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I’m a longtime listener and subscriber to WBAI, and proud to be running for the Local Station Board with Justice & Unity (justiceunity.org). I started listening to and supporting WBAI as a high-school student in the ’60s. Radio back then was a means of linking you to the whole wide world, and BAI was the one station that did it the best. WBAI was my classroom of the air… (read more)

I’m retired from the New York City Board of Education and Nassau County’s Uniondale School District, where I often incorporated WBAI programs, especially “Democracy Now,” “Talk Back,” and “Jordan Journal” into my lessons. My students were fascinated with the wide range of programming, and some even encouraged their parents to listen… (read more)

An adamant WBAI listener for 25 years, I was introduced to the station and immediately drawn to Elombe Brath’s show, Afrikaleidoscope, which cemented my appreciation for activist-oriented community media. WBAI’s impact inspired my decision to independently produce my own Public Access show, The Melanin Chronicles. I learned quickly and directly of the many ethical and social responsibilities, production skills and tasks, and the culturally-conscious demands of the journalistic process, particularly with respect to critical issues that relate to the lives of working class people, and how to synthesize raw authenticity with zeal and action-centered solutions for the people… (read more)

I‘m seeking re-election to the WBAI Local Station Board with the Justice & Unity Campaign–endorsed by several progressive organizations including Larry Hamm and The People’s Organization for Progress–because I want to see the station continue to be a strong voice for the 99%. Recently, working with P.O.P., we were able to get a donated billboard advertising WBAI placed on the NJ Turnpike at no charge to the station… (read more)

I would like to see the day of when there are no longer a disputes about the importance of community radio. The station would be empowered with having a more inclusive and accessible station for persons with disabilities. The formulation of a program to provide a platform for persons with disabilities to discuss their initiatives, and the accessibility for them to be able to participate in other available programming would be an advancement toward inclusion… (read more)

I first got involved with the inner workings of WBAI in 2009, when 29-year WBAI veteran and then-current Program Director Bernard White was fired. The Justice and Unity Campaign played a key role in organizing listeners who supported Bernard’s work at the station and wanted to reverse his firing and a number of other anti-community measures that were taken at the time. I received their endorsement as LSB candidate in 2009 and joined the J & U slate for LSB elections in 2010… (read more)

I am committed to ensuring that WBAI and the rest of Pacifica stay on mission–challenging convention, bringing opponents together in search of resolutions, creating community on all sides of the microphone–for our children’s sake. All our children. And I believe that to do this we must make a deeper investment in how we work, and how we support and disagree with each other… (read more)

I am a filmmaker and have been a newspaper and radio journalist with various Haitian media over the past 40 years. I sit on the editorial board of Haïti Liberté, the largest Haitian weekly newspaper. I’ve worked closely with many media organizations, including Democracy Now, The Intercept, the Guardian, NACLA, The Nation and Wikileaks. As an anti-imperialist political activist, I have helped organize many demonstrations, conferences, tribunals, delegations, and press events… (read more)

If elected to serve on the LSB, I would truly represent the listeners as that is what that elected position consists of. As a former producer, former paid staff member and someone who knows radio and how to do radio, I think its important to reach out to High Schools, Colleges and Universities and provide internships to students and in exchange those students would earn credit for their content and time spent at BAI…. (read more)