Originally posted March 17, 2014

Berkeley: At the national headquarters of Pacifica Radio, the nation’s oldest listener sponsored radio network and the owner of 5 radio licenses, KPFK in Los Angeles, KPFA in Berkeley, WPFW in Washington DC, KPFT in Houston and WBAI in New York, a late-night board coup to remove the CEO seems to have backfired. Continue reading Pacifica Radio National Headquarters Open After Board Coup →

Originally posted March 16, 2014

Berkeley –In a familiar refrain, the brand new chair of the Pacifica National Board could be found on the morning Friday March 14th barricading the doors of a small building at 1925 Martin Luther King Jr Way in Berkeley. After only six weeks on the job, the barricade was being erected against the organization’s executive director Summer Reese, a woman thirty years her junior, who had just been presented with a 3-year contract for employment only six weeks earlier, after working for 20 months as an interim in the executive director position. Reese had been the chair of Pacifica’s National Board for the previous 3 years, but she never found herself pressed into duty as an ad-hoc locksmith. The network’s employees, who usually work in the building on Friday, were nowhere to be found. Continue reading Here We Go Again: Locks and Surveillance Return to Martin Luther King Jr Way →