ years)
Jan Tiura
USA

There has never been a more important time in our history to hear all sides, to hear minority voices which speak the truth.
Betsy Kerr
Placerville, CA, USA

For Mr. Mandel to be denied his just due would be a travesty to all of us.
DanaRhea Elliott
Houston, TX, USA

These symbolic gestures mean more than ever in these perilous days. But also does the very real necessity to learn from those wise ones who lived the previous decades' worth of experiemce: from them we have the chance to cop a perspective with which to understnad these times. We have never needed our elders more.
Jessica Murray
San Francisco, CA, USA

I often disagreed with Mr. Mandel, but I always found his shows thoughtful and enlightening. It would be nice to have more programming by figures who predate the baby boom.
Eric V. Kirk
Redway, California, USA

Definitely Bill Mandel should be reinstated on kpfa for all the reasons others have written before me-- his critical thinking, willingness to speak up to authority, commitment, information, etc., etc., etc..
Sue Supriano
Berkeley, CA, USA

One of the current mysteries about KPFA- why has Mandel not been returned to air?
Jim Syfers
Sonoma, CA, USA

Bring Back Bill! We need radical (meaning root cause) analysis more than ever.
Larry Romsted
Highland Park, New Jersey, USA

What kind of movement is it that fights to empower listeners and staff over corporatizers and gag rules, returns the Pacifica Foundation to Berkeley, but "forgets" to return Bill Mandel to the airwaves? Shame! Bill should be on the air NOW (and then we can argue with him there)!
Mitchel Cohen / Brooklyn Greens
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Go, Mandel!
Sam Herndon
Houston, Texas, USA

Love him or hate him, he has so much to give us. Compared to so much on the radio, Bill Mandel is miles ahead.
Steven Gotzler
Jersey City, NJ, USA

As a former President of Pacifica I strongly endorse the return of Bill Mandel to the air: There are three good reasons: 1) what he knows and has to say; 2) as a symbol of the end of the 'bad old days' of pacifica; and 3) As an acknowldgement that our elders have a lot to contribute. Thanks.
Peter Franck
san rafael, ca, USA


john gourley
san jose, ca, USA

Bill was at the heart and soul of KPFA; functioning not only as a conscious human being but as a human being with a conscience. That's why he was targeted, and that's why he must be returned to the air.
Jeff Blankfort
Ukiah, CA, USA

Although I, at times, see things in a different way from Bill, I respect him as a verbal and energetic catalyst for thought and exploration of the possibilities of the democratic process. For one who has so dedicated himself to be a watchdog for open dialogue about the human conditions to be muzzled by "free speech radio" is a cruel irony. He is one of the reasons that free speech radio became a living idea. He needs an call-in open show where his commentary can address any concern he may have
nancy delaney
berkeley, california, USA

Why hasn't this been done YEARS AGO?
john vance and miriam ruvinskis
san marcos, ca, USA

Bill is historical and deserves to be on the air at KPFA for historical insight. We cannot pass this opp
Palo Alto, CA, USA

I miss his voice. Bringing Mandel back to KPFA would help absolve the programming problems and my concerns about staff control in face of public wishes.
Warren M. Gold, M.D.
Mill Valley, CA, USA

Bill's commanding grasp of world history and events and his clear power of objective fact-based analysis is an unmatchable talent that is missing from all of radio. Bill is greatly missed; Bring Bill Back !!
James E Vann
Oakland, California, USA

Please reinstate Bill Mandel both as a matter of simple justice and his knowledge of and friends in Russia.
Lloyd Dennis
Lodi, CA, USA

Please bring Bill back on the air as his is an important voice for truth on radio
Marcus Perry
san francisco, California, USA

Talk about the first being the last! Bill's firing in Spring 95 worked as a sort of trial run, to see if those who pulled off the coup that culminated in the summer of '95 could get away with it.

They did. The rest we know. Upwards of a hundred programmers were purged that August. The voices of whole peoples were stilled, the advances in representation gained in hard struggle and staff strikes reversed. Look at old program guides to see how rich the evening fare used to be, the offerings in areas of labor, feminism, literature. Remember "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle"? "Living on Indian Time"? The Pacific Islander show? Old Mexican, Cuban, doowop music by worldclass musicologists? Staff members spoke out--and were fired. Now issues of democracy at Pacifica have been addressed (and freedom is, indeed, a constant struggle!), the other egregious cases of outright firing (except for Mariah, let us not forget!) have been resolved. It's Bill's turn.

In case you think Bill has nothing to say--read his autobiography! He was involved in every good cause that came down the pike for most of the last century. He has things to say, and he wrote the book on how to do it. He does not buckle under, as members of more than one Congressional committee learned.

There are those who typecast him as, of all things, a one-issue person, an expert on a country that no longer exists. Yet he was fired precisely for on-air comments on another subject (racism) and for violating the gag rule, that is, for leaving his bailiwick. I defy you to find an important issue in which Bill is not interested, and current.

He's "old"? Is that his crime? That he has been around "too long"? A rather indefensible position, wouldn't you say? Contempt for those who have been around the longest and have the most experience is an attitude not worthy of a station that has stood for airing unpopular causes, has supported the oppressed across the board and championed equality for all. Yes, we need youth and new faces. We have some, and more will come. It also behooves us to learn from our elders. Bill is a leftist griot. He has earned
Joe Bryak
San Pablo, CA, USA

One of the best ever on kpfa!!!
arthurpullman
berkeley, ca, USA

Please reinstate Bill Mandel immediately or loose my support for KPFA.
Carla Cecchetto
Redwood City, CA, USA

I remember Bill's broadcasts. He is an articulate speaker with a great voice and unparalleled experience. KPFA should jump at the chance to have him back on the air.
Dave Lebowitz
San Leandro, CA, USA

KPFA management, correct this injustice immediately. A KPFA faithful, Jeff Burnham
Jeff Burnham
Vallejo, CA, USA

My father was director of KPFA in Los Angeles in the 70's and he introduce me to Free Speech Pacificist Radio back then too. Bring Back our own "Living Legend" to hear and share Bill Mandel's great wisdom from years of activism. We need to have elders on Free speech radio too. Bring back Bill Mandel Yes, I woul dlove to hear his commentaries weekly again. Respect and Learn from our Elders too.!!
Kathleen and Gerald Hallinan
San Francisco, CA, USA

MAKE A WRONGED, RIGHT.
CATHERINE ONLY
SAN JOSE, CA, USA

I don't understand why Mr. Mandel has not been returned to the air on KPFA, where he made a significant contribution over the years. Other people, such as Larry Bensky, have been allowed to broadcast again after being removed. Why not Bill Mandel? Please get him back on the air!
Robert Bruce Bennett
SaUSAlito, CA, USA

give me a "B" give mr a "i" give me a "l" give me a "l" What does that spell "BILL". Bill Mandell, bring him bact to KPFA. Help the station reach more of its potential.
Ivan Olsen
Mountain View, CA, USA

rESTORE HIM
ALAN LEON
OAKLAND, CA, USA

There is a growing movement of discontent among the populous with the quality and integrity of American media content, in particular the gentrification and "dumbing down" of public radio. I would like to see KPFA as a station committed to its listenership and the proliferation of independent thought and debate not the promotion of it or its executives personal or political views. Please return Bill Mandel to the air.
Rachel Hart
Cambridge, MA, USA

reinstate this man
Scott C. Schnepf
deer park, illinois, USA

What on earth has been KPFA's problem for all this time? The very existence of this campaign to get Mandel back on the air speaks volumes as to the station management's disrespect for one of the great political figures of our time. Get him back on YESTERDAY already!
Patrick Fahey
Pacifica, CA, USA

