Support Anti-Racist Programming
Come to the WBAI Local Station Board Meeting
Wed., Sept. 17 at 7:00 PM
583 Riverside Drive
The current WBAI Local Station Board majority, led by its chair Mitch Cohen, is proposing to eliminate the position of Program Director, currently held by progressive African-American Bernard White. Using the station’s very real budget crisis as an excuse, they are seeking to blatantly purge a person who has been key to maintaining programming serving communities of color and covering many activist movements. These same people have been viciously maligning and attempting to remove Bernard for years. This is just one of their “budget” proposals to remove or penalize persons in positions around the Pacifica Network whom they oppose politically.
Come support the board members from the WBAI Justice & Unity Campaign as they fight to defeat these retrograde actions! Anyone from the public may speak for 2 minutes during the meeting.
The meeting will be held at in an uptown Manhattan location. ACE WBAI LSB member Carolyn Birden announced an incorrect uptown address on air, but Board Chair Mitch Cohen posted another at 11:26 PM on Tuesday 9-17-08 on the Elections and LSB List-serv (less than 24 hours before the meeting) . Cohen said the address to take as “gospel” is:
Broadway Housing Communities (at the Dorothy Day Houses)
583 Riverside Drive
between 135th & 136th Street
Manhattan.
The #1 train to 137 St. (City College) stops just 1-1/2 blocks away.
The Brooklyn location is definitely cancelled.
For directions to the meeting from any NY bourough go to http://hopstop.com/ For more about the meeting location, check www.wbai.org. The correct address still was not posted as of 12:17pm on the wbai.org site, it definitely isn’t the listed Brooklyn address.
For more information, go to the WBAI Justice & Unity Campaign website at www.justiceunity.org
For a downloadable flyer of the above text, right click HERE and help distribute copies! Read the next article to learn how to fight back.
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