Sure the Bylaws need revision, but not now and not with this alleged “NewDay” model for restructuring. We absolutely cannot at this time afford elections and surrounding legal expenses now, while we can not pay our bills and all of our buildings are in danger of being foreclosed on. Furthermore, this overly complicated and dangerously biased model will cause more grief – not more help.

The main thing we need is what we have always needed; better management, concise accounting and across the network training. Closing thought: the old Bylaws are 45 pages long, the proposed “NewDay” Bylaws are 58 pages long – How in the world could our Bylaws be simplified by making them 13 pages longer ???

Please don’t go down the “NewDay” rabbit hole.

Richard Uzzell, currently KPFT LSB and past PNB Director and past PNB Secretary.

Tom Voorhees Pacifica national board director from the KPFA local station board in support of building democratic solutions through the world. I also have a history of putting many new community radio stations on the air as a transmitter site project engineer, most have joined the over 220 existing pacifica affiliate stations. Also working hard to rebuild Pacifica as a anti-war network.

Toxic self-appointed boards may be fine for Grocery Chains and Global Pharmaceutical Enterprises but they won’t do for grassroots media endeavors, like the Pacifica Radio Foundation. You need a bit of anarchy, a good measure of fanatic activism, a lot of fresh perspectives, and as close a connection to the membership as possible. Democracy can be time consumming and blistery, but it far exceeds Corporatocracy and Cronyism.

I endorse a NO vote on the proposed new by-laws that would allow the people who took over WBAI for a month in October 2019 to take over Pacifica and sell it off piecemeal.

I would vote to keep Pacfica just the way it was in the 60's-70's with democratic bylaws for all. In my view Pacifica Network has been the greatest of the great news sources since the cows went home. Thanks to all who want to preserve the hayday years of which I was a contributing member. Oh & the KPFK MERRY CHRISTMAS fair, bring it back.

Cannot live without this station. It makes my day and informs me

Only democracy will keep Pacifica alive. Control by any group will mean it’s end.

KPFA is a NATIONAL TREASURE for those seeking info beyond the corporate propaganda. NPR-LITE? NEVER!!!!!

Simple (but draconian) solutions to complex problems are very seductive. But with rare exceptions, always create major problems. The drug war is a good example. I'm proud to be associated here with people who have spent their lives expanding democratic participation in our institutions. New Day Pacifica's attempt to shut listener-supporters out of responsibility for the radio they pay for (and force thousands of listener dollars to be spent on their empty conceit) is nothing but one more attempt to impose on Pacifica the same kind of autocratic control so popular today in many state legislatures. It is nothing but a vain and shoddy attempt to make sure they can do it 'their way'.

The new undemocratic bylaws proponents are phony progressives who have taken over the management of KPFA and are tilting it toward the corporate, neocon Democratic Party leadership. These bylaws represent their attempt to seize control of the whole Pacifica network and convert it into another NPR. Please vote "NO" to stop them.

I endorse the "NO" vote in opposition to the "New Day Pacifica" referendum because of (a) the overwhelming 66 to 33 defeat of the first "New Day Pacifica" referendum in a free and fair election in March 2020; (b) the public explicit "New Day Pacifica" agenda would (1) abolish all five Pacifica Radio Local Station Boards across this country, (2) would cancel the local control over daily programming, and (3) would consolidate the leadership of the Pacifica Radio network to fall under the control of "New Day Pacifica" supporters of a cabal of the West Coast KPFK and KPFA supporters and would eliminate the role and the work of the 44 years of WPFW's 24/7 on-air existence in the 'Belly of the Monster' and the 60 years of WBAI's 24/7 on-air existence and work in the 'Finance Capital of the World'. Furthermore, the "New Day Pacifica" agenda is utterly and completely anti-democratic to its core. Louis Wolf 202-362-1718 louw7@live.com

I published an essay explaining my endorsement in Counterpunch, San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, Black Star News, and Black Agenda Report.

Black Star News and Milton Allimadi, editor of Black Star News and host of “The Black Star News Show” on WBAI, endorse a “no” vote.

The San Francisco Bay View National Black newspaper endorses a NO vote in the New Day Pacifica by-laws.
What a shame to see where Pacifica has come to after 70 years –
Peace, Nube
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Abolition now!

to remove independent media from the landscape is wrong, anti american and a violation of our trust in pacifica and its mission. corporations DO NOT need to control EVERYTHING.