On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com>wrote:
>
> The letter from the WBAI Community Advisory Board is now up and awaiting
> signatures at:
> http://www.thepetitionsite.com/146/753/330/pacificans-of-
> all-stations-unite/
>
> PLEASE FORWARD AND SIGN
>
>
> The members of Pacifica's stations must put an end to the factional
> fighting that is destroying our network NOW, and reassert the Pacifica
> Mission Statement as our guiding principle.
>
> PACIFICANS OF ALL STATIONS, UNITE!
>
> It is time that all sides stop their fight, which threatens to take the
> network into oblivion.
>
> This radio network belongs to ALL of us, and not to a few involved in
> relatively small factions who dare to claim to hold our destiny in their
> hands without our consent.
>
> It is time for Summer Reese (and those supporting her claims) and for
> Margy Wilkinson (and those supporting her claims) to heed the Pacifica
> Mission Statement, call a ceasefire and negotiate their differences. What
> is currently taking place is so opposed to Lou Hill's desires* (see excerpt
> from the Pacifica Mission Statement, below).
>
> Pacifica has not fulfilled its potential, which grows even more enormous
> when pitted against the global economic crisis and the ongoing destruction
> of this planet. WE NEED THIS VOICE -- OUR VOICE -- NOT MERELY TO SURVIVE,
> BUT TO THRIVE.
>
> To that end, we, the members of Pacifica, demand that all Court
> proceedings be suspended, that a re-vote for Chair of the National Board be
> taken, that the parties enter into further negotiations to save and support
> Pacifica, and that no Pacifica signals or property be considered for lease,
> swap or sale for a period of at least two years.
>
> It is time we devote our creative energies to doing radio and focus our
> attention on how to improve our programming, promotion, membership numbers,
> and finances.
>
> *From the Pacifica Mission Statement:
>
> "In radio broadcasting operations:
>
> - to engage in any activity that shall contribute to a lasting
> understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations,
> races, creeds and colors;
>
> - to gather and disseminate information on the causes of conflict between
> any and all of such groups;
>
> - and through any and all means compatible with the purposes of this
> corporation to promote the study of political and economic problems and of
> the causes of religious, philosophical and racial antagonisms."
>
> It's time we started applying the Pacifica Mission to ourselves.
>
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