[Kzyxtalk] Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11

Mon Jun 30 00:30:08 PDT 2014

Thanks very much for this, Bernie.
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>   1. Cut The Crap - Says Former Board Majority Member (BC)
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> *June 28, 2014*
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> *For Immediate Release*
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> *Cut The Crap - Says Former Board Majority Member*
>
> *Berkeley*-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 -the
> campaign treasurer for Oakland mayoral candidate Jean Quan
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nQmeup5InQzBC6o8TQjpw2TdhrDFW8kk>-
> and former Oakland City Council member and failed 2012 candidate for
> Oakland City Attorney
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8MeQlRnwrARUgvD8Vx1aAIH%2BSEI5sToj>Jane
> Brunner, ? 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.
>
> 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 here.?
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BFwM0V7qJM8MtXkjjxQ43jyel3x12%2BeX>? 
> 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: "/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."/
>
> The filing by Siegel and Yee sent in on Pacifica's behalf in the case
> /Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship (Free Speech Radio News) vs
> Pacifica Foundation Radio /- apparently without the knowledge of many of
> the members of the board - 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"
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0AqwYyyL2cA1oDbtTJHlU2TdhrDFW8kk>.
> 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.
>
> 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
> Michael Parenti wrote
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=w%2FQHpQ%2BYHicldRk%2BJiihq2TdhrDFW8kk>"/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/." Cazadero-based listener-sponsor Lani Ka'ahumanu asked to
> have her name removed as an endorser of "Save KPFA" and wrote
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BzUu7ebNWgSc%2FVYa2GXQpGTdhrDFW8kk>"/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/." 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 passed this
> lengthy resolution at their June 25th meeting
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=E034CCz%2BYdXm7yo7f3XbaGTdhrDFW8kk>expressing
> their conviction that local coverage will suffer from the ill-considered
> change forced through by the board majority.?
>
> Here's an excerpt: /"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."/
>
> A petition to reverse the saturation of drive time with syndicated
> programming is located here.?
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hpbwf8jgWAZ448Uj7O1y%2B2TdhrDFW8kk>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.?
>
> 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. Specifications have been
> filed with the Federal Communications Commission to move the
> broadcasting equipment to the Conde Nast building at 4 Times Square.
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=t7MeIJOJhTyMDBnWuhVRZmTdhrDFW8kk>Questions
> remain about the remaining liability on the existing lease, and
> replacement costs for WBAI's fragile and aging transmitter.
>
> The next hearing in /PDGG vs Pacifica/ has been kicked over to August
> 14th.?
>
> A petition to prevent the rumored break-up of the network can be found
> here.?
> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EsBVNXJET52OoUuB3OJCEGTdhrDFW8kk>
>
> /###/
>
> /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./
>
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