Anyone who became or renewed membership (either by contribution of $25 or 3 hours of volunteer time) between Sept. 13, 2011 and Sept. 13, 2012 will have voting rights in the upcoming local board election. Justice & Unity will work hard to win back a board majority. Ballots are to be mailed to members on November 6.
Our slate of candidates is (in recommended ranking order):
1. Father Luis Barrios – Activist priest and professor; co-chair, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
2. Cerene Roberts – Former WBAI producer, pledge-room coordinator, and LSB member
3. William Heerwagen – Accountant; computer programmer; former host, “Jazz and Things”
4. Sharonne Salaam – founder, People United for Children; activist for wrongly convicted
Central Park 5; LSB member
5. Russell Dale – LSB member, philosophy professor, music teacher, anti-war activist
6. Carlos Canales – Immigrants’ rights & day-laborer activist, May 1st Steering Committee
7. Diana Crowder – Immigrants’ rights activist, union rep, member – Trabajadores Por la Paz
8. Shahid Comrade – Gen. Sec., Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum; immigrants’ rights and
peace activist
9. Ebon Charles – Elementary school teacher, advocate for youth
10. Eugene Hamond – Ex-producer, WBAI Community Bulletin Bd.; member, NYC Labor Chorus
WBAI used to be a beacon of progressive ideas and real news — in contrast to the corporate-sponsored lies, distortions and distractions in most media. Over the past 3 years, drastic programming and personnel changes by imposed managements have seriously undermined that role.
Now in the face of severe deficits, some voices in Pacifica are calling for selling WBAI and/or breaking up the network!
The WBAI Justice & Unity Campaign is a multiracial coalition that has long fought to keep WBAI true to its mission and, especially, to give voice to communities in struggle.
With your ongoing support, we will fight for:
• A move from the devastatingly high-rent Wall Street studio to smaller, cheaper
quarters (Sign the petition at www.change.org – put in “Save WBAI” in search field)
• A serious plan to revitalize WBAI’s financing through off-air fundraising
• An end to management (local and national) union busting;
• An end to silencing local communities by ignoring their stories;
• An end to programming that dishonors Pacifica’s mission;
• An end to targeting staff and listeners who oppose management’s unacceptable
practices.
For more information, call our hotline at (212) 591-2111.
Join our low-traffic email list at info@justiceunity.org.
WBAI NEEDS JUSTICE & UNITY!
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