Whistleblowers and reporters of integrity are few and far between. They are to be applauded, not censured or fired.
Judy Schriebman
San Rafael, CA, USA

Bill provides a unique perspective that should be returned to KPFA immediately!
Steve Ongerth
San Francisco, CA, USA

I would like to hear Bill Mandell on KPFA again.
Carolyn Scarr
Berkeley, CA, USA

It is shameful that Bill has not been returned to the air. The time is long past for KPFA and Pacifica to right this wrong.
Bernie Eisenberg
SANTA MONICA, CA, USA

Mandel must be returned to his rightful place at KPFA.
Tom Schreiner
Santa Cruz, CA, USA

It would be wonderful to hear Bill's wisdom on KPFA once again. It is indeed a shame that Mama O'Shea can't be reinstated as well.
Michael Costello
Bodega, California, USA

Most informative of all on the Soviet Union.Listen to the monday nite program from the beginning --- read many of his books :"Soviet Women" etc.ect. admire his fire/ brimstone style and endless energy. Bring him back so i can donate again to KPFA! Still on strike for his firing----
arthurpullman
berkeley, ca, USA

Bill is an unique and powerful individual, whose voice MUST BE HEARD!
Jeanmarie Simpson
Reno, NV, USA

Bill Mandel's perspective is inspiringly provacative and much needed on the air in these perilous times. Please get him back on KPFA ASAP.
Conrad OHO
Fairfax, CA 94930, USA

Bill Mandel would make a great addition to the variety of program views at KPFA. Please rehire hime now.
Joseph Liesner
oakland, ca., USA

I urge the valiant Mr. Mandel's immediate reinstatement to this Pacifica affiliate. Not to do so is sustaining an abomination and caricature of your professed commitment to free expression in the face of an encroaching purge of non-commercial thought.
Dr. Eric MacPherson
Allentown, PA, USA

After having listened to KPFA since 1965, I can say, unequivocally that the current fear and confusion behind many recent decisions at KPFA reflects the reasons why Americans do not respect liberals, generally. If you're going to go down, don't turn yourself into a weak and pale reflection of who and what you are. Keep the Golden Voice and inciteful commentary of Bill Mandel at KPFA right where it is.

You all need to get a grip on something more inspiring than your reactionary fears.
Prof. Joel D. Eis MFA
Durango, Colorado, USA

Mr. Mandel's voice has been a much cherished part of my life, most of my life. KPFA should heed their loyal listeners and return Bill to the air waves.
Toni Eis
Durango, CO, USA

It's about time!
Marc Norton
San Francisco, California, USA

Put Bill Mandel back where he and all of us belong. KPFA
jim brightwolf
sf, ca, USA

Please reinstate Bill Mandel immediately or loose my support for KPFA.
David Moore
Larkspur, CA, USA

Bill Carpenter
San Francisco, CA, USA

After an interlude of thirty years living in Canada I recently became able to listen to KPFA again via the Internet. What a Joy to listen to KPFA's Flashpoints and the Evening News. KPFA is a unique voice for truth and reason, that even the well-loved and tolerant CBC can't match. The only thing I noticed missing, was the implacable voice of William Mandel. Surely KPFA can't shun the man whose whole life has been a struggle for Free Speech.
Michael Shaffer
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, USA

Bernie Hovden
Sebastopol, Ca., USA

one of the best ever on KPFA......
pullmanjr
berkeley, ca, USA

a true hero of the people
Jrichter
Honolulu, HI, USA

It's so very crucial to bring Bill Mandel back to KPFA NOW! With terrorism happening every day in the former Soviet Union and it's Republics and the call for Putin to retaliate swiftly and harshly that could result in mass slaughter everywhere and many more innocently killed. That the, USA's military industrial complex may use to sell more weapons and arms. Let the Russian people killed each other so the US government can go in and loot their resources too as they are doing now in Iraq to get the oil that is left in this world of peak oil.
Robert Maldonado
South San Francisco, California, USA

Is this controversy STILL going on back there? I can't believe that Mr. Mandel hasn't been reinstated as of this writing. My friends and I here in Central Florida certainly would take great pride in knowing that earnest appeals from our proto-fascist Republican/corporate theme park playground backwater town came to fruition with this fellow's return to Pacifica. Howard Stern is all we get in Orlando's radio market...I'd rather like to tune into WMNF Tampa (85 miles away) and hear Mr. Mandel's commentary. An innoclulation of truth to counter the blather I get from the county sheriff's spookesperson and (gag!) Congressman Rick Keller!
Harry Scott Boggs
Orlando, Florida, USA

Lee Edgar Tyler
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Dear Sirs: Please do reinstate Bill Mandel to KPFA. He is a man of principal and great experience. One could easily call him an historical figure. Much of his life was spent at the very vortex of America's revolutionary experiences of the 20th Century. To not reinstate him is not only your loss... it is all of our's loss! Thank you.
Timothy Popikov-Connelly
Binghamton, New York, USA

bill mandel's show was often the focus of my planning to the extent that i would plan my evening around KPFA's schedule. i had a weekly date with bill. it was like a class that i loved attending. i miss his voice and would DEEPLY support his return.
miko sloper
berkeley, USA

Years of unforgetable brillance,Bill Mandel. We want him back on KPFA.
vizualbliss
Big Sur, CA, USA

Was it his abrasive personality? Certainly it is not a question of censorship. I trust KPFA to adhere to the AA principal of "principles not personalities." Bill's perspective is a valuable one and the left suffers for not allowing him back to KPFA.
Hank Berman, MFT
San Francisco, California, USA

Put Bill back on the air. Let him share his wisdom and knowledge.
Rev. Marguerite D. Lovett
USA

bill mandels voice is needed immediately to express dissent!
derrick hall
east los angeles, california, USA

Carolyn Birden
New York, NY, USA

Jesse Wozniak
Cedar Falls, IA, USA

I clearly remember hearing Wm. Mandell's commentary on KPFK and would be delighted to hear him again.
Rta Sokolow
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Good Luck!
James Partsch-Galván
Houston/Galveston, TEXAS, USA

Evan Blake Keogh
USA

Return Mr. Mandel to the KPFA airwaves, if he's alive and well.
John Coggins
Stanford, CA, USA

John Martinez
Detroit, Mi
USA

Yes reinstate him please, I met Bill on the International Peace Walk in 1990 to Kazakhstan. I would not see him silenced for any reason. Thank You
Mary Tsolak
Hillsboro, Oregon, USA

We need our elders now more than ever.
Marc Norton
San Francisco, California, USA

Stephanie Donald
Port St. Lucie, FL, USA

Jan Marie
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Kevin Sullivan
Sonoma, CA, USA

