THE Lists and addresses and emails of members used to be sacrosanct to the stations; now, not only Pacifica National but New Day proponents are using them to propagandize you for their agenda. There is a law providing for this in California, but they choose to use it against the existing workers/fighters.
THE New Day breakers all told us their plan to eliminate the station boards, and now they’re not telling us any differently. Their new by-laws only allow LSB members to just Fundraise, with no power. Their plan to have LSBs in the near term, doesn’t preclude their elimination in the future.
WE members and workers for Pacifica have 2 main problems: local and national board members and the ED did not come up through the ranks of the stations, and candidates for both boards and ED can’t reveal all about themselves on the air and on line. And we are not in the Computer Age. Villains reveal their prejudices and weaknesses in their own declarations, ‘hoist on their own petard’.
THE New Day breakers want to hire an ED from outside Pacifica, That’s the opposite of what we should do. Up through the ranks.
THE reason Pacifica can never complete an audit is because KPFA always refuses to turn over their books to anyone including the auditors, under the same folks who are in New Day Pacifica.
THE last time Pacifica had a National Development Director they wanted to directly fundraise from the stations listener-sponsors, and keep the money at National instead of the stations. With the money lies the power. They even wanted to have the local fund drive money go directly to them!
WHEN Pacifica had that Dev. Dir. We also had a National Program Director. All hiring and programming decisions at the National not the stations.’
THE ED works free so she won’t have to be under scrutiny like an employee would.
THERE ARE MANY ELITISTS, Imperialists, among the endorsers and prospective National board members.
THE perennial treasurer of KPFA, its LSB and the Pacifica National Board, has even said, ‘When the Network vitally needs some money, ‘we’ have to take the money from somewhere in the network to pay that required money to protect the organization’. If KPFA or national want money, they just pass it back and forth without any process or due process.
KPFA is in the hippie heaven/haven of the world. It was always lefty and the site of the Free Speech Movement of the 60’s. Those listeners take it for granted that they should support their lefty radio station.
Yes KPFA gives money to the rest of the network sometimes, doesn’t mean they are qualified to be the messiah of Pacifica. They are in a blue bubble and don’t pay enough attention to the rest of the country, ‘in the belly of the beast.’
IT’S easy to balance the budget by laying off staff.
PACIFICA RADIO ARCHIVES, it’s easy to bloom from small numbers when you don’t have digital and internet resources to count with, until you do have those resources. It’s a false comparison, apples and oranges. Although Mark is doing great with P.R.A.
FOR STRATEGIC PLAN, read Brainwashing Session. Staff (sometimes others) are bunched together, separated from their workplaces, environmentally controlled, and the supposed leaders and supposed ‘experts’ have the charge to address and convince the workers.
THE new By-Laws at every point change the rules to eliminate any democracy, and their new process is almost impossible to revoke or make changes to. Please check the sites that narrate the differences between the old and new proposed By-Laws. We will end up with only 7 hand-picked members of the National Board and no local boards.
Existing ByLaws:
https://pacifica.org/documents/bylaws_160721/Pacifica_Bylaws_Jan-1-2016.pdf
New Day proposed By-Laws:
“The best phrases create understanding in the listeners’ minds.”
Sue Cohen Johnson, Past KPFK Membership Dir., English as a second language teacher
