Pacifica staff attempt to shred documents, attract police attention
This message from SaveKPFA (Berkeley) was forwarded with a cover note by Michael Novick, Local Station Board member from KPFK (Los Angeles), member of Grassroots KPFK, and long-time anti-racist activist, as follows:
Reese as board chair and then interim Executive Director has presided over a series of catastrophes, and her current "rule or ruin" grandstanding is doing even greater damage. The point is not about personalities, but about the kind of management Pacifica and the local stations need — management with vision, commitment to Pacifica's mission and democratic ideals, willing to collaborate with governance and the paid and unpaid staff to grow the stations, oriented towards the communities the stations are meant to serve, dedicated to attracting new and younger listeners and meeting the needs of underserved communities.
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From: SaveKPFA <votesavekpfa@gmail.com>
Date: March 28, 2014 at 4:18:56 AM EDT
Subject: Listeners and staff to terminated executive: JUST LEAVE!
Listeners and staff to terminated executive: just leave!
"The Pacifica Radio network is as fragile as it is important — it cannot afford this protracted disruption," reads a petition launched by the network's listeners and staff, addressed to terminated executive Summer Reese, who has barricaded herself in the national office next door to KPFA with her mother and a handful of supporters.
"Please respect the decision by the majority of the elected Pacifica National Board, stop blocking elected board members' access to financial records, leave Pacifica's offices peacefully, and help make Pacifica's leadership transition a smooth one," the petition continues….
SIGN HERE (and please circulate to your lists)
Since Reese broke into Pacifica Offices with bolt cutters on March 17, four days after being terminated, newly-elected Pacifica National Board chair Margy Wilkinson has responded with restraint — attempting to meet, and asking that she vacate the office and that all keys, codes, digital equipment and cell phone be returned. Wilkinson is a former union negotiator and long-time community activist in Berkeley.
Pacifica staff attempt to shred documents, attract police attention
Media were drawn to the scene this past Monday, after an industrial shredding van pulled up outside the Pacifica office and KPFA's workers began to ask questions, according to the SF Weekly.
…The request for the shredding equipment was made March 21, five days into the illegal lock-out. Wilkinson had already asked staff to refrain from destroying any records, notes the SF Weekly. In her short time on the job, Wilkinson has discovered many large unpaid bills that were not previously reported to the national board or the public. Pacifica's documents were returned to the office.
"Who knows what mischief Reese and her supporters are up to in the Pacifica National Office?" said volunteer KPFA music programmer Tim Lynch. "They are denying entry to elected national board members, which is strictly forbidden by the California Corporations Code."
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READ MORE at http://www.savekpfa.org/listeners-and-staff-to-terminated-executive-just-leave
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