We need Bill's voice on the air again! Please!
Jane Welford
Berkeley, CA, USA

Bring Back Bill!
jesse leamon
Greenwood, IN, USA

I 've been a member of KPFA's off and on for many years and have a problem getting the station in Boulder Creek; and I have listened to Bill Mandel many times over the years starting back in the 60's. Bill is an asset to the station and what it origionally had as it's purpose and motivation. It would definately be a ralley point for the diversity, for which the station once put forth; and peeked my enthusiasm as a teenager growing up on the Peninsula. I'd love to here what he is saying now about the illegal and unconstitutional actions of our government!
John E. Cosgrave
Boulder Creek, CA, USA

excellent.on.the.Soviet.Union.for.years.then.silence.since.he.left
arhturpullan
berkeley, USA

This man's knowledge and perspective is nothing less than a great, extraordinary resource for the community; Berkeley and all places to which the KPFA signal extends are so very fortunate that William Mandel is available and willing to share that knowledge. To anyone who values the educational power of history informed by a noble and honest mind, KPFA programming decision makers would be regarded as blind and foolish to miss the opportunity to make space for such a man, and ought to be if they do.
Gail Melville
USA

Democracy is at risk with the current people in power. You are one of our last resources to keep real democracy in place. My concern is way beyond the United states border lines. I am a Colombian and need support against this Uribe Powertrip which seems to be an extension of bush's power trip
Gonzalon Acevedo
La Habra, California, USA

Arden Parsons
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Pat Sligh
USA

I just heard Mr. Mandel speak on KPCC and he is magnificent! We need more intelligent and eloquent voices such as his.
SUSAn Estrella
Vista, California, USA

I have always enjoyed your work, and your fighting spirit.
Louis D. Armmand
Riverside, CA, USA

Pacifica/KPFA isn't Pacifica/KPFA without Bill Mandel
Rosalie Acinapura
NY, NY, USA

After an interlude of thirty years living in Canada I recently became able to listen to KPFA again via the Internet. What a Joy to listen to KPFA's Flashpoints and the Evening News. KPFA is a unique voice for truth and reason, that even the well-loved and tolerant CBC can't match. The only thing I noticed missing, was the implacable voice of William Mandel. Surely KPFA can't shun the man whose whole life has been a struggle for Free Speech.
Michael Shaffer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada -

Diana Barahona
Long Beach, CA, USA

It's so very crucial to bring Bill Mandel back to KPFA NOW! With terrorism happening every day in the former Soviet Union and it's Republics and the call for Putin to retaliate swiftly and harshly that could result in mass slaughter everywhere and many more innocently killed. That the, USA's military industrial complex may use to sell more weapons and arms. Let the Russian people killed each other so the US government can go in and loot their resources too as they are doing now in Iraq to get the oil that is left in this world of peak oil.
Robert Maldonado
South San Francisco, California, USA

Is this controversy STILL going on back there? I can't believe that Mr. Mandel hasn't been reinstated as of this writing. My friends and I here in Central Florida certainly would take great pride in knowing that earnest appeals from our proto-fascist Republican/corporate theme park playground backwater town came to fruition with this fellow's return to Pacifica. Howard Stern is all we get in Orlando's radio market...I'd rather like to tune into WMNF Tampa (85 miles away) and hear Mr. Mandel's commentary. An innoclulation of truth to counter the blather I get from the county sheriff's spookesperson and (gag!) Congressman Rick Keller!
Harry Scott Boggs
Orlando, Florida, USA

James Craven (Blackfoot: Omahkohkiaayo i' poyi)
Vancouver, WA., USA

Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
San Francisco, CA, USA

Bob English
San Francisco, CA., USA

Chuck Hammerslag
Farmingville, NY, USA

Kevin Glick
New York, New York, USA

John Dahl
New York, NY, USA

Constance L. Marsh
Mountain View, CA, USA

We need his perspective on the Russian Federation and related subjects right now and on at least a weekly basis.
Nathan Privitt
Mill Valley, CA 94941, USA

Judd Ottney
Petaluma, CA, USA

Dumping Bill Mandel was like chopping down an old-growth redwood tree.For KPFA to make any serious claim to honor, decency, and integrity, they must make things right with Bill Mandel. It's that simple.
Craig & Pam Gingold
Midpines, CA, USA

Would like to hear Bill's program on the net. We would enjoy hearing independent voices.
Marilyn H. Kalman
Vancouver, BC Canada -

Richard Guenther
Placerville, CA, USA

I find it fascinating that this process is required to accomplish Bill's return. He is after all a "national monument" among Pacifica Programmers and activists in general.
Thom Irwin
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jonathan Markowitz
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Especially for updates on what's happening in Russia TODAY!!
Mitchel Cohen
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Aaron J. Greenwood
Carlsbad, California, USA

Craig W. Stephens
Santa Rosa, CA, 95401, USA

There is absolutely no justification for keeping Bill Mandel off the air. I was Bill's board operator for a couple of years. During that time I learned more about global politics and the role of the U.S. vis a vis the Soviet Union than I had learned in the previous 50 years of my life. He and I travelled to Ukraine on a "Peace March" in 1988. His knowledge is "all round knowledge" and must be returned to the air. Even the bastions of Capitalism never treated Walter Chronkite as badly as Pacifica has treated Bill. We must return this genuinely progressive voice to the air if Pacifica is to continue as a genuine progressive force in alternative media.
Ray Couture
Berkeley, CA, USA

Gena Van Camp
Glen Ellen, California, USA

Jeff and Judy Farrin
Sebastopol, CA, USA

Bill should never have been taken off the air
PHYLLIS MANDEL
OAKLAND, CA, USA

Tom Englezos
Pilot Hill, CA, USA

Steve Gilmartin
Oakland, CA, USA

Germán Herrera
USA

Bill is what "Free Speech" is all about!
Oakley McLaughlin
San Anselmo, CA, USA

Joanne Waszczak
Rohnert Park, CA, USA

Bob Briscoe
Santa Rosa, CA, USA

James B. Frame
San Francisco, California, USA

Marti L. Reed
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Now, more than ever, we need wisdom and experience of Bill Mandel
Doug Stevenson
USA

I first heard about Bill's show in the mid 80s either before or after my first trip to the Soviet Union. He is the reason I became a KPFA listener and subscriber. I've met him several times and value his knowledge, integrity, and personal honesty. We need him back now!
Robert O'Brien
Sacramento, CA, USA

Joe Williams
Oakland, CA, USA

Ann Rosa
USA

Mr. Mandel is one of the most scrupulously honest people to ever grace any media in the country!
George Pursley
Pinole, Ca., USA

Glen S Mehn
Hayward, CA, USA

Ann Rosebrook
San Jose, California, USA

Dennis Klein
Oakland, CA, USA

Hodde Edwards
Oakland, CA, USA

Claudia Giselle
Berkeley, Ca, USA

Michael Costello
Bodega, CA, USA

Douglas Stemler
San Francisco, CA, USA

Pacifica/KPFA Local Advisory Board Member
Lauren Ayers
USA

Please return Bill Mandel to KPFA.
Lloyd Dennis
Lodi, CA, USA

Christeen Vowell
USA

Bill-I wish Mama were still here to share this fight
Mary K. Moore
Occidental, CA, USA

