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Pacifica Directors For Good Governance To File Suit Today

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Originally posted April 1, 2014

Berkeley-A lawsuit will be filed in Alameda County today by Pacifica Directors for Good Governance against the 12 Pacifica Foundation board members who have engaged in a series of illegitimate actions to destabilize the 65-year-old public radio network. The lead plaintiff is current board member Heather Gray, who is one of two representatives for Pacifica’s 180 program affiliate stations and is associated with WRFG (Radio Free Georgia). The 16+ page brief requests injunctive relief to protect Pacifica from adverse impacts resulting from the board majority’s illegal actions. Continue reading Pacifica Directors For Good Governance To File Suit Today

Snoop Camera and a Discussion with the CPB Inspector General

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Originally posted March 31, 2014

Berkeley – Executive Director Summer Reese has a Monday morning telephone conference with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Inspector General where she will be discussing the current state of Pacifica with the agency, which is holding over a million dollars in community service grants from 2013. Another 3/4 million in 2014 grants is on the line, endangered by the inability of auditor Armanino McKenna to go forward with an audit of the foundation’s books on March 27th.
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National Board Member (WBAI) Manijeh Saba’s Outburst at the Last Board Meeting

This audio clip contains an outburst by national board member Manijeh Saba – a listener representative from WBAI-FM – at the conclusion of the open session of the last board meeting. Her strong statement was removed from the audio archive of the meeting, but we have a copy here.

Left to right David Barrows, Joy Fist, Max Obuszewski, Manijeh Sabah, Malachy Kilbride and Jack McHale at US Attorney's Office preparing to file War Crimes complaint for drone warfare, May 2013.  Photo by Ted Majdosz

(It begins at about 2 minutes into the recording. The recording has all the discussion after the board vice-chair unilaterally declared the meeting “adjourned” without a vote).