Bill Mandel Loses Show on KPFA

William Mandel has been an activist a long time. Long enough to have given Joe McCarthy heartburn, and he went down in history doing it. Three times he went before the witch-hunt "Un-American Activities" committees, and three times he gave them what-for.

Mandel is a Soviet-Affairs scholar, and wrote five books on the Soviet Union, all used in higher education. Truth is precious and the NeoConartists are known for their ability to waste vast fortunes. Since KPFA was taken over by pretenders, a treasure-trove of informed-activists, scholars and historians have been discarded as 'not desired by the listener'.

Bill had a regular show for over 37 years on KPFA and lost it the first time in 1995, when the Clinton Democrats called for a dumbing-down of Progressive thought. Only in the last year did he return on that station, but with only one hour per month.

Now, once again he has been threatened by censorship. The KPFA Program Council, previously made up of a combination of paid and volunteer DJs, but recently stacked - with that old 'money gets the vote' trick - chose to dump his meager hour. On Tuesday, Dec. 6, a night that will forever live in infamy, the Program Council voted 11-4 to drop his show. The vote was generally true to the breakdown of Paid-Unpaid staff. Money got their way.

This audio-clip is made up of voices from the outside; a rally locked-out of the KPFA building, and not allowed to observe the meeting or vote.

Running Time 13 minutes