NYC Pacifica Meeting - New location 1/11-13 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Weekly News Update TAKE BACK WBAI AND PACIFICA Come to the National Board Meeting Jan. 11-13 In N.Y.C. and Make Your Voices Heard! 305 W. 44th St. Hotel Workers Union Between 8th and 9th Ave. Friday 7-9pm Sat. 9-5 pm. Sun. 9:30-2:30 To volunteer before or during the board meeting, please call 646-230-9588. We need drivers, runners, office help, etc. During the meeting well need folks to help with food, hospitality, and clean-up. Housing will be provided for those coming from afar. See below for contacts. You may have read that the listener lawsuits against Pacifica have been settled and that a new interim National Board has been installed with progressives in the majority - unquestionably a step forward due to months of determined mass struggle. But what the mainstream media aren't telling you is that this agreement does not take back WBAI - much less the rest of the network - from those who hijacked it. We still have to fight for it. Any decisions that don't get the vote of one of the reactionary former majority (now minority) get sent to a California judge to resolve. And at the new board's first conference-call meeting on Dec. 29, that pro-corporate minority - led by former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry - showed that they'll fight tooth and nail to stymie any progress toward reclaiming Pacifica. For a summary of the Dec. 29th board meeting, see http://www.progressiveportal.org/letters/pacifica/interim-board/board-notes. html Fortunately, the interim board mandated that its next meeting be held here in New York City. The open-to-the-public event will run from Friday night Jan. 11 to Sunday afternoon Jan. 13 at a location to be announced shortly. Concerned Friends of WBAI is asking for listeners and community activists to turn out in force to insist that our embattled, beloved station be taken back as the first step in restoring the network to its historic progressive mission. It's been a year since the Christmas Coup that led to the purging of more than 25 progressive producers and staffers and the decimating of vital programming. The New York community needs to show up and demand that the coup be reversed, that the fired and the banned be brought back, and that WBAI and the other Pacifica stations nationwide return to their role as a voice for the voiceless and an empowering agent for social change. This meeting is a key window of opportunity. It's crucial that there be a large and diverse popular presence to both lend support to our allies and make clear to our adversaries the price they will pay for continuing their assault on our network. The struggle is far from over. Come join us! For the latest updates and to find out how you can help, call the Concerned Friends hotline at 800-825-0055. For further information, visit http://www.wbai.net ; and http://wbai.savepacifica.net For general questions or to volunteer, call 212-989-8222 or email bob@wbaiaction.org and debra@wbaiaction.org For housing or to offer housing, call 973-762-3682 or email stevenb@wbaiaction.org ======================================================================= Weekly News Update on the Americas * Nicaragua Solidarity Network of NY 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012 * 212-674-9499 fax: 212-674-9139 http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/wnuhome.html * wnu@igc.apc.org ======================================================================= ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytnyc-01.12.02-00:06:11-19013