IT is vitally important, ASAP
Werner Hertz
Oakland, Ca., CA, USA

Peter Teichner
Berkeley, CA, USA

Roddy Erickson
Healdsburg, CA, USA

Shirley Shirley
Pescadero, CA, USA

Bill Mandel has so much to offer Pacifica listeners with all his experience. Pacifica made a huge error by taking him off the air. That error needs to be corrected immediately.
Lani Young
Sebastopol, CA, USA

Soula Culver
Richmond, CA, USA

William Mandel's Wisdom Shimmers with Brilliance and Clarity. The Absence of Bill's Voice from these Airwaves is a Frightening Statement of the State of Affairs at Pacifica's Flagship Free Speech Radio - KPFA.
Heidi Chesney
San Anselmo, California, USA

former program director (1987-1989) of now-neutralized KPFT
Duane Bradley
Houston, Texas, USA

michael labash
berkeley, ca, USA

linda mac
berkeley, ca, USA

frank moore
berkeley, ca, USA

Oh shame on those with no shame who won't put Bill back in front of the microphone.
Gregory Wonderwheel
Santa Rosa, CA, USA

let Bill back on KPFA!
kevin keyser
san francisco, CA, USA

Pacifica listener/sponsor for 20 years
Camilla Cracchiolo
Los Angeles, CA, USA

The lack of response from the present staff on the question of Bill's return to the airwaves is suspicious and I imagine there's more to it than the gag-rule or Bill's own politics, but if for nothing more than the principle of the matter I feel he should be returned as I doubt any other disputes between him and KPFA are as important as providing an outlet for Mandel's experience and thinking which is obviously in demand - no slight to the present programmers, but c'mon already!
Evan Davis
Columbus, Ohio, USA

Well, Bill got laid off after i did, and for the same reason, but if i had to choose between us, bill needs to be on kpfa, and we all need him. jh
john hester
morgan hill, calif, USA

Roy E. Tuckman
Los Angeles, California, USA

john vance
Berkeley, Ca, USA

I was shocked to learn that after all these years KPFA has taken Bill Mandel's impassioned and uniquely informative broadcasts off the air. Shame on the KPFA management.
Howard Harawitz
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada -

Bill Mandel deserves his own program; please put him back on the air!
James L. House
Belmont, CA, USA

Much too often we dispose of what is most valuable, these valuable assets worth can barely be measured, especially when they come in the literate form. Mr Mandel is an excellent literate asset, worth keeping in the "library" of human history, who articu
b. alton cooper
santa rosa, ca, USA

Now, more than ever, we need Bill Mandel's incisive analysis and sagacity. C'mon KPFA, wake up and get this man back on the air!
Pat Dionne
Sacramento, CA, USA

Barbara King
San Diego, CA, USA

Seth Sandronsky
Sacramento, CA, USA

Dennis Bernstein
oakland, ca, USA

Bill Mandel is a national treasure. He must be restored to KPFA and all its listeners.
Leon Lefson
Sacramento, California, USA

Where have all the flowers gone, indeed! Bring him back!
Donna Lee Michas
New York, New York, USA

Michaela Hampf
Hamburg, Germany/Berkeley, CA, CA Germany/USA

The dismissal of Bill Mandel from KPFA was an absolute travesty and the denial to us the listening (and speaking) public of an extremely valuable resource in this time of extreme disinformation.
Ed Fladung
Berkeley, CA, USA

How long can you claim to know the truth when you are unwilling to view the other side
Tony Poeck
Davis, California, USA

he is a crucial voice that belongs back on KPFA
Dan Epstein
Palo Alto, CA, USA

Paul Williams
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Bill was removed under the aegis of the gag rule; he must be ungagged.
charla mustard-foote
alameda, ca, USA

tricky rudy
brooklyn, ny, USA

There is absolutely no excuse for continuing to ban Bill Mandel from KPFA! The "air personalities" who are supporting the Pacifica gag rule and enforcing it against Bill Mandel should be exposed as the hypocrites that they are! Join Dennis Bernstein and Wendell Harper in supporting Bill's return to KPFA, where he belongs!
Bart Parker
Emeryville, California, USA

Mr. Mandel is a voice that disallows the repeat of history's mistakes, as such, a vital national treasure.
Richard Schiff-Editor Greenwich Village Gazette
New York, New York, USA

Bill should be on the air, at least from time to time. Lets remember all programmers who have been purged in the past.
Mark Sherman
Salinas, CA, USA

Bring Back Bill!
Robert Norse
Santa Cruz, California, USA

Jacques Levy
Occidental, CA, USA

I don't think free speech should be supressed in this country, unless it's the free speech of money, which shouldn't be protected by the first amendment at all--it's for free speech by people.
Randi Reiremo
USA

Dave Hartley
Asheville, North Carolina, USA

You have not silenced a man by taking him off the air ...
Gleb Glinka
Cabot, Vermont, USA

Bill Mandel has been sorely missed. We need his experience of history, his perspective, his vision. Restore his voice to the airwaves!
Doret Kollerer
Occidental, CA, USA

Eric J. Hassett
Los Angeles, California, USA

Maureen Schulz
Berkeley, CA, USA

If we are to be free to live in a democratic society, we must have freedom of the press. Reinstate Bill Mandel immediately! Thank you.
Arlene Johnson
White Plains, NY, USA -

James R. Burkhart
USA

I am appalled that you could remove a person of Mandel's intellect and experience from your programming. Rectify such mistakes as quickly as possible.
Ormond Otvos
Berkeley, CA, USA

Get Bill Mandel on KPFA & off the Internet, so I don't have to listen to him anymore!
Rick Potthoff
Houston, Texas, USA

Alan D Barbour
Fresno, CA, USA

rudy furlong
USA

Viviane Lerner vlerner@interpac.net">vlerner@interpac.net
Hilo, HI, USA

Lynda Otvos
Englewood, FL, USA

Kurt Guerdrum
Spring, TX, USA

Henry L. Johnson
Oakland, CA, USA

02/12/00 with the emphasis during the current fundraising on saving "Free Speech" it remains only LIP-SERVICE until Bill and others who were kicked out are WELCOMED BACK! I'm talking to you, Jim Bennett, and the other nameless faceless people who make decisions about what we are allowed to hear. SHALOM (peace) long live Dennis Bernstein and Robbie Osman!
Alex Silverman
Clovis (Fresno), Cali, USA

How can you continue to ban Mandel from KPFA's air? This Pacific listener and supporter since 1979 is appalled
Ken McCarthy
Tivoli, New York, USA

Long before I ever heard KPFA, I had heard Bill Mandel on Roy Tuckman's Program on KPFA. He exemplified the s[irit of Pacifica, his fire-brand antifacist rethoric and style as well as his commentary, from which I learned much. I too call for his restoration to the airways since his absence is a loss and the manner of his removal a disgrace.
David E. Nichols
Santa Rosa, CA, USA

julykids@att.net
Belmont, CA, USA

Cas Richardson
Harrisonburg, VA, USA

I've just read Bill's book. KPFA's loss is greater than his.
Steven E. Brown
Las Cruces, NM, USA

