A meeting of about 70 people on Tuesday May 12th, founded the group called Take Back WBAI.
COALITION TO TAKE BACK WBAI
Next meeting: Tuesday, May 26, 6:30-10:00 PM
District Council 1707, 75 Varick St. (north of Canal St.), 14th floor, Manhattan
(A or 1 train to Canal St.)
Working Groups:
1. Outreach/Mobilizing
2. Literature/website
3. Creative actions
4. Legal approaches and board member recall campaign
5. Fundraising/WBAI Membership
For information, to get involved in any of the working groups, or to join our email/phone list, call 212-561-7231* www.takebackwbai.org [set to go live soon]
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Current Demands of the Coalition to Take Back WBAI:
1. Reinstate Tony Riddle as WBAI General Manager and Bernard White as WBAI Program Director
2. No gag rule – no punishment of staff – reinstate Ayo Harrington and any other removed staff
3. Keep the transmitter under WBAI’s control
4. Safeguard WBAI’s historic local autonomy.
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Coalition to Take Back WBAI (list in formation)
Pam Africa
Stanley Aronowitz
Father Luis Barrios
City Councilmember Charles Barron
Tony Gronowicz
Fred Ho
Akinlabi E. A. Mackall
Esperanza Martell
Dr. James McIntosh
Ken Nash
Ralph Poynter
Lea Rizack
Nayo Joy Simmons & Brenda Walker
of Operation P.O.W.E.R. (People Organizing
& Working for Empowerment & Respect)
Lynne Stewart
Valerie Van Isler
ACT UP/New York
Alberto Lovero Bolivarian Circle of NY
Anti-Racist Alliance
Asia Pacific Action
CEMOTAP (Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People)
December 12th Movement
FIST – Fight Imperialism Stand Together
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
International Action Center
International Support Haiti Network
Marvelous Light Crusade World Outreach Ministries
Masjid Al-Taqwah
National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO)
New York Coalition for Neighborhood School Control
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum
Peace Health Center
People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
ProLibertad (Freedom Campaign for Puerto Rican Political Prisoners)
Queers for Peace and Justice
Resistance in Brooklyn
Rockland County Immigration Coalition
Roots Revisited
S.E.E.D.S., Inc.
Sisa Pakari Labor Center – Queens
Working People’s Voice Publication
WHAT YOU CAN DO
To Help Take Back WBAI
1. Send an email to the Pacifica National Board at pnb@pacifica.org – which reaches each board member individually, including Grace Aaron.
Demand: Reinstate WBAI Management! Maintain local control of programming!
2. Also call Grace Aaron (Interim Exec. Dir.) at (310) 286-1011 or (310) 402-4087 and LaVarn Williams (Acting General Mgr.) at (212) 209-2800 or (212) 209-2820 with the same message.
3. Sign and circulate for signatures the petition to undo the coup.
4. Sign a petition to RECALL Local Station Board members who have led the attack on WBAI management.
5. Be alert for announcements of protests and actions to express your opposition.
6. IT IS URGENT THAT YOU JOIN THE STATION BY JUNE 30 (by donating $25 or more or 3 hours of volunteer work) so that you have the right to vote for pro-autonomy board candidates and to recall destructive board members. Through the end of the pledge drive on May 30, you can call the station’s pledge line at (212) 209-2950 – ask them to note on the card that you demand reinstatement of local management. Or pledge at www.wbai.org.
7. ADD YOUR OWN IDEAS!
Stay updated with: COALITION TO TAKE BACK WBAI
212-561-7231* www.takebackwbai.org
Also tune into Don DeBar’s audio & video reports on the WBAI crisis at www.wbixradio.org
For more information on the group, download their flyer. Click here to download.
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