Well, Robert, thank you for the kind words. We all hope it's not too
late to turn this ship around.
But you know my response to your (and my) nagging dread:
write/call/post to the WBAI LSB and the PNB to make sure that
everyone does the right thing. Elected directors go to PNB meetings;
replaced ones do not, the despite the attempts of two members to do
exactly that recently - not at this station, but the same situation.
I think one of them has not yet reimbursed Pacifica for her fare, and
it really was sad to see someone so desperate about being un-elected.
So call, write, etc. and make sure somewhere, sometime, this time,
the bylaws are honored, not trashed.
Carolyn
At 11:34 AM -0400 4/6/08, Robert Knight wrote:
Thank you, Carolyn, for your kind words, and for your stalwart
leadership during Pacifica's "seven years of
bad luck" -- represented by the JUC and their affilates'
counter-mission obstructionism, race-baiting, financial disasters,
misallocation of funds,
personnel patronage and unprecedented audience repulsion and
diminishment -- all of which have brought the national organization
to impoverishment and procedural stasis.
I wish you well on the election and certification initiative,
despite my nagging dread that the JUC and Pacifica executive
establishment may attempt am eleventh-hour deus ex machina that
precludes seating of legitimate directors in time
for the national meeting. If I know anything of the JUC's typical
tactics, they remain capable of making the Democrat's 1964
controversy over seating the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
look like a cakewalk by comparison!
But still, we rise.
Again, congratulations to you, Joe, Grace (and many others), and to
all Pacifica delegates of good will and mission fidelity.
-Robert Knight
On 4/5/08, Carolyn Birden
<<mailto:cmcb007@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>cmcb007@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Glad to see you are looking forward, Robert - I am, too. But it
won't happen unless WBAI members, and indeed members of every other
station affected by WBAI's troublels, press the WBAI LSB for a
delegates' meeting to elect new directors in time to go to the PNB
meeting on 4/11 in Houston. That election, of course, should have
taken place in January, but the attempts to add in ever more and
more "late" ballots has held up the final count until last week, and
now we are up against yet another deadline, to certify the WBAI
election and then elect new directors and then address some REAL
problems at WBAI.
Y'll come back: we need every voice exiled by the ancien regime .
Carolyn
Great and much-needed initiative, folks!
Tiny detail: Joe's at KPFA, not "KPFT." But I'm looking forward
to many positive changes in the board membership lists...
-Robert
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dateWed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:36 PM
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL BOARD MEETING:
Directors Aaron, Birden, and Wanzala hereby give notice of a special
meeting of the PNB for Wednesday, April 9th, at 8:00 P.M. ET.
The purpose of the meeting is to direct the WBAI Delegates to hold a
Delegates' meeting on Thursday, April 10th, to elect Directors, if
they have not already done so. If such a Delegates meeting has taken
place before April 9th, or if the WBAI Delegate election results have
not been certified by noon on April 9th, then this Special PNB meeting
will be cancelled.
Grace Aaron, KPFK
Carolyn Birden, WBAI
Joe Wanzala, KPFT
ARTICLE SIX. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SECTION 2. SPECIAL MEETINGS
Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the
Chairperson of the Board, any two Officers of the Foundation, or by
any three Directors.
SECTION 4. NOTICE
Special meetings shall require only seven (7) days advance notice, but
shall also require telephonic notice by leaving a message at the
telephone number given to the Foundation's Secretary for such notice
by each Director, and shall specify the purpose of the meeting. No
additional business not stated in the notice shall be conducted at a
special meeting.
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