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Sunday, 17 May 2009 21:28 |
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 (and every Tuesday)
6:30-10:00 PM District Council 1707, 75 Varick St. (north of Canal St.), 14th floor, Manhattan (A or 1 train to Canal St.).
This will include, among other work, mobilizing for the June 17 demonstration at the station (see below).
Plus the Working Groups will meet and
report back to the larger group: 1. Outreach/Mobilizing/Actions 2. Literature/website 3. Legal approaches and board member recall campaign 4. Fundraising/WBAI Membership
Current Demands of the Coalition to Take Back WBAI:
1. Reinstate Tony Riddle as WBAI General Manager and Bernard White as WBAI Program Director 2. No gag rule - no punishment of staff - reinstate Ayo Harrington and any other removed staff 3. Keep the transmitter under WBAI's control 4. Safeguard WBAI's historic local autonomy.
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Coalition to Take Back WBAI (list in formation)
Pam Africa Stanley Aronowitz Father Luis Barrios City Councilmember Charles Barron Fred Ho Akinlabi E. A. Mackall Esperanza Martell Dr. James McIntosh Ken Nash Ralph Poynter Lea Rizack Nayo Joy Simmons & Brenda Walker of Operation P.O.W.E.R. (People Organizing & Working for Empowerment & Respect) Lynne Stewart Valerie Van Isler Tim Wise |
ACT UP/NY (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/New York) Alberto Lovero Bolivarian Circle of NY Anti-Racist Alliance Asia Pacific Action CEMOTAP (Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People) December 12th Movement FIST - Fight Imperialism Stand Together Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition International Action Center International Support Haiti Network Marvelous Light Crusade World Outreach Ministries Masjid Al-Taqwah National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO) New York Coalition for Neighborhood School Control Pakistan USA Freedom Forum Peace Health Center People's Institute for Survival and Beyond ProLibertad (Freedom Campaign for Puerto Rican |
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Political Prisoners) Queers for Peace and Justice Resistance in Brooklyn Rockland County Immigration Coalition Roots Revisited S.E.E.D.S., Inc. Sisa Pakari Labor Center - Queens Working People's Voice Publication |
***************************************************** WHAT YOU CAN DO To Help Take Back WBAI
1. Send an email to the Pacifica National Board at
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- which reaches each board member individually, including Grace Aaron. Demand: Reinstate WBAI Management! Maintain local control of programming!
2. Also call Grace Aaron (Interim Exec. Dir.) at (310) 286-1011 or (310) 402-4087 and LaVarn Williams (Acting General Mgr.) at (212) 209-2800 or (212) 209-2820 with the same message.
3. Sign and circulate for signatures the petition to undo the coup.
4. Sign a petition to RECALL Local Station Board members who have led the attack on WBAI management.
5. Be alert for announcements of protests and actions to express your opposition.
6. IT IS URGENT THAT YOU JOIN THE STATION BY JUNE 30 (by donating $25 or more or 3 hours of volunteer work) so that you have the right to vote for pro-autonomy board candidates and to recall destructive board members. Pledge online at http://www.wbai.org.
7. ADD YOUR OWN IDEAS!
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Tune into Don DeBar's audio & video reports on the WBAI crisis at http://www.wbixradio.org
For more information on these issues, go to the WBAI Justice & Unity Campaign website at http://www.justiceunity.com.
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