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[EMMAS] Edward Herman article on Goodman and Pacifica crisis
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Sat, 21 Oct 2000 01:27:55 -0500 (CDT)
ENDGAME AT PACIFICA?
THE WASHINGTON MANAGEMENT TARGETS AMY GOODMAN
(With a Call to Action)
Edward S. Herman
Nothing could better illustrate the serious--indeed, desperate--
state of the Pacifica crisis than the fact that the Washington
managers are now aggressively targeting Amy Goodman, the host of
Democracy Now!, censoring her, issuing instructions on what she can
and cannot do, imposing onerous work conditions, and threatening
discipline and possible job termination. She was given a written
reprimand for bringing Ralph Nader on to the floor of the
Republican convention, and outgoing Pacifica board chair Mary
Frances Berry said that the "troublesome" Goodman had "embarrassed"
the network (possibly meaning Berry herself, as she is a political
appointee of the Democrats). Based on this incident Democracy
Now!'s press credentials were withheld for the Democratic
convention. WBAI arranged for special coverage of Fidel Castro's
recent speech at the Riverside Church in New York, including the
lining up of well qualified hosts at the event, but after the
Pacifica management's attempted last minute imposition of its own
host was rejected by WBAI, the management refused to allow this
exceptional program to be broadcast nationally, and it was heard
only in New York. This incident undoubtedly heightened the
Washington management's determination to bring all of its
recalcitrant underlings under closer control. Goodman was not
permitted to hire a new producer for Democracy Now! when her former
one left; instead, the Pacifica management imposed on her an
individual whose most recent job was with Radio Free Asia. She has
even been denied the right to use volunteers on her program--she
should understand that she is an employee with a boss whose rules
she must obey!
Culminating these attacks, Goodman was brought to Washington for
a meeting with the top brass on September 14, where she was taken
to task and given warnings by Steve Yasko, the new Pacifica
National Program Director, and Mark Schubb, manager of KPFK in Los
Angeles. (Yasko was recruited from NPR, where he specialized in
marketing, not programming; but he deems himself qualified to
intervene in all aspects of Democracy Now!'s operations. Schubb, a
close ally of Marc Cooper, is notorious for having banned or fired
dozens of people for violating gag rules on discussing the Pacifica
situation, reserving this right to himself and Cooper. Both have
long been noted for hostility to Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!)
Speaking as representatives of Bessie Wash, the Executive
Director of Pacifica, these individuals raised questions about the
content of her programming, suggested that her style was too
confrontational and harsh, as well as being too intellectually
demanding, and indicated that Washington expected her to spend less
time on Democracy Now! and more on supplying pieces for Pacifica
Network News (PNN). On content, she was accused of focusing
excessively on East Timor, police brutality, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and
Lori Berenson (as cited cases in point). She was threatened with
disciplinary action if she did not produce the demanded new
material and adjust style and content. As Goodman works extremely
hard to put up a daily full hour show, in the context of the
clearly political objections to her programming, she was obviously
being set up for demotion and ouster as a "personnel" decision.
These actions and threats forced Goodman to consider filing a
grievance suit against Yasko and Pacifica for harassment and
censorship. However, at the urging of representatives of the
American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (AFTRA), she
was persuaded to return to Washington on October 16 to meet with
the management in an effort to find some basis of compromise and
conciliation. But to their dismay, instead of a meeting to exchange
views and reach an understanding, Goodman, her adviser, and two
AFTRA representatives were met with a management lawyer and Yasko,
who handed Goodman a letter with a list of demands and threats of
discipline and termination. (One of the demands, that she refrain
from using volunteers, was allegedly based on volunteer use
violating the AFTRA contract, a claim that the AFTRA representative
immediately declared to be entirely without substance. Another
demand was that three Democracy Now! programs each week be prepared
in advance, which denies its character as a news program, is
onerous, and is clearly designed to allow censorship [in the
management lingo, "editorial control"].) The meeting was
immediately terminated, and the AFTRA representatives agreed on the
spot to go ahead with a grievance claim against Yasko for
harassment and Pacifica's management for censorship. (Goodman's
October 18 letter to the Pacifica Executive Director and board,
describing these events and protesting the harassment and
censorship, was released by the Institute for Public Accuracy on
October 19.)
