I have been a Peace and Social Justice Advocate most all of my adult life, nearly 50 years. This has been my vocation, my purpose in life. I have never been paid for my vocation. Recently, I received 7.4% with 15,697 votes as the Green Party candidate when I ran for Congress in CA D11 in 2020 to give voters a progressive choice. I plan to run again in 2022. I fear the new by-laws will forever eliminate listener influence & control over a radio network that listeners totally fund. The new by-laws, I fear will eventually lead to Democratic Party and corporate funding control as has happened with Public Radio and KQED. Interests leading the new by-laws have already been involved in Pacifica management and have been as much a problem as anyone else in any management disfunction. Certainly, we can use professional experts to help Pacifica Radio without turning management control over to these same so-called professionals! Corporate media is full of professionals. After 72 years, let us keep the only nation-wide people's radio voice , Pacifica Radio under community & grassroots control not professionals!
Michael E Kerr