I have at times agreed and at times disagreed but never been bored by Bill Mandel who for years has been one of the best informed KPFa commentators. It is a shame to have removed him.
Dr. Bogdan Denitch
New York, New York, USA

shame, shame, shame Pacifica
Ronald vander Bosch
Great Falls, MA, USA

why does this station exist if not to give a voice to Mandel?
Neil A. Cook
Berkeley, KS, USA

Tom Schreiner
Santa Cruz, CA, USA

One of the great minds of our age, a sterling example of integrity, wise and active.
Daniel del Solar
Oakland, CA, USA

KPFA subscriber since 1958
Dick Hague
San Francisco, CA, USA

R.J.Shwedo
Pinellas Park, FL, USA

god bless you
gary s beal
conover, n.c., USA

For me, Bill Mandel's program was the jewel in KPFA's crown. The information on and compassion for the former Soviet republics it offered is needed as much now as before the breakup of the Soviet Union. Americans MUST engage with former Soviets for a more peaceful world and cleaner environment on both sides of the pole. Bill's program can offer background and a forum for these causes that should be supported by every sane human being.
Carol Vesecky
Palo Alto, CA, USA

Roberto O. Lozano
Kelseyville, California, USA

I remember William Mandel from days at Berkeley, long, long past. . . . .He stood up for what was right then and he continues to speak his mind.
SUSAn Finan Ikenberry
Washington, DC, USA

Bill Mandel's Russian news spot in the Morning Show was the highlight of my week on KPFA. It's hard enough to get news about Russia without losing his voice.
Edward Simpson
San Francisco, CA, USA

I strongly support the return of Bill Mandel to the staff of KPFA. I am a contributing listener!
Kenneth Ritchards
Sacramento, California, USA

Please bring Mr. Mandel back!
Beatriz Godinez-Muñiz
Sacramento, CA, USA

more free speech, less b.s.
Gerald J. Pass
Los Angeles, California, USA

Why is someone is AK signing this? I met my husband in Berkeley in '69. I returned there for my grad degree in '90. I have strong ties to the region and strong convictions about wrongs needing to be righted. 'Nuf said.
June Cook
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

Bill Mandel's program was a regular habit of mine during the 1980s. While others may have been watching Monday night football, I set my clock to hear Bill without fail for years. That unique program was important. Bill's knowledge of Russia's USSR history and the country's culture would continue to make the program must listening. It is the perfect example of why noncommercial media is necessary..
Elmer Brunsman
USA

Bill Mandel is a national treasure. To keep him off the air is a betrayal to everything supporters of community radio cherish. As an active supporter of community radio station WORT-FM, Madison, WI, a station that is not only supported by, but controlled by the community, it appears that the Republican Party of Texas is in charge of station policy at KPFA.
Joseph W. Grant
Madison, WI, USA

S John Daniels
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Marc and Gayle Millstein
Tarrytown, New York, USA

Miss him and KPFA, but encourage y'all to join us in the Land of Enchantment - notwithstanding the fact that we've the grandiose father of death in our midst - Los Alamos Labs. From near and far, we gather on Nagasaki Bombing Day, Aug. 9, at Los Alamos Natl Labs (managed by UC Berkeley) to demand an independent assessment of the effects of the Fire and a shift in the focus of LANL from producing nuclear weapons to cleaning up the waste produced by the Labs since 1943.
elisabeth sherif
Santa Fe, NM, USA

Randy Amstrong
Hayweird, CA, USA

I just assumed he had retired. He is to good of a commentator to not have his insights, especially as we are building a most important movement.
Jim Dorenkott
San Francisco, CA, USA

No matter what his age, the gentleman's words are welcome and wise.
Renee Still Day
Pueblo, Colorado, USA

Hunter Gray
Pocatello, Idaho, USA

Brother Mandel "climbed high enough for the lightning to strike him" We want to see him back on the mountain top -- depicting Vision and charting Trails. [I happen to be Native American -- but this is an issue that involves all people of decency and social justice commitment.]
Hunter Gray
Pocatello, Idaho, USA

Chris Doss
Moscow, Russian Federation -

Matthew Brady
Los Angeles, CA, USA

He's one of a kind. Wake up, there..!
Jo Murphy
San Diego, CA, USA

Matt Meany
Bloomington, IN, USA

It's time to take back the "free speech" station that has been stolen from all of us who depend on this station to bring us the "truth". Let's begin by restoring the type of critics of this so called democracy to the only place there is today to hear the type of dialogue that in your heart know is the truth.
Joseph W Brown
Santa Barbara, Ca, USA

god bless you, bill..
craig stephens
santa rosa, calif, USA

maryam pirnazar
San Francisco, CA, USA

sohrab pirnazar
santa cruz, ca, USA

houshang pirnazar
santa cruz, ca, USA

I am a board member at KBOO in Portland, Oregon and I am sickened by the situation at Pacifica and KPFA.
Brian Setzler
Portland, OR, USA

David Hedglin
Olympia, WA, USA

NANCY WOODS
CHAPEL HILL, NC, USA

Mandy Zabohne
Olympia, WA, USA

I listened to Bill Mandel for many years before he "disappeared" from KPFA. I've been a supporter of the station most of the time since 1952.
Betty J. Robinson
Davis, CA, USA

George dePue
Far Rockaway, NY, USA

Roll back content-free radio - Reinstate Bill Mandel!
Erich Walrath
San Francisco, CA, USA

Don Davis
Harlem, New York, USA

The purge of Bill Mandel was the beginning of the fall of Pacifica. That those at KPFA who supported his removal or were silent (only to feel the blade themselves later) have not reinstated him is one major reason that I stopped listening to or supporting Pacifica and have felt no remorse in so doing.
pbrobertson
Berkeley, CA, USA

Nathan Hare
San Francisco, California, USA

Madeline Garcia
Bogota, NJ, USA

Ann Cheng
El Cerrito, CA, USA

I may be only one more person,but your suppression confirms my negative attitudes towards corporate control of the American mentality+the joke you`r power has made of my American Constitution.
Shanti Renfrew
Cambridge, MA, USA

DO THE CORRECT THING. PLEASE
GRANT LAWRENCE
TOLEDO, OH, USA

Because, unfortunately and fortunately, history repeats itself and because we who love the Pacifica founded by those principles stated in the orginal Pacifica Mission Statement, we should not miss the opportunity to take advantage of Mr. Mandel's perpective over the air, immediately -- for ourselves, yes, but also for listeners who lack her/historical sense. Indeed, we would be "insane" not to.
Gail Melville
Los Angeles, California, USA

T.L. Smith
Chicago, IL, USA

go bills!
marie jhane
new york, ny, USA

Sharon Y Allen
Texas, USA

Steve Geller
Berkeley, CA, USA

Patricia-Anne WinterSun
USA

KPFA had a great deal to do with my progressive political development from 1962 to 1969 when I moved from Berkeley. Bill Mandel's analyses of "real existing socialism" in the former socialist countries was crucial for my later political engagement in Germany, where I have been since 1976.
Dr. Jeffrey Schevitz
Fuessen (Hopfen am See), GERMANY -

