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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial"><b>Berkeley</b>-The
continued shuttling of the Pacifica Network's legal
business to the law firm of board member Jose Luis
Fuentes has incited the rage of Texas listener rep
Hank Lamb. Siegel and Yee, the law firm run by Oakland
mayoral candidate Dan Siegel, his partner Alan Yee -</span></span><a
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href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nQmeup5InQzBC6o8TQjpw2TdhrDFW8kk"
target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial"> the campaign treasurer
for Oakland mayoral candidate Jean Quan</span></span></a><span
style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial">
- and former Oakland City Council member and </span></span><a
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href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8MeQlRnwrARUgvD8Vx1aAIH%2BSEI5sToj"
target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">failed 2012 candidate for
Oakland City Attorney</span></span></a><span
style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial">
Jane Brunner, Â has taken on 3 legal matters for
Pacifica since the March 25th resignation of corporate
counsel Terry Gross. None of them have been voted on
by a majority of the currently-seated board of
directors as required by California Corporations Code
Section 5233, when a public benefit corporation enters
into a contract which financially benefits a member of
the board of directors.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1734/images/images%2815%29.jpg" alt=""
align="left" height="169" width="225">Lamb's long
rant by email, which he sent to all of his colleagues
on the board as well as a Pacifica discussion
list-serv with 100+ members, can be found in its
entirety </span></span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BFwM0V7qJM8MtXkjjxQ43jyel3x12%2BeX"
target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">here. </span></span></a><span
style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial">Â In
it, Lamb refers to the "bullshit" he is being told by
officers of the board and puts the current board
majority "on notice" that they have lost him as a
member. Lamb goes on to state: "<i>This will end in
court. The majority, at this point, has got to be
stopped. They are no longer a majority and not
representative of Pacifica in any way, as far as
making decisions in huddles or outside PNB meetings
and it had better stop. I am ready to pay any price
to get things on the table, public and righted."</i></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">The filing by Siegel and Yee
sent in on Pacifica's behalf in the case <i>Pacifica
Reporters Against Censorship (Free Speech Radio
News) vs Pacifica Foundation Radio </i>- apparently
without the knowledge of many of the members of the
board - </span></span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0AqwYyyL2cA1oDbtTJHlU2TdhrDFW8kk"
target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">claims the contractual
agreement between Pacifica and the independent news
production, which Pacifica defaulted on after not
getting Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding,
isn't "authorized"</span></span></a><span
style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial">.
Pacifica contracted for the daily half hour newscast
for more than a decade and provided it to all five
Pacifica stations as well as 180 affiliate stations
who paid Pacifica for access to the program via the
Audioport distribution system.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">The abrupt removal of
community-based programming in the AM hours at
Berkeley station KPFA continues to generate negative
reactions throughout the Bay Area. Noted author and
long-time Pacifica supporter </span></span><a
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target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">Michael Parenti wrote</span></span></a><span
style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial">
"<i>I believe it is of the utmost importance to keep
the Morning Mix at its morning drive time in
order to give it the largest possible audience</i>."
Cazadero-based listener-sponsor Lani Ka'ahumanu </span></span><a
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target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">asked to have her name
removed as an endorser of "Save KPFA" and wrote</span></span></a><span
style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial">
"<i>Quite frankly I’m not only disappointed, I’m
upset. For a community station to disappear
important community people and their programing in
one fell swoop shows a basic lack of respect for
everyone concerned including listeners</i>." Noted
actor, director and long-time Pacifica supporter Danny
Glover mentioned he listened to Morning Mix programs
when at home in the Bay Area. The San Francisco Green
Party </span></span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">passed this lengthy
resolution at their June 25th meeting</span></span></a><span
style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial">
expressing their conviction that local coverage will
suffer from the ill-considered change forced through
by the board majority. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
src="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/1734/images/download%20%281%29%287%29.jpg"
alt="" align="left" height="146" width="225">Here's
an excerpt: <i>"This may not be of concern to
KPFA’s wealthier subscribers who never have and
never will have to live next to an oil refinery, a
crude-by-rail transit line, an oil storage tank, or
any of the radioactive and otherwise toxic sites
that the U.S. Navy abandoned all around San
Francisco Bay. They may never have to face any
number of other injustices in their daily lives, but
if KPFA is to foster real community within the fm
signal area it claims to serve, in accordance with
its mission, it must consider these injustices to
some as injustices to all. It must not exclude them
from the station’s early morning hours."</i></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">A petition to reverse the
saturation of drive time with syndicated programming
is located </span></span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hpbwf8jgWAZ448Uj7O1y%2B2TdhrDFW8kk"
target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">here. </span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">Pacifica has not made any
announcement who the 4th executive director in the
last 3 and 1/2 months will be, 4 working days before
the departure of the current occupant to New Zealand.
Payroll and benefits administrator Weiling Thai is the
latest employee to join the exodus from the national
office, started by controller Maria Gaite who quit
several weeks ago.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">Pacifica's national finance
committee issued a plea on June 10th for financial
statements/data, but nothing has been released 3 weeks
later. The committee meeting on June 24th was canceled
along with a scheduled meeting of the audit committee.
Berkeley station KPFA has released no financial data
since February. The annual audit has no scheduled
date to begin. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
extension filed by Reese and administrative manager
Tamika Miller the day after Reese's termination has
expired. Annual financial reports are due to CPB in
March and payments are made to stations in May and
November of each year. Pacifica has missed all of the
filing deadlines for 2014 funding. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">New York station WBAI
continues to face a forced antenna relocation after
the Empire State Building landlord returned two months
worth of payments for the station's equipment space
rental ($100,000). With new FM antenna space coming
into the Manhattan market after 1 World Trade Center
opened for business, rental prices are expected to
drop and it may be possible to extricate WBAI from its
enormously expensive agreement with Empire State,
which runs until 2020. This is the first good news on
the WBAI front for some time. </span></span><a
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href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=t7MeIJOJhTyMDBnWuhVRZmTdhrDFW8kk"
target="_blank"><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">Specifications have been
filed with the Federal Communications Commission to
move the broadcasting equipment to the Conde Nast
building at 4 Times Square.</span></span></a><span
style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial">
Questions remain about the remaining liability on the
existing lease, and replacement costs for WBAI's
fragile and aging transmitter.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">The next hearing in <i>PDGG
vs Pacifica</i> has been kicked over to August
14th. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small"><span
style="font-family:Arial">A petition to prevent the
rumored break-up of the network can be found </span></span><a
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href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EsBVNXJET52OoUuB3OJCEGTdhrDFW8kk"
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-size:small"><span
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style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial">Started in
1946 by conscientious objector Lew Hill, Pacifica's
storied history includes impounded program tapes for
a 1954 on-air discussion of marijuana, broadcasting
the Seymour Hersh revelations of the My Lai
massacre, bombings by the Ku Klux Klan, going to
jail rather than turning over the Patty Hearst tapes
to the FBI, and Supreme Court cases including the
1984 decision that noncommercial broadcasters have
the constitutional right to editorialize, and the
Seven Dirty Words ruling following George Carlin's
incendiary performances on WBAI. Pacifica Foundation
Radio operates noncommercial radio stations in New
York, Washington, Houston, Los Angeles, and the San
Francisco Bay Area, and syndicates content to over
180 affiliates. It invented listener-supported
radio.</i></span></span></p>
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