A problem for the Pacifica elite is that Goodman's show heavily
outdraws the regular PNN broadcasts and most other Pacifica
programs as well. This makes it awkward for them as they claim to
be "reforming" Pacifica in the interest of enlarging audience size,
which they have been doing by substituting popular music for
politics (and softening any politics that remain). Thus the
admonitions given Goodman by Yasko and Schubb, that listeners want
a lighter touch and don't want to hear about police brutality
before breakfast, are fraudulent--the audiences listen, and the
sharp drop in listenership that FOLLOWS Democracy Now! reflects
their own programmatic failure. But the reactionary quality of
these criticisms of Goodman is also displayed in other ways: one
top officer asked what Lori Berenson was doing in Peru anyway,
asserting that she herself had quickly turned off the radio!
Several questioned Goodman's program celebrating the anniversary of
East Timor's independence vote of August 30, 1999, a pioneering
effort using East Timorese and other on-the-scene participants, and
applauded by BBC. But for the management, as Clinton, Albright and
the New York Times were not making a fuss over this anniversary why
should Amy Goodman? Her news initiatives are perceived by the
management as "activism," which means failing to follow the
official agenda.
What motivates and drives this management elite? One key is that
this group, which acquired control in a quiet coup during the
1990s, has no community roots or constituency whatsoever, and it
regards Pacifica employees as simply hired hands, not stakeholders
and parts of a genuine community. The old Pacifica had roots in the
Bay area, and the move of the Pacifica offices from Berkeley to
Washington, D.C. reflected an important reality. The new Pacifica--
the controlling management--gravitated to a new constituency of
power brokers in the nation's political capital. Numerous employees
past and present have told me that the management elite has its
closest links to the officers of the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB) and National Public Radio (NPR), with whom they
hobnob, exchange views, and depend for ideas and material and moral
support. I have been told repeatedly and given numerous
illustrations showing that the Pacifica top brass has been trying
for years to force a toning down of political messages, to make
them more palatable to important people in Washington like CPB
funders. (CPB President and CEO, Robert Coonrod, who has been
closely involved with the Pacifica management for some years, spent
most of his working life in the U.S. foreign service and with U.S.
propaganda agencies, the Voice of America and United States
Information Agency. CPB Vice President Richard Madden has regularly
intervened in Pacifica affairs, to criticize its news coverage--
most recently, WBAI's reporting of The Right to Return Rally held
by Palestinians in Washington, D.C.--and to support and advise the
management in its efforts to "NPR-ize" the network.)
The second and closely related key is political connections and
stakes. Berry has clear links, and the Pacifica management has long
had ties, to the Democratic Party. Pat Scott was urging Amy Goodman
to ease up on the Democrats years ago, and in a tough election year
there are intensified pressures to get on board and not act as
spoilers. So political conformity, staying within the mainstream,
is demanded of the underlings. The managers are part of an elite
and mainstream culture, far distant from the traditional Pacifica
audiences and employees. It has never occurred to this group that
audiences might be enlarged by more programs like Democracy Now!
rather than depoliticization, mainstreaming, and popular music. For
them the left is the enemy, and they have been fighting it for
years.
One route by which the management has gotten rid of a series of
quality dissidents and leftists has been to establish gag rules or
other conditions that they cannot in principle accept, and then
fire them for insubordination (e.g., Larry Bensky). In the ongoing
Goodman case, dissident Pacifica board member Tomas Moran asked
Yasko and Schubb on what authority and policy basis they were
instructing Goodman on program content, but they said that he would
have to talk with Bessie Wash about that as they were working on
her instructions. When Moran asked the question of Wash, she said
that this was just a matter of "personnel" policy, and on policy
issues she referred him to David Acosta as acting head of the
board. Acosta told Moran that this was not for him to consider as
he wouldn't want to interfere with day-to-day management by Bessie
Wash!
That was all Moran could get out of the management and
controlling members of the board. This effort to control content is
now a long-standing operational mechanism of the control group.
