With the implementation of the new Pacifica bylaws, the election of new Local Station Boards (LSBs) and the convening of these LSBs the Pacifica Foundation has entered a new era.
UPDATE as of Tuesday, April 8, 2008: The 2007, WBAI elections are over at last. The surviving Elections Supervisor has counted the ballots. To see a copy of the official E-mail announcing the certification of the election results click here.
| WBAI Listener Election Results | |
|---|---|
| Omowale Clay | Justice & Unity (sic) Campaign |
| James Ross | Independent |
| Tibby Brooks | Justice & Unity (sic) Campaign |
| Bernardo Palombo | Independent |
| Lisa Davis | Justice & Unity (sic) Campaign |
| Sara Flounders | Justice & Unity (sic) Campaign |
| Jennifer Jager | Independent |
| Robert M. Gold | Independent |
| Don Mathieson | Independent |
| WBAI Staff Election Results | ||
|---|---|---|
| R. Paul Martin | * | |
| Vajra Kilgour | * | |
| Max Schmid | * |
* Note: Staff are not allowed to run as part of a slate. Max Schmid and I are independents anyway.
At its September meeting the PNB announced that Nicole Sawaya, former General Manager of KPFA, would become the Executive Director of the Pacifica Foundation starting in mid-November.
It was then reported by The Berkeley Daily Planet that Ms. Sawaya had seemingly resigned after one month on the job, but that discussions were going on between her and the PNB. Exactly what the nature of those discussions might have been about was not known by anyone outside of the principals involved. Dan Siegal, Pacifica's General Counsel, continued to act as Pacifica's interim Executive Director.
UPDATE: The Pacifica Foundation has issued a press release dated March 4, 2008, saying that, “Nicole Sawaya has accepted the offer of the Pacifica National Board to return as Pacifica’s Executive Director. She will resume her duties as of March 5, 2008, and will attend the Houston meeting next week.” The press release is signed by interim Executive Director Dan Siegal.
I have prepared a Web page devoted to the September 2007, PNB meeting. It includes short, edited audio clips culled from the recordings of that meeting. They mostly concern the current financial crisis of Pacifica and WBAI. Click here to go to the page about this important meeting.
Meanwhile there's an interesting video interview with former Executive Director Greg Guma available.
On November 29, 2007, the PNB's Finance Committee held a teleconference meeting where a lot of serious financial information was disclosed. Among other things, WBAI could end up not being able to pay its bills by April 2008. Audio excerpts of that meeting are here.
The PNB's Finance Committee held another regular teleconference meeting on December 10, 2007. The committee's WBAI working group reported at this meeting. You can listen to an audio excerpt of this report, and read my summary of the other happenings at this meeting here.
The WBAI LSB held its seventy third meeting on Wednesday, April 23, 2008.
There is a regular WBAI LSB meeting scheduled for May 21, 2008, at 7:00 PM, location to be announced.
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The First WBAI LSB - February 19, 2004, to November 30, 2004
The Second WBAI LSB - December 15, 2004, to November 29, 2006.
The Third WBAI LSB - December 27, 2006, to March 25, 2008.
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The following is the composition of the Pacifica National Board as of 2008.
The Directors of the Pacifica National Board
| WBAI | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nia Bediako | Carolyn Birden | Jamie Ross | Kathy Davis (Staff) |
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| WPFW | |||
| Acie Byrd | Rob Robinson | Thomas Ruffin | Ambrose I. Lane, Sr. (Staff) |
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| KPFA | |||
| Sherry Gendelman | Sarv Randhawa | Joe Wanzala | Bonnie Simmons (Staff) |
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| KPFK | |||
| Grace Aaron | Jack VanAken | Yosh Yomanaka | Margaret Prescod (Staff) |
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| KPFT | |||
| George Reiter | Dr. Evelyn Serwa Bethune | Wendy Schroell | Michael Martin (Staff) |
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| Affiliates | |||
| Lori Taguma - WOJB | Efia Nwangaza - WMXP | ||
The first regular meeting of the new Pacifica National Board was held in Berkeley, California, March 12-14, 2004. More about that here.
Here are the minutes of the March 2004, PNB meeting.
The second regular meeting of the Pacifica National Board was held in Houston, Texas, Friday through Sunday, June 4 - 6, 2004. Here are Roger Manning's notes on this meeting.
Here are the minutes of the June 2004, PNB meeting.
The third regular meeting of the Pacifica National Board was held in Rockville, Maryland (which counts as Washington, D.C.) October 1 - 3, 2004. Here are Roger Manning's notes on this meeting.
The fourth regular meeting of the Pacifica National Board was held in Berkeley, California January 13-17, 2005. At this time there are o minutes for this meeting available.
The fifth regular meeting of the Pacifica National Board was held April 1-3, 2005, at the Doubletree Metropolitan 50th Street and Lexington Ave., New York City. Here's the official Web page about it.
The sixth regular meeting of the Pacifica National Board was held June 17-19, 2005, at the Berkeley Doubletree Marina in Berkeley, California. Here's the official Web page about it.
The seventh sort-of-regular meeting of the Pacifica National Board was held October 28-30 2005, at the Houston Media Source in Houston, Texas. So far there's no official Web page about it that's at all up to date.
In addition, the PNB holds special meetings where occasionally important things happen. All of the minutes, both approved and draft, of the PNB meetings are here.
Here is the Pacifica Foundation's official non-discrimination policy.
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