We are extending the election to
encourage more people to run as
candidates, to encourage community
groups to have their members run as
candidates, and in general to become
more active in the only
democratically run radio network in
the nation – Whose network? YOUR
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Pacifica Elections
The Pacifica
Elections for 2009 have begun.
The timeline for the 2009
elections is as follows:
Nomination period ends. All
candidates must have their
forms in
Starting
July 15th
Candidates will be given air
time at their respective
stations to share their
vision for Pacifica
August 29th
Ballots shall be mailed to
all 95,000 members
October 14th
ALL
BALLOTS MAILED IN MUST BE
RECEIVED BY THIS DATE!
November 15th
The
election will be certified
if the quorum for the
election is met.
Date of Record
To run as a candidate or to
vote, a person must
have been a member in the
period from July 16th 2008
to July 15th 2009
A person qualifies for
membership by:
Paying $25 to one of the
stations
Volunteering at a
station for a minimum of
3 hours
Obtaining a waiver from
the Local Station Board.
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PACIFICA RADIO TURNS 60 APRIL 15th
Pacifica Radio turns 60 years old
today, April 15, 2009. Lew Hill and
a staff of four launched the first
listener-supported radio station in
the world on April 15, 1949 at 3:00
PM, in a makeshift Berkeley studio,
with the words: “This is KPFA
Berkeley.”
The rest is History. Four more
cities gained the sound of Pacifica
when local residents created new
Pacifica stations KPFK in Los
Angeles, WBAI in New York City, KPFT
in Houston, and WPFW in Washington
DC.
Pacifica also inspired a movement of
community radio stations throughout
the United States, many who are
independent and locally based, but
are affiliates. As a result, the
Pacifica Network, today, includes
approximately 150 stations, that
collaborate daily to bring
grassroots community radio and free
media to American citizens.
For sixty years, since the McCarthy
era, America’s oldest independent
media network has defied political
pressures and the conventions and
internal censors inherent to
mainstream media. A haven and
training ground for artists and
journalists, Pacifica has been the
vanguard of free media. Breaking
important news, providing historical
and political analysis, and
discovering some of our greatest
artistic talents, Pacifica Radio has
brought us the great voices of each
era.
From the storied depths of the
Pacifica Radio Archives, which
curates over 50,000 recordings
representing sixty years of
Pacifica’s broadcast history, From
the Vault presents an audio
celebration of Pacifica’s 60th
Birthday.
With
the swearing of Barack Obama as the
44th President, and the beginning of
the 111th Session of the US
Congress, Pacifica Radio takes a
hard look at how the new government
responds to the economic crisis,
global warming, wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, foreign policy
decisions raging from Pakistan to
Somalia and Russia to Mexico, health
care expansion, civil rights, and
the so called "war on terrorism".
With host Mitch Jeserich from the
studios of WPFW in Washington DC.
Friends of Pacifica, free
speech, and independent news and
cultural programming free of
government and corporate
funding, this announcement is
for you! Please consider running
for the WBAI Local Station
Board. The timeline for the 2009
election is:
June 1st: Nomination
period begins
July 14: Nomination
period ends – all candidates
have their forms in
July 15: Candidates will
be given air time to share
their vision
August 29th: Ballots
shall be mailed to all WBAI
members
October 14th: ALL
ballots must be received by
this date!
November 15th: The
election will be certified
if the quorum for the
election is met
NOTE: This timeline was revised
on June 8, 2009.
Election Nomination Forms
are available online. Click on
'Please select your candidate
type'. If you are a WBAI staff
member, click 'Staff candidate.'
Otherwise, click 'Listener
candidate.'
To contact the Local Election
Supervisor, Ethan Young, write
to
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Abortion- the Debate That
Won’t Go Away
Events in the past two months
have made it clear that despite
its being thirty six years after
Roe v Wade, the question of
abortion continues to be as
controversial as ever. On Sunday
May 17th President Obama
suggested that we draft “a
sensible conscience clause"
presumably giving anti-abortion
health care providers the right
to refuse to perform an
abortion. On May 31st abortion
provider George Tiller was shot
dead while attending church. On
May 15th a gallop poll found
that 51 percent of those
questioned call themselves
"pro-life" on the issue of
abortion. On April 19 and 26th
our own WBAI featured two
programs during which explicitly
anti-abortion views were offered
both by the guest and the
producer as well. This Sunday
ETFF will be taking your calls
as we examine “Abortion- the
Debate That Won’t Go Away”
This Sunday we feature the music
of LAURIE BEECHMAN. Some
of the songs from her career
that we will hear: "These Are
The Good Times" DAVID FRIEDMAN
'S "Listen To My Heart" "A House
Is Not A Home" (BURT BACHARACH /
HAL DAVID) of course, "Memory"
and "There But For You Go I"
from her CD NO ONE IS ALONE
released thru Fynsworth Alley
Records. And More!
This week, Stephen The Road
Warrior will air excerpts
of last Wednesday's Senate
Banking Committee's hearing on
the state of the U.S. automobile
industry, and the House HELP
sub-committee's hearing
examining the merits of a
single-payer health care plan,
which calls for a single
insurance plan to pay for
medical costs nationwide. A
panel of health care experts,
physicians and medical scholars
testified in favor of and
opposition to the
legislation. The UN's vote to
take action against North Korea
following missile tests over the
past several months. We'll also
speak with Junior Forbes as the
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CONFERENCE
holds its first annual event at
Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn
on June 18th and 19th. We'll
also interview Ralph
Ramsey, Producer of www.panjazz.com 2009, which
will take place at Lincoln
Center on June 20th. Expect to
hear some sweet steelpan music.