Elevating Bessie Wash to manage Pacifica was logical in that the
station she had headed, Washington's WPFW, was tops among the
Pacifica stations for censorship, and several present and past
associates of Wash tell me that "she doesn't have a left [or
"progressive"] bone in her body." (A list of 12 incidents of
censorship at WPFW during 1999 was issued by the Institute for
Public Accuracy on February 28, 2000.) The Washington station's
hostility to Goodman and Democracy Now! is so intense that WPFW
currently follows that program with a station disclaimer of
responsibility for its content. Its manager, Lew Hankins, explained
the station's failure to cover the Green Party convention to his
local advisory board on the grounds that "it wasn't interesting."
And he announced beforehand that at the Republican and Democratic
conventions his station wouldn't cover the demonstrations unless
"they" decide this would be interesting. He refused to respond to
the question of who "they" were.
So Amy Goodman, a distinguished professional with several
decades of experience, winner of the Polk and other awards in
journalism, with a huge and intensely loyal audience, is now being
instructed by marketing executives and other unqualified bosses
on what subjects she can and cannot deal with. One would think that
even the liberals who signed up with Saul Landau in his petition
against bashing "Pacifica" (by which Landau meant the Pacifica
management) would be a bit queasy at this combination of
centralizing control and blatant censorship, but we haven't heard
a peep from them as yet.
The evasiveness and lack of accountability that Tomas Moran
confronted in trying to locate the policy basis for content
censorship is equally apparent in the governance process at
Pacifica. The manipulation of rules, the stacking of the board with
people who will agree with the control group, the failure to
disclose and discuss board nominations and policy issues, and the
literal dishonesty of the leadership, will match anything to be
found in the private sector. And the situation is in important
respects worse--and even less democratic--than in the private
sector. A small clique led by Berry selects board members without
the slightest accountability to employees, audiences, or anybody.
(In recent years these nominees have tended to be entrepreneurs and
other businessmen who can advise on accounting, finance, legal
defenses, and the buying and selling of real estate and other
assets, including station licenses. Board Treasurer Micheal Palmer
is a real-estate broker with CBRichard Ellis in Houston. The most
recent nominees to the board, whose nominations were deferred until
the upcoming meeting, were Francisco Rocciolo, a Citibank
specialist in international investments, and Luis Wilmot, a
consultant who works for a group committed to telecommunications
deregulation in Texas.) In a private corporation at least the
stockholders can vote and have a potential power to constrain and
elect directors, and many of them have nominating committees of
outside directors.
When Tomas Moran first got on the board in October 1999, he was
put on the Governance and Structure Committee which, among other
functions, nominates new board members. Several months later, after
he had demonstrated that he was going to be a dissident rather than
a yes-man, he found out that the Governance Committee had met and
selected three new board nominees, but had failed to invite him to
the meeting. When he challenged this, Mary Berry stated that he was
mistaken--that he had never been put on the Governance Committee.
When he produced a transcript of the October meeting showing his
name on that Committee, and making it clear that Berry was lying,
he was told that Berry had "reassigned" him out of the Committee in
May. But he was still unable to get an explanation for his
exclusion from the Committee meeting that occurred prior to the
unilateral (and probably illegal) reassignment, nor was he able to
challenge the nominations made behind his back.
At the meeting at which Moran was excluded, John Murdock, a
corporate lawyer with the firm Epstein Becker & Green, was one of
three new board nominations put through by Berry and company.
Murdock's firm advertises on its website that one of its consulting
specialties is helping in "maintaining a union-free workplace." The
ongoing packing of the board with members hostile to Pacifica's
mission and to broadly-based control of the foundation dates back
some years. At the first Pacifica board meeting over which Berry
presided in 1997, the board was threatened with legal action if it
followed through on a clumsily executed plan to reduce local board
control over national board composition from two-thirds to one-
third on the then 15 seat board. This proposal was withdrawn and
instead the board granted itself the right to elect an additional
four at-large members, the maximum then allowed. A clique
comprising the at-large (Pacifica board-selected) members and some
local board-elected members have been in charge ever since, and
have been able to maintain complete control via an Executive
Committee that has made all the decisions.