Pacifica must begin rebuilding integrity - reinsate Bill Mandel and all others silenced by the horrific gag. Progressive political radio--give me a break! Get off the wishy-washy rollercoaster and back to where you belong.
Kyrsten Sinema
Phoenix, AZ, USA

john kainz
hallock, minnesota, USA

Don MacKeen
Glasgow, Scotland -

Bill Mandel is a seasoned observer of the political arena. He has much to offer in this time of conflict and dispair. And, he's a pretty wonderful guy.
Norma J. Howard
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, USA

Terry Carter
New York, NY, USA

Michael F Herder
Wien, Austria -

Merilyn Brunner
San Francisco, CA 94108, USA

I became aware of this site from a http://www.radio4houston.org web program (011002b.mp3). Am living now in Berlin, Germany but remember listening to Bill Mandel on KPFA from Vermont, USA.
Alant Jost
Berlin, Berlin Germany -

allen berrie
USA

Alan Bickley
USA

support strongly free speech and the return of Bill Mandel to the Radio
Maher Koraytem Beirut, Beirut Lebanon -

KPFA nad Kpfk
Leslie Purcell
Santa Monica, CA, USA

KPFA and KPFK, too
Leslie Purcell
Santa Monica, CA, USA

tattersa
Eugene, Oregon, USA

Andres Alegria
Pinole, CA, USA

DanaRhea Elliott
Houston, TX, USA

Paul H. Dillon
Eureka, CA, USA

Dr. Vladimir Bilenkin
Raleigh, NC, USA

Sara E. Pyle
New York, NY, USA

Laura M. Bond
Richmond, CA, USA

We sorely need to hear what Bill Mandel has to say. To fail to restore his program is to buy into the logic of those who sought to mainstream the network in search of higher audience contributions and personal profit.
Diana Barahona
Long Beach, CA, USA

Beverly Siegel
Reno, NV, USA

Sheilah Davidson
Pine Bush, New York, USA

May your request be granted~ Wishes of love to you!
Kristen Lauter
Morristown, NJ, USA

We need a strong voice to speak out for America in this type of crisis. The crisis that is most scary is the takeover of our government by george bu$h and John Ashcroft. People like these two religious zealots need to be stopped before they destroy our country. This "war against terrorism" is a farce to repay political debts owed by bu$h. I think that the worst terrorist we have is the one at 1600 Pennsylvania Av.
Margaret Richards
Pensacola, FL, USA

Joseph Anderson
Berkeley, CA, USA

Now that the the old priorities are back, let's bring back some of the old programming.
Eric Kirk
Redway, California, USA

Bill Mandel should not only be returned to KPFA's air immediately but his show should be available as a national program for all Pacifica stations and affiliates. Hearing Bill Mandel's voice on KPFK as well as KPFA can't happen soon enough.
Myla Reson
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Struggling with the fight
Jose Gomez
Fresno, CA, USA

Bill Mandel was one of two reasons I started listened to KPFA in 1994 (Noam Chomsky being the other). He needs to be brought back to provide young activists the wisdom that the 'New Left' has not adequately conveyed.
Rene Higgs
Fresno, CA, USA

I believe that Bill Mandel represents a quintessential aspect of Pacifica in its insistence on holding the powers that be, whomever they are, accountable to public scrutiny. Bill Mandel has exemplified this on many, many occasions throughout much of the 20th and now 21st centuries, and perhaps none so defining as his testimony before the HUAC which was broadcast on KPFA! Let's have Bill back on KPFA in the format he is asking for, which is 15 minutes per week. That is only fair and just.
John Sheridan
Oakland, CA, USA

Jon Garfield
Albany, California, USA

He can only help rebuild Pacifica...maybe it will be 5 minutes, or whatever, but he should be part of the team.
Daniel del Solar
Oakland, CA, USA

First the iPNB voted to restore the Fired and Banned, Then the KPFT LAB voted to reccommend that Duane KPFT's GM consider reinstatiing anyone dealt with in a "dismissive" manner. Now it's time for the hardened wall of the KPFA Programming Council to do the right thing and provide a 15 minute sliver of your oh so precious air time. Really!
Michael Pimental
Houston, TX, USA

Thanks for still being around!
Jim Curtis
Santa Rosa, California, USA

Andrew Rosenthal
USA

C'mon KPFA, the purges didn't start with Bensky!!!!
Bernie Eisenberg
USA

As a community radio broadcaster since 1970 with several stations including KPFA, from 1991 to 1995, why are we even having this discussion? Bill Mandel should already be back on the air!
Andrew Rosenthal
Oakland, CA, USA

Bring him back! Yes, today!
Solomon TEklu
Davis, CA, USA

Conrad OHO
Fairfax, CA, USA

Restore Bill to KPFA's airwaves asap!
Ken Ellis
New Bedford, MA, USA

B Soffer
Berkeley, CA, USA

I remember hearing Bill on KPFA when I used to live in the Bay Area. Now that this victory has been won, it is only fitting to restore him to the air. Thanks, Damian Miller
Damian Miller
New York, NY, USA

Nick Pasquariello
USA

What a handsome guy, he should be on TV!
Edwin Johnston
Houston, TX, USA

George Maurer
USA

Bill's removal from KPFA was one of the most horrendous injustices perpetrated in the early purges. I always felt this was a wrong that must be corrected. Bill's voice would fill a critical unmet need at the station, and he should be reinstated in some way at the earliest opportunity.
James E Vann
Oakland, CA, USA -

I used to listen to Bill's program and really missed his perspective when he was outsted from KPFA. I totally support the effort to return Bill to the airwaves, not only to benefit listeners, but also to redress the wrongs that were done to Bill and other programmers during the purges. IT's too bad Mama O'Shea isn't here so we could invite her back too. Best wishes to Bill and I look forward to hearing him soon on KPFA.
Ginny Stanford
Sebastopol, CA, USA

I would like to hear Bill Mandel over WBAI as well
Stephanie Brooks
Jackson Heights, NY, USA

By all means!
Garrett Murphy
Oakland, CA, USA

Shira
USA

Marylou Hadditt
Kenwood, CA 95452, USA

Bill Mandel is an outstanding person and one that needs to be returned to KPFA.
Marian Cruz
Hollister, CA, USA

Jim O'Hara
USA

Laurie Litman
Stockton, CA, USA

KFPA LAB Member. When I ran for the LAB, returning Bill Mandel to KPFA was part of my campaign platform.
Ted Friedman
San Francisco, CA, 94134, USA

Shiu M. Hung
Redwood City, CA, USA

Precious few can offer the decades of scholarship and perspective as Bill Mandel, who is delightful and challenging to hear whether you share his views or not. Please find a place for his outstanding voice, which is sorely missed. Sincerely, Carol Denney
Carol Denney
Berkeley, California, USA

Bring bill back!
Liz McLEllan
USA

Michael Costello
Bodega, CA, USA

Joe Wanzala
Oakland, California, USA

Marie Sawaya
CA, USA

Like Jennifer Stone, Bill is an elder voice whose ideas are current and whose experience makes his perspective valuable.
Julia Gilden
SaUSAlito, CA, USA

Bill has much knowledge to impart. He has a perspective absolutely unique. He was of the first to be banned. Let him back on KPFA.
Leif Halvorson
Geyserville, CA, USA

