Originally posted July 1, 2015 Originally posted April 23, 2014 Berkeley-SAG/AFTRA has filed a complaint at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Pacifica Radio, for unilateral contract modifications and bargaining in bad faith with the union local at WPFW-FM in Washington DC. Acting/interim/disputed chair Margy Wilkinson approved the seeming contract violations at an April … Continue reading Rudderless Pacifica Back in Front of Labor Relations Board→
by Eric Jacobson This is an except of a longer article. For the full text, click here. Is the Pacifica Foundation Board Trying to Dissolve the Foundation’s Five Station Union, Place Each Station’s Broadcast License under Local Ownership, Sell WBAI into the Commercial Marketplace and Distribute the Proceeds as “Endowments” to the Remaining 4 Stations? … Continue reading Summer Reese is the Pacifica Foundation’s Abe Lincoln→
Originally posted April 7, 2014 Berkeley-A community meeting hosted by the Berkeley station’s Community Advisory Board was held at the South Berkeley Center Center at 2939 Ellis Street in Berkeley on Sunday April 6th and attended by about a hundred people. The vast majority expressed great concern about the abrupt attempted firing of the executive … Continue reading Community Concern Rises & Who’s On First? Pacifica Board Meeting→
Originally posted April 4, 2014 Berkeley- Nine members of the current Pacifica Foundation board of directors (Pacifica Directors for Good Governance) have filed suit to try to bring to an end the self-destructive spiral of the nation’s first listener-sponsored radio network. The complaint alleges irreperable harms resulting from the board’s reckless termination of Reese and … Continue reading Lawsuit Filed To Uphold Reese Contract, Rogue Board Paralyzed→
THE NEWS After three years of litigation, and six figure legal fees paid out of KPFA’s bank account, the KPFA Protectors have abandoned their Safety Net lawsuit. A settlement agreement signed on June 5, 2023 and filed with the court dismisses the entire action with prejudice (meaning it cannot be re-filed), and stipulates no conditions except that … Continue reading KPFA Protectors Lawsuit Abandoned→
Berkeley – This is the second of two emails. The initial one focused on Pacifica Foundation news and this contains endorsements for the 2021 local station board elections. Your ballots have been sent on Monday and you have until October 15 to vote. Pacifica in Exile is an independent publication and our endorsements are not affiliated with any third party.
Or How to Solve The Problem When People Just Won’t Vote Right Firstly, we want to apologize for breaking our vow not to send more than one edition a week. We take that promise seriously and are only taking this step because an unexpected development arose that it seemed important for people to know. We … Continue reading New Day Moves to Eradicate Staff Vote on Bylaws Referendum→
Berkeley-At Tuesday’s national finance committee me, board treasurer Chris Cory, a member of the UIR/Save KPFA group and Anita Simms from NETA, the consulting firm with a $27,000/mo contract for outsourced accounting services, announced that they do not have current income totals for the October to December of 2019 period because KPFA has not provided revenue … Continue reading No Property Tax and Blank General Ledgers→
Berkeley – When we last wrote, the Pacifica National Board had voted yes on the anti-democratic bylaws proposal so that the local station boards at the five stations would have the opportunity to debate, discuss and issue their referendums on the proposal to replace the network’s bylaws and revert to a self-appointing board majority. The national … Continue reading Back To Court→
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday September 28, 2019 It’s Not Free Speech Radio Anymore Dear Readers – It has been a long interval since Pacifica in Exile has published. Like many of you, we were relieved when Pacifica was able to avert catastrophe in the wake of the Empire State Building disaster. It seemed like the … Continue reading It’s Not Free Speech Radio Anymore→