Among the many charges leveled at the board in three of the
impending law suits against Pacifica is that Berry improperly
appointed members to the Executive Committee rather than allowing
elections by the full board to determine that committee's
composition, and further that the Executive Committee has exercised
powers well beyond those granted it in foundation bylaws or
articles of incorporation. In February 1999, the board removed the
last vestiges of accountability to local station communities when
it voted itself the right to elect its entire membership. The half
dozen dissidents on the board, several brought in to quiet turmoil
or splinter station oppositions, have not been consulted in advance
on nominations, major policy actions, or Pacifica strategies; they
are essentially observers, although with a right to vote. This
voting right has been a small bother in that some matters require
a two-thirds board vote, as in the case of changing the bylaws.
This has been dealt with by abuse of Executive Committee authority
and simply bypassing the bylaws, as noted, but also by removing the
voting rights of dissident board members. Board members Rabbi Aaron
Kriegel and Rob Robinson have filed suits against Berry and the
Executive Committee for bylaw violations, including failure to
disclose essential information on Pacifica matters. Berry therefore
declared that, having consulted her legal counsel, the two
dissidents forfeited their rights to participate in Pacifica
affairs. No discussion or debate--just the authoritarian
pronouncement from above. Meanwhile, at the most recent Pacifica
board meeting, it was proposed that the bylaws be rewritten by John
Murdock, of the union-hostile firm Epstein Becker & Green, for
consideration at the February meeting of the board.
Although Berry's term as chair expired in September, she has
presided over at least one emergency meeting of the board since
then. At that meeting the board decided to form parallel
alternative local advisory boards, given the fact that they were
getting near unanimous condemnation and resistance from those
coming from the local communities. In fact, in July 1999, 18
members of local advisory boards from four of the five Pacifica
cities filed suit against the management for illegally changing the
bylaws, misusing listener funds, and improper conduct.
As a further illustration of manipulation of the rules, when
Tomas Moran submitted for board consideration a "No Sale Amendment"
to the bylaws that would pledge Pacifica not to sell any Pacifica
station, although he met all the conditions in the bylaws for
offering an amendment, the Governance Committee simply refused to
put it before the board for a vote. The chairman "explained" that
the Committee had chosen a different amendment to submit, although
the bylaws nowhere allow this selection and refusal process. These
are not the only cases of rules doctoring and selective
notification of committee meetings that Moran has encountered (see
Tomas Moran, "A View from the Board," KPFA Folio, July 2000).
Because the management is completely out of touch with both the
Pacifica audiences and employees, their mainstreaming, censorship,
and left-cleansing operations have elicited a steady stream of
actions, protests, and legal suits. In consequence, the leadership
has run up very large legal and "security" expenses, with board
members as well as listener and employee groups sueing the
management for unauthorized expenditures of funds as well as
non-disclosure and violation of other rules of governance and
charter responsibilities. Recently, adding to its employment of
union-busting and regular legal counsel, the management has hired
the expensive PR firm Levisk Strategic Communications, which brags
that "Our clients aggressively leverage media to attract business,
increase market share, and raise profits." In part perhaps to
obscure such expenses and the "consulting" fees of Chadwick,
et al, Pacifica has begun taking control of finances and financial
accounting away from the local stations and centralizing them in
Washington.
So the left has been under attack by the ruling management for
five or more years, and just as the corporate establishment's
attack on the welfare state started with welfare mothers and only
belatedly reached Social Security, so with Pacifica it was quite a
while before fortress Amy Goodman could be targeted. Her ouster
would have precipitated very serious repercussions from below, so
best to pick off her allies and in-house supporters one by one.
That the management has become more aggressive in attacking her,
seemingly willing now to accept her "voluntary" exit under pressure
or firing her, shows that their determination to control content in
all the stations and NPR-ize the network has moved to a new and
more threatening phase.
But this new level of attack also shows that the management is
willing to scrap the Pacifica system altogether, as her departure
is still likely to produce a very strong response from the "real"
Pacifica (audiences and employees). The real Pacifica has already
been stifled at the Washington, Houston and Los Angeles stations.