After Bill gets back on KPFA, I'd like to see the return of the "MaximumRock'n'Roll" show - used to be on every Tuesday (9-11PM) as I recall - a great show - one of the first to be purged back in the dark times!
Marshall Stax
Berkeley, CA, USA

We've lost so much in not having Bill Mandel's commentary on KPFA in recent years. It is imperative that he return ASAP!
Burnis E. (Gene) Tuck
Fresno, CA, USA

Bill Mandel is a wealth of information and the most HONEST person you will run across in leftist politics. He is on a lifelong intellectual quest, thus I feel he is invaluable in helping show the way to us all in how to go about pursuing the dream of building a more perfect society. And he is a real gent. He is one "White man" who is very respected by Black people of both sexes and women of all races as one who "Walks the walk." We need him. intellectually
Joe Bryak
San Pablo, CA, USA

I want to hear Bill's knowledgable perspectives!
Joe Zacky
Clovis, CA, USA

Yes, justice is restorative. Please return Bill Mandel to KPFA.
Bill Lundine
Fresno, CA, USA

Please bring back Bill Mandel! Thank you!
Lorraine Lunden
Davis, CA, USA

Yes, Bill is great!
Helen Callbeck
San Rafael, CAlifornia, USA

Yes, Bill is wonderful
Louise Aldrich
San Rafael, CAlifornia, USA

I support the greatest range of voices and programing possible
Jane Hoberman
Berkeley, Ca., USA

I hear Bill on 104.1 FM. He is always pertinent.
David Hucklesby
Oakland, California, USA

I am in favor of returning Bill Mandel to the airwaves at KPFA for a 15 minute segment.
L.D. Pratt
Berkeley, CA, USA

Bill, we need you back on the air at KPFA.
K. Donker
San Jose, CA, USA

Hank Levin
San Rafael, CA, USA

As a longtime listener/subscriber to KPFA, I strongly urge the program council to restore Bill Mandel's voice to the airwaves.
Margo Shafer
Berkeley, CA, USA

It's too late for Mama O'shea, but not for Bill. Please bring him back.
Steve Ongerth
Oakland, CA, USA

Bill Mandell has such a vast background with many important things to pass on to us.
Shirley Douty
USA

If Bill is still monitoring Russian press his commentary would be invaluable.
Philip Paull
Berkeley, Ca., USA

Now is the time to do the right thing. There is no good excuse for not giving Bill Mandel some time in front of the mike.
Robin M. Donald
Berkeley, CA, USA

Edward S. Rusky
USA

Amy Stoddard
Oakland, CA, USA

ERICH KEEFE
BERKELEY, CA, USA

If Bill's program would not displace any of the current programs, and he want to add a space for progressive voices, then let's get this on the air!
Jonas LaMattery-Brownell
Oakland, CA, USA

june brumer
Oakland, CA, USA

Please put Bill Mandel back on KPFA regularly, but don't put me on any lists.
PhoeBe sorgen
Berkeley, CA, USA

Speaking of a few embarrassments, disgrace and ongoing disasters that still need to be rectified in the freePacifica cleansing tide, first there's the failure so far to reinstate and fully acknowledge Bill Mandel and Maria Gulardin of KPFA and the many other Pacifica staff who long ago paid the price for breaking the gag rule and speaking out, while the last to join the struggle, the WBAI fired and banned, are rightly returned and hailed as conquering heros. That's not to knock them, most all of us came to the struggle from some place of denial, ignorance and inaction, just saying the first staff to clearly see the Pacifica coup for what it was and take a principled stand at personal risk - unlike those who stayed dumb, kept their jobs and programs, paid their mortgages - should be at least among the first returned to the air, publicly thanked and honored.
Bob English
San Francisco, CA, USA

15 minutes a week would be great
Werner Hertz
Oakland, Ca, USA

john hayden
san jose, ca, USA

dick wood
USA

Having just listened to Bill Mandel's testimony before the HUAC, and having the utmost respect and admiration for his show of courage as well as character for that testimony, it seems apparent that his voice should be heard as he offers a lesson in what the Constituion of theUnited States is supposed to stand for. Therefore I strongly urge KFPA to reinstate Mr. Mandel as a matter of public service.
ARTHUR P. LECLAIR
IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS, USA

I just listened to Bill's testimony before McCarthy Committee. You shoud put him back on right now.
Theron G. Burrough
New York, NY, USA

Bill is too rich a resource to ignore! He has over 70 years of activism. Do not think he is a one-note samba--he covers theatre, racism, the old USSR and so forth, feminism, the left from 1920s to present. And he THINKS, is above all HONEST. We need such a renaissance person--and we need to expand across the generations! You've got a treasure right here at hand! And he's a damn good radio person, too! He has gone from Communist to unaffiliated Marxist to Democratic Socialist to Social Democrat--without losing his old friends. Check him out!
Joe Bryak
San Pablo, CA 94806, USA

now, more than ever, we need his reasoned op-ed pieces on the air
Daniel del Solar
Oakland, CA, USA

For years, I listened to Bill's program on WBAI. We continue to need his analysis, historical experience, and wisdom
Sara E. Pyle
New York, NY, USA

Soula Culver
Richmond, CA, USA

Jim Pratt
Richmond, CA, USA

Sarah Kotzamani
Berkeley, CA, USA

An elder such as Bill Mandel has valuable knowledge and insights -- put him back on the air!
Nina Holmes
Morgan Hill, CA, USA

Sandy Skipper-Lopez
Madera, California, USA

William Mandel embodies the values for which KPFA is supposed to stand: intellectual rigor, a passion for justice, the willingness to pay the price for speaking truth to power. The current management of KPFA should hang their heads in shame.
Douglas Wachter
Carlsbad, CA, USA

If You can find time for 5 or 6 the SAME kind of post-folk music shows, (some of wich I like in spite of thier COMMERCIAL radio sound) or an hour a month about your pets, you can find time for this man!
Sara Chana Mandell
oakland, C.A., USA

We need Bill's voice here in D.C. on Pacifica!
Thomas Nagy, Ph.D.
Washington, D.C., USA

Your sacking of William Mandel was an atrocity and the bringing of Mc Carthyism to Public Radio. Bill is worth his weight in 10 Ph.Ds and knows more about the Soviet Union than the yoyo Sovietologists hired by the universities and the Establishment. He clearly has a mind of his own and great integrity which hopefully is not abhorrent to Public Radio. Bill is not for sale, is not owned by anyone, and deserves to be heard, especially now. Bringing him back would be a sign that Public Radio is living in its original tradition as an alternative to mainstream broadcasting with something to offer the public sorely in need of information for inquiry and independent judgment, a vital ingredient of democracy.
herbert weiner
San Francisco, California, USA

I listened regularly and much appreciated Bill's on air commentary on KPFA from th 1960s into the 1990s. I much regret that he is no longer on the air
Alan Moore
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

No one would know better how to deal with Ashcroft than Bill Mandel.
Bill Enloe
Redwood City, CA, USA

All the time I was in grad. school at Berkeley I listened to Bill. He was a breath of fresh air. Please restore his show.
gene grabiner
buffalo, new york, USA

