WBAI Local Station Board Programming Committee public meeting
Mon., Nov. 15, 7:00 PM
WBAI, 120 Wall Street, 10th floor. (Take the 2,3,4, or 5 trains to Wall St., walk down the hill past Water St. to the corner of South St.)
Speak out about the drastic WBAI program changes arbitarily instituted by WBAI interim management, which go into effect Mon., Nov. 15. Besides cancelling several shows, this shakeup has already sparked the resignations of several longtime hosts whose times were suddenly shifted and/or cut back without any discussion. Many of these changes remove, shorten or move to inaccessible times some of the vital voices of disenfranchised communities that represent the heart of the Pacifica mission.
At this meeting of the Programming Committee, the topic will be the new round of program changes. The Interim Program Director who made the changes, Tony Bates, has been invited. Public comment is mandated. Come out and express your opinion!
All attending will need to have their names entered into the building’s security system and must present photo ID at the lobby desk. If possible, call the station receptionist between the hours of 9:00 AM and 12:00 noon and 1:00-4:45 PM on Monday to register your name; the number is 212-209-2800.
Meanwhile, 40 WBAI producers (and counting) have signed a petition protesting interim management’s adoption of these mass program changes without discussion with the station’s Program Council, and without proper consultation with affected producers in violation of the Pacifica Foundation Bylaws, contractual agreements with both paid and unpaid staff, and long-established practice. (Full text below)
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From the Committee of Concerned WBAI Producers
Email: wbaiworker@gmail.com
Website: <http://wbaiworker.wordpress.com/>http://wbaiworker.wordpress.com/
Call or email with your opinions on the program changes to:
Interim Program Director Tony Bates – tony@wbai.org – (212) 209-2835
Interim General Manager Berthold Reimers – breimers62@earthlink.net, (212) 209-2820
Pacifica National Board and Executive Director Arlene Englehardt- pnb@pacifica.org, (510) 849-2590 x208
Please send a cc at wbaiworker@gmail.com
Check out our new website (and keep checking for updates) at wbaiworker.wordpress.com.
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P E T I T I O N
By WBAI Producers
As of November 14, 2010
To: WBAI Interim General Manager, Berthold Reimers
WBAI Interim Program Director, Tony Bates
cc: WBAI Local Station Board, Pacifica National Board
Whereas mass program changes at WBAI recently announced to take effect on November 15, 2010, are being put forward by interim management without discussion with the station’s Program Council, and without proper consultation with affected producers in violation of the Pacifica Foundation Bylaws, contractual agreements with both paid and unpaid staff, and long-established practice,
We, the undersigned, demand of interim management the following immediate actions:
1. A freeze on all programming changes until a full process of consultation with the Program Council and paid and unpaid staff has occurred.
2. A moratorium on the removal of any programs from the air.
3. The reinstatement of all programs removed from the air without process by the interim Program Director.
Signatories to date (list in formation):
Amna Akbar and Leyla Mei, for the Asia Pacific
Forum Collective
Samar Al-Bulushi, Global Movements,
Urban Struggles
Donald Anthonyson, Global Movements,
Urban Struggles
Saadia T. Aslam, Radio Tahrir
Barbara Nimri Aziz, Radio Tahrir
Naomi Brussel, Out FM
William Camacaro, La Voz Latina
Adem Carroll, War on Immigrants Report /
Global Movements, Urban Struggles
Dowoti Desir, AfroBeatRadio
Margaret Gilpin, Cuba in Focus
Ibrahim González, In The Moment/Radio Libre/
Friday Wake Up Call
Mark Hannay, Health Action
William Heerwagen, Jazz and Things
Rosalie Hoffman, Wake Up Call former
producer
Stephen Howard, Telling It Like It Is
Wuyi Jacobs, AfroBeatRadio
Vajra Kilgour, Housing Notebook
Dequi Kioni-Sadiki, Where We Live
Kamau Kokayi, Global Medicine Review
Bob Lederer, Health Action
Biju Mathew, Global Movements, Urban
Struggles
Sol McCants III, Education at the Crossroads
Basir Mchawi, Education at the Crossroads
M’Saidia McLaughlin, Sports Qualified
Maryann Miller, Arts Magazine
Prairie Miller, Arts Magazine
Faybiene Miranda, Global Medicine Review
Ken Nash, Building Bridges
Fred Nguyen, WBAI Sunday News reporter
Sally O’Brien, Where We Live, Cuba in Focus
Edgardo Parada, AfroBeatRadio
Louis Reyes Rivera, Perspective
John Riley, Out FM
Cerene Roberts
Mimi Rosenberg, Building Bridges
Ralph Schoenman, Taking Aim
Mya Shone, Taking Aim
Brad Taylor, Out FM
Daniel Vila, La Voz Latina
If you are a WBAI producer, to sign on to this petition, email the Committee of Concerned WBAI Producers at wbaiworker@gmail.com . For more information, visit http://wbaiworker.wordpress.com .
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