>From: "Carol Spooner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@rigel.cs.pdx.edu;> >Subject: [EMMAS] UPDATE - Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board >Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 01:18:21 -0700 > >Dear All, > On Friday August 10th the Pacifica board sent notice of a meeting on >September 12th for the purpose of electing new directors. No names were >given, and we have heard that some of the people proposed last month (when >the court prohibited elections on 7 days notice) have withdrawn their names >from nomination. However, the rumor is that Executive Director Bessie Wash >wants the board to elect Marion Berry Chair of the board. (Yes, THAT Marion >Berry.) > We will be filing a new motion to prohibit any elections of directors >until after trial or summary judgment to determine whether or not such >elections are legal under the Pacifica bylaws. We believe we have a good >chance of success in preventing the election -- but, if not, then we will be >amending our lawsuit to add any new directors as defendants and to get them >removed as directors at trial or on motion for summary judgment. Trial is >set for January 7th. We hope to be able to bring a motion for summary >judgment soon. > Since we received a settlement "feeler" in June from Pacifica's lawyers, >there has been widespread speculation that the defendants were getting ready >to negotiate an end to the lawsuits. We were disappointed to receive a >letter recently from Daly Temchine (one of the board defendants' former >lawyers) stating that his clients are not interested in entering into >negotiations at this time. This was shortly after Bessie Wash fired Epstein >Becker & Green and Wendel Rosen Black & Dean as attorneys for the Pacifica >Foundation and some of the past and current directors. There is some >indication that Wash may have fired the lawyers because they were pushing >settlement talks and not taking enough of a "hard line" to suit her. > Since Bessie Wash fired the two former law firms, two new firms have >substituted in -- Williams & Connolly and Fullbright & Jaworsky -- but only >for the Foundation and three of the current directors (Murdock, Johns & >Chambers). But it does look like the former "majority" of the board had >broken up into at least two groups: those represented by the new attorneys >and those who are not represented by the new attorneys (Farrell, Ford & >Lee). It remains to be seen who will be representing the remainder of the >past and current director-defendants (Mary Frances Berry, June Makela, David >Acosta, Michael Palmer, Frank Millspaugh, Ken Ford, Robert Farrell, >Karolyn van Putten, and Bertram Lee). > Next week we will be filing motions challenging the substitution of >attorneys for the Pacifica Foundation and three of its directors (Murdock, >Johns and Chambers) on several grounds including conflicts of interest >between the Foundation and the directors accused of injuring the Foundation >as well as the impropriety of the legal counsel for the Foundation being >controlled by a small faction of the board. We will >also again seek a prohibition against using Foundation money to defend any >of the individual directors. > Your continued financial support is essential to our efforts. Please >see information below on how to contribute. > >VOLUNTEERS NEEDED > If you have some time in the next couple of weeks to do some telephone >fundraising in Marin County (CA) please contact Linda Remy at >[EMAIL PROTECTED] to volunteer. > >Thanks, >Carol Spooner >Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board >(sponsoring the "listeners' lawsuit") >web page: http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm > >### >"The uprising of the soul will replace the reformer with the rebel, the >negotiator with the defender of justice, the prevaricator with the honest >citizen, the diplomat with the radical." -- Sam Smith (www.prorev.com) > >### > >Important -- We can't do this without you! Contributions to our legal fund >can be made payable to: > >Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board >1136 Wild Rose Drive >Santa Rosa, CA 95401. > >To contribute on-line through Paypal go to http://www.paypal.com/. You will >need to give them our email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your gift to the Committee is NOT tax deductible, but your support of the >cause of free speech radio is invaluable. Question, details? Call or email >Carol Spooner, (707) 526-2867, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you! > >Tax deductible gifts of $500 or more to support our legal action can be made >payable to our fiscal sponsor: > >Marin Health Fund/Public Media Initiative >P.O. Box 5402 >Mill Valley, CA 94942. > >You will receive tax deduction receipt from them. Also, the MHF/Public Media >Initiative has a special account to receive gifts of stock in support of our >lawsuit. For details contact Linda Remy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Web Page: www.marinhealthfund.org > >### >This bulletin comes from the Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board >Web page: http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm > >to subscribe/unsubscribe email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >################################################################# >"If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution." 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