The next phase would be to sell off the licenses of WBAI and KPFA
and use the proceeds to buy other stations in what would be a fully
converted music and vaguely NPR-type network. The management has
been considering license sale for some years; it has been talking
with interested parties and those advising sale as a viable option
(Microsoft, Public Radio International, and CPB), and the
controlling board membership now includes a fair number of
individuals in business who do not have the slightest commitment to
the Pacifica dissident and alternative tradition. The management is
ready and willing to complete the dismantlement of a progressive
network.
In the earlier exchange I had with Saul Landau, and in John
Dinges's article on the Pacifica crisis in The Nation (May 1,
2000), both authors mentioned Amy Goodman's and Democracy Now!'s
continued presence as showing the management's acceptance of a
leftist and left news program. Neither of these writers had asked
Goodman about her experiences and views on the Pacifica
management--and even at that time she was quite forthright with
anybody deigning to ask about the harassment and hostility she
suffered in her work. I thought this failure was poor and biased
journalism by Dinges and disingenuous on Saul Landau's part. Both
also ignored the dynamics of a deliberate political mainstreaming
process, which in this case has involved picking off leftists one
by one, coopting a few by giving them a privileged position--at
least temporarily--and not attacking the strongest and best
entrenched leftists until the ground was prepared.
And now that Amy Goodman is under direct attack, the silence of
Landau, Dinges, and the Landau statement signers at the Institute
for Policy Studies and The Nation is striking. It is also tragic,
as some of the signers are leftists genuinely interested in
pursuing a progressive agenda. They seem unconcerned with the fact
that only the traditional Pacifica, under relentless management
attack, was really sympathetic to the left and could be counted on
to give their positions full coverage and a positive thrust. They
will not get this at the New York Times, nor at NPR, nor under the
new Pacifica being constructed by Bessie Wash, Steve Yasko and
their associates on the Pacifica board and at the CPB. So based on
an old boy left network, and possibly ignorance, the opponents of
"Pacifica bashing" help sink a media institution that was their
natural ally and would be important for their own effectiveness.
One of the most important lessons I have learned as a media
analyst is that the left needs a left media for its messages to be
given a fair shake and to be disseminated with any force. And
without a left media any left politics, and the ability to build
and maintain a grass roots political base, operates at a huge
disadvantage (see Manufacturing Consent, pp. 15-16). When will the
left learn this lesson and be willing to act on it?
A CALL TO ACTION NOW
Well, a great many people on the left, without ties to the
Pacifica management or the old boy network, do understand what is
at stake, as has been demonstrated by the resistance of the past
five years or more. But we are at a critical juncture. The
management is on the attack once again and a really vigorous
response is now quite important. There must be an escalated
challenge to its illegitimate authority. The controlling management
group that has abandoned both Pacifica's progressive mission and
the communities long and well served by the Pacifica stations, and
which is at war with the employees as well, has no moral right to
rule and no legal right either. It is urgent that they be ousted,
that a democratic governance structure be installed, and that
communities and employees have a dominant voice in the management
of this network. The management must be prevented from pushing out
Amy Goodman and selling off station licenses. It is time to act,
and all those who care should do something. Let me list some of
the possible avenues of constructive action, recognizing that this
list is hardly exhaustive and that supporters of a democratic
Pacifica must develop a program of resistance and action by further
discussion and exchanges:
-----Educate yourself on the crisis: an important information
website is www.savepacifica.net Other important sites are:
http://www.radio4all.org/freepacifica/
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
New York area:
http:www.wbai.net/
http:www.glib.com/union.html
http://www.wbaifree.org/
Los Angeles area:
http://www.pacfolio.org/
Washington, D.C. area:
http://www.freewpfw.org/
and http:www.stationadvisoryboards.org (currently under
construction)
-----Join, organize and work with listener groups, which already
exist in New York City, Berkeley and Los Angeles. Such groups are
needed in Washington and Houston. For NYC, contact Eileen Sutton:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] For Los Angeles contact the Frespeech
Coalition, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------Individuals and listener groups in each city in which
Pacifica stations operate must start to put serious pressure on the
board members and managements that have abandoned them by a barrage
of letters, e-mail messages, visits, and picketing at homes and
work places. Yasco, Wash, and acting board chairman David Acosta
should be bombarded with expressions of outrage at the attacks on
Goodman. They should be urged to resign forthwith and get
themselves into the more congenial commercial media--or NPR!
Protests should extend to board members in other locales who have
lined up with the Pacifica management in its regressive actions. A
list of board members is appended, with a double asterisk
indicating that the member is a supporter of the Berry-Wash
management group.
-----Send e-mail messages of support to the six board members,
Bramson, Moran, Cagan, Lyons, Robinson, and Kriegel, who are
excluded from power at present but who represent the real Pacifica.
(See appended board list.) Urge them to protest the anti-Goodman
actions and to step up their own opposition to the management's
illegitimate authority.
-----A national campaign must be begun to oppose the management
with coordinated local protests and legal actions.
-----Support the lawsuit to remove the Pacific board: Committee to
Remove the Pacifica Board: 1136 Wild Rose Drive, Santa Rosa, CA
95401. Donations to the Committee's legal fund are welcome
http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
-----If you listen to Democracy Now! on a Pacifica affiliate, write
to your station and urge them to state publicly that they will
cancel their contract with Pacifica if Amy Goodman is removed or if
Pacifica's censorship of Democracy Now! is not terminated
-----If a Pacifica subscriber, tell your station that you will no
longer contribute until Yasko, Wash, Schubb and any others involved
in political censorship of programming are fired or resign
-----Speak to others in organizations you belong to and ask them
to pass resolutions condemning political censorship at Pacifica
-----Support the PNN strike, get their views on their web page:
www.savepacifica.net, and listen to the strikers Free Speech Radio
News, now carried on 38 stations on Fridays. Friends of Free Speech
Radio has underwritten much of the political activity opposing the
takeover of Pacifica, and they have supported the anti-censorship
strike of long-time reporters for the Pacific News Service. Friends
of Free Speech Radio have also contributed generously to the law
suit brought by members of Local Advisory Boards, and they have
helped pay for national ads on the strike. They have produced
concerts and organized street protests, along with other supportive
activities. Send them contributions--if you want it to go to the
striking journalists, mark it "Stringers Strike" on your donation.
Friends of Free Speech Radio, 905 Parker Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
LIST OF CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OF PACIFICA:
David Acosta, Chair**
102 S. Lockwood
Houston Tx. 77011-3124
phone: (713) 926-4604
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrea Cisco, Secretary**
2390 Champlain Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20009
Phone: (toll free) 888-770-4944
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ken Ford, Vice Chair**
11303 Sherrington Ct.
Largo, Md 20774-2317
Phone: (202) 822-0228
(works at National Assoc. of Home Builders)
Wendell L. Johns**
5117 Warren Place, NW
Washington, D.C. 20016
phone: (202) 752-8193
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(works at Fannie Mae)
Frank Millspaugh**
32 King Street
New York,. NY 10014
phone: (212) 741-0839
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(works at WBAI!!)
Bob Farrell**
c/o Los Angeles Sentinel
3800 S. Crenshaw, PO Box 11456
Los Angeles, CA 90008
phone: (323) 299-3800 x255
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bertram Lee**
800 25th Street NW
Washington,D.C. 20037-2207
phone: (202) 965-6224
(sports magnate, investor in
broadcast stations)
John M. Murdock**
Epstein Becker & Green
1227 25th Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20037
phone: (202) 861-0900
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Micheal Palmer**
Industrial Properties, Houston Texas
CB Richard Ellis
2500 W. Loop South, Suite 100
Houston, Tx 77027-4502
phone: (713) 840-6646
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Karolyn Van Putten**
Western Public Radio
Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D,
San Francisco, CA 94123
phone: (415) 771-1160
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Valerie Chambers**
14602 Quail Creek Court
Houston Tx. 77070
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----------------------------
Pete Bramson--KPFA
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rabbi Aaron Kriegel--KPFK
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tomas Moran--KPFA
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob Robinson--WPFW
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leslie Cagan--WBAI
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beth Lyons--WBAI
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Note: Mary Berry is no longer on the board, but serves as a
"consultant," along with former Executive Director Lynn Chadwick.
Bessie Wash, the Executive Director of Pacifica is also not a board
member.]
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