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A special PNB teleconference meeting for June 2008 will take place on Sunday, June 8, at 4:30 pm EST.

Agenda:

Financial Update (Executive Session)
Financial Update (Open Session)
Date and location of the next PNB quarterly meeting
Report out from executive session

Greetings all-

The KPFA LSB Show will be on the air today beginning at 1pm. Tracy Rosenberg is the producer and the host. I don't know what she will be covering.

Chandra
[ link to archive of the show: http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=26504 ]

Steve Brown to News
show details 1:42 AM (7 hours ago) Reply

Dear WBAI Supporter --
What do the newly elected members of WBAI's governing board (aka Local
Station Board or LSB) look like? I have attached photos of each one,
so you can easily recognize them on the street -- in case you want to
toss a bouquet (or hurl a rotten rotten tomato, as the case may be).
The first meeting of this board took place on Wednesday, April 23. As
I said in my last report, the political faction known as Justice &
Unity (JUC), which formerly held a majority on the station board, was
repudiated and soundly defeated by the Independent (INDY) candidates
in the recent station election.

LSB show today, beginning at 1pm. Andrea Turner, host and Brian Edwards Tiekert, producer. I do not know the content that is planned for the show.

Chandra

(archive of the show is at:
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=26035
;;bard)

(via Steve Brown)
NEW WBAI PNB DIRECTORS:

Listeners:

• Nia Bediako (JUC)
• Carolyn Birden (Progressive Group)
• Jamie Ross (Progressive Group)

Staff:

• Kathy Davis (defeats Bob Lederer) (Progressive Group)

LSB ELECTIONS

• LSB Chair: Mitchel Cohen (defeats Vajra Kilgour)
• LSB Vice Chair: Andrea Fishman (defeats Lawrence Lucas)
• Treasurer: R.Paul Martin (defeats Baruti Bediako)
• Secretary: Seth Goldberg (defeats Berta Silva)

In case you haven't heard the good news, "our" side -- the Independents -- won the recent WBAI governing board elections by a gratifying majority (although part of the case is still in court). I will send out more information soon. But right now, I want to let you know that the first meeting of the new board -- a public meeting -- will take place tonight. Official notices about the meeting were sent out some time ago -- this is just my last-minute addition.

*To: Pacifica National Board and KPFA LSB*
*From: Chandra Hauptman *
*Re: Proposed Bylaws Amendment reducing the # of in-person PNB Mtgs*
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*What price governance?*

I am not in support of reducing the number of in-person PNB mtgs. I know many people feel these contribute to the deficit within Pacifica but the meetings do not have to be so costly. There are many ways to save on meeting costs and there are also many ways to save on other expenses that have nothing to do with the governance structure. I think this is a ploy aimed at reducing democratic participation in the Pacifica governance process. The less in person meetings that occur the less chance there is for the public to see and interface with the PNB and the less chance the PNB itself has to interface with each other

FCC Hearing on Net Neutrality is Thursday at Stanford University

Everyone who uses the web to get accurate information, connect with like-minded people, or get the word out about a cultural event, action or campaign has a huge stake in a neutral Internet. This hearing is the result of documented tampering ( http://www.media-alliance.org/article.php?story=20071022182746485 )with web and wireless traffic by the big telecoms. And there is another big threat on the horizon. The future of the last democratic communications outlet in the United States cannot be pay-to-play. So folks, Thursday is a good time to re-arrange your schedules if you can, and get yourselves down to Dinkenspiel Auditorium at Stanford.

Here's the ED report recorded off the kpftx stream:

http://pacificana.org/public/files/National/Media/2008/20080412-EdReport...

Media Justice Town Hall Community Forum
tonight, April 11st from 7-8 PM on KPFA 94.1 FM

Part II will play on Full Circle, April 18 7-8 PM

This town hall forum took place on March 21 at the East Side Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd. in Oakland.
*Topics include / (see more details below)/ *
Updates on the upcoming FCC hearings taking place on April 17 at Stanford University.

Folks-

FYI, Greg Guma, former Pacifica Executive Director, has started a blog covering all things Pacifica and other media-related issues. If you want to subscribe go to the below website. I will not be posting these in the future.

Chandra

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Update from Maverick Media
http://muckraker-gg.blogspot.com/