Dear All, As you know, there is an attempt to ignore the wishes of the WBAI voters and keep the elected members of the WBAI LSB from electing their representatives to the Pacifica National Board. (When members meet to do this, they are meeting as your representatives, as Delegates, not as members of the a local station board: tricky but significant distinction.) The JUC contingent, which will lose two seats to the national board, is trying to keep the new elected representatives from being seated: they delayed the lawsuit and now are trying to keep the Independent candidates from going to the second quarterly meeting of the national board. "Power concedes nothing without a struggle" was never more true - the three JUC members of the PNB are not going to pay attention to the will of the WBAI membership, but are going to try every trick they can to keep the newly elected board members from electing new directors to the PNB. Their fight, of course, will cost the Foundation, and perhaps the station, more money in lawsuits. And more time will be lost in fighting over power when the station should be addressing its other major problems. It's sad to see people unwilling to accept the results of an election, but now that the results have been certified, the Delegates meeting will take place and new members will go to the PNB meeting in Houston to be seated, as required by the Bylaws. If you cannot come to Houston to support your elected representatives, please come to the meeting tonight to make sure the election proceeds without rancor and in the spirit of the election, that WBAI deserves a change in direction. Carolyn At 12:18 PM -0400 4/9/08, Carolyn Birden wrote to the Pacifica National Board: >Dear PNB Members, > >The WBAI Delegates will meet this evening to elect directors. Those >elected will come to the Houston PNB meeting and request to be >seated. > >I urge all PNB members to vote to seat them. Dan's ill-considered >opinion should have no weight here -- as the Delegates are the duly >elected representatives of the Membership and their rights to call >meetings and elect directors cannot be blocked by the LSB, the PNB, >or the corporate counsel. > >We have had enough of partisan gamesmanship. The business of >Pacifica requires that we put that behind us. The WBAI Directors who >will be elected this evening need to take their office immediately >and begin their work to assist WBAI and Pacifica in solving its many >problems. > >Respectfully, > >Carolyn Birden