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Bill Crosier #4: PNB Misinformation & Talking about Substance

 I want to correct those who keep saying (incorrectly) that Summer Reese broke a tie on whether to renew Arlene’s [Englehardt, the previous executive director of Pacifica] contract.  I’ll also state that I voted against the motion to not renew Arlene’s contract.  I wanted to give Arlene more time to cut expenses and increase listenership and membership to try to get Pacifica better stabilized, and was willing to extend her contract.  But the majority voted not to renew it.  Summer also did not vote on the motion to make her iED (also back in 2012).

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Petition for removal of Rodrigo Argueta from the Pacifica National Board

We, the undersigned members of the paid and unpaid staff at KPFK-FM, request the Pacifica National Board to implement the recall procedure delineated in Article 4, Section 9E of the Pacifica Bylaws.

We are calling an election for the purpose of removing Rodrigo Argueta as a delegate elected to represent the KPFK staff, and as the sole staff delegate from KPFK on the Pacifica National Board, and have him replaced by another delegate and staff director.
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After director’s firing, WBAI sale is now rumored

March 20, 2014 | From the Villager

BY PAUL DERIENZO  |  Summer Reese, the executive director of the Berkeley-based Pacifica Foundation, was fired on March 14 in a closed session of the Pacifica National Board. No official reason was given for the firing, which was announced two hours after Reese publicly announced that she had paid the overdue severances of the majority of WBAI’s employees laid off in a financial crisis triggered in part from damage from Superstorm Sandy. Continue reading After director’s firing, WBAI sale is now rumored

The Elephant is the Healthy Station Project

by Lyn Gerry

Lyn Gerry
Lyn Gerry

I know, everyone, that you are ge1ng inundated with so much just now.  But I need to say that so much of the struggle all of us face today, I think, comes from the elephant in the room, which is Pacifica’s embrace of the healthy station project in the 1990’s. Pacifica chose to go this route. Paying producers and having strip programming. This is why the bills are so high at KPFA.  I think, partly and perhaps largely because of all the paid producers.  It is also why Margy and other engaged in the Save KPFA initiative – to bring back a paid producer who had been let go by Arlene to reduce the hemorrhaging at the station. Continue reading The Elephant is the Healthy Station Project