See below for info on emergency town hall meetings initiated by the WBAI Black Caucus concerning the WBAI crisis:
Tues., Aug. 10, 2004 (Brooklyn)
Fri., Aug. 13 (Jamaica, Queens), and
Mon., Aug. 16 (White Plains, NY)
Wed., Aug. 18 (Spring Valley, NY)
Date TBA (Newark, NJ)
For background on these issues, go to bottom of this email and check http://www.justiceunity.org.
Also remember: To vote in this fall’s WBAI elections for Local Station Board, you must be a member in good standing by AUGUST 31. To qualify, you can either donate at least $25 — which you can do online (via secure credit card transaction) at http://www.wbai.org or by calling 212-209-2800 — or give three hours of volunteer time (or for a third option, a fight is underway to create a process to provide hardship waivers). Please urge all your friends to sign up now!!
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W B A I STATE OF EMERGENCY:
The push to remove Africans from the top
What: EMERGENCY TOWN HALL MEETING
When: Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 6:00-9:00 pm
Where: House of the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic Ave. (bet. Bond & Nevins Sts.), Brooklyn
Is the attack by members of the station’s local board a matter of individual quirkiness or the enactment of a plan to remove Africans from the management and the air at listener-sponsored WBAI? What about the other “progressives” on the board who silently observe the process?
With a decreasing number of outlets for discussion and reporting on the work of grassroots struggles against bad schools, gentrification and neighborhood displacement, health risks and environmental racism, fewer jobs and more prisons, what needs to be done to preserve WBAI as a tool of liberation?
Join Bob Law, Gary Imhotep Byrd, Omowale Clay, Ayo Harrington, Eddie Ellis, Mimi Rosenberg, and others for an examination of the role of media and in particular, of radio-the most accessible and portable form of communication.
Event organized by the WBAI Black Caucus
For more information, email <wbairesistance@excite.com>
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Calendar of Future Forums:
Friday, August 13, 2004
Afrikan Poetry Theatre
176-03 Jamaica Ave. (F train to 179th Street)
Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.
6:30pm-9:30pm
Speakers:
Gil Noble, Elombe Brath, Ayo Harrington, others.
Event organized by the WBAI Black Caucus
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Monday, August 16, 2004
Venue to be named later
White Plains, N.Y.
Speakers: Sheila Hamanaka, Don DeBar, others.
Event organized by the Westchester Friends of WBAI and WESPAC
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Venue to be named later
Spring Valley, N.Y.
Speakers: Sheila Hamanaka, Don DeBar, others.
Event organized by the Rockland Coalition for Undoing Racism
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Venue and date to be confirmed later
Newark, New Jersey
Event organized by the People’s Organization for Progress
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Materials and references will be provided at all events.
For further information, email <wbairesistance@excite.com>
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