Reinstate Mandel now!
Jerry Colasurdo
Pasadena, CA, USA

I stopped supporting KPFA when Bill, Mama, and many more were purged & Save KPFA was organized.. I'm almost back in the fold with the victory over Pacifica's former thugs, but can't really get into it until Bill and the others get their due.
Gary Skupa
Oakland, CA, USA

I believe in Free Press! Take back our Poltical Process!
Theresa J. Steed
Montgomery, Texas, USA

Thank you Sir for all your efforts
Robert W. Foedisch
Seattle, Washington, USA

Is Bill still not on the air on KPFA? How can this be?
Jan Goodman
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Julia Kaufmann
Napa, CA, USA

John Riddell
Chino, CA, USA

Marina Kawalec
Fremont, C, USA

Marina Kawalec
Fremont, CA, USA

As a young person growing up in a confusing political world of the 1960's, '70's, I wholeheardedly embraced my elders who had prior political experience to break-down and interpret world political events for young minds wanting to grasp and understand what was occuring with international politics, and William Mandel was our teacher, always there to inform us of what was realy going on! Please, reinstate Mr. Mandell to KPFA to continue his political reporting. We still need the voices of our enlightened elders to contribute to these urgent times of economic and political shifts nationally and internationally. I know that many of the leaders at KPFA are of European decent and unfortunately, many of you (unlike Latinos), do not always honor your elders, and their past experiences. I am a Chicana, and I value Mr. Mandell's viewpoint, even though I may not always agree with him politically, I am mature enough to allow for his viewpoints. I wish you would do the same.
Chalchiuhtlicue
Oakland, CA, USA

Keep America America - get Bill back on KPFA
christine shahin-wood
Newport, New York, USA

Sheila Gibbons
Brooklyn, New York, USA

David Meltzer
Richmond, CA, USA

Melody
WA, USA

Liz Lerma
San Francisco, CA, USA

I have missed your distinctive voice which I listened to from the 60's on. I miss it. Please come back. Robin
Robin Goodfellow
Oakland, CA, USA

Free speech should not be censored at KPFA. Shame on you! Learn to respect your elders spirit by allowing them to have a voice. Our new world order cannot exclude them.
Chalchiuhtlicue
Oakland, CA, USA

Josh Legleiter
USA

We need William Mandel on the airwaves more than ever now that this government is rapidly becoming a police state. We mustn't undercut our efforts to re-establish some semblance of democracy simply because of minor differences of opinion or trivial disputes. The slide into totalitarianism that is occuring now is bigger than all of us and demands unprecedented cooperation and unity in order that lovers of the Bill of Rights can prevail. Restore this courageous man to the air immediately!
John Riddell
Chino, CA, USA

This is a no-brainer. I love this amazing guy!
Patrick Fahey
San Francisco, CA, USA

I hadn't heard much about you before, but I know we need your voice now (3/17/03).
Karl Newton, M.D.
Syracuse, New York, USA

The voice, insight, and wisdom of Mr. William Mandel, is sorely needed by KPFA, Berkeley. Do not blow the opportunity of having this great fighter for the human rights of people worldwide returned to KPFA!
Larry Pinkney
USA

Bill Mandel is a Tom Paine of our time.
Belinda Pauling
Gig Harbor, WA, USA

As a long-distance KPFA supporter, I encourage you to bring Mandel back to KPFA. It's good now...it would even be better with him!
Dwayne Eutsey
Easton, MD, USA

Just more feds controlling the media for their own propaganda
Michael Siniscal
Seattle, WA, USA

I may have signed this but you should check it anyway.
Stephen Caruso
Pataskala, OH, USA

We now urgently need genuine, conscientious, and dissident voices. Bring back Bill!
Tana Hartman
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

It would benefit the public & KPFA to reinstate Bill Mandel, a much beloved, dedicated, & informative public figure. See following quote: "Philip Maldari, KPFA's public affairs director since 1982 Maldari says Mandel was one of the more popular hosts in KPFA's history for his informed, outspoken and, at the time, controversial views about the Soviet Union. (from Sun. July 26, '98 Robert Selna SPECIAL TO THE SF EXAMINER)"
Gianna Ranuzzi Berkeley, California, USA

I stated listening to Bill Mandel in the 1950s. I certainly miss his important point of view.
Mary Marshall Fowler
Alameda, CA, USA

Long live free speech! Death to HUAC, in all its reincarnations.
Michael Lubin
Oakland, California, USA

Please return Bill Mandel to the airwaves IMMEDIATELY. There has been time enough to do that. Another round of sit ins at Pacifica stations should not be necessary to get Bill mandel back on the air.
James P. DeMaegt
Inglewood, California, USA

Return one of the few voices remaining in this country to the air. You should be ashamed of yourselves for cancelling him.
Maggie Richards
Pensacola, Florida, USA

Bill Mandel's voice is music to my ears!
Gayla M. Yates
Santa Rosa, CA, USA

Joan D. Champion
Philo, CA, USA

Mandel's talk show was always informative and it provided a sea anchor for stormy times
Herman Schwendinger
Bayonet Point, Florida, USA

tom rivell
san jose, ca, USA

Burwell Dodd
Harrowgate, South Australia Australia -

Dana Ahlgren
Foster City, CA, USA

Robert Kovats
Merced, CA, USA

Guillermo J. Bobonis
San Juan, Puerto Rico -

I thought free speech was a national character trait that was treasured and jealously guarded in the, USA. Obviously we have hear the old syndrome of believing in free speech until such time as somebody says something somebody else doesn't like to hear.
Dave Godin
Sheffield, UK -

I wish to hear Bill Mandel on KPFA.
Regina Quincy
San Francisco, CA, USA

Why is Bill not back on the air - everything has been resolved with the pacifica foundation - everything's seems to be on the up and up but Bill is STILL not back on the air and WHY DOES NOT AMY GOODMAN NOT WANT TO HAVE BILL MANDEL ON HER SHOW??? Why is Bill Mandel not back on the air??? WHY??? Are there still crooks at KPFA or on the Pacifica Board that we don't know about? john vance.....peoples bark news berkeley
john vance
san marcos, ca, USA

In a pseudocommons of real mediated sleeze in which historic nonentities win worlds and corporate persons "influence people" there is a REAL hero called Bill Mandel. Nuff said.
Edward Rimbaugh
Sebastopol, CA, USA Coast Miwok -

As a member and co-host of community listener supported radio station WEFT ( 90.1 FM ) ( Illinois Labor Hour ) in Champaign Illinois, I urge you to re-instate Bill Mandel to KPFA .
David Johnson
Champaign, IL, Illinois, USA

please give bill his show back.
Dino Marcaccio (KPFT Donor)
houston, texas, texas, USA

William Mandel is a unique treasure to be cherished.
Bill Paulsen
Santa Barbara, CA, USA

KPFA is listener-supported and should be more listener-controlled. We demand and deserve no less.
Dan Brook, Ph.D.
Berkeley, CA, USA

Paul Lowinger, MD
san francisco, ca, USA

Ric Brown
New York City, New York, USA

Add my name if you are still pushing for reinstatement. I am a former listener from many years back. In fact, my grandmother used to listen to you from Sonoma in the late 50's.--LS
Les Shipnuck
Berkeley, CA, USA

The collusion of the media with power is very sad indeed.
Sabine Kurjo McNeill
London, London United Kingdom -

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