-----Original Message----- From: owner-freepac at recordist.com [mailto:owner-freepac at recordist.com]On Behalf Of Lyn Gerry Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:22 PM To: freepac at recordist.com; Pacifica-Affiliates at yahoogroups.com; emmasdance at cs.pdx.edu; radio at tao.ca; savewbai at lists.tao.ca Subject: {FP} BULLETIN: PACIFICA FOUNDATION CLOSE TO BANKRUPTCY, KPFA
Send reply to: savepacifica at peacenet.org Subject: BULLETIN: PACIFICA FOUNDATION CLOSE TO BANKRUPTCY, KPFA THREATENED WITH SHUTDOWN, TAKEOVER
October 19, 2001: Pacifica Foundation officers have told KPFA management that the organization is out of money, having spent over two million dollars over the past three years on corporate law firms, security services, and public relations agencies. About 90 percent of Pacifica’s funding comes from listener donations. Listeners who donated money were not told their money would be used, or was being used, for these purposes, and have sued (along with dissident national board directors) to protest Pacifica’s financial and administrative practices.
KPFA now has over $100,000 in unpaid and overdue bills, including $9,400 to PG&E for electricity. The station may be off the air if the PG&E bill is not paid by Monday, October 22. This despite the fact that KPFA has exceeded all on-air fundraising goals for the past two years, and should show a surplus of over $200,000 in its accounts. But these accounts have apparently been misappropriated by Pacifica to pay its legal and other costs.
Pacifica has also ordered KPFA to undertake an immediate on-air fundraising drive, and has threatened to send in scab broadcasters to do on-air fundraising should KPFA staff refuse.
An emergency fund raising campaign has been undertaken by Friends of Free Speech Radio to keep KPFA on the air, and pay its most urgent bills! We will use part of this money immediately to pay the PG&E bill.
Please send checks in any amount , marked "KPFA Support Fund" to:
Friends of Free Speech Radio 905 Parker Street Berkeley, CA 94710
(NOTE: This emergency donation money is NOT tax-deductible!)
ALSO
Please listen closely to KPFA, 94.1 FM. Should you hear ANYONE asking you for donations to Pacifica or KPFA who is not a regular programmer, it means that Pacifica has once again turned off free speech community radio and has locked out the paid staff and volunteers. Be prepared – in the spirit of non-violent solidarity – to come to 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Berkeley and defend our precious institution!
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