Listener calls are anticipated.
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And thanks for your 49 years of financial support to WBAI here
in New York City.
Paul Browde and Murray Nossel on
performing "Two Men Talking" at
the South African school that
inspired this unscripted tale of
a friendship; journalist Walter
Pincus on
"The Trouble With Newspapers,"
his essay in the June issue of
the Columbia Journalism Review;
and subway diva Rosateresa
Castro-Vargas on "Tornando Cafe
(drinking coffee): A One Woman
Experimental Musical in
Seventeen Gulps." Hosted by
Janet Coleman and David Dozer.
TRIPLE CROSS
How bin Laden's Master Spy
Penetrated the CIA, the Green
Berets, and the FBI
and Why Assistant United States
Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
Failed to Stop Him
By five-time Emmy Award Winning
Journalist Peter Lance
This Monday, June 15, "Suga' In
My Bowl" will feature Jill
Nelson and the music of Marvin
Gaye. Jill Nelson's latest book
is titled "Let's Get It On,"
which is a follow up to "Sexual
Healing." Hosted by Arts
Producer Joyce Jones.
Topic: The Clean Energy and
Security Act of 2009. The
first draft in March was over
600 pages long. By the time it
was released from committee it
was 932 pages. The name is a
misnomer. Already, a Virginia
congressman has said publicly
that the bill is good for the
coal industry. Several national
environmental groups (Sierra
Club, American Solar Energy
Society, Friends of the Earth)
have come out against it, some
(NRDC) have come out for it.
Join us for a discussion of as
many of the details as we can
fit into a one-hour show. Our
guests are Ted Glick of
Chesapeake Climate Action
Network and Tyson Slocum,
director of Public Citizen's
Critical Mass Energy Program.
Produced and hosted by Ken Gale.
Regular programming is suspended
for A James Joyce Celebration
starring Alec Baldwin, Anne
Meara, Kate Valk, Bob Dishy,
Alvin Epstein, the
Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet,
Paul Muldoon and Caraid O'Brien
as Molly Bloom.
Radio Bloomsday is an intimate
radio program featuring readings
of James Joyce's Ulysses, plus
selections from Joyce's entire
canon, performed by leading
actors. Bloomsday is celebrated
every year on June 16, the day
Ulysses takes place.
Starting June 8, 2009
Democracy Now! moves from
9AM to 8AM where it will be
heard live. The show is, for
now, being repeated in its prior
9-10AM timeslot.
In celebration of the Puerto
Rican Day Parade, we will
feature the percussive mastery
of Ray Barretto. "His records often have a
more tense, more adventurously
eclectic edge than those of most
conventional salsa groups,
unafraid to use electronics and
novel instrumental or structural
combinations, driven hard by his
rocksteady, endlessly flexible
percussion work. This no doubt
reflects Barretto's wide range
of musical interests and also
the fact that he came to Latin
music from jazz, rather than the
usual vice versa route for
Latin-descended musicians."
Richard S. Ginell - All Music
Guide.
The
Hudson River Clearwater Revival
Festival is June 20th and
21st. This special show, hosted
by Ken Gale and Kathy Davis will
discuss the festival. In prior
years WBAI broadcast the
festival live, this year the
station will have a table there,
but will not be broadcasting
live.
WBAI’s Wake Up Call and First
Voices – Indigenous Radio, in
collaboration with Deep Dish TV
and the Colombian Movement for
Peace, present the New York
Premiere of the long-anticipated
documentary: A Country of
Peoples Without Owners: The
Indigenous and Popular Minga of
2008. The movie will be
screened on June 29th at NYU in
Manhattan and on July 1st at La
Terraza 7 Train Café in Queens.
Both events will be hosted by
WBAI’s Mario Murillo,
host of Friday Wake UP Call, and
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, host
of First Voices-Indigenous
Radio.
Whether you're participating in a
radio program or committee meeting,
you'll need to contact us in
advance. The landlord requires photo
ID and pre-registration for entry
into the building. Please call our
switchboard at 212-209-2800,
weekdays between 9am and 1pm or 2pm
and 5pm, and give the receptionist
your name as shown on your ID and
the purpose of your visit. Thanks
for your continued support.
On Friday June 12th, Noam
Chomsky gave a lecture at
Riverside Church. 
This Monday, June 15, "Suga' In
My Bowl" will feature Jill
Nelson and the music of Marvin
Gaye. Jill Nelson's latest book
is titled "Let's Get It On,"
which is a follow up to "Sexual
Healing." Hosted by Arts
Producer Joyce Jones.
Regular programming is suspended
for A James Joyce Celebration
starring Alec Baldwin, Anne
Meara, Kate Valk, Bob Dishy,
Alvin Epstein, the
Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet,
Paul Muldoon and Caraid O'Brien
as Molly Bloom. 
In celebration of the Puerto
Rican Day Parade, we will
feature the percussive mastery
of Ray Barretto.
