Justice & Unity’s Platform

Ten Point Plan to Save WBAI

1. Safeguard the historic local autonomy of WBAI’s transmitter & programming.
2. Hire multi-skilled, broadcast-savvy, community-minded managers; protect all producers’ self-expression; reinstate removed dissenters.
3. Pursue a capital campaign to purchase a WBAI facility; develop vigorous off-air fundraising programs.
4. Actively build listenership among a new generation of activists.
5. Reforge connections with grassroots groups and community media; expand outreach events.
6. Protect locally-based programming for peace with justice.
7. Restrict campaign spending for local board elections.
8. Hold a national convention to improve Pacifica bylaws, including mandating diversity.
9. Honor the labor contracts with the unpaid and paid staff unions.
10. Demand transparency for local & national board meetings; expand public participation; return to open membership on local board committees.

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With help from the Local Station Board, staff, WBAI members and listeners, together we can:
• Mount a capital campaign and pursue city building grants/loans to buy our own studio, thus reducing huge rent bills.
• Resume search for compatible tenants to sublet part of WBAI’s studios.
• Build a dedicated team to address the problem of ordering and shipping premiums.
• Hire a full-time development director to lead robust off-air fundraising—awards dinners, concerts, planned giving, and more.

• Through revitalized committee work, recruit listeners of all ages and ethnicities via grassroots multi-media—Internet, Facebook, Twitter,“Town Hall” events, WBAI palm-cards, and more.
• Expand online distribution and archiving of WBAI programs.
• Create long-term, multi-channel expansion of WBAI programming via sideband, hybrid-digital radio, and cable TV.
• Create a Pacifica record label to raise money, and showcase the work of progressive cultural workers.