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Join the Vigil for Lynne Stewart demanding compassionate release now ...
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:41
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WHAT: A VIGIL FOR LYNNE STEWART - DEMAND COMPASSIONATE RELEASE NOW.
WHEN : WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013
TIME: 12 NOON --- 6 PM
LOCATION: FOLEY SQUARE , NEW YORK CITY
AT CENTRE STREET [between Worth & Pearl St.]
Sponsoring Group: We Will Not Be Silent
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Email from We Will Not Be Silent:
LYNNE STEWART SHOULD BE FREE
Together we will create a public presence in front of the very courts that persecuted Lynne Stewart.
We will stand for love, courage and solidarity to make the call for Lynne to return home.
STAND WITH THE MANY
NOT WITH THE FEW
On April 26, 2013, people gathered outside the gates of the U.S. Federal
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WBAI BY THE NUMBERS - Part I
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- Published on Monday, 25 March 2013 13:32
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WBAI BY THE NUMBERS - Part I
According to the station's website, $500,000 is needed by the end of March in order to protect the transmitter. Our calculation differs and we thought it would be useful to collect information from various management reports so that you can draw your own conclusions.
While we do not doubt that there are other urgent needs, we strongly believe that the representation of the station's fiscal status should be as clear as possible.
Here are some of the numbers. Paint your own picture.
Empire State Building Transmitter/antenna rent ($ 50,000+ per month) (The time period and amount in the papers filed to begin the lawsuit are not relevant to this discussion as the amount due advances.)
Payment due by 3/15: $ 50,000 (Nov.) PAID 3/2013
Payment due on 3/31: $100,000 (Dec. & Jan.) PAID 3/2013
Payment due on 3/31: $ 50,000 (Feb.)
Payment due on 4/1: $ 60,000 (April $50,000 plus first $10K installment of March rent)
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Total $260,000 - Amount payable from Feb. 18 (when suit was revealed) to April 1
With $150,000 paid this month, the transmitter payment due by March 31/April 1 is $110,000.
TRANSMITTER FUNDRAISING
To reduce co-mingling of transmitter rescue funds and other station funds, the Local Station Board (LSB) requested that the General Manager (GM) create a dedicated account. No notice was given to the LSB that additional time was needed to secure particular authorizations before the manager could open an account. Instead, the national Interim Executive Director (IED) opened an account with the Bank of America with whom she has a relationship. As of 3/13/13, she had not arranged for any access to this account by the station's manager. We cannot speak to what, if anything, is in that account.
Station funds are being collected in four ways:
Urgent: Donate to WBAI Transmitter Fund
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- Published on Friday, 22 March 2013 22:58
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WBAI/Pacifica Radio is in critical condition and, if at any point in the past 53 years you called 99.5 FM "home," we're asking you to help, right now.
The station is in debt to the Empire State Building to the tune of $250,000, representing overdue rent. The landlord seeks both payment and to break the lease and expel the station's broadcast transmitter. Without a transmitter, our radio dies.
In spite of our deep dissatisfaction with the lack of process and other rights violations at WBAI, and questions about how and why conditions could have been allowed to reach this point, we lend our voice to the call for contributions that are as generous as you can afford
In the coming days, we will provide more background information, plans to prevent a recurrence, and other ways you can become involved.
We thank former board member Nia Bediako for helping to arrange for the move to low cost temporary studios at City College in Harlem and for forcing the issue of the transmitter lawsuit and the one by our former Wall Street landlord into public discussion. We are also grateful to Mimi Rosenberg for having gotten the station qualified and free legal representation.
Please donate online to the Transmitter Fund at http://www.give2wbai.org
or by mail, with a check to "WBAI" and the word "Transmitter Fund" in the memo section, at:
WBAI
Church Street Station
P.O. Box 7032
New York, NY 10008
Or you can make your donation by calling the Call Center at 516-620-3602 - be sure to specify "WBAI Transmitter Fund."
Email from Nia Bediako on Antenna Situation to the Pacifica National Board & Local Station Board
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 03:37
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From: Nia Bediako <
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Date: Monday, February 18, 2013 3:06 PM
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Subject: URGENT ACTIONS NEEDED ON WBAI ANTENNA
Colleagues on the PNB and LSB,
It has come to my attention and is causing me considerable alarm that the owners of the Empire State Building (ESB), the location of WBAI's antenna, has commenced a lawsuit, a "holdover proceeding," to terminate its relationship with WBAI. That is, the ESB's owners seek to terminate the station's lease, which is due to expire several years from now, and to remove WBAI from its antenna position. This means that a check for the overdue rent (at $50,000 per month) is probably not sufficient to resolve the issue.
Meanwhile, I understand that Silverstein Properties, the owner of the building at 120 Wall Street (the location of the studios that the station is about to vacate) has served a rent demand notice, a step toward commencing a nonpayment proceeding in the New York County civil court.
I am shocked that neither the PNB nor the LSB has been informed of the commencement of either of these litigations, one directed against our continued broadcast relationship with the Empire State Building, and the other serving legal notice of a rent demand due to nonpayment to Silverstein -- although both were served on Pacifica several months ago.
Save - Don't Sell - WBAI! Vote Justice & Unity
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- Published on Friday, 19 October 2012 00:02
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If you donated at least $25 or volunteered 3 hours between Sept. 13, 2011 and Sept. 13, 2012, you should have received your ballot by now. We urge you to cast your vote today for the entire Justice & Unity slate, in the order recommended below. Ballots must be received (not postmarked) by December 18. Our board opposition, led by junk-mail multimillionaire Steve Brown of "ACE" (the paper organization called Alliance for Community Elections), is using the Big Lie technique, falsely claiming that Justice & Unity wants to sell WBAI. To the contrary, for months we've been warning that Brown himself has publicly supported having Pacifica "sell all five of its licenses while they still have value." For more details, click here. Right-click HERE to download our detailed campaign flyer with more about the problems at the station and network, Justice & Unity's solutions, directions on how to mark your ballot, and other information. Our slate of candidates is (in recommended ranking order): |
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Come to Pacifica Natl. Bd. mtg. - Fri.-Mon.
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- Published on Friday, 22 February 2013 05:07
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Pacifica National Board meeting Fri., Feb. 22 - Mon., Feb. 25 WBAI Discussion: Sat., 3:40 PM (corrected) |