Below:
- WBAI Layoffs Postponed Two Weeks
- Sat., July 20 – 2-5 PM – Emergency Community Meeting: Queens
WBAI In Crisis: Can We Save It?
- Other Community Announcements
IMPORTANT: Please sign (and forward to your friends) our petition to stop the mass layoffs at WBAI: www.change.org/petitions/pacifica-national-board-stop-mass-layoffs-at-wbai
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WBAI LAYOFFS POSTPONED TWO WEEKS
Pacifica's Interim Executive Director Summer Reese announced on July 11 that she had extended the deadline for WBAI's mass layoffs from July 15 to July 31. While she claimed the reason was to allow more time for negotiations with the paid staff union and for them to “adjust to” the news, SAG-AFTRA union members report that the more likely reason is legal flaws in the notice letter sent to the entire staff allegedly providing 30 days “notice.”
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Sat., July 20 – 2-5 PM
Emergency Community Meeting: Queens
WBAI IN CRISIS: CAN WE SAVE IT?
CEMOTAP, 135-05 Rockaway Blvd. (bet. 135th St. & Van Wyck Expwy), South Ozone Park 718-322-8454
(Directions: A train to Rockaway Blvd.; then Q7 bus to 135th St.; or E to Sutphin Blvd./Archer Ave.; then Q9 bus to Lincoln St./Rockaway Blvd.)
WBAI Radio is in its most severe crisis ever. After years of cutting back programming by/for communities of color and working class people, as well as purging dissenting programmers, listener revenue is collapsing, fund drives are ballooning, debts are mounting, and all paid staff have received layoff notices. Union members expect a 75% cut, including all paid staff from Wake Up Call, Talkback, Caldwell Chronicle, The Jordan Journal, and the Evening and Sunday News.
The Coalition to Save WBAI is demanding new directions and reorganization of the station, but not on the backs of its workers. This is the third in an ongoing series of meetings around the WBAI listening area. Get involved!
More at www.justiceunity.org or call 212-591-2111 or email savewbai@gmail.com
Sponsor: Coalition to Save WBAI: CEMOTAP (Comm. to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People), CPRmetro.org (Community Progressive Radio), December 12th Movement, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, International Action Center, Lynne Stewart Defense Organization, May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum, People's Organization for Progress (P.O.P.), Radio Vision, Resistance in Brooklyn, Sound Gatherers, Take Back WBAI Coalition, WBAI Justice & Unity Campaign
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OTHER COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thurs., July 18 – 1-3 PM
Mandela Day – Nelson Mandela's 95th Birthday : http://www.mandeladay.com/
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Bldg, 163 W. 125th Street @ Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., Harlem. Trains: 2,3,A,B,C,D to 125th Street
Fri., July 19 – 12 Noon
Million Youth March Organizing Rally
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Bldg, 163 W. 125th Street @ Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., Harlem. Trains: 2,3,A,B,C,D to 125th Street
Every Day:
Lynne Stewart is imprisoned in Texas suffering from Stage 4, metastasized cancer. Lynne's husband Ralph Stewart is in daily vigil at the White House and Dick Gregory continues his fast, both until her release. www.lynnestewart.org
- Call Pres. Barack Obama (202) 456-1414; Atty Gen'l Eric Holder (202) 514-2001; Bureau of Federal Prisons Dir. Charles Samuels (202) 307-3250
Dr. Mutulu Shakur has not received adequate medical treatment and rehabilitation 3 months after his stroke. www.mutulushakur.com
- Call / fax the Warden to demand decent medical treatment, physical therapy and rehab, and that as long as he is held captive he be at a place near to his family, and that his visits, emails, mail and calls be without restriction. Phone: 760-530-5000, fax: 760-530-5102
Mumia Abu Jamal 's appeal re: the lack of notice to him or his attorneys of his re-sentencing from death row to life imprisonment was denied.
- There's now a petition to the Department of Justice to release Mumia. Sign it at http://www.change.org/petitions/release-mumia-abu-jamal
George Zimmerman was found not guilty of either murder or manslaughter in the killing of 17-year old Trayvon Martin. Those who say that his actions were unrelated to race are, at best, in denial.
- Sign the NAACP petition to have Zimmerman charged with a violation of Trayvon's right to exist: http://bit.ly/12yJkCa
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