>User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 >Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:33:37 -0400 >Subject: Pacifica Campaign Action Alert >From: Pacifica Campaign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Juan Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Pacifica Campaign Action Alert > >Call, Fax and/or E-mail CB Richard Ellis CEO Raymond Wirta. Tell him that CB >Richard Ellis Vice President Micheal Palmer of Houston must resign from the >Pacifica Foundation Board of Directors. > >Tel: 310.563.8600 >Fax: 310.563.8670 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Talking Points: > >1. Chaos and mismanagement have characterized Palmer�s stewardship of the >nation�s oldest listener sponsored radio network. >2. Palmer's second and final term on the Board has expired. >3. Palmer is a defendant in three separate lawsuits seeking his removal, >including one backed by the California Attorney General. >4. His "smoking gun" E-mail clearly indicates his goal of selling Pacifica >stations, including WBAI 99.5 FM in New York. >5. As Treasurer, he has secreted the books from mandated public scrutiny, >once needing a California State Senate subpoena to reveal the books. >6. He supports management practices of censorship, firing without cause, >banning of volunteers, harrassment, misinformation and race baiting. >7. CB Richard Ellis will be held publicly accountable for his behavior. > >Please be polite but firm. Call as often as you feel you must to ensure that >your discontent with CBRE VP Micheal Palmer is understood by his employers. > > >Background: > >Yesterday, two representatives of the Pacifica Campaign visited >the Executive Office of CB Richard Ellis in Los Angeles, raising our >concerns with the behavior of Micheal Palmer and calling for his >resignation. > >CB Richard Ellis claims it is the world's largest commercial real estate >services firm, brokering over $44 billion dollars in deals annually (1999 >figures). Micheal Palmer, Pacifica Board Treasurer, is a Vice President and >Salesperson in the CBRE Houston office. The Houston office specializes in >setting up maquiladora production facilities in Mexico. The CBRE Mexico >Advisory Group trumpets Northern Mexico's source of "labour, labour, >labour." Although Palmer has publicly denied involvement in establishing >sweatshops, he privately bragged of it to a former Pacifica staffer. > >Palmer is the author of the notorious email discussion of the sale of >Pacifica stations that sparked the crisis at KPFA in Berkeley in 1999 (see >the memo at http://www.counterpunch.org/sellmemo.html). His second term on >the Board ended last March, so he should by all accounts be gone. As he is >central to the clique of hijackers, however, he remains. During a public >comment period during the recent Pacifica board meeting in Houston (the >comment period occured only due to the demands of the standing room-only >crowd), Palmer openly mocked listeners who have taken the time to write him >with their concerns. He asked for more such post cards, which he >sarcastically asserted he was "using for an art project." > >Palmer came to the Board as a member of the KPFT Local Advisory Board (LAB). >He was invited to the LAB because he raised a significant amount of money >for an apolitical retreat center. His progress from the LAB to the national >board remains a mystery to himself, as evidenced by his deposition in the >LAB lawsuit (http://www.radio4all.org/freepacifica/lawsuits/palmerdepo.htm). >Palmer has no connection to the history or tradition of Pacifica, is >unaccountable and hostile to Pacifica supporters, his term on the Board has >expired, and he must resign now. > >Please make this call, send an email, and/or fax today! The only way we >will win this struggle is by concerted action! > >D >********************************************** >Mailing Address: >The Pacifica Campaign >51 MacDougal St., #80 >New York, NY 10012 >Tel: (646) 230-9588 > >http://www.pacificacampaign.org >[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN-ANNOUNCE: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network - Event Announcements --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=laamn-news> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn-announce> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <http://home.labridge.com/~laamn> | LAAMN | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your use of Yahoo! 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