Good to hear, Doug, more power to you - you'll need it ;-). Long term suggestion: if a handful of LBOers from the New York area who are WBAI listeners organized themselves and ran for the Local Station Board it could help effect a quantum shift for the better at WBAI and across the network. You can even run as a slate, that way you would have strength in numbers and it would be easier to organize votes etc. It really is do-able - it just requires that people care a little. All that's needed at WBAI/Pacifica is a little common sense and decency and knowing how to fight fair - as there will always be differences. I think LBOers as a group have as good a sense of what ails Pacifica, all it would take would be a a year or so of painful meetings and strategizing that I think will in the long run be worthwhile. I hope some people consider this. The next round of elections are in the fall.
Joe W.
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] HUAC comes to Pacifica Radio Again
>Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:19:17 -0500
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>>Okay, I apologize for misinterpreting your post. I agree that getting
>>involved with Pacifica governance is a daunting proposition at best and my
>>initial reaction perhaps partly due to being too accustomed to being in
>>combat mode. I do think - despite our differences on almost everything -
>>that voices such as yours are important to what Pacifica is about. I hope
>>you continue staying involved in your own way.
>
>Thanks. I'm taking the unusual step of going to the program director's
>staff meeting tomorrow night. I'm foregoing what could be a very fun party
>for this duty!
>
>I wonder what (WBAI program director) Bernard White has been screaming
>about? There was a similar incident about 10 days ago, in which he screamed
>so violently at interim station manager Indra Hardat that, as my source on
>this told me, in a normal workplace he'd have been taken away in handcuffs.
>Rumor is that she told him that given his record, he has no business making
>programming changes, but I don't know if that part is true. The first part,
>the screaming fit, definitely is.
>
>Doug
>___________